Norway fans are rowing their way up the escalators in Boston

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Beeeee whooo you are for your prideeeeeeeeeeeee #stucky #pride2026

A Blue Jay and a male Baltimore Oriole battle in a Cottonwood tree. The Blue Jay looks to have the upper hand (upper wing?) here, but was eventually chased off by the Baltimore Oriole.

In the least surprising news in the world this week

André Derain - The Red Sails 1906

How do you make water navy blue?

Just realizing that my favorite foods are cherries, avocado, lobster, and creme brûlée, all of which must be on some people’s ick lists

Alternating ballet performances and symphony concerts every night

Ospreys and loons and cedar waxwings

Raw onions, that’s all you taste

Toad ran home and slammed the door. There, on the floor, he saw his white, four-holed, big, round, thick button.

Rupdate 2: electric bloomaloo

Studio Ghibli turns 41 today!

Green is my favorite color in the world but this is why I never get my nails done in any verdant shade

The Manneporte (Étretat) - 1883 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/103075

Moroccan Café, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15979

Jas de Bouffan, 1887 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12635

Could be solving homelessness or world hunger or helping mitigate climate change, but instead

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

This isn’t shorts, it’s a Pull-Up (TM)

15 June 1912 | A Polish woman, Janina Dubicka, was born in Wronów. In #Auschwitz from 5 February 1943. No. 34329 She perished in the camp on 17 April 1943.

Is it carbon monoxide

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

Destroyer and Rocky Shore - 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104557

Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.

When you summon the strength to let the bad post go by without responding

Can we get grandpa out there later shaking his fist at the heavens and daring Mother Nature to send a thunderstorm

Bravo aux suisses, bon travail

Hi, we saw you from across the bar, and we'd like to give you health care.

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

Marguerite, 1906 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15544

Our dear friends are selling their house here to move to upstate NY in retirement, and they fixed it up to make more money, which it did It did not pass inspection the other day, because the new smoke detectors they bought on Amazon are…wait for it…FAKE

Lake Huron No. 1 Jack Chambers 1970–71

Yukon River Alan C. Collier n.d.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Seeing the Knicks celebrations and watching a couple World Cup games last night has given me a little hope for this benighted country

A strange voice from far away said, “PRESENTING THE GREATEST TOAD IN ALL THE WORLD!”

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

"For the life of me, I can't tell you what led me to reflect on the moment when Nicholas II lost control over a once-burgeoning empire due to widespread unrest that he himself had a hand in shaping." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-h...

14 June 1921 | A Polish Jew, Izrael Erdunast, was born in Błaszki. A farmer. In #Auschwitz from 1 September 1942. No. 62456 Evacuated to KL Buchenwald. Fate unknown. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Mr B, when he saw there were bagpipes at the game: I didn’t know they were letting weapons in at Foxboro now

It’s always Wonderfalls, lordy I loved that show

RRR

Is the Wendy’s Baconator causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the Baconator was introduced nearly two decades ago

14 June 1886 | German Jewish woman, Jenny Strahl, was born in Berlin. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 19 August 1942 & murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. - ▶ Gas chambers of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Next thing you know we’ll be hearing about the Potomac turning to blood

Orange Arc Greg Bennett 2019