I can’t get back the time I just wasted on a smug contrarian desperate to pretend sexism isn’t a thing. But I can focus now on this fucking awesome statement from a woman who clearly knows just how GOOD she is. Whew! What a bracing reminder.
JRho@jrho.bsky.social · 2w agoThe most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Thirty-four days before she reported to prison, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim access to document her every move. That turned into a three-year project, and A24 will release the resulting documentary this October.
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
This is like "the platonic ideal" of waffleposting directly inside my wheelhouse
Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2w agoYou cannot kill Quibi, unlike Rachel Brosnahan’s character in the Quibi show about a woman with a golden arm
The Philosopher’s Annual for 2025 has been released. It aims to “select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill.”
Philosopher’s Annual for 2025 - Daily Nous
The articles that made it into the latest edition of Philosophers Annual have been announced. The list aims to “select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to s...
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The math works because contrails actually net-warm the planet (trapping heat > reflecting sun). Avoiding the thin humidity layers where persistent contrails form only takes a ~1% fuel penalty on ~2% of flights, yielding a 10x–50x net climate benefit.
As threatened, I am rating a bunch of consoles and computers based on using their game libraries in a chronology project. The ratings system is the most simple and obvious one: all platforms are given a rating on the Mario scale where they are scored with a Mario game. Got it? Here we go.
Sound on. If I had my way, this stuff would be in MoMA, and there would also be an elite international task force figuring out how to stop it.
Oops! All Paperclips@all-paperclips.bsky.social · last mo.Junctions
There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
This man just recorded the first notes of a modern jazz masterpiece in an abandoned mall
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Sure, retrowave is mostly nostalgia candyfloss. But you watch The Midnight's "Sunset" set to a "Career Opportunities" montage and tell me you're not entertained.
The Midnight - Sunset
YouTube video by Retrowave Cinema
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very hot you make nice and fat@lighter.bsky.social · 2mo agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
I study sexual violence and I think people would be surprised by how often people still bring up COVID once they know they’re talking to someone who is willing to hear about trauma.
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
The legendary "walking bed" page from Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was published on July 26, 1908. If there’s a Mt. Rushmore for Sunday pages, this one is certainly on it.
They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true
Butter cow sculpted on site at the Renwick!!! (Never ever imagined putting Renwick and butter cow in the same sentence.)
Butter Sculptors Delight in the Details
YouTube video by Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd a cow made of butter!
Reviews for “Garfield Sits Around the House”, the seventh book in the Garfield series first published in 1983
I finished a painting that I’d started 20 years ago. Shirley Temple and the Bluebird
