What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

the penne opticon

A white and buff cat snoozing on a blue and white floral comforter

When you’re not the brains of the operation and that’s actually working out great.

what is the charge. what crime has been done

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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.

Black and white photograph of a black dog with a tennis ball flying towards him.

Is this a tennis ball which I see before me,
Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A tennis ball of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Now we know that the Q in the Q source stands for Quentin Tarantino! (Niche I know)

TAKANO: Should Trump fail a mental fitness test, would you vote to invoke the 25th amendment?

RFK Jr: There hasn't been a president who is more sane--

TAKANO: Reclaiming my time. Would you invoke the 25th amendment?

RFK Jr: President Trump is the most stable--

TAKANO: Apparently not

Blue Heron filmmaker Sophy Romvari says "All film is really time travel" Sophy Romvari talks to The A.V. Club about the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction, and her thoughtful cinematography and sound design.

Blue Heron filmmaker Sophy Romvari talks about Altman, Cassavetes, and making something that feels real

Today in "Tales of the Socially Adept": arrived at the climbing gym, went to collect my complimentary coffee, staff member behind the counter was trimming a bunch of flowers. I joked "Oh you shouldn't have." Elicited a smile...

I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

An actual quote: "For something to be sexy it has to risk death, at least in theory"- only it's not your death is it Helen, you contrarian arsehole

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

Man in a cap with Invoke 25 sign.

We don’t set themes at our Montclair Sundays weekly anti Trump protests.
Yet they tend to emerge spontaneously.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Gospel Book of Otto III c. 1000 Manuscript (Clm. 4453), 334 x 242 mm Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich This is another miniature from the Gospels of Otto III (folio 139r). It shows St Luke with a piles of manuscripts in his lap (their bindings studded with jewels) exalting all the Old Testament prophets who foretold the coming of Christ. Web gallery of art image: https://www.wga.hu/html_m/zgothic/miniatur/1001-050/1/1gospel5.html

I love this photo of Saint Luke with piles of manuscripts in his lap from the Gospel Book of Otto III (c. 1000 CE)
(Manuscript (Clm. 4453), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). Probably projection, but he looks traumatized by all the reading he still needs to do before the end of the semester.

As Trump prepares to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, it’s worth knowing a staggering stat about the gas that comes through there:

If all LNG coming down the Strait in 2025 had been used for electricity, it would have been less that what was generated by solar power newly INSTALLED that year

🧵🧵 1/5

A great moment to remember why Scruton's FT column came to an abrupt end.

Continuously praying on this Empire's downfall

People often posit that the future is dependent on what we do today. And that may be the case.

But I am thinking more and more that what we do today actually depends on our image of the future.

When I apply this to our current library fight, this crystallizes.

Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a neutron star. How dense it is, how it carries inside it the memory of collapse. How difficult it is to move then. How impossible to believe that anything could lift that weight. There are many reasons to treat each other with great tenderness. One is the sheer miracle that we are here together on a planet surrounded by dying stars. One is that we cannot see what anyone else has swallowed.

“There are many reasons to treat each /other with great tenderness. One is /
the sheer miracle that we are here together / on a planet surrounded by dying stars. / One is that we cannot see what / anyone else has swallowed.”

Like a mantra:

Another world is possible.
Another world is possible.
Another world is possible.

they may be lively centers for sound learning, new discovery, and the pursuit of wisdom

Stitching on old quilt piece. “It’s a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world,” Mary Oliver.

Mary Oliver: “It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”

Stitching on old quilt piece.

Every morning is new.

#blueskyartshow #new #artquilt #quiltsky #embroidery

EVERYBODY'S HOME!!!!

god something about the mission commander being last out of the ship really got me. I know it's such a tiny thing but we're just surrounded all the time by leaders who don't give a shit and just like, the symbolism of making sure your people get out first is a lot

why am I sobbing watching that little Nespresso pod zoot through the atmosphere with its huge ass parachutes