"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use"

The number of art pieces alone is staggering to contemplate. Having them freely available to browse is incredible, and to then put a #HiRes #scan for all of them into the #PublicDomain is astonishing.

A lifetime of #museum visits to view remarkable #art without a lifetime of travel. No, you don't get exactly the same experience, but holy brushstrokes, Batman...!!!

#TheMet

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

Very blowy yesterday. This looking over Upper Loch Torridon.

@evan it was a pretty good moustache

"The Dark Lord has taken over our land. What do we do?"

"Learn from the goblins."

"What? Those useless little-"

"Takes skill to mask rebellion as incompetence."

"What?"

"They know His reign will end. For now, they persist and resist."

"Oh."

"Also: remember every moment of joy is a victory."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

@hipsterelectron a close friend of mine is red/green color blind, and is a very talented professional visual artist. likewise, one of my mentors as a graphics programmer is red/green color blind. my understanding is that both individuals consider it to be more of an occasional annoyance and not any significant impediment to their chosen careers. my guess is most don't consider themselves to be disabled

@randahl

also https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/115971138417320692

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761

I especially don't like hearing this right after Cloudflare acquired Astro which I use for a lot of things 🫠

And it would appear that Astro is already allowing vibe-coded shit to seep into the codebase (viewing most recent commits immediately turns up one involving Claude), so maybe I should stop doing that...

Why are we never allowed to have nice things

Every state in the U.S. should pass a law like the one now proposed in California, disqualifying ICE agents from working in state law enforcement and public schools. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-bill-ice-teachers-21318405.php

@KFears ...I should learn to remember to check afnix, whenever I don't find things in nixpkgs.

Thanks!

@inlaing it'd be a bit tragic if there were none!

Thankfully I was there to save the day today. 😉

With all the tiktok drama I have been telling people Mastodon is still here and kicking!! I love this app and I really think the decentralized model is the best for social media.

Still, people don’t want to join! What do you think Mastodon’s biggest barriers are to courting new users? What could be done to improve the product and grow the user base in a positive way?

Might have found my summer '26 sunnies.

(courtesy of the Anti-Fascist Running Club)

https://coretexrecords.com/Anti-Fascist-Running-Club-Logo-Sonnenbrille-black-white

HT @electriccablecar

If Trump does not like you, he puts a target on your back, by telling his cult that you are a threat to America.

Trump has repeatedly called Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar a “fake sleazebag”, and an “illegal” congresswoman who is a “liability” to the greatness of America, and accused her of corruption.

Yesterday at her town hall she was attacked by a man spraying an unidentified fluid onto her using a syringe.

Stochastic terrorism works.

@leodurruti stessa strategia ma con le cime di rapa

Così a Minneapolis la cucina degli immigrati sfida l’America di Trump
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/01/28/news/cosi_a_minneapolis_la_cucina_degli_immigrati_sfida_l_america_di_trump-425122590/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Il gusto @il-gusto-repubblica

"Young elephants only start to learn how to use their trunks when they are around 8 months old."

This one doesn't know how to use it.

Temperature sotto zero, il gelato? Si prepara nella neve
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/01/28/video/temperature_sotto_zero_il_gelato_si_prepara_nella_neve-425121420/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Il gusto @il-gusto-repubblica

@spla @elcumi @jordiCasas gràcies! Per cap dels dos em fot la més mínima pena. Ara caldria que caiguessin també polítics.

@anneroth Wallet nich allet gibt! 😅

@evan I'm not aware of any point in time when it was illegal in Germany.