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A guy looking through the Quran Sorta looks like your grandma looking through a large Betty crocker recipe book

An 8th-century Quran manuscript being restored in Egypt. Considered one of the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts, it has 1087 leaves weighting around 80kg, each made of one entire animal’s skin.

#BookSky

#BookSky

Sending my roses to you, enjoy your day!
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Roses #Photography #Nature #Joy 🌱🍃

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Roses #Photography #Nature #Joy 🌱🍃

What are you grateful for in this moment?

Breathe that deeply into your soul, remember throughout the day. 🙏🏽💕

Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?

139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.

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Here is a baby otter to make you feel better about everything.

The Vatican protocol required men to wear dark suits and ties to Pope Francis’ funeral.

Can you guess who was the only one who couldn't follow that simple request?

He continues to make America embarrassing again.

Macron shook one hand.

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

Super rare magenta aurora in the sky over Finland!

That’s right. 🇺🇦

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

Measles is a looming disaster.

Airborne and highly contagious, it spreads faster than Bird Flu or even COVID-19.

With an R₀ of 12–18, a single case can trigger explosive outbreaks.

This virus has real pandemic potential.

Vaccinate now before it’s too late.

. @olbermann.bsky.social 🏆

Roald Dahl's Heartbreaking Letter About Losing his Daughter in 1962 " there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. "

The full letter is reproduced here:

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Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

A graphic showing four different types of street lights ranging from very bad (completely spherical and shining in the sky) to best (covered at the top and only shining on the ground), causing less light pollution.

the solution to light pollution is actually so simple

Always surprised how many folk on social media are unaware that highly visible women online regularly get threatened w/ rape and other violence. Happens to every woman w/ a substantial following I know, has for a decade regardless of platform. And no, authorities don’t care and that’s no solution.