Woman on the train: He has a vest on. A vest on he had. A vest! Her friend: Well at least he had something on.

i have it on good authority that jimmy kimmel is ready for a fight and the next time we see him it will be awesome. rock on, brother.🥃

A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊 #fox #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

rip bob. broken hearted. i wish i had said "i love you" instead of "if i'm old, what does that make you?" thanks for holding the end up and taking care of all of us wee "children of film" from every corner of the globe. i'm remembering what garner said: "you know what you did, mister." 🥃

Hero

Well, this. Listen. Brilliant and beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sY...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tell me more about the ancient British liberties of the Anglo-Saxons and their influence on the US, Liz

"Hey, mister, got any songs about meat? Chops? Sausages? Gazelles? Know any songs about big legs of lamb? Goats? Hippopotomi? "

In spite of graffiti and insults, the @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social also receives incredible kindness and support. 🥹

Due respect for biodiversity and all that but YOU LITTLE FUCKERS is all I have to say to the little fuckers who’ve eaten the sleeve of my Joseph cashmere coat.

I have never felt more strongly supportive of Angela Rayner in my life. Fuck these people.

When you’re so innocent you have to threaten members of Congress in your own party to not release the evidence that would prove your innocence.

light entertainment from the art deco era, a threadlette (i dont' personally have some great fetish about this stuff, it's just attractively hued (and hewed) from the social manners and mood of the time, in ways which seem to avoid reality, and sometimes that's good enough)

I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

Mountain trolls are the biggest creatures in Norwegian folklore. They dwell inside mountains in their own realms, where they hoard gold and gemstones. If they are exposed to sunlight they turn into rock, and legend has it that many mountains in Norway are former trolls. 🎨 Martina Ehrenborg

Tomorrow! It’ll arrive whether in the diary or not - grab it, shake it upside down, see what falls out xxx

Corporate executives who defraud nursing homes? Pardoned. Reality TV stars who evade millions in taxes? Pardoned. Thousands of January 6th rioters? Pardoned. Anyone who opposes Trump? Prosecuted.

I could't get you a uber, because they haven't been invented yet, but here's a destrier caparisoned in the finest leather.

one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.

My passionate stance of the day: No one who listens to music at all appreciatively needs or wants track breaks in mid-measure, and that goes for musical theater and opera too.

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

A real discovery for me at Guggenheim House: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Check her out. www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/whats-on/...

Hello autumn

My best wishes to the cast & crew for the first preview tonight at The Garrick. Go out and do do that voodoo that you do so well! @theproducerslondon.bsky.social @nimaxtheatres.bsky.social

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

Every day, another piece of nauseating news hits my gut in a way I thought I’d become immune to, reminding me that the decline towards fascism takes place through the actions, not just of the fascists themselves, but of weak humans who choose short term self-preservation over courage and conviction.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

Characters who ’inhale deeply’ - ie continue to breathe - is one I try to avoid.

It's time to go to total war with extreme right politics - but where's the leadership? Where's the full-spectrum resolute rejection of racism, xenophobia, nationalism, the hate-fuelled, pig-ignorant, incendiary and violent rhetoric of Reform UK?

As a parent, as a human, this family deserves a settlement against ChatGPT that should put them out of business.

WTF?

Le coup d’état, c’est moi.

Fabulous Visigothic eagle brooch, AD 501-533. One of a pair of prestigious eagle brooches worn at shoulder height to fasten clothing. From Alovera, Guadalajara, Spain. Bronze, gold and glass. 📷 Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid #Archaeology

I’d rather they read it, page by page.

#NowSpinning Sunday afternoon glories with Dame Jane Baker and seductive music from France. An intelligent response to text is always going to be an important thing to me, but when the beauty of the voice is there to match it, the result can be astounding. Here is such a record.

lol - trump's bibles were made in china. he paid $3 per bible and charged $59 for them. there's a sucker born every minute. (great report from @dakekang.bsky.social and richard lardner for @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/trum...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Today's harvest was much more than I expected

❤️Tom Leonard

The height of faschion

Trump attacked the Smithsonian for depicting "how bad slavery was." Meanwhile, he's pushing schools to partner with PragerU, which tells children the evils of slavery are exaggerated. I've been sounding the alarm on them for years.

now is the time to build the strongest futures for the humanities, not diminish possibilities, to create through collaboration across our disciplines, not retreat into historically fragile configurations that isolate us from the good work of our peers futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/now-is-the...