Dr Ray Harris

The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

"Women have gone too far this time" every ten years until the sun explodes

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Black and white photo of a young light skinned black woman in a dark beret and turtleneck sweater, sitting outside of the brick steps of a wooden house porch. Next to her is a shorthaired white cat looking very curiously into the distance, but the cat is restrained by the woman’s hand and also a harness if it should decide to run off and investigate.

Coolest couple in the neighborhood. Photo from my collection, 1937.

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the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

What does she know that you don't? Mary Magdalene, as painted by Carlo Crivelli. It's his day.

I'm retrospect instead of War on Drugs and a War on Terror we probably should have had a War on Stupidity.

I mean I know we already have libraries, but I'm thinking more like some kind of forced library. Library Prison. Like some guy would come to your house with a gun if you weren't reading books.

I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights.

Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.

#booksky

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Check out the Barbauld:Voicing Dissent conference poster 🗣️🗣️

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

Finally, if you think this has nothing to do with you, good luck with that. The first use case of all new technology is to weaponise it against women. But Silicon Valley is itself a surveillance technology. Elon Musk knows that. And you should too: we are all prey now.
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THE JK.K. TOLKIEN CALENDAR 1974 Tolkien lying under a tree.

You got that photo for the JRR Tolkien Calendar 1974?

Sure boss, real sexy like you wanted.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else

A stained glass piece about 2 ft tall and 1 ft wide, depicting a medium haired white cat sitting on top of a stack of large hardcover books, two off white candles glowing nearby. In the background you see tall, arched church windows with a round window above them. The glass set in the windows is a mellow dark blue like the night sky. That in combination with the candles gives the scene a feeling of cozy nighttime.

Gorgeous stained glass piece made by my friend @stonkers.bsky.social, inspired by the medieval Old Gaelic poem, Pangur Bán. The poem was written by a monk who would work tirelessly at his studies as his cat, Pangur Bán, faithfully hunted mice. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Street art showing Gisele Pelicot looking badass with the phrase written next to her “the shame must switch sides” in French

Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today

Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us.

Because the shame has to switch sides.

I love it when people complain to me directly about having too many cats in their timeline, as if I'm the bluesky cat czar and I have a giant cat content mixing board where I can adjust their personal cat levels.

Depiction of a troll woman with a sack in her right hand

Tonight comes Lussi The Troll with her lussiferda — the army of critters.
She will taste your beer and lefse, and punish those whose house isn't ready for Christmas.

Draw a tar cross on each door and window, and keep the light on!

#GothicAdvent #ijulemørket
#folklore

Art: Ronald Jakobsen

Our cyborg future? New Humanist's Winter 2024 issue explores the weird beliefs of the tech elites From brain implants to dark philosophies and an obsession with blood transfusion, our new issue takes a look at the beliefs and ambitions of the tech billionaires – and how they're taking root in the ...

🚨 What do the tech elites really believe?

Our Winter 2024 issue, out today, explores just that - and how their weird ideas are taking hold in the corridors of power.

Let us tell you more... 🧵 newhumanist.org.uk/articles/635...

#tech #science #trump #politics #journalism #philosophy

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

This is huge.

The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
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