#gilded — Public Fediverse posts

Far too many #journalists in the mainstream media in the USA take a certain tinpot wannabe dictator's logorrheic incontinence seriously, and then sanewash it before putting it into sensible black and white serif text.

He's a rambling, dissembling, demented fool with the mentality and emotional development of a 5-year-old, but with less prefrontal cortex executive function.

He sits there drooling and wandering off on tangents - sometimes literally - and you report on him like he's an actual subject of real news.

For Pete's sake, this is a person who would spray-paint his own turds gold and tell you they're art.

Any news organization owned by a company worth a hundred million bucks or more ought to either rebooted top to bottom, or burned to the ground.

#USPol #media #journalism #sanewash #sanewashing #spraypaint #gilded #turd #MSM #MainstreamMedia #CorporateMedia

#usa #whitehouse #gilded
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Icon of the Seven Buddhas, gilded bronze, Tang-dynasty China, 7th-9th century AD

https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/1888937/icon-of-the-seven-buddhas-gilded-bronze-tang-dynasty-china-7th-9th-century-ad

Gilded mahogany box, France, ~1790 AD

https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/1854264/gilded-mahogany-box-france-1790-ad

The Jackson Hole region has long been a refuge for the rich,
but an explosion of new affluence has allowed a growing cadre of extraordinarily wealthy people to ⛔️dominate both the local economy and Wyoming state politics.

Teton County is not merely the richest county in the country, per capita -- by far;

⭐️it is a window into America’s near future, as the country enters a new #gilded #age,
-- one in which millionaires are turning into billionaires overnight.

A New York Times analysis shows the stunning velocity at which the fortunes of the 1 percent have increased across the country since Trump first took office in 2017.
⚠️The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120 percent between 2017 and 2025, a colossal leap from the 45 percent growth they had seen over the previous nine years.
⚠️The number of U.S. billionaires jumped 50 percent by some estimates between 2017 and 2025, to more than 900 people

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/billionaire-boom-jackson-teton-wyoming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Gilding is a talent and skill. This is very difficult.

#artist #designer #skateart #skate #art #gilded

Doing some gilding on my pauldron.

#art #somethingimade #craft #crafts #crafting #artisian #artisinal #armor #pauldron #gilding #gilded

Turns out, I'm supposed to let the glue sit for 30 minutes before applying the gold. My failure to follow directions caused the smearing you see but I learned and that's what's important.
#spell #goldfoil #gilded #gilding #craft #art #dnd #magic

@latimes.com
Ep 4-8-2025
🗞️ #us #politics #russia #stocks

Amid economic chaos, some Republicans want control of tariffs back in Congress

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-07/amid-economic-chaos-some-republicans-want-to-return-tariffs-back-to-congress

(Ed: It's far too late ⏰ GOP u helped destroy the govt & the 🇺🇸🙄 You know who is laughing 🤣 Putin 🇷🇺it Krasnov worked 🏆)

He🤴🍊🇺🇸 & Pete Navarro r not joking about bringing back the "gilded age" of 1)corruption, 2) no taxes, 3) child labour and 4) robber barons👇

Trump is wrong 📰 : https://amp.kansascity.com/opinion/article303342826.html

#gilded #age #trump

This big ol #saguaro #cactus is home to a lot of stuff, most notably #cactuswren and #gilded #flicker. With all the recent rains we’ve had the arms were too heavy to support the damaged trunk. This old gal was centuries old and just crashed down sometime this week. The arms can weigh 1-3000 pounds and the entire body can hold 200+ gallons of water. Very cool plants. Also fell across part of the trail, so instead of windfall spruce and fir I have ancient cacti windfall to deal with #biketooter

How did the U.S. emerge from the crises of the #Gilded Age, and why have those solutions stopped working? A historian examines the murder of a #healthinsurance CEO through a historical lens. https://theconversation.com/how-should-we-look-to-history-to-make-sense-of-luigi-mangiones-alleged-murder-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-245995
@histodons #Histodons #UnitedHealthcare #murder

The Brian Thompson assassination seems to have focused the minds of the USA's upper classes on class rebellion, if not actual class warfare. But they still don't get it.

