Even or especially if you're not Catholic, this is a big part of why the Pope's thoughts about AI are worth paying attention to

Let him cook

Small kindnesses sometimes make me cry.

On believing in beauty.

A peek inside celebrity culture from ‘that tiny scuttling slag with the ears’. Happy Caturday!

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

An unnerving read. The presumption of regularity is gone.

Having worked in countless public & governmental museums & historic sites, I can’t BEGIN to tell you how much the perception of “they have to take my stuff” is the bane of institution, archive, & collections existence for a VERY specific set of reasons: 🗃️/1

Ohhhh my heart

Write your weird. Joan will love it.

Steve Earle has released this beautiful video of his song "City of Immigrants," which was directed by Steve Buscemi. It's a wonderful ode to a key cause of American greatness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRt...

Lynda Barry’s glorious “Syllabus” has been on my shelf for years. Every time I have sat down with it, I’ve been overstimulated by the artwork (which I really like!). Yesterday, I found this comment on following instructions vs. discovery: “I told them to color hard in order to do it right.…

Comic is by Lynda Barry. Here's a version of it with alt text. (Thank you @alex-awoos.bsky.social!)

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

Yes, this is the perfect moment to praise the de-skilling, job-killing machine.

Would you like some whimsy? We're sharing introductions to each of the rats in our Rat Trail by artist/maker Fong Scott. Watch now on our YouTube playlist! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For Emily, 2026 The Brain—is wider than AI— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside—

This window speaks to me.

Reflection is existentially dangerous for narcissists. Who also want the lack of reflection to be everyone’s norm.

“I’m realizing that a sort of gooey sitcom resolution is not in the cards for my mother and me. Sometimes the people we most need to love us stubbornly refuse to give us what we need. Sometimes we run out of time to fix everything.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...

Great article about how AI is invading knitting spaces and why that’s a problem: katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/k...

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Today is the birthday of French artist Jean Giraud, aka Mœbius (May 8, 1938-March 10, 2012).

She went as Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto"

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

Sometimes we can have nice things

One of the bonuses of learning to kinfolk is that you hear about My Guy, who, with a little work, can become Your Guy too. These Guys are invaluable!

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

And it’s a deeply personal offense: that you are here and they are not; that beautiful days and small good things happen without them; that you have to witness and feel it all right alongside the grief.

Dogs come into the world with nothing Then you come and pick one up And life is better for everyone

There is far too much pressure to live your best life these days. Leave me alone and let me live my most middling life in peace, with the colourful miscellany of highs and lows that naturally entails. www.tom-cox.com/can-you-plea...

Pigeon driving the bus would like a word

Human-made art! And @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social , please tell your mother that she makes lovely stuff too!

Having just re-read Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House,” this resonates. Systems of power that create simulated reality are not working for the humans they’re extracting raw materials from.

catholics: oh hey u guys are back early me: pope's woke catholics: what? me: *grabs rosary, heads toward the confessional* pope's woke

TFW an ancient song from your childhood is revealed in all of its bittersweet glory.

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

So many worthy entries here, but I am going with You Oughta Know

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

An excellent read. Thank you, @antheabutler.bsky.social!

Yes!!!

Next edition of On War is gonna look like this

Ughhhh.

"Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don't have the power but we never say never"

Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus: "...an ancient Assyrian king named Sardanapalus. Finding his palace besieged by enemies, Sardanapalus decides to kill himself, but first orders his officers to destroy all his favorite possessions in his presence..." www.philamuseum.org/objects/82626

I was doing the dishes and dried my hands as fast as possible so I could turn this up. Had to hope that the college radio station would ID the artist afterwards.

And from elsewhere.

This is so, so well-articulated.