I have been rebuilding my DVD library shopping thrift stores and occasionally eBay. I am very excited about this week’s haul!

Once carrying chant, now carrying contents: this liturgical #manuscript fragment is recycled as the cover of a small storage case. Just one of the many examples of the afterlives of medieval manuscripts! #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Did anyone make a sourdough loaf while Bluesky was down?

Shake it, baby! 🐢

Wangari Mathenge, “The Ascendants XIV (She is Here)” (2021) www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/nash...

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I found a new way to cope with rising gas prices. When big pickup truck assholes tailgate me I slow down so they will get frustrated and gun it when they pass me. Each pass probably costs them 10 bucks.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Hawaii just officially passed S.B. 2471, legislation that would remove dark and corporate money from the state’s federal and state politics. We need more of this.

Remember when terrible accounts would show up and we would say “Look who’s here, let’s block them!” instead of giving them attention? And then we all blocked them and then we laughed and laughed. Let’s bring that back.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

I just did the math. The kids who missed a year of middle school during Covid are now entering college. Those were tough years to miss for social and emotional maturity. They are going to need more support and structure than previous students.

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

It’s a weird thing - the post war generation largely had the attitude of wanting better for their children than the lot they had - pre-war depression, wartime austerity and the misery that went with it. Now we have “we never had that so why should they?”

Please, your attention for the good doggy. Culture: Colima ~ Date: 100 B.C.-A.D. 300 ~ Medium: Earthenware, red slip with black paint.

Frame-maker’s workshop, drawn by Salomon de Bray of Haarlem, whose day is today.

My uncle Geoffrey, who died of AIDS.

Old men at airports who smell like SKOAL & whose favorite hobby is pulling quarters out of the ears of any child they see or simply 'get' their noses if they don't have change at the moment. We deleted these guys in favor of joyless old men whose only purpose is owning the libs. Let's reverse that.

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

Some of y’all use revolution the same way some evangelicals use rapture.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

I had planned to grade all day today. I guess I will just have to garden and take naps instead.

my coolest media take is that if you are a self-proclaimed liberal using “academic” as shorthand for “bad comms” you are maligning academics and you’re choosing to do so at a moment when your professed fascist enemies are destroying universities I don’t think it’s on me to explain why that’s bad

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

"in their own way Dixie Chicks were more punk than any punk band"

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

It's Mother's Day in Spain today. Featuring the amazing Cuban-Jamaican artist Harmonia Rosales, check her art if you haven't already! www.harmoniarosales.art

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

And this is why I roll my eyes real hard when yall get on here calling people stupid for doing 23andMe and the like. It’s an ignorant judgement. And I implore you to sit with that. 🥚

I don’t want to remake it because it’s almost perfect, but I would re-edit Pretty in Pink so that it ends when Duckie and Andie are walking into the prom together. Fuck that other guy.

I think every white adopter should read and consider the famous 1972 statement on transracial #adoption by the National Association of Black Social Workers. www.nabsw.org/node/430

Pygmalian myth alive and well!

a lot of people crack wise about bluesky but what if i told you it facilitated the purchase of the onion by an internet guy who then went on to dismantle one of the biggest misinformation engines of the 21st century

A 27-foot tall sandstone and brass Buddha by Tuan Andrew Nguyen has appeared on the High Line.

When I hear ozempic is being sold on the black market I imagine an elaborate hand off system like The Wire but set in Los Feliz in LA.

I recall when a friend of mine back during the BLM movement told me that if people reject the cause then the logical conclusion is that No Lives Matter & I thought I understood what he meant philosophically but living through the explosion of global suffering since I see now that he meant materially

I love paintings of people reading letters. I get to be a nosy bitch without actually being a nosy bitch.

personally I believe that you should not be allowed to run for a elected office if you’ve never worked in the food service sector

You have the right to send your child to a private religious school. You do not have the right to use taxpayer money to send your child to a private religious school.

This is awful. "Experts say adoptees, only 2% of American children, account for an estimated 25-40% of those in residential treatment." We #adoptees have been telling you we are overrepresented in treatment programs. Can you begin to understand that it's #adoption itself that is the reason?!?

I don’t know if I would lose money on it, it’s more like a business I don’t want to be in, but I think it’s a travesty there isn’t a bail bondsman in New Orleans named Bayou Freedom.

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Just a remarkable public space, the New York Public Library main reading room #hatm

The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.

Princeton’s Fra Angelico’s Jerome… crazy red top hat colorformed in (as if Fra channeled Titian that future colorform master) 2nd best painting in the museum (first to be posted later(!)) #frafriday +1