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The Return of the Prodigal Son, 2025 by Nataliya Bagatskaya ( Ukraine, b.1967).
Acrylic on canvas | 60 x 95 x 1.8 cm.
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...

“The tech industry has run out of hypergrowth ideas, and in its desperation hitched itself to the least-profitable hardware and software in history, then spent three straight years lying about what was possible to the media, analysts and shareholders.” — @edzitron.com

The Captain's wife
1895
Carl Krederick Sundt-Hansen (1841-1907) Norwegian Painter
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Fresh Breeze off the Norwegian Coast”
Created; 1890
By Norwegian Painter..
Hans Fredrik Gude (1825 - 1903)
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Waves coming into Shore around a lot of pilings and the foreground one forms a sort of spiral

Spiral Wave — Allison Holt
embroidery on painted silk

The Empty Chair This Christmas Why my friend fled the United States

"Um es ganz klar zu sagen: Er ist nicht freiwillig ausgereist; er ist geflohen. Er ist geflohen, weil er Angst vor den Maßnahmen der Regierung hatte; er ist ein Flüchtling. Ein amerikanischer Flüchtling. Zum zweiten Mal in seinem Leben hat er alles und jeden,

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One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

This oil painting, titled "The Sound of the Night," was created by American artist Richard Schmid in 2004. It depicts a serene and intimate scene of a man standing by a window in a dimly lit room, listening to music from a wooden phonograph.

The man's reflection in the window adds extra depth

Ivana Kobilca (Slovenian, 1861-1926)
Women Ironing, 1891
Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm (39.3 x 31.4 in)
Private collection

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I read 80 books this year! Check out my entire reading list and some ideas on how to read more books here:
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Franz Skarbina (1849-1900) - Girl at the Garden Window

Era Leisner (Norwegian, b.1988)
"Brewing Storm," 2025
Acrylic on canvas
105 x 105 cm
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Pete Hegseth Chapter 10 More Lethality, Less Lawyers

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”

It’s almost as if there were signs!

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Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.

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Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

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So here is the thing about teenagers: they are children playing at adulthood. That cognitive dissonance is hard for a lot of ppl & doesn’t mesh w a society based on reducing everyone to a consumer demo. Our job as adults, tho, is to provide them w the safety & support networks they need 1/5

Odo (Otton) Dobrowolski (Polish, 1883–1917)
"Paryz-Bulwar w Sniegu (A Paris Boulevard in the Snow)", 1910.
Mixed Media on Thick Paper, 53.5 × 68 cm.
Private Collection.
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Kesja Tabaczuk (Polish Artist, born 1989)
"The Pigeon and the Raven", 2022.
Oil on Canvas, 70 × 60 cm.
Private Collection.
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This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.

The historian Richard Rhodes uses the term “public man-made death.” He was referring to war, but also Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward. We are in the face of a public man-made death now. And it is our opportunity to hold people accountable."

This is brilliant!
🧪“The Monster Slash”
By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG

She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.

Albert Edelfelt 1854–1905
Finnish Painter
Good Friends (Portrait of the Artist's Sister, Bertha Edelfelt) - 1881
Oil on panel - 16 x 12"
Hermitage - St. Petersburg
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Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile was a documentary.

Artist: Jacek Yerka

Okay y'all, I'm ready to unveil this year's interactive squirrel pumpkin. I gave up on keeping the squirrels away from my Halloween jack o'lanterns years ago and decided to just work with them. Here are ones from the past four years: 1/2