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That's how they do that

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Miss Sassy is a very good cat

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30 second short made for MTV by artist Dara Birnbaum. "I believe that people still have embedded, consciously or not, the original components of the younger version of themselves. I was angry; I'm still angry, perhaps in a different way or trying to find different solutions." More about other famous works by Dara Birnbaum

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This is like a dream space

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Fox living its best phone-snatcher life, probably disappointed to find phones don't crack open to reveal a delicious filling

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Slightly awkward academic lecture about jelly

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A gold leaf shower of manure coming out of its backside at high speed - propelled, as the Latin will tell you. It's his secret weapon - amazing flatulence. The knights are overcome by acid burns, heat and smell.

There is no moral attached to this story whatsoever.

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I heard this on the radio and now it will not leave my head

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Moment of fun for your day

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An exceptional secular fresco cycle of the Months (only eleven from the twelve) survived in the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trent. The eleven panels fill the walls of a room illuminated by two windows, one on the east end and one on the west. The room takes up the third floor of the Eagle's Tower (Torre Aquila), at one time part of Trent's defences. The dimension of the room is 6 x 5,8 m. The height of the frescoes is 3 m, the draped fabric painted below replaces the original wainscoting, which was painted with a sequence of niches.

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The installation of a wooden spiral stair connecting the three upper floors of tower destroyed the scene of March.

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"When I think of them, I think of the culture around them: Barbara Troiani who designed so many of their clothes, Frenchie [Christian Rodriguez] who was their road manager – all these people very close to the Saint Marks scene of thrift shops. Everyone was making their own clothing from used things they found: you’d take a woman’s top, change the sleeves, add polka dots and it looked great."

I've been trying to find Barbara online but apparently no

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"Raised in Hull and now based in London, Remfry arrived at the Chelsea check-in desk that summer with “17 pieces of luggage, no reservation and no money. Stanley Bard, the owner, asked me, ‘David, how much do your paintings sell for? And how many do you paint a year?’ I think he was figuring out how much he could charge me.”"

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Oh bae you make me want to stat up a queer club just for the joy

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I WAS GOOGLING STUFF FOR HAIR REMOVAL AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE COMMENTS I READ IM CHOKING

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A study found that 53% of policymakers agreed that technology is an autonomous force that cannot be stopped

taken from https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=The+technology+gamble&author=C.+J.+Hamelink&publication_year=1998

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"And so it seemed that we could enlist the gut to be able to understand phenomena ranging from dark energy to climate change by means of representing models through biomolecules instead of colors and shapes, and then by digesting — literally — the data or the models, as a means by which to process them internally....

So what I’ve been doing is to take all of the positive and negative feedback loops [of climate change] and create three different types of sorbet, three different flavors, that have biochemicals that are chosen for the fact that they trigger specific receptors. For example: Vanilla extract specifically has the effect on the receptor known as TRPM-5, as opposed to cinnamon which has an effect on TRPA-1, and eucalyptus oil has another one, fatty acid has an effect on yet another.

I’ve identified twelve different chemicals, all of which are edible, all of which could plausibly be mixed into a sorbet. (As for palatability — that will be for Berliners to decide in several weeks.)

The gut and the brain are always interacting with each other. And the gut is particularly good with feedback loops — it’s kind of the business that the gut is in, figuring out different levels of different chemicals and the balance of those different chemicals. That will have an emotional effect on your brain state.

And there is, of course, still the necessity that the brain be involved in all of this. Your gut can’t vote or write or do math — at least as far as I’m aware. There’s absolutely the need for an interplay between the two."

From 2018 -- his work continues