my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

Subtitle: An Excavation of the Iliad

doing more exercises from “how to draw cute woodland friends” and made a small awoo

Heraclitus was inspired by an ancient Greek decorative theme known as ‘unswept floor’ (asàrotos òikos). He created this mosaic, seemingly covered with scraps of food from a banquet, for the dining room of a villa on the Aventine Hill in Rome. Read more: understandingrome.substack.com/p/the-unswep...

Mesmerizing lake ice. Sound on for the full effect 🌿

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Anna Blackburn, C18th.

🖼️ Hares, Martin Truefitt-Baker.

Fabulous - but slightly creepy? - Syrian glass ointment jar, made c400-550CE. Someone had a lot of fun making this one! (📷mine, at the V&A, London.)

I think the ancient Romans would consider a Black Vulture sharing one’s plunge pool as a bad omen. 😳

A flotilla of autumnal leaves ...

my Edmund Fitzgerald was a Great Lakes freighter for 17 years. i walked with her load of iron ore, twenty-six thousand tons more than she weighed empty. you wouldn't survive 3 seconds in her vagina when the gales of November come early. i miss her terribly.

Evening. 🖼️ Astrid Sheckels

Golden late afternoon sky yesterday over Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California. #sunset #sky #nature #eastcoastkin

mood

if there's any MN politics knowers out there, any preferences between current declared DFL candidates, Angie Craig & Peggy Flanagan? (latter sounds like character in a John Synge play, which is good as far as it goes but...)

You’ve given me a second chance, the artist in the hambulance

Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, Death's great black wing scrapes the air, Misery gnaws to the bone. Why then do we not despair? By day, from the surrounding woods, cherries blow summer into town; at night the deep transparent skies glitter with new galaxies. Anna Akhmatova Tr. S Kunitz...

Fog at the creek again today. Making fall look extra good 🌿

Aleya. #UglyDogs

Sorry to stop by with some joy, I'm pretty anxious myself too, but luckily I found the ducks I was looking for. Backlit which can be better for editing later on. Just some quick edits. 🪶

Book Cover of the Day:

Wood Frog, Matt Patterson.

L'arbre de vie, Séraphine de Senlis, 1928.

🖼️ Autumn Afternoon, Thomas Little.

Huzzah!

'A black cat, without a single white hair, is a witch of the sort that brings luck to the house.' -Samuel Adams Drake 🎨Denise Warren

Sometimes you have to embrace the windy days with a little intentional camera movement (not much other choice tbh!). Winter grasses on the dunes at Stokksnes #Iceland #ICM #Abstract

And some more crashing waves! Vík beach, #Iceland

(places a loaf of bread in the middle of the wrestling ring) you've seen the sourdough starter. (climbs up to the top rope) now it's time for the SOURDOUGH FINISHER

Probably have to go with 7 Second Love Affair (Robert Abel, 1965, w/ Les Blank dir. of photography). Gripping hour long doc on drag race drivers/mechanics/afficionados Honorable mention, The Little Hours (Jeff Baena (RIP), 2017), and Life Is Cheap But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (Wayne Wang, 1989)

mamdani is an anagram for i, madman

George Cruikshank, 1909.

Absolutely mad waves out today (and the wind is quite fierce 😬). Vík beach, #Iceland

Good morning! River view at sunrise, by some very talented follower of Aert van der Neer, whose day is today.

With the full moon starting to wane, you can help to keep the light shining on the Witches of Flanders by supporting our Kickstarter. We are nearly there! 🖤🧹🐈‍⬛ kck.st/492NqKt

cleep clit

"The next enclosure features the Western Lowlife Gorilla." "You mean Western Lowland Gorilla?" "No."

Very well done: world history from west to east and from 4000 BCE to 2000 AD. Interesting!

Four dogs who thought their afternoon hike had been vetoed only to discover there were enough votes for an override.*

Seems like in this configuration they could actually fit a 6th. This is by choice. There are copious (extra, empty) beds and lots of blankets.

I needed this today and I thought that you might too. Drusilla's (zoo) isn't on here, and I know that Insta links can be hit or miss for some people, so I have downloaded and uploaded for you all, because everyone deserves a bintlet video. Mwah 😘 #UglyDogs

There are angels hovering round: sacristy of S. Marco, Basilica of the Santa Casa, Loreto. Painted in 1477 by Melozzo da Forli, angel man, whose day is today.

Phoenix and River, sweetest ladies

I wouldn't think bears can just float like that. Interesting!

Just feed people, you ghoul.

Marc Chagall, The Blue Bird

Wood Interior, Emily Carr, 1909.