2026-02-04 11:32:17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
Happy New Year! May this coming year offer you liberation.
I’m thrilled to have two excerpts from a manuscript, You Must be an Image to Survive, You Must be a Text to Be Found,in the new issue of Works & Days from out now from Beautiful Days Press.
I’ll also be reading at the launch on January 15 in Brooklyn.
Super Bowl 2026: Who is performing America the Beautiful ahead of Patriots vs. Seahawks at Super Bowl LX
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-america-the-beautiful…
This is a beautiful and amazing graphic novel about a phone scam victim.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-india-digital-arrest-by-phone-graphic-novel/
Renee Good's brother in congressional testimony: 'What a beautiful American we have lost' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5721103-citizens-share-ice-assaults/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p119#a260203p119
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Belle & Sebastian:
🎵 We Were Beautiful
#NowPlaying #Belle #Sebastian
https://belleandsebastian.bandcamp.com/track/we-were-beautiful
https://open.spotify.com/track/3F361WUtUwN7ZX8DlpK4Lz
Thank you for your counselling in my moment of consumer crisis. Order placed! Now I have to deal with the fact modern phones are designed to be impossible to hold securely in your hand. That beautiful glass and aluminum in the product shot is about to be swaddled in cheap TPU.
Saw a beautiful woman in a low cut dress on the NYC subway and she had an "I voted" sticker covering her cleavage.
There have been numerous disgustingly fake 'nightscape' composites flooding the web where someone had merely pasted a deep astronomical image of comet C/2026 A6 #Lemmon into some landscape, making it look like it was a giant rivalling Ikeya-Seki oder West - oh, how I hated that. And what a relief that NOIRLab has now posted - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2549a/ - this beautiful and apparently unmanipulated picture of Lemmon over Mauna Kea on 12 November. Yes, it reached 3 point something mag. and had nice tails in the end but it was not a great comet by any means: just look how small and faint it appears next to the southern Milky Way!
Funded by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), no doubt...
#RoboCop
Wirtz!!!!! So patient and against the grain. Beautiful.
#LFC
For all you nature lovers (especially herpetological sorts, i.e. lizards, and more specifically, geckos here in Aotearoa) get a load of this: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-strange-beautiful-lizard-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Stunning. I tried t…
🎶 Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
#language …
Creepy Donald does what creepy Donald does.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sleazy-donald-trump-79-lusted-over-beautiful-ukraine-women-during-russia-putin-peace-talks-with-zelensky/
India’s Beautiful and Historic Stepwells Restored to Working Order for the Thirsty Nation https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/indias-beautiful-and-historic-stepwells-restored-to-working-order-for-the-thirsty-nation/
RE: https://fediscience.org/@eumbot/115831289980712405
Quick reminder from EuMetSat (Europe's *other* space agency), we only have one world. We share it with each other and it's beautiful. If you feel you need a regular reminder of this, the @… is there to help...
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
― B.B. King
#Learning #Music #Knowledge
@… Duncan Jones posted this video over on BSky, and I thought you might enjoy it as much as I did. I am slain by what a difference having these professional ovens makes - you can control both the heat and the humidity. Beautiful to see all these steps that I have taught myself done with such grace and precision by a pro!
Saw a beautiful woman in a low cut dress on the NYC subway and she had an "I voted" sticker covering her cleavage.
A Minneapolis story:
Today, I took my kid to the neighborhood park to go ice skating. A beautiful thing about this city is that •everyone• has a neighborhood park: early in the city’s history, planners made it a goal to have a park within walking distance of every single residence. They didn’t have to shoehorn this goal in; they built up the city around it. There are little parks all over the city, many just a couple of blocks in size.
And in the winter, they flood the athletic fields: ice rinks!
1/
Have a beautiful first Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday. May the new year bring love and pleasure into your life 🌹
"There is at hand a good relish, very inviting, and Thasian wine and ointment and fillets. For Kypris [Aphrodite] dwells where plenty is, but among those who are hard up Aphrodite will not stay."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1.28
🏛 Celestial Venus, Roman sculpture, 2-3rd Century CE
This may be the only beautiful things coming out of the US in the dark times Americans face, its hidden, its underground, but ultimately that’s the real spirit, perhaps the living proof not all is lost.
❤️ https://www.patrickrhone.net/16950-2/
The plans for running solar powered AI data centres in orbit are a fantasy. America’s AI future will be powered by Beautiful Clean Coal.
"What people are doing here is beautiful": The immense power of the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/what-people-are-doing-here-is-beautiful-the-immense-power-of-the-minneapolis-anti-ice-protests/
View of Bath from Beechen Cliff the other day #photography
My amazing niece flying solo. I took this still* from a video of her getting ATC clearance, taking off, and flying. Solo. She’s not yet 20.
I rly don’t have the words to describe my feelings as I watched the video. I cried like a baby—I can say that much.
