2026-02-04 11:32:17
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mavis Staples:
๐ต Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mavis Staples:
๐ต Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
๐บ๐ฆ Auf radioeins lรคuft...
Belle & Sebastian:
๐ต We Were Beautiful
#NowPlaying #Belle #Sebastian
https://belleandsebastian.bandcamp.com/track/we-were-beautiful
https://open.spotify.com/track/3F361WUtUwN7ZX8DlpK4Lz
Happy New Year! May this coming year offer you liberation.
Iโm 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.
Iโll 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-beautifulโฆ
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/
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/
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
@… 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!
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.
Indiaโs 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/
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!
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 tโฆ
๐ถ Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
#language โฆ
A Minneapolis story:
Today, I took my kid to the neighborhood park to go ice skating. A beautiful thing about this city is that โขeveryoneโข has a neighborhood park: early in the cityโs history, planners made it a goal to have a park within walking distance of every single residence. They didnโt 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 ๐น
"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
๐ Celestial Venus, Roman sculpture, 2-3rd Century CE
โThe beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.โ
โ B.B. King
#Learning #Music #Knowledge
My amazing niece flying solo. I took this still* from a video of her getting ATC clearance, taking off, and flying. Solo. Sheโs not yet 20.
I rly donโt have the words to describe my feelings as I watched the video. I cried like a babyโI can say that much.
Yesterday, I bought her a pair of Ray-Ban aviator shades for Xmas. Because sheโs an aviator. โค๏ธ
* I chose to share a pic w/ her face obscured for social media, but sheโs as beautiful as she is brilliant.
This is so beautiful. ๐ฅน
#PGP/#GPG keeps on giving
This may be the only beautiful things coming out of the US in the dark times Americans face, its hidden, its underground, but ultimately thatโs the real spirit, perhaps the living proof not all is lost.
โค๏ธ https://www.patrickrhone.net/16950-2/
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 ๐
The plans for running solar powered AI data centres in orbit are a fantasy. Americaโs 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
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
2006: Less is more, donโt repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
In 2016, Ishii released the erotic fantasy film Bitter Honey (Mitsu no aware), based on the novel by Murล 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 Nikaidล.
from my link log โ
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
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kim Deal:
๐ต 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.
Today's weather is a metaphor: while asleep snow accumulates; once awake, the rain turns what was beautiful into something else entirely.
@… wow, beautiful.
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics90sForever
Barbara Tucker:
๐ต Beautiful People
#BarbaraTucker
https://editlab.bandcamp.com/track/barbara-tucker-beautiful-people-c-j-editlab
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xqtuTUaJMrzRv2NCJ7X72
Beautiful Magnolias across the street from the Temple Beth-El synagogue in downtown Ithaca
#photo #photography #magnolia
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/
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
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 $โฆ
Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every wayโฆ
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 @… ๐
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 Kittenโฆ
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:
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
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
me: "๐ถ up up and away in my beautiful my beautiful balloon ๐ถ"
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. ๐
#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 centurieโฆ
Damn. This is beautiful.
The story and the writing.
https://beige.party/@raineyday/115793532205514401
On this #Thanksgiving, Iโm 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.
Iโm 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 nowhereโand I think thatโs beautiful.
Sad And Beautiful World - Album by Mavis Staples | Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/07aZwFEzDfh0BALXf1o6FH?si=6pPf3F0aR7uoxIgBurlxqA
> Mavis Staples ยท album ยท 2025 ยท 10 songs
Jazzaria โ Slow, and Beautiful
https://www.archive.org/details/slow-and-beautiful
https://www.
Beautiful Burnout (fucking chills) https://youtu.be/aYYu1lO97SI?si=L4FH3Vqr-jXwLJd3
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday ๐น
"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 vineโs child, wine."
Anacreonta 56
๐ #Aphrodite
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Elena KatsโChernin, Kees Boersma, Timothy Dunin, Alex Henery, Max McBride, Kirsty McCahon, Matthew McDonald, Robert Nairn, Caro Vigilante, Australian World Orchestra & Alexander Briger:
๐ต The Witching Hour - Concerto for Eight Double Basses 4. Vassilissa the beautiful
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YYgxtSrPPpGD31cgubSJ7
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jill Scott:
๐ต Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://orlandovoorn2.bandcamp.com/album/goat-series-jill-scott-beautiful-people-dba-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S37ilrmjAKT7hq63NSylw
The NFL spits out beautiful chaos, again https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6927140/2025/12/30/falcons-rams-nfl-playoffs-the-pulse/
Iโm in Chicago, first snowfall. Horrifyingly beautiful.
Beautiful because nature can be wonderful.
Horrifying because humans are too often not.
Nearby, there are federal prisoners in Broadview probably freezing to death tonight.
We each have our challenges, all are real.
May Godโs mercy visit and comfort them.
And may His wrath visit their captors.
#USpol
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
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
โ no what-ifs,
no yeah-buts,
no what-abouts,ย
no caveats, at all.
I am made happy,
and that happiness is entire and incontestable.
And all the way home, I go
โ to my beautiful waking wife
โ on this, the best day ever.
Love, Nick Cave
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
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 ๐
But now, LLMs offer a beautiful new promise: your brilliant notions can proceed full speed without any pesky underlings at all!
You can just โขbuild the appโขย or โขlaunch the campaignโขย or whatever, and nobody will tell you annoying things like โthat wonโt workโ or โthat timeline is unrealisticโ or โthat will create even larger problemsโ or โpeople will die.โ The chat LLM is there to say YES to your hitherto-unacknowledged brilliance!
6/
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jimmy Cliff:
๐ต Wonderful World, Beautiful People
#JimmyCliff
https://djade.bandcamp.com/track/jimmy-cliff-wonderful-world-beautiful-people-ade-edit-1969
from my link log โ
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 โฆ
Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. โBriskโ doesnโt 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. ๐
โThe US has unveiled its plans for a โNew Gazaโ that would see the devastated Palestinian territory rebuilt from scratch.
โWeโre going to be very successful in Gaza. It's going to be a great thing to watch,โ Trump declared.
โIโm a real estate person at heart and it's all about location. And I said: โLook at this location on the sea. Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people.โโ
โฆ
Last February, Trump sparked outrage around the โฆ
Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant across the salt marsh from Hampton Beach, NH
#photo #photography #newhampshire #nh
In Mexico we say โhe has stomach hands, because everything he touches turns to shitโ 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
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!!
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
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Mavis Staples:
๐ต Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Jill Scott:
๐ต Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://orlandovoorn2.bandcamp.com/album/goat-series-jill-scott-beautiful-people-dba-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S37ilrmjAKT7hq63NSylw
๐ถ show playlist ๐
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2
๐ถ KEXP playlist ๐
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 heโs brave enough to walk into a cloud of tear gas.
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/posโฆ
Happy Holidays to all of you who celebrate on Christmas Eve ๐ฒ
Have a beautiful time with loved ones or by yourself and let yourself be happy ๐
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?
Itโs a mess.
See this tracker from a law firm ReedSmith:
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/11/20/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/#updates
๐โ๏ธ๐ฐ
๐งโโ๏ธ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐๐ก๐๐: ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ท๐ข๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐, ๐๐ข๐ก ๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐บ๐๐โ๐ ๐ผ ๐บ๐๐ก ๐ฟ๐๐ฟ 9999 ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ ๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐
๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
... another #anime whose reach exceeds its grasp as the character designs of Light's summons don't express the supernatural beauty described in the light novel โฆ
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Mavis Staples:
๐ต 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 โ temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday
#WinterWonderland arrived early this year...
(From our #EveningWalk in the Ammergau Alps last night... 25-30cm fresh powder everywhere, -7โ, no people, but lots of animal tracks)
#SilentSunday
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Beautiful Freaks:
๐ต Bitter Fruit
#BeautifulFreaks
https://fr3aks.bandcamp.com/track/bitter-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ykOGm2jddVS8kGTbj0KWf
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
๐ต There She Goes, My Beautiful World
#NickCave #TheBadSeeds
https://open.spotify.com/track/2l5VFKRtAvFGxVa2iFm3Xc
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jill Scott:
๐ต Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://thedjboutique.bandcamp.com/track/jill-scott-beautiful-people-the-dj-boutique-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S37ilrmjAKT7hq63NSylw
๐บ๐ฆ #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ka:
๐ต Beautiful
#Ka
https://ikristel.bandcamp.com/track/knowing-is-beautiful