Peter Fraenkel

Dog is very annoyed about its idiotic haircut. Nevertheless it was immortalized in 1580 by Hans Hoffmann of Nuremberg. Today is his day.

Henri Matisse dans une volière au Régina à Nice, 1938 by Roger Schall

This is an interesting story on technology and people and memory, though I like the version without highlighting at richardcolby.net/writ2000/wp-... better

Pilgrim’s Progress - a new edition for modern readers

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

you can tell Claude writes great code because every website in 2026 has an ever-increasing frequency of timeouts, blank pages, weird errors, and downtime. imagine a carpenter telling you "use this or get left behind" and they hand you a hammer that hits your hand instead of the nail 20% of the time

Ross Douthat lives in...Connecticut. To be fair, I haven't been there recently, but did I miss its "civic and educational collapse?"

John the Baptist, just chilling in the v. lively wilderness with his lamb in 1489. By Hieronymus Bosch, whose day is today.

It’s remarkable how persistent this myth is. German democracy survived hyperinflation; it did not survive mass unemployment in the 1939s. It would be better to say this the other way round: because German leaders are conservative, they remember hyperinflation. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

i'm really proud of this policy. it's not perfect, but i think it's close to the best that was possible given all the constraints. i'm excited that this will make things easier for mods and reviewers, and hopeful that it will spark change in Rust's governance. blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Casting cats and dogs to play the original lynxes and harehounds is a betrayal of western values.

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

based on the trailer alone I don't think Chris Nolan even played Mario Odyssey

Quick post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the idiocy of liberals punching left.

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

Also, there have to have been Munchkin kapos helping the East Witch administer the place, and I can't imagine that things ended well for them after Dorothy left town.

This is a perfect metaphor for AI-generated prose.

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

Happy Father's Day 🖤

jesus tapdancing christ dude. jesus, mary, and chain what are they doing over there

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool

Garden of Earthly Delights

i think if you dress like this, you deserve to do a little corruption

Un train à grande popularité | L’actualité: ✱ PSPP n’ira pas chercher beaucoup de votes avec sa contestation de ce projet, mettons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

Je suis tombé sur ça 😂 PSPP qui mecsplique à 4 femmes que le prochain défi du féminisme sera de se battre contre les discriminations SYSTÉMIQUES. De l’or ! 🤣 Mettant en vedette le PSPP de 2014

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Actual quote by a guy on our local online message board, arguing that the t-shirt & slogan for the town’s annual 4th of July parade was too woke & anti-Trump: "I for one do not want to see a 4th of July parade celebrating revolutionary resistance."

obviously i dont think anyone should have to live in constant fear of a madman emerging from a crowd to blow them away. i just think some people should live in constant fear of entire crowds surging as one, swallowing them whole and leaving no recognizable trace. like a sort of immune response 😀

Preemptive post:

Our long national nightmare is over.

This speaks to me on a soul-deep level I can’t really express in words

Hypothetical: you get a CV from a young developer. Excellent grades from a good school, solid experience in bunch of interesting languages, oss contributions and some cool personal projects, worked with large codebases, etc. Also claims to be a “Proficient liar.” Do you hire them?

https://www.theonion.info/

Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]