Yesterday, I bought her a pair of Ray-Ban aviator shades for Xmas. Because she’s an aviator. ❤️
* I chose to share a pic w/ her face obscured for social media, but she’s as beautiful as she is brilliant.
In 2016, Ishii released the erotic fantasy film Bitter Honey (Mitsu no aware), based on the novel by Murō Saisei, about the relationship between a dying writer, played by Ren Osugi, and his goldfish who takes the form of a beautiful girl, played by Fumi Nikaidō.
Not to mention how are we supposed to sleep with this going on outside under the midnight sun...
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork
This is so beautiful. 🥹
#PGP/#GPG keeps on giving
from my link log —
International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/09/20/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities-worldwide/
saved 2019-10-21
Today's weather is a metaphor: while asleep snow accumulates; once awake, the rain turns what was beautiful into something else entirely.
2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
Beautiful Magnolias across the street from the Temple Beth-El synagogue in downtown Ithaca
#photo #photography #magnolia
No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Unpacked Journeys
All things solo travel, backpacking and the wild ride of navigating the beautiful chaos of your 20's...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/unpacked-journeys/
i don't care how old #nagios #monitoring is, seeing all these green lights is more beautiful than any christmas tree... only true #devops will understand 😁
94% of the women in America are beautiful and the rest hang out around here.
How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump's megabill (Eva McKend/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/11/30/politics/trump-one-big-beautiful-bill-rural-healthcare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p31#a251130p31
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kim Deal:
🎵 Beautiful Moon
#KimDeal
https://ericandericamusic.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-moon-kim-deal-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sHA0wlNT6RTMFvnwddcPG
Our local #bobcat comes by most nights, but decided to wander by at 2pm today so I got a nice clear video clip. My favorite local critter, beautiful markings.
Appeals court lifts injunction on Medicaid funding cuts
The Law applies almost exclusively to Planned Parenthood health centers
Democratic-led states had alleged that the law was an unconstitutional retroactive condition
A provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by the Republican-led Congress,
bars Medicaid funding for tax-exempt organizations that provide family planning and reproductive health services if they perform abortions and received more than $…
Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way…
A rammed earth house that reuses existing material on site and works in harmony with the surrounding landscape
Beautiful architecture and down to earth (pun intended) - brilliantly written up by @… 👏
@… wow, beautiful.
Just finished "The Daughters of Ys", a graphic novel written by M.T. Anderson and illustrated by Jo Rioux. Is apparently a telling on an ancient Breton legend, which explains some of the narrative devices and plot choices. The drawings are beautiful and the tale is interesting, but takes a royalty-focused and -friendly perspective I've grown unfond of at this stage in my life.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
My interests in sealife & medieval history converge with the exhibition of woodcut prints by @… in the beautiful space of #StBenetsCam, founded before the Norman conquest:
So a little while back, @… wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.
Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.
And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten…
me: "🎶 up up and away in my beautiful my beautiful balloon 🎶"
me: *flies the laundry basket between my wife and her two laptops*
my wife: "OKAY! OKAY! I'LL GO TO BED!"
#CatsOfMastodon #AnnoyingHusbandsOfMastodon
Let's stress test the Fediverse on new year's.
Let's all make a nice "happy new year!" post (add media for bonus) and see if our beautiful decentralised network can handle it.
Boost for increased load. 😎
#Fediverse #Mastodon
One of my early memories is hearing the #Islamic call for prayer in #Hyderabad #India and how beautiful it was, a morning symphony of beautiful singing and chanting, likely much the same as it has been for centurie…
Damn. This is beautiful.
The story and the writing.
https://beige.party/@raineyday/115793532205514401
The NFL spits out beautiful chaos, again https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6927140/2025/12/30/falcons-rams-nfl-playoffs-the-pulse/
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"The one who strengthens someone in pain,
Who comforts a young one in love,
Who makes the dancer beautiful over drinks,
That god has descended to the ground,
Offering a calming lovespell for mortals,
A medicine against grief,
The vine’s child, wine."
Anacreonta 56
🏛 #Aphrodite
Jazzaria – Slow, and Beautiful
https://www.archive.org/details/slow-and-beautiful
https://www.
On this #Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for all the people that came before us, and left us this beautiful earth to live on. I want to share it with all our descendants to come as well.
I’m thankful for *you*, for giving it your best to make the social web a success. I want to preserve this vision of the web, and share it with my son when he once comes of age.
Just walked the dog while I was dressed in only my underwear in the middle of winter because we live in the desert in the middle of nowhere—and I think that’s beautiful.
Beautiful Burnout (fucking chills) https://youtu.be/aYYu1lO97SI?si=L4FH3Vqr-jXwLJd3
Sad And Beautiful World - Album by Mavis Staples | Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/07aZwFEzDfh0BALXf1o6FH?si=6pPf3F0aR7uoxIgBurlxqA
> Mavis Staples · album · 2025 · 10 songs
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Elena Kats‐Chernin, Kees Boersma, Timothy Dunin, Alex Henery, Max McBride, Kirsty McCahon, Matthew McDonald, Robert Nairn, Caro Vigilante, Australian World Orchestra & Alexander Briger:
🎵 The Witching Hour - Concerto for Eight Double Basses 4. Vassilissa the beautiful
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YYgxtSrPPpGD31cgubSJ7
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jill Scott:
🎵 Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://orlandovoorn2.bandcamp.com/album/goat-series-jill-scott-beautiful-people-dba-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S37ilrmjAKT7hq63NSylw
All worry is laid to waste.
