The old gods are dead.

Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper.

Scooby-Doo was created by a man who was incarcerated at Manzanar as a teenager. April 29, 1925: Iwao Takamoto was born in Los Angeles. He went on to help design some of the most beloved characters in animation history. quietamericans.com/iwao-takamoto

Physicist Robert H. Dicke was born #OTD in 1916. He invented the lock-in amplifier and the microwave radiometer, performed delicate tests of general relativity, predicted the Cosmic Microwave Background, and probably coined the term "black hole" as it is used in astrophysics. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Image: AIP

Sometimes researching this book brings me the grimmest moments of the Cold War and sometimes it brings me a telegram from Gypsy Rose Lee to ichthyologist Gloria Hollister that reads, "In the interest of science, how would you like to tint my osteological structure, babe".

Ursula K. Le Guin

Dave Brubeck's 1960's Connecticut home was as cool as his music.

"A seventh-generation weaver, Frey's artworks preserve and reimagine the craft of Maine’s Passamaquoddy tribe." www.architecturaldigest.com/story/jeremy...

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 1- A song with a bassline that outshines the melody. John Paul Jones destroys this.

Part of being a woman is spending seven years researching a book, giving 130 pages of endnotes, and having male writers accuse you of just making everything up.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

why can’t i get plant maternity leave, i got like 50 starter pots bussin

Fish Market, 1627. Brilliant work by Jacob Cuyp, whose day is today. Fish seller & woman stare at each other. Maid in red stares at you.

Beth Orton announces new album 'The Ground Above' — hear its stunner of a lead single "Waiting"

www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco... Holy SHIT this is incredible

The Simpsons can only exist in societies that are dumb enough to be mockable but smart enough not to collapse. This narrow “Goldilocks zone” of balanced idiocy is fragile and rare across the galaxy. Most planets invent The Simpsons right before destroying themselves

literacy under steppe nomads, or, prose and khans

Hi @realfollowers.bsky.social how many real followers do I have?

1970's Estes Catalog, Camroc Rocket Camera

In 2009, TV Land did a massiv esinging, dancing tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft, choreographed by the legendary Toni Basil, which for the Gen Xers among us while bring back many warm memories. RIP, Sid, you gave us a lot of messed-up joy in the 1970s.

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli. ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

If you can’t handle me at my expecting the worst, you don’t deserve me at my it went better than I thought it would.

I wear black hoping the ravens will accept me as one of their own

“My curse has been lifted,” I flirted.

It’s ok to love dogs more than humans

Love this shot of PAUL NEWMAN and JOANNE WOODWARD in 1955. They were husband & wife for 50yrs, which is really something in general - but in Hollywood (when both were incredibly beautiful too!) is nothing short of astounding.

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

MLB Umpires Replaced By Lawn Chair Representing Strike Zone

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

sylvia plath AMNESIAC youtu.be/B0rG137UBSM?...

Typography on Pencils, parts 1-6. For it is National Pencil Day. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...

In fact let Librarians run the whole internet

Me: 🎶 chilling, chilling, minding my business 🎶 Existential dread:

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

Four paintings by Katarína Vavrová (b. 1964).

Every Ingredient In Recipe Substituted To Avoid Trip To Store

Fascinating world of #glass: Glass vessels from the 16th and early 17th century, found in a latrine in Ulm. Latrines were commonly used for waste disposal. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Politely asking The Devil to turn down the heat a smidge

The essential Ricky Martin-Iron Butterfly mash-up is Living Inna Gadda Da Vida Loca.

AI slop faces are, like AI slop text, lorem ipsum. Space filling meaningless noise your mind simply can't hold onto afterward because there is just a smooth meaningless surface.

the sears associate leads you past the jean jackets, past the tools, past the anvil foundry, past coal chamber that heats the earth, past the ghosts of lee marvin & charles bronson, right up to a counter where you plunk down a wad of cash & put a live falcon on layaway.

Witchcraft accusations were never about magic. They were about property. Every woman burned at the stake owned something another person wanted.

And then, wonderfully, almost 50% of the entire 400 page book is essentially a long, small text footnote in which John Hodgson slowly and methodically demolishes 1500 years of established history to prove Hadrian, not Severus, built the Wall. It is beautiful. It is a work of art. 15/22