'In the third and final volume of John Röhl’s immense biography of Wilhelm II, the Kaiser’s voice is the thread that holds the text together. On page after page, he cajoles, whines, demands, vociferates and babbles, bombarding his interlocutors (and the reader) with fantastical geopolitical speculations, crackpot plans, sarcastic asides and off-colour jokes. Reading Wilhelm II on every conceivable subject for more than 1200 pages (3000 if you read the three volumes in sequence) is like listening for days on end to a dog barking inside a locked car. And the effect is heightened by the fact that this volume is focused more narrowly on the monarch than its predecessors – there are fewer excursions into the worlds of the rest of the imperial elite and fewer pen-portraits of friends and associates.'

Christopher Clark (undisputed English-language master of all things Prussian) on Wilhelm II in the LRB, 2015

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

It's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness

That Keith Wolverine cover, wow

The Monument to the Cathedral Master Builders of Girona by Josep Maria Subirachs

GitHub - katelynsills/copyright-history: Every amendment to US copyright law (1790-present) as a git commit. Browse 236 years of legislation with git log, git diff, and git checkout. Every amendment to US copyright law (1790-present) as a git commit. Browse 236 years of legislation with git log, git diff, and git checkout. - katelynsills/copyright-history

It's pencils down at the hackathon. I put 236 years of US copyright law into a git repository. Every Act of Congress from 1790 to today is a commit. Still some work to be done, and things got frantic at the end, but I'm proud of this! github.com/katelynsills...

I still say if you must do a reboot of Escape from New York you flip it. Manhattan is fully a gated community for the rich now. Someone hires a mercenary to spirit away a relative from an abusive partner. And the chase is on to survive the night against several private security details.

Looking good Scott!!

Asha Bhosle Live 'In Aankhon Ki Masti' at BBC Studio YouTube video by Prateek Luthra

RIP Asha Bhosle

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[OC] Dowgate Fire Station, London. r/brutalism

Parisian Brutalism r/brutalism

shonen knife - when you sleep YouTube video by CamachoKid

almost every band on the cover album made a shoegaze or shoegaze adjacent track, except for one: shonen knife

no. not a pop punk cover. they did a doo wop version of "when you sleep", it's incredible

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The scene shows the "Pier of the Columns," a historic marble pier situated at the Praça do Comércio people walking along a stone pier. it ends in two columns before the sea. a sailing boat is visible.

Cais das Colunas, Lisbon
Artur Pastor

Cry til you laugh: Chris Pirillo vibe codes his job-search frustrations into brutally honest apps www.geekwire.com/2026/cry-til-you-laugh-c...

Basilica of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, by Pierre Khoury (Built 1970-1997) r/brutalism

NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, left, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist are seen sitting on a Navy MH-60 Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha after they and fellow crewmates CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, were extracted from their Orion spacecraft after splashdown, Friday, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA’s Artemis II mission took the quartet on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT), NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the Orion spacecraft aboard the recovery ship. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, left, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist are seen sitting on a Navy MH-60 Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha after they and fellow crewmates CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, were extracted from their Orion spacecraft after splashdown, Friday, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA’s Artemis II mission took the quartet on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT), NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the Orion spacecraft aboard the recovery ship. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, left, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist are seen sitting on a Navy MH-60 Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha after they and fellow crewmates CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, were extracted from their Orion spacecraft after splashdown, Friday, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA’s Artemis II mission took the quartet on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT), NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the Orion spacecraft aboard the recovery ship. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Happy astronauts back from the Moon

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#Artemis 🧪🔭

Diagonal siding
Williamsport, IN

We present SCARLET WARNING 666 at NWFF on 4/20 at 715pm!

“Kinda like if Neil Breen made A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin. The psychosis oozes off the screen at every moment.” Audience reaction at the world premiere of restoration by @grindhousefilm.bsky.social

grandillusioncinema.org/film/scarlet...

Beautiful obit for Sam Keith: www.tcj.com/sam-kieth-ja...

Mazzucchelli!

soviet "kvant" ("quantum") magazine covers

the design on these was so awesome

A carved wooden figure of a man hanging from brass shackles around his ankles. His legs are extended above his head and he's looking with an openmouthed expression of...surprise(?) at the wick hole located between his buttocks. Extending out beyond the wick hole is a paddlelike tail, because why not.

Found this "unusual 19th century lamp...of a supple gentleman" at an online auction and gosh, it sure is as described.

www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

That's a lotta trauma on one cover

Some shots from London r/brutalism

The Complete Corto Maltese: Volume 1: The Ballad of the Salt Sea International award-winning graphic novelist Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese returns to American readers in full color with the first volume of The Complete Corto Maltese, featuring the rip-roaring adventu...

I'm a bit confused by the publishing in HC alongside paperbacks; Fanta did Krazy as paper, then HC, but they weren't running simultaneously

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Sunset Wedding Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico r/brutalism

Easter Monday, Willem de Kooning 1956

Easter Monday, Willem de Kooning 1956

A door way with steps, ornate ironwork patterns

Astronaut Christina Koch looks at Earth through her spacecraft's window. Image captured on April 2, 2026 with an Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Spaceship Earth

NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon. Credit: NASA.

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🧪🔭 #Artemis

Bon Appétite
An archangel locks the Hellmouth' from the Winchester Psalter, an English 12th-century illuminated psalter

This letter by cartoonist/illustrator Alfred J Frueh to his fiancée Giuliette ingeniously folds out to form a miniature 3-D art gallery (1931, Smithsonian) www.architectural-review.com/essays/folio...