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I learned to read very early, had newspapers every day and five sets of encyclopedias growing up, library card at 4 or 5 - let's hope it will triumph over later-life internet brain

Bondi angrily calling out her correct title to someone who addressed her with a lesser title - it's very Thomas Cromwell (as Mantel brilliantly characterized him in Wolf Hall). We know what happened to him.

Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get. To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

I am tired of having to verify that I'm human to bots that are not human.

According to Greil Marcus: "Thelonious Monk apparently once left the stage in a morose mood. He was very dissatisfied with the music he had just played. On being asked why this was so he replied that he had made all the wrong mistakes."

Earliest known depiction of the fossil snake Haasiophis 🐡

vegetables, forever.

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

This poem. Written in 1970.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Can we start over

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

I was commissioned to make these full-length panel coats years ago and it's still one of my favorite projects ever. Made with the Folkwear Tibetan Panel Coat pattern from dupioni silk and cotton batik.

my rep

Jesus fucking holy hell. This is what you should get loud about. If you have any Republican representatives, call them now -and repeatedly. Do what you can to stop this from passing. This is a nightmare.

No big deal in the scheme of things right now, but pet peeve: I wish people would stop using "pearl-clutching." It's intended to call up an image of an older woman - who must, therefore, automatically be mockable, prudish, stupid, and out of touch. That makes it ageist and misogynist. Please stop!

Nobody needs an AI romance. "So, you can tell me about guardrails around the darkest corners of this. But fundamentally, you are in love with a business product whose intentions and incentives are to keep you interacting only with them — except they forget everything and you have to reset them."

A helluva statement by Joe Biden, who was truly a president with heart. Thank you.

very quick watercolor sketchbook page there will be flowers again

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

I am so glad I never signed on to TikTok. The Ghosts of Facebook Past are enough for me.

for Alex Pretti

incredible! Looks like a painting.

Below zero tonight? Warm up with this great clip of Cyd Charisse and Ricardo Montalban in the 1948 film On An Island With You. (My dad had a crush on Cyd Charisse, as I recall, and I can see why.) Link from the great Seven Good Things weekly newsletter by @fredrick.bsky.social.

acrylic on panel, 6" x 6", 2021

You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it. ~ Audre Lorde

Few things make me feel as victorious as when I stop procrastinating, man up, go into the dank spidery crawl space and change the furnace filter. Landlord is "too busy" so it's up to me.

Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.

William Morris, 1884. #Art #FlowerReport #Flowers 🌺

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

2026 so far (illustration by the great Edward Gorey)

Dammit, tech companies. The only think I need to know about your awesome AI feature is how to turn it off.

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

I’m announcing my plan to take on our broken, corrupt political system: ✅Ban corporate PACs & super PACs ✅Ban lawmakers from trading stocks ✅And require every member of Congress to hold annual town halls This is how we build a government of, by, and for the people.

I 'm pretty sure I had faster internet with dial-up than I do now that AI has infiltrated every function. My laptop has become insanely slow, even w/plenty of storage remaining. I've turned off Google Gemini for "helping" actions but I assume it's still scraping everything.

I was sinking under the weight of too much news tonight so instead I'm looking at beautiful homes I'll never be able to live in, barring a miracle. "Scorpio does not forget: it preserves, it protects. There is something deeply seductive about this sign, nocturnal, mystical, and intense." C'est moi!

That was a really beautiful thank-you speech from Hamnet director Chloé Zhao. Well done.

My sign today.

Thank you for everything, Bobby Weir. We are forever grateful. Breaking: #BobWeir, #GratefulDead Co-Founder, Dies At 78

"According to the report, Canada is exposed because it is closely tied to the U.S. through geography, trade and defence, meaning sudden political or policy changes in Washington could have an outsized impact on Canada."

Comal County hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years. But they showed up for Talarico 🔥

So @msnownews.bsky.social reporter just now characterizes Democrat's wish to reclaim congress's constitutional powers as "gripes." JFC.

10-Minute Challenge: An Artist in Greenland I love, love, love these 10-minute art/looking challenges from the NYT. This painting is mesmerizing, originating earlier in the 20th century than I'd have guessed, daring in color and composition. I didn't know the artist prior to this; a great story.

Serious Tim Walz is a formidable speaker and a compassionate and thoughtful man. I think in hindsight it was wrong to try to folksy-grandpa him.

2026 is off to such a weird start ... keep breathing

birbfest days 1-6!! 🦜🐤🪺 #art #birbfest2026 #watercolor