This beautiful tetradrachm was struck at the city of Eretria on Euboea. The detail on the octopus is incredible with its sinuous tentacles, suckers and intelligent-looking head. Whilst the octopus was a civic emblem for Eretria, it was also important for it to be decorative & bold. 🕰️500-490BC

anyone hear that siren for a sec? the tornado one?

there’s something really decadent about liberal pluralist intellectuals living comfortable lives in america and prospering within america’s elite institutions who still feel they can only conclude - with an olympian remove and melancholy - that the american experiment is a doomed failure.

Getting healthcare has become unattainable 😡👇🏼

Bought 2 new books today

“listen to your body” and “make enough money to live” are conflicting imperatives under the T&C of the current OS afaik

KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

The switch from the age of confronting an empty browser search box - which forced you to identify your own desires - to the age of auto-playing content social media platforms has harmed our psyches: discuss.

So Starbucks in South Korea ran a set of ads for a 'tank' coffee thermos and used words that seemed to disrespect the protests which has led to a boycott, CEOs stepping down, public apologies, and now, arrests. Buried in the article below is the reason: AI www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Waymo solves trolley problems by destroying public transit.

Gotta say “not very ideological” is not how I’d put it Everyone has VERY LOUD opinions They don’t necessarily line up well with national politics though

Minnesotans are going to be so smug

signs at residences in seward, minneapolis - “ICE OUT NOW,” “WE LOVE OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS,” “NO WAR WITH IRAN,” “JUSTICE FOR MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES,” “ICE OUT OF MPLS,” “MAKE THE GOLF COURSE A PUBLIC SEX FOREST”

A multi-state lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s effort to restrict gender-affirming care for trans youth can move forward after a federal judge shot down a legal challenge from the Justice Department on Wednesday. www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ

Masculine and feminine are most legible as aesthetic concepts. But that shows they aren’t super tied to gender. Women can be butch. Men can be femme.

This is something I struggle with. I appreciate that men want models of how to be. But when we try to populate “positive masculinity” with traits — strong, smart, kind — they are all equally available to women. Masculinity and femininity are empty concepts, absent gender hierarchy.

Just a constant horror show as the privacy of trans patients is constantly eroded. As a former patient of Mount Sinai, this is a massive betrayal to their patients. Your medical records are not safe with them. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

MPR News: “The Department of Homeland Security has posted a proposed contract for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use a private prison facility in western Minnesota to hold up to 1,600 immigrant detainees.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Today Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is announcing that he will temporarily halt tax breaks for data center developers. He will also call on the state legislature to take multiple actions around data centers, including banning NDAs that have been used to keep these projects secret.

you would almost never know that for almost 200 years, the economist has been waging war against the working class on behalf of capitalists

They want to declare an official state religion. This is the first step. Cutting Unitarian Universalists - a faith that includes many of the founding fathers -off the list is particularly egregious. religionnews.com/2026/06/04/d...

Polite reminder that some of the people defending Platner's red flags are the same people ready to shove trans folks overboard to win elections

I'm a simple woman, I just want to see Patti Harrison in everything!!!!

Dame Patti Harrison content will always be reskeeted

the nanny reboot with Patti Harrison

Need Aubrey Plaza and Patti Harrison to play weird sisters who live in a house

Stop making room for abusive men in politics.

Hi all. I’ve been raising funds for myself but tonight I need to pivot to help my dear friend & Minneapolis community auntie raise $450 toward their dog care & their own medications. I will chip in $25 of what I’ve received; can 10-20 others help chip in $25-50? V: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel

I’m obsessed with Anatolia and am lately into The Thinker & the Sitting Woman but the framing bugs the fuck out of me. THE THINKER and the SITTING woman as if only one of them is thinking, even if they’re both sitting. Why can they not both be thinkers? Maybe they argued & ran out of things to say.

Hedgehog challenge! We have two contenders - which one would you take home? Left, an Egyptian blue faience version, with a very tactile array of nubbly spines (ca. 1938-1630 BCE). Right, a Rhodian terracotta aryballos (perfume flask) with painted details (mid-6th c. BCE). 🏺 1/ 📸 me

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Eight Dems Join Republicans in Effort to Give Trump More Power to Hurt Trans People pridesource.com/arti... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

The last couple mornings I've been hearing they have been working VERY QUICKLY so that a crowd doesn't have the chance to scare them off. They've been smashing car windows again, too. If you're outside, remember your whistle.

It's bad again in Chicago. Same with Minneapolis. These pigs want revenge for getting their asses handed to them by two winter cities full of courageous neighbors. Let's show em we know how to kick ass all summer long, too. I never go anywhere without a whistle these days. Do you have one?

okay, so I need $1,000 *today* for my shit flood and I am embarrassed that I don’t have it and I do not want to fundraise for myself in a month i will get a payment for a large contract. what if…i crowd fund my need, and then when I get paid in a month I donate $1,000 to a cause of our choice?

who could have guessed I had ADHD, not me

My hair is A LOT more grey now. Got my first grey at 26 so you can imagine (nearly) 20 years later.

This is the only way society works. If we recognize others as fully human just like us, and strive to make every one of these people equal to every other one of these people. If we strive to uplift and care for all. If we strive for proper living and working conditions for all. Also, FUCK ICE

GIGANTIC Tori Amos poster in college. This was my corner of the dorm (that I shared with @mllepaz.bsky.social, I am sorry I was so messy!)

Few books completely changed how I look at things, but Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran (1908). You think things look like one way (based on how you're raised) but when you hear people's actual stories, you realize you were wrong. I read it as a late teen and it was extremely formative.

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945). Saw this for the 1st time last year. It was a beautiful depiction of "we take care of us", which I didn't know was possible in real life tbh until the metro surge, which is STILL HAPPENING in MPLS. Awful things happen, but let's choose to care for each other.

Station Eleven (limited series). I love this story because it so powerfully communicated to me that we don't have to keep choosing the same paths. The most horrible things can happen, yet we can choose differently and get different, better outcomes - for all of us.

can I get a FUCK ICE

MPD announces they are "working with other agencies to arrest violent criminals" this week in Minneapolis. And ICE has been active, so just connecting the dots here. When you are using the exact same words the fascists use, we see who you are.

'We have an economy that needs to grow, whether or not it makes us thrive. We need an economy that makes us thrive, whether or not it grows' (Kate Raworth, "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist").💚

"What difference will specific policy items make if there are profound obstacles to simply governing at all?" Democrats need a vision for democracy - not just a list of good policies, but a plan for ensuring that those good policies are passed and implemented!