Measure Hyperspace with Your Heart

Then for the last 5 years (huge interest rate hikes, tech stock drop-off scare in 2022, US regime change in 2025, blah blah blah) they snapped the trap and decided to activate the money machine, which is rampant enshittification and bleeding everyone dry with higher baseline costs and forced subscription costs and forcibly app-ifying every single thing (needs a login needs a credit card needs an id nees a ) and backing pretty far away from the "your good relatable buddy" tech CEO image. Like it's been the world's most blatant and annoying pig-butchering scheme.

The Electress Palatine (Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici) in hunting dress, probably mid-to-late 1690s. She wears a long, mannish coat with wide cuffs and a matching petticoat over a high-necked bodice (Pepys calls it a doublet) with long tight sleeves. She wears a lace-trimmed cravat and a tricorne hat with ostrich plumes.

Madame La Comtesse de Saint Géran, attributed to French Baroque painter Joseph Parrocel. The artwork is dated between 1675 and 1682 and depicts the countess in a red riding habit on a white horse.

Portrait of Madame La Duchesse De Bouillon, 1670s. I find it interesting that the trailing skirt of her riding dress seems to be looped up out of the way.

^ Olimpia Mancini, Countess of Soissons.

La Comtesse de Soissons Riding with a View of the Château de Vincennes by the artist Jean-Baptiste Martin, 1670s. Probably either Olympia Mancini or her daughter-in-law Uranie de la Cropte de Beauvais.