hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover, And Grogu

Happy Birthday to Pet Sounds and Blonde on Blonde (which I have listened to 7000000000 times), released this day in 1966. youtu.be/sYwqrod154Q?...

Porch philosophies #caturday

here's to Robert Fripp at 80! his "Wimshurst" solo on Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" is one of the loveliest, most dazzling things he ever recorded. when i'm low, it never fails to lighten my spirits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKc...

the spectrum of Fripp's looks in the 70s alone, from "theory hippie" to "guy who likes to rap to his friends about Orgone therapy" to "Sapphire and Steel"

If you like libraries, please send a few bucks to support this librarian. bsky.app/profile/viol...

Enjoyed this sign while touring the Michigan State University Library backrooms. 🪄📚

I was not expecting this many Boxcar Children entries, but I guess they did solve a lot of mysteries www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

The Ecstasy of St Paul, by Nicolas Poussin, 1650, 📸 by @jaethephotog

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

did you hear about the horrifying thing that youre powerless to do anything about

For a movie that’s 36 years old, Dick Tracy’s make up & prosthetic artists did a fantastic job on the outlandish Dick Tracy villains that still holds up.

It’s very queer.

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Another day working at the Pearl Harbor Memorial. The FBI director keeps asking me if he can snorkel the graves. Buddy, they don’t even let me…oh wait he’s putting on fins

thinking of having business cards printed that read "I have lost the slight fancy that sustained me"

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

This is anti-Yosemitism

Rawbraining it

I'm sorry what? RFK Jr's vape spokesman is named Rich Danker ??? why am I trapped in a Thomas Pynchon novel www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Relationship Goals: dawdling about in a way not endurable to a third person 🛁

This just in

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Moore's Law of Mad Science states that every 18 months the minimum IQ required to destroy the world decreases by 1 point.

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

Sorry but if you want to have political influence you need to get out of your left-wing bubble on Bluesky and start converting eight year olds to Marxism on Roblox

Literacy is essential, actually. And we should be doing all that we can in our own ways to improve and to increase literacy. This is simply not controversial. It really is not. Let's fight about other things.

The feral nephew as synechdoche. 🛁

CONNECT THE DOTS, PEOPLE. Dick Musgrove faked his death to be rid of his family, took the name Bulkington and sailed for decades of blissful drama free whaling until the last voyage of the Pequod. 🐋🛁

Not a public library on the planet, certainly not in Arkansas, that includes "sexually explicit" materials for minors. Not one. Pocket change is all most public institutions have left, libraries too. They are coming for our very last dime.

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Arkansas wants to develop a policy that ties library funding to whether or not they have "sexually explicit" materials for minors. You have until June 7 to submit your thoughts if you're in the state. This is going the Alabama defunding-libraries route. arkansasadvocate.com/2026/05/08/p...

🧡 Good hunting this week! 🧡

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Villain, I have done thy mother.

the thing i find most fascinating about this, from a zoologist’s perspective, is that larger scrota in species correlate highly to sperm competition—that is, to use a manisphere fear, cuckoldry. small scrota correlate with assured paternity. big balls are for insecure males. can’t see gorilla balls!

Hot take: the long dominance of British naval power was due in part to Britain's innovations in identifying generations of men too "stupid and unmanageable on shore" 🛀

We can only send him back to the 5th Dimension if we trick him into saying it backwards.

I finally visited Ripped Bodice, the incredible romance bookstore in Brooklyn, and it was a feast for the eyes and mind, but this sign especially 🌷💃🏼👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌸🧞‍♀️💘🧚🏾‍♀️