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Museums that have made their catalogs free downloads

Yes I know there are serious & important things happening in the world right now, but this is kind of great: just learned the Van Gogh Museum has made many of their publications, including collection catalogs, freely available on @archive.org. More museums should do this: archive.org/details/vang...

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— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM



And while we're at it you should know the Met Museum has done this as well, on their own website www.metmuseum.org/met-publicat...

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— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:50 AM



I didn't realize the Whitney has been consistently uploading their catalogs to @archive.org, so the list of available titles is much more extensive than when I last checked some time ago: archive.org/search?query...

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— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Hijinks from today's F1 Lego cart race



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Dating site using AI-generated accounts (AI roundup)

So here’s a lil scoop: you know the new gay dating app Goose? It’s apparently been using at least two dozen AI-generated Instagay accounts to lure men into signing up. Which is “very obviously unlawful,” according to a lawyer I spoke to. My story for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/goose-...

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— Ej Dickson (@ejdickson.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM


Saturday, July 4, 2026

Reflecting Pool-themed Jell-O shots; They're rebelling at their own party; Drone show Minutemen



New Humble Bundle featuring science fiction novels

It's the John Scalzi collction, starts at $5, but $18 for 22 books, including "The Android's Dream," which won the "Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Award." 

There's also a few days left for the "award-winning fantasy, science fiction, and horror" book bundle.

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still the definitive statement on "can you cheer for team usa if the usa does bad things" discourse:

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM






Ditto squeeze toy







Some other good Pokemon toys:

Friday, July 3, 2026

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(Special edition "Coors Light Tall Girl" can--age restricted viewing I think)

This is how we killed all those mammoths.

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— Ryan Moulton (@moultano.bsky.social) June 30, 2026 at 11:01 PM


Concept art of Travolta as Lestat (art roundup)

Y'all here's a thing you will NOT see everyday. John Travolta as LESTAT.... Art by Paul Chadwick

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— The Shadows of 2026💙💛 (@rphutch1975.bsky.social) June 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM


Thursday, July 2, 2026

He made a hologram of himself explaining his litigation with the The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation?

@mccnanda #love #design #nyc #petraisland #franklloydwright ♬ original sound - MC






If I understand this right, he wanted to use blueprints by Wright to build a home, didn't want to pay the required license, and ended up reaching a settlement that specifies specific verbiage he can use to describe the home.  

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Now we appeal the Balogun suspension in the Northern District of Texas

— Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) (@kleinman.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM


Every so often r/MLS throws up an absolute banger.

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— CJ Coreschi (@cjcoreschi.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM


more talk about balogun than ballot box…this is whats wrong with society

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— charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald (@fourverts.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 6:43 PM


Need the Balogun jersey with WAR DAD on the nameplate

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM


TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS

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— andré (@andre-carlisle.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM


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There's a local industrial company called Graybar and people kept stealing the R off the sign so they changed their logo so the R and A interlock but people realized you could steal both and it still gets the point across

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— Scotty Ray (@theterminizer.bsky.social) May 10, 2026 at 5:28 PM


Rainbow soccer jersey to benefit the International Women's Media Foundation

I’ve gotten so many compliments at the bar!! @ericwahl.bsky.social. Everyone wants to know where they can get one and the answer is right here: oliveandyork.com/products/gra...

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— Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) June 27, 2026 at 3:49 PM




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