I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

bluesky admins, have you tried jiggling the handle?

The media's favorite pic of Bari Weiss talking smartly, with hands

Elizabeth "Theranos" Holmes talking smartly, with hands

Meltem "crypto" Demirors talking smartly, with hands

Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get."
~ Tracy Chapman
Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht
#Booksky

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

that's how they wheel you into the hospital

A round mosaic tile depiction of American wetlands.

The Resurrection: The Angel Rolling Away the Stone from the Sepulchre, by William Blake, 1808, 📸 by Kayleigh K

Happy Jazz Appreciation Month and happy 25th birthday!
The 100th year celebration of Tony Bennett is noted with this year's poster.

A living art form, never ordinary :)

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

The first cartoon about gerrymandering ran in the Boston Gazette on March 26, 1812. (The term already existed, but this cartoon—likely by engraver Elkanah Tisdale—helped popularize the term.) And what longevity this creature has!

Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds New study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We have some exciting news:
NEON DEUTSCHLAND, the book, is coming soon.

Published by Prestel Verlag, the book contains over 350 images of neon signs from some 45 cities throughout Germany. It is available for pre-order now, and should be in bookshops by mid-April.
www.penguin.de/buecher/jess...

CHC@LAD: Koufax's perfect game called by Scully YouTube video by MLB

Here is the 🐐 with a monumental call of an historic game:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINi...

My folks had a summer house at the back of their yard. My dad ran electricity to it expressly so they could listen to Jays games throughout the season.

London ON here. My folks had an annual work function the second 1/2 half of March. My mom used to say it was invariably benign in the days leading into and then the drive to the event was a white knuckle adventure.

How did I ever miss this?

It's a small venue but a gig's a gig

Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan

Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan

Alex and his glass of milk

my son at the restaurant

Acorns. For some reason acorns come to mind.

We’re living in a 70’s dystopian film about an awards show for computers

I am so tired of being good.

#FFAA #TVFlashback 1966