"Great. I'm hated by the preppy St. Francis."

"Marley's Ghost Appearing to Scrooge". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 3 of 7).

CNN: "A soaked tent or a bombed-out ruin: Gazans face a grim choice this winter." Please don't turn away from the suffering civilians. They rely on our donations to survive. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can take care of her children. And to others. ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1587...

When they ask me what radicalized me

🎵 “Your chains are forged by what you say and do / So have your fun, when life is done a nightmare waits for you” 🎶 🥰

The idea that everything needs nuance to be a good message is stupid. But even worst, it's the worst kind of post-modernism. Remember, this is not 2009. You can be earnest again. You can call evil evil. It's not stupid to do it. It's only stupid to deny it.

Susan Christie - Paint a Lady [ US , Folk ] (1969) Love the lyrics and the voice matches so well to it https://redd.it/qghd1d https://youtu.be/9Icd3gq-kso

#ArtAdventCalendar, Dec 22. Pine martin taking a moment to sit in the snow next to an old tree stump where it's learned that the peanut butter lives.

pinturinha de gato preto fumando um cigarrinho a gente vê por aqui (pintado num livro de contos de fadas antigo, com 100 anos de idade, para a exposição PET da loja salt and pepper/Tokyo)

Yule-hole [YOOL hohl] (n.) -The last hole to which one is able to stretch their belt at a Christmas dinner. (Shouldn't there be a Thanksgiving hole?)

Every recipe on earth: first, get one stick of softened unsalted butter. Next, a pinch of salt

Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.

Articles of Glass https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.121

Goldilocks waking up:

Born #onthisday in 1879, Swiss-German artist Paul Klee. Read Kenneth Gross on the unique vision of innocence at play in Klee's puppets which he made for his son: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/of-angel-and-puppet/ #otd

Last night I dreamed I was being chased by some kind of secret service/mafia, whatever, because I was relentlessly hunting for a bakery to roast my turkey this Christmas. I don't know what you're supposed to do with this information. Merry Christmas, everyone

Sunday Picture Journal dated December 20, 1964. Featuring the characters from Pogo by Walt Kelly.

It's your birthday, Duane.

Gardiner conducts Bach: Christmas Oratorio www.stage-plus.com/video/vod_co... ========================= #earlymusicnewsorg #earlymusic #earlymusicnews

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Discipline - Cesare Pavese

Entering the US public domain in 2026: James and Eloyce Gist's film Hellbound Train. More info behind window 14 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026

Plate https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194400

And it pains me to say, I was wrong Love is not a symptom of time Time is just a symptom of love youtu.be/pPpzhfDbvS4?...

Triteti Light by Vico Magistretti for Artemide (1966)

Françoise Hardy, La Trinité ~ Gerard Gery for Paris Match, November 1963 #FrancoiseHardy

From the Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg late 16th–mid-17th century (Met Museum)

Alex Raymond

god there’s just no one like anne carson

coca-cola single-handedly created the single-use plastics crisis but they're not done, so they're creating the single-use digital slop crisis

Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising BY MY CALCS: - 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project - 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals - 1 month of 250 households - 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing futurism.com/artificial-i...

For #WyrdWednesday and its day of Saturnalia, here the ‘world turned upside down’ with rabbits hunting, catching and executing a hound. Courtesy of the British Library.

#NowPlaying “We were the swinging 60’s – the world of the Beatles. The Folk Mass broke new ground. We sang the Mass in English for the first time and the style was our style.” Frances Gordon If you like the idea of the Catholic Mass sung in the style of Belle & Sebastian/Vashti this is for you.

fiction for 2026

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Happy Beethoven's birthday to all who celebrate.

Evergreen

The textile history essays will continue to be published in 2026, every 2-3 weeks, and will be freely accessible to all (you can find over 200 essays today). Read more: www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/es...

Fairy tale tree 🤍🤍🤍 Roof Plantain

rian johnson has made two films about an old bearded priest, who is from a line of crazy unhinged priests despite the celibacy rule, who bullies a young priest

eBay option to fight the other bidder in the parking lot like gentlemen

#OwlishMonday I made an owl-shaped cheese scone. A little crude, but I think it has some charm. It was delicious.

he wanted to learn more about Hanukkah (yes I made sure he didn’t go near the fire) (SpongeBob hanukkiah made by my mother some twenty years ago)

Dish https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466827