Vintage aliens

 

Observation #46789

 First cicada song of the summer!!!

Shit my tea says

 Settling is not an option

Ochtung baby

The infinite!!!!

I'm like, wha?  Wha?!

This is all happening!

So fast!

Nothing lasts.

That's okay.  It's really okay.

I can't believe the forever snake of eight

so many hearts brown eyes

Boing!

Intergalactic laxative

 

Will get you from here to Mars!

Are you gathering up the tears?

Have you had enough of mine?

 

Boyo Boyo Boyo!

I don't know what to think

It's more than I can imagine

Life is flying!!

You will like this age, boyo

A warm Irish wink to you

Boyo, come back!

Animalcules in my tooth do funny things to me

And in 1683, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek wrote of tooth plaque-

with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving

When they're inside me, where it's dark
I walk around like Noah's ark

Gosh oh gee well I have fun swallowing animalcules one by one!

miniscule stache!

Poor Tintoretto!

Little is known of Tintoretto's childhood or training. According to his early biographers Carlo Ridolfi (1642) and Marco Boschini (1660), his only formal apprenticeship was in the studio of Titian, who angrily dismissed him after only a few days—either out of jealousy of so promising a student (in Ridolfi's account) or because of a personality clash (in Boschini's version).^[6] From this time forward the relationship between the two artists remained rancorous, despite Tintoretto's continued admiration for Titian. For his part, Titian actively disparaged Tintoretto, as did his adherents.  -per Wikipedia

Origin of the Milky Way (1575)

Remind yourself

 "...I am a living, breathing manifestation of my ancestors’ wildest dream."   
-Anya Dillard

Anya Dillard
from a blog post on The Conversationalist

More greed

 Why is socialism a bad thing?

"So I point out the fact that David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is the parent company of the network I'm talking to you on right now, was paid $250 million last year. A quarter of a billion dollars!” Conover exclaimed.

"That's about the same level as what ten thousand writers are asking him to pay all of us collectively, alright? So I would say if you’re being paid $250 million — Ted Sarandos made about $50 million last year — these companies are making enormous amounts of money. Their profits are going up. It's ridiculous for them to plead poverty when the writers who are making their shows, some of them are not able to pay their rent or their mortgages," Conover continued. "I literally know writers who have had to go on assistance because they have not been able to make their year. If you look at these companies, they’re making more money than ever. It's the people who make the shows for them that are making less."

-from this article.

And also, why can't all kids have free lunch?  Can't some wealthy person throw a charity party for us sponges?

Or pay taxes?

So now what?

 MOHELA is Missouri's state-created higher education loan authority, and the supposed financial harms it would suffer under the student debt cancellation plan are critical to the right-wing officials' case. If the Republican plaintiffs can't prove that MOHELA—which is not itself a plaintiff in Biden v. Nebraska—would suffer concrete harm from student debt cancellation, their case falls apart.

According to the new report by the Roosevelt Institute and the Debt Collective, not only would MOHELA not be harmed by the Biden administration's student debt relief plan—it would actually see its direct loan revenue rise if the plan is enacted.

"Our new research examining this claim suggests that MOHELA's year-over-year revenue from direct loans will actually increase substantially, even after debt relief," the report states. "Assuming President Biden's proposed cancellation goes through, we estimate that MOHELA will service more than twice the number of accounts it serviced at the beginning of the Covid payment pause. It will also earn nearly twice as much revenue servicing federal direct loans as it has in any year prior to cancellation."

The groups said their findings were bolstered by internal MOHELA documents that they obtained through a public records request. MOHELA's "own internal impact analysis," the report notes, "shows it would make more revenue the first year after cancellation is processed than it did in 2022 or any prior year."

"The entire premise of the lawsuit against student debt relief rests on the idea that 43 million student debtors shouldn't get relief for which they were already approved because one of the corporations contracted by the government to collect student debt, and thus the state of Missouri, will be financially harmed in the process," the report concludes. "Our analysis reveals this assertion to be false. In contrast, MOHELA will earn higher revenue than ever before, even after cancellation is administered—contradicting the plaintiffs' argument and calling into question their claims to standing."

--from this article.

Myrrhbearers

 

Pink month, pink eye

The designation of Arcturus as α Boötis (Latinised to Alpha Boötis) was made by Johann Bayer in 1603. (wikipedia)

You know, Johann Bayer.
The German lawyer and uranographer. 
He has a crater on the moon?
Ring any bells?