The endorphins rushing wild from the freezing water,
the music pounding through my body,
the caffeine,
the fucking ducks and the God-roiling sky
– no what-ifs,
no yeah-buts,
no what-abouts,
no caveats, at all.
I am made happy,
and that happiness is entire and incontestable.
And all the way home, I go
— to my beautiful waking wife
– on this, the best day ever.
Love, Nick Cave
Wow, ARTE produced a beautiful concert with the inimitable Kruder & Dorfmeister. And it's not just some deck magic of their best tracks/remixes, but actual live versions including a full band for support...
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Konzerthaus de Vienne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXz1UqAuRg
Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE (American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/28/minnesota-ice-trump-ceo-big-beautiful-bill-alex-pretti/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p103#a260128p103
But now, LLMs offer a beautiful new promise: your brilliant notions can proceed full speed without any pesky underlings at all!
You can just •build the app• or •launch the campaign• or whatever, and nobody will tell you annoying things like “that won’t work” or “that timeline is unrealistic” or “that will create even larger problems” or “people will die.” The chat LLM is there to say YES to your hitherto-unacknowledged brilliance!
6/
Drake Maye continues stellar second season in Monday night debut as Patriots roll https://www.nfl.com/news/drake-maye-continues-stellar-second-season-in-monday-night-debut-as-patriots-roll
from my link log —
Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/07/27/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities/
saved 2019-10-21 …
ppl say blue collar, white collar, sometimes even pink collar if they love women. where tf is red collar? our beautiful killers and assasins overlooked as always 😔
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jimmy Cliff:
🎵 Wonderful World, Beautiful People
#JimmyCliff
https://djade.bandcamp.com/track/jimmy-cliff-wonderful-world-beautiful-people-ade-edit-1969
Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟
Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant across the salt marsh from Hampton Beach, NH
#photo #photography #newhampshire #nh
In Mexico we say “he has stomach hands, because everything he touches turns to shit” and I think that is beautiful. https://infosec.exchange/@SteveBellovin/115765519877271730
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand
more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
-- Thackeray
“The US has unveiled its plans for a ‘New Gaza’ that would see the devastated Palestinian territory rebuilt from scratch.
‘We’re going to be very successful in Gaza. It's going to be a great thing to watch,’ Trump declared.
‘I’m a real estate person at heart and it's all about location. And I said: “Look at this location on the sea. Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people.”’
…
Last February, Trump sparked outrage around the …
Already shared this track/EP some time ago, but it just needs another round: 13 minutes of beautiful minimal, meditative slow-motion dub with an absolutely remarkable (and unforgettable) bass line to glue it all together...
Blamstrain - 4AM (2013)
https://soundcloud.com/juho/blamstrain
james ferraro after creating something beautiful: FUCK its beautiful,, ohno ohgod whatdoido... uhh...... GUYS its actually an IRONIC satire of, like, um... HIP HOP CULTURE! black people amirite!!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Jill Scott:
🎵 Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://orlandovoorn2.bandcamp.com/album/goat-series-jill-scott-beautiful-people-dba-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S37ilrmjAKT7hq63NSylw
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
This 70 year old man,
angry to the point of tears,
watches a violent mob
sent by the U.S. President
to destroy his beautiful city.
Elites cower while he’s brave enough to walk into a cloud of tear gas.
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/pos…
GOP unveils plan to cut deficit by $1 trillion with second 'big, beautiful bill' (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-unveils-plan-cut-deficit-1-trillion-second-big-beautiful-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p104#a260113p104
Morning Glory
(Somewhere in southern Bavaria, whilst on a beautiful, but freezing early morning photo safari two years ago...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Trying to track the tariffs?
It’s a mess.
See this tracker from a law firm ReedSmith:
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/11/20/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/#updates
👀⚖️💰
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
Sonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
🎵 There She Goes, My Beautiful World
#NickCave #TheBadSeeds
https://open.spotify.com/track/2l5VFKRtAvFGxVa2iFm3Xc
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Beautiful Freaks:
🎵 Bitter Fruit
#BeautifulFreaks
https://fr3aks.bandcamp.com/track/bitter-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ykOGm2jddVS8kGTbj0KWf
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ka:
🎵 Beautiful
#Ka
https://ikristel.bandcamp.com/track/knowing-is-beautiful
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jill Scott:
🎵 Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://thedjboutique.bandcamp.com/track/jill-scott-beautiful-people-the-dj-boutique-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S37ilrmjAKT7hq63NSylw