Shawn Gilmore

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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Announcing the latest issue of Participations! (Feel free to share :) ).

This issue, we feature articles on BookTok, K-Drama, Cinephiliac memory, inclusivity in Harry Potter fanfic and work on audiences in Ghana and Flanders! :)

www.participations.org

Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde Dear friends: I need your help. I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now

Books with Pictures is an irreplaceable part of the comics community! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...

A dungeon-eye view of the Waterdeep sewers, which echo with dungeonfunk.

For the Mega CD version of Eye of the Beholder, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima once again combined forces to rock your adventuring party's world.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

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Digital illustration of a black cat sticking out the middle of a wreath. The wreath is decorated with red ribbon, mistletoe, pineapples and stars

🌲🐈‍⬛ Festive kitty!!!

#illustration #cuteart

restocked ! ! 🌿🍇💜💚

Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

an illustration by Spindle of the characters Asimov (on the right) and Ottilie (on the left) swimming. The POV is from underwater looking upwards at them as Asi pulls Otti through the water

Swimming

failure to imprison (at least) Bovino when this is over would be a catastrophic failure of democratic governance

Diagram showing an eclipse of the moon, illustrating Robert Grosseteste's De sphaera

BL Harley 3735; Calendarial and computistical treatises by various authors; 2nd half of the 13th century; England; f.81v

On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's 19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had "determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky. The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.

It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Lunar eclipse and solar eclipse

Latin MS 53; Astronomia, Joachinus de Gigantibus, Christianus Prolianus; 1478; ff.38r,39v
@thejohnrylands.bsky.social

Swamp Thing, Abby & some awfully endearing frogs, by Charles Vess, 1987.

NST #1319: Night of the Reaper (2025) — The Vault of Culture A classic string board appears in Night of the Reaper (dir. Brandon Christensen, 2025).

A classic string board appears in Night of the Reaper (dir. Brandon Christensen, 2025): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

Photograph of Palestinian wildflower

Wild garlic (Allium Ampeloprasum L.) (ca. 1900–20) by American Colony, from Wild Flowers of Palestine.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/58609226-483f-433d-9d52-6cae2930d0e2

#plant-photography #wildflowers #herbs #israel #botany #natural-history #floral

The Spawn of Venus splash page. A group of spacefarers, walking on a strange planet.

Wally Wood - splashin’ in witzend 6 (1969).

Mapping the Queer Landscape of Medieval Europe A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

A new show at the Met Cloisters speaks to the existence of queer and trans people in the Medieval period and within the Catholic Church, as well as sexual dalliance and humor, and nontraditional unions.

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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Yard sign that says "ICE kidnapping happened here"

Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.