'Saishoin Temple in Snow, Hirosaki' - Kawase Hasui, 1936. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

This is a big deal.

If anybody feels like throwing some free curse-breaking our way, I'd for sure appreciate it.

I suspect that many younger women would be amazed to learn how recently women could not have credit cards in their own name, or, more generally, that feminism is not about vibes but about eliminating huge restrictions on what women can do.

Same price at Barnes and Noble. I’ve been meaning to read this, so just purchased there.

This is a good read & for 2 bucks? Just go get it.

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

When you can hear a meme

One of the saddest sentences written in the modern era of vaccines: “We will lose our elimination status shortly.”

The regime is actively working to make living by a deadline harder. Taxes, elections, healthcare, bills. All affected by this ridiculous policy. See next post for more information. FDT

If the US started directly striking Venezuela, that is huge. The silence from the WH, DoD and Venezuela is so bizarre.

Wang Shishen 汪士慎 (1686-1759), October 1728: 每餐先备买鱼钱，曾记携归小似拳， 一自爪牙动黠鼠，傍人安稳卧青氊。 I set money aside for fish before each meal. She used to be no bigger than my hand -- Now with claw and tooth she routs the crafty rat, And drowses by her humans on her mat.

Rian Johnson Rick Rolled us all

Years almost over, but the ability to experience our beautiful world isn't. Second best sunset murder of crows of my life tonight. Impossible to capture the full glory with one camera person at a singular location. 🪶

Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Meet the muff: a fuzzy tube of warmth, status, and secrets. Once a symbol of refinement, it wrapped hands in luxury and sometimes hid clever pockets (and the occasional rumoured lapdog). 🐾  👁️ Discover more: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/set/mof--e937f704-943c-496f-dd14-08dd0f2c01a3

Costco loses a shipment of lobster to tech savvy thieves--a reminder that the grocery store shoplifting stories that locked stupid amounts of material under plexi in the US and UK were bunk and covered the ACTUAL theft problem: organized crime-level, and at warehouses and transshippers.

“Snow-Covered Fir Tree (Verschneite Tanne)” by Gabriele Münter, 1933, at the Guggenheim in NYC.

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

Not being a designer/maker myself, I stand in awe of the innovative constructions such as this. Lanvin’s mid #1930s evening dress takes burnt orange silk crepe with some sparkles and contrives a complex bodice that just drapes beautifully #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

One of my favorite details in this Nativity is the limoncello stand! The area around Naples is renowned for its enormous and flavorful lemons, perfect for making limoncello. One way the Italian presepi reflected southern Italian culture. 📷🇮🇹🍋 flic.kr/p/ixHCW5 #photography #Christmas #Italy

'Owl and Two Swallows' - Utagawa Toyohiro. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Yeah, but the spring 2026!production of Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Roseanne Barr, Jon Voight, Gina Carano, and Jake Paul is going to break all of the box office records.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

A gentle reminder before the new year: You don't need to lose weight to fit into a bikini. You dont need to diet to please someone else. Weight loss companies are toxic of mlms that prey on people's insecurities. You dont need pills, shots, or lip filler to be beautiful. You already are.

The best holiday gift I could ask for is to meet my sales goal this month so I can start off the new year with no credit card debt <3 Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com Goal progress in comments ↓ Mvto!! #Beadwork

Retail work will convince you that you know nothing and mean nothing, but... many of the poets in this collection are people with whom I have spoken once or twice. It's Iowa City. You can't sit down in a bar without hearing a poet nearby, nor can you walk out of range of their observation.

My best and most successful advice for those who want to give a teen a book: Give them a book that someone gave to you, and tell them the story of why it was meaningful to you. Inviting them to share in your experience means a lot to them. Trusting them with your story does, too.

Gifts have been given so I can share some pics of them now. This dino themed knit cowl I made w/ "Sun-Kissed Persimmon" on a backdrop of "Alessandro Midnight Black" also has 1 row of rainbow magi just for some added color on the top/ bottom. 🧶 #showmeyourknits #yarnsky #yarnlove #indieyarndyers

'View of Kiso Mountains and River in Snow' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

These clowns are just making up duties and rules and laws. Artists don't have any duty to sing for fascists, and only a fascist would try to force them to.

This year produced the single largest mass mobilizations in the country's history. Its entire history. I think that there are people who would say that this isn't true EVEN AS THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH THOSE MOBILIZATIONS. It's something to see.

I’ve said it and I believe it is true There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/06/12/s... - I enjoy learning about stuff like this.

There’s how old you think you are, and there’s how old shoveling six inches of snow tells you that you are.

Francisco Oliveira a #barber who crafts #wigs for people w/ #HairLoss, especially #kids. His creations help restore self-esteem & bring joy to those dealing w/ #medical challenges He's changing lives & showing that true #heroes use their gifts to support & uplift others @franciscoesteticacapilar

A cool thing about donating to remora house is that we turn around & just give it to people that need money for food, rent, medication, apartment application fees, IDs, or any damn thing they want because poor & unhoused people deserve simple pleasures too

I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter.... (1/10)

An organisation I worked for used to have a remote volunteer who uploaded blogs to the website- making sure they were formatted properly and all the photos had alt text. That was so helpful. Another used to write the email newsletters- putting those together every month is a BIG job.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Republicans’ final gift to Americans before the holidays was locking in higher health care costs for millions.

Back from a week in Canada visiting my in-laws. Normally we get together in the Poconos, as it’s central for all of the families, but the in-laws aren’t comfortable coming here under Trump’s new rules so we moved it all north of the border. That’s probably $8k that would’ve gone to Pennsylvania.

“Train boys to command and girls to accommodate, and the rest falls into place more easily” wtaf newrepublic.com/article/2045...

This is a big deal. In Japan, if you get a divorce one parent gets custody and the other parent never sees the child again. This was thought to be for the good of the child. Miyuki never saw her mother again after her parents got divorced when she was 5.

this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know