BattyMatilda 🧣

Jules Verne imagined a future with a cracked moon; am I to suppose this is how we get there?

Perfect! That's chef's kiss 🤌🏾

All fingers and toes crossed we'll revisit our little village someday. Thank you for such lovely characters.

This is it, cosy, witchy, home fires, WW 2, village, wartime adventure, doesn't quite do it justice. But it's such a charming read.

Finally got around to CB last night and it was just as good as the first. I often get irritated with long series but I would be delighted with a few more @markstay.bsky.social

This series is not talked about enough. #TheWitchesOfWoodville Just finished #TheCornBride and thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done @markstay.bsky.social

Any policy that discriminates against the trans community will inevitably affect non trans folk, Black women and Women of colour right along with them especially. So of course here comes JKR, telling us to photograph anyone we think could be trans in a cubicle next to us. vm.tiktok.com/ZMS94hLhh/

"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion" - Edgar Allan Poe.

Senate Republicans voted to kill an EPA rule limiting the seven most hazardous air pollutants emitted by chemical plants and other industrial facilities.

Inhaling even small amounts of these pollutants can cause brain damage and cancer.

How is this Making America Healthy Again?

RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

Dog … the thought alone triggers me

YouTube video by Leading Harvard Surgeon: We Are In A Global Health Crisis (Atul Gawande)

youtu.be/huVdKhZLfm8?...

Two panels carton from teas and seas of characters in ancient Egypt. In the first panel, below the text "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart," a human kneels and offers a heart to the jackal-headed god Anubis. In the second image, below the text "But the very next day, you gave it a weigh..." Anubis is weighing the heart on a scales and it is weighing heavier than the white feather of Ma'at. The human looks anxiously down into the bottom left corner of the image, where the lion/hippo/crocodile goddess Ammit grins happily in anticipation of being given the heart to eat.

stole this on mastodon

Poverty is not a moral failing. Spending money on a silly, nonsense treat does not mean you deserve of poverty.

So don't you worry your pretty, little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard
The stakes are high, the water's rough
But this love is ours

Girrrl, I had one of those to deal with today, almost 5 hrs and a half hrs 😭

You are wonderful menace 😂

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

I thought #APsalmForTheWildBuilt was a beautiful tale but #APrayerfortheCrown-Shy surpasses it. Who are we without what we do? What makes us who we are?

Same, it is pointless.

I have been thinking about this comment on a TikTok video for the past 24 hrs.

@Makenzie posted the following: I learned recently in my philosophy class that it actually is quite impossible to reach a moral understanding with someone that has a different ethical code than you.

This is exactly how I feel

“Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”
- Haruki Murakami

I support marriage equality, because we are who we are across borders, race and sexuality. Our value is not negated by our love for another. Love, regardless of sex organs, has the ability to move us out of despair into place of dreams, even as it grounds us more deeply within our own skin.

This one is genuinely heartbreaking, but as he says we must hold space for the truth that not all good art is made by good people and vice versa, however we must be aware of the implications of our financial support once we know the truth of who they are. vm.tiktok.com/ZMkmLysLx/

Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, met with the Pasadena mayor and chef José Andrés to discuss ongoing wildfire recovery efforts and pass out supplies.

If you haven't donated to World Central Kitchen, please do so.

They do a fantastic job of feeding people.