Happiness is when your illuminated Venetian Breviary is deliciously on-brand for the second week of Wimbledon. 🍓🎾🍓 This stunning page features little strawberries set against a gold-leaf background. It comes from a Breviary printed in Venice in 1490. Inc.6.B.3.47c[3693].

Btw, Sudan is actually the country with the most pyramids in the world, and despite being overshadowed by its Egyptian neighbors, the Nubian Empire was just as fascinating, if not more so, than Ancient Egypt: artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/meroe/

I was made aware of this delightful thing on Instagram last night. I know "Don't use Zuckerberg sites" Normally I only use completely ethical billionaire corporations.

Americans took Trump’s talk of Canada as the 51st state “for mere shtick”. But Carney had read intel reports. In a private phone conversations with Justin Trudeau, Trump threatened to scrap the 1908 shared-boundary agreement. “I tear that up and your whole country unravels”, Trump told Trudeau…

Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.

So… Cheyenne, WY won't take data center wastewater anymore after Meta/FB's "Fill and Flush" process (how they test data center cooling systems) was responsible for polluting their whole community's wastewater reclamation system with Cupriavidus gilardii bacteria: cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/02/c...

Omg...

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

i can all but guarantee you there are other women out there who have been sick to their stomachs for 24 straight hours praying that this will be enough. hoping like hell they won't have to rustle up their own traumas for an angry, hateful audience

Always kick the assholes out and do your own thing. You never need them and you never need to cover for them. Keep this principle in mind and you'll do okay. This is a part about Graham Platner but it is also a post about organizing, group projects, fake friends, false comrades, and life

Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

An investigation by Mother Jones confirms that the FBI used software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite to secretly extract data from the phones of at least a dozen other protesters.

Britt Grant: "Because the government pays the professors' salaries, Florida says, their speech is the State's speech. Emphatically no."

Please direct your attention to what is being built under the ballroom, for what purpose, and funded by whom.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

Thread 1) #TheCampfire. Again, the same aged voice is raised as the ember's glow and the day fades. "Would you like to know more about the young hitchhiking lovers? Did they live happily ever after? Did their lives roll easy? Sometimes but not always. What did they do next?

Good news! We have invented a digital homunculus by combining phrenology, polygraphs, and your school bully. Its output is 48% reliable and each time you use it three hectares of rainforest gets burned and a billionaire gets significantly richer. This is now built into everything.

William Bradley (1868-1962) Art Nouveau advertising poster depicting Pan (1895) #ArtNouveau

California. Two new ICE centers? Source: CalMatters share.google/H9lwAfCwzjwH...

So much of the thinking in academia right now is that soon, the chuds will be gone and things will be back to the way they were before. But undoing the damage the GOP has inflicted in this last 18 months will take a decade, if not more.

"Sally could not face this. Ever since she read the letter, anger and panic had been swelling in her. Now these feelings swept her away, dissolved her through the wall, then over the field, turning and twisting and hardly knowing where she went."

Since the British Museum is displaying the Bayeux Tapestry in a new temporary exhibition, they have just released a fun animated promotional video that explains the tapestry's plot in broad strokes. Big fan of the animated tapestry style: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCey...

“Lindy -Hop", 1936 Art by M.Covarrubias

'One day to the next' by Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter known for her park landscapes with a hint of magic #WomensArt

Time to re-post my April interview with my favorite candidate for senate in Maine. Here’s my chat with @andrealaflamme.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Our book ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES is out 1st September, but you don't have to wait to start reading. Pre-order now and an exclusive bonus chapter is yours straight away. A full LIFE OF BRIAN deep-dive, cut from the book and designed to match it. www.quarto.com/campaign/All...

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Art: Alex Boake - Illustration

Yes...

Don't elect basic unqualified assholes with no credentials or community work thank you

The great Hollywood photographer George Hurrell worked until the very end of his life. He died in 1992 at 87, but photographed a new generation of stars before the end. Sherilyn Fenn, looking very Old Hollywood. Hurrell's light is like a halo.

If like me you love the @ppfideas.bsky.social pod & often find its ideas a little challenging at first listen, this thread is an excellent breakdown of the episodes "The Future". An exceptional discussion & the final analysis of the impact of demographics was mind opening.

The World Meteorological Organisation’s recent State of the Global Climate 2025 report confirms that our planet is gaining energy faster than it can shed it, and the ocean is taking about 91% of that excess. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-...

Exploring the life and work of 'reclusive' writer by Emma Ruminski www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... More about Daphne du Maurier: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_... #books #literature

Exactly. The global elite first came for the Universities to dumb down the population of us serfs, now they have invented a plagiarism machine. So that the intellectually lazy can outsource critical thinking. The enthusiastic embrace by Uni Admin Execs has been unedifying. 😔

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

Rising prices are making people rethink retirement. Trump’s working on it by covering up what his billionaire donor and DOGE did to Social Security.

Meanwhile it can be toilet paper and underwear...!!!

W H A T T H E F U C K I S W R O N G W I T H U S ??? If you use AI, it won't take over, but it will steal all the energy and water and ALL YOUR MONEY while it "lies" with every CPU cycle. Can we give nothing up to save the future? newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/opin...

The fight over where to build data centers isn't really about data centers. It's about power: who has it, who should have it, and whether capitalism or community concerns should win out. theconversation.com/data-center-...

Another great tip from Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani! Opening a hydrant to cool off can waste up to 1,000 gallons of water per minute & reduce the water pressure FDNY needs to fight fires. Contact NYC311 to request a spray cap, or stop by a local firehouse!

Charles Willson Peale paints great geezers, #1: Yarrow Mamout (Muhammed Yaro) in 1819. Educated African man, captured & enslaved 45 years, gained freedom, bought property, invested well, became a minor celebrity.

The pain in you and the god in you – Carl Jung on the relationship between psychological suffering and creativity www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/04/c...

Man...Humans....

Wishing I could go sit with that girl...ugh. Too many creepsters with violent intent.

My favorite podcast (BBC's In Our Time – look for it wherever you listen) just did a fascinating episode on seashells, which reminded me of this treasure from the archives: www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/21/s...

Justly celebrated as one of the greatest illustrators ever, Gustave Dore's landscape painting is less well-known (at least to me). Here is his moody and dramatic depiction of Loch Lomond, dating from the 1870s. #painting #landscape #art #Dore #Scotland

"She died a famous woman denying her wounds denying her wounds came from the same source as her power" Remembering Marie Curie, who died on this day in 1934, with Adrienne Rich's stunning tribute, stunningly read by @RosaneCash: www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/02/r...