Hat Full of Sky
@hatfullofsky.bsky.social
Profile pic by Lynda Barry. Nonsense by me.
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Fritz Henle
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Fritz Henle
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
Adding Sputnik Monroe, wrestler, to this list. He felt strongly about performing for ALL people.
December 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Adding Sputnik Monroe, wrestler, to this list. He felt strongly about performing for ALL people.
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Excited for this new 2026 annual planner, a purchase which will completely transform my habits and personality.
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Excited for this new 2026 annual planner, a purchase which will completely transform my habits and personality.
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This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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The Wall Street Journal crowns Philly the best place to visit in 2026. Plus: Jason Kelce’s inevitable Hank Sauce investment, Zillow housing hype, worsening commutes, and Primo Hoagies doing good.
Philly named the world’s best place to visit in 2026, apparently | Weekly Report Card
www.inquirer.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Wall Street Journal crowns Philly the best place to visit in 2026. Plus: Jason Kelce’s inevitable Hank Sauce investment, Zillow housing hype, worsening commutes, and Primo Hoagies doing good.
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Goodnight.
‘The whole Moomin family had, as usual, hibernated for the winter and set the alarm clock to ring on the first of April. But the clock was old and not to be trusted, so it woke them up for Christmas instead. Since she was awake anyway, Moominmamma made coffee.’ ~ 🖼️ 🖊️ Tove Jansson
‘The whole Moomin family had, as usual, hibernated for the winter and set the alarm clock to ring on the first of April. But the clock was old and not to be trusted, so it woke them up for Christmas instead. Since she was awake anyway, Moominmamma made coffee.’ ~ 🖼️ 🖊️ Tove Jansson
December 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Goodnight.
‘The whole Moomin family had, as usual, hibernated for the winter and set the alarm clock to ring on the first of April. But the clock was old and not to be trusted, so it woke them up for Christmas instead. Since she was awake anyway, Moominmamma made coffee.’ ~ 🖼️ 🖊️ Tove Jansson
‘The whole Moomin family had, as usual, hibernated for the winter and set the alarm clock to ring on the first of April. But the clock was old and not to be trusted, so it woke them up for Christmas instead. Since she was awake anyway, Moominmamma made coffee.’ ~ 🖼️ 🖊️ Tove Jansson
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Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“For the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer“
And the running of the deer“
Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“For the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer“
And the running of the deer“
Reading Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” and came across this article, which describes and illustrates milk strikes. 🚀
Photos: Wisconsin's dairy history in pictures, 1864 to 2019
Wisconsin's dairy history in pictures, 1864 to 2019
www.jsonline.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Reading Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” and came across this article, which describes and illustrates milk strikes. 🚀
”Do it to Julia! Not me!”—Winston Smith
there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats
Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
”Do it to Julia! Not me!”—Winston Smith
Dismantle hazing.
Doctors for generations accepted being at the mercy of their pagers. Now, younger physicians are questioning medicine’s workaholic culture.
“All us old guys are taking ER call, and you got guys in their 30s at home every night. It’s just a sore spot.” on.wsj.com/4s3XRVj
“All us old guys are taking ER call, and you got guys in their 30s at home every night. It’s just a sore spot.” on.wsj.com/4s3XRVj
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Dismantle hazing.
If you use your library, tell a friend. Help them get a card, download Libby, and use the services that are there for them.
I ran into one of my first year students at the new books section of our college library. My favorite bookstore, I said, and it’s all free! She looked confused. “What do you mean?” she asked. She was stunned to learn you could check books out. Nobody had ever told her.
Today I helped someone at the library who didn't know you could borrow items for free. She gave me her library card and $40 to pay for the books. Was delighted when I said everything is free to use.
I'd never encountered that before. I assumed people just knew library items were free and public.
I'd never encountered that before. I assumed people just knew library items were free and public.
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If you use your library, tell a friend. Help them get a card, download Libby, and use the services that are there for them.
@dogemperor.bsky.social was the first place I heard any mention of this, and that's going back to...Palin? 2008ish? I think it was about 7 mountains and parallel economy. None of this is new information. (Thank you, dogemperor, I think you put me onto Fred Clarkson's stuff at Patheos, too.)
Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics.
I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.
I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@dogemperor.bsky.social was the first place I heard any mention of this, and that's going back to...Palin? 2008ish? I think it was about 7 mountains and parallel economy. None of this is new information. (Thank you, dogemperor, I think you put me onto Fred Clarkson's stuff at Patheos, too.)
Feeling some kind of way about people using ChatGPT to find answers to this quiz. Very few people know all, or even most, of the answers. And that’s fine! The quiz encourages searching, with the reminder that Googling might be tricky. 1/?
The King William’s College quiz 2025: are you up to this notoriously difficult challenge?
What was the final resting place of the bronze age toxophilite? Which butterfly is named after the giant with 100 eyes? Who was shown carrying Bananaman’s 45th birthday cake? On your marks … set, go!
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Feeling some kind of way about people using ChatGPT to find answers to this quiz. Very few people know all, or even most, of the answers. And that’s fine! The quiz encourages searching, with the reminder that Googling might be tricky. 1/?
🐋This is for the whole sick crew of MD readers!
a slightly different angle but I found out that a few archives around LA had old books bound in human skin so I did a story about unusually bound books and of course I had to go look at and touch them all. My favorite was a copy of "Moby Dick" in whale dick skin
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🐋This is for the whole sick crew of MD readers!
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The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
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Hand to God, in response to a comment (mine), re one of these sagas, of "This never happened," someone said, "It didn't need to have happened, it just needed to be told."
And that's why we're well and truly cooked.
And that's why we're well and truly cooked.
December 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Hand to God, in response to a comment (mine), re one of these sagas, of "This never happened," someone said, "It didn't need to have happened, it just needed to be told."
And that's why we're well and truly cooked.
And that's why we're well and truly cooked.
“Three Bags Full” was a fun read! Cute trailer for the adaptation.
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“Three Bags Full” was a fun read! Cute trailer for the adaptation.
Much as I don’t like the platform, I appreciate this piece.
This Is Why You Feel That Way
The Incredibly Sad Root of America's Great Malaise
catvalente.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Much as I don’t like the platform, I appreciate this piece.
Sometimes we can have a nice thing. As a treat.
Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sometimes we can have a nice thing. As a treat.
The personal pocket is political.
3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!”
me: “that’s true!”
3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?”
me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”
me: “that’s true!”
3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?”
me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The personal pocket is political.
Delightful!
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Delightful!