today i saw someone who really liked her dog

I drew a plan and partial section of the building for the book "Sandwich: The 'completed medieval town in England'. A study of the town and port from its origins to 1600".

The Barbican, Sandwich, Kent. One of two surviving medieval gates at Sandwich, seen from across the bridge over the River Stour. Originally called Davis Gate, it dates from the second half of the 15th century. There is a series of blocked gun loops at ground level. #ArchitecturalIllustration

Classical composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin died in 1915 from what was basically a zit that got out of control

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.

Hill and Houses, Cape Elizabeth, Maine - 1927 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104431

Player piano haters should say what they really think: that playing the piano isn't for working class people

THis is actually a really good illustration of why LLMs are just...kind of not that good at a lot of the things they're sold as being good at: The thing doesn't fucking understand or know what the question is, it's doing pattern recognition and that breaks down on a long enough timescale.

If Stephen Miller was in high school today this is exactly the kind of shit he'd be doing

"The Treachery of Images on T-Shirts (This is Not a Potato)" -Jeffery Rowland - ca. 2003-2004 New (old?) shirt from @wigu.org! Old design, slapped onto a brand new t-shirt. Take that, the Entire surrealist movement. 🥔 topatoco.com/collections/... 🎨

Happy birthday to Michael Ironside, born on this day in 1950 in Toronto. In his career, he has acted in many productions including Scanners, Top Gun, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Late Night with the Devil and seaQuest 2032. He has also done a lot of voice work.

When you confuse your doctorate-level literature program with a community college electrician certificate

Why does the internet feel so lonely? In my latest column for @newscientist.com, I explore how a 1950s sociology classic, "The Lonely Crowd," sheds light on what's happening today online. (You can read it with a free account.) www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Cholera burial ground, outside the Bar Walls, York. The 1832 cemetery was for 185 victims of an outbreak of cholera which began on 3rd June and lasted until 22nd October. There are 20 surviving memorials in the burial ground. #drawing #watercolour #PenAndInk #sketchbook #ArtYear

As a society, we do not spend enough time talking about the 1978 homemade Star Wars parody, Hardware Wars

If you see Romana Didulo riding around in a tricked out new RV you'll know who she's had a visit with

love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing

My alien bf 1/3

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

An absolutely brutal read: open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

This is golden superhumannamedseppirayeth.tumblr.com/post/8050242...

100% endorse, this is a well-written story with real characters, it even improves on the manga a bit imo

When children are allowed to pilot mechas and school becomes the launch pad ❤️ (from "Gosaurer", 1993)

shitter's clogged

Mixed-use complex in Okinawa, Japan by Kuniyoshi Design (1993) r/brutalism

Early contender for 2026 best short fiction. You have to read the whole thread

I just discovered Jimmy Swimmerton's Little California Bear, from one of the first talking animal comic strips. Tell me how these rad dudes were created in wild west days but look like they could be a Pop Mart merchandising phenomenon today.

The O’Hara House. Designed by Richard Neutra. Painted 4 years ago today. Watercolour.

This is exactly how I've been feeling about the fake "self-driving" stuff for years, and the confirmed death count there is upward of 50. Elon Musk is a one man crisis of impunity that has become too big to ignore. He has to be a major political issue, or we are cooked.

This thread -👇👇

Eternal loop 🙂‍↕️🐸 #grogthefrog

Some really thought provoking points here: "This widespread societal resignation of ‘guess our government communications now happens on a deepfake porn site’ is maddening, but also points to a deeper issue."

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

Baron Harkonnen levels of medical care needed to keep this guy alive

due to time dilation, they will look 20 years older than they did 20 years later

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Oh my god

The Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid... Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular t.co/lQXUBHNEaG

"Abstwin", an indie Chinese short film directed and solo animated by A-Qingyu-A. Inspired by the kingdom of Dian (4th century BC). Full film >> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-12...

*places hand on the top of an overheating Gateway computer*