Born on this day in 1555, in Bologna, Ludovico Carracci. Cousin of & collaborator with Annibale & Agostino. Here, lovely Annunciation from 1583.

no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor

Before yoghurt came along, it was impossible to eat milk because it was far too loose. Nowadays, the average punter will eat about a kilo of yoghurt per day.

Love will make you fit it all in the car

Got kicked out of the liberry again cuz a couple people complained about my therapy goose Insane Willie.

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

OK turns out the purifying flame is hot as fuck and hurts

Girl clam down

can you tell there was a sale on green paint?

st. stanislaus kostka polish rc church, michigan city, in (1916-26)

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Jean Clouet, portraitist at the French court. Here, Charlotte of France, 1522.

2/2 On the other hand... patterns, patterns everywhere in this fab Annunciation from the Boucicaut Hours.

Lateralized Sleep Positions in Domestic Cats bar graph. 192 cats curve left. 109 curve right.

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

such a beautiful, tiny painting on glass, backed with silver paper from a cigarette packet

Dora Carrington ‘The Barque Harmony in the Ice off the Labrador Coast’, 1929

All men live enveloped in whale-lines.

this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

its a very "This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t" saturday

Donate to Protect Addi From Forced Removal, organized by Holly M On Sunday 15th February, my wife Addison was detained for 21 hours by UK border control at t… Holly M needs your support for Protect Addi From Forced Removal

a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork.

her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before she’s put on a plane and might never be able to return.

please, help if you can. they’re both terrified.

2/2 A whole discussion takes place on the painting's surface as Gabriel and Mary lean toward one anothe, in Fra Angelico's Cortona Annunciation.

upon leaving the movie theater by barthes

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

4 digital painting layered on top of one another depicting: a person eating breakfast and looking at their phone; a person lying in bed; the interior of a bus; a sea shore town. All in the early morning.

Early Morning

pic from last fall, a photographer was taking photos of gays w bikes

Victorine Meurent in pink silk, with parrot. Love monocle she fingers (look at me!), & peeled lemon at base of parrot's perch is so 17th-century Dutch! 1866 by Edouard Manet, born OTD in 1832.

digital painting of somebody sleeping in a messy bed as sunlight pours in to the room. Clothes, food wrappers and cups are scattered around. A poster of a famous golfer is on the wall above the bed.

Non-starter

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do.

ME: How are you supposed to do it?

MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck.

BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

Bookes are like Cheese, that is neuer well seasoned to euery mans tast; for one will say it is too salt, another wil say it is too fresh, a thirde will say it is to tart, another thinkes it to be too milde; one will haue it too hard, another too soft, another too tough, another too brittle, it neuer pleaseth euery mans tast; no more do Bookes.

Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"