Parisians always know who's a tourist. They will never let you practice your French with them.

Carpetblog has been wayyyy ahead of the pack.

there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me

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"inspired by the night sky, Ancestral Puebloan pottery, and regional fauna" 👀👀

Everything is terrible but at least there’s Marina Abramović keeping it real. artreview.com/what-keeps-m...

no kings but look at this cool new crown i got

Guess it's the perfect time to remind people that Pablo Picasso was one of main suspects when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 www.artsy.net/article/arts...

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...

It’s so good, even when politically implausible!

How can you tell if you're in Crapistan? Can you see the "world's tallest/biggest/roundest" anything: the world’s tallest flagpole and/or biggest flag, biggest baklava, the world’s largest LED picture of a dictator or the world’s largest indoor ferris wheel? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Women don’t like the vehicle

my god there has never been a more accurate use of this

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I actually did vote for everything to get more expensive, dangerous, and stupid, and I feel extremely represented right now

No one: Me: But what I’m really trying to capture is an Under the Tuscan Sun vibe. open.substack.com/pub/carpetbl...

“For a second the world stops being “out there,” you stop being “in here,” and the border checkpoint falls asleep. Two citizens of nowhere look at each other and each becomes borderless. This is illegal in most jurisdictions.“ On making friends. open.substack.com/pub/theshado...

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Farshid Mesghali and Morteza Momayez were influential figures in Iranian graphic design during the 1960s–70s. Their work combines modernist simplicity with cultural motifs, creating visuals that still resonate today.

Polish film poster for The Police Woman (La femme flic, 1980) • Designed by Mieczysław Wasilewski, 1979.

Chapter Ukraine is a new interactive platform by Chytomo showcasing Ukrainian books in translation and connecting readers, libraries, and bookstores worldwide. 🧵 1/4 ⬇️

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

"separate art from the artist" never seems to be used to describe the other way, where someone i really like makes the worst art ive ever seen

competition for insect of the year in Australia has to be pretty stiff

Catholicism is weird, densely referential, functionally pagan in a lot of ways that you're not supposed to talk about, and extremely invested in pageantry. If you can't handle it, go back to the megachurch next to the strip mall.

Hard to imagine I've never been to this museum. Will have to rectify.

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

Bluesky is being uncharacteristically funny this afternoon

Yesterday was for grape trellises and boar hunts. open.substack.com/pub/carpetbl...

Because everything is terrible right now, here's one of my favorite homages to Gustave Courbet's infamous 1866 painting L'origine du monde (The Origin of the World)

Scans from Lora Lamm. Grafica a Milano 1953-1963. In the written history of mid-century Italian and Swiss Graphic Design, Lora Lamm’s name is often overlooked. Lamm was a major contributor to the Milanese design style of Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. designreviewed.com/artefacts/lo...

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Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings

I think we as Americans are kind of understandably preoccupied with the failure of our own liberal-democratic institutions and the collapse of our own center left party, but it’s important to remember that these people are completely failing to meet the historical moment in other countries, too.

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

Pitchbot could never aspire to these heights

Up here in the mountains getting ready for the rapture/equinox/whatever like

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

Hungarian footwear advert designed by So-Ky (László Sós and Éva Kemény) 1967

Agreed. And they should loudly announce "we are following Italy" so that not a single person in France would be caught dead supporting them.

Today is Primidi the 1st of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate grapes.#JacobinDay More information on grapes

Works on paper by self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, 1940s-90s, whose work was exhibited in Paris in the 40s, inspiring artists like Breton and Picasso.

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg