Air to Ground Message: DEMOMASKBROKENFWDGAL Area: Cayman Islands Type: Airbus A320 A: #a15a21b9207 F: #fce6328d55c

“Strega” 🎨 Pia Valentis #owlishmonday

Constance Cummings, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1910, in Seattle, Washington 📸 Angus McBean (1946)

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Belmont Harbor, then and now. Left: old postcard found in an antique store in Iowa. Right: photo that I took this morning.

What I really appreciate about @jacobtlevy.bsky.social's first piece at @liberalism.org is how he identifies the problem as the change "from neutrality, impartiality, and impersonal governance to favoritism, partiality, and personalism." You can't reestablish the former unilaterally, he argues.

Once I got erroneously called up to the counter at a restaurant because a different Kevin had ordered a quesadilla with no cheese and they wanted to know if that was intentional

So it looks like the dilapidated house, the cigar hut and the adjacent storefront were combined into a single streamline structure.

Another shop update is in the works! Here’s a preview of a little blue dragon. It’ll be available Friday, May 22nd.

Ran through the driving test with my driving instructor today. TIL that the Illinois driving test is much easier than the one I took in California, which maybe explains some things!

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

farmers bank by louis sullivan, west james street, columbus, wisconsin, 1977

Alas alack I missed #PhantomsFriday so this is for #SpooktacularSaturday. Robert Doisneau, 1957.

Flocking! All animals named after Sir David Attenborough for his 100th birthday l! Attenborosaurus, Microleo attenboroughi, Caipirasuchus attenboroughi, Materpiscis attenboroughi #paleoart #sciart #paleostream #art

My latest for MS Now: Why the purported Epstein suicide note is probably the real deal. Great working with @jamescdownie.bsky.social on this one!

at last we have invented the computer that draws paranoid conspiratorial connections, from Unberto Eco’s classic Do Not Become Addicted To The Computer That Draws Paranoid Conspiratorial Connections

Happy 100th birthday to my favorite birthday twin

I finished reading Chokeville by @fireland.com and it was the most entertaining thing I have read in a while; highly recommended

From @adapalmer.bsky.social’s introduction to The Book of the New Sun.

Really sucks that this movie will never get a sequel in large part because they picked a bad release weekend for it

Boss: Did you carve that fire station? Carver: Sure did, boss. Half fuckin French just like you asked.

a tuesday in chicago

Grateful to have had the opportunity to leave Chicago over the weekend to serve as juror for the final review of Graduate Thesis Studio at the University of Miami School of Architecture (and to have an opportunity to check out some great Art Deco on Miami Beach during my downtime!)

Double Rainbow! What a Chicago day!

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: a longtime resident of Cerro Pachón in Chile. While they are not part of the operations team, they are well-adapted to high-altitude environments and very comfortable around world-class astronomy. #astronomy 📷: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Looking up in England

rant that seemed to belong here

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

Happy May Day, Traveller!

Today I drove a car for the first time since I moved back to Chicago in 2015. I didn't die

Meanwhile, at Tumblr... (www.tumblr.com/dduane/81542...)

They'll get zero credit for it from dem voters or the political media, but this is legitimately an astounding political achievement for a US minority party to pull off

Whenever someone says, "I'm *only* going 10 mph over the speed limit" please remind that they're dramatically increasing the chances they'll injure or kill a pedestrian, driver, or even another cyclist. It's not just the speed at impact -- it's that higher speeds also reduce visibility.

Another example of why we can't have nice things. Santa Maria Addolorata Catholic Church at Ohio and Ada in Chicago is in serious danger of being demolished. Built in 1960, the architect was Joseph Bagnuolo. The outside is cool, but it's the interior that makes the thought of demolition ridiculous.

In 1964, when my father was 20 years old, he went to Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer. NPR interviewed us in 2021: www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1...

Allerton Hotel, Chicago (1948) also, the St. Clair Hotel, and the Palmolive Building (with the beacon) Photo: Esther Bubley / Newberry Library

Blocked for heckling at the karaoke bar

Every once in a while I noticed that this condo is still on the market. Wonder why.

What is punk rock, 1931 edition?

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

remember who you are, liberal

For #MosaicMonday the flooded crypt of the Basilica di San Francesco in #Ravenna. The Basilica dates to the 10th century and was built on a 5th century church. Due to Ravenna’s marshland and the subsidence of the ground's surface the crypt is permanently submerged by ... 🧵1/2 🏺 📷 Nicola Strocci

Last night @carnage4life.bsky.social accused me of helping perpetuate negative myths about AI. I hate when people perpetuate negative myths about AI, so this thread will be about the very many real harms committed using AI by Dare's employer Meta. 1/

Mods are asleep, post creepy hardware from lumber baron mansions

Today's #RepostYourArt theme is #mushroom! This is probably my favorite mushroom-themed drawing I've done. The mushrooms are a play on ink caps, that most dramatic of fungi...