Artist: Kawase Hasui Title: Karikachi Mountain Pass (Karikachi toge) Date: 1922–1932 Medium: Color woodblock print; oban Credit Line: Gift of Oliver Statler

None of these people know what “politically incorrect” actually means. You can in fact have, say, a homophobic character as long as that character isn’t supposed to be morally laudable. That’s it. That’s the One Neat Trick Doctor’s Don’t Want You To Know.

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

Things I learned this week: if you were allergic to penicillin as a kid there's a good chance you aren't anymore and your doctor can test for it; and that wet skin shower moisturizer actually does work

It’s a baby fricken whale, Jay!

Cabbage 🥬 #art #pokemon

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

What and I cannot stress this enough the fucking fuck

New favorite owl

If you use your privileged position to kill a bunch of people through federal legislation the best doctors in the country are required to keep you alive even if your body keeps shutting off voluntarily while you’re at podiums in a concerted attempt to make it clear to everyone that it’s time to die

The amazing world of Needle Felted Herons. One comment "so realistic it could just be a real heron shrunken down" 🎨 2,4 KarenVanDerZijden www.etsy.com/uk/listing/8... 1,3 daria_lvovsky www.etsy.com/uk/listing/5...

House at Dusk - 1935 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103973

As someone who grew up with a swimming pool but knows fuck all about ponds and fountains, there must be some reason they don't just chlorinate the reflecting pool..?

Brussels - Royal Quarter #Scape #architecture #design #ECK #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Marthe Oulié was tolerated only reluctantly as an archaeologist by the École française d’Athènes (EFA). On 11 November 1925, she sent her excavation reports to the director who refused to publish them. 🥵 #Photography #Archaeology #Crete #Greece #EllaMaillart #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

even knowing that conservative thinking is, at its core, a fundamental denial of human interconnectedness—it's still wild to see how strongly they believe they can mete out punitive policies based on geography and only punish the enemy

Gustave Courbet

Swedish poster for the lost, apparently rather lurid pre-Code drama SHANGHAI LADY (1929) Starring Mary Nolan as a former prostitute/opium den denizen seeking to build a new life for herself Directed by John S. Robertson - BOTD in 1878

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

Today on the trail it was hot

I see I missed a great victory while I was out

The idea that LLMs 'hallucinate' is itself a clever invention of the tech industry to disguise actual failures of their systems. Rebranding these serious algorithmic glitches as 'hallucinations' was designed to make the public accept this bullshit by linking it to the vagaries of human psychology.

On the contrary, I believe that raising the cap on incomes for Social Security taxes above the current ceiling of $184,500 is the best and fairest option and would likely be politically popular. It still leaves plenty of room for taxing the rich, even if it brings their effective tax rate over 50%.

Co-painted Fragonard and Marguerite Gerard, his pupil, The Angora Cat, 1783-85, oil on linen. #Caturday #WomenArtists

I only started to get his work when I saw it in person. It's a lot more interesting, and exact, than I would've thought looking at just pictures of it

Coles Phillips, 1916

Now we need to tear some things down that aren’t just symbolic.

loyola theater, manchester & sepulveda boulevard, westchester, california, 1987

I contemplated starting a collection of antique/vintage postcards of lunatic asylums but it would work out too expensive. I did however bag for a bargain one I would have coveted - Mendota - the asylum featured in Wisconsin Death Trip! Also it's written and stamped 1911.

Three Black Cats, Carl Kahler, C19th. #Caturday

Me: You do not remember that movie! Matt: yes I do! Me: do you even know who was in it Matt: Look. I have name recognition of that film and I will firmly stand behind pretending to remember it so you don't make me watch it again!

Right about now the fascists shudder check it out now

They will regret nothing They will only wish they had done worse while they had the chance

Unhinged Regime: we will happily commit war crimes Unhinged Regime: *commits war crimes* Media: "It is unclear if the Unhinged Regime intentionally committed the war crimes"

Like his friend Paul Nash who he met at the Slade, Claughton Pellew believed trees held a spiritual quality. This work from 1924 likely features his wife Emma (also an artist) walking near their home at Southrepps, North Norfolk.

Seventy years ago a small British studio began filming the first colour version of Mary Shelleys novel with two minor Brit actors. I hear they did rather well. 1957. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #hammerhorror #horroraddict #film #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

If you can’t tax billionaires & trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity. If it’s not real enough to tax—it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage. Abolish billionaires—Protect working people.

The Others (2001) Written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan and Christopher Eccleston.

i need them to play belgium and win by three thousand goals and then march to brussels

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

Le quartier gothique (El barrio gótico), Barcelone - Jorge Llorca Martínez, photographe espagnol connu pour sa photo de rue et créative. #Photonoiretblanc #JorgeLlorcaMartínez

Gm ❣️

Minerva or Pallas Athena https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28468

Best boy. Best feets. #Caturday

...I see.

Yesterday I had to explain who Fellini was to a lady a bit older than me and at first I didn't think it was too weird that she didn't know but that moment when I was going to list a couple of his films and realized that was kinda pointless felt so sad in a way that wasn't about Fellini

Sessue Hayakawa in a scene from the movie "Daughter of the Dragon" (with Anna May Wong) - BOTD

Sharing the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto once again to remind everyone that bisexuality was NEVER binary

The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social

Yakuza Ladies 1986 極道の妻たち Directed by Hideo Gosha When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful #yakuza gangs in Japan. #Filmsky 📽️