Isn't It

Galveston Island SP, Texas, USA. April 2026.

Some sculpting from today

Researchers found an area where flax was prepared before workers turned the plant into linen. They also uncovered 82 pit houses, small sunken buildings linked with Viking workshops. Many held spindle whorls and loom weights, showing cloth production took place on a large scale.

Vintage Italian lighting by designer Gino Vistosi

we spent an hour and half going all over the grounds, I'd never felt so #urbex

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

Courtesy Alain Truong

This is actually some pretty wild engineering when you think about it. This style of windmill (masonry tower with a rotating cap) was developed in the late 1200s. Use of windmills to grind grain can be dated back to at least 900, and windmills to move water even earlier.

[househunting on substack - free]

this one, Walking in the Zen Garden at the Ryoanji Temple, feels almost like a comic, with the progression of feet at the bottom, and comics as a medium are something i've been thinking a lot about recently, specifically the ability to imply things that happen "between frames", or create an impression of something happening that would be totally invisible if any part were taken singularly. i wish more of the hundreds of these he made were available online

DANNY KAYE as HUBERT HAWKINS in THE COURT JESTER (1955)