why is this relationship dynamic so enduring...? 😭😭😭

there’s an apple in my fridge I realized was forgotten since July. it didn’t mind that at all. it didn’t rot, a real people pleaser, yet I’m never so out of fruit to actually want to eat it. are we really supposed to believe that paradise was lost over something so aseptic?

" I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense “Remembrance of Things Past” into a paragraph" 😭 and then what? (kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

from today's lecture on cellular meat cultures by Clemens Driessen: the frikandel theory: it's a scandal, but is it really? does anyone knows exactly what's in it? (nope) but does anyone wants to know? (also no) @culturalgeography.bsky.social

paid phd for positions for artists at KASK in Ghent schoolofartsgent.be/en/research/...

My mom’s needlework is about to be the hype now that everyone’s sick of conceptual art’s pretentiousness and watching and precision-based crafts get swallowed up by AI goblins. 🪭🪭🪭

my mom has quietly become a cartographer. she has photographed and mapped all of the manor houses in the country. who knew Estonia had so many estates?

memetic theory and mimetic theory are not the same, but i keep seeing people using them interchangeably (or trying to correct me when i mean Girard, not Dawkins) as if it's a variation on a spelling (there is a meme pun somewhere in here, help) mimetictheory.com/memetic-theo...

reading for a proposal about satellite surveillance of grass and this so far is one of my favorite papers.

where you at, before you got to cut things down to 5-8K?

whenever I photograph at a wedding, I secretly imagine myself working on a project called "divorce": photograph the wedding, wait, photograph the divorce, exhibit is both side by side

David Chickan, killed in battle, was a talented artist, an immortal soul, a friend, a husband, and a new dad 🤍

“lovers need no marker, they know exactly where their soulmate rests because they put them there”

there is little correlation between merit and prestige: every field includes some clunkers and nitwits, even in high positions www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/19/s...

interdisciplinary challenges: teaching the culture of meat to biologists...

The Cat Knows but Says Nothing — Nataliya Bagatskaya, 2025 acrylic on canvas

It's Whitehead day

Cranach mood is the boss of all moods

me to my identity thief: how discerning of you—truly, an acquired taste!

I’d be at the gym a lot more often if they had couches and daybeds. We should really combine them with salons!

would you look at them numbers with serifs! 😱

late stage capitalism so bad financial times proves itself again and again the more progressive and unbiased of legacy media www.ft.com/content/6c74...

the work i made in 2019 about the future in which humans run out of words was meant to be speculative www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

Dream job - PioneerWorks is looking for a senior designer. Great Brooklyn based arts org and space. Get it.. pioneerworks.org/jobs/designer

beautiful objects have the impossible task of seducing us back into living—after we've lost faith in gods, people, or our own higher purpose. appreciation of an aesthetic is never shallow; it's a way of enduring disillusionment

obsessions

reminded that joy was used to a part of art www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XW9...

When birds saw humans give an injured bird special treatment.😅

we’ve been found out

where can i shop this design for my house?

collaborating on a journal submission during heatwave

Songs that go: “Now I can start thinking of you… I’ve scheduled two hours to do just that today” instead of “I can’t get you off my mind.”

trying to decide which younger cousin to put on the deed for a 1.3-bedroom apartment like it’s the Succession finale

what typos of a deadline did you encounter today?

Lovely to receive a copy of the book my friend and occasional ad-hoc photographer @amarichi.bsky.social made with her students at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. More about her work at www.maribastashevski.com.

Remember how hard it was to get around without covid vaccination certificate? I just deleted it from my hard-drive like it's spam.

all pop psychology is for eternal children; it's structured around denial of agency. It's always what is and isn't OK—never what is or isn't ok for *you*

Filler and ChatGPT share an equal capacity for cosmetic problem-solving, so I can totally see why someone who believes in one would also believe in the other.

Scandinavia hasn't shut down the electricity in the art schools yet (tru story) Stockholm university of the arts is on a hiring spree for artist-professors. ☺️ web103.reachmee.com/ext/I022/200...

Wes Anderson also did not wake up one day thinking, lets make a genocide digest, stylized for my fans...

Sinners is a great film. Like all good films, it referencing eternal issues as well as those present in a director's vision. Overcoding it with specific political messaging and meanings says less about the film than about the death of great films, meaning, and solidarity

There are only two regrets: —I shouldn’t have said anything. —I should have said something.

who else have had it with perspectivisms?

i have no idea why yet but this title is making me nervous

An absolute gem of a review for what sounds like a turd of a book. One wonderful line: "...while reading “Next to Heaven,” I sometimes thought I could feel individual cells in my body trying to die." www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

I'm looking for teaching materials to help encourage cellular biology students to drop AI illustration and instead sketch during lectures—as well as while conceptualizing the future of food—without fear of lacking hard art skills. Suggestions, anyone?

Never ever enough of Berlant

does someone who can’t find themselves make a good spy or a bad one?

POV: better writer just published the article you were about to write... www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...