Alea Henle

Older dog

#proofofdog

The two NASA astronauts who were unexpectedly stranded on the space station for the last nine months have been picked up and are on the way back.

I'm imagining a conversation during the journey back:

Astronauts: So, what's been going on these last nine months?

Rescue Crew: [...]

Astronauts […]

‘Once I began wondering about history, I couldn’t escape the feeling that we only call it history when things go wrong.’

— Anne Carson in *Wrong Norma*

(And now I’ll be thinking about that for awhile.)

Too many novels with billionaire heroes. I understand the appeal of wish-fulfillment, but can’t we have less-wealthy heroes who pay their employees well and provide great benefits and are okay with not making a ton more than everyone else?

Dog looking at camera

Dog curled in bed

Dog photos don’t help in times like these. But they don’t hurt either. So here are two.

Don’t finalize your Valentine’s/Galentines’ week plans without registering for our 2025 Cotton Mather Lecture on Feb. 12 at 1 pm EST. Dr. Alea Henle (@armlh.bsky.social) will be discussing Cotton’s granddaughter Hannah Mather Crocker, an 18th century advocate for women’s intellectual equality.

No eggs. And now he's going to drastically limit coffee imports.

The hell is this guy's problem with breakfast?

A Black woman named Aliyah was struggling to find work. So, she catfished herself and made a fake profile on LinkedIn named "Emily." Emily had the same qualifications as Aliyah but received 57.9% of interview invites while Aliyah received 8.9%

This is what we mean when we say racism is systemic.

Tortie focused fully on watching birds on my second monitor

Cat TV proving very useful this morning.

You shouldn't need a terrible thing happening to us to motivate you to read trans stories, but one is happening today so 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig, House of Treasures At the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists strike gold in a lavish Pompeiian home.

#Pompeii is back in the news with the discovery of an extraordinary private bathhouse.
The BBC’s ‘The New Dig’ documentary lovingly follows the process of its excavation and the dramatic discovery of two of the occupants of the house.
Watch on Monday 20th Jan 9pm BBC2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It's 2025, I'm 70 years old, and I wish to comment on the following statements:-

a/ "You can't turn back the clock"
b/ "You can't put the genie back in the bottle"

a/ You literally can turn back a clock
b/ You need to read folklore

#writingcommunity #booksky #SpéirGorm #1001Nights

Good LORD Alberta.

Y'all. -40c is ALSO -40f. Like both systems are in agreement that is appalling.

Thread on money and happiness, worth checking out. Anecdotally, for me the sweet spot for money and happiness seems to be All Your Life Expenses + 25%, because everything critical is taken care of and you have some money for life enhancement. More than that won't make you much happier overall.

Please join us on February 12th at 1 pm EST for our 3rd annual Cotton Mather Lecture.

Dr. Alea Henle (@armlh.bsky.social) will be speaking about Hannah Mather Crocker’s life in the shadow of her family legacy and work to establish her own identity as an advocate for women’s intellectual equality.

10-15" of snow -- how well does your neck of the woods handle it?

Mine is okay, in drips and drabs, but during the first 8-10" we made it up to level 2 snow emergency; just level 1 for the last 3" (two separate storm systems).

Random doesn't mean everyone in any-which-way order. It means one or more people several times and others not at all. 1 person in state X receives 0 jury summons in 42 years; another gets 3 in 7. Random.

Sleeping dog

Dog playing with sloth plushy

Since it’s been a while, here’s #proofofdog

Ditto ditto ditto

So many people live in fictional worlds

Running through a sub-genre rabbit hole that decided to connect to my usual warren. Life is weird, and sometimes fiction is weirder.

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term -The Onion

Let the one who is without sin throw the first stone.

(Hint—if you think you’re without sins take a second and a third look at yourself before picking up any stones.)

The ups and downs of winter temps are even more troublesome as evidence of global warming.

And on a different note, my dogs continue to insist that they don't want coats even when shivering in the chill wind. Sigh.

Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

I’m not in favor of any part of this world.

Way too many people read “I don’t think we should murder thousands of people” as “I think we should murder one guy.”

Not my fault if you’re murder-brained.

Cartoon. Dead Egyptian to Anubis: “Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it a weigh.”

It is Egyptologists’ favourite time of the year again.

Today’s fortune: To be yourself is the greatest accomplishment.

(Yes and also no, because it potentially assumes there’s only one way to be one’s self)

Veggies roasting (or steaming) in the oven. That’s evidently the extent of my contribution to tonight’s dinner. Oops. Better go set the table too!