would be truly amazing to let this stretch of kent be what it so clearly wants to be: a bustling bike and pedestrian zone
Jon Orcutt@jonorcutt.bsky.social · 5d agoTime to bring 🚲 lane (& sidewalk) widening to Brooklyn, specifically Kent Avenue @nyc.streetsblog.org
annoying thing i’ve realized about work: having more to do also makes you better at it. if i have a light week, there’s a much higher chance i’ll miss an important detail because my brain has switched into “chill out” mode. worrying implications wrt my own exploitability
just off the top of the head: rhythm of the night in beau travail death in a girl walks home alone at night a quick one while he’s away in rushmore
Susan Arendt@susanarendt.bsky.social · last wk.Best use of a song in a movie: go! Rules: 1. A song, not part of the score. We’re looking for lyrics. 2. The song was NOT written for the movie.
Women (& men) messing with men's heads du jour: Blinding of Samson, 1636. By Rembrandt, whose birthday is today. Extraordinary painting, which also of course emulates ME.
(tom cruise doing the thing where he smiles even though he's really mad) eat your shorts? is that your message to me, bart?
as if things couldn't get worse, our beautiful politicians are suffering from the blues
Paintings by Nizo Yamamoto for Sherlock Hound (1984–1985), dir. Hayao Miyazaki and Kyosuke Mikuriya, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
24-hour dry brined duck breast, lemon/honey/mustard sauce, seared collard greens with lemon juice. that right there is dinner
[RETURN OF THE JEDI] The spark is gone from Yoda’s eyes; the little green sage looks swollen and baggy—he has been given horrible fuzz all over, as if he were a peach—and the way he’s lighted he isn’t even green. (1983)
uh oh, new british show only cyril and i are going to watch in our social circles
Defector@defector.com · 4mo ago‘Last One Laughing UK’ is absurdly funny defector.com/last-one-lau...
Houses form a dense pattern yet this back street in some city fails to feel lively. Because it's by Jacob Vrel, painter of stillness. Today has been his day.
The small drama of rushing water: two watermills with open sluice, 1653. Beautiful work by Jacob van Ruisdael, who died (alas!) on this day in 1682.
genuinely thought this would be Green Room, but then like 6 months later i was like “damn you know what would go crazy right now?”
Alex Steed@alexsteed.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat is your discomfort movie? A movie you saw one time and said okay, never again?
"the sun is a ball of superheated gas" well, that's good to know. but it doesn't explain everything.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian king Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.
there are no good layoffs, but man are some better than others. glad hinterlands is able to offer departing devs some support
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6mo agoThe Long Dark studio lays off workers after game delay aftermath.site/the-long-dark-...
if i was a travelling bard in 2153 roaming the landscape after the fall of the west i would probably tell a parable of two brothers, bovino, strong like a cow, and bongino, loud like a bell, who were both so stupid they destroyed themselves
birthday gift to myself: subscribing to the absolutely essential @hellgatenyc.com
