Just ran ten miles; no one can tell me anything ever again

A jaw-dropping visual stylist

Ned how much do you know about opera

This explainer is pretty great. science.nasa.gov/mission/webb... The vast majority of rocky planets in our galaxy are orbiting red dwarf stars! And the James Webb telescope is recording infrared light from them to see if they have atmospheres.

Meanwhile in the new millennium

hooting and hollering for Harvey Award nominee Ben Wickey (MORE WEIGHT: A SALEM STORY) as well as the many great nominees that I didn't personally work with!!

gotta hand it to the Pet Shop Boys and designer Mark Farrow for being on this since 1986

people remember 1990s graphic design for grunge and Surge and the chaotic Photoshop-gone-mad aesthetic, but in the mid-90s there was also this whole minimalist high-class counter-movement that prefigured the millennial Apple Store future

Just noticed something

Here’s a cropped detail of a painting. What painting? Where is it? The “Art Credits” page tells us simply: “New York Public Library (Science, Industry, and Business Library)” which btw doesn’t exist anymore, and surely doesn’t hold a large collection of 17th-century paintings

That’s a pretty striking image!

Good morning, Internet

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's haunted nasa employee: what? astronaut: *grabbing Moon Machete and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted

Happy birthday America

Okay but actually they’re pretty clear on the message

it was also (unfortunately) Dave Sim who coined the very evocative phrase “Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon,” which has rattled around in my head for twenty years

Not as many X's as I expected tbh. Many of the state reps didn't face challengers, and I had trouble finding results on some of the state committee district leaders

Fire the consultant who wrote this for you into the sun

Who can argue with the pop glamour of this Patagonia sweater vest

Now I can’t un-see it

I recently picked up a copy of this book, which “Explores the bullying domination of Wagner over Nietzsche & Cosima, erotic jealousy, the anti-Semitic, sectarian Bayreuth labyrinth, the influence of Wagner's pre-fascist ideology on Nietzsche.” The situation was a beautiful clusterfuck all around

Yeah but he has fun with it

Milton also has a passage here about the dismemberment & dispersion of truth among many thinkers, by analogy with the myth of Osiris, that is remarkably similar to something Kepler said 21 years earlier:

The Criterion bonus features for ROBOCOP feature such insights as writer Edward Neumeier saying “I had a boring office job at Universal sitting through endless meetings, and one day I started imagining a robot walking into the meeting and shooting everyone”

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I’m going to start a Bowie/Eno cover band called A Series of Lectures in a Nearby Town