No Vacanations here. Vacanations elsewhere.

The most telling thing about the grok business is that the government refuse to take any meaningful action. VAWG and CSAM are less important than whatever reason they have for not acting be it fear, greed, stupidity or corruption. This is a truly bizarre situation. I can recall nothing like it.

Oh my god, Béla Tarr deadline.com/2026/01/bela...

Yesterday, while reading an ‘as new’ copy of ‘The Daemon Lover’ by Shirley Jackson, published by Penguin Archive, I encountered two words very emphatically scrubbed out. There’s another deletion further on. Can anyone who knows this book tell me what the offending words are?

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Olivetti Divisumma advertising poster. 1953.

@zandercannon.bsky.social number 7: as frustrating and intriguing as all the other issues - I feel like I’ll be kicking myself when you reveal THE SECRET and there were several huge clues that I failed to put together, aargh! How the heck can there just be 22 pages left for answers?!? Can’t wait!

Libya. Iraq. Iran. Afghanistan. Laos. Vietnam. Haiti. Hawaii. Puerto Rico. Panama. Cuba. Guatemala. The Philippines. El Salvador. Bolivia. Mexico. Ecuador. Honduras. Nicaragua. Chile. Venezuela. I could go on and on. What do these nations have in common?

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

Neon how it should be used, on Great Windmill Street. The Christmas lights in Soho this year are all based on children’s drawings :)

Garlic… Spread. Garlic spread. GARLIC. SPREAD.

This looks like tomorrow he’ll be meeting with Commissioner Gordon to discuss sightings of The Bat Man

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Fascists fundamentally misunderstand the politics of artists, of fashion, of self-expression, because they do not respect them and they are obsessed with conformity. They do this a lot. In the same way that they insist all feminists are ugly, and that's why they're feminists. It's bullshit.

Put those paint tins back, no baby polar bears, alpacas or labradoodles were skinned to make this chair (if the price tag hadn’t clued us in already ) Potential excellent t-shirt?

David Hockney ‘A Bigger Splash’ 1967 Acrylic paint on canvas 'When you photograph a splash, you're freezing a moment and it becomes something else. I realise that a splash could never be seen this way in real life, it happens too quickly… so I painted it in a very, very slow way.’

Bridget Riley ‘Fall’ 1963 Polyvinyl acetate paint on hardboard (This is a big painting that is near impossible to look at close up. To get a tiny sense of what it does, zoom in on this photo so it fills your screen, and then try to focus on it. Hijinks will ensue in your eyeball situation.)

Another banger from Mario Bellini: the Olivetti Divisumma 33 Printing Calculator. Even the box it came in is a striking piece of graphic design. (Imagine how much time you’d waste on debating whether to keep it or throw it away)

Just found this from 2013: Sarah McIntyre’s sunday newspaper strip SHARK & UNICORN. An angry man told her “that does not look like a unicorn! That’s a fat pig!” So I rewrote it. She liked it. It has an extra edge now.

This reminds me of what Quincy Jones said about Kanye West when people compared them as producers.

Fell down a rabbit hole into Olivetti-land… the Logos 55 Printing Calculator from 1975. Designed by Mario Bellini, who did a lot of these kinds of machines: like Dieter Rams with Braun. Look at that keyboard. So beautiful :)

Fritz Henle ‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’ 1948

Emily Dickinson XV, Poems, USA, c.1868

Informing my parents which christmas cards are AI and which are not like I'm an art expert on Antiques Roadshow

‘Look! I'm running away with my imagination’ Maurice Sendak (illustration for Open House for Butterflies’, by Ruth Krauss, 1960)

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

‘Circular Dynamics 65+S’ c.1968-70 Marina Apollonio born 1940, Italy Screenprint on lacquered wood and motor Tate. Presented by the Artist 2024 “inspired by Gestalt theories of visual perception, which explore how the brain processes visual information through pattern recognition.”

There's no rushing a comic. @mrphoenix.bsky.social takes us from inspiration to final artwork: www.fictionable.world/blogs/woodro... #books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast

Just remembered this ad where the message seemed to be: If someone nearby has a packet of FITS run away before they open it

It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭

EMILIO PETTORUTI ‘Self Portrait’, 1933 Oil on canvas.

Mimmo Rotella ‘Lava Bene’ 1963 Torn posters on canvas

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.

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Emilio Pettoruti (1892-1971). The Verdigris Goblet, 1934. Oil on canvas.

Jean-Michel Basquiat Pater 1982 Acrylic, oil, and oil pastel on canvas

It might just be me. I haven’t looked at a typical train station concession for awhile. But the prices for these rolls and pasties are double what I’d expect. Yes, you’re paying the hostage tax. But still. Who is buying these?

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

A very David Lynch moment when you notice that room across the hallway is not empty

‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ creator Ben Bocquelet confirms James Baxter 2D animated Gumball and Darwin in a new episode: “[It’s] James Baxter, the greatest living hand-drawn animator.”

My Tokyoiter cover (depecting Ameyoko in Ueno) is now available for a limited time on their online shop. Really pleased to join their illustrious list of contributors. the-tokyoiter-shop.myshopify.com/products/jon...

Alain Jacquet ‘Déjeuner sur l'Herbe’ 1964 Silk-screen ink on canvas (diptych) This is only viewable from five or more metres away. When you get closer all you see is dots. More moiré than Seurat!

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