Ted Turner, a broadcast pioneer who founded CNN and died Wednesday morning, loomed large in New Mexico. An avid environmentalist, hunter and outdoorsman who once was New Mexico’s largest private landowner, he had ties to the state going back decades. sfnm.co/3RbZQZD

No matter how much is written on aesthetics people think something is good because "I've known people just like that. It's so true to life." (1968)

The Pret chocolate croissant has no business being as good as it is. Shameful

🎉 We’re celebrating the Public Domain with PROMETHEUS (1930), José Clemente Orozco’s monumental mural of the mythic fire-bringer. It's a landmark of Mexican muralism. See it in our collections ➡️ archive.org/details/Prom... #CincoDeMayo #PublicDomain

Slightly diminish a book Breezy Mids

Loving reminder from the Muppets that your compassion for others and desire for a better world is never a bad thing even if it feels most people disagree

"...the Institutional Gothic involves uncanny spaces, malevolent forces, and overwhelming discomfort... But where the traditional Gothic is dark + looming with ornate architecture, the Institutional Gothic occurs in winding or otherwise empty office spaces, consumed by machine-made mundanity..."

The Disney animators’ strike of 1941 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_...

LOVELY not Lowly

Today was the last day of ExtraTerrestrial & the students enjoyed 🍩 , the last of their peer presentations & offered feedback about what they liked & what they‘d change & why. what a gift!! they got me 🥹 sharing their 💝to engage with things theyd otherwise never get to

you know how the saying goes: ”no atheists in foxholes, foxholes being waiting to get written image permissions for publication”

The newest attempt to rebrand ICE is, in fact, quite old. For past 20+ years, DHS often sought to distract from its more violent practices with PR promoting its supposed “humanitarian” efforts. Circling back to this message now reveals how much the tough man aesthetic has failed as a comm strategy

also true for the first 5 seasons of the X-Files ♥️

Hot sauce tasting bar that also sells dairy free soft serve 🍦

Have been pushing Austin friends to go to Houston for me since this was on my radar please go for those us that can’t

This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

It’s very special to be from the desert

Sometimes you’re sorting through a box of random bits of paper and you find a letter from Mario Vargas Llosa

Imagina que eres una jacaranda en el jardín de una casa en el pedregal. que vida mas bonita

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

GIRLS TOWN (1996).

Looking forward to reading this but I cannot get over how ATROCIOUS these chairs are. Nausea

Save 30% on #NewBook "Transpacific Nonencounters" by Andrea Mendoza, which works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations. buff.ly/QLUdV2O

In either the worst or best possible timing, I'm giving a talk on the allure of *foreignness* in midcentury American cooking at the MFAH on 4/26. Join me for "Cooking with "Foreign Flair": Exploring the World from the Midcentury American Kitchen" if you're in Houston! www.mfah.org/events/autho...

Ester Hernández, Libertad (Liberty), an image the artist made to mark the US bicentennial in 1976 artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti...

what I said yesterday about having no connection to Easter? maybe I lied

Trader Joe’s has this muffin in a cup that is essentially a larger Easy Bake Oven treat and it’s great.

Weirdly enough it was one the 1 year anniversary of my doctoral defense! Somatic memory?? 👻

does anyone have helpful tips for migraines? I’ve rarely had them and been ok with otc but I had my first cluster headache ever the other day and it scared the life out of me and had me in bed for a whole day.

“If satire mobilizes critique through emotion, to what extent does the genre fail when the subject is racist fantasy?” New at PB: @storti.bsky.social revisits the reactions to Frank’s (Sam Rockwell) season 3 monologue about sexual desire in “The White Lotus.”

the one and only Melanie Ball on how planners, builders, architects turn to markets and shape discourses www.platformspace.net/home/urban-a...

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

Nobody made animation like Faith and John Hubley. Their films feel raw and natural -- with unscripted voices and freeform artwork. They were pioneers of indie animation. In our latest issue, we offer an intro and viewing guide to their work: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/truth-and-...

the one and only Melanie Ball on how planners, builders, architects turn to markets and shape discourses www.platformspace.net/home/urban-a...

Belle and Sebastian :: If You’re Feeling Sinister at 30 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/30/b... It came from a group of people who shunned the publicity cycle, doing no interviews, releasing no singles and shunning TV and radio appearances...

Latinx Studies conference stays wining as the most balanced conference in offering topically interesting, meticulous and interdisciplinary research in a chill and laid back atmosphere

welcome to Austin, TX where you’ll ask yourself: is it allergies or am I dying?

Septa running on an old bit of tooth floss. this system works when it runs! it could be so nice!

Very sad to see. He had more than his share of troubles.

The elected officials described Huerta as a friend and mentor. They expressed awe at her courage and strength in coming forward, as well as outrage for Chavez and the misogynistic culture that enabled his alleged abuse. buff.ly/siMRYjq

It is amazing to watch the supercharging of the South's extractive economic model, destroying education for its own residents in order to beg for out-of-state wealth that will ultimately leave behind almost no benefits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/suicidal-b...

Cesar Chavez’s story shows the persistence of misogyny and sexual abuse remain across the political spectrum. And the dangers of a cult of personality. No matter who that personality is. @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A surge in quartz countertop fabrication has triggered a growing epidemic of silicosis — an incurable lung disease — among Bay Area workers who cut and polish the popular kitchen material.

i can’t unsee this thing and I don’t think it’s an accident. we need a “notes on schlockiness” per @quinnslobodian.com noting the guardians of the galaxy as a visual reference

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

big cheers for @cetracey.bsky.social ! looking forward to this to kick off April!

Did yall know there’s a cute cool little book shop named after Ulises Carrión in Philly??? and they have a hands on colla exhibition space? And an ARCHIVE?

my article on Georges Méliès and aquariums—the first thing published from my dissertation—is now out open access at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!! read on to see how fairy tale grottoes, Jules Verne's science fiction, and water infrastructure are all connected!!! quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

🌷special giddiness of a successful catchup about mid century color and Latinx “excess“ (Londoño’s superb Abstract Barrios) setting up Wednesday’s (surprisingly anticipated?) X-Files day🛸 plus! Ranfla cósmica with guidance from an LA times piece by the one and only @cmonstah.bsky.social