Entering year 4 with the pandemic. 
What were the Spanish flu people doing in year four?

Per wiki: 
The winter of 1921–1922 was the first major reappearance of the disease in the Northern Hemisphere, in many parts its most significant occurrence since the main pandemic in late 1918.

hmmm..mmmmunch

Self-portrait with the Spanish flu, 1919, Munch

Self-portrait with wine (1906)

Self-portrait in hell (1903)

Mesmerizing

106 yr old tattoo artist

 

Centenarians so hot right now

wearing white

 

This suit, I may say, is the uniform of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Purity and Perfection, of which organization I am president, secretary, treasurer and sole member. I may add that I don't know of any one else who is eligible.You see, when a man gets to be 71, as I am, the world begins to look somber and dark. I believe we should do all we can to brighten things up and make ourselves look cheerful. You can't do that by wearing black, funereal clothes.And why shouldn't a man wear white? It betokens purity and innocence. I'm in favor of peek-a-boo waists and décolleté costumes. The most beautiful costume is the human skin, but since it isn't conventional or polite to appear in public in that garb along, I believe in wearing white.I don't know anything more hideous or disgusting in men's attire than the black clawhammer coat. A group of men thus adorned remind me more of a flock of crows than anything else. About the most becoming get up I ever saw in my life was out in the Sandwich Islands thirty years ago, where a native who wanted to appear at this best usually appeared in a pair of eyeglasses.

- quoted in Chicago Daily Tribune, 8 December 1906

Happy Easter!

 

One more week of Lenten days

 

Have Fun!

 

It was a ridiculous premise

 

whoever bailed out the banks

 Get them on student loan debt. 

I found the answer to my question

 

MER-MAN!

Get shriven

Bruegel the Elder, Fight between Carnival and Lent 1559

Confess and be free, eat pancakes
Coast on a high
For tomorrow you get nothing
Well, maybe some ash on your third eye
Some pretzels and muscles
So don't short shrift!

Frans Hogenberg 1558

Odds

 I like the name Spright for a child.

The night before, I had a dream where I was driving around with my kids in a mixed neighborhood called Wyndfall.  Seems like we bought a house there, but it also seems like we were just looking. Later in the dream, the kids and I were in a house with old worn, dusty, soft wood floors.  There was an enormous oven in the kitchen.  A fire was lit, I vaguely recall I may have lit it earlier, but I decided to extinguish it and hoped that the fire would go out.  I was relieved it did and rejoined my kids in the living room.

Per the excerpt from a recent NYT article below, I love the idea of NORAD tuning their airspace radar from dull to sharp, like a microfiche scanner.  Everything is blissfully blurry, then: Hello Alien! Ha!

What is clear is that the United States and Canada have become hypervigilant since the balloon incursion. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has adjusted its radar system to become more sensitive, sharply raising the number of objects it detects.
--NYT article

Maybe that's why UFOs are blurry!  NORAD needed to adjust the settings!

Before

After

Crazy 4 U

 

found on KITH FB courtesy of Kami Jo

WunderSlav

 Currently in a wikipedia rabbit hole about the history of Slavs.  I like this description about early pagan ideas and practices:

...Old Believers have preserved early Slavic pagan ideas and practices such as the veneration of fire as a channel to the divine world, the symbolism of the colour red, the search for a "glorious death", and more in general the holistic vision of a divine cosmos.

A hybrid St. Christopher and Veles, a major god in Slavic paganism:

Who were the dog-faced men of antiquity?

Other highlights I love:

Household deity.  Everyone should have a Domovoy.

One of the gods is called Rod!

Stone carved mushroom shaped idols without faces and a distinctive hat. 
On certain days, people brought gifts to them, and in order to receive healing from an illness, they had to sit on an idol. The stone mushroom was respected and protected.

They used log cabin saunas

"Lyres were their baggage" --Theophylact Simocatta

Democracy! --these nations, the Sclaveni and the Antes, are not ruled by one man, but they have lived from of old under a democracy, and consequently everything which involves their welfare, whether for good or ill, is referred to the people. 
— Procopius

Do exactly this every morning!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Also this is a great commercial—

 You are so Loved!!!!!

Feelin groovy

 

Pattern Ultimate

 I bow down to Yayoi Kusama

"... She always proves that, by talking about death and even her suicidal thoughts and illness, she reaffirms and regenerates her will to live."  

--Doryun Chong from this article.

This is the way