— to kill a mockingbird, by harper lee

Douglas Fairbanks’s cigarette kiss with Lupe Vélez in The Gaucho (1927)

Today makes three years since the fall of Afghanistan and the Taliban’s return. That’s 1063 days since girls were banned from school. And 969 days since they closed universities to women. And nobody cares.

Elsa Merlini on the beach of Viareggio, published in the Argentinian periodical El Hogar with their Feminine Chic column in 1929

Emily Dickinson on this in 1851

my project for the rest of this year is trying to get back that childlike sense of delusion that actually makes you to go for things that you want in life

Aug. 24, 1924: The movie star Pola Negri poses at her Los Angeles home in front of her portrait. Her drama "Lily of the Dust" opens today.

Making poor financial decisions these days (ordered another Fausta Cialente book)

My idea of a perfect end to the summer

sylvia plath

Lee Morse photographed by John de Mirjian in New York, 1930. Courtesy University of Idaho

Gestern hatten wir Opernpremiere beim Kunstfest Weimar, danach saßen wir noch für ein paar Getränke draußen zusammen. Das Team besteht aus dreißig Menschen aus unterschiedlichen Ländern. Kurz nachdem wir uns hingesetzt hatten, kam ein aggressiver Typ auf uns zu. 1/

Es geht los: Die #AfD wird mit diesen Ergebnissen zumindest in #Thüringen eine 2/3-Mehrheit verhindern können und damit etwa die Wahl von Richterinnen und Richtern sowie Mitgliedern des Verfassungsschutz-Kontrollgremiums in Thüringen. Hier steht mehr dazu: verfassungsblog.de/sperrminoritat…

The Internet Archive is a vital and accessible information repository. You just know the people championing this decision would love to fill the void with AI slop.

Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables. And we are shutting down – not building – coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest. PS: We also don’t eat cats and dogs. #Debate2024

Don’t tell Donald Trump about this

Born on this day in 1960, German auteur Christian Petzold reached an artistic apex with this cleverly plotted, smotheringly suspenseful romantic thriller.

Seeing this just now suddenly made it very real again, and it still hurts