Here's the thing I just realized: the joy is eternal. Doesn't knock out the rest, but there's a place you can feel it. I'm 80 years old. Respect your damn elders who know shit like this and live like you stole it. Worst thing to do is die with a scowl. 😎

NM folks short 🧵, potential thwart of monsoon.

Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations. He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:

From the Declaration of Independence: "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."

Having a wonderful time. Haven't eaten yet today tho. Think I'll make some apple pancakes, drown them in a quart of maple syrup, and take a nap. Then I'll be all set for writing!

Hot Rat Summer Forever

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

#Art: Friday Evening (2020) #Artist: #ValeriaDuca (b. 1995; #🇲🇩) #ArtMovement/Style: #Figurativism #Contempory Medium: Oil on canvas 79 x 99 cm (31 x 39 in) #DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy #ArtPost #FineArt #WomensArt #ArtHerstory 249

Happy 4th!!!!! 🎆🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Nyc fireworks going off. Enjoy here www.youtube.com/live/8Zhu7jw...

The famous sloop Clearwater, built by the late folk singer Pete Seeger and his friends, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Sail today. It was displaying banners that read, "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions.”

No harnesses, helmets, or gloves. Tools just lying on the boards. Ye gods.

WOW. Just wow. Pueblo pottery art + lowrider & street rod by Rose B. Simpson from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Outstanding. 😎 youtu.be/47ArhKFglkI

It's very much this

Absolutely worth my time. Settling down with the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 right now. Started here in Taos, ya know. Thank you, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Never mind 1776, here's the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

¡Perfecto!

ONLY IN RANCHOS 2 07/03/2026 #photography #BlueSkyArtShow Slightly edited version of last night's photo to join the art show! "She low, you know," and definitely #wide. Have a great 4th of July and remember our diversity & power with pride. The mountains & me are still here and you, too.

This is incredible, and most of you won't understand or relate to it at all. I do! youtu.be/WkuFTJB_SIU

Our neighbors in Tijuana are some good humans. 😍🇲🇽

When I was in 10th grade I had a friend whose dad privately bought and sold used cars. One of them was a '49 Packard with a flathead straight 8 like this. Amazing machine, front bench seat like a sofa. Slow and mighty, utterly solid. I've obviously never forgotten. www.hagerty.com/media/member...

I have one of these, a Baldwin B243 Hamilton Studio Piano, literally the best-selling studio piano "of all time." It was my late wife's first piano, purchased in the '50s. Since she passed away in '21, it's been in storage, professionally wrapped and sealed. 🧵 www.baldwinpiano.com/B243-B47-Ham...

The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet. @Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #music #jazz

"The Great Asphyxiation" 😳

OLD ADOBE MORNING 05/16/2026 #photography From 6 weeks ago. Just felt like sticking it up here again.

So old school I could cry. Bare feet in cool water on the mud, the smell of grass & flowers in the air. No distractions. So old myself that I remember Nature we weren't "advanced" enough to kill. I *feel* this image the way I held a wriggling bluegill or crawdad in my hands at 6 years old.

Jettytime. It's been a while, so back to my favourite jetty... #photography #landscapephotography

Yes. Karma is coming.

Here's 45 minutes of an Austin, TX band I saw many times in the late ‘60s. I helped run the light show for their gig at the grand opening of the Vulcan Gas Company. Echt Texas blues rock psychedelia! (For more info, see here: therockasteria.blogspot.com/2024/04/conq...) youtu.be/0O6sC_0Xa8g

SCORPIONS OF JUNE 06/15/2026 #photography

DEVIL MOON 05/30/2026 #photography Some of you may have missed this from a month ago. That's too bad, so here it is again.

She's not alone.

I do hope this is true 🙄

The largest #wind farm in US history started up this month in New Mexico. It'll be America’s last landmark wind project for years, as the industry grapples with a myriad of headwinds. My latest 👇 🎁Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

Happy AI Image Birthday, Uncle Mel!

Handrail - Schwabisch, Germany

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EVENING IN THE 'HOOD 06/26/2026 #photography #NewMexico #RanchosDeTaos

WEDNESDAY BLUE 06/24/2026 #photography #NewMexico

FULCRUM 06/26/2026 #photography #NewMexico

LEEZARD 06/23/2026 #photography

Hakki Yesillik. Man on the dark side and light. 2009

72°F at noon, breezy, NEW MEXICO YOW