“THE UNIVERSITY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A SOCIAL SYSTEM THAT HAS GIVEN MORE OPPORTUNITY, MORE FREEDOM, MORE HOPE TO MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER SYSTEM YET DEVISED.”

Born on this day in 1593, in Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi. One of the great painters of Baroque Italy. Endured shit and painted about it. Here, herself as a martyr, Saint Catherine, 1616.

If you ever walk into a restaurant and see a group of ladies in business casual sharing a pitcher of margaritas, sit as close to them as possible. You will not regret it.

Planning my next trip to Italy around this

The only way to know if he is alive is if he’s trading stocks.

What's remarkable about current Paul Klee show at the Jewish Museum are its uncanny echoes with our own time. In his 1929 painting "Monument in Progress" Klee depicts tiny figures erecting a monumental head that meets us with an icy, imperious glare. The show closes in three weeks; see it if you can

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

I have absolutely nothing bad to say about Taylor and Travis today.

Yes I know there are serious & important things happening in the world right now, but this is kind of great: just learned the Van Gogh Museum has made many of their publications, including collection catalogs, freely available on @archive.org. More museums should do this: archive.org/details/vang...

Hey Bayeux Tapestry fans have I made the platform game for you? I’m sure someone else will have done this before but well now I have too… bayeuxgo.live

Who did it better? King David, Stuttgart Psalter, 9th century, f155v Johnny Cash in concert, late 1950s

Excellent advise!

The St. Louis Zoo has a dedicated penguin elevator for transporting their Formal Chickens™ to behind-the-scenes areas where they can get medical checkups, enrichment activities. Kicking myself for becoming a LAB biologist when I could have been a Penguin Elevator operator. (📷: St. Louis Zoo)

I love that the pool dads and contractors are on the case. The truth will be told and a solution will be provided.

I am watching Frontline: Baby Brokers on PBS and what is really killing me is that every adoptive couple knew in their hearts that something was wrong, but like one said “You’re not going to turn down a baby”. 🥚

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

If you had to pick 5 books to define your taste, which would those be? Bleak House The Little Friend One Hundred Years of Solitude I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Age of Innocence

The US needs less bros and more lads.

Dog with a Pearl Earring ~ Johannes Vermeer

I blame Tarantino for glorifying the antihero so much that now people can’t tell the difference between a hero and an antihero.

Share a movie soundtrack you love

Just watched a video of an Australian dude who went to Texas Roadhouse and summarized the experience as: “I don’t even know why you Americans are so angry all the time.”

Have lax laws left the for-profit adoption industry ripe for misconduct? FRONTLINE and Retro Report investigate how so-called baby brokers have targeted pregnant women and families looking to adopt, and an epicenter of the problem in Utah.🥚👇 www.pbs.org/video/baby-b...

Speaking of hydration breaks, here's Jon Ossoff looking like Atticus Finch

Wow, so beautiful

Adoptees need help processing their grief, not being punished and thrown away for not adapting the “right” way.

They don’t want to ban kids under 16 from social media to help with any of their social issues. They want everyone’s information uploaded so there will be no more anonymity online.

It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight

Spike’s face says it all 😂🔥

It took Mamdani five months to get rid of the NYC deficit and oversee a Knicks title. 🫡

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

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There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten. Dating to around 1353–1336 BC 📷 Metropolitan Museum

I’m watching Longmire and damn, Taylor Sheridan sure did steal a lot from this show! I’m shocked at how brazen it is.

Pat Benatar was always there for me in the 80s and she is still on my speed dial when I need to sing my lungs out. Love is a battlefield, baby.

The US was the cultural capital of the world because of loft laws and policies that supported artists. The reason artists moved to NYC to “make it” was because the city supported them. There were multiple buildings dedicated to working artists. Only 1 survives.

Boy And Butterfly https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20003

Saturday Class: Fever Dream (George, Breonna, and Trayvon) - Kelly Norman Ellis, Poetry Magazine

Since we are doing breakfast discourse today, I’d like to add that the beer Kris Kristofferson had for dessert was technically second breakfast.

I think about this every day. I would still have my uncle and my friends would be growing old with me. My young LGBTQ+ friends would have their elders. I would think of care instead of death when I hear the word “quilt”. We lost more than we can ever imagine.

"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found." "To be alive at all is to have scars." ~John Steinbeck

I don’t know if there’s any proof, but I’ll bet anything that Lord Byron sported a man-bun at some point.

Happy Pride Month! Pauline Trigère’s c1970 evening dress is a welcoming rainbow, expansive and generous in construction for every shade and combination #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 #Pride2026

i take it all back, videos are Good

Flowers and Ceramic Plate, 1911 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15842

Watched an interview with Orson Welles where the guy asks him if he has any regrets and he immediately goes “MINE ARE AS COUNTLESS AS THE SANDS OF THE DESERT” and how can you not fucking love Orson Welles

True adoption history: "...the single Korean mothers of these children were loath to relinquish their children... mothers often hid their 'Amerasian' babies from white missionary workers and men like Harry Holt— not out of shame but because they were afraid of being coerced to give them up...” 🥚