Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺

I've been thinking of you a lot, Zoe. I hope you're okay.

I note saying that I believe that even if you think you have no artistic skill, I'd rather see your effort than your A.I.

In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

Get out of my brain!

And good luck — I believe in you. (I do not believe in me.)

The scribe emerges in the margin from the line-filler to write the text.

Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A vessel in the shape.of an owl, displayed on a transparent pedestal. The figurine is intricately painted in black, red, and beige, with finely detailed feathers, large round eyes, and a slightly tilted head.

We all need a a timeline cleanse!

A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container.

On display at Antikensammlung München

A lovely weekend to all of you ☃️😀

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Oh, this looks incredible! Thank you for sharing.

That's so frustrating! I finally got in (with the password they sent me — I guess the system just suddenly decided to work?), but I missed some papers I really wanted to see.

#AIASCS folks, is anyone else having trouble getting into the virtual platform — and more importantly, have you figured out how to solve the problem? It keeps telling me that my login credentials are wrong, but I'm using the ones they sent me.

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

The tech bozos should receive a bill every time a librarian has to look for a fabricated book or article. Slop enablers should be held accountable.

Another class action suit needed here - a global one. The UN needs an anti-AI charter. WTAF is this timeline.
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Yeah, once again, disabled workers, parents and caregivers who rely on work from home would appreciate it if everyone from bosses to politicians to rando pundits online would stop blaming wfh for everything from cratering morale to the death of entire cities.
Just a small note, really.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

1st November is All Saints' Day

BnF MS Latin 1141; Sacramentarium of Charles the Bald (?); 9th century, c.869-870; ff.5v, 6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

"Non enim solum ipsa fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est..."
Cicero, De Amicitia, XV.54
#TuesdayThought
BL Royal 20 C IV; Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium in French translation); 15th century; France; f.1r

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit!

This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

It's also responsible for one of the greatest TV episode titles of all time, "Habeas Corpses" (S4 of Angel).

THAT WE KNOW OF

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat

they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Reposting so that I don't lose this.

This is unbelievably pretty.

Medieval manuscript with an eel and a heron painted in at the end of lines of text. The eel is two lines above the heron, and it looks furry. The heron has an awesome crown of spikes, and seems to have no legs. Both animals are...ahhh...aspirational. As if the scribe had never really seen either an eel or a heron, but bravely drew them anyway. Kinda like amateur anthropology. The heron is looking up at the eel. The eel is looking down. You can easily imagine them as Mr. and Mrs. Brady in the Brady Bunch intro. Source: Wren Digital Library, B.11.22, f.40v

Good morning, friends. I've got a rather busy day, so I'm afraid I must be quick with the eel post.

But don't worry, friends...I won't leave you eel-less. Please enjoy this wonderful interlinear eel and heron. Perhaps they're having a conversation about the evils of lightning.
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Part of resisting fascism is resisting the normalization of cruelty and lack of empathy. We are surrounded by horrific cruelty and tragedy. We can’t normalize it. We can’t blame victims without losing our own humanity.

Will happily take suggestions. I’ve tried One Tab, but I don’t like it as much, for several reasons.

Sure, that's what Big Heron wants you to believe. (Big Bird knows better.)