Emily

"Incredible Dumbassery and Zero Catholics" would also be a great title for a history of the Church of England ca. the late 16th - early 19th centuries

today's stupid injury is: lightly stabbed self with paring knife while washing dishes

FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.

www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

this is traditionally the day when I discuss how close we are, and we KNOW that we are, to the entire of Palace of Westminster just spontaneously going up in flames

again

hey I dunno who needs to hear this today but if your toddler decides that they’re obsessed with beetroot and eats like half a kg of it for dinner

warn your nursery the next day

Close view of my chest showing my librarian lanyard and a Reese’s cup poking out of the pocket of my blue button-down shirt

shirt pockets are for easy access to the halloween candy you find in the library break room 📚🍬

Trying to read Roman Cursive makes me think of the so-called Letter of Vinisius to Nigra, once held to be a remarkable and unique source for 4th-century Romano-British history, later revealed to be a bog-standard curse tablet that someone had inadvertently held upside down and read a bit wishfully

in short:

if you're looking for love, get your nuts out by the fire.

-mirrors
-The Fucking Horse
-tree jellos
-rats
-deer

(HI TKINGFISHER I PROMISE THIS IS A COMPLIMENT)

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Ok but the severed heads were in the relatively non traumatizing books are we sure No Severed Heads is an improvement

3 rows with each NYC mayoral candidate: (blue bar) Zohran Mamdani (yellow bar) Andrew M. Cuomo (red bar) Curtis Sliwa (wearing a red had)

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

see also: trying even moderately decent tea

absolutely yes

Sorry but this did make me laugh

Iiiiiinteresting

College/university students love this too!

the ear 😭😭😭

Watching a webinar thing and one of the panelists is like "Librarianship is my calling and I'm in my 70s and I'm never going to retire and also I have coworkers who are retired teachers who didn't want to stop working."

1/3
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A fluffy grey cat with its head down a drain.

You call a plumber and this is who they send.

📸 N Kongtawin

multiple Christian traditions observe Christmas and Epiphany as at least semi-separate seasons, and regardless, the concept of "12 days of Christmas" dates to the Council of Tours

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

I like an electric range for all kinds of fun safety reasons but boy howdy it is Slow

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

USA (with kettle): I would boil it in the kettle because if I do it on the stove I will be there all night

Meme. Medieval painting of an angel leading a group of sinners out of hell. There are 5 sinners, all naked and surrounded by flames. The angel (who is clothed) is reaching a hand out to them. They're grasping for it, and you would, too. There are 4 men & 1 woman, so she's probably thrilled to get out of there. Jerry keeps hitting on her, and he won't take a hint. Hell is depicted here as the mouth of a giant dark beast. It looks a little like a cat head. The mouth and the ears and the space behind the eyes are all filled with flames. The beast has four sharp fangs at the front of its mouth, but the rest of its teach look rather human. The beast is looking upwards, like a dog groaking for scraps, and it's wide open maw makes it look like it's at the dentist. Despite having a portal to hell inside it's head, the beast looks friendly. If it sidled up to you in a park, and looked at you with those eyes, you'd pet it. Meme text reads: "Find someone you love enough to save with your eels"

It's Monday. Mondays are hard. Perhaps some eels will help?

In c. 1500, Roger de Cailli promised 1,500 eels a year to the priory of Castleacre if the monks would pray for the souls of his mother, father, & 2 departed wives.

Remember folks: eels are the way out of purgatory. Even on Mondays.
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I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.

Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee

It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

now that one doesn't bug me as much because I can see the advantages of having a consistent manufacturing standard, and it's at least *close*

I do enjoy a good Advent calendar (or, indeed, a mediocre Advent calendar)! It's just that if you give me something labeled "12 Days of Christmas" which is meant to be opened beginning on December 13, I am going to have to take corrective action with a Sharpie

I have no personal beef with (or interest in) Hallmark as long as they number their days correctly 😅