Coffee Thurs Sep 73.

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.41 (lookback time 4.51 billion years) with coordinates (149.77351, 1.72552). 45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.🔭

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old." -Marie Dressler #BOTD Dressler gives one of the best double takes in cinema history

The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita. Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year: Christmas in New York. archive.org/details/chri...

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

BOWELS, THEIR REPAST; THEN BURSTING FORTH / AFRESH

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

Woodcreek, Texas Pop: 5,925 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcreek,_Texas Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42813737 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96219033 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144924816

Nov. 9, 1925: Edith Rogers, a newly elected member of the House, calls on President Coolidge at the White House. She urges the president, a fellow Massachusetts Republican, to try to set up arbitration in the anthracite coal strike that threatens a cold winter in the Northeast.

Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt

November.

#STL Getting my first look at removated Powell Hall this afternoon with the performance of Britten’s War Requiem at 3PM #ClassicalMusic share.google/R1cHx8lbjVds...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Transcription of Donald Fagen’s Wurlitzer piano solo in “Your Gold Teeth.” youtu.be/enlxxYQyk1Q #SteelyDan #DonalFagen

some art is worth preserving and sharing enthusiasm for it isn’t elitist, it’s generous

Autumn colours in Osterley Park.

[November 9th, 1985] Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Akira Ikeda Gallery in Tokyo

Omnishambles.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who could end the federal government shutdown today, has instead chosen to dissolve Congress.

am I waiting by this persons car hoping to be friends, yes

Glasgow! Two weeks from tonight, Peter and I will be in your fair city making a grand noise. Please come out, and let me know if we can meet up! Bit.ly/YBTOUR

📷️Nikon Zf 📸MINOLTA AUTO TELE ROKKOR-QE 100mm F3.5 初期型 #photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf #Stunday

On or about January 1981 human character changed, when some unknown person for the last time without irony called someone else their lover.

Today, in 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. Today, in 2025, we are building walls again.

Indeed. I just made a tiramisu cake. From Sally’s Baking cookbook (birthday present from my daughter who helped roll). sallysbakingaddiction.com/sallys-bakin...

"...it came to me then that my life did not remotely resemble the life I thought I'd have when I had been young and looking ahead to things." Raymond Carver - Beginners

FIFTY YEAR MORTGAGES !

Village (1912) by Boris Grigoriev

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

この数週間は海外で演奏をしてました。最も印象に残ったのはこの素敵な1904年のドイツのベヒシュタインピアノです。出会った瞬間その優美さと温かい音色に魅力されました。 I’ve been performing overseas the past weeks. The most memorable was this lovely 1904 German Bechstein piano. As soon as I met it, I was captivated by its elegant beauty and warm sound. #ピアノ #piano

The Box Pew (1950) by Andrew Wyeth

Portrait of Gerda (1914) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Germaine Greer (1995) by Paula Rego

AND IS A DANGEROUS THING

The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality

"The architectural integrity and enduring quality of the design are evident through its simplicity, functionality and materiality." region.com.au/canberras-ro...

Based on a new filing with the 1st Circuit by blue states describing operational chaos in the SNAP program caused by the extreme bad faith of the Trump Regime, you may want to spend SNAP money now (low confidence). If you are in Wisconsin, you should do so immediately (higher confidence)

#Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, transcribed for #piano and played by Asiya Korepanova, on an 1882 #Steinway D, built less than a decade after the composition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTuQ...

The chemistry between Bonnie Raitt and Dennis Quaid - phew! www.youtube.com/watch?v=krF6...

Happy Birthday Bonnie Raitt! Explore her musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/BRaittHBD

Danish pianist Victor Schiøler studied with Friedman & Schnabel, taught Victor Borge, and produced hours of superb recordings. His 1956 Chopin Preludes remained unpublished, and extensive searches finally uncovered a pressing uncatalogued in the archive - and WOW! Check the link in the comments!

Beautiful fall colors on this courtyard building ivy

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

The year is 2029. Andrew Cuomo is running for village trustee of Hoosick Falls. The race was uncontested until his arrival but the opposition has been garbanzos since he moved into town last month.