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A shorthaired white cat with tabby patches, looking disgusted while walking on what seems to be a stony beach.

“Go outside” they said. “You’ll love the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

The last-ditch race to save the Orinoco crocodile – in pictures For decades, the men and women of the Venezuelan Crocodile Specialist Group have been raising younglings of the critically endangered species in a race against time to avoid its extinction

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Black-and-white photo of two long-haired kittens. One is white and ginger tabby, the other is a brown tuxedo tabby. They are sitting up on a brocade tablecloth looking adorably toward the camera. Text at the bottom reads “We is brothers”.

Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

Which Pushoes do you choose? 👢✨

a little girl is laying on an office chair Alt: a little girl is laying on an office chair twirling around in circles.

Me at work, currently. My brain is fried.

having a meeting with two people who are clearly dating and trying to hide it. amazing to watch

Living Colour releases their debut LP today in 1988 — with “Cult of Personality”, a song inspired by a chat during rehearsal about what makes a leader charismatic.

“Vernon played a riff,” said drummer Will Calhoun. “And next we knew we had a song. All while we were setting up for sound check.”

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A colourful cartoon of a man in slippers say at a desk with a laptop open in front of him. The screen looks as if he’s making a Zoom call with the screen divided into sections with a caller in each. On the wall above and to the right of the computer, an angry-looking ginger cat is raped to the wall. The caption reads: ‘How to prepare for a Zoom meeting.’

La palabra padre “He tenido una buena vida…”, empezaba el papel que me dejó: yo sólo espero que haya sido cierto. Nunca podré saberlo

Esto de Martín Caparrós

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YouTube video by BBC We learn about Fred van der Weij's invention... The Air Fryer! - BBC

Me: Pfff, why would I post about the invention of the airfryer, I generally only write about history that's more recent and I don't care that much about kitchen stuff, I barely even use my kitchen.
What?
The inventor was Dutch?!
Well in that case:
youtu.be/zzGhw6Z08PM?...

Archaeologists uncover Bronze Age stone circle in Farley Wood The "hugely significant" discovery in a forest in Derbyshire is thought to date back 3,700 years.

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Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones The president has slashed $400m in funding from Columbia University. He wants to stifle criticism of Israel – but the real target is dissent, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones

Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study

if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com

you can search essentially every marketplace in one go

so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)

I'm going to need more than one cup.

A reminder for these times.

Gene Hackman was proud of the fact Richard Nixon put him on the "enemies" list and I think we can honor him and whatever joy his career has given you by living our lives in such a way that evil people know our names and think of us as enemies.

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Beto 🐈‍⬛

My only criticism of George Orwell’s 1984 is that it wasn’t titled 2025.

"Jo, to use this camera you can hold it..."
"I know how to hold a camera, just like I hold my 1930s Box Brownie!"

We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country” Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.

What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”