Librarians literally saved my life

The work of Vivian Maier (1920-2009), prolific US street photographer whose work was unknown in her lifetime #WomensArt

Decades of the right saying don’t have kids if you can’t afford them and now the right is complaining people who can’t afford kids aren’t having them.

by Albina Bugarcheva #art

One reason historical job printing can be so wonderful is that printers used these kinds of documents to indulge their ostentatious side—they could draw from their ornamental fonts & cuts much more liberally than they often could for books, &c.—& so they often had (typographical) fun with them

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Create frosted glass effects in CSS 🪟 backdrop-filter applies visual effects to the content behind an element - blur, brightness, contrast, and more. backdrop-filter: blur(10px) brightness(0.9); No JavaScript. No canvas tricks. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

An indie game where you view found footage of monsters and try to stitch together what happened. Lost Media Agency by @arturlatkovsky.bsky.social 🎞️ More below ⬇️ #indiegame #indiedev #kaiju

Antoinette Kelly. "Drifting" oil on canvas.

here is the new CSS Border shape API this is going to unlock so many sick new designs

I continue introducing you to Ukrainian art. Some works from ART KYIV 2026, which I visited today. The first two and the last two: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Byzov

Losers: too busy trying to draw lines in the sand about what a Real Gamer is and how they're obligated to buy overpriced hardware and crap games to prove their loyalty Me: Playing an old point and click adventure game from 1989 in ScummVM

An early variant from last night's "city skyline" prompt 🌆 "City on Fire" #synthart

This painting by Iranian artist Mostafa Sarabi depicts a dense red forest under a night sky, with a full and crescent moon, and three small figures walking. Sarabi is known for dreamy, surreal landscapes with vibrant colors and flattened perspectives.

NEW: French prosecutors are seeking criminal charges against Elon Musk for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation, and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform's artificial intelligence system, Grok. apnews.com/article/fran...

"Urban Haystacks" #synthart

Why did no one tell me math can be fun #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Toni Morrison collection

A co-worker asked me what a paddy wagon is. I explained it to them, but I was both amused and concerned that I was the first person they asked.

My grandmother and I used to watch Bob Ross when I was a kid. Miss both of them so much.

I spent the weekend migrating my old PythonHumanities website from WordPress to a custom design (thanks, Claude) that allows for more flexibility, including live coding exercises in each page. I also updated things to make getting started with Python easier by using uv. More soon!

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Je Chen (b.1973, China) Green Meditation. Mixed media on canvas

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

The Best Place in the World. #BookSky

For 21 years we have given 50 Head Start kids a personalized bookcase and a starter set of books their parents can read to them. Bookcases 1001 through 1050 are in good hands. Tiny curious hands.

Another variant from an earlier series :) "Colourful Spires" #synthart #AIイラスト

They cut SNAP, Medicaid, ACA subsidies and cancer research so we could bail out Argentina, the UAE, farmers and Spirit Airlines.

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

More Vintage Computing museums should rent out cloud access to their rare hardware.

 SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) does it, and it’s freaking awesome.

 I’m literally logged into a Sun SPARCstation…anyone can do this for free, right now. Just SSH in.

We should do the same for people who are registered republicans during this time period. Same goes for people who work for DHS and ICE.

Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com

California’s $20 Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs, New Study Finds truthout.org/articles/cal...

Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.” Photo by Sandy Huffaker

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

I just know Susan Collins is writing the sternest letter of her LIFE

I needed this article a few months back! Your options for preloading images with JavaScript! macarthur.me/posts/preloa...

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Free article. Worth the read. Personally, when I am at home my phone is in a different room if not on a different floor entirely. At work, I usually leave it charging on the other side of the room. I’ve turned off practically all notifications. I still find it distracting.

In three months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by fast food and delivery companies -Cracked down on bad landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

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