(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

Good morning. #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

bluesky admins, have you tried jiggling the handle?

Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

that's how they wheel you into the hospital

The Resurrection: The Angel Rolling Away the Stone from the Sepulchre, by William Blake, 1808, 📸 by Kayleigh K

Happy Jazz Appreciation Month and happy 25th birthday! The 100th year celebration of Tony Bennett is noted with this year's poster. A living art form, never ordinary :)

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

The first cartoon about gerrymandering ran in the Boston Gazette on March 26, 1812. (The term already existed, but this cartoon—likely by engraver Elkanah Tisdale—helped popularize the term.) And what longevity this creature has!

We have some exciting news: NEON DEUTSCHLAND, the book, is coming soon. Published by Prestel Verlag, the book contains over 350 images of neon signs from some 45 cities throughout Germany. It is available for pre-order now, and should be in bookshops by mid-April. www.penguin.de/buecher/jess...

It's a small venue but a gig's a gig

Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan

my son at the restaurant

We’re living in a 70’s dystopian film about an awards show for computers

#FFAA #TVFlashback 1966

Master class press release.

holy shit

Treat's for Her Plymouth, IN

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

Since it is National Cereal Day here's a cereal museum, with interactive packaging timeline. www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_timel...

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A quote for World Book Day: ‘If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!' — John Waters.

something v encouraging to see lately is how clear eyed people have become about assigning fault to institutions rather than individuals. BAFTA/BBC tried to throw that poor man under the bus by seating him where they did and airing what they did but no one’s buying it

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

Sure.

🎶Mr. Clean, leaves a sheen, where everything is shining.🎶

Roman mosaic fragment of a cockerel from Italy. Dating to around 100 BC, the fragment is part of the collections at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday

Baritown Steely Don thinks CBS was too Deacon blue, but night fly Bari’s shift to MAGA pretzel logic and a quack Dr. Wu isn’t exactly reeling in the viewers. How long till kid Dokoupil gets the news, drinks his Big Black Cow, and gets out of here? by Maureen Dowd

The Friday Flop:

biosolids are the dewatered sewage sludge removed from wastewater. known as cake, even these dewatered biosolids are still 70% water. cake is incinerated safely and efficiently, producing heat and steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity, and ALL the ash is beneficially reused locally.

What are your biggest "I saw that in the first run cinema" flexes? The Godfather This Is Spinal Tap Blue Velvet The Black Stallion Sorcerer Bram Stoker's Dracula FM (hey, win some lose some)