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First concept art for the recently revealed Ambrosia Sky, an upcoming game set on colonies built on the back of asteroids, in the rings of Saturn. Art Director Adam Volker: "A stylized world where colour choices weren’t literal, and subverted expectations of what outer space might look like."

Robert Crumb and friends flush Donald Trump down the toilet, 1989

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.” ~Jack Kerouac

🇲🇽ARE FLYING THE 🇲🇽 FLAG AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITES ALL ACROSS THE USA 🇺🇸

50 years ago today (maybe), the grateful dead work on “blues for allah” & prep for the bob fried memorial boogie at ace’s. 2 overlapping tape chunks usually labeled 6/7, with the 1st full help on the way/slipknot!/franklin’s tower (minus some lyrics). heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite

Remember when this was Biden doing this and the right couldn’t stop replaying it over and over again? Do the same to them.

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#chewie #kitty #cat #bunz

50 years ago today, jerry garcia jams with mickey hart, zakir hussain, & the diga rhythm band in golden gate park, opening for the jefferson starship, wth a prototype version of a dead classic. cool tape from stage microphones, pix, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite

“In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.” @bilgeebiri.bsky.social

"[Syd] Mead’s future is a perennial tomorrow, a place of possibility and endless conjecture, and it is this spaciousness that has granted his images their remarkably long half-lives." —Collin Sundt, The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/05/arts...

Alert to folks who need to drop Uline.

President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR. This is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country. Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change.

More and more research is suggesting that psychedelics can reduce inflammation. This raises the possibility of using the drugs to treat non-psychiatric conditions linked with excess inflammation, such as inflammatory bowel disease or chronic Lyme disease. www.newscientist.com/article/2479...

The 1980 Space Invaders Championship, considered to be the first large-scale video game competition, lost 17 contestants simultaneously when Scott Johnson of Fort Wayne, Indiana, distracted them all by holding up a blurry photograph of what may or may not have been a single boob.

Publicity stills for THX 1138.