Kazys Varnelis
@kazys.bsky.social
An exile. Samogitian. High modernist. Artist, writer about network culture, formerly architecture faculty.
So Trump wants a coin in his likeness for 2026, just like Calvin Coolidge in 1926. Now there was a great President, economic genius, right up there with Trump.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So Trump wants a coin in his likeness for 2026, just like Calvin Coolidge in 1926. Now there was a great President, economic genius, right up there with Trump.
My hotel room for the night.
November 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
My hotel room for the night.
Reading Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend, I ran across a surprise. The 17th century Nahua historian Chimalpahin hypothesized that the Aztecs came from the Baltic countries.
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reading Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend, I ran across a surprise. The 17th century Nahua historian Chimalpahin hypothesized that the Aztecs came from the Baltic countries.
Experiments with Sora 2
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Experiments with Sora 2
What? A month to file the story?
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
What? A month to file the story?
Nettle infusion is the best restorative tonic.
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Nettle infusion is the best restorative tonic.
Now that’s commitment.
September 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Now that’s commitment.
The Franceville biota, if actually a biota, is fascinating as is the Edicarian. The origins of life are truly Lovecraftian.
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The Franceville biota, if actually a biota, is fascinating as is the Edicarian. The origins of life are truly Lovecraftian.
The icons in iOS 26 are unbearably ugly. They look like a mashup of the worst design decisions of the 60s through the 80s, a time warp of failed modernisms, each decade’s worst idea frozen in an app icon.
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The icons in iOS 26 are unbearably ugly. They look like a mashup of the worst design decisions of the 60s through the 80s, a time warp of failed modernisms, each decade’s worst idea frozen in an app icon.
To have a stair like this makes one feel alive. It's a tragedy that this is forbidden in some
countries.
countries.
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
To have a stair like this makes one feel alive. It's a tragedy that this is forbidden in some
countries.
countries.
Strange to think that we talk about Russia’s mass attacks on Ukraine and Poland with Shahed drones as if it was something new to warfare.
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Strange to think that we talk about Russia’s mass attacks on Ukraine and Poland with Shahed drones as if it was something new to warfare.
It captures his psychotic spirit
August 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It captures his psychotic spirit
We are trying to break AI image generators around here and I think we are doing well with that.
August 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We are trying to break AI image generators around here and I think we are doing well with that.
August 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Back from a week in Vilnius. Ajman is so happy to see me.
August 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Back from a week in Vilnius. Ajman is so happy to see me.
Waldemar Jochelson, Koryak reindeer offering. 1901.
July 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Waldemar Jochelson, Koryak reindeer offering. 1901.
June 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
June 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ajman is a lovely, massive (15lbs of muscle) boy. Our friends brought him to us to foster from Sharjah where they rescued his sorry wild ass. He’s getting used to the green lands of New Jersey.
June 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Ajman is a lovely, massive (15lbs of muscle) boy. Our friends brought him to us to foster from Sharjah where they rescued his sorry wild ass. He’s getting used to the green lands of New Jersey.
I visited Russel Wright's fabulous Manitoga and wrote an essay about it. Read it and visit this spectacular building and landscape near New York City. Links below.
May 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I visited Russel Wright's fabulous Manitoga and wrote an essay about it. Read it and visit this spectacular building and landscape near New York City. Links below.