It was really cool how the architect for my apartment decided to put my upstairs neighbor's dryer vent directly above my bathroom window so every time he does laundry I have to close my window or marinate my entire apartment in dryer sheet fragrance

Today is the birthday of cartoonist & illustrator Rose O'Neill (June 25, 1874-April 6, 1944). She created the Kewpie in her comic strips in 1909, which would become the most popular cartoon character before Mickey Mouse.

Jabberwocky - John Tenniel, 1870

Illustrations of the “utsuro-bune” (hollow ship), complete with inhabitant, reported to have washed up on the coast of Japan in 1803. Was this a castaway from the West? An embellished folktale? Or even, as some suppose, an extraterrestrial visit? publicdomainreview.org/collection/u... #ufo

This is Palmer Raids type stuff here smh

Joan Miró, Dutch Interior I, 1928

Rider on an Epigraphic Horse (wonderful script), India, perhaps Bijapur, late 16th century

obsessed with this comment on a reel of an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub

Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!

Charles Cormany. Hopscotch. San Rafael, CA. n.d.

Today is Septidi the 7th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate cucumbers.#JacobinDay See today's page

your parents' cds

Can anyone direct me to zines by/about the Prairieland activists and their case? Looking for both vendors I can purchase zines from in support and/or to stock at the bookstore as well as free print at home materials to distribute

Amrita Sher-Gil, The Story Teller, 1937

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

"The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines" – new benefit zine packets from South Bend Commons! All proceeds go to Prairieland Defendants. firestorm.coop/products/253... @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social

The look of love. A fad of the late 18th and early 19th century, “eye miniatures” — painted with watercolor on ivory and set in rings, lockets, brooches, toothpick cases — were gifted between lovers: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eye-miniatures/

Karl Blossfeldt Art Forms in Nature Aspidium filixmas, Common male fern, young unfurling fronds

Thebe Phetogo, Many Suns, 2024

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

In other news, Picnic Spring 2026 is now available for digital download on our itch dot io shop! pay-what-you-want for a pdf of our magazine :) picnicmagazine.itch.io/picnic-mag-s...

"If the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what?" Emmett Rensin explores the moral reckoning of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-dohrn-weather-underground/

Workshopping a new theory of modern life called The $600 where every couple of months some faceless god determines that you get hit with a bill for $600 for something (your car, your pet, taxes, healthcare). Nothing in my adult life has been more true than this.

little demon, france, 15th century

Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

Criminal prosecutions are not about what you do; they are about who the people in power think you are. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

William Fettes Douglas, The Alchemist, 1853

Fernando Botero, The Dancers, 1987

Thank you India for everything you have done with pickles

Just took this morning's dirty coffee cup off the coffee table and to the kitchen where I then proceeded to very confidently place it in the refrigerator if anyone is wondering how things are going for me lately

MoMA's Duchamp retrospective includes multiple versions of the Boite-en-valise (Box in a Suitcase), some containing unique works. MoMA seems to have avoided describing this one: given to his lover Maria Martins, "Paysage fautif"—Faulty Landscape—is composed of Duchamp's seminal fluid on black satin

Today is Sextidi the 6th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate rosemary.#JacobinDay See today's page

Aaron Siskind, Two boys practicing their swordplay, Harlem, 1939–40.

When it comes to self-defence, skunks and spitting cobras have nothing on the medieval “bonnacon”. It was said to defecate with such explosive force that it could scald targets more than a football pitch away with its fire-like dung. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bonnacons

Wasn't expecting to but I really loved Meg Webster's "Thicket" at Paula Cooper Gallery. A simple, immersive form, constructed from natural materials, that offers a bit of respite in our present disquieting moment. On view through July 24 www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/...

Just listened to John Cage’s 4’33”. Great piece, no notes.

Garffeld

Bill Miller, Feathered Canyon, 2024

Now reading Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo

you: Please, dr moreau. your unholy creations are an affront to god. creatures of land should not combine with creatures of the sea. a baby belongs with its mother sheep, not imprisoned within a pearlescent shell until you see fit to pry open its hinges dr moreau: clamb

Rafael Romero Barros, Still life with oranges, 1863

real housewives, yiddish edition (from the 1958 forverts)

Moebius

Wayne Thiebaud, Morning Freeway, 2012-13

Two men “flip the bird” in Central Park as they compete in kissing contest during NY's first Gay Pride, 6/28/1970

Jordan Casteel, Twins, 2017

Harry Clarke, The Lady of the Decoration, 1914

Vibes are weird on here today

Bookseller friends: Where would I find book stands? Like non-fancy simple display stands for books? That I could perhaps obtain in 4 days? (Addendum Q: How is it so hard to track down such an item? Am I losing it?)