Is luminary eliding with aloof here? That would be brilliant for a few reasons. luminar- / aloof

Ah no, Bonnie Tyler has died. I interviewed her a few years ago and she was reliably great: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was Marie-Antoinette’s favourite painter. Here’s her Self Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782), which she modelled on Rubens’ Portrait of Susanna Lunden painted 160 years before (at R)

2AM: I’ve migrated from bed to reading nook. ☕ Decaf tea.
🎼 Rameau.
🖋️ Promised myself I won’t overthink. Busy brain started a close listen to this Rameau & is circling how delaying the resolution of a dissonance can hold heartache at bay for just a moment. Probably why I’m awake. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #classicalmusic

Julia Timmins, Precious (wood engraving, c. 2023)

Some of y’all know the tune as “Waltz Across Texas,” but Ernest Tubb’s nephew actually wrote it. I’ve become obsessed with adding bits of the Handel Harp Concerto & the Mozart Fl/Hp Concerto to one of the variations. Not everyone will get the joke, but it makes me laugh.

One of the things boring normie establishment politicians tend to learn while climbing the ladder, not all of them but most of them, is how sometimes observing the pro forma norms and standard civic expectations isn't to suppress your sparkling individuality, it's to save you from being yourself.

I thought an owl sighting with the cure playing was pretty good but one flying over head on our night walk while babushka by Kate Bush plays just out camped Robert Smith

Alright, Bluesky. You’ve convinced me to join Pizza Wednesday. Happy pizza Wednesday to all who celebrate ! 🍕

"they are not going to let us have it"

what a surprise. again, he reacted like this when the Nazi tattoo was revealed! he wasn't contrite, there was no actual acceptance or suggestion of change, it was pure entitlement and anger. All of this should have been obvious.

do you think it's safe to unmute his name now, or

Said a prayer at both of those men's graves, that U.S. may remain a non-Christian nation as they both wanted

'The scent of roses and spring rain, the unceasing roar of the waves against the west cliffs and the splash of salt in the unspoiled air.'

When Biden did literally this exact thing the media organized Biden Is Unfit parades in every major city until he dropped out

From neighboring NH, I've admired Maine's SoS Shenna Bellows. A life dedicated to public service, great on the issues, relentlessly optimistic, and once put herself at great risk to serve her constituents (the Trump 2024 ballot disqualification saga). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenna_...

James Turrell Air Mass (1993) Hayward Gallery.

Found this John Byrne rendering of Elektra in The Daredevil Chronicles (1982). Odd, because he didn't draw that character? (I'm not a Marvel scholar, just sorting out some old comics from my youth. Maybe he did at some point?)

From the Porch Sarah Robertson n.d.

slipping past the the beautiful doorstep 🍃

Stopped paying attn to most of Those Dudes after the 2016 catastrophe, but wow, is Ryan Grim trash.

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5M after jury found President Trump sexually abused and defamed her.

Listening to these in conjunction with learning one, and perhaps others depending on how it goes. Many are beautiful; quite a few brilliant and fun. A few don't do much for me. Oddly I don't imagine them as songs, title notwithstanding. They also seem oddly purposeless, if that makes any sense?

A captivating lute Allemande & Courante that wrecked me for the better today. From lutenist Gregory Hamilton’s marvelous 2025 recording of music by Wolf Jakob Lauffensteiner. Hamilton makes this piece speak so eloquently and sing so naturally. Bliss. #lute #classicalmusic

Page 189 of 2026. In this photo, Little Atsushi is in a wonderful place in Krakow, the "Abecadło" Antiquarian Bookstore. My best friend took us there a few weeks ago. I often think back to that beautiful day. I'm so grateful 🙏 Goodnight or good day, depending on where you are 🌜💙✨

Superb idea!

Don't watch a lotta TeeVee but she was phenomenal in this. I might even quibble about the "supporting" part; I just assumed she was a co-lead with Matthew Rhys.

From neighboring NH, I've admired Maine's SoS Shenna Bellows. A life dedicated to public service, great on the issues, relentlessly optimistic, and once put herself at great risk to serve her constituents (the Trump 2024 ballot disqualification saga). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenna_...

People I would not support to replace Platner: Valli Geiger, Emily Cain, Jordan Wood, Paige Loud. People I would support to replace Platner: Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson, Nirav Shah, Aaron Frey. #mepolitics

Another wonderful Evelyn Hofer portrait of Anjelica Huston with Alexander Calder-designed jewelry, 1976

© Vivian Maier New York

Ah, yes, focusing once again on the pocketbook needs of the American people. Thank you, voters. Thank you so very much.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asking for an update from Sen. Mitch McConnell: “As Governor, I request that you fully update Kentuckians regarding the current status of your health.”

One of my students posted this to the class blog. It is my new favorite photo of myself.

QUELQUECHOSE. [French.] A trifle; a kickshaw. From country grass to comfitures of court, Or city’s quelquechoses, let not report My mind transport. Donne. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/quelque...

'PflasterKunst' #FotoVorschlag Checkerboard tile sidewalk; Charleston, South Carolina

Pass to they Rendezvous of Light Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light, Pangless except for us — Who slowly for the Mystery Which thou hast leaped across!

Long-term skyrocketing gas prices (and the prices of everything else that depend on fuel), courtesy a war of choice the President started for no good reason and that he is incapable of ending. Every time I think I can move on from what some voters did in 2024, I can't. Fool me once, etc.

Percy Shelley drowned #onthisday in Italy in 1822. At the time he'd been working on his last major (and unfinished) poem The Triumph of Life. Read it, and others, in this beautiful art nouveau 1902 collection illustrated by Robert Anning Bell: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p... #OTD

Paul Evans Summer Meadow

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

Habitación de hotel by Elena Montull. Acrylic.

☀️ now. #washdaywednesday 📷

Oh? [quickly pulls together old materials for an online course for adults in Homeric Greek this fall] www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

WIP Wednesday! Looking good so far, I just need to finish the back panel and then it's seams and sleeves #knitsky

So utterly humiliating and exhausting, his

Sorting out my ghosts.