This was both a powerful and artful memento mori: an elegant woman looking into the mirror, and rapidly aging with the paper flap. This was printed in 1510 Germany, #skystorians

"There is a solution. And the solution is to concede that we are confronting a social, economic, and political problem; not a technological one.… It is not my job to compensate for a person's erasure of me by making myself more present."

Southern view from the Mackinac Bridge Administration building of the Mackinac Bridge traversing the Straits of Mackinac with Lake Michigan on the right. // Image captured at: 2026-04-15 03:36:02 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: mackinacbridge.org // Current Temp in St. Ignace: 49 F | 9 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: ENE at 5 mph | 8 kph // Humidity: 95%

Current* conditions near St. Ignace, MI:

Quote posting with a screengrab, only because two skeets can't be quoted at once...but these two BELONG TOGETHER.

Side note: They may not be as visible as they once were, but both the CW paper and CW movement are still around! catholicworker.org

Fascinating story. “Several forms of written Rohingya have emerged in the diaspora, but none has reached widespread use among the scattered diaspora. … Milwaukee is now a proving ground for Rohingya literacy.”

Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

A typographic carnival.

A book in a display case, open to a two-page illustration showing a ridiculously detailed engraving of a fly's head.

Went to an exhibit of pollinators art in @cmu.edu's botanical library and was utterly undone by the linework in this illustration of a fly's head, by an unknown 17th century engraver (seriously, LOOK AT THOSE COMPOUND EYES) #sciart

Lake Sturgeon spawning

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

If those astronauts are getting news updates, they are just gonna keep on driving.

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

And now that I have caught up with the news, this act feels beyond empty.

A colour photograph of a printed colour chart. A table headed "Oranges" includes squares of varying shades of orange. On each row are listed an animal, vegetable, and a mineral in which this colour appears in nature.

A photograph of a printed title page headed "Werner's nomenclature of colours."

Gold Fish lustre abstracted, Belly of the Warty Newt, Dark Brazilian Topaz -- What's your Werner Orange colour today? Follow the link in our bio to see more of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours in our Digitised Special Collections. #NatureInArt

Voted! 🗳️

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

Caturday thoughts:

Rotating view generally looking east from the Waukegan Harbor boathouse on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-04-02 01:06:13 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@MTS60046 // Current Temp in Waukegan: 36 F | 2 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NE at 14 mph | 22 kph // Humidity: 85%

Current* conditions near Waukegan, IL:

What a wondrous life-arc this 18th c. Psalmanazar had. An outsized, utterly imaginative imposter whose fabulous exploits included developing a made-up language that was "so internally consistent that it continued to fool linguistic scholars throughout the nineteenth century."

It's #TransDayOfVisibility If you are a young person (13-26) wanting to read books on queer or trans topics in the US that have been restricted/banned in your area, you can. Get a card, read online.

booksunbanned.com/card

reading is one of the great pleasures of my life and I deeply and furiously resent the introduction of a low grade but ever present anxiety that I might be fooled into believing that some slop came from a human mind

My left hand holding a sticker that has a child’s colored pencil drawing of a bird and a sun, and the bird appears to be shouting, “I voted early this time”

City of Milwaukee has an excellent early voting sticker

Explore live radio by rotating the globe Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world

This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

The common archival supply companies that I know have few sizes, but maybe you’d find something makeshift with Hollinger…a lot of styles if not sizes? Alas, the archivists I work with do not typically deal with unusual audio formats, else I’d ask them. www.hollingermetaledge.com/audio-and-fi...

Disc-O-File Record Sleeves Nauck's is proud to offer a line of record sleeves designed especially for sound archives & discriminating collectors. The minimum quantity per order is 50 sleeves, but you may mix and match sizes. Also, we are sold out of 7" sleeves, and won't have them available again until the fall of 2026. Disc-O-File record sl

Not sure whether the paper is acid free, but these sleeves are very thick and well constructed and come in odd sizes. Personally have bought many of them and love them (as much as one can love a record sleeve). 78rpm.com/products/dis...

Tired

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

~ Langston Hughes (1931)

#Photography, Wang Ningde.

Laughing at the absurdity of it all…

I’m a librarian and expected to skim through familiar tips. But not so…scads of new-to-me nuggets of helpful, simple search tactics.

Another longtime fan here who has been alarmed by his posts to Bandcamp today + tonight too. I went poking around Reddit after seeing the first of them; found a long thread from last year on the garage band sub that made it sound like he was struggling then too; a very bad stretch. Gutting.

Data/design folks, what is your favorite visual that focuses on the human cost of violence, tragedies and disasters? The most emotionally impactful visualization? The most visually striking?

Please share! I'd like to get as many examples as possible.

It’s 64 degrees. I’m so happy I could hump a lamppost. In fact, I just might.

I’m a WHORE for this weather. A FLOOZY for this Fahrenheit. A SLUT for these unseasonable conditions. My legs are open to the sun. Burn my underwear away! TAKE ME INTO YOUR RADIANT ARMS.