Happy Pride Month

sports cheers are all partisan. don't stadiums have any neutral options? "may the better team win", "let's have a good, clean game": chants of this nature?

See ya

took this three times and got three results, all of which surprised and confounded me a little. I think the society reimagined here didn't really include my experience of art. in the end, the first result seems truest:

Walter Sickert's 'Noctes Ambrosianae,' (1906) holds a pun. Ambrosian Nights: ambrosia is the food of the gods; 'the gods' is the nickname for a theatre's gallery, the high place where the cheap tickets are, where the impecunious, sit.

happy belated six seven 🤷‍♀️ to all who celebrate 🌈

I'm adopting "it's too soon to tell" as my answer to all airport book questions about Big History and human development

So are they doing this in an attempt to stage a scene of chaos in NYC before the midterms? Is that what this is?

Everything on TikTok hits so hard if you have literally never thought about the topic before and will never think about it again.

cockney rhyming slang is great but have you ever heard pittsburgh rhyming slang? take the bill cowher - take a shower fries on a salad - a beautiful ballad yinz - epic wins.

THE ZEIT ZEIGER (2026-06-05)

on today, 6/7, think kindly of your 26 year old friends who are enjoying the last meme they will fully understand

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

Dave Thomas.. lowkey one of the greatest punk vocalists youtu.be/91KBuWqxE7g?...

I like my HR department. they do good work under a lot of pressure. sometimes there are issues with my timesheet but they always get worked out. I'm not sure how much they'd have my back if i was being harassed, but I feel better knowing I have the option to turn to them

a porno spoof movie called ‘The Urge’, where sex is allowed for one day only a year

I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this

shopping downtown makes you feel you're the victim of a vast conspiracy to remove big women from city life

playing 'Lola' in the thrift store feels targeted

the situationists believed that the capitalist subject could resist the effects of the spectacle through 'psychogeography' — a form of mindfulness

everyone's a flaneur til they have to walk through a crowd

auspicious ad for a new business — 'WEED THE PEOPLE: UNITED WE BLAZE'

reading Negative Dialectics in English is pretty much hopeless. the E.B. Ashton translation is highly distorted and gets the philosophical terminology completely wrong ('barter' in place of 'exchange' only the worst example). yet Dennis Redmond's translation, though more faithful, is unreadable

'Just as no theater director would dare to play Hebbel's Gyges before an audience whose ladies will not give up their bikinis... one day, if man does work its way out, the same fate will overtake everything which today counts as life and merely fools us about how little life there is.'

fried a bunch of leftover lentils in a pan with a beaten egg, threw the resultant patty into a toasted pita with hummus, onion and beets. said to myself 'this could be the most outrageous pile of slop ever or it could be straight fire.' ladies, it was fire

'No longer able to decide where to eat, I bought a carton of chips at McDonald's, where I felt like a criminal wanted worldwide as I stood at the brightly lit counter, and ate them as I walked back to my hotel.'

i really do think they believe that because they're "good" on policy that they don't owe people anything on a human level, and if you're a woman who believes in the same policies but also understands the capacity even "good" men have to be cruel then you're weak

actually it's bad when men are unrepentant imperialist murderers and have nazi tattoos and abuse women and post on reddit

Artists rarely paint views from studios other than their own. In this work from 1807 by the German landscape painter Carl Ludwig Kaaz the view through an open window, without any figures was rare for an oil painting at the time.

have you ever noticed you were sitting in an uncomfortable position and not been sure how long? or that sunset was hours ago and you were sitting in the dark? now imagine noticing that you've always been against this or against that, that that was who you were, saying no in so many ways to life 🌈

Mort de Marjane Satrapi : Pénélope Bagieu nous parle de l’importance de « Persepolis » dans le monde de la BD

nice to find myself involuntarily exclaiming things like 'frick', 'freaking', 'dang it' — innocence regained..

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

H151.9 Abandoned child joins parents in game: recognition follows.

"The parable of the 1917 readymade is that context permits “things” to be legible as art... So what does it mean that MoMA works so hard to avoid establishing a context—art-historical, sociopolitical, theoretical—for his oeuvre?" enjoyed this read www.artforum.com/events/marce...

perfect song. may this friday compare youtu.be/nxNToLBSQAM?...

now i can post this video directly on here

[big bopper voice] This is the Big Bopper speakin' Hahahah, what do you mean? Wait, what? I don't understand That can't be 🎵 Forgotten race, from out of space 🎶 🎶 With vestigial tails, a god who drowned 🎵 🎵 That shamble in the walk 🎶 🎶 And shudder when they talk 🎵 🎵 They haunt the whole dang town 🎶

i tell this story a lot. but twitter ended for me the day that the manufactured folk singer Oliver Anthony went viral for his song 'Rich Men North of Richmond'. I felt as though I was seeing my demonic mirror image: a poser using folk music to deceive, manipulate, and glorify the white man

random elder library patron at the trans studies event: 'most of my trans friends are conservative.' where are these girls?

dropping a link for non-subscribers. thought this was really a great picture of a dark moment share.inquirer.com/x4Nf3j

"As Trump's popularity hits epic lows," Will Bunch writes, "his MAGA movement gets more openly racist and hostile to democracy."

some fleshy drawings I liked

there are only six figures with entire wikipedia articles specifically devoted to their status as a gay icon

she's right. let's all lay down.

happenings around town

GEHLEN: Mr. Adorno... Do you really believe that the burden of fundamental problems, of extensive reflection, of errors in life that have profound and continuing effects... Do you really believe one ought to expect everyone to go through this? ... ADORNO: I can give you a simple answer: Yes!