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Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.

It's dire, but this is indicative of why it's possible for Ukraine to hold out to victory.

"Russian forces took only 23 square kilometers of territory in March. At that pace, Russia would finish conquering Ukraine in 1,775 years."

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Let's sum up Trump's tariffs.

1) They were illegal and also corrupt and arbitrary.
2) They did real damage to economy, esp farmers, small business.
3) Lutnick cheerled them while his spawn prepared to $$.
4) Corps (& some small businesses) finally getting refunds.
5) Consumers will get squat.

Iggy Pop - The Passenger (Official Video) YouTube video by Iggy Pop Official

"The Passenger" — Iggy Pop

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Since that isn't the same as building them to maximize profit and control by those profiting, no one in SV sees the point.

I suspect it would be possible to make a version of smart glasses that would be popular, but they'd need to be built around the idea of pleasing the user and giving the user freedom to make them something that would please them.

It’s always striking to me how much the people who’ve been complaining about feminists being “man haters” for all these decades do, in fact, *actually* think men are monsters

To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First How the plan will be funded is unclear. The Mamdani administration has not earmarked money for its tree-expansion initiative.

To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First

www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/21/t...

The Grifters | ‘The Oranges’ (HD) - Anjelica Huston, Pat Hingle | MIRAMAX YouTube video by Miramax

Getting a featured role in people's nightmares is a higher honor than an Oscar.

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An aerial view of a broad sweep of Countryside at Twilight. the lights of towns and houses and Roads have come on although there's still light in the sky

Lighting Up Time — Alfred Egerton Cooper, 1937
Oil on canvas
204 x 123 cm

Black and white art women in a long dress lying back on the couch giving us a seductive look

Etienne Drian

Color woodcut A person, maybe female, in a long robe face to face with — looks like they're about to exchange a peck on the lips with — a peacock

Bradley: His Book (The Kiss) — William Henry Bradley, 1896
Lithograph and woodcut

Cover of true detective magazine I see the head of a blonde woman and a red coat giving a haughty look off to her right she actually has the icy blonde look that Alfred Hitchcock loved so much and she has it down pat

Richard Cardiff, 1951

A painter of a brush in one hand and his other hand up to his forehead is staring at the window at Ray's sunlight coming in through the window his mouth is open and he looks dumbstruck by whatever inspiration has come

Inspiration — Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, 1928
Oil on canvas

Angelica Huston in The Grifters (1990)

THINK The boss of IBM insisted employees hang a sign like this over their desks. One of my neighbors had one up at home.

Painting for the cover of a pulp magazine a blonde woman and a red cocktail dress is sitting at the controls of a spaceship while somebody and what is probably a spacesuit but who knows they might be a robot but this this person in the space suit is leaning over the back of her chair and putting a pistol at her women has one hand on the throttle of the ship and the other hand raised to ward off the menacing guy should never hurt the command share for the spaceship really looks like a big comfy easy chair looks like you could be a lazy boy

Harold W. McCauley, 1942

JD Vance showing up in Islamabad not knowing if there are going to be peace talks is hilarious. Or, it would be if the debacle he helped to create wasn't costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars.

New Comic found: Dinosaur Comics - 2026-04-21 https://www.gocomics.com/dinosaur-comics/2026/04/21

#webcomics #dinosaurcomics #comicstrip

Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop - Well, Did You Evah! - 1st December 1990 YouTube video by Blondie Video Archive

"Well, Did You Evah!" — Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop

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Ivory Coast!

Wishing the legend that is Iggy Pop a very Happy 79th Birthday! 🎂

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Two men playing chess, with dog, 1590. By Ludovico Carracci, whose birthday we are celebrating today.

Upon learning that James Agee wrote a script for his friend Charlie Chaplin casting the Tramp as the last man alive after nuclear apocalypse...

book club (1/2)

Oh so that’s why my health insurance premiums shot up and co-pays doubled this year.

Romney Marsh is a deep, deep cut. If it weren't for one of my older brothers being a lifelong fan, I doubt I'd have ever heard of it.

Painting of a railroad yard at night in the rain

Railway Yard — Mats Åkerman, 2004
Oil on canvas

A paperback edition of the novel For Love of Imabelle (I believe that title was used only for early editions of the novel) the cover is Illustrated with a light-skinned Black woman in a purple robe lounging on a bed tagline: " for her lovely, dusky body murder was a cheap price to pay"

Another edition of the same novel, this one using the title that's consistent from this point on: A Rage in Harlem. The cover has a black and white photograph of the street sign marking the intersection of Lenox Avenue and 125th Street. there is also a lit sign: TELEPHONE TO CALL POLICE Tagline: the famous, Savage novel about a certain neighborhood in the USA

Another edition of the novel I think this is from the 1970s. It has a picture of three b Black people on the cover. there is a Black man wearing a nun's habit holding a pistol, a Black man in old fashioned Undertaker gear ( black top hat with a black band around it) and an attractive Black woman in a red dress

Another paperback cover for a penguin modern Classics edition of the book this might actually be from the 21st century on the cover there is a black and white illustration man standing in a doorway snarling and pointing a pistol downward and there's a hand desperately reaching up from the floor Blurb: " every one of his Beyond-cool Harlem novels is cherished by every reader who finds it"

A Rage in Harlem (aka For Love of Imabelle) — Chester Himes, 1957