I choose to interpret this as a critique of capitalism and consumerism.

Do not forget. We live on a planet of million-year-old species and an almost mystically beautiful, coevolved set of ecosystems and species.

Chicken shit pandemic is so on brand for the US.

Nothing learned from mad cow disease, apparently.

Hey, let's feed cows some chicken shit when birds have been sick w/ avian flu!

What could go wrong?

Kurt Vonnegut died on this day in 2007.

'Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created.'

For children to flourish, they need to grow up reading and being read to.

The following is a list of some ESSENTIAL books for any beloved children in your life. And they’re brilliant enough that they can be enjoyed equally well by adults.

Wasn’t your show cancelled bc mine was more popular?

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the matte work on Marvin the Martian cartoons. It’s like Kandinsky for kids

“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.”
- Seamus Heaney

“57 main offenders account for a whopping 88 percent of global emissions.”
futurism.com/the-byte/clima…

“It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.” - Woody Guthrie

Evergreen

iris apfel as muppets: thread

This is not normal. This is not ok. We are getting incinerated - incinerated - because of some arbitrary social construct about the “fiduciary responsibility” to “maximize shareholder value.” Humanity is getting torched for profit. The rest is commentary.

NASA's Huygens probe descending on the surface of the Titan, a moon of Saturn 😲

It went offline shortly after touching down

This is enshittification. Google is shifting value away from end users (searchers) and business customers (advertisers, publishers and merchants) to itself:

pluralistic.net/2024/03/05/the…

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U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity bit.ly/49vcQNG

“Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value”

La noche…

📸 Nick Brandt (2020)