I’m back! and I’ve learned my lesson

A Starfleet tricorder universal remote control, released in Japan in 2002 to go with that country's release of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION on DVD. Measures 3.5" x 8", size comparison to Playmates' #StarTrek TNG tricorder in last image.

lol spot the difference: On the left is a new $3000 Louis Vuitton bag and on the right is a cultural staple in Ghana that carries A LOT of history about the expulsion of Ghanaians from Nigeria in the 1980s. Neocolonialism never dies. #blacksky #africa #fashionsky

Excellent piece on basic income for the arts by Mick Gallen. One of the most talented and hardest working artists I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. Amazing to read what the scheme did for him. www.thejournal.ie/readme/opini...

Oscar, Emmy, Webby, Pulitzer and a Nobel for this

my London visit gets more intriguing by the day

I’ve been remiss about telling stories from my travels in real time and that, my friends and darling readers, is because I am Hot. Today in Andalusia it is overcast, cool & breezy and I’m serious that that’s what it subjectively feels like to me, after a week’s adjustment. However, it’s 94F/35C

Madeline 🧵

Sperm whales Kiwi and Guava spotted off California coast trib.al/kNSj2N2

brb booking a trip to santiago de querétaro, mexico i need these pastries maps.app.goo.gl/MRUHyEMdVFHJ...

Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO

[running through the street, banging on the windows] LET ME ON!!! TAKE ME WITH YOUUUUUU

ughhhhhh i saw an ad for a Spanish gambling app while watching streaming TV and I was shocked it was legal here

drinking the dumbest, most Norcal thing I could have ordered at the Sevilla Cannabis Club #bornInCA (dumb bc I don’t like hops)

Au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, la chorégraphe Germaine Acogny fait le lien entre Joséphine Baker et Pina Bausch

travel update:

Found some of my older neuro-art. #sciart

This house is glorious. Jackie Gleason's Mid Century Modern "Roundhouse" home is packed with history and charm. $5.5M. New York. #FridayNightZillow www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

'Fashioned sometime in the third century A.D.Roman multi-tool' kottke.org/10/11/the-ro...

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Phones old and new. Patrick Street, Cork.

lovely piece

most i’ve wanted a house in some time and the light fixtures?!?!?!?!

I know it’s too much to hope for I’ll see any of this when I arrive on the island in a couple of weeks. Best enjoy the photo now!

www.reddit.com/r/CannedSard... People describing how they entered the canned sardine lifestyle, their moment of fishy revelation

Despite it being La Diada de Catalunya today, I had no problem getting either bus, taxi or train. A bit sad to say goodbye, but it’s Andalusia time. Hope everyone did the thing today #diada

just passed through La Mancha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_...

Rudston Monolith #StandingStoneSunday

One year ago I decided to draw a line under my decades long tech career and return to my first love: painting landscapes. It’s been a wild ride, with dozens of pieces sold online and at local markets, and some now on display at local galleries. Next year I will have my first solo exhibition.

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

wow that’s commitment! (here’s our story on the working dogs from last summer!)

this reminds me of my favorite object-shaped building: the headquarters for the national fisheries development board in hyderabad

The Bay looking beautiful and menacing yesterday. The threatened rain held off till we got home and it was beautiful to watch the changing tones as the clouds danced across the sun. #Silverdale #MorecambeBay

Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.

Sheldon Harvey (Diné/Navajo) produces pieces that move between figuration and abstraction, weaving Cubist-inspired forms with Diné perspectives. His layered shapes and rhythmic brushwork reflect both personal lineage and global art histories.

A foto mais bonita que você verá hoje

Repair psychic damage from the labor department AI slop with beautiful Soviet work safety posters

el primero bocadillo del viaje

just arrived 🇪🇸 and they’re already making me miss my baby

Ed People hasn't had any professional dance training, but he can definitely bust a move. The social media influencer says the goal of his global dance project is to "bring joy" and "build bridges."

attn: sewing and crafting folk and friends #boost

Beach talk! I’ve noticed this more in Hawaii than here at Ocean Beach; perhaps bc the stakes are colder here to be shoeless if they get nicked

public art #cocktail #mural

Little Guy of the day

Oito Line,Nagano (2024)

What Ancient Greece Really Looked Like: See Reconstructions of the Temple of Hadrian, Curetes Street & the Fountain of Trajan

Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext