Laura McEwan

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Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

If you’re going through the forest and a little gnome pops out and demands you answer his riddles three or be turned into a fine pair of magical boots, keep going

An open hardcover book rests on the sill of an open window. Outside is greenery; inside is a lace curtain pulled partially aside.

#gloamingpictures

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD.

Actually and literally.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

I just did this. Immediate difference in my Drive. Also, no more "Hey, wanna try this stupid thing?" pop-ups.

Two piecesof deep purple fabric.

Our all-natural Logwood dye is restocked. I'm absolutely in love with this rich purple hue.

etsy.me/4k9MAxP

#NaturalDye #CrossStitch #HandDyedFabric #Artist #FiberArts #Purple #PurpleFabric #logwood #naturaldye #fiberarts

Angela Bassett Reprises Her Black Panther Role as Queen Ramonda with Surprise Runway Walk at Vogue World 2025 Angela Bassett wore the original costume worn by her character Queen Ramonda from the Black Panther franchise when she reprised her role on the Vogue World: Hollywood runway on Oct. 26, 2025.

people.com/angela-basse...

"Happy Halloween" illustration of two Ravens practicing calligraphy with a feather. One is much more skilled than the other, but both seem to be enjoying themselves!

They're practicing calligraphy! 🐦‍⬛🪶

Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

🚨The cult of MAGA👇

Watching the latest GB Baking Show and singing “I see a cheesecake and I want to bake it black…”

Lyrics of the Dave Matthews Band song "Steady As We Go" with a half in shadow image of Dave, eyes closed, head tipped slightly down. Lyrics: So if your heart wrings dry, my love I will fill your cup And if your load gets heavy, girl I will lift you up Well troubles, they may come and go But good times be the gold So if the road gets rocky, girl Just steady as we go

#DMB #DaveMatthewsBand #DMBLyrics

Yes. And his wife and two adorable little girls. It’s too sad. 😔

He’s Obi-Ki’s son, if you remember him. 💔

a bunch of lit candles are on a table Alt: a bunch of lit candles are on a table

My fandom friend Alan died yesterday. That’s my third friend, plus two family so far this year. Five. Too many. Too much.

Correction. Just learned my fifth loss this year happened yesterday evening. It’s too many, too much.

It was not a good year. This year we’re at two but one more is my MIL’s (in a few weeks)

I use Xanax for funerals, or I get too overwhelmed and empathic. I can only get three at a time. Last year I had seven funerals. At least many were online but for those in person I needed those pills

Bara Brith I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

Aw man, she'd have loved being 69.

R.I.P. Queen. 🥃💚

A cross stitch flat fold design of a hourglass with a sandy shore with high waves slowly draining through the hands of a silhouette on another sandy shore. Next to it, the Edgar Allan Poe quote "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream"

The same Poe Hourglass design, but without the sky stitched in allowing the fabric to shine through.

Been a while since I did a flatfold. So naturally I had to make a new one! Plus this'll fit in great with my library decor. 🥰

One of my favorite quotesfrom Edgar Allan Poe. Maybe not as
well known as The Raven, but I'm hoping some of you
will know it. 🙂

Things I Liked About Joe Biden:

He didn't put tacky bric-a-brac all over the Oval Office.

He didn't kidnap or torture.

He didn't accept bribes.

He didn't murder fishermen.

He didn't shake down the DOJ for $230 million.

He didn't destroy a wing of the White House.

He wasn't in Epstein's Files.

For my forever Space Sis: 🎂

💞