Income and wealth inequality in the USA is as large, or larger, than it has ever been. And it's getting worse. It's worse than pre-revolution 18th-century France.

"It won't happen here. It can't happen here!"

Oh, it will.

"No, this is America. Things will be different!"

Correct. This time, the guillotines will say "Made in China".

#income #wealth #inequality #france #FrenchRevolution #gilded #guillotine #MadeInChina #USA #America #billionaire #billionaires #assassination

leaves gilded by Fall
and sun in an azure sky
I breathe Autumn's spice

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#vsspoem - #gilded
#vss365 - #azure
#DailyHaikuPrompt - spice
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku

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The playbook that Jeff #Bezos, #Musk, and others have relied on isn’t new.

More than a century ago, the railroad tycoons of the #Gilded #Age enticed towns to hand them favorable deals in exchange for laying lines that passed through their communities.

The supposed benefits of these projects rarely materialized:
Many of the promised tracks were never completed, or the routes were discontinued soon after their construction.

Worse yet, the towns often had to impose steep new #taxes to offset the #incentives, triggering a wave of municipal defaults.

The trend of unmet promises by corporate titans has continued into the present day.

#Tesla’s Buffalo plant has created just 54 cents of economic benefit for every subsidy dollar the state invested, a state audit found;
the initial contract has been amended several times, extending completion dates and reducing employment targets.

#Amazon announced it was pausing construction on the second phase of its Virginia headquarters.

According to the governor’s office, the number of Wisconsin jobs #Foxconn initially promised to create has dwindled by 89 percent.

And then there is Boca Chica’s Starbase.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/elon-musk-spacex-texas-boca-chica-oligarchy/

#oligarchs #billionaires #American #Oligarchy

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The abstract artwork is a striking composition that captivates the viewer with its metallic allure and opulence.
#artbyjolla #ArtistofMastodon #mastodon #abstractart #creativetoots #artists #colorfulart #fediart #AYearForArt #artwork #TheArtDistrict #artgallery #painting #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop #springforart #artcollector #metallic #gilded

"...#Workers begin to say, 'If I, as a member of this #society lack the ability to pay my bills, and to feed my family, then I am not a free #citizen of a healthy #republic.'" (the next line is white #violence ignoring #slavery, a common theme in #PBS #documentaries).

#TheGildedAge #AmericanExperience

"#Gilded is not golden. Gilded has the sense of a patina covering something else...the rot underneath.

Nothing, fundamentally, has changed.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-gilded-age-nun3cr/

https://youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?si=odhcXI5W_cTiSGq-

This guitar is now even more golder

#gilded #guitar #goldest #golden

This isn't our usual kind of framing.

A client wanted us to match a style of #framing but the gold moulding used in the frame was discontinued. We couldn't find anything remotely similar.

So I hand #gilded and toned a similar profile. Not an exact match, but pretty close. I'm pleased with the result.

The print was put between two pieces of anti-reflective glass so it appears to befloating

#PictureFraming #FramedArt #Art #Print #ArtPrint #Gilding

A #gilded afternoon landscape. Beneath a tree, I stretch in its shade like a #kitten. The #ringing laughter of a child cuts through the choir of a #zillion birds.

Time to #burn the old bridges and choose life.

#whistpr #vssnature #MastoPrompt #vss365 #brknshards

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#abstract #digitalart #flowers #blosssom #gilded #marco5ales #wallart #prints #artMatters #HomeDecor #GiftIdeas #GiftThemArt #aYearForArt

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#Art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #NZ #NZTwits #Gilded #Bird #Ink #Watercolour #BirdArt

💫☀️🧡The Golden Boy.🧡☀️💫
#inktober day 17.
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#inktober2019 #inktoberday17 #goldenboy #monsterboy #monster #gold #golden #gilded #freckles #cuteboy