Ron-De-Voo Tavern Dwight, IL

The Milky Way glitters above Hawai’i Island and the Pacific Ocean in this image captured from Gemini North Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Rodriguez noirlab.edu/public/image... 🔭 #Maunakea

In a new article for @antiquity.ac.uk, we find that a quantitative analysis of housing at Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s first cities, reveals that inequality sharply declined over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now #reading: Berg (Bryan R. Simms & Charlotte Erwin, 2021) Very good mono/biograph of the loveliest Second Viennese, detailing barely-sublimated trauma and neurosis as well as lots of theory and musical examples – most useful in dissecting the operas' structures www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Travesties (Tom Stoppard, 1974) Typically fizzy #reading; I was prepared for delightfully arch cleverness involving Joyce/Tzara/Lenin's careers, but not for most of the play recapitulating The Importance of Being Earnest, so reviewing same (1952 and 2002 films) very helpful in appreciating the gags

Now #reading Poetry of the First World War (ed. Tim Kendall, 2013) Plenty of information alongside the selections. A nice companion is the Pat Barker novel Regeneration or the 1997 film adaptation, featuring Sassoon and Owen. The anthology ends with songs, which helps alleviate the grimness

Through snow and sleet and dark of night: S. Clay Wilson’s correspondence by Patrick Rosenkranz www.tcj.com/through-snow...

Paradox Paradox, CO

Joseph Mugnaini’s 1955 cover art for 'The October Country,' a story collection by Ray Bradbury.

This livestream of a humanoid robot at work is something else. I think of it as unsettling or prosaic or calming or a sign of revolution: www.youtube.com/live/luU57hM...

goat (jp) | Roulette, Brooklyn 4/29/2026 (complete set) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWlOJjgJTrc

Wotruba Church, Vienna r/brutalism

Gene Wolfe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wolfe_... was born on this day, so here are some of his Japanese book covers (artist: all by 小畑 健 [Amano Yoshitaka] I believe):

Now #reading: The Great Swindle (Pierre Lemaitre trans. Frank Wynne, 2015) Gripping yarn of demobbed WWI soldiers struggling to survive and avoid the predations of bureaucracy and elites; adapted as a film in 2017 titled (in English) See You Up There

Moonshine, Paul Klee 1919

New post released! 🎉 I’m breaking down everything I’ve learned about the push-pull algorithm in Signals. It's an important publication for me, this article required more research and creativity than my previous posts. Enjoy! → willybrauner.com/journal/sign... #signals #frontend #article

#1992 rb.gy/kox0fc

Latest on my website: Moacyr Scliair's(The Woman Who Wrote The Bible , a witty satire about a woman who wrote the early parts of the Bible shorturl.at/PSaja tr Heath Wing, from @unmpress.bsky.social

Why I 🧡 the web. About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them. walzr.com/empty-screen... #movies #movietheater

Henri Matisse - Memory of Oceania - 1953

Now #reading: The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann trans. John E Woods, 2005) The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Morten Høi Jensen, 2025) Mann doesn't get enough credit for being a very funny satirical writer! Jensen brings excellent context and history

Today's earworm: Jonathan Coulton – First of May

Wake in Fright 4K!

A stunning visualization born from a collaboration with @manlius.bsky.social : 55,486 galaxies and 29,555 streamlines tracing how matter flows across our local universe, built on data from the CosmicFlows-4 project. Article in the first reply 👇

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory

“I’ve gone back to basics.” Catching up with Frank Quitely, interview by Jake Zawlacki www.tcj.com/an-interview...

Sergio Sarri, Guardiano, 1970

If you haven't read Elizabeth Sandifer's "Cuddled Little Vice" it's absolutely and 100% worth the time. It's hard to imagine anybody will ever write a better reflection on Neil Gaiman's artistic legacy and all it implies, both about the limits of art and the limits of a particular person.

Cancelling other subs on the assumption Claude Code ends up as a Max-tier-only feature soon – pains me but have to admit to myself it's a necessary utility now

Post Office Momence, IL

Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/

Christopher Clark (undisputed English-language master of all things Prussian) on Wilhelm II in the LRB, 2015 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

The Monument to the Cathedral Master Builders of Girona by Josep Maria Subirachs

It's pencils down at the hackathon. I put 236 years of US copyright law into a git repository. Every Act of Congress from 1790 to today is a commit. Still some work to be done, and things got frantic at the end, but I'm proud of this! github.com/katelynsills...

I still say if you must do a reboot of Escape from New York you flip it. Manhattan is fully a gated community for the rich now. Someone hires a mercenary to spirit away a relative from an abusive partner. And the chase is on to survive the night against several private security details.

RIP Asha Bhosle www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irv2... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUFi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNnv...

[OC] Dowgate Fire Station, London. r/brutalism

Parisian Brutalism r/brutalism

almost every band on the cover album made a shoegaze or shoegaze adjacent track, except for one: shonen knife no. not a pop punk cover. they did a doo wop version of "when you sleep", it's incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN8...

Cais das Colunas, Lisbon Artur Pastor

Cry til you laugh: Chris Pirillo vibe codes his job-search frustrations into brutally honest apps https://www.geekwire.com/2026/cry-til-you-laugh-chris-pirillo-vibe-codes-his-job-search-frustrations-into-brutally-honest-apps/

Basilica of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, by Pierre Khoury (Built 1970-1997) r/brutalism

Happy astronauts back from the Moon www.nasa.gov/gallery/arte... #Artemis 🧪🔭

Diagonal siding Williamsport, IN

We present SCARLET WARNING 666 at NWFF on 4/20 at 715pm! “Kinda like if Neil Breen made A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin. The psychosis oozes off the screen at every moment.” Audience reaction at the world premiere of restoration by @grindhousefilm.bsky.social grandillusioncinema.org/film/scarlet...

Beautiful obit for Sam Keith: www.tcj.com/sam-kieth-ja...

the design on these was so awesome

Found this "unusual 19th century lamp...of a supple gentleman" at an online auction and gosh, it sure is as described. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

Some shots from London r/brutalism