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[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

In 1924, the year this picture of the Grand Canyon was painted, Gunnar Widforss exhibited a large group of works depicting scenes from US National Parks. An art critic at the time considered Widforss as 'possibly the greatest watercolorist in America today.'

[Lucas Shaw @Lucas_Shaw]

Hollywood is making 47% fewer TV shows than it was just four years ago.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Terrifying thread.

Due to a legal ruling which lets AI companies off the hook for copyright infringement as long as they destroy the original book, they're buying up millions of rare books, scanning them as AI training data, and then destroying them.

[journey to the past©️™️ @femfilmrogue]

Rest in power to the exceptional multidisciplinary visual artist, Betye Saar! We were just days away from celebrating her 100th birthday. 🌹🌹🌹

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

On this day in 1919, a Black teenager drifted across an invisible line in Lake Michigan. White beachgoers stoned him until he drowned. He was 17.

His name was Eugene Williams. The "line" was the unofficial boundary between the white and Black sections of a Chicago beach. A line drawn on WATER.

Police arrived. Black witnesses pointed out the man who had thrown the stones. The officer refused to arrest him and arrested a Black man from the crowd instead.

That refusal lit Chicago on fire. Thirteen days of white mobs raiding Black neighborhoods, and Black veterans fighting back: 38 dead, 537 injured, roughly 1,000 Black families burned out of their homes.

It began because a child couldn't see a border that existed only in white minds.

This is why we have documented 150 crimes against Black people that remain unanswered for https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

my half sleeve of dante and beatrice among the stars

[James @exhaustdata]

In the “to be or not to be” monologue Hamlet refers to death “the undiscovered country” from which “no traveller returns,” despite the fact that Hamlet has personally spoken to a ghost by that point in the play

[𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 @hellspatisserie]

This was there pre-covid but ever since the pandemic everything has felt like it has gone totally bizarre. At once everyone has gone off the deep end and yet daily life seems to go on as normal. Everyone is insane but it doesn’t really matter.

[Dent May @dentmay]

Joni Mitchell on “You Get What You Give” by New Radicals

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

telling a drop out of society 60s hippie during the worst acid trip of his life that in the future there’ll no longer be beatles vs stones arguments but which rock singer is more virtuous to his wife

[Steven @StevenWallaby]

Rocks that a complete bozo with awful opinions can make such a riotously funny, luminous and poignant masterpiece.

[addi @carta_al_che]

marx’s ideas were able to appeal to millions and he never lied about who he was or scammed people into getting into power. every prominent communist in history criticized people exactly like zohran and laid out in plain terms why this kind of opportunism is wrong, and were able-

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations https://t.co/Lrn7JbXmEk

[Maximilian Uriarte @TLCplMax]

I use the "Solid Snake Method" to communicate with my 5 yo:

Him: daddy, look, this is a deadly jellyfish
Me: a deadly jellyfish?
Him: yes its called a box jellyfish don't touch it
Me: a "box jellyfish"? I shouldn't touch it?
Him: yes its very dangerous

[X @XaviercMiller]

Which means if you made $80,000 in 2020, you need to make $110-115k today just to maintain the exact same lifestyle… don’t let anyone convince it’s ok to take your foot off the gas.

[ؘtestogrelo não-binário @sapatonaraiz]

me dá um certo desespero saber que o mundo é assim e a gente perde tempo trabalhando pra sustentar um sistema injusto

[Jenna @starshipTARDIS]

Scientists have said it can't be washed off. The only safe thing to do is cook your fruit. Mainstream news is giving people incorrect & unsafe information. These news outlets are where a lot of older folks get their news. The elderly are also at higher risk of complications.

[ore! @orengepeels]

@jessiechrxst It's insane. The fans are a whole new issue, a journalist asked if the actors have seen the movie or read the final script and people are saying he should be named and shamed fucking hell

[Брейндл Мышкиновна Лифшиц @jessiechrxst]

really sad how insular film journalism has become... a reporter asking actual questions and not fawning over the actors is seen as a direct attack that should be met with targeted harassment. the super hero genre has set back film as a medium by about 50 years.

[kiki ☀️ @kikibats]

historians warned us though that the 1920s pandemic caused humanity to turn fascist so rapidly and yet we are repeating the same mistakes