From Margaret Wise Brown’s Wikipedia page: “…she was also inspired by the poet Gertrude Stein, whose literary style influenced Brown's own writing.”

The best two consecutive pages in any book ever written

While we aren't open for submissions, we are looking for strange/surreal manuscripts in translation. Anything under 200 pages. The weirder, the better. DM us.

Hello Saturday. #Caturday Book of Hours, Flanders c.1300. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS B. 11. 22, fol.

Wall Tile https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.649

And they stuck me together with glue.

not just anecdote! "graduates in the least-exposed quintile—studying subjects such as education, philosophy...—saw their avg full-time employment rate fall by just 1.5%. Those in the most exposed quintile—including computer science, computer engineering and information science—suffered a 6.6% drop.”

Palomar is a selection from the first 50 issues (1985–1996) of Gilbert Hernandez's multigenerational saga, which has followed the lives and loves, adventures and horrors, of his signature characters, their children, and their children's children for 40+ years. Out 9/22! https://ow.ly/IMWu50Z0rAT

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

Oh literally …

Trilogy of the Desert. Mirage https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20867

A garden of the flowers that appear in Swann's Way for #WorldCollageDay.

A "chain-link" column on the south portal of the western facade of the church of Saint-Lazare D'Avallon, in north-central #France. c.1160. #architecture #art #History #medieval

UIC grad workers have been on strike for a week now and we have just learned that UIC admins are considering locking out grad workers in the summer (cancelling any contracts) and not hiring any TAs in the fall

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”

US reinstates deportation proceedings against Palestinian green-card holder student - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-reinstates-deportation-proceedings-against-palestinian-green-card

Woodcut from La Petit Histoire Bretonne ‘On the Open Sea’ Rene Quillivic, 1921

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

The Met Gala is the new Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897. In the midst of Gilded Age, workers faced poverty & unemployment. New York elites held a lavish costume party, spending $400,000 (=9 million) to dress as kings and queens. I hope Mamdani also raises taxes as happened in the wake of that ball.

i wonder if the Sumerian "female character dialect" Emesal may have worked like this: not actually something exclusive to women historically, but a progressive accent or register used literarily to show distance from the classical language.

Poul Webb (British, born 1947) Andalucia, Spain IV, 2021 Oil on canvas 31 1/2 × 15 7/10 in (80 × 40 cm) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The green dragon wishes you all an excellent #weekend BL Add 16577; Festival prayer book, Italian rite; 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Italy; f.44v @blmedieval.bsky.social

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

What an amazing National Poetry Month! Last call for the 30% discount on all in-stock Wisconsin Poetry Series books —including @shreedaisy.bsky.social's translation of SLEEP JOURNEYS by Azra Abbas! Use code NPM26UWISC at uwpress.wisc.edu/Series/W/Wis...

Wait. And there's a new Ananda Devi this year too! Jesus christ I'm going to need 10 years to catch up on 2026

Don’t miss SLEEP JOURNEYS (@uwiscpress.bsky.social ) by Azra Abbas (tr. by @shreedaisy.bsky.social ). This collection “is a dreamlike rumination that explores faith, female desire, and the subconscious mind”: bookshop.org/a/169/978029...

Thanks to Tobias Carroll and @wwborders.bsky.social for including Azra Abbas's SLEEP JOURNEYS (translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social) in The April Watchlist!

The CIA was funding literary magazines worldwide in the Cold War. e.g. The Kenyon Review whose own founder was linked to the CIA and even had some students recruited to the CIA. The Paris Review was "a front group for the CIA" and its founder was a CIA agent. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/04...

The painting "Cat Goes Birdhunting" (originally known in Swedish as Katt på fågeljakt), painted in 1883, is one of the most emblematic early works by Bruno Liljefors, Sweden's most important nature painter. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover #caturday

Julia Lucey (American Artist, born 1978) "Red Fox", 2021. Aquatint Etchings and Acrylic, 61 × 45.7 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Many thanks to Karla Strand and Violet Pandya @msmagazine.com for including REPLICA (by Lisa Low) and SLEEP JOURNEYS (by Azra Abbas and translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social) in this fabulous list! msmagazine.com/2026/04/24/b...

Yesterday was publication day for Sleep Journeys!

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_251@22-01-2018_10-57-18.jpg

Emmerentia van Driel in 1647, looking anxious about that gigantic ruff that is decapitating her. As painted by Jacob Cuyp, whose day is today.

We are delighted to share that Sudanese American poet Safia Elhillo is our new International Writer in Residence from April-Sept 2026. During her residency, Safia will lead two online workshops in September on the theme of Global Solidarities. 👀 Details for the workshops TBA

I love these 'Dandy's Perambulations' cartoons from 1819. No idea who drew them but they make me chortle. #dandies #Regency #cartoons #artsky #BookChatWeekly

Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

how is this literally happening in real life

2/2 Sly little look from this angel drummer by Filippino Lippi in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome.

The horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza are numerous and still unfolding. Eyal Weizman’s work on this is some of our generation’s most important cultural production/documentation. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is a long, excellent thread on the current AI grift. It also touches on one of my pet peeves: By using terms such as "hallucinations" for results that are factually incorrect, the AI generators are given agency that they do not & will never have.

Friends! I wrote my first novel! Please buy it! Out October 6th, 2026 Pre order here angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-o... @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

🎨 David Hockney

Gabriele Münter (German, 1877–1962) "Blumen mit weißer Rose II", 1950. Oil on Cardboard, 49.5 × 34 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

🚨 Mark Kelly - a 2028 hopeful - says he will support the efforts to block weapons for Israel.

Roman emperors often built triumphal arches after wars with Persia, but they usually had at least a fleeting victory as pretext. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

A charming #Roman enamelled fibula (a pin for fastening garments) in the form of an #owl. Found in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort. Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg / Peter Knierriem 🏺