here i go, here i go, here i go again
I follow this guy on Instagram, Sam Barsky, who only posts selfies in sweaters he's knit himself with images of places and things on them, usually in front of those places and things. My favorites: alpaca sweater, Stonehenge sweater, yellow grassy marsh sweater, human anatomy sweater, eclipse sweater.
You can even get him to record a Happy Birthday video for a friend while wearing the birthday sweater!
This is my current Roman Empire:
Also I still have never owned a pair of leather pants and now I never will because the planet is burning and sweating to death seems extremely unpleasant.
(By the way: unlike the bad site owned by a bad man, BlueSky doesn't offer embeddable link previews of their own, but someone kindly built bluesky.lol to do it instead, for free!)
As an only child in the 80s I was always very grateful for the cool older sisters some of my friends had, because they were pretty much how we found out about everything important; for example, our sex education came in the fourth grade, information trickled down from Monica's high school sister Katrina. Trish, the biggest rebel of all the sisters, had Patrick Nagel posters pinned up in her bedroom and I've been low key obsessed with his art ever since.
Anyway, Nagel seller/historian Monica Moynihan recently posted one of his paintings alongside the (newly-unearthed!) photo that he clearly worked from and it's fascinating to see how he managed to translate the beauty of the early 80s supermodel Eva Voorhees into his style while also bringing a cold, remote allure to his final image, completely different from the knowing warmth of the original.
I roll my eyes at pretty much every celebrity beauty or fragrance line drop because most of them are obviously low effort money grabs, but I'm both super curious and optimistic about Serena Williams's brand new makeup line Wyn Beauty—partly because she's known to be very hands-on when it comes to her interests (she and sister Venus went to fashion school between Grand Slams) and partly because her skin tint comes in 36 different shades, something bigger brands still somehow struggle with. Also love that the photography for her products feature models of all colors and sizes, and the tennis-ball chartreuse color packaging is just chef's kiss, you know? So good!
Gmail's testing out a new Subscriptions filter to help us all deal with the scourge of marketing newsletters; it "will show senders that have sent “less than 10,” “10 to 20,” or “20+” emails “per quarter.” This would allow users to quickly see who is sending the most emails to their inbox. The “subscription manager,” as the code refers to it, would then offer a button to unsubscribe from these senders."
Sure could've used this just last week when I deleted almost 300,000 emails to get my 17 gigabytes of Gmail storage from 99% full to uh, 17%. A lot of companies send a message every single day but some average two to three, which is just insane!
This just physically, emotionally, spiritually attacked me and I honestly may never recover:
Four out of four, goddamn. Enjoy this earworm till Wednesday!
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