Kira holds her elder ferret Chip

Kira holds her elder ferret Chip

My routine: law, ferret pampering, soccer, books, gym, dance, repeat

Kim Schilling - Ferrets for Dummies (3rd Ed.). I am so ready to infodump 😤. When female ferrets are about to give birth they rip the fur off their tummies to add padding for the future peanut-sized babies. It’s important for them to eat the afterbirth—if you try to clean she might reject her young

Concrete interior of Calder Gardens is a scooped out seat

Calder Gardens interior space with white walls. a delicate mobile hanging from ceiling, and an angular metal sculpture with cantilever and red legs sits on the floor

Calder Gardens in Philadelphia, with mirrored wall and monumental metal sculptures in cut out shapes

Calder Gardens in Philadelphia: Meadow style garden with purple tulips

Monumental red sculpture in modernist Calder Gardens interior exhibition space

Calder Gardens interior outdoor exhibition space features a monumental sculpture with four triangular legs and a mobile on top that balances red and black rounded shapes

modernist Calder Gardens interior exhibition space features delicate mobile visible though glass peephole through rough textured walls

Geometric lined painting by Alexander Calder on light wood wall from Calder Gardens

Scenes from the new pricey, very small Calder Gardens exhibition space on JFK in Philadelphia.

Vibes based curation - not organized by a theme or story. Pieces are arranged to be aesthetically pleasing

Arsenals deserved like 3-4 yellow cards this game

Bros cheersing to the own goal like they earned it

Now ecstatic lmao

The mood in this arsenal bar is bleak

The fallen fuchsia cherry blossoms are so bold against the wet sidewalk bro tears are welling up

A plate with Turkish cookies, lokum (Turkish Delight), dry baklava, and Turkish bread with buffalo milk curd

I popped over the fence to say hi and ended up having homemade Turkish food for tea time 🍵!!

United’s defense has been great this game

Brooklyn Public Library art exhibit asks visitors to imagine world without prisons “The Warehouse” is a collaboration between artist Vic Liu and abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba builds an environment for possible answers

“Art has a way of helping to remove the ceiling from our imaginations.”

“The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, asks visitors of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Bedford branch to imagine a world without prisons, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

BREAKING: We just won our antitrust trial against LiveNation and Ticketmaster.

Live Nation has raked in billions in profits from an illegal monopoly that coerces venues, restricts artists, and exploits fans.

This is a massive win in the fight for fairness for local venues, artists, and fans.

From The People’s Project curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith

Large painting of trees and ferns outside of a marsh or lake by the moonlight

Painting of a city near a river, likely Philadelphia

Rough painting of Blue Jays on a tree. Below the painting are bicycles, and next to the painting are teal-colored lockers.

cute paintings outside of Keystone Bicycle Co.

Ed Yong - I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life.

This is such a rapidly changing new body of science and a grippin, approachable read. I knew there was something more to pets sniffing butt than information! Microdosing microbiomes?? 🤔

There are so many words happening here

This man had me trying to play Elden Ring. I am regretfully locked in 4ever.

Cyborg fighter battle Angel Alita has mechanized legs, a huge gun, and bug-like mechanical wings

Just over here finishing the nine volume cyberpunk classic, Battle Angel Alita

The Paris Review vol. 255 depicting a colorful city in watercolor. The issue is held up against mural by Isaiah Zagar

Spring issue

Blue colored pencil drawing by Ariel Posh of person contorting to shave thigh in angular position

Ariel Posh at blah blah gallery

SISTER by Frost Children on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 14 Songs

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At times the book was not adapted well from academic paper and there are closely repeated conclusions.

Mears talks about buying bottles as either a sort of potlatch display, or as a way of paying for the service of company through a symbolic good so as to not outright engage in “sex work.” I wish that in her global comparison of symbolic alcohol purchases, Mears referenced Japanese host culture.

Ashley Mears - Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. A sociologists’ look at “image promoters” and bottle service nightclubs, particularly in the US, ‘00-2010s. I loved the retold piteous ramblings of narcissistic hustlers who broker affiliation w models as currency.

The Twenty Days of Turin - Giorgio De Maria 📚 perfect pacing in this short cult classic. I loved the amount of communication on the reveal.

“Drexel University’s Second Story Collective is implementing a unique strategy against gentrification: placing Drexel students in a homesharing arrangement with older Mantua residents. The program has placed three students so far, with two more in the works and a mission to expand.” via Philly Thorn

Dem calls for Trump's impeachment or removal via the 25th Amendment still coming in despite his ceasefire announcement.

We're up to more than 85 now with several lawmakers making explicit that their calls for removal still stand.

So real. I’ve been told so many times to force myself through season 2 and it will be worth it after, but I can’t even get through season 1.