Salome

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Man eating soup - good soup meme

Been thinking about this meme a lot #goodsoup

Yes, but then I think it is still marginally better than AI slop.

‘I’d had 28 years of depression – now it was gone’: Comic Paul Foot on three seconds that changed his life Driving through Manchester one Sunday, at the wheel of a Nissan Micra, Foot suddenly woke from decades of anxiety, anger and misery. He talks about the friends who tried to help him, and the forgivene...

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Oh my goat, this is not a drill!

Congratulations!

Caroline Holpin, a.k.a. Papinta performing serpentine dance
c.1900

I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examples

I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman

Artwork featuring a white woman covered in leaves and looking up at a floating cherub with stylised organic lines

Summer panel (detail), 1904 designed and made by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, who pushed the bounderies of Art Nouveau
#WomensArt

Long story.

Lynn from I’m Alan Partridge Manuel from Fawlty Towers Miranda Hart from Miranda

Lin Manuel Miranda.

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: How Childhood Games Teach Us to Journey Before we had words for trance or spirit work, we already knew the way.

Some thoughts on trance and journey-work from a children’s game.

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#animism #norseanimism #journey #spirit #spiritwork #trance #games #childhood #pagan #meditation #pagansky #heathensky

Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.

Photo of a blue winter sky with stringy whispy clouds.

First day back walking after a long hiatus (injury). The clouds look amazing. #dailywalk

Precisely this

anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

Nothing beats a strong cup of tea on a cool winter morning.

'Humans need solitude': How being alone can make you happier From spending time by yourself to making the most of being single, flying solo can be fulfilling – a philosophy championed by a new wave of books.

An affirming read for my fellow introverts. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

I'm assuming you're not going to suggest any beef and mushroom Wellington baking advice or as means for poisoning your in-laws... it's potentially been done before.

The joy on an 8 year old face when they get their first library card. #LibrariesMatter #libraries #LibraryCard #books #read

Aren't we all? Some of us are just better at hiding it or never get noticed.

You mean, you only read one book at a time?

Yet again, Doctor Who has seeded calamity in our home. We stayed away from the news, binged it all in a weekend, & now June has started with 3 meltdowns (the children & I) & a husband maniacally laughing on the couch. #DoctorWho

It's totally OK. I work on education... I'm used to reading all kinds of handwriting.

I'm so happy too. It was a wait, but worth it.

A photo of the book, an illustration, postcards and letter.

This little tome, Milldust & Dreaming Bread by Scott Richardson-Read @scottishfolkmagic.bsky.social has been on an epic journey. From Scotland to 1km from my home in Australia, returned due to poor postal services and back again, much like a certain hobbit. Well chuffed to have it finally arrive. 💚

It's the only part of managing a primary school library I despise.