Bouquet of Anemone and Narcissus from 'Flora's Gems: Or, The Treasures of the Parterre: Twelve Bouquets,' drawn by Louisa Anne Twamley. Text by James Andrews. Published in London by Charles Tilt, 1837. UW-Madison Special Collections. #HerNaturalHistory #botanicalart #flowers

yuri between someone who goes "hmph!" and someone who goes "heh ......"

(it's a footnote, but at one point he describes a Tang dynasty crime boss who had tattoos on one arm that read "Living, I do not fear the city governor" and on the other "Dead, I do not fear the King of Hell" which goes *very* hard)

In the event that tomorrow’s speech is a declaration of further aggression against Venezuela, you should respond in a way that will let you hold your head high years from now, even if it is difficult in the present.

one of the ways that Joe Manchin was very damaging to the Dem party as a whole was the way he'd go on television all the time to talk about how the rest of his party sucked nobody should ever make the mistake of thinking MTG is on their side but "Republican on TV saying Republicans suck" is helpful

I know there's a logical reason for this (I assume Michael Dorn was in this episode, make up takes a long time to put on and take off but clothed don't.) Still, a better story is believing Dorn walked around in Worf makeup when he directed TV, went to the store, picked his kids up from school

long shot here, and a vague idea, but: scholarly folks, do you have any reading suggestions for work looking at conceptions (pop, psych, or phil) of time re: grammatical usage? Things like the present-tense fiction trend, lit discussions as present vs past, dif between simple past & past perfect use

I dunno I think the lord would appreciate a backwards long jump

her shield stops the quick strike, while the slow blade may pass

Wish bsky had polls so I could ask if the active hitboxes are around her hands or her feet

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

when you are interacting with a journalist in a professional capacity you are always on the record unless there is an explicit agreement that you are off the record!

oh look a real unemployment problem

This is not a painting. It is made entirely of wood, its surface flat. A detail from the 15th-century "Studiolo Gubbio", one of the finest examples of intarsia, the masterful art of fitting together pieces of wood to make images: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e...

A guitar riff spontaneously sounded when I read these words, hell yeah

compulsive anti-populists: take a look at the 50% bar and notice what never drops below it.

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

they're coming for Senator Kelly, it looks like

I had two packages of recalled shredded cheese from Walmart so recently ordered two more to replace them. The replacements were the exact same recalled lot numbers - they still had them on the shelves.

Costco has $5 rotisserie grinches

Surely the leadership of her party would come out and make statements of solidarity and follow up with action on this gross abuse of power, right?

Weary of waking up #ELDENRING #Thiollier

the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

The Southerner I most admire is Dr. Richard Swinney, an emergency physician who hunts wild boar in medieval garb, and then writes academic papers about it. www.arms-n-armor.com/blogs/news/a...

Secular dark romantasy: enemies-to-lovers with the brooding prince of the fae who have enslaved humanity Christian dark romantasy: falling in love with a Catholic

U.S. fury at the ICC for daring accuse Israeli politicians of things they essentially admitted to is really unhinged

🌊The Angler's Bride🌊 My heart is a sunken altar. There, I thrive. There, I keep a ledger of bones. The deep remembers what the surface forgets.

matt yglesias, hakeem jeffries, and keir starmer walk into a bar www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

I for one would not choose this hill to die on for a man whose own actions, defended here!, suggest he has long since lost any interest in opposition to oligarchy, instead enjoying the highest pinnacles of corrupted access. His presence is the co-option! Reason enough to have turned away. Oops!

if working for ICE is getting you serious pushback in a Kansas City church that I'm guessing is unlikely to be a particularly liberal one, you're losing.

holy shit

Do you think, in his heart of hearts, he knows that while his death will certainly be covered by TV news & breaking alerts, people will learn about it when they see neighbors spontaneously celebrating, hooting and hollering in the streets, spreading good cheer and pouring each other popped champagne

carbonara is just Italian egg on rice send tweet

4/4 But of course it *was* a lie all along. Our elite universities have never been the leftist bubbles of the conservative fever dream. It's a shame that his time at Harvard didn't open Holcomb's mind quite enough that he could even imagine that possibility.

guy whose response to "who are you gonna believe, this here vast propaganda machine or your lying eyes" is "both, please"

it's good that people who work for ICE are being ostracized by their communities and confronted at their churches. that's actually what living in a society is

the other thing that strikes me about dreher’s take — and related ones — is that they depend on the conceit that political history began, at most, 10 years ago.

I could use some light in this darkness right now, so I thought I'd share a gorgeous image from JWST. This cosmic butterfly is a star being born. New planets are forming within the vertical dark line. Galaxies shine through the scene from the far distance. 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/images/potm2...

You really can tell when people have stopped engaging with pop culture and are exclusively learning about it through metatextual resources, none of which are good

The impacts of the Trump Administration's "let them eat cake" foreign policy outlined in grim detail www.propublica.org/article/usai...

“Cho said Yoon and his military associates had schemed to enforce martial law since before October 2023 and that they reshuffled top military officials to place their associates in key posts while removing a defense minister who opposed their plan.” apnews.com/article/sout...

New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues. Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues” www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly