Happy Pride everyone here is a fantastic poster featuring Patti LaBelle as a spokesperson for the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC). Her national public health campaign, launched in 1987, was called "Live Long, Sugar" LIVE LONG, SUGAR. I love you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Sleeping Shepherdess by Franz Marc, 1912 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137604

I had a really shitty weekend and would like a do-over! Universe! Rewind the tape at once!

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Can we get a “Hell yeah Keith David”

Kenichi Nakaya

Last two summers I’ve stared out at these irises and watched them bloom, wither and die and only now did it occur to me that I could…pick some? And put them in a vase. So I can look at them inside too.

Goddamn

#OwlishMonday Great newspaper stories of yore....

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

training a southern giant pouched rat to detect AI

Working over a holiday weekend is fine when you have a cat who is always just a little bit in the way

The irises are coming in

Morbid millinery for #WorldGothDay #ForteanFriday A Skull for a Bonnet: 1896 mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/a...

Whisps of Light Nicki Ault 2025

Ah sweating immediately after getting out of the shower how I did not miss you

Baby’s first mammogram today

Hi have you heard the good news about what I’ll do to you after we mate

I didn’t know Melville was a zoomer

Sheep Dipping in Wales, by Agnes Miller Parker Scottish, 1895-1980 1927 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/5586

When your research fills a gap in the literature >>>>

10,000 Maniacs, Sting’s solo material, Sade, and Tracy Chapman

I saw my cousins today

Grandma’s 100th birthday party is tomorrow! She was in the hospital last week with an infection in her foot and the doctors were threatening to amputate so she willed herself to rally and now here we are

I have my issues with Simon, but that's one of the best opening lines by anybody. (National is a late 20s/early 30s brand of steel bodied resonator guitars near ubiquitous in Delta blues, particularly for slide - for context, it's the guitar in Sinners)

Preston Singletary, Tlingit (1963- ), Raven Steals the Sun, blown, cast, and sandblasted glass, 19 x6x6 in, wood mold for the Sun by David Franklin, American (1972- ), private collection

I stopped HBC for some unpleasant body reasons and when I got my first period in literal years this morning I found myself embarrassingly, entirely, and hilariously unprepared

Bruce likes what he likes and what he doesn’t like? Well that’s not so bad. Could be worse.

I need you like I need a hole in my head I need a hole in my head How else could I sing? open.spotify.com/track/2KvOid...

God I love this picture of my mom. You just know my dad said some goofy bullshit right before he took the photo

Garry Winogrand, From the series ‘The Animals, ca. 1963

Good afternoon from the Turkish restaurant near my mom’s place that does not fuck around about their house made lavash bread

every night since I turned 40

A creature void of form, if you will

garlic kitten is not real it cannot hurt you garlic kitten 🧄:

Ngl he’s a little stinky

Thinking about how Gabriel Rossetti exhumed Elizabeth Siddal’s grave to retrieve the handwritten poetry he buried with her so he could get it published

I think it’s good practice to stay away from mouse poop if at all possible but yeah hantavirus is not a massive threat

I saved this to watch on a night much like tonight and it is NOT disappointing

I had a very long and tedious day that mostly felt like a waste of a perfectly good Saturday but I had bahn mi for dinner and now I have a catfriend so that’s nice

Dispatches from the Bridgewater Triangle

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Organizers of the local May Day rally undermine the cause by using AI to design their poster

I went to bed an hour earlier than usual last night and I feel more alert (?) productive (??) and I’m generally in a better mood (???) I’m sorry I don’t understand

Moon thoughts