There's a big line of thunderstorms in the area so I would imagine that's a part of it.

this is my pandacam www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

David Hockney b. Jul 9 1937, d. Jun 11 2026

#RIP David Hockney, aged 88.

We are not going to get ICE off our streets or protect Home Rule by fearing this President. Threatening DC because you do not like how our residents vote is an attack on democracy itself. The people of DC elect the Mayor of DC. And they want someone who will stand up to Donald Trump.

I just want everyone to know that every single day 5 million people tell @bencollins.bsky.social that it's hard to differentiate between The Onion and real news now. Every day. Every hour. Every single time a new person talks to him. And honestly, I can't blame them with this one.

Jean Marais chez Hermès, 1953 by Édouard Boubat

I know we're going to meet some day In the crumbled financial institutions of this land There will be tables and chairs There'll be pony rides and dancing bears There'll even be a band… Andrew Bird, Tables and Chairs (with Nu Deco Ensemble 2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjPx...

@jenniferperie.bsky.social @tashalowe.bsky.social @kasiunia.bsky.social @robklippel.bsky.social @patriciakreger.bsky.social @guyguden.bsky.social @adaspota.bsky.social @bbjran8.bsky.social @yanygal.bsky.social @k8briz.bsky.social @crisp91.bsky.social Good night & beneficent conjunction.

As a postal carrier, I delivered a banana with the address written on the skin and the postage on a tag tied to the stem. It was still in good enough condition to eat.

Sharing today with Serodine, an artist without a known birthday: Cosimo Tura of Ferrara. Here his Annunciation from 1449.

Dear Vladimir Putin, you are losing this war because we are more badass than you ever imagined. Signed, the cats of Ukraine.

huge American flag out of control and causing havoc, you say

No op-eds in major newspapers that he has major cognitive health issues. No cable news panels exploring whether he has major cognitive health issues. No political reporters in legacy media talking about his cognitive health. They're all too scared to question the naked emperor.

"Technology is not neutral, and neither are photographs or artworks."

new art — #838 'Crust.' multi-seed Eden growth — 80 colonies expanding one cell at a time, competing for territory on a 1200×1200 grid. stochastic boundaries where growth met growth. rings inside each patch record the order of arrival. 1.44 million claims, no plan.

Dorothee Wenz, contemporary ceramics artist #Womensart

Judging by what happened today, "which side was the US on during WW2."

Evelyn Hofer's photo of Hedda Sterne in her garden on East 71st Street, New York City, with her cat, Poussin, c. 1952 #caturday

Study for Angel at Far Left, "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/198704

Critically important @ryanenos.bsky.social - I share his fear that any setback for Trump will lead to triumphalism about how American democracy was never threatened in the first place ryandenos.substack.com/p/for-poster.... I invite anyone to apply this logic to attempted murder.

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

Goliath, meet David and Karen and Amos.

“Cubic Window” designed by Lencois Jeju.

These people are fucking insufferable

BREAKING: In a memo obtained by The Atlantic, the Kennedy Center’s lawyers today directed employees to remove references to the center being named for anyone other than President John F. Kennedy.

Merde. Viva la revolution(s).

BΞΛT HΞΛVΞN: Happy 100th birthday to American Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg June 3, 1926—April 5, 1997

One of the two known videos of Jimi Hendrix playing acoustic (1967) - allegedly, the video was made after a photoshoot where the photographer brought him a special 12-string guitar, strung upside down to adapt to Jimi's left-handed playing.

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement? BLANCHE: The Constitution IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

We need a panda cam of the Kennedy Center exterior, so we can all know when that man's name is coming off it.

On dort les uns contre les autres Agnieszka Polska

AI and the Rise of Mediocrity by Ray Nayler — a bloody huge and timely caveat. [thanks to @greatdismal.bsky.social] time.com/6337835/ai-m...

More Dems should talk like Paulina Mangubat, who was doxed by Stephen Miller's wife after deriding him as an "ugly f--k." Check out my interview with her here. She recognizes something essential about how MAGA abusiveness really works in today's information wars: newrepublic.com/article/2111...

André Kertész, Avenida de Julio, Buenos Aires, 1962

Revealed series of paint layers on a door frame within an Oslo apartment building built in 1865, deconstructed in 1999, and reconstructed at the Norsk Folkemuseum. norskfolkemuseum.no/en/the-apart...

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Naples, Italy, 1960 by Henri Cartier-Bresson www.moma.org/collection/w...

"AI-free" is a marketing category as well as a practice, like organic or fair-trade food

He can't put his name on it (without Congress) and he can't close it for two years to hide the fact that most of the artists and audience don't want anything to do with a "Trump" Kennedy Center. No doubt he will appeal, because having important landmarks bear his name is one of his top priorities.

A federal judge in Washington ruled on Friday that Trump’s name was illegally added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, writing that the law establishing the center made “crystal clear” that only Congress could change it.

Bread https://www.wikiart.org/en/jasper-johns/bread-1969

Letter to Paul Eluard 1933 • Yves Tanguy

The Sunny Room https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1417/

I'm concerned people think I'm joking about this.

I told you all that Mel Brooks narrated a comedy trailer for a sword-and-sandal movie called MY SON THE HERO, but I never had the evidence... until now! Huge shout-out to the listener who sent this over!

No Kings: The Musical