This is the kind of personal story I come to this app hoping to see.

Not inane questions about which of two movies I prefer. Not *look at me* selfies. Not half-baked (yet somehow refried) political opinions.

This. Let's have more of this.

Military spending last year
🇺🇸$916 billion
🇨🇳$296 billion
🇷🇺$109 billion
🇮🇳$83.6 billion
🇸🇦$75.8 billion
🇬🇧$74.9 billion
🇩🇪$66.8 billion
🇫🇷$61.3 billion
🇯🇵$50.2 billion
🇰🇷$47.9 billion
🇮🇹$35.5 billion

68,000 Americans died last year because they had no health insurance. Obscene.

This fall, I got an e-mail from a guy named JM Simpson who'd read things I'd written about homelessness. He mentioned he was a photojournalist in Olympia and that he'd been photographing the unhoused population there. He wanted to share some work with me . . . (1)

Being rude won't help, man. You don't know me.

An album with one face on the cover.

This is gorgeous. Happy birthday Criterion Channel!!!

Generative AI can generate only because of copyrighted works—works these models have co-opted without consent, compensation, or transparency. WGAW is pleased to support Adam Schiff’s Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act as a first step towards addressing this theft-based AI…

'My face was stiff with thought. Or with something that made my face stiff.'
⁃Raymond Chandler in _The High Window._

This is Italian model Alessandro di Marco. No, he's not advertising Armani aftershave, he was actually born 186 years ago in 1838. I've lightly enhanced & sharpened this 1867 portrait by Julia Cameron, the same year Charles Dickens gave his first public reading in the United…

In the '70s, when I lived in the country, there was a partial #eclipse .
The light grew dim. The chickens all filed into their coop and went to roost.
A few minutes later it was over. The rooster emerged & crowed. All the hens came blinking into the light.
A short nap.

Four books that made you the way you are.

This is the world's oldest colour film. It was filmed by inventor Edward Turner 123 years ago, between 1901 & 1902 in Brighton & Hove, Houslow and Knightsbridge, London. Edward died suddenly in 1903 aged just 29. His historic colour films were only re-discovered in 2012.

Looked it up. December 24, 1973.

In the 70s, when I lived in the country, there was a partial eclipse.
The light grew dim. The chickens all filed into their coop and went to roost.
A few minutes later it was over. The rooster emerged & crowed. All the hens came blinking into the light.
A short nap.

No context Raymond Chandler:

'Something poked me in the back. It could've been a finger. I didn't think so.'

Introducing our new monthly ambient/experimental column, Ambient Matters

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The 15 best #ambient / #experimental releases of March yielded enough sublime music to send you drifting into transcendence for many moons to come. - Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

Drop something blue from your gallery.

It's a beautiful spring Friday afternoon here. A perfect time to groove with Miriam Makeba!youtu.be/JBJVVhn7iuo?si…

Three Easter enhancements for you, wich were taken back in 1909. But there's a twist! You may be unexpectedly familiar with the sitter for, believe it or not, these are actually Dracula himself - the great horror movie star Bela Lugosi 🦇

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on YOUR page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures.