Monday is right around the corner! 😱 Use a pic, vid, or GIF to reveal how you feel about that 🖤

🖼️ Laura Makabresku

Wishing us all a magical March. La Belle Jardiniere, March Eugène Grasset.

March morning, Nikolai Astrup, c.1920.

Send Barron.

OpenAI reaches agreement with US Department of Defense on AI use The agreement concerns mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. Quit. Now. Latest.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Laura Makabresku

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This is bad...

Enter cyberpunk era biohacking...

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

Spring in Japan

Hello Keir this is your electoral strategist speaking. I am advising you to please keep saying this shit

But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.

Farage's party of privately educated ex-Tory millionaires, tax dodgers, and expatriates ... defeated by a Green Party plumber/plasterer. The Reform elite/establishment is crumbling? Hannah Spencer (Green) 14,980 (40.69%, +27.53%) Matt Goodwin (Reform) 10,578 (28.73%, +14.67%)

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Reform are finding their anti migrant & divisive rhetoric is not working anymore. I think people are sick of it and want solutions.. Farage doesn't have any of those solutions because he pretends to be a man of the people but he's a man of the wealthy people.."🎯

Book Cover of the Day:

Lady’s Smock, Edwin John Alexander.

What, a day better than the previous one? I could get used to this.

This haunting and intricate illustration by contemporary Japanese artist Takato Yamamoto is a prime example of his "Heisei Estheticism" style, which blends traditional ukiyo-e influences with modern dark romanticism.

Goodnight. From Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren, Illustr. by Harald Wiberg.

It’s a risky move to be sure

It’s a little known fact that St George and the Dragon were originally flatmates, and their dispute started when the Dragon decided he couldn’t stand listening to George’s shitty banjo-playing for another second.

Never "AI will be installed in grills, signal when meat is done" or "AI added to fountain drink dispenser, detects when cleaning required." When they dream of person-approximating helper technologies, somehow it always circles back to policing or punishing employees.

And these are the same type of dudes who want to "lead" women.

This wedding robe reveals clear influence from the the work of Sakai Hoitsu, whose early 19th-century designs naturalistic floral representations established new standards for textile arts. The plum blossoms are depicted with botanical accuracy yet poetic sensibility. 1900-1912, Japan

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Fall leaves in Kyoto, Japan. Photography by Takahiro Bessho on 500px

Women Making Dolls [detail] Attributed to: Katsukawa Shunshô (1787–89), Japan William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, MFA

"Welcome back Autumn," was captured by Japanese photographer Hisatoshi Matsumura (known as Hisa, @ag.lr.88) at the Mausoleum of Emperor Meiji (also known as Fushimi Momoyama no Misasagi) in Kyoto, Japan.

Holy crap. Do better, Labour.

My bedroom at 2am

If I may potentially make this worse - I think the risk here isn’t that AI is going to nuke us, it’s that there’s a kind of guy who is going to see this and think that we should be more willing to use nukes because the computer thinks it’s a good idea

Good god.... the pinto was considered a death trap for the safety issues and is one of the cars considered the worst of all time.....

Ozymandias, King of Kings, is one year old today. He successfully overcame FIP to become the luxuriantly-furred and mighty hunter that he is today, and we are very proud of him. Happy Birthday, Ozzy!

I'm sorry but at what point did I agree to let the government process my medical records in order to attempt to starve me to death?

This is proper eugenicist stuff right there. Turning the NHS into something that is tasked with putting people to work instead of just healthcare outcomes is horrible stuff. This is worse than the Tories and will kill many people. If you vote Labour, you are a piece of shit.

Stoat, Julian Friers.

Goodnight. Where Badger Digs, Catherine Hyde.

Thumbelina on the Swallow's Back Fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen Art by Eleanor Vere Boyle

Just a reminder that this stuff doesn’t stop until men acknowledge the problem and start calling each other out on it.

I remember, as an 11 year old girl, being asked by an adult male, while at a grocery store and accompanied by an adult, "what can that mouth do?" "Tell you to go fuck yourself" I remember replying. Guess who got in trouble? Not him. This was in 1984. Nothing changes except the reach.

Book Cover of the Day:

From Book of Flower Studies Master of Claude de France c. 1510–1515.

Last night in cyberpunk 2077 I fell down a hole and ended up in the sewer. So no change there

Post something from the 80s