always apropos

Frida Kahlo’s “Frieda and Diego Rivera” painted in San Francisco not long after the couple’s marriage, seen recently at SFMOMA.

When the security guard says I have to wear a shirt at the aquarium

If you're gonna have a Porsche and a pickup truck in your driveway I feel like this is probably the chillest way to do that

Now Spinning

'Ledger Drawings' by the Lakota artist Black Hawk (ca. 1832–1890?)

i spend a ton of time thinking about how completely unprepared dem leadership still is for how radicalized much of the gen z and millennial bands of college graduates have become lol

I’m firmly in favor of each and every one of these guys coming face to face with the public and realizing in real time that they’re unlikable, antisocial goons

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

We’re officially on HOT MUSTARD DORITO WATCH. The FRITO-LAY SNACK CONGLOMERATE, despite inventing the GREATEST DORITO FLAVOR SINCE “COOL RANCH,” seems intent on QUIETLY BURYING THE PRODUCT despite an ENGAGED AND RAVENOUS PUBLIC LOUDLY CLAMORING for their IMMEDIATE RETURN!

The car wash guy held up a key fob and yelled “BLACK LINCOLN?” and I too looked around for the owner of such a sweet nickname

Your ducks too tall. His quack is too weird. His style is too fresh. They’ll kill him!!

Our finest physical comedians all have Library and Information Science degrees.

Big boy in the flight path

Every graduation speech about AI

Party mode roly poly

Been getting some feedback that my posts aren’t “as dumb as they could be” and I want to assure everyone that I’m looking in to that

it has gotten Toasty out here and I planned an activity with shade for myself

Francis Place, Untitled, https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133016

Guy with visible stink lines: the birth rate,

The Christian nationalist penchant for making fables—for hatching just-so stories, and propagating them into benumbed acceptance—goes a distance toward explaining that community’s embrace of an unrepentant liar like Trump as its champion.

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

some damn good subarus

Jeff Goldblum in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

banana skin curtains

a sentient Mr. Potato Head would be capable of experiencing carnal pleasures unimaginable to beings without hot-swappable body parts. he would be both king and prisoner in an impenetrable fortress of esoteric sexuality

Heck, John Roberts grew up in a town in Indiana that banned Black people and Jews from living there via restrictive covenant, this rewriting history needs to stop.

I didn’t get big… the britches got small

Ideologically I think this administration is most similar to a dog dragging its asshole across the carpet

@racheldeering.bsky.social am I doing Fairywren of the Day right? 📷 by www.instagram.com/vik.d_wildli...

As an extra f-u to the country, the official document, hosted by the Office of Government Ethics, is a low-quality scan with garbled OCR to inhibit quick analysis. His second listed trade is for the iShares Russell 1000 ETF, which is OCR'd as "laha,.,. Tr Russoll 1000 Elf"

Truth

Anybody remember that qvc video of the guy selling a camera, showing a picture of a butterfly, and continually referring to it as a horse? Look at that horse, he says, pointing to the butterfly.

Something in the sky thats changing colors and in the same spot for at least two hours...just gets higher.

A powerful witch with a hand gun. Such things are beyond the ken of most

Vall de Sorteny, Andorra.

what if a child sized friendly badger man was like “try a sip of me giggle berry and thistle mead” and you tried it and it tasted like shit and it fucked up your gut really bad and then he laughed at you and told you he poisoned you

Mounted a tornado siren on top of my house that I fixed to make human screaming sounds if the price of crude oil goes above $150 a barrel

C-2輸送機の内装 すごいかっこいいな… x.com/takeo1945/st...

Incorrect, Wyoming is physically beautiful. It's Indiana, answering the question "what if you made a state out of only the irredeemable parts of Ohio?"

"The British Army during a Lull in the Rioting in the Creggan, after Internment," Derry (1971) Photo: Gilles Peress / MoMA

There were still flowers to be found in the desert last week. Left to right: Woolystar (Eriastrum sp.), Desert Calico (Loeseliastrum matthewsii), Paperbag Bush (Scutellaria mexicana), and buckwheat (Eriogonum, not sure which species). 🌿🌸

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

I can finally picture the “wine-dark sea”

I think a lot of debates about “markets” vs “planning” in the abstract would benefit from thinking a bit more about how investment decisions are made in the economies in which we currently live. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

We interviewed a salt of the earth rural voter, a former investment banker who invented credit default swaps but was digging a hole for some reason