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THAT'LL BE $4 BABY

[puddinpap! ✨ @puddinpap]

the drive thru barista complimented my eyes today lads so I am once again in awe of and humbled by the subtle magic of compliments and how they make a normal silly little day just a tiny bit brighter

[furbyoverlord🫀 @luigiincatatire]

Me everyday

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Colima spider-shaped vessel, Late Pre-Classic period, ca. 300 BC–300 AD, crafted from terracotta with a reddish-brown slip. Previously part of private collections in New York and Florida.

Photo Credit: Bonhams.

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

“Cleaning the House” painting by Sally Welchman.

[𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙔 @gumby4christ]

Just watched this and it's excellent. Easily the best, most accessible analysis of the war on Iran I've come across. Highly recommended.

[Sean Duffy @ProfDuff]

Some window cats of South Philadelphia.

[puddinpap! ✨ @puddinpap]

@poisonjr I have a theory the smell is just cat dust. Other people have said their cats smell like cotton candy, marshmallows, or sunbeams, which are just dusty. Sunbeams = heat = dust rises = smells dusty. Foods made with powders = dusty. Nape of cat neck = can’t clean = that shit DUSTY

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Netsuke of a Mother Bat with Two Young, 19th century. Medium: Wood. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

As I’ve mentioned in previous netsuke examples I’ve shared, the origin of these pieces wasn't about aesthetics--it was born entirely out of physical necessity. Let me repeat my standard explanation:

Traditional Japanese kimonos didn’t have pockets. Men used small boxes called inro to carry personal items like medicine, seals, or tobacco. They hung these boxes from the obi sash around their waists using a silk cord. To keep the cord from slipping through the fabric, they attached these weighted toggles, known as netsuke, to the top end. Since the netsuke was constantly touching the silk garment, carvers designed the figures with completely smooth, rounded contours so they wouldn’t snag or tear the fabric.

These objects were very popular--especially among the wealthy. At the time, merchants were restricted from wearing silk or flashy jewelry by various sumptuary (luxury consumption) laws. The merchant class, unable to openly show off their wealth, turned to netsuke to get around these restrictions. Far from government oversight, this miniature medium became a hidden status symbol that merchants paid artisans huge sums to create. No one could say they were dressing extravagantly, but they were carrying expensive sculptures at their waists, crafted by the most talented artists of the era.

Unlike in Western culture, where the bat is associated with fear or disease, in the Far East it symbolizes good luck.

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[Hazel Newlevant @HNewlevant]

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new info about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Ventilation for infection control

Read at https://t.co/2jJYYmu4a1 or in the thread below 👇

[🤍 @gatitosentiment]

ceramic kitties watching twin peaks

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

NEW | Israel’s “New Gaza Order”: Fortress Borders, Proxy Rule, and Engineered Despair

The Israeli +972 magazine reports that while Washington celebrates a “new peace,” Israel is quietly entrenching a permanent system of control and fragmentation in Gaza, marked by fortified borders, proxy militias, and a deliberate policy of despair.

Under the so-called “Yellow Line,” Gaza has been divided into two zones: West Gaza, where over two million Palestinians remain trapped under siege and bombardment; and East Gaza, now an emptied wasteland patrolled by the Israeli occupation army and allied armed groups.

Despite U.S. claims of stability, Israeli occupation forces continue daily strikes, killing hundreds since the ceasefire began, while building concrete barriers that suggest the division is here to stay.

Meanwhile, reports indicate Israel is planning a “New Rafah”, a fenced “safe zone” near Egypt, promoted as reconstruction but functioning as a controlled enclave for displaced Palestinians. Critics say this mirrors Israel’s broader goal: pushing Gaza’s population southward and eventually out of the Strip entirely.

In essence, what Israel and the Trump administration hail as peace is, in fact, a rebranded occupation, a system of engineered despair and demographic control, designed not to rebuild Gaza but to empty it.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Obviously the central villain here is rightwing media embedded into the state apparatus driven by a personality cult and grievance politics but the compete and total uselessness of supposedly neutral and liberal institutions to stand up to these fucking bullies is a close second.

[Matt Lech @MattLech]

Thompsons writing was described as crazy his whole life but go and read it: he was completely on the money in a world of Disney-adult journalists

[puddinpap! ✨ @puddinpap]

Neighbor thinks she’s being gangstalked by drones and talked to me about collecting evidence for it since I “sit there staring at [her] house all the time” a motherfucker can’t even look out the window in absentminded ponderance anymore what the hell

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Collection of vintage Chinese perfume bottles, made of glass, porcelain, jade, and other precious materials, dating from the Qing Dynasty, 18th–19th century AD.

[志村駿 @shihezo]

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[puddinpap! ✨ @puddinpap]

“Let us know if that makes sense, we used a lot of ChatGPT on it”

[puddinpap! ✨ @puddinpap]

Bosses updated my position description and it came out worse I fear

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears.

Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.

They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.

Public health is dying.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Senator @ChrisVanHollen just met with El Salvador's Vice President Félix Ulloa, and get this...

The VP told Van Hollen that the reason they are holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia at CECOT is because the Trump administration is paying them to do so.

They also provided no evidence that Abrego Garcia is part of MS-13 or committed any crimes, just like the US government has not been able to do.

Trump is literally colluding with El Salvador to violate a Supreme Court order, and Republicans are silent!