An ever-growing list of Books to Be Read.

© Carlos Martin. 'Quiet Presence,' 2025. Ink on paper, 30 × 42 cm.

My flower painting Lilac www.verakober.com/floral

The fox appears in the folklore of many cultures and is associated with cunning and tricks or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers #FolkloreThursday Silk embroidered fox by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, UK #WomensArt

Hush, Toad. Let Frog and I have our delusions.

My painting of peonies

Keith Thomson (American, b.1965) "Rovers," 2023 Oil and ink on canvas 18 x 24 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

'Kynance Light' by Hazel MacNab, contemporary UK printmaker based in Cornwall #Womensart

HANG UP YOUR MACE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Summer is around the corner and soon you'll read a bunch of posts about how every man should have a pair of loafers. I don't think anyone needs anything, but if you're shopping for a pair, let me show you how to think about loafers. This applies to any wardrobe item. 🧵

𝚂𝙾 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙷. 𝚂𝙾 𝙲𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙽.

Unstoppable technology of the future still begging people to use it

This is Bella. She is taking an online biscuit-making class. Her technique is unconventional, but the results are flawless. 14/10 (TT: motherofsausages)

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

Life is just corner after corner after corner and then you die.

Vitric grapes, liquiform fabric in the most luscious green hue, and wonderfully iridescent mother of pearl: this might be one of my favorite examples of my favorite genre of painting.

Life is such tragedy.

"Lemon Water" - my oil painting

Yes, well, the National Trust is obviously wrong because whom amongst us has ever had to host an emergency ball with naught but 55k square feet of building space to work with this is an clear outrage thank you for your attention to this matter

look at this fraggle-ass fish

Sister and Friend, 2024 by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter #WomensArt

"I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it." -- Dorothy Parker -- also me

#OtD 2 Apr 2013 Stelios Vlamakis, parliamentary candidate for the Greek fascist party Golden Dawn, was thrown in the sea by residents of the port town of Chania, Crete. He had been making Nazi salutes, and attacked two migrants while police stood by stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9160...

Anne Innis Dagg is considered to be the World's First Giraffologist. Along with giraffes, she studied the behaviour of camels, primates and Canadian wildlife. She also fought against gender discrimination in science. This is the story of the Girl Who Loved Giraffes. 🧵 1/9

Happy birthday to Maurice LaMarche, born on this day in 1958 in Toronto! One of Canada's most acclaimed voice actors, his roles include Chief Quimby on Inspector Gadget, The Brain on Pinky and the Brain, Kif Kroker on Futurama and much, much more. He has won two Emmys.

I don't have a subscription but was able to read the whole article after clearing my browser cookies. Warning - child abuse: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Branding genius! This man calls never doing anything for anybody “self care”

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Same, bro, same.

William Haskell - 'Turmoil' #acrylics

© Mark Grantham. 'Now Comes The Night.' Acrylic on canvas, 2025. 20 × 16 inches.

Happy Birthday, George Benson 🥳🎉🎂 🗣️'Cause there's music in the air and lots of lovin' everywhere... I just love this song.. it puts me in a good mood 💙

Doctors say that most serious childhood diseases are caused by viruses. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they are caused by radiation from 5G cell phone towers. For a busy parent, it can be hard to know who to trust.

I'll bet they have, though. Because sometimes kids just don't tell their parents when they do something they're not allowed to do, you know? Source: was once a kid

www.gamesradar.com/games/after-... You deserve it. ❤️

never beating the “FBI as a make-a-wish foundation for podcasters” allegations

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

Oh, bless. Is she pretending she does things again? That's so cute and dumb and ridiculous. We know, we know, it was lonely for you, growing up on the South Side of Chicago. Ma'am, you don't need to pretend to be accomplished. No one in your kakistocracy is.

** Reposting this story I wrote last year. #GnuTerryPratchett **

This thread👇

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die. May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

Carolyn Clayton, UK Ceramic artist known for her figurative sculptures #womensart #Spring #FridayFeeling

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

may i offer you some shrews in these trying times