Palazzo Salviati

Luigi Bonazza, Fratelli nel giardino, 1926

Now he's raising people from the dead. He Is God!!!

Birds find women scarier than men. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

Happy Birthday, David Attenborough 🎆 💯 🎆

Some really bad news for AMERICANS. When Trump is gone, GOP is gone, MAGA is gone, the rest of the world will never trust us again, as it should be, because American voters put him & the GOP in office. It is us who can't be trusted.

An assembly of poets

We haven’t even begun to understand the Pandora’s Box that this war has opened. @cfr.org www.cfr.org/articles/aft...

I’ve stopped referring to Charlie as “my late husband” and now call him “my first husband.” When I call him “my late husband,” people give me such sad looks. When I say “my first husband,” people give me a quizzical look as though they are wondering what’s wrong with me.

Thank you Spain! 🇪🇸 👏

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The condition of education in Texas

‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Performed Busoni this evening. It went well, I think.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

A friendly act of war.

That would be bad if that ever happened.

Ready for the performance

Some reading as prelude to the 250th anniversary of the United States.

Precision oncology involves using the therapeutic platform best suited to combating each tumor’s unique biology. www.the-scientist.com/next-generat...

Palazzo Contarini by Claude Monet (1908)

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a bombshell when Kurt Gödel first introduced it. Gödel’s seminal work directly contradicted one of the great minds of mathematics and limited the field forever

Tom and I used to be asked quite often if we are brothers. Now, when Niall is with us, we don't hear that question.

Politics was invented to prevent violence. When violence enters politics, politics fails

Venice Biennale Bars Awards for Art From Countries Accused of War Crimes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/a...

Wilkinson's book sounds like a rehash of The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin nautil.us/evolution-is...

The President of the United States is doing everything he can to make sure that the United States never has any allies again. America First means America on its own.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

We already know that America is gun-sick, but the sickness has reached epic proportions.

My parents are here for my birthday, but Niall is getting much more attention than I am.

XXXVII

Another victory for the 2nd Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

I am a gay dad and this is FUCKED UP

Fake Bible for a fake Jesus.

I think it is preferable to have politicians who have, at some point in their lives, lived like a normal person

Hooray!! Taxes done. US UK & Italy

South Korea did it. Hungary did it. Now it's time for the US to do it, to rid itself an authoritarian tyrant.

Thousands of IRS enforcement agents have been pushed out since Trump returned. As a result, more complex audits of the rich and private equity firms have plunged. Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for the powerful to skirt what they owe.

Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal. Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November. It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).

The End of My Life Is Killing Me www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...