Spiegelman has always had a lot of insight into his own art, and it really comes through in the Maus, from the 'Prisoner on Hell Planet' sequence to the self-reflexive opening of Part II. I know it's one of the most acclaimed books of all time but it still amazes me how deep it is

he has so much hope in his eyes

the buzz they want now runs on tokens per day

one of the best Sophie photographs

the more i read about people having their subjective experience overhauled by genAI the more tempting it is to see my own developmental problems in the context of the sweeping technological transformations of the 2010s

really weird and as always this feels to me like a (significant) expansion of harmful psychic effects that tech has had on us for decades

🎶 welcome to the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 checkout with the clerk 🎶 that's how hotels work 🎶 plenty of room at the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 we won't keep you here 🎶 that's a crazy fear

“Details are still sketchy, but we think the name of the bird sucked into the jet’s engines was Harold Meeker.”

Happy birthday John Adams 🎂 📷 Jack Vartoogian, 1987 "The days when his embrace of bright tonality & luscious symphonic textures chafed against the aesthetics of a modernist mainstream are gone, along with the very notion of a mainstream." - Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

Today, despite everything, many peoples will attain merit

dinner with a valentine, licks from the cat 🥰

i personally think valentines is a scam, but love isn’t. happy lovers day

a person has to take more than a few on the chin in life to kind of level out enough. enough for what exactly, im not sure. but you can tell pretty quickly when that hasnt happened to somebody, or when they learned all the wrong lessons from what did happen

legend tells of a bus that runs this way.. but you can't believe everything you hear

I think about this all the time

eavesdropping on s guy carrying a giant bouquet of flowers (obscuring his vision) on the phone with someone: "how you stressing on the day of love homie?"

while you were studying the blade, i went to the store

social media has given me what I always wanted.. my own curated funny pages

Someone for everyone

Nancy 2/14/26 — Valentine’s Date 💘

dreamt that I drove up to this frat house in my hometown and killed one of the boys on the lawn. I got away but weeks later I was doing a guest spot at a college radio station and two of the eyewitnesses were in the studio. I was so afraid that I kept messing up the words to my songs

british babes interactive, print ad, excerpt (1996) archive.org/details/cdro...

I'm extremely cryptic in conversation, say weird things for attention and frequently communicate through jokes or allusions that come off like tests

frantically cleaning up for company but it's just making the apartment minimally acceptable for human life

my granddad adored this record. took me a long time to appreciate it. wish we could listen to it now youtu.be/Az4SnX521pI?...

This is a great observation. There's this push from the tech bro class to expand AI into porn and, I guess kind of the escort role with AI girlfriends, often at the expense and exploitation of flesh-and-blood sex workers. Lust for control and domination.

the idea of eating in the grocery store seems almost obscene.. as if we're not supposed to acknowledge why we buy the food

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Warhol talking about the masculine codes of Abstract Expressionism: 'The art world sure was different in those days. I tried to imagine myself in a bar striding over to, say, Roy Lichtenstein and asking him to "step outside" because I'd heard he insulted my soup cans.'

Love this Pokemon card art of Excadrill on a union break with human colleagues in a mine.

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

The real story here isn't Olympians being too horny. It's that the condom allotment was only two per athlete for the whole two weeks!! By comparison, athletes in Paris in 2024 were given 60! Since when did the Italians become such prudes??

It's Friday. Here's Why That May Be A Good Thing - The Atlantic

Steph: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Tweets

building a supplements regiment just so I can eat bigger helpings of gummies

imagining a Billy Bragg song like 'it's hard to have a proper piss / when you haven't got a pot'

You can tell when my posting juice has been depleted because I just start saying biographical information on here. I bite off more than I can chew at work, we find out the car needs a new transmission, and I get on here and say like, “One time my civics teacher said that pussy rules the world.”

just gently closed a refrigerator door #antifa

the art world? you mean Bob-omb Battlefield?

The reason this guy has so much trouble answering this question, compared to Southern politicians in the Jim Crow south or someone like Nick Fuentes, is that he's not willing to use the same language he uses in the group chat to express himself in a public forum like a Senate hearing.

to disrupt the projection of a harmonious world by remembering its murdered victims is a deeply moral act apnews.com/article/hera...

Gary Larsen's talking animals really distinguish themselves by their old-timey mannerisms, evoking the sociality of a country club

“Two questions, Mitch: How much do you weigh, and what’s the most sensitive part of any elephant’s anatomy?”

guy who doesn't know what classical music is and always just thinks it's someone's ringtone going off

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

among the greatest opening lines. 'when I was just seventeen, sex no longer held a mystery / I saw it as a commodity to be bought and sold, like rock and roll' youtu.be/uTXq_2BRz6c?...