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The two best backyard barbecue guys on their block in Kenosha, WI: Smokin’ Meated Rivalry

The two leading interior decorators in a Dallas exurb: Love-Seated Rivalry.

Two competing shotputters, long at odds, discover they’re better together: Yeeted Rivalry

A messy breakup and a new romance complicates a bands new album “Rumors” Fleeted Rivalry

Por si alguien no lo sabía, el magnífico catálogo de la exposición dedicada a Maruja Mallo por el Centro Botín y el Reina Sofía se puede descargar gratuitamente en el siguiente enlace: recursos.museoreinasofia.es/Publicacione...

A married couple trying to share the covers in a double bed: Sheeted Rivalry

I (finally) read Scaachi Koul’s “Sucker Punch” and am now (finally) reading Alexander Chee’s “How To Write An Autobiographical Novel” ❤️❤️❤️

Two Yetis in a Slapfight: Bigfeeted Rivalry

9. omg the myriad opportunities to highlight all the lost identities (and practices) of the miners, refiners, and craftspeople who made all these glorious things that are only known by the name of someone who owned it and how fragile and fleeting knowledge and skill can be

I have to do work so just a few more for now 6. how curators/preservationists/historians make the call to restore or not 7. "can you solve the crime" with evidence from the heist 8. other famous jewelry heists in history - not just thefts but like this noble killed the king and took the crown &c

Good morning. The odes to @falconesse.bsky.social must continue as it is her birthday. Lauren, if only one of us was to be bitten by a radioactive spider and given webshooter goo hands, I'd sew your superhero suit. Badly, but I'd do it.

1. how "divine right of kings" was broken in France 2. or globally 3. how royals treated damaged jewels (turn into a blessed/state relic! make into a new thing!) 4. go Isabella Stewart Gardner route and keep all the displays empty except for this damaged crown 5. the human cost of hoarded wealth

Babe, you look great. I can barely tell.

I absolutely understand the museum folks who want it restored but it looks SO cool and provocative and improved tbh in the damaged form that it immediately gives me like seventeen different ideas for making it a special exhibit centerpiece

I learned this hand gesture when I lived in Egypt (for 'gimme a sec') and it was very flummoxing for my Italian-American step-father when I came home, who definitely interpreted it as 'fuck off', even if he knew I didn't mean it that way.

Just a reminder: That*, too, should be grounds for impeachment/removal in normal times. * “That” being some blatantly racist shit—no dogwhistle, just pure nasty evil racism. But it could be any of a thousand things. Trump does something impeachable every day.

For partially defensible reasons I've started reading a 1891 biography/military history of Hannibal by Theodore Ayrault Dodge. "Men today think about the Roman Empire all day." The first 120 pages of this are 80%+ Roman Empire and 0.5% Hannibal. It's not going fast.

Feelings of unsafety profoundly impact how we all move through the city and access opportunity. But a citizen-led app is empowering Indian women to take back their streets—auditing lighting, seating, walkability and visibility—and help planners address these problems systematically. bit.ly/4kl5JhH

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

My standalone Arthurian novel, The Cleaving, is a frankly incredible 73p in ebook this week from Amazon. I explore this familiar story from the perspective of the women involved. It's a chance to try my work without committing to a series. Offer ends Sunday 8th Feb www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B96NL726/

In part because the dog in the illustration looks like my boy Leo, and it part because I’ve been pondering the question of how to travel with Leo to some other part of the world, I read this with great interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/t...

At this point we're going to link externally, because otherwise Bluesky will block this post to most UK accounts. Here are some artworks from within George and Charlotte's lifetime depicting oral performed by a man. masto.ai/@vagina_muse...

The next question we must ask ourselves when seeking to explore whether King George III ate pussy is this: would rug-munching even *occur* to a man in the 18th century? The short answer to this is yes!!!! The Georgians knew all about cunnilingus. It's not like it was invented recently.

The Times Editorial Board, unlike the Times headline writers, doesn’t mince words. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

'Schoonmakers Ibis-hotel krijgen 3,50 euro per kamer, plus restjes ontbijtbuffet' #nieuws

NEW: A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents [VIDEO below] MORE: unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal...

Tarragona: Amfiteatre romà de Tarragona 1/3

About 60 people are already queueing for public courtroom seats ahead of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai's sentencing hearing in his national security case, scheduled for Monday. See also: buff.ly/nsshoMC Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

US police arrested 12 anti-ICE protesters at Columbia University in New York. The demonstrators accuse the university of cooperating with immigration enforcement agents and are demanding the campus be declared a sanctuary.

Since the damn Tea Party which was always about race/racism

Rental assistance hotlines in the state say calls for help have skyrocketed this year. Some callers say they’re not going to work because they’re afraid they’ll be detained by ICE if they leave the house. Others say a family breadwinner was detained, leaving them struggling to pay the bills.

It's grey (again), it's raining (again) and we've run out of biscuits (absolute disaster). We are in need of some red door energy. May this bobby dazzler bring you some much needed oomph to get you through Friday. ❤️

Good morning

🏂 L'Italie ouvre vendredi des JO d'hiver dans un format inédit de sites éparpillés et sous la pression du climat ➡️ u.afp.com/S28B

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

the chess move here is to give him dulles so when we inevitably change it again we can then not have an airport named after one of the dulleses

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

More than 150 cherry trees in On King Street Park in Shek Mun are nearing full bloom, drawing a crowd of flower lovers. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

This guy does similar things for realsies: www.youtube.com/shorts/KMJ36...

I came across this Robin Hood concept art today in a book

Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of the landscape.

Tech is unable to show you what TV and films you might like to watch on the front menu of a streaming service (even though you give away your tastes with every digital interaction) while they’re also insisting that the same tech will be able to make vital everyday decisions for you and your country.

Higher education should be funded by the people who pay the higher rate of income tax. A 3% increase in the higher rate would cover it. Everyone who is a higher earner benefits from the work of graduates directly.

I will promote properly tomorrow, but I wanted to say that it’s so nice to collect all the fun SFF art people put together each week. It genuinely keeps me hopeful for the future of creativity, criticism, and art communities. buttondown.com/intergalacti...

I keep yelling about this every time I see it and I see it A LOT. I yell b/c inaccurate language in headlines irritates me but more especially because: THE BAD GUYS (gender-neutral) ARE PURPOSELY DECEPTIVE IN USING THE TERM "IMMIGRATION"! THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS! STOP FUCKING ENABLING IT!

But also, back then, there was NO Homeland, and Customs did not have Border Patrol. We need to get rid of that too. Abolish ICE, abolish Homeland, return Customs to Treasury and immigration to State, and child the fuck out.

Back in the...I think 1970s through late 80s? The SERVICE part of the INS was the dominant part, so I'd would be all for going back there: an agency that exist to FACILITATE immigration and naturalization, by SERVING those who want to come work (and pay taxes and help build wealth) in the USA.