delighted by the doodled precision of this diagram from Christiaan Huygens, the first to explain how changing appearance of Saturn is caused by its flat ring(s)

the great hall of the university of padua; the wall is decorated with the coats of arms of the families of students and teachers. photo by Paolo Monti, 1966

i just pledged to support this incredibly cool looking design/art magazine about measurement. look how beautiful it is!! (and, i'm biased, but what a good subject...) kickstarter.com/projects/50497…

This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.

"I added Cusk to my canon of crypto-trans writers, who, by saying what they did outside of the frame of explicitly trans writing, exposed some of the kinds of feeling that I felt otherwise went unexpressed, the uncertainties, the self-loathing" reyconquer.substack.com/p/on-rohmer-an…

Happy 90th anniversary, the surrealist genius Jan Švankmajer!

shit. the IA has saved me so many many times by providing access to a book that's either unavailable at libraries or too expensive to buy. meanwhile, chatGPT and the like will continue to spit out inaccuracies mined from far greater copyright violation x.com/PublishersWkly…

left: Robert Fludd's illustration of Jacob's Ladder, 1619 right: William Blake's 1793 engraving from the series 'For Children: The Gates Of Paradise'

This headline manages to reinforce several pillars of rape culture at once, one being that sexual violence is a private act and coming forward about it publicly is a transgression, another that any attempt to seek justice for sexual violence is a form of violence in itself

Absolutely gorgeous chisel-work makes this Last Judgement scene look almost like a woodcut print Memorial to Girolamo Raimondi by Francesco Baratta the elder, a pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Bernini’s Raimondi Chapel at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome

in 1587 the demonologist Martin Del Rio reported an incident in Calais. he witnessed two sentries shoot at a cloud only for a witch to fall out. she was "drunk, naked, very fat, middle-aged" and refused to answer any questions. Del Rio says the report is "quite beyond dispute"

wonderful piece on simone weil and what a new collection of family letters reveal about her. she pursued and achieved abnegation of the self, lived as an alien and a saint (as all saints must), but retained humanity enough to lie in letters to her parents newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

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As a billionaire is doing the first private spacewalk, I am reminded of this. Whitey's on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron.