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Fashion + Art
Looks from the Met Gala 2026 red carpet and the art that inspired them...
Ciara + Nefertiti Bust
Sam Smith + Erté
Cardi B + Hans Bellmer
Angela Bassett + Laura Wheeler Waring
Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo + Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory)
Claire Foy + John Singer Sargent
Luke Evans + Tom of Finland
Rachel Zegler + Paul Delaroche
Alexi Ashe + Yves Klein
Amy Sherald + Amy Sherald
Madonna's look is a reference to The Temptation of St. Anthony. Fragment II’ — Leonora Carrington (1945)
Angela Basset's dress was inspired by Laura Wheeler Waring’s "Girl in Pink Dress" (1927)
The artist Amy Sherald at the Met Gala 2026, wearing an outfit which refers to her 2014 painting 'Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)'.
the spell of suggestion
what do you see when you look at this tintype?
if you're like 99% of the internet, the answer is "Victorian witches."
this picture has been making the rounds for years, usually as "Victorian witches c. 1875," or "women dressed as witches c. 1875." it's available as canvas prints, framed wall art, decorative pillows, posters...you name it. I still can't find how it first got online or where the original might be, but it's spread like wildfire
but what's fascinating to me is that they're not even dressed as witches. indeed, there's really nothing to suggest that they're witches at all
the woman on the left appears to be wearing a tall, pointed hat at first glance- but she isn't. she's standing in front of a tree on the painted backdrop that perfectly aligns with her hat to make the crown look tall and pointed. none of them are wearing "witch hats," but once you think you see that first one- if you're like me -you imagine that the broad-brimmed hat worn by the woman on the right might be hiding a tall pointed crown because of the angle of her head. even though nothing about it confirms that idea
and look! she's holding a broom! witches! ...but the woman on the far right is holding a dustpan and a feather duster. suddenly the theme is less "witches" and more "cleaning supplies."
so no pointy hats and a broom clearly contextualized as just for sweeping. not sure what's up with the taxidermied bird in the middle, but at once the photo seems a lot less witchy (I don't know what it actually depicts, but I've seen at least one other photo of well-dressed women holding cleaning supplies- some sort of club, perhaps?). all because of elements that are clearly visible in plain sight
people are very, very good at seeing what they want to see
Hey Americans! If you buy things from overseas, as of August 22 you probably don’t anymore.
Most foreign postal services have paused shipping of packages under $800 to the USA. You will hear that it’s “because of tariffs,” but that’s not exactly true.
It’s because the US:
Has not given anyone a way to pay those tariffs and
Has not been clear on what will ACTUALLY have to be paid. (The country’s tariff has been floated, but a US$80 flat fee has also been floated.
Many countries require people to pay tariffs when they receive a package. That’s fine. But you have to give people a way to pay the damn tariff. And there isn’t a way to do so. Apparently there isn’t even a PLAN for a way to do so.
So: if you have been buying from Etsy or eBay or a little shop overseas, if you subscribe to a foreign magazine, if you are an immigrant and you buy food from home via mail, now you will need to fly there and bring it home. Of course, the people who can afford that are also the ones responsible for this dumb policy.
I live outside the US. This is impacting businesses owned by my friends. This is impacting me, increasing the cost of sending items to friends and family (via courier or DHL now) . This sending-stoppage is a sensible global response to this badly thought out tariff imposition. This sucks.
Yes, Deutsche Post/DHL published a statement on this yesterday. I've been sweating about this issue for a while because I've got several books that I need to ship to the US in the next few months.
In Germany, all businesses cannot ship commercial goods to the US anymore using the "cheaper" services like DHL parcel and sales of goods parcel. They can use the express services which will be a lot more expensive. This is due to the fact that no-one fucking knows how high the tax will be and how it will be paid.
I'm sending my books as a private citizen anyway, so if I declare them as a gift (which I always do) and they're under $100 in value, I can still send them as a DHL parcel. It's likely that these parcels will be checked much more often now because businesses might try to send their goods as a gift to get aound all this hassle. So shipping times will go up all around...
Yep, my national postal carrier stopped all parcel post to the US the other week, as there is no system in place to collect the spurious tariffs, no time to impose one, and no guidelines that aren't as changeable as the twitches of fascism flail as they try to consolidate power and break things.
At least 25 countries have decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of President Donald
oh my god I had my eye on a SUPER rare discontinued perfume sample that I can't find in the US but can get from someone either in Denmark or Greece and now even if I had all the money I need to purchase it I couldn't buy it anyway
I AM SO ANGRY
Christina "La Veneno" Ortiz became a TV star in Spain when she was working as a sex worker. A reporter for the tabloid talk show Esta noche cruzamos el Misisipi approached her while she worked and asked, "Are you a man or a woman?" to which she replied, "I'm a stoplight."
She became a regular fixture on the show, noted for her brazen sexuality and her outspokenness about her experience.
Always a figure of controversy, she spent several years in prison for insurance fraud, but nonetheless made a big comeback with the release of her autobiography, ¡Digo! Ni puta ni santa. Las memorias de La Veneno.
Shortly after its release in 2018, she died under very mysterious circumstances.
In 2020, HBO Max released a limited series about her life, and it is really fantastic, I cannot recommend it enough!
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another example of this in action is the heir of the company jetblue and his wife hannah neelman. they have a whole artificial life-on-the-prairie type setup while being billionaires it's absolutely insane
Ballerina Farm - Wikipedia
the woman in the video above is also mormon like the one i'm mentioning - a lot of these women are mormons you'll find. in fact these two did a collab together on the 'farm'
Creative reuse centers keep leftover and unwanted art supplies out of landfills — by giving them a second life in the hands of other creator
From the article:
But, as Brownell explained to new customers, Smart is different from the typical craft store: Everything on its shelves has been donated. The shop is what is known as a creative reuse center. These crafting thrift stores keep leftover and unwanted art supplies out of landfills, and instead get them into the hands of other creators at affordable prices. Smart combines that model with another mission. Many of the employees and volunteers who run the shop are adults with disabilities. Over the last decade, the organization has diverted more than one million pounds of art and craft materials from landfills, while providing over 37,400 hours of job coaching, volunteering and employment for adults with disabilities.
I think this is a really great example of how expansive environmental work can be--and how it can coincide with other forms of community action.
Protests and politics aren't the most effective or sustainable form of action for everyone (though there are more diverse ways to participate in that kind of action too!)--providing a service to your community that increases sustainability and aligns with your passions and interests is also an extremely valid and needed form of environmental action.
Nice article! I love these kind of community groups (reuse and so often they include teaching groups too).
I was recently alerted to the network of them in the US by this video,
and looked up the term in the UK, I even found one near me! Also this handy listing
Reuseful
I think Lauren Sànchez-Bezos was going for that Princess Grace/ Princess Kate look, but the thing is the different elements of their dresses are all in harmony.
Grace and Kate are both going for a more modest, classical, slightly Victorian look, but the elements that draw visual interest are all in accordance with that (with Grace, it's the cummerbund around the waist, for Kate, it's the low-cut neck). The hair is tidy and isn't a distraction from the face and the more visually interesting elements of the dress.
And for both of them, you have the hat/tiara elements that draw the eye upward.
With Meghan Sussex here, you see her successfully pulling off the sexier elements that Sànchez-Bezos was going for, by going for a modern, sleek, off-the-shoulder dress where all the elements are in harmony. The bateau neck is clean and allows the eye to rest on the bride's face, which means she can go for a more subtle tiara element and slightly messier hair.
Lauren Sànchez-Bezos's dress, I'm sure, is not a cheap dress, but it all looks incredibly cheap because nothing in the dress works together.
So you’re saying it’s the dress equivalent of a McMansion? 🤔
pretty much
Everyone stop and read this thread about the most insane parts of Star Wars canon.
...what?
Happy Pride to this one trans clone trooper in particular
Anakin Skywalker said trans rights, pass it on.
Only a cis deals in absolutes
The Atlantic: Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, Zoe Schlanger reports, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months
We’re not “losing” shit. We broke it intentionally. This wasn’t a solar flare that knocked out our satellites. This was us taking a machete to an advanced weather system because some dumbfucks thought it was going to own the libs rather drown their families
people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW
Some of us had Xena: Warrior Princess and access to a public library.
Or just the public library. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology and Bulfinch’s Mythology were gateway drugs enough for me. 😄
Chris Appelhans:
In Maggie’s original mission for the movie that I definitely connected to, there’s this idea of presenting women that were badass, super beautiful, and glamorous. But also weird and funny, food-loving, and silly and wearing their pajama pants. That’s the thing where I’m like, “God, this is so long overdue!” We just kept trying to make them kind of fabulous and amazing, but also human and silly and flawed.
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rumi sandwich WOOOOOOO
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