Excuse me while i sob over Leyb Kvitko's children's book "Di bobe shlak un ir kabak" (Granny Shlak and her Pumpkin), published in Kharkov in 1928

So the Haus der Kunst decided that it would be a good idea to post a row of yiddish words in a stark, san serif font across a minimalist, oppressively designed structure designed by Nazi architect Paul Troost - is anyone surprised that people find this a BIT off-putting?

There is literally one and only one movie to have on in the background doing chores today #louvreheist

Fun fact about the real life Dracula, Vlad the Impaler. One time, he invited all the poor, sick, and homeless under his rule to a lavish feast. He then boarded up the doors and lit the room on fire, burning them all to death. When met with outrage, he simply said: "No one will be poor in my realm."

Guinness Book of World Records has Bulgaria as one of the top 4 countries in bread eaten per capita - just behind Turkey (who quite likely got bread from the Bulgarians), Serbia, and Montenegro (all in the same geographic region.) Can any historians tell me why? & why it’s so crucial to the culture?

It appears that there’s a spot on Google maps in Burgas, Bulgaria that is titled, “The Cormorant,” but is in fact, just a log that a cormorant sometimes hangs out on. It gets 5 stars🥲

We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.

Last gelati of the season 🥲 it’s been real 😭 Thank G-d for South Philly 🩷

Another writing night where I’m kept safe from predators by Pikachu

They don’t allow cameras in Cowtown, the oldest weekly rodeo in the United States - which happens to be in New Jersey, just an hour away from my home in Philly. So I tried my best to capture some of the excitement on my iPhone 🐎

Cowtown Rodeo (the oldest rodeo in America in Salem County, New Jersey) is a machine affair with men riding bulls and bucking broncos. Even the announcer seemed to admit that by far the most talented and fearless performer was this woman riding 4 horses, bareback and barefoot, through rings of fire

One of these pictures is "Alligator Alcatraz." The other is a data center north of Castroville, Texas. Can you tell which one is which? And better yet, why they look...almost identical?

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Idk about you but I’d just feel a lot safer if more fire stations looked like castles

A vision of hell, through the foggy window of the M4 bus in Midtown Manhattan

We should have a larger convo about how companies like American Eagle use beautiful people to add glamor to unglamorous products. In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman committed suicide at a factory that made American Eagle clothes bc of abuse. This is the cost of cheap, trendy clothes.

Today’s collection of gems, back home in South Philly

Very uncomfortable vibes in the sale booths at the York County State Fair :/ I love Pennsylvania, but I can’t say I love this part

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

Finding myself unexpectedly yearning to be scottish just so i can have this cake topper at my wedding

This lionhead rabbit at the York State Fair in PA is on his own level

Yearly midwestern road trip ✅ Trunk full of Spotted Cow (which you’re only allowed to purchase in the great state of Wisconsin) ✅ all of the beer for our 150+ invite wedding 10 months from now provided ✅

So Ellen has fled Trump's US for a ‘simpler’ life in the Cotswolds. Nice if you have the money, don’t you think? | Emma Brockes

Throwback to when my mom dressed me up and posed me on the bed “like a doll” for pictures 😎

This is exactly what I hope! :) When I write a critical review, I almost always still want people to see the show --- just while keeping in mind what it's missing (like Ben Shahn's fabulous New Deal-era murals, for example 😏)

Is there absolutely anything better than a bookstore cat?

I love when the graffiti truly adds to a wall. I honestly am more likely to go into this coffee shop with the tag added - the design is genuinely improved 🥲 (Seen in Minneapolis☕️)

Um I’m about to have so much fun this Saturday with my friend’s book collection 🥲 he’s a steel mill worker turned (brilliant) professor turned sheep farmer and wood worker, who got rid of all his theory books and, in his words, “now only reads books about penguins and stuff like that.”

There’s truly nothing like a good midwestern root beer. No ice, on tap like a “real beer.” The only problem is that non-Minnesotan/Wisconsin root beer is ruined forever.

I saw the Wawa logo irl today 🥲 truly blessed

Welp! Philadelphia trashnado incoming

“You can’t get into heaven without that union card” 👼🗑️ Day 8 of the DC33 strike in Philly, set to the melodious tunes of our dear city’s pub sing led by Ben Fink. Mayor Parker, PAY THESE PEOPLE. #parkerpiles #phillystrike #dc33

Sorry if I'm acting weird. This is my first dictatorship.

Today's inspiration: a woman lost in a sea of air-dried red peppers in Hungary, circa 1968

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

Normalize splurging on books at the anarchist owned used bookstore and bringing them to the bar in a bankers box (Haul from Autumn Leaves in Ithaca NY, owned by PM Press 🖤🏴❤️)

This season’s hottest accessory is a bag for your sleep apnea machine

If you proposed trolly lines between rural towns today, you'd be called "too radical" and "unrealistic." And yet, here's a trolly, 100+ years ago in rural Massachusetts, between South Deerfield and Sunderland. The rides were so long through the fields that operators went on strike to demand stools.

Sooooo last night I was buried deep into local Spanish newspapers because there’s a rumor that famed architect Leon Krier died by suicide by jumping off of the spire of a famous Spanish cathedral, rather than succumbing to cancer. Which is…bizarre….and honestly may have indeed happened??

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. Accountability now. Open link next skeet. "It's a killing field," one soldier said....no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire w/ machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then.. the shooting stops, they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."

i don't need it need it i don't need it i don't need it

why am i just now finding out that le corbusier bound a copy of Don Quixote with the fur and skin of his deceased dog

apparently there’s a term in Yeshivish, “slept a bagel” And it can refer to sleeping for 12 hours, (because bagel dough takes 12 hours to rise) or a pet sleeping in a perfect circle 🥯 Anyway Pikachu is doing both

Sailor moon is doing great 😊

It’s so insanely wrong that I have to pay for a CPAP machine. I have pretty solid insurance, and it turns out I still have to pay like $600 to be able to breathe while I sleep. I’m lucky enough go be able to afford it, but what about the millions who can’t??

Girlies guess who officially has a mild form of obstructive sleep apneaaaa✌️🤪🤪🤪

This dried bouquet of flowers has been bouncing around a few blocks of South Philly. Last night it was underneath a car, and as of this morning someone used a little ribbon to tie it to this fence 🥲 a little decoration 🥲

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

“Pikachu and the Gefilte Fish” (2025). A story in two pictures.