Larisa LaBrant

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

“A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes from a library’s children & young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday… “I don’t regret standing up for the First Amendment in any way”

Teeny tiny grey tabby on a sock sweater next to a cat plushie

Same teeny tiny tabby all grown up

How we started, and how we are ending. (She’s off to cattery tomorrow)

Tiny grey and white kitten

Grown up grey and white kite.

Lexie, then and now

Tony black and white tuxie kitten

Grown up black and white tuxie

Andor

We know exactly which tiny tortie would dominate that prey.

There's a rumpled void boi loaf, dappled with autumn sunlight, one paw slightly forward to grip the edge of his catio corner shelf. The angle of his whiskers, ears, even back fur, all radiate unspecified, yet thorough disgruntlement. There's yellow, gold, green leaves visible, with the delicate bright drops of fuchsia blooms from green hanging basket. If you listen you'll hear the squirrels squabbling up in the tree. Maybe that's what's disturbing himself, himself.

Sunday's Gremlin is rumpled and disgruntled

The wizard rearranges his tea cabinet.

This whole series is amazing, but this one hits particularly hard in this moment.

Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day

Life isn't meant to be rushed through.
Take your time and enjoy yourself

BREAKING NEWS:
Quality Street tin held hostage at Stourbridge Junction.
Suspect described as ginger, handsome, and armed with charm.
Demands include leftover roast potatoes, chicken & gravy.
The FC has entered negotiations armed with treats.

Apparently it’s considered somewhat inappropriate to remove spilt gravy from one’s fur whilst sitting at the ticket window

I see he's dialed up the charisma for the seasonal shift.

The little cat steps on the wizard's hand, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with rambutan marmalade and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of autumn leaves. As he eats, he reads the spellbooks that were delivered from magic interlibrary loan.

The wizard opens the curtains to let in some extra light.

"Ivan Aivazovsky's 'The Island of Rhodes' captures the breathtaking spectacle of a Mediterranean sunset, illuminating the coast with golden hues. The painting is famous for its masterful depiction of light, a signature technique of Aivazovsky, which enhances the serene beauty of the harbor setting."

The Island of Rhodes https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/the-island-of-rhodes-1861

Faithful reader, the girl did survive.

good morning

The wizard is snuggled into his bed, reading a book about witchcraft. The little cat is curled up above his head, on the pillow.

The wizard sleeps peacefully. A shooting star streaks across the sky above the tower.

Stress Break, the art edition

A thing people don’t understand about chronic pain is that you have to do stuff while you hurt. There’s a tendency to tense your muscles protectively so when the task is done you feel like you did a whole ass workout and sometimes there’s another task waiting. Now you’re at 1.5 tension.

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

No, you don't work harder than a Middle Ages Peasant, and you sure as fuck are nowhere near as hardworking as the women in the Middle Ages peasantry.

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Vought’s daughter has cerebral palsy, and while she may not require “special” education, she would need adjustments if she attended any school.

Obviously, he is evil and does not care about hypocrisy, but I want people to remember: they’re taking this away from US, not themselves.

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

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IN addition to being an evil thug with hideous enunciation he’s also a corrupt grifter. No redeeming qualities at all. The fact that Trump and Bondi shut this down but trumped up charges on James for mortgage fraud that if even accurate benefited her at 50.00 month

I mean - what would you have seen a two years ago if unidentified violent masked men were grabbing women and girls off the streets and tossing them into unmarked vans with no license plates?

only now, by an administration of human traffickers

I cannot even imagine the histories of sexual harassment, violence and domestic violence that those masked men have perpetrated.

We should consider them all predators.

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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Cotton Mather wholly believed in the immanent reality of Satan working through Salem's witches to achieve the destruction of the Puritan experiment in New England.

He believed in the evidence of dreams. His convictions led to the deaths of innocents.

And he was still more coherent than this bozo.