If I saw that Hercule Poirot or Benoit Blanc or one of these dudes was a guest at a dinner party I was at, I would immediately excuse myself to use the bathroom and get tf outta that cursed house

Meanwhile, French history:

The absence of influential nuns in his life is screamingly palpable.

Just going to revisit this as a prominent world leader feuds with the papacy and risks a major rift for his blasphemous language.

Not real but also perfection

A row of 3 paintings, all depicting nativity scenes by women artists. The first and third paintings are in portrait mode, and both depict the birth of the Virgin. The middle painting is in landscape mode, and depicts the birth of Saint John the Baptist.

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

In "Women’s Depictions of Midwives in Early Modern Art," author, nurse & activist Jane Salvage discusses and interprets the role of midwives in birth scenes painted by early modern #womenartists.

#ArtemisiaGentileschi #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia #LaviniaFontana

This is wonderful--thanks for sharing!

Sarah Andersen, contemporary cartoonist and illustrator #womensart

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

And armpits should be two words

Men should shave their arm pits

Picture of the crook of a tree that has smooth curves and little bumps that make it look either like a Greek or Roman statue or Jabba the Hut, depending on angle

This is the kind of tree erotica that makes you believe in dryads.

(Pic from Cathedral Hills in Southern Oregon from this last weekend.)

Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.

GOALZ

Everybody pack up. Lock the doors and turn off the lights. No point trying to top this.

Clip from news article about a White House official invoking the Avignon Papacy to intimidate and threaten the papacy

But who needs historians anymore, amirite?

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Love this!

I shouldn't have.

I really, really shouldn't have.

It goes against the basic rules of librarianship.

But I couldn't help it. There's a certain type of person who, when they ask if we have any books by Rush Limbaugh, makes me respond with, "Could you spell that? I'm not familiar with them."

Still shocking 😳🤯🤣

This applies to writing too. The struggle is where you learn the important stuff

A painting by an artist named Peace showing the main branch of the library in Grants Pass, OR with "LIBRARY CLOSED" stenciled over it

A few days ago I found out that a local artist named Peace, who recently passed away, painted this after our library's first system closure in 2007. It was given to me to pass along to our main branch.

It's especially touching since our library faces yet ANOTHER attack by far-right activists

I used this woodcut to name the crow in my novel (which has Mathew Hopkins in it)--he's called Greedyguts, and he's wicked smart 🐦‍⬛!

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE

John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown

(Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology
Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.