Lili Birchflower

500 Nuns March in Atlanta for Migrants, Racial Justice, and the Earth At last week's gathering of women religious in Atlanta, hundreds of nuns took a prayerful stand for migrants, the planet and racial equality — a witness deeply in tune with the American pope.

500 Nuns March in Atlanta for Migrants, Racial Justice, and the Earth

#OnThisDay in 1946, H. G. Wells passed away, leaving the future (about which he wrote so much) to others. Peter J. Bowler explores Wells' ideas of progress and how for him the notion of a better future was riddled with complexities. publicdomainreview.org/essay/h... #otd

This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay

I Miss Having a Human President I can remember when we had a human president.

"Six months after leaving office, Joe Biden is doing the work our sitting President should be doing but cannot and will not do."

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson America’s Most “Complex and Secretive” Military Op?

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This is what she was saying right as Sen. Padilla interrupted with a question. As he should have!

YouTube video by Steve Pitkin Making a Gee's Bend Quilt the Old Way

Beautiful

Legal Things Although we try to stick to law and politics around here, it’s worth noting the practical implications of the chaos the Trump administration has created (especially for the “cheaper eggs” voters from ...

"If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the news, remember, that’s a feature, not a bug. He needs all of that noise to distract enough people for enough time because Trump is attempting to assume the role of dictator or autocrat, call it what you like. "

Redated artifacts rewrite how Indigenous people responded to European contact Fresh radiocarbon data challenge archaeologists’ assumptions about North America’s Indigenous history

Redated artifacts rewrite how Indigenous people responded to European contact | Science | AAAS

YouTube video by How To Make Everything The History of the World in 4 Beers

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YouTube video by PBS How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution | Full Documentary | Independent Lens

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YouTube video by RAMUNI - Viking Crafts and Reenactment How the Vikings Colored Their World | Plant Dyeing Tutorial (Ep. 25)

Experimental archaeology. Now I want to set up a cauldron in the backyard and do this.

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It took a bit, but my YT feed has been converted to sustainable living, creative ideas (I'm interested in), history, other bits - rather than dominated by the traitorous govt. Bastrds are still there, like poison ivy or aphids & squash bugs in the garden, but they're not what feeds the soul & mind.

YouTube video by Happen Films Amazing Permaculture Garden in the City Grows an Abundance of Food!

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At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland A Late Upper Paleolithic (LUP) site containing Ahrensburgian-type stone tools has been discovered at South Cuidrach, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Together with a group of intertidal stone circular alignme...

Paper from this is derived: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

11,500-year-old tools on Isle of Skye reveal Scotland's earliest human settlements Archaeologists have uncovered ancient stone tools on the Isle of Skye that shed new light on Scotland's oldest known human inhabitants.

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Good grief, they'll say anything to cozy up to 45's ego.

YouTube video by Keela Permaculture Farm 8 Years Off-Grid in Portugal: Permaculture Farm & Homestead Tour

How amazing would it be to be part of a project like this?

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Catquistadors: Oldest known domestic cats in the US died off Florida coast in a 1559 Spanish shipwreck The 466-year-old remains of an adult and a juvenile cat are the oldest known in the modern-day United States, a new study finds.

Really interesting.

Weaving Threads of Connection: Overcoming Isolation in Your Magical Journey Finding Your Tribe and Cultivating a Thriving Magical Community

Weaving Threads of Connection: Overcoming Isolation in Your Magical Journey

This would work in any community.

BREAKING: Migrants at Texas Detention Facility Signal SOS to Drones Overhead I wish I were writing under better circumstances, but what’s happening in Texas right now is deeply disturbing—and it’s not getting nearly the attention it deserves.

BREAKING: Migrants at Texas Detention Facility Signal SOS to Drones Overhead

YouTube video by Alliance for Responsible Citizenship How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart) | David Brooks

Well worth the watch. youtu.be/QSa52TR9tCA?...

Regardless of any actual merit, the immediate "qualification" in 45's eye is that Caine is a pasty white male.

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.

Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.

But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.

They aren’t firing for a reason.

I believe in our country. I believe in YOU. Now take a deep breath, let it out, and flip the bird to the bastards as you keep on being the amazingly brave, strong, loving, and dedicated person you are.