"From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." George Orwell was born #OTD 1903 🎨 Fish Dragate

ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share! Despite all the horrors, we still need to also make room for joy and beauty. And we have carousels now! Let’s share, support, and find each other! Spread the post to reach the most! 💙

3 sections, 147 parts, 1323 squares, 1 art piece

I was just reminded of an illustration for sloppy joes I did like 5+ years ago that I like because it makes no sense but it cracks me up

Eva Hesse, Repetition Nineteen III, 1968 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136828

Please watch this and share youtu.be/-L-EH5dryuU?...

I have an old Norway Umbro jersey at the shop but I don’t know when it’s from. I probably should 🇳🇴

Twelve years later this is still my favorite USMNT fan gif by a million miles

Serious question: Is "We tortured some folks" engraved anywhere at the Obama library?

The current state of American news. The main stream media is useless.

Sunlight in Cafeteria - 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40436

I wanted sourdough french toast so I made sourdough french toast

In the mid-19th century, a group of workers stumbled upon 16 bones that upended how we see our species – those of a Neanderthal. This exciting short from BBC Global dives into the history and meaning of this monumental discovery

Another reminder that being born at the tail end of Gen X rules. Boomers and millennials cannot stop pointing and yelling at each other

I just finished parts 126, 127, and 128 of this project that is called “The Outcome Is Odd Because The Pieces Are Strange.” There are a lot to go. I like where this is going.

I just want to say that Melania looks more like the transwomen I hung out with than Michelle Obama

'Nanny came down, stout and comfortable and starched, and collected her supper. She was of the old-fashioned type, and a little app to treat Johnny and Sally as if they have been her charges too, and not so long ago, either...' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/a...

Here’s a peak at the next T-shirt Big Island is going to release, probably next month. This has been like 3 years in the making

It’s almost impossible to overstate just how far the culture around soccer in the United States has fallen since 2014

I made a Farewell Transmission watercolor too

I've never seen a more concerted and lengthy effort to make an athlete relevant than what the soccer media has done with Christian Pulisic since like 2016. He's always only ever been average at best

I made a self portrait watercolor. It took me a while to get it right, but I think I got it right

This is phenomenal www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLYF...

I’ve followed international football since Italia 90. This is the first World Cup I totally don’t give a crap about and there are lots of people who feel the same. It’s actually kinda depressing to me

Like all human beings, human beings who are even slightly bothered by other human beings have the opportunity to be better at being human beings.

One of the funniest things to me is when people talk about Star Wars history like it happened 😂

Rowland Hilder 1905-1993 Described as the Turner of his generation, he lived most of his life in the Kingdom of Kent The countryside around him inspired his artwork for a lifetime, and I am surrounded by these locations

I’m hungry for apizza but I’m in Ohio

This is an awesome podcast episode by @thehistoryguy.bsky.social. It’s about one of my favorite books by Adrian Tinniswood podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

MLS exists because FIFA wanted money from an untapped U.S. market and in order to justify the 1994 World Cup being in the U.S. there needed to be a first division league. Coincidentally there was a horrific genocide that took place in the months before that World Cup. Enjoy!

Mystery requires love. Faith requires mystery. Love requires faith. It is a circle.

Millions Irrationally Feared Dead In Minor Train Accident

Parts 72, 73, and 74 of a lot

This video is more human than anything any world leader has made in decades www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhk...

Part 71 of a lot

I’m reading a story written in 2018 about a soldier KIA in Iraq and it’s ridiculous that people support doing this all over again. It was pointless before. It’s insane now

Parts 60, 61, and 62 of a lot

There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans. www.wired.com/story/cookwa...

Parts 57, 58, and 59 of a lot

The next part is done. The Outcome Is Odd Because The Pieces Are Strange, Part One, 2026.

Today’s was my grandpa’s birthday in 1921 ❤️

I rarely ever went to a “soccer bar” in Columbus to watch a match but I did on 22 May 2010 because Inter was playing in the CL final. I wore the 1st jersey I ever got. Mom had got it for me in Milan in 2003. When we won the bartender turned off the match because the bar… 1/2 🖤💙

Part 54 of a lot

The most destructive force in the modern world has for decades been the immaturity of the Baby Boomer generation in the West

Parts 50, 51, 52, and 53 of a lot

Parts 47, 48, and 49 of a lot