“All the President’s Men” was a warning
Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Someone please check if this goat is ok.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Fl has no income tax, but they charge for everything, like having your garbage picked up.
OMG she graduated from my HS, class of 2015.
Édouard Vuillard, The Newspaper, 1896-98, showing a woman reading a newspaper in a decorated interior
If I were to recommend only a single exhibition in NYC right now it wouldn't be a big, splashy museum presentation but rather a small, ravishing show of Édouard Vuillard's early interiors at Skarstedt in Chelsea. Absolutely stupendous. Open through April 25 (thread) www.skarstedt.com/exhibitions/...
Thank you @timeshighered.bsky.social for publishing my essay advocating for the value of developmental editing in scholarly writing & publishing!
Takeaway for authors: learning to edit your own work in this way will help you get published better (and faster)
French was no longer a spoken language (!)
My maternal grandmother and grandfather ran a business together. She was probably more of a businessperson than he was.
a very misty view of the chicago river in downtown
unironically one of my favorite kinds of chicago weather
The most famous line from Lincoln's second inaugural address is also probably the most misunderstood: "with malice toward none, with charity for all."
I'm a fan of Frederick Douglass's gloss on it.
Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her iridescence in the warm evening light in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🌅
Between roughly 1971 and 1994 there was only one year with less than 1500 murders in NYC.
In 1990 there were more than 2200. Six per day basically
Six murders. Per day.
Last year, 2025, there were 305.
Everything old is new again
The Hermitage
They look like a photoshop project or a hallucinogenic nightmare or like someone though squirrels were easter eggs, but in fact, these squirrels (one shown close up, and one with a full body, both striped in impossibly bright blue, orange and red, with only the tiniest bits of normal-brown-squirrel fur) ARE REAL.
I know the world is a nightmare right now, but I just discovered that India has squirrels that look like this, and I need you to know it too.
Buy CD PINK FLOYD - The Dark Side Of The Moon
On 1 March 1973: Harvest (UK) and Capitol Records (US) release #PinkFloyd's 8th studio album "The Dark Side of the Moon"; it stays on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart for most of the next 14 years, selling over 50 million copies worldwide.
Have some vodka.
🪬🧿 Edinburgh Castle in Autumn
buy my photos as prints: scottishwallart.com
#edinburgh #castle #scotland #cemetery #autumn #travel #history #architecture #landscape #graveyard #alttext
A photo of a paper sign with a Chicago Public Library logo that says "La Biblioteca Pública de Chicago estará cerrada el lunes 2 de marzo, 2026, en Conmemoración del Día de Pulaski"
I love Chicago
My photo shows a Roman Rippenschale (ribbed) blue glass drinking cup with a rounded body and slightly flaring rim. There is some breakage to the rim. The ribs run vertically around the body of the cup, with horizontal bands of white trail decoration around the cup. At the rear of the museum display case, part of a larger ribbed dark blue glass bowl can be seen.
A 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass drinking cup found in Trier, Germany.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
📷 by me
#Archaeology
World's Largest Box of Chocolates, Kansas City, Mo Has 5,000 lbs of real, edible Chocolate 😋 www.worldrecordacademy.org/2024/7/world... / @tebarrett.bsky.social @chaosonpaper.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social @lesliejones4mo.bsky.social @docsociology.bsky.social @lalawriter71.bsky.social
Miniature, painted on vellum by Limbourg brothers & Barthélemy d’Eyck 1412-16 & 1440.
The month of March
Mars, Le Château de Lusignan, Poitou
Miniature, on vellum,1412-16 & 1440
Two oxen pull a peasant’s plough; vines are pruned, soil turned & seed sowed. A dragon (Mélusine) flies over the right tower.
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly
I keep reading that and it seems hard to believe that people really think they're the same person.
Now watching Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).
If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
Master of illusion: perspectival frescoes at Villa Farnesina Rome, by Baldassare Peruzzi, versatile Italian Mannerist architect & artist (1481-1536); apprenticed to Bramante, worked with Raphael & Sangallo, left drawings to his pupil Serlio for publication.
Sala delle Prospettive, Villa Farnesina
