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Funky Triptych

Molto bene.

My phone has a tone that sounds like the opening to the theme to Nights of Cabiria.

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Compassionata has an idea for a blog...
#webcomics #comics

Sadhbh O'Neill: The simple text message that helped France reduce its electricity usage by 10% Energy shocks are deeply uncomfortable, but they force structural changes

Sadhbh O'Neill: The simple text message that helped France reduce its electricity usage by 10%

Excited to share some good news for Illinois families — we’ve reached over 100,000 children in our state receiving books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Let’s keep reading.

⏰️ for Mozart. 40th Symphony. 🎻📯🎻

Bless your week 🔵 🙏 ✨️

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new toon!
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Rosemary Hill · Sacred Parallelogram: Women Paint Women The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the...

‘Much depended on men, and it is notable that these artists had supportive fathers and disastrous husbands who spent their money, failed to nurture their careers and in the end became burdensome.’

Rosemary Hill on the work of two eighteenth-century female painters.

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

Maybe I'll start this tonight?

Fish Tails and The Catacombs, both excellent reads. I miss the kind of friends I could recommend them to.

I just read the novel a few weeks back. Check out this piece by @magonzales.bsky.social from 2019.

Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes: On Novelist Nettie Jones and the Madness of 'Fish Tales' - Longreads Edited by Toni Morrison, the 1983 novel 'Fish Tales' by Nettie Jones was supposed to set the literary world on fire. It didn't.

Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes: On Novelist Nettie Jones and the Madness of 'Fish Tales' longreads.com/2019/10/29/b...

President Sheinbaun of Mexico too.

Found one of my dear hearts from old Twi*ter on Threads and Substack. So proud of her got her doctorate.

👏📰📺💜❤️💐

Up watching France24 Daybreak. Semi-Internationale with Lula and Spanish PM Sanchez? Wonder if this got press in these United States?

Watching Pablo Torre podcast. I had no idea yt folk knew the word *janky* lol.

Watching Fans, Monitoring Kids, Tracking Players: Knicks Surveillance, Revealed | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

Sports owners are using tech to build private surveillance states — while taking public money.

Which means that Knicks owner James Dolan is the future.

In a new collaboration with @wired.com, we go inside how MSG secretly watches fans, surveils kids, tracks players… youtu.be/yNZ3hJPN5Vc?...

#comics #webtoons

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

Oh, now I get it he was just being blasphemous.

#comics

Plus another strip tonight. With the news on Di*ney, old strips fall like prophecy.

It was like he was thinking, "The Book of Caesar, no wait, that can't be right, can it?"

The Book of Seesaw...