Noon update PST: we are about $300 away from $4000 raised for the LA regional food bank . They are utilizing it immediately as the need is so high . Please continue to share and donate if you can ! #LosAngelesFires #LosAngeles #EatonFire #PalisadesFire #lafires

Not in California? Outside the U.S.? How to help: www.axios.com/2025/01/09/l... #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #LosAngelesFires #LAfire #HollywoodFire #California #Fire #Wildfire #CAwx photo: Agustin Paullier/AFP via Getty Images

My mother’s surgery was a perfect success. She’ll have further treatment next year, but now we can tentatively say she’s cancer-free! Thank you to everyone for your kind sentiments. 🩵

For all who’ve been following along on the previous social media site, my mother’s surgery is tomorrow. Please send kind wishes for her quick recovery! For now, goodnight…

NOOOOO ARETE DON’T DO IT! Do not eat!!!!!

I’ve been taking an unplanned hiatus due to some personal stuff, but I’m still active here going forward! Arete and I say happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. 🦃

Is it strategic or Trump does not understand what he is doing? With all his isolationism, the foreign policy picks are serious or even hawkish. They differ from the appeasers and clowns who featured in his campaign. Is this unpredictability instrumental or random? It cannot be both.

We report: the shape comes into view slowly, a mirage over the trees. From a distance, it is difficult to remember that each dot represents a single bird. Barely a wing out of formation, the single movement of a wave coming in and going out on the fields. It makes sense, somehow.

It's important that you look through the gallery for this listing until you get to the top floor bathroom. Important. www.cbmaritimerealty.com/listing/2024...

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

"American culture fell under a effort by reactionary catholics to promote a rigid moral and political consensus through the entire film industry and this greatly influences modern americans' conceptions about their own past" sounds crazy but

ARTIST OF THE DAY: Milton Avery, 1885-1965, American. #art #arthistory

Double radicchio for tonight’s dinner (See alt text for descriptions.) #cooking #food

ARTIST OF THE DAY: Miroco Machiko, Japanese, born 1981. #art #arthistory #japaneseart

Day 192

You step into a forest glade. In the center is a stump. On the stump is a stone, laying on a soft bed of moss. If you feel stressed, take a moment to imagine you are that stone, and the world is that moss. Thank you. Lichen subscribe.

And yes, I call it Facebook, not "Meta." I have no interest in helping Mark Zuckerberg do PR and paper over his toxic brand.

Remember the eclipse back in April? Since eclipses are rare I practiced camera settings and timing... then changed travel plans, watched the weather like a hawk, and ended up driving quite a bit. It all worked out. I'm proudest of this image and would love to do projects like this more often.

Important.

"Your body, my choice"

One more thought on "bad" art, at the risk of sounding pretentious: The point of art is to create and express something. Technical skills (anatomy, perspective, etc) are good, but only insofar as they serve that goal. What gives art its value is the impression it makes, not the artist's skill.

If you're exhausted now and daunted by the fight ahead, that means you were trying as hard as you could before. Take a rest.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: Miroco Machiko, Japanese, born 1981. #art #arthistory #japaneseart

Scientists have discovered a new heaven-like planet where (despite the horrors) you can drink a Spindrift by the lake. They’re calling it Earth

She is SO fucking SHAPED!!!!!!!!!

The kitten's attempt at snuggling 🪜

Ok politics are bad right now but at least I can distract myself with my job writing about politics

“Freedom means you decide who you are, and then when things change around you, you continue to be that person. And in so doing, you do constructive work. You set an example for other people. You meet new people who are also trying to remain themselves.” www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Who up sitting motionless in the heart of these perils

my current conception of time/the inside of my brain

good morning

Double radicchio for tonight’s dinner (See alt text for descriptions.) #cooking #food

Day 190

Your body, my choice

Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!) go.bsky.app/1ivUnG

Title hits a little different this week.

There’s a word in modern Hungarian slang, egérmozi, which describes watching films (or shows) on your phone. It means “mouse cinema”

Hi everyone I just joined here and am looking for a human rights defenders starter pack also anti-corruption

[looking at Bluesky over the past 2 days] So this is what the Cambrian explosion must have felt like

Every Egyptian recipe starts with the same steps: - Chop a lot of onions. Saute them in olive oil in a pan on medium-to-high heat. - Complete the recipe while the kitchen smells like sauteed onions.

Snug. ☺️ From April’s Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. archive.org/details/apri...

Put another way, totalitarianism (understood as that kind of nigh total control of society and the total atomization of the individual) was always more of an aspiration than a reality even at the peak of these systems In practice even they had to negotiate power with the masses they ruled

Scientists have discovered a new heaven-like planet where (despite the horrors) you can drink a Spindrift by the lake. They’re calling it Earth

She is SO fucking SHAPED!!!!!!!!!

bad art is always beautiful because it means someone is learning how to be creative in this day and age. despite it all

star clusters are so beautiful ✨