i really thought dc was in the clear from the bulk of the smoke. apparently i really thought wrong.

part of the reason it feels so bad to live in the US these days is that the trump guys have basically made the whole country into a red state. this is what that lack of governance feels like: diarrhea outbreak

i'm sorry this is too good. 'he has never ONCE been mistaken for the maroon 5 frontman, how dare you" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/a...

screaming "fixed in a tangible medium of expression" over and over again like it's the rifleman's creed

Alex, I'll take "things that never happened" for 500

turning on some ambient background viewing while I work (I found Matthew Barney's Cremaster 1 on Youtube)

turns out a week off does not actually make me any less tired who knew!

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

banging my head against the wall because they're putting this on view a week *after* i was there.

had a dream where i got roasted by the firemen pulling me out of smoldering wreckage because i accidentally called the thing the "laws of jife"

WHO introduced my mom to streamers? all week she was watching world cup matches on tv while also watching a guy do live commentary on her phone. what sick and twisted person showed her this.

if you are using chat gpt to source things for your newsletter, you should probably adjust the utm codes in the links so your audience doesn't notice how little you care! every time I see this fucking code i groan.

world has me feeling like him lately

playing another round of "artist's estate/foundation tries to memory hole or water down the artist's very real struggles with mental health and their subsequent impact on the artist's life & career" whose interests are being served when you do this? because it doesn't seem like it's the artist's!

just watched a woman ask the airport dunkin employee to make her “the usual”, to which the employee replied “um, sorry, remind me who you are…?” full body chills

7:45 flight delayed until noon after sitting on the tarmac for 30 min. but i’m not mad bc being awake at 5 meant I got to see the earliest, meanest jokes, and that’s all I really needed.

you may have missed the 3 am news when it dropped but if you’re in line to dunk, stay in line.

this belongs in the ‘superhero artwork’ pantheon with Pope.L and Dara Birnbaum

yeah i'm a collector. of neuroses.

oh i also got to see the funniest early frankenthaler and my favorite mid-career frankenthaler in louisville

made it, big ups to eric, quite cool to see him deploy materials again in new contexts. & really big ups to sam gilliam for making this all possible, in several ways. if you're in louisville (or like me, ohio), you should venture on over to the speed.

the news about Cultured Mag is really just confirming my priors in a great way. I'm glad I was not the only one who saw some potential conflicts of interest and in-dealing behind their strategy of 'collaborate with galleries as much as possible, blur the line between criticism and PR'

whenever i’m in Columbus i can’t help but think about the Pace outpost that was here for like 20 years from ‘65 on. the elder Glimcher’s mom was just hangin out in Ohio and selling art to who the fuck knows. not sure it was their most profitable satellite space.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social

springfield (ohio) has a very small but very cute little art museum [i would argue more of a regional/community art center, but i digress] which i had somehow never been to. shout out to their '75 years of Haitian metalwork' survey on right now.

In Puerto Rico we call this “negocio redondo.” The company that develops the AI detector also sells you the “humanizer.” They make money both ways.

Sometimes if people want to get hit by lightning you just let them

everything about this is funny except "African American Museum", of course they don't care enough to know the name of the place

i have so many complicated thoughts about this image! instrumentalizing a Black DC resident to make a visual/rhetorical point. playing up the banality of the logistics of fascism. a direct appeal to our collective visual memory of slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the Civil Rights struggle.

ohio update: the firing range is very much open for the 4th if their full parking lot is any indication, as is the vape store next door. community anchor institutions.

lugged these all the way here for the long weekend

sitting in ohio reading this and all i can do is laugh. 'marfa of the midwest' good try i guess! www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/01/c...

We are roughly a month from entering year 2 of 700,000 Americans living under an illegal military occupation. In that time, their city landmarks have been decimated. Troops monitor their daily lives. And now, a few days of borderline noise torture followed by brutal air pollution. End it now.

me trying to convince my parents to let me skip mass at 10 years old

two dumb bitches telling each other “welllllll not exactly”

fucking boooooooo. this street needs and deserves better protection for bikers and pedestrians, not another ineffective white line that every delivery truck, suburb visitor, and rideshare driver will inevitably ignore.

'thin blue line' oh you mean smurf roadkill?

dc may be hot and sticky and soul crushing in the summer, but it's also expensive as hell.

every time i open the weather app my eyes start twitching a little more

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

my catholic is showing again but i really did find the de kooning crucifixion works quite moving even just as an exercise in iteration

another copyright review board classic: the Golden Globes statuette is a derivative work based on the old statuette (originally made 1952), which was itself a derivative work of *previous* statuettes. so no, HFPA cannot claim copyright over the 2018 statuette. www.copyright.gov/rulings-fili...

girl, leave him. like come on lmao.

did you know they wanted to put an airport in the middle of the anacostia river?? i did not know this! (kingman island is now occupied by part of the langston golf course on the upper half, and park/recreation space on the lower half)

I got in bed at 7pm and woke up at 7am. this is the way.

conference is over so i can post this on main but huge shout out to the maintenance worker who created this composition before attendees arrived

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...