JUST IN: The National Park Service is restoring the slavery displays to the President’s House at Independence Mall, one day ahead of the judge’s deadline. The latest: www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

As BAFTA gears up for the U.K. film industry’s biggest night on Sunday, it’s only right that it should add a fixture of British cinema to the exclusive guest list.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/a... I've seen the Oberon/Olivier & Fiennes/Binoche & liked them both; Olivier & Fiennes are two of my favorite actors. I'll wait to see the latest version if it is free.

19 February 2026 thick as pea soup— shot of headless Gudea inside the library.

happy bday Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, b.1473. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." ~ T.S. Eliot Belle Tout Lighthouse (1939) 🎨 Eric Ravilious

🖼️ Becca Stadtlander

Book Cover of the Day:

#fallowfield #redroofs #blueskies #paintingtheweather #acrylicpainting #pleinairpainting #artinsouthyorkshire #paintingoutside #directobservation #landscapepainting #southyorkshire #biltonart #opencountry #trees #clouds #allaprima #clarifiedimpressionism #expressiverealism #pleinair

Kingfisher of the Day: Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher Near Threatened 📷 Vincent Wang

BOWIE enjoying Viz on the train

Remembering the genius Director of masterpieces including ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’, ‘The Red Shoes’, ‘Black Narcissus’, ‘Peeping Tom’, ‘The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp’, ‘The Tales Of Hoffmann’ and ‘A Canterbury Tale’ - MICHAEL POWELL - who left us 36yrs ago today.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a slavery-related exhibit at George Washington's former home in Philadelphia. Judge Cynthia Rufe cited George Orwell's novel "1984," arguing the administration does not have the power to, in her words, "disassemble historical truths."

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.” — Heraclitus

Relief of Mars Ultor https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.947

Foggy day 2/18/26

Bryan Ferry - Newcastle (1975) 📷 by Brian Aris

Finally some good news!

We're not fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage. What you choose to arm yourself with, love or hate, exposes which side you're fighting on.

WISH TREE FOR YOKO ONO www.wishtreeforyokoono.com For Yoko from Sean with love. Happy Birthday Yoko! Make a wish and let it come true for you.

A #poem of rage and love - the sort of poem I write that seems to anger anti trans voices (why they bother to have opinions about what I make I don’t know - they seem a bit obsessed) cosmicshambles.myshopify.com/products/ice...

Author Nick Parisi of the best resource for all things Serling - ROD SERLING: HIS LIFE, WORK AND IMAGINATION will be at SerlingFest 2026! For more guest info and tickets: rodserling.com/serlingfest-...

“For the love of God, please, someone grab the Jane Austens!”

Happy Lunar New Year! May the Year of the Horse bring everyone good health and prosperity!

Ithaca's northside Kinney Drugs will close in March, the company says. www.14850.com/021344838-ki...

We have an exciting Friday of openings this week! Opening Friday 2/20 are Oscar Nominated Shorts, Sound of Falling, A Private Life, & Midwinter Break! See you at the movies! #ithaca #ithacany #ithacacommons #downtownithaca #607 #cinemapolis

Born on this day in 1774, in Annapolis, Raphaelle Peale. Painter of still-lifes and portraits. Here painted in turn by his father, painter Charles Wilson Peale.

Yesterday was a busy one. Missed the bus as I ran out of cell data. Spent an hour on the phone adding more (I tried to apply rewards points but they disappeared). I had work to do in the evening but was so tired I fell asleep. Today & tomorrow are busy, too. & a headache 🤕

The Long-tailed Tit is easily recognisable with its distinctive blush, black and white colouring. It also has a tail which is bigger than its body, and a bouncing flight. folksy.com/find/item/86... #LongTailedTits #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Watercolour #bsnm #Painting #Artwork

I began Vandal Live with a very tentative hypothesis. There are certain traditional academic professionalization events which might actually be improved by podcast mediation. Tomorrow’s episode is my best support so far for this hypothesis.

Out today, 7 years in the making — a reckoning with what makes a body a person, what makes a planet a world, and what gives meaning to our tender, transient lives: www.themarginalian.org/traversal/

Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto turns textiles into delicately sculpted orbs that can be worn as jewellery #WomensArt

Book Cover of the Day:

Embroidery design by May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor #WomensArt

I had a visit from a finch this morning

Gary Oldman on the set of DRACULA (1992)

Kingfisher of the Day: Philippine Dwarf-Kingfisher 📷 Raymond Dan

You’re in Heaven. What’s the song that greets you at the gates?

Did you know that strawberries are not berries, and are actually mammals?

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise: -146 million without passport -69 million married women who took spouse's last name -21 million without ready access to citizenship docs -21 million without current drivers license -Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

Barbara Stanwyck knew how to make an entrance. Oscar goes bad as explore killers, schemers, thrillers and everything in between during today's lineup. See DOUBLE INDEMNITY at 12pm ET.

Archaic Head of a Sphinx https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.858

And here is the episode, for the ease of those who have not listened yet: PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire One man; several contradictory myths. Is he protector or disruptor? Genius or arsonist? 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3qlw... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

TWELFTH NIGHT I.i If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. #ShakespeareSunday youtu.be/SJcCLr19tIs?... (vid from a BBC contest)

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: CHOCOLATE & MUSIC!

Chapter IVa (added in?) #LastMan200 “Is there such a feeling as love at first sight? And if there be, and what does its nature differ from love, found it in long observation, and slow growth? Perhaps its effects are not so permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense.“

Happy Valentine's day, Bluesky pals. Here is a boxed Valentine day's card from later #19thc England, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, once addressed to Miss Oliver, Langdon Lawn, Hythe, Southampton." The scrap of paper at the top reads "Pity my life and be my wife." Was Miss Oliver persuaded?