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Gordon Parks’ 1950s photographs ‘made the Black community fully human’ ‘We Shall Not be Moved’ at Alison Jacques gallery in London is essential and moving viewing

WALLPAPER: Gordon Parks’ photographs of Black Americans in the 1950s are essential viewing in London www.wallpaper.com/art/photogra... @wallpapermag.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography

Good Evening Motherfuckers it’s Friday

take note of the size, but also the terrain

A photo of a large rectangular puddle set into turf.

Portal number 34.

Illustration of a woman walking beside a lion. Two more lions walk behind them.

'There was great joy when she arrived, for they all believed that she had been torn to pieces by the lion, and was no longer alive. But she told them what a handsome husband she had, and how well off she was.'
-The Singing, Springing Lark, Brothers Grimm.

🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat

Why you can remember every word of a song from 25 years ago – but not why you walked into the room Forgetting why you walked into a room isn’t a sign of cognitive decline. It’s your brain doing exactly what it evolved to do.

Forgetting why you walked into a room isn’t a sign of cognitive decline. It’s your brain doing exactly what it evolved to do.

Susannah Clapp · At the British Museum: ‘Hawaii’ Traditional fabrics bring unifying stories. The most distinctive Hawaiian material, kapa or barkcloth, was wonderfully...

‘Think​ of a loincloth as an act of diplomacy: the malo loloa, a long loincloth made of barkcloth, was a metaphor for Hawaii forming alliances.’

Susannah Clapp visits the British Museum’s Hawaii exhibition.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NEUROQUEER: AN INTRODUCTION • NEUROQUEER Nick Walker, PhD I originally wrote and published this piece in the Spring of 2015. This is an updated version, slightly revised and expanded in the Summer of 2021. The definitive, citable version of ...

was thinking about neuroqueer, and neuroqueering, and why I wasn’t using the term for myself yet. And so, using it now. Because of course.

about neuroqueer:
@dr-nicky.bsky.social
neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-a...

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-world-order Read end section on Trump and nukes and Iran

On the reality TV president and his nuclear series finale: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

Incredible to realize that it's only been 28 days since the last Bandcamp Friday. It feels like an eternity.

Anyway I released an EP 28 days ago, and it's still fresh today.

History Lesson: The flagship company of Brill Building pop music (actually located across the street at 1650 Broadway) was Aldon Music, founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Who says you can't go home again?

What's Past is Prologue Live at Café Oto

By way of liner notes dadadrummer.substack.com/p/whats-past...

Images de Chine (Auguste François, 1901-1904) à voir en ligne sur HENRI, la plateforme des collections films de la Cinémathèque française Au Yunnan, à la fin de la dynastie Qing, Auguste François, consul, photographe et ethnographe amateur documente, grâce à une caméra mise à disposition par Léon Gaumont, des scènes de la vie quotidienn...

*If you're into filmed documentation of the past here's a French diplomat wandering through China in 1901 with a movie camera

*The material culture is amazing. No industrial products. Nothing imported. The Chinese have never seen a camera

www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/1...

Incredible to realize that it's only been 28 days since the last Bandcamp Friday. It feels like an eternity.

Anyway I released an EP 28 days ago, and it's still fresh today.

If he’s wearing white like that and testifying against building housing, it’s legal to hit him with overripe fruit.

[quietly tries to point out the the military/industria complex has always been a mechanism for transfer public funds to private capital]

Way mo’ crashes.

It’s almost like if someone’s basic needs are being met, they’re less likely to commit crimes

[Exit Murderer.]

Will this finally free Godzilla once and for all?

in a post-credit scene, Dan Crenshaw appears in Noem's apartment and tells her he's putting a team together

Man hanging from a giant helium-filled kangaroo. Aided by four other balloons, he is attempting to cross the English Channel to France by flying off a fucking big chalk cliff.

'David Kirke sets off from Beachy Head in East Sussex, in a giant helium-filled kangaroo. Aided by four other balloons, he is attempting to cross the English Channel to France.'
John Downing, 1986

This is called ‘confident heart’ and it is available as an original drawing www.chloecumming.com/chloepencilh...

Ever wondered who the people behind NYC’s street names are?

A new interactive map reveals the stories behind 2,500 co-named street signs honoring famous New Yorkers—and unsung heroes—across the five boroughs.

Check it out here: on.nyc.gov/4iIjQvY

How is there a king cake baby in my hamentaschen?

An unexploded Iranian missile in a field in Syria, surrounded by shepherds and sheep.

A picture worth a thousand words.

The aura of systematic mendacity - Lawyers, Guns & Money Hannah Arendt, in the year the Nazis came to power From Eichmann in Jerusalem: Now and then, the comedy breaks into the horror itself, and results in stories, presumably trueenough, whose macabre humo...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/the-...

Quiet zone, Jackson Square, New Orleans

Coming July 21, friend! Thanks for reading!!