How accepted, or tolerated, was homosexuality in late Imperial Russia?

Again, with dishy young Joe

This is the only known photo of Joe Biden with a beard. (1966)

Retailers see massive drop in cigarette sales, as SA smokers turn to the black market

Why is this sub flooded with neoloberal propaganda for the uniparty?

Why is this grifter heading the australian real estate conference and how much do they pay her? And more importantly, what for?

Marie Antoinette was apparently exhibited while in prison, is this correct? In the sense that people could visit her like visiting a giraffe in the zoo?

When did you all become so nonchalant and blasé about wage theft in Australia?

This is why Bitcoin can only get stronger, much stronger - it's a literal progress for humanity, on the scale of magnitude of discovery of electricity or the internet. Unless civilization collapses -

Emil Szittya, handsome poet; 1906

This studio portrait of four soldiers is mindblowingly 155 years old (ca.1870)

wHy dO u WanT To wOrK fOr Us iN PaRtIcULar? WhAt AtTrAcTed U tO tHiS pOSitiOn!?

Where are they now?

Reminder: elections should not be about voting for the lesser evil (smaller pile of faeces)

This is why Gaza is a litmus test and the future of humanity may depend on it

Google has just subsidized a genocide, and no one is talking about it.

Very few people would dispute that the Australian healthcare system is better. However, these are the things you must consider

17,400 children have been killed by Israel and the United States in this most recent genocide, and countless of others left disabled and orphaned, hungry and homeless, while the rest of the sociopathic world we live in stood by and watched

Thinking of moving to Macedonia. Thoughts?

If you are reading this it means I have been killed

My job is making me sick

Two men sharing a chair, 1915

Glen Bishop, late 1940s

Any government that does a massive layoffs of public servants, being a major employer, is doing it for one reason only: to assist corporations, whose shareholders they are or benefit in another way, to depress wages

Americans and Australians have something fundamental in common that defines them beyond anything else: they do not know how to protest and lack education in political economy

Did it really happen: in Tolstoy's War and Peace, Tsar Nicolas I of Russia goes on the balcony from a dining room in Kremlin and throws biscuits to crowds who fight to catch a biscuit?