Mark Tobin

If you choose to change your name from "Ryan" to "Rhein," you might be a literal Nazi

I got this tonight, one foreground and one background video. The background footage is at 30%, captured in the same minute on a tripod. The crop jumped to the right of the frame during the background footage. Fun guys! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Twenty old Japanese train tickets to entertain and delight www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...

This is so damn funny. Cross Screen Media, which buys ads for Republicans, ran ads for Susan Collins in Portland… Oregon 😂 “The team that gets things done” indeed finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.

The biggest takeaway is that people thought he was already dead.

Gallup Party ID 🟦 Democrat 50% 🟥 Republican 39% It's not just that Gallup is showing is a record D+11 party ID environment. It's the trend. Look at where party ID was in Q4 2024. This represent a net +15 swing towards Democrats in less than 2 years.

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

If I owned a seabed mining company, I simply would not name it "Mithril."

A sitting president doesn’t go to a safe state a month before an election. Alabama is in play, folks.

A test photo of PATRICK STEWART wearing a wig for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (They wisely abandoned the idea) STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-94) Debuted 39yrs ago today.

SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the 12,060-piece Sagrada Família. $800. It will take as long to build as the actual cathedral — you may not live to see it finished. [lego.com]

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

Generic Ballot polling trend among Independent voters by Marist (A) 🔵 2018: Democrats +6 🔴 2022: Republicans +12 🔵 2026: Democrats +25

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23 September 1938 | A German Jewish girl, Mirjam Helene Friedmann, was born in Berlin. The family fled to Prague in 1938. In 1941, Mirjam was deported to Litzmannstadt ghetto & in August 1944 to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

They were called RECORD STORES - and back in the day you could meet your favourite Artist and they’d sign your album or single. PRINCE at Sam Goody - NYC in 1988

One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and he went on to became an Oscar-winning screenwriter.

Today is the 847th anniversary of the death of Hildegard of Bingen: saint, abbess, composer, writer, and haver of visions—including one where she saw the Gruffalo appearing from the Bride of Christ’s, um... well

By Gustav Klimt

National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...

MAGAs are MAGAs *because* they're assholes. It has little to do with politics. They just want to be part of the Asshole-American Community.

Inside the brilliant Culture House, Sunderland, which opened this morning. Four floors of libraries, galleries, arts and science labs, screens, performance spaces, children's discovery spaces and the archive centre, not to mention cafés and a sky garden!

The Hobbit (1937) — binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe tolkienlibrary.com/press/983-bo...

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Detail of The Madonna and Saints implore the Holy Trinity for the Poor Souls in Purgatory by an unknown Lombard (?) painter, 1675–1700, oil on canvas, Chiesa Santa Maria Assunta, Condino (Trentino). Tag your friends! #earlymodern

Officially obsessed with the former home of the jazz musician Dave Brubeck.

Oh come on…..

No one’s calling it Lake America. “Lake America” is what you name a summer camp for soft children who say, “Don’t you know who my father is?” after a t-ball stand strikes them out

Antique clockwork drinking bear automaton made in Paris around 1910 by Roullet & Decamps, stripped of its fur due to a severe moth larvae infestation. IG: @thehouseofautomata

ING: Real disposable income has effectively flatlined for well over a year in level terms and is well below the pre-pandemic trend. 🇺🇸 (via SoberLook)

Art Deco Finland: The Helsinki Central Railway Station, built 1919.

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Sometimes I’ll open threads and immediately be hit with truths I never would expect to find there.

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) The Dory, 1929 Opaque watercolor over graphite on paper, 35.24 x 50.96 cm. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, US

Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ

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Incredible stuff