'We clocked Aristotle at thirty-two miles per hour'

Happy Feast of St. Mark!

O God, who raised up Saint Mark, your Evangelist, and endowed him with the grace to preach the Gospel, grant, we pray, that we may so profit from his teaching as to follow faithfully in the footsteps of Christ.

Modern-day equestrians, what's stopping you and your horses from dressing like this?

Ethiopia, 18th c. #rider #horse #africanrider #africanart

Once again thinking about the guy whose fathers-in-law were Frank Lloyd Wright and Josef Stalin

'The Papal Palace, Avignon,' by Paul Signac, 1900, Musée d'Orsay.

The big systematic business model challenge for American colleges is that the number of teenagers is shrinking

Get in losers, we're gonna bust some corset myths. A🧵

Myth 1: not necessarily in so many words but visual! In the gif below we see a woman self-cinching a corset with, apparently, no chemise underneath (to protect the corset from sweat and to protect the skin from chafing)...

Western Africa at large is rapidly falling into a descent to failed, brutally authoritarian dictators and swathes of jihadist and non-state controlled anarchy. A large part of this is brutal regimes in the region rejecting governance and embracing self-serving corruption.

Yukyuzan Park is a large park on the outskirts of Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture. When I visited on April 22nd, the Yoshino cherry trees were scattered, but the double cherry blossoms and weeping cherry blossoms were in full bloom. This was unexpected and I was very happy.

Eventually you think you've exhausted Christopher Lee trivia, and then you learn that he was an altar server at St Stephen's Church in South Kensington, London while T.S. Eliot was a parishioner. That's right, Saruman served T.S. Eliot Christ's body and blood.

How can I quit this website when it still has exchanges like this?

good night, friends
🎨Quint Buchholz

New minicomics from Steven Solomon!!!

'Thrilled to be included at Million Year Picnic!' -Steven Solomon

This is actually scary. This is happening mainly because A) America's critical allies, the developed democracies of Asia and Europe, are stagnating, and B) the dollar is overvalued, making American exports uncompetitive.

Gazoz is an old-school, hyper-local soda that's been ubiquitous in Turkey since it was invented more than a century ago. Every town has a signature brand, often incorporating local flavors like pine, lavender, or sweet almond. bit.ly/3xXtjwF

🧵Fiddler on the Roof is one of my favorite presentations of how things actually are in a patriarchal community.

During last night’s Coppell City Council meeting, Mayor Wes Mays announced the council will have a special meeting on April 30, when they will discuss three topics: digital signage, parking in Old Town, and … [dramatic pause] … pickleball.

In response to the move by Catholic Answers, the Vatican has released its own state-of-the art AI.

Praying for the dead, now illegal in Kirill's Russian Church

Fascinated by this Taiwanese twenty-something who has somehow ended up labouring on an Irish sheep farm