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Fritz Henle ‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’ 1948

Adding Sputnik Monroe, wrestler, to this list. He felt strongly about performing for ALL people.

Excited for this new 2026 annual planner, a purchase which will completely transform my habits and personality.

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

The Wall Street Journal crowns Philly the best place to visit in 2026. Plus: Jason Kelce’s inevitable Hank Sauce investment, Zillow housing hype, worsening commutes, and Primo Hoagies doing good.

Goodnight. ‘The whole Moomin family had, as usual, hibernated for the winter and set the alarm clock to ring on the first of April. But the clock was old and not to be trusted, so it woke them up for Christmas instead. Since she was awake anyway, Moominmamma made coffee.’ ~ 🖼️ 🖊️ Tove Jansson

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

“For the rising of the sun And the running of the deer“

Reading Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” and came across this article, which describes and illustrates milk strikes. 🚀

”Do it to Julia! Not me!”—Winston Smith

Dismantle hazing.

If you use your library, tell a friend. Help them get a card, download Libby, and use the services that are there for them.

@dogemperor.bsky.social was the first place I heard any mention of this, and that's going back to...Palin? 2008ish? I think it was about 7 mountains and parallel economy. None of this is new information. (Thank you, dogemperor, I think you put me onto Fred Clarkson's stuff at Patheos, too.)

Feeling some kind of way about people using ChatGPT to find answers to this quiz. Very few people know all, or even most, of the answers. And that’s fine! The quiz encourages searching, with the reminder that Googling might be tricky. 1/?

🐋This is for the whole sick crew of MD readers!

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

Hand to God, in response to a comment (mine), re one of these sagas, of "This never happened," someone said, "It didn't need to have happened, it just needed to be told." And that's why we're well and truly cooked.

“Three Bags Full” was a fun read! Cute trailer for the adaptation.

Much as I don’t like the platform, I appreciate this piece.

Sometimes we can have a nice thing. As a treat.

The personal pocket is political.

Delightful!

Amen.

Please please please let this study hold up

Ya know, this is why I go back to the classics, in the naive belief that words and meaning don't have to be decoupled.

Articles of Interest is one of my favorite podcasts! The season about gear has been fascinating, and yes, my friends now think I know some very odd trivia about the military's role in fashion/outdoor clothing. Recommended!

Boosting.

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

Sinners! That Scene made me tear up with joy. Transcendent and generous filmmaking, damn!

I’ll be stealing this one with great glee

Something to look forward to: on March 2, 2026, the Fish Doorbell comes back online @visdeurbel.bsky.social visdeurbel.nl/en/

Sleep Baseball, bless your heart. A soothing voice in times of trouble, though I have yet to make it to the end of a game for exactly that reason. Recommended podcast.

For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

It's official: "Sinners" is the Best Film of 2025 as far as the Boston Society of Film Critics is concerned. "Sentimental Value" and "One Battle After Another" had plenty of votes, but Coogler's Delta masterpiece had plentier. #bsfc @bsfc.bsky.social

Endorse! Great episodes!

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

cool to have a vampire book on Libby's 2025 list:

packing up the traveling kimono exhibition at the museum this week and i am so charmed by this logo!

“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

Stories like these make me angry and sad. Needless suffering. Not understanding. And how long it takes to move from hearing "What's wrong with you?" as a shaming criticism to asking "What might be different about me, and why?" from curiosity. And the grief that can follow those answers.

All right, my Nuzzers, how’s your one wild and precious life going? Wrong answers only!