James Panek

when i first read A Legacy of Spies i kept imagining how wonderful it would be to have Michael Jayston reprise the role of Peter Guillam in an adaptation; while i am of course very excited to watch this, i'm sad to see he is now unavailable for the role

i know this marks me out as some kind of uncultured rube but why in god's name is he recording this in the engine room of the 1960s Enterprise

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

You will never catch me speaking ill of the humble lentil

Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

Ding dong, coal is dead At least in California.

The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...

a sketch of a tower with two floors, the lower opening to a dark room full of potted plants and the upper opening to a sky full of clouds a chandelier of spheres hangs from the bisected roof

scribble tower
#art

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

sighs wistfully. the veils from the 2012 Armani fall collection

Hand with inky thumbnail holding little inked drawing of crowned frog

Smug

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

The only bad part about rewatching 30 Rock is that everything Dr. Spaceman says is how RFK Jr. thinks medicine works

below: Wes Anderson-ass presentation omg

Who doesn’t like a heaping helping of thermostabilized wet meat product on Thanksgiving? Behold of a turkey with gravy prototype for NASA’s Apollo program, cooked up by the kitchen labs at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center in 1969.

below repost: my mother surveyed the Tupperware and pronounced "lots of tops but no bottoms. Something's gone wrong" -- too right, queen, that's not the normal ratio at all

art thou gobbling, mashing, stuffing, and basting in a fag-honoring way this day of farce?

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

clipping of a google result page. Book title: Cute Accelerationism; book description: "The objects of cute culture are just spinoffs of an accelerative process booping us from the future, rendering us all submissive, breedable, helpless, and cute ..."; price: 16 pounds and 99 pence

uh what

PUT IT IN MY FUCKIN' VEINS

Architecture of the Plain

Architecture of the Plain https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/architecture-of-the-plain-1923

Two kids crossing ina crosswalk with flags

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

the very sight of eric clapton fills me with such rage as i never feel at any other moment in my life. you scoundrel. you son of a bitch. every time it was a member of the Band it should have been you

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

vaporwave image of a small plant growing hopefully overlay text reads "if the situation was helpless, their propaganda would be unnecessary"

remember kids -

A digital painting of a landscape, the sky dominant, with waves of heavy clouds and a just a tiny bit of blue sky peeking through at the top. The light is late afternoon. There is the silhouette of rolling hills in warm autumn brown at the bottom, with a tiny patch glowing amber in a distant sunbeam. Leafless ash trees reach up through the right side, and two crows fly near the left. Brush strokes are easily visible and the style is painterly. The artist watermark reads Copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com.

"Cloudy Day Out My Window," Digital painting

The days are growing short, and the clouds bring night sooner than I expect, while the crows play in the blustering winds. Painted from life, looking out the window next to my computer.

Great Shearwater leaving a tiny track where it dipped (sheared) a wingtip in the water. South Atlantic off #Argentina 🪶🦑

doodle of a little kitty facing a wall

don’t talk to me

THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life