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4 photos of Kate Bush in a lacy bat costume in various poses.

You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Two black-and-yellow birds perched on a barbed wire fence against a soft green background.

#BirdoftheDay is #birdonawire x2

This male and female Black-headed Trogon were taking a break from digging out their nest cavity and posed for me.

#CostaRica #birds #nature

Spent some time doing this yesterday. If you don't want your emails used to teach Google's AI, I suggest turning off "smart features" and then trying this.

custom wreath!! (pictured: a kiln shelf with a bunch of glass wreaths in saucers)

a bunch of glass rings with different layered patterns of spiral cane

a bunch of green bumpy wreaths with murrine decoration in patterns including jellyfish and eyeballs

a bunch of pictures of jewelry, including a maroon dragonskin pendant, blue and yellow cufflinks, two pendants made of orange spiral cane and one pair of cufflinks in purple and green

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm a fused glass artist specializing in jewelry. This winter I'm branching into wreaths that make great decorations for walls, windows & Christmas trees.

I sell at nora.jewelry.

I'm donating 10% of this weekend's sales to Distribute Aid's harm reduction toolkit program.

Here's how to turn off "smart features" in Gmail. As of this week, it is on by default and explicitly allows Google to use your emails to feed its AI. bsky.app/profile/them...

Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace

"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

A beautiful photo of autumn in Richmond, VA, taken at Maymont #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography #leaves #autumn #rva

my favorite flower is forget-me-nots… so i beaded earrings that remind me of the field of flowers i spent the summer enjoying

Vaccination remains THE key intervention against severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Make sure you are protected and wear a mask. 🧪🧵⬇️

I think it is important to note that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with having a different neurotype, such as Autism (ASD), ADHD, etc. Pathologizing someone with Autism potentially exacerbates existing harms they’re likely already struggling with. It leads to harmful labeling and stigma.

Vaccines save lives.

And no, they do not cause autism.

YouTube video by Padre Guilherme Padre Guilherme - Cristo Redentor - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - DJ Set (16.01.2025)

full sets on the youtubes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuoJ...

Pope makes unexpected appearance at priest DJ’s cathedral rave The Pope just delivered a message to ravers outside a 14th-century cathedral (with music by ‘The Clerical Brothers’, perhaps...?).

More:
"Padre Guilherme [Peixoto], a priest turned DJ, celebrated the 75th birthday of the Archbishop Bernard Bober on Saturday 8 November with a dance party outside a 14th-century cathedral in Slovakia."

He's a Portuguese priest in the Archdiocese of Braga, in northern Portugal.

Padre Guilherme Artist | Portugal Catholic Priest | Braga Archdiocese Military Army Chaplain | Military Ordinariate 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 | 31JUL1974 | Old Hospital, Guimarães 𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 18AUG1974 | Old Hospital Church, Guimarães 𝗖𝗼...

THANK YOU!!!!
www.youtube.com/@padreguilhe...

He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

I was worried this was a trap but actually yes, go google this instead of whatever else you were about to google

remember, we can celebrate the chaos and pain she is about to inflict on the other side without EVERY HANDING IT TO the Jewish Space Laser lady.

bsky.app/profile/erin...

Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.

Ahahahaha wtffffff

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Amazing to have so much attention brought to the wonderful topic of social insect evolution! 🐜

www.thepoke.com/2025/11/20/a...

finding out that sycophancy doesn't trigger everyone's fight or flight response might be among the worst discoveries of the 2020s for me, and trust me it has stiff competition.

They're older than trees. And dinosaurs. And were maybe once as tall as the Himalayas.

Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.

Ah, i was wondering why you were talking about Tuta. *sigh* Glad i haven't signed up for Proton yet

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

Little 🧵 related to my ... vantage on all this, as ever, as DV survivor ... who thinks the mainstream media needs DARVO training ...

Okay, so you're in your gmail, and you have a bazillion emails in your main inbox due to turning off smart features. What's the easiest way to go through them? Well you could go page by page.

Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.

Remember if you truly despise GenAI and its outputs you need to put a lot more time celebrating and lifting all the artists not using it and trying there best and learning. Share their art like that art and just talk about the stuff you like and enjoy. Don’t let the anger of GenAi stop that.