Not sure why (and as a metaphor for corruption it is WAY too on the nose) but I find the whole reflection pool fiasco just ... endlessly amusing Okay, not to waterfowl...

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

Day 3: Pulp - Sunrise (2001) Pulp. And a choir. And an orchestra. And Richard Hawley on lap steel. And Scott Walker producing. And Peter Saville on design duties. Were we dreaming?! song.link/y/fx3wNADacjg #THEN0UGHTIE5

This tremendous Roman statuette of a hippopotamus is made from a single piece of red marble which eggheads have determined was quarried at Cape Tainaron in the Peloponnese. Those gaping jaws, sharp teeth & aggressive pose portray a dangerous animal. 🏛️📷 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 🇩🇰

www.theguardian.com/science/2026... Prof. Breuil also documented and published the Paleolithic parietal art rediscovered in 1905 at the Pileta caves in Benajoan, Andalucia. The Pileta images, which date back between 15,000 and 30,000 yrs are also marked throughout by 'counting lines'.

On this day, 47 years ago, David Bowie released his album Lodger in 1979

Being wrong 54% of the time is technology that simply doesn't work. This isn't an "error." This isn't an "oopsie." This is failure on the level of election interference. LLMs are language pattern matching machines. Stop using them.

Elswick Kids, Newcastle, 1978, photo by Tish Murtha.

Built when Bede was a baby. Light and shade at the Anglo-Saxon church at Escomb in the Wear Valley which was built around 675AD. It is thought to be one of the most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in England.

Under a crescent moon, two cats fraternize on the rooftop. Below them is the shadow of two people conversing behind the translucent sliding screen. The marginal text comments that “there’s no difference between high love and low love” (Japanese postcard, 1908)

Bit of Saturday reading… I wrote about the evil eye belief in Ireland. Imagine a world where envy crept around like a living thing and caused destruction. And where the superpower that stopped it was generally wielded by old women open.substack.com/pub/medieval...

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

German Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz, the creator of the “Sylvia” comic strip Nicole Hollander, and the arts patron behind SFMOMA Doris Fisher are among those we lost in the art community this week.

A pneumatic goblet designed by Ismail al-Jazari in the 13th century. When the goblet is filled with wine, the duck on top begins to scream and rotate before stopping with its beak pointed at a random partygoer. It doesn't stop screaming until the chosen person has drained the goblet completely.

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

Maitland was born with a pronounced spinal curve which, as he became older, made it increasingly difficult to move. Most of his later paintings, like this one, are either windows views from his Chelsea home or views of the Embankment and Kensington.

'Kensington Palace from the Park,' was painted around 1905, such a beautiful vignette of early Edwardian England; painting the London parks preoccupied Paul Maitland for the last decade and half of his career.

Mom won't stop comparing him to his cousin at Notre Dame ...😆

📰 Roman cup depicting Hadrian's Wall found in Spain may have been a souvenir of a soldier's time stationed on the frontier. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

The Isle of Man from St Bees, 1945, painting by Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981).

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of a Poltergeist

In 1920, Sir John Lavery painted one of his most abstract compositions. 'The White Boats' was painted on a precipitous path from La Turbie, near Monaco. Fringed by limestone rocks, the calm surface of the water had him reaching for his deepest cobalt.

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

I thought this felt relatable

In 1953, cartoonist and animator Paul Campani invented the iconic “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) for the equally iconic Bialetti Moka pot. The character is a caricature of Renato Bialetti, son of founder Alfredo Bialetti

Scottish artist Elizabeth Keith’s woodblock print of a famous teahouse in Shanghai ~ a “two-story pavilion with sweeping eaves and red lattice windows built over the water on timber piles”, created in 1924 in Japanese shin-hanga style www.villageantiques.ch/tea-house-sh...

Oh WOW!

The De Vargas Street House in Santa Fe, New Mexico is known as the Oldest House in the United States. The building is constructed of adobe bricks on top of foundations dating back to approximately 1200 CE. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld #History #Travel #NM #Photography

True art lover. #grickledoodle #vampire #farmersmarket #cartoon #horror #art #drawing #funny #humor

We need more historians and art historians because examining past written, oral, visual, and material evidence, interpreting these sources and writing about them allow us to understand and transform our present and build a better future in which beauty and peace are valued. @acls1919.bsky.social

It’s time for a hard reset.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026... 'The oldest is that of a Punic era ship dating to the fifth century BC, while other finds include 23 Roman ships, two late Roman ships, four medieval ships and 24 vessels from the early modern period.'

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

Midcentury Modernism repeats itself, the first time as utopia, the second time mundane

Good morning and goddamn it's a beautiful day iandunt.substack.com/p/orban-defe...

This is wonderful.

Want Heaven or Las Vegas playing at my funeral... and my next wedding www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

After about 7 years of being hidden behind scaffolding and netting, the Flatiron Building is finally showing its facade again seen during sunset in New York City, Wednesday evening #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #sunset #flatironbuilding

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Online reactions to Rosso Fiorentino's recently discovered work might be channeling the very essence of the stylized art movement 500 years on.

"...a digestive tract that reads like Ulysses" 😆

The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026

🚨 NHS England is rolling out Palantir software for our health records - handing huge power to a US firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses. Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty. myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...

If you haven't heard of Mr Kellett's current Monster series, you gotta get on this Also, dogs.

the rat's out the bag

One of the best cartoons in ages! Thank you, Bill Bramhall. #NYDN