A screenshot of Baldur's Gate 3 that reads: "Save Failed: Intelligence"

me, trying to do anything with my brain in 2025:

remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures

Shining blue stars are sprinkled throughout glowing clouds of orange, pink and bluish gas, alongside dark clouds of dust. A particularly bright star shines against the inky dark dust of the lower right quadrant.

A small, bluish cloud edged in red gas is in the center of a field thick with multicolored stars.

Within a field of glittering multicolored stars, bluish clouds of gas edged in glowing red cluster at the top of the image and in a bubble-shaped clump to the mid-right. A single shining star throws diffraction spikes across the upper left of the image.

A bright, glowing cloud of orange gas is situated in the center of dark dust clouds and a field of stars.

MORE NEW HUBBLE IMAGES OF BABY STARS ✨

margot the dog as a puppy leaping off a step. it's ridiculous (complementary) she's flying, superman pose, her ears are straight up and her tail is out and her mouth is open

day 2 of posting margot photos from the archives until morale improves

Front view, short black semi-sheer strapless evening dress, Christian Lacroix, 1999, FIT

Strapless evening dress by Christian Lacroix, France, 1999. Full details here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/1385...

A black cat with a white chest sits in the shadows, staring forward with a serious expression.

Could it be… he ate a whole turkey today?

An infographic summarizing how adventurers die.

"How Do Adventurers Die?"

Source: QuestBusters, March 1988.

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

pretty interesting ballgame they've got going on tonight

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

Gemini: Sorry you didn’t get raptured. Jesus was going to bring you until 10,000 people signed a petition against it.

Rufo et al were always going to blow the opportunity they were given — even with a ridiculously high budget for a college ten times the size and a clear pathway thanks to the governor and Board of Governors — but they failed spectacularly and in record time. So, they’ve got that going for them.

At the end of the day, to me, this is what it’s all about. We train and learn about things because we are curious, fascinated. We learn and do enough, then we share that with others. Among the most meaningful things I (or any scholar) can do is simply introduce new information or a new interest.

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

A Victorian thrill seeker enjoying the volcanic gas on the island of Vulcano, just off the coast of Sicily.

View more photographs by the pioneering volcanologist Tempest Anderson here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/tempest-anderson-p...

We couldn’t possibly be in a worse information environment for what’s happening. Which is probably, in part, why it’s happening.

Have a great weekend!
#lotr

North Korean-level stuff here

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

you know you don’t have to call HR 1 the “big beautiful bill” right? you know that by doing so you’re carrying water for fascists, right, even though you’re trying to be ironic or w/e you’re doing the fascists a real solid? Just checking.

The evil that men do lives after them

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

Front cover of Gold Key's June 1969 Star Trek #4, with a stylized photo cover.

First page of Gold Key's June 1969 Star Trek #4, with art, exposition, and dialogue. Note the incorrect colour of the uniform, then check out the coloured corrected first page of issue #35.

Front cover of Gold Key's November 1975 Star Trek #35, with a painted cover.

First page of Gold Key's November 1975 Star Trek #35, with art, exposition, and dialogue. Note the colour corrections of the uniform, when compared with the errors made on the first page of issue #4. Corrections were made throughout this issue.

Gold Key, Star Trek #4, June 1969, and #35, Nov 1975.
#35 is a reprint of #4, but with a painted cover by artist George Wilson.
Uniform colours were wrong in #4; the artists not seeing the show & they were colour corrected for #35.
Writer: Dick Wood
Pencils: Alberto Giolitti
Inks: Giovanni Ticci

View down the via di Mercurio towards the arch of Caligula and the forum beyond. The sky above the Lattari hills glows a soft hazy yellowy orangey

View down an empty street with warm evening sunshine illuminating the walls. Mountains form the backdrop with a soft blue sky

Late evening of work in Pompeii yesterday but the reward of an empty site bathed in glorious warm light was a privilege.

(Pace salsa voice) NEW YORK CITY!