The front view looks f a slim fitting emerald satin gown. It is sleeveless with an integral stole that wraps around one shoulder and falls to one side

Back is of the early 1950s Jacques Griffe emerald satin evening dress showing the shape of the fitted gown and the arrangement of the stole around the back of the neck

A fabric detail of the emerald satin dress which focuses on some decorative self covered buttons that run diagonally up th bodice

Jacques Griffe sculpted this early #1950s emerald satin into a sinuous form, shaped in such a way that it seems to flow around the body in a single sweep. #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The Maslow's Hierarchy of Middle Age Hobbies is below:

mid 30s: getting into baking
approaching 40: Breadmaking
40: Birdwatching
early 40s: Niche historical obsession
mid 40s: Serious gardening+ canning
upper 40s: Making house cleaning products
nearly 50: Antiquing
50+: Scotch, woodworking

The whisper network that caught up to Eric Swalwell Warnings about the lawmaker had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far...

(a) she is (or was) a teacher
(b) she is the person who took the Swalwell whisper network public www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"🎶I'm very well acquainted too with matters biographical
🎶From Westchester to Madripoor in classes geographical
🎶A stirring, winding saga of provisos and parentheses
(Parentheses)
🎶And many numbered lists about the status of my enemies"

"🎶I am the very model of a trained exsanguinarian
🎶My friendships they are legion though my manners are contrarian
🎶I also am augmented in a manner biological
🎶From fontanelle to cuboid bone with metal astronomical"

“pocket pittie” is how people describe Frenchie when they meet her!

If anyone’s looking for a sweetheart of a dog to add to their family, a neighbor is fostering Alma from Brandywine, a six year old blue pittie, who’s between pocket and full-size. She’s a total homebody and loves meeting humans, working on other dogs.

My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.

scrolled until I found a 4Q reference. Thank you for your service.

Girl - time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable, hunty!
[Snaps fingers]

And congratulations to Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz, and Roseanne Liang for the nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for Murderbot TV episodes “All Systems Red” and “The Perimeter”!!! Congrats to the whole Murderbot team!

Do it for the People’s Champion

I’ll forgive when I know it can’t be done to me again.

That, for me, is an essential element to forgiveness.

Someone said, “giving someone who wronged/abused/harmed you a second chance is like giving someone who shot at you an extra bullet because they missed the first time”

I approve this message.

You will not get unlimited opportunities to harm me.

thing about the Trump administration's24/7 stream of funds from the public exchequer into private hands is that you no longer have to explain colonial wealth extraction or tell people to read Dadabhai Naorojiwhen they are doing a live demo of how the British operated in Asia and Africa but at home

Also the weekly soap opera summaries, which I as a kid read like mini-novels because my mom adamantly refused to watch soaps herself.

I've encountered this fact across a number of sources, but my favorite is the "San Andreas" ep of the now-retired Disaster Girls podcast, where geophysicist Mika McKinnon says that the best disaster prep you can do is "throw a party for your neighbors." disastergirlspod.podbean.com/e/re-release...

plus the part where you can apparently harvest them every 6 months, year round

like this is an extremely well documented and verified fact about humans writ large: cooperation is how we became such a staggeringly successful species.

this fact also enrages and confuses loathsome manosphere types who know somewhere in their bones that it’s true

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

for me it's the way everyone reflexively says "ladies' man, man's man, man-about-town?" every time Catcher Block's name is mentioned

AAAGGGHHH this is me and technical documentation.

Absolutely stacked cast that 100% understood the assignment.

On the right, Ds are this ludicrous "woke" stereotype, obsessed with pronouns. On the left, Ds are this ludicrous "no different from Republicans" stereotype, forever hooked on corporate money.

The reality? The Maryland legislature. Good, hard, unflashy progress. Pay attention for once.

The Lorax! The Tree Law!
They Speak for the trees!
One comes for your pockets,
The other? Your Knees!

there is definitely a wooden bead necklace in the front-facing version of that photo

They don’t always get everything right, ok, but this kind of minor stuff is what it looks like to have a government entity working to actually make it easier to live in its territory

he is going the full LaGuardia, and I expect he will also end up with both a musical and an airport in the long run

Pope-a-dope!