Hence, therefore, the general government can never be in danger of being well administered. And if a government is not well administered, it must end in despotism, as other forms have done before it.

Ben Franklin
17 September 1787

#constitutionday
#foundingfathers
#philadelphia
#democracy

I am glad my little Paper on the Aurora Borealis pleas’d.5 If it should occasion farther Enquiry, & so produce a better Hypothesis, it will not be wholly useless—
I am ever, with the greatest & most sincere Esteem, Dear Sir, Yours very affectionately
BF 8 February 1780 (written to Joseph Priestly)

O that moral Science were in as fair a Way of Improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another, and that human Beings would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity.—

Agriculture may diminish its Labour & double its Produce. All Diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian Standard.

It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried in a 1000 Years the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity & give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport.

Dear Sir, I always rejoice to hear of your being still employ’d in Experimental Researches into Nature, and of the Success you meet with. The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my Regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. 2/n

Oops, 2025. Today.

Oil Can.
13 March 2024

Charcoal on cardboard

In response to USEPA’s intention to roll back climate change, air pollution, and other environmental regulation.

#climatechange
#Art
#climateartist

Been working on some paintings of their home to raise awareness (this one isn’t finished—day two of many). @altnps.bsky.social

And by 5 January, i mean 5 February. Been a long month—lost track of days…#artistsoninstagram #artistsonbluesky
#tea
#teapot