Image getting etch-a-sketched by the wind

Irish placenames with ‘town’ as suffix

#Cardinal at the bird feeder, again. #birds #BirdSky

I like this photo so much (crowds reading fliers in the street, Berlin Jan. 1919) I bought a print, but I still prefer the version torn out of the newspaper

Noah in Genesis 5:31 be like:

oooh, yes it is

I do not follow Norm for some reason, so this checks out

The neat part about this blanket prohibition on targeting civilians is you don’t have to spend any time worrying about whether a person shares your politics, religion, income bracket, sexual orientation, gender identity, or skin color. It’s just wrong! Every time!

Brandolini's law is applicable to everything right now in academia: from student essays to peer reviews. The goal of "AI" companies is to get us burnt out and churnt out. Most universities are complicit with this.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

One of the delightful pieces of research I came across while writing IMMORTAL GESTURES was on dog gestures from antiquity. In Greek art, we can see dogs from many centuries ago doing *this exact pose*: looking back to check whether everything's okay, making sure they can keep going.

How it started, how it's going.

Acts I’ve seen at BotH: -Chip Taylor (was co-headlining/duetting w/ another musician whose name I forget) -Polkacide I think that’s it

Macbeth on stage at the Guthrie Theater. Minneapolis, Saturday March 14 2026 Main thing: I loved it, I love Macbeth and it was such a treat to get to see it staged (🧵 gonna be several..only about 1 page if printed)

paul tibbets, the pilot who dropped the first first atomic bomb on japan, went on a speaking tour after he retired. his biggest message was if americans ever experienced at home, the destruction we caused abroad, there would never be another war. our insulation is critical to protect the war machine

One way in which Israeli settler colonialism very closely matches that of North America's is the way in which the "frontier-settler" has a de facto alliance with the army. The army allows settler violence to happen and in many cases actively supports it, without official policy needing to say so.

My large mutant son Snaxon just ordered a hamburger and chicken nuggets at La Tour d'Argent and the waiter shot him with a tranquilizer dart and sold him to the circus

startling mini-genre of God the father as painter working away on the image of the Virgen of Guadalupe

Theme of the day is bad photos of distant birds, taken with iphone's limited zoom. Turkeys fleeing the interview at left, bald eagle way up in tree at right

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

all the more reason they need to get deep into the whiskey

Deeply aggravating Facebook lost a trillion dollars pushing Zuckerberg's horseshit garbage idea and its abject and total failure has had zero effect on his wealth and power

Dune the Right Thing

A cute little clay sheep from a suburb (known today as Diqdiqqah) of ancient Ur

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

hope so

Buttercups And Forget Me Nots On A Forest Floor, Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800-1856).

John Carpenter worthy material here

Cute lamb & kid photos at the link, even if you don't read Icelandic. Or you could try google translate

hell yeah

took all of 3 seconds

Amplifying this recommendation for my vast audience: Buy & read Josh's book, it is very good

CLAUDE LORRAIN (1604–1682, born in Chamagne, died in Rome) Harbour Scene at Sunset, 1643 (Image from wga.hu; Painting at www.rct.uk/collection/s...)

The #birdoftheday theme today is #grounded — any bird on natural ground. Usambiro Barbet, Tanzania 2018 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Barbets #Africa #Tanzania

Landscape-inspired textile art, using hand-dyed fabric, stitching and mixed media by UK textile artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt

𝚃𝚘 𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌, 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍; 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚜 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚍, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎. - 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜

Beauty crowds me till I die Emily Dickinson Museum Poem of the Week #poetrysunday +3

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Adding to this thread: it’s a common mistake (I’ve made it myself, many times) to think of the motivations of the capitalist elites as essentially mercantilist: that is, that they are largely still motivated *entirely* by profit and loss, selling product, etc. This has not been true for a while.

this is also the Universal Alf Hog and Pagliacci Joke Appreciation App

If this looney toons dumbass fooled American leadership it is simply because they wanted to be fooled

Anyway, "Kill someone with your car and you'll never drive again" is a message that would have immense benefit to society.

Happy Ostara and wishing us all a Spring of blooming hope and cloud-soft kindness. 🖼️ Spring, Romaine Brooks.