bluesky got me hooked by showing me posts by people I like and follow on purpose

I’m happy to see that everybody is showing off for our new guests.

2025 as we get closer to 2026.

When you decide to draw a zebra but rely on secondhand accounts, Antonio Tempesta c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)

"If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution" Oh, there will definitely be dancing.

I really hate the reassurance adoptees have to give their adoptive parents. It’s a burden that shouldn’t be placed on the ones who had no say in the process. 🥚 #BeyondtheGates

Pendant earring and just a few curls peaking out of the checkered headwrap. Detail from one of the many images of the #eighteenthcentury #caribbean made by Agostino Brunias and circulated by many others.

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

Menswear Guy increasingly seems like the only one who really studied the blade, is the thing.

Keep Portland, and the rest of the US, weird!

employing the phrase 'virtue signaling' is bitchless bitchmade loser signaling btw

things are happening

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

for active military or if you know someone in the military: “The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.” www.nimj.org/top.html#/

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Part of a fresco of the Crucifixion thought to be by Giotto and dating from the 1340s. Milan Duomo Museum, formerly in a bell tower.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Meanwhile in #Portland

There is still time to get a frog suit if you act fast!

I missed that yesterday was the "birthday" of the Prague astronomical clock: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM #medievalsky

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Winning is fun!

CLUE is, in many ways, one of our best games about how we’d all like any excuse to wander around other people’s houses checking for weird shit.

Dolly Parton's sister is asking us to pray for her sister, which is going to confusing to many people who only ever pray to Dolly.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

The Bluesky timeline is writing poetry.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate. "Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

Years and years of therapy are not going to be enough for Isaac. Caravaggio, born on this day in 1571, is very clear about that here in 1603.

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

By pure coincidence I just came across the same astounding Hermes work in Susan Owens’ book Spirit of Place, having never seen it before. It reminded me - another of the same unusual subject: Matisse’s painting The Windshield, On the Road to Villacoublay (1917) www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.225

Been writing again today.

I've eaten pizzas more supreme than this court

“Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. beginning Sept. 26 (Gift link)

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

This makes me very sad. I love trains and train design. Now I only see a billboard. They want me to ride inside of an advertisement. Ok now I’m mad. Wtf

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Happy anniversary of the day "Heroes" was released. Still miss David Bowie. #inners #psakibriefing youtu.be/JFHC6t13hi0?...

This is so exciting! I know my uncle and friends are cheering from the other side. I’ll bet they’re throwing a fabulous party too! 💛🧡❤️💜💙

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

A reminder that adoptees are rarely orphans, which is why America is no longer allowed to adopt from many countries. Adoption is human trafficking.

Black journalist starter pack on bluesky! More Black folks who know what they're talking about! go.bsky.app/FVsDa69

I think we need more Hot Lincoln monuments. It could heal the country.

Kimmel was a great first step, now let's talk about Karen Attiah

Now bring back Colbert.

The mountain Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after unanimous parliamentary vote. By treating it as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/5xnPDqm #ShareGoodNewsToo