Decorative Gourd

could a dying empire do THIS

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan

this bread is beautiful

Tapping the sign
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I should really learn how batteries work

A photo of a paper sign with a Chicago Public Library logo that says "La Biblioteca Pública de Chicago estará cerrada el lunes 2 de marzo, 2026, en Conmemoración del Día de Pulaski"

I love Chicago

Explains a lot if you ask me
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Robert "Fart stuff" Kennedy

Finally, a candy that makes your farts smell worse

Felis catus wants lunch meat

The lunchmeat-wanter

I'm imagining the first gen divvy bikes, weighs a billion pounds and generally sucks to ride but it's the People's Bike

Look at how good this is

Conspire with a coworker and have them start calling him Ann, get a chain going and see how many people are called Ann by years end

"Flying Pigeon" is such a great name for a bicycle company

Why Are American Passenger Trains Slow? - American Affairs Journal In the 1950s, the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha carried passengers from Minneapolis to Chicago in roughly seven hours. Today, Amtrak’s Empire Builder covers that same distance in just under eight...

This is really fascinating, a major reason that passenger trains in America suck is because it has exceptionally good freight trains
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Dark blue mug with gold foil detailing around the word "Heroin" in large letters.

heroin ✨

White mug from Dowell reading "thanks to you 1,000,000 man hours without a serious injury" with the Dowell logo and "May 5, 1977".

thanks to you 1,000,000 man hours without a serious injury 🦺

Painting of a man wearing a brown suit and hat riding a bicycle with square wheels. He's carrying a backpack. In the background there's a building that looks like the U.S. Capitol.

Out of Favour
2009

🎨Sara Tyson

Barophobiar The superhero could not find a cure for his lice. Invisibility streamed dreams into his scalp. Flying burned his hair into skin. At night, the superhero slept inside the walls. He was never alone, and that was the way he liked it. When it rained, the dawn chorus woke the villains, and the superhero stood on the brink of a volcano to find out what was true.

One of mine in @periodicities.bsky.social

#smallpoemsunday
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It must be fucking amazing to go through life with absolutely no self awareness. Is there a combination of drugs and head trauma I can do to make this happen for me?

Brave and correct

Black and white art. death, skeleton in a robe with a long scythe on its shoulder, stands amid a pack of black wolves with glowing eyes

Hunger — Willem van Schaik, 1917

Long tailed tit bird with one wing waving sketched in colored pencil

Hi

A gas station at night sits isolated in darkness, its white canopy brightly lit against a black background. A lone worker in a reflective vest stands near the pumps, facing away, while the surrounding lot and sky fade into shadow.

Parking lot, 6:58 AM #photography #fujifilm

You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

A small pencil sketch of a finch perched on a person’s hand.

In the face of it all, I’ll just share some art from our house today. This sketch, “Tame Finch,” is by Alice Elizabeth Soper (1905–1990).

Illustration made in procreate of my cat Geoffrey in a sailor hat with cherry blossoms and a sea foam ring around him reads being an eigenvector is a special property so is being a kitty acid lich art. He is a white and gray fluffy cat with sea foam green eyes, on a warm pink background

Special properties

Holden Bloodfeast (R) Iowa 118 years old Please God just let us nuke Iran, nothing else matters, I'll do anything please I just want to see burning flesh one last time before I die Respectable bipartisan

I think an upsettingly large fraction of the adult population that wants to live in cities thinks of cities as "grown-up life Disneyland," where all the public spaces and amenities exist specifically for them. When they see this their first thought is "No line!"

One of the few things that gives me any hope for the future is the incredible innovation happening in solar, batteries, and geothermal energy. The technology for clean, cheap energy is here, one hopes that someday a government interested in governing for the public benefit can deliver on it.