That's weird, she just told me that she didn't even race today.

The International Olympics Committee is selling a limited edition t-shirt commemorating the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. They have already sold out of the shirts. www.jta.org/2026/02/14/c...

Roses are red Violets are grue In Ancient Egyptian, Pashto, and Zulu en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

Each of the women carries different objects: a phiale (libation bowl), a pomegranate, a mirror, a skein of wool, a bird, et al. One of the women sits in a high-backed chair. Greek, from Taras (Taranto), S. Italy. 🏺 2/ #ancientbluesky flic.kr/p/2rb6ynV

For #ValentinesDay2026 give her what she really wants: a #sarcophagus. After all, it's #SarcophagusSaturday. This unusual front shows the Three #Graces at centre, flanked by #Erotes and two couples of #Cupid and #Psyche, from c. 140-150 CE, in palazzo Mattei di Giove in #Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, by John William Waterhouse

"I mean, you can’t just claim to be the legendary latex salesman for Vandelay Industries without any proof. But unlike Costanza, who comes ‘from a long line of quitters,’ this guy just wouldn’t give up.” www.outkick.com/culture/flor...

Look at the superb hound and jackal detail on these ancient game pieces! 😍 📷 The Met

How to end an interview: In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud." Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.

John Donne reaching God-level poetry by finishing a gorgeous love poem with commentary on tax policy 😅 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50296/...

Harald Sohlberg Summer Night Oslo, 1899

It's supposedly gonna get up to 59 degrees in Chicago on Monday and this might singlehandedly heal our broken nation

Alden Global Capital and Heath Freeman are so evil that even the NY Post wrote a sympathetic story about the Daily News. nypost.com/2026/02/13/m...

Engagement brooch of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, 1475. She was born on this day in 1457.

just remembered that recently out of the blue my 7-year-old asked “dad, what was the collapse of the soviet union?”

Hey look! The MAGA husband of an Irish immigrant finally got it after his wife was detained for 5 months

13 February 1689 William & Mary are declared joint sovereigns. The English Declaration of Right is read, limiting the Crown’s power to suspend the laws, infringe the rights of subjects, and trammel on the power of Parliament to meet freely. The Bill of Rights would receive royal assent later.

Our Darwin’s orchid (Angraecum sesquipedale) is in flower. Its incredibly long nectar tube led Darwin to predict a pollinator that didn’t yet exist — and he was later proven right when a hawkmoth was discovered with an equally long proboscis. 📍Find it in the Tropical Glasshouse near the Jade vine.

A timely valentine from Dr Grammar: pronouns have histories.

NEW: Top U.S. Catholic bishops are demanding Donald Trump apologize for a racist post depicting the Obamas as apes. The Vatican has weighed in — and Pope Leo XIV, the first modern pope of Black descent, is watching.

Honoring President Lincoln’s birthday in Illinois today.

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Pluviôse in the year 234. Pluviôse is the month of rain. Today we celebrate hares.#JacobinDay More information on hares

Hell yeah

Because of this story I can never give signed books to charity and if I buy one which turns out to have an inscription I feel bad for the signatory

"If only we had some guide as to how Donald Trump would behave if he was president" - millions of Americans in 2026, apparently

We have a hippo too! 🦛 Made by Rosemary Wren, the daughter of the eminent pottery, Denise Wren, and was taught to pot by her mother. Rosemary developed her own style and became very successful. She often created animal forms which are incredibly popular.

Don't overlook the importance of removing small dams. Thanks to @earthislandjournal.bsky.social for running this excerpt from my new book. @princetonupress.bsky.social @islandpress.bsky.social #undammed #damremoval

I loved how calm Rep Leiu was when Bondi shouted "don't you dare accuse me of a crime" and without batting an eye Leiu responds "I am accusing you of a crime, you've committed purgery" * Boom *

Pairs of amazing 18th century Meissen porcelain birds on exhibition at Christie's, New York. All actual size and selling tomorrow. (see ALT)

I tell you, Watson, in all seriousness, that if I could beat that man, if I could free society of him, I should feel that my own career had reached its summit, and I should be prepared to turn to some more placid line in life. #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #TheFinalProblem

Cogito, ergo sum. René Descartes, great French mathematician & philosopher, pioneer of analytic geometry, died #OTD 1650, profoundly influenced Western thinkers including Kant, Leibniz, Newton, Hegel. Sorbonne University, Paris

@nazaninboniadi.bsky.social Ms. Boniadi, any help you can provide in spreading this information and giving it the attention that it needs would so very appreciated.

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

A dresser in the Merchant's House Museum, built in 1832, has been discovered as a secret link to the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years.

Jim Crow v.2.0 From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s war on ‘woke’ has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous history www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today marked only our second-ever wild beaver release, as a family and a pair of Eurasian beavers were introduced at two sites across the Holnicote Estate on Exmoor in Somerset.

Jupiter and Betelgeuse January 2026 in the Uintah Mountains of Utah

This, btw, is argument from constitutional ethos (from Goldman)

Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland', 1959 edition, by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt

One lesson of the Epstein emails is the total intellectual vacuousness of the international business elite www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

There are over 75,000 internationally adopted adults who aren't citizens because they weren't naturalized upon arriving to the US. If you'd like to help internationally adopted adults become citizens, please contact these sponsors. This is an injustice and needs to change! 3/3

The 2024 Adoptee Citizenship Act has become the 2025 US HR5492 PAAF (Protect Adoptees and American Families). This bill "aims to provide automatic United States citizenship to certain internationally adopted individuals who were not previously granted citizenship." 1/3

I will read anything with the Roman Philippi sundial on the front cover—but this also happens to be a fantastic book. 📕 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Melville: I hope you enjoyed that bloody action-packed chapter! But now, a moment to consider obscure technicalities about where everyone sits in the boat, how the boat is constructed, and my personal critique of current assigned seating practices.

"In their words and drawings, they convey how much they ache for creature comforts and describe the anguish of being trapped. They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick...and feeling scared."