this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

Objectively the best way to start a song is “the Mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar”

Today’a unemployment activity: repaired the spine of this cookbook that belonged to my wife’s grandmother.

Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

This also fails to understand that these are ALL interrelated issues— the USAID purge started first with DEI employees, then everyone with “gender” in their position description, and then moved onto the whole agency. Seeing DEI and trans issues “less consequential” lets them be the thin wedge.

Dammit, New Mexico!

This banger is more than a century old: it’s a 1923 textile design in gouache by the Constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958)

In the old days girls liked to celebrate #Christmas by holding onto two friends

Friends don't let friends go to chiropractors.

Friends, what are we eating today? Truly nothing sounds appealing but I know I need to eat *something*

A man overheard my wife trying to explain the Selzer poll to me on the metro and jumped into the conversation out of excitement. I still don't know what the poll is, but I hope my wife and her new equally-political junkie husband are very happy together.

1000% recommend listening to Burnt Cook Book Party as an alternative to compulsively refreshing your newsfeed and screaming this week! (And any week tbh)

Hot Adriatic summer is no more, we go forth into spooky Norman Fall, cider, pork, calvados, mussels, fog and a general feeling of unrest about the sea

Getting allergy tested this week and was told I need to stop taking any anti-histamines for 7 days beforehand. What nobody tells you is that if you quit Zyrtec cold turkey you will start itching so badly you want to claw your skin off. So that’s fun.

The bond between a young shackling and witch forms very early. Some think it's the witch that determines the growth and style of the shack, as the decor tends to match the personality of the inhabitant. But the relationship goes both ways, and soon both find what makes them happiest together 🖤

there’s a lot of bumper stickers that say “honk if you’re letting the soft animal of your body love what it loves” but none that say “KEEP HONKING! I’m letting the soft animal of my body love what it loves” and that seems like an oversight

THERE IS NO EXACT VERSION OF ANY WORK OF ART EVER AT ANY POINT IN ANY ARTIST'S HEAD THERE IS AN IMPULSE A DRIVE A KERNEL A SPARK THE WORK IS DISCOVERED IN THE MAKING OF THE WORK THE WORK IS CONSTANTLY REDISCOVERED IN THE READING OF THE WORK BY EVERYONE FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING THE ARTIST NOT AI

Margaret Morton Bibb (c. 1832 - 1900/1910) and Ellen Morton Littlejohn (c. 1826 - 1899) were African American enslaved women, sisters, and brilliant textile artists. This is the Star of Bethlehem quilt (c. 1837–1850), that is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

my friend sent this in the group chat and said "immediately thought of you" like wow.... clocked

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944) was an American book cover designer, illustrator, and author, best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American West, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915).

Going to re-watch this lovely documentary this weekend in honor of Maggie Smith. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, highly recommend! m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrzZ...

HELLO

There is not a more refreshing drink, and I will die on this hill. If I had fuck off amounts of money this first thing I would do would be import cases of this for myself every June.

The world is chaos but please enjoy this road sign from the Scottish Highlands which exudes the ‘fuck-it that’s close enough’ energy I aspire to get me through the week

Look at these gorgeous stamps being released for Matariki 😍 🇳🇿

celebrating the gay month by only looking at the gay contestants on Taskmaster. I will not perceive the straights.

scrolling up is so emo the past is gone bitch you can’t bring it back with your thumb

Literally just tested positive yesterday after spending last week at a conference 😓 Wish I had masked more consistently!

An art gallery in my parents’ town hosts my absolute favorite annual event: The Box Show

unfortunately I have see bsky DM's referred to as "squirts," and will be adopting this nomenclature exclusively

Yes! And the employees at our local ace have *never* been condescending to me as a woman, which counts for a lot in my book. Plus the one in my old neighborhood had a store cat.

Stalwart. Thriving. Doing their best. Havin' fun. Usin' bridges and walkways. Smol cutes bein' cute. It's a job. Somebody has to do it.

If we're using the international date line as the E/W division, then: E: Wellington, New Zealand S: Bluff, New Zealand W: Honolulu, Hawaii N: St. Petersburg, Russia ... NZ doing some heavy lifting here.

Yes! The only Christmas album in our house growing up was this one, and it is immediately nostalgic to me.

What does a Cerberus chase? ... A Squerberus #sqrlpix