Rosa María Quiñones

@dieworkwear.bsky.social I don't know if you've seen this photo (from The Independent), showing the investigative team for the Louvre jewelry heist. Many of my friends are swooning over the style of the detective on the right and are clamoring for your analysis.

Via @charliejane.bsky.social, a reminder that our history is rich with stories and connections -- we have always been here

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

A laser cut wooden magnet showing two human figures, their heads bent together as if sharing a romantic moment. The text on the magnet says 'Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It's the moments that that your breath away. DONNER MEMORIAL STATE PARK. 2025.' The font is Papyrus. It's funny because the Donner party notoriously resorted to cannibalism while snowed in during the winter of 1846.

Everyone pack up and go home, I've found the best possible tourist trap gift shop purchase.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

dining table covered with a linocut art project, white roses with the text "history is now"

linocut of a white rose

protest art linocuts, flowers along with the text "history is now"

I'm home making protest art while so many folks I know are marching. I don't know if the art or the marching will bring change, but we do what we must.

I sent you
the war plans
that were in
the group chat

and which
you were probably
saving
for select eyes

Forgive me
they were juicy
and and I was
shitfaced

Middle class people who have never been poor have no idea how much of a psychological advantage it is to just be able to throw money at small problems to make them go away. Those things build and overwhelm.

carved linoleum block with a line drawing of a dwarf bearded iris

This iris was drawn from a photo. It is a miniature dwarf beaded iris, hybridized by David Sindt. He named it "Gay Sunshine," which was also the name of a Berkeley queer rights newspaper. I look forward to telling you more :yellow_heart::purple_heart::white_heart:

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

Ed Yong on the Pandemic’s Legacy on Science Research and Reporting | KQED As part of our series looking at the legacy of the pandemic five years on, we talk to Ed Yong about how COVID changed our relationship with health news, reporting and research.

I’ve had a several dozen requests to write or be interviewed about the 5th anniversary of Covid and said no to all of them… except this one with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. Here’s our chat on the things we’ve memory-holed, and where we go from here.

www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

selfie in a colorful flat cap and overalls

Arctotis, a perennial flower, covered in buds

tiny California wildflower seedlings

@rodkam.bsky.social surely knew he was providing us armor when he gave my class Calvino and Orwell to read & emulate, all those years ago. Unfortunately timeless and timely lessons, but I have been taking real solace in tending my garden, and knowing Orwell tended his, even as circumstances worsen.

I never thought to knit the wire farm!

“Do people have responsibilities to one another that are not reducible to the weak owing everything to the strong” is the most salient political issue

It's so good to see your work here! Incredible evolution since I last had a chance to see it! 💖

“Visualizing a happier, more just world is a direct assault on the forces that are trying to break your heart.”
@charliejane.bsky.social
www.charliejaneanders.com/never-say-yo...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

"Sometimes when I've got a ballplayer alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him, and the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen" -- Annie Savoy in Bull Durham

A possum enjoys a little teeny king cake inside its enclosure

Well today has been horrible for so many people maybe you also need to see that they feed the possums tiny king cakes at the New Orleans zoo

Courtney Milan with a valuable public service announcement:

screenshot of a craigslist ad for a $600 wooden duck sculpture, caption reads "Excellent condition, very solid duck"

My new hobby is looking for furniture on CL, and sometimes I search "Wooden Duck" (for non-Bay Areans, that is a defunct store that had cool stuff). Last night I found this and it was the unhinged laughfest that I needed at that moment -- "very solid duck" is now in the household lexicon:

As with nearly everything Tom Lehrer has done, every word is meticulously chosen for effect, yet comes out as if effortless. And that intro! TIL about Sondheim and Lehrer, wow

Dear @heathersabrina.bsky.social has been counting us down to the solstice in fine fashion, a true dark season treat 🖤

I had no idea Lehrer came out of retirement for one night in 1998. Imagine not performing for 25 years and still being this locked in.

The introduction is pretty special, too -- what a gem of a video, thanks!

Stunning! Thank you!

Tired: a Mike Leigh-helmed Bond movie.
Wired: a Mike Leigh vs. Peter Greenaway arm-wrestling contest, hyped up for months in a multimedia frenzy akin to the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight.

I demand satisfaction. The word "delve" has been purloined from my vocabulary by rapacious LLMs.

I am joined in this action by JRR Tolkien's ghost, who adds that ChatGPT "scraped too greedily and too deep" and must answer for despoiling our prose.

18 days left of dark? ONLY 18 days! Everyone! Run outside right now! You need to absorb as much cold and gloom as you can to carry you through those hot, sunny days in August.