This has me thinking about a mahogany box lined in ruffled cream satin.

‪Silver Birch Trees in the Mist 01, Eype Down, Dorset. ‬ www.instagram.com/paulw_photog... ⁦‪#landscape‬ #trees #fog #mist #woods #tree #silver_birch #bridportcameraclub #pwphotoart

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

Cat n' Mouse Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1525; Psalter; 13th century; England (Canterbury); f.14r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Cats preparing a light snack Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764; Bestiary; 13th century; England; f.51r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Three cats and a mouse BL Harley MS 4751; late 12th to early 13th C; f.30v

Cat and Mouse BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.75v

One cat per mouse Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.4.25; Bestiary; c.1230 CE; England; f.74v @camdiglib.bsky.social

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

The US supports an EU plan to use about €185B in frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine and push for an end to the war, Reuters reports. If there is a follow-through, this is big news that will hit Putin hard.

Fresh, warm pita is one of the great simple joys of the universe.

Reporter: On the Walmart thanksgiving meal, it is cheaper but it also contains less Trump: I haven’t heard that. Who are you with? Reporter: NBC Trump: Fake news

Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism

Guess who won’t be eating Walmart ready meals #Letthemeatcrap

Aigües tranquiles. Estany d'Ivars i Vilasana. #Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #LandScape #EastCoastKin

Abendgrüße und ein bisserl Kitsch für euch....

Little skull Graphite on paper 4x6 #art #sciart #darkart

'Farbe: Blau' #FotoVorschlag #dailyvenice #venezia #venice #doorsday #doors

This is one of the studies (1885) John Singer Sargent made for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.' The lanterns which we can see here were painted with very thin layers of paint; this allowed the light to seem like it was emanating from within rather than just sitting on the surface.

When Whistler showed 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,' in 1875, he outraged the chief moralist of art John Ruskin: 'I... never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' And so a lawsuit began.

We've got enough we could probably form a whole band - 'The Badly Drawn Elephants' perhaps? cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...

#weekSforShadows #eastcoastkin #scape

Our last art visit before heading home was the show at the Tate Modern of the beautiful Aboriginal art of Emily Kam Kngwarra. The emotional impact of the connections these pieces have to the cultural & spiritual world they are derived from is immense.

When Trump was willing to let 15 million of the poorest people in the world die by vaporizing USAID there simply was no reason to doubt he’d do the same thing here.

As we're remembering that Dick Cheney killed a million Iraqis, remember that the death toll from cutting USAID funding will be still larger than that. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

The man who took food and medicine from the world’s poorest people, condemning thousands to a miserable death, is the world’s first trillionaire.

Every-accusation-is-a-confession, Sleepy-Joe-Biden-edition.

Totally normal

Moment of beauty

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

UN lifts sanctions on Syrian president ahead of White House visit

When Tesla finally collapses, how much of the economy does it take with it?

Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

He really, really, wants a Trump tower in Damascus.

The Syrian president talks about a Trump Tower in Damascus, and Trump instantly does a 180º turn on the US posture towards Syria. Funny how that works. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Ah no, Pauline Collins, RIP #ShirleyValentine

Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85

Trump says the US is collecting "hundreds of trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue. The size of the entire world's economy is around $110 trillion.

My favorite comment on the FT story

This, in particular, is spectacularly hideous. It's like something you'd see on the wall of a car dealership where they put pictures of their top salespeople every month

Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come

Seeing some false reports about the man who collapsed in the Oval Office. It was *not* Novo Nordisk executive Gordon Findlay. It was a patient who uses Lilly GLP-1 drug, per multiple sources. I hear he's OK now.

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

Even I thought this was one of mine!