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Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading skills Denmark is eliminating its 25% book tax after finding reading skills in steep decline. Culture Minister Engel-Schmidt: "The gift of reading is something we should give to younger generations."

Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading
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The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!” History remembers Pablo Picasso first as an innovative painter, and second as an uninhibited personality.

The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!”

I’ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded.

HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Waiting for new Reylo fan fic that incorporates Kylo having prescription eye wear in his helmet in 3….2….1……

Make it Reylo

Pencil drawing depicting Kylo Ren wearing his helmet as seen through broken glass

Shattered...

#Kyloren #reyloww #reyloart #myart

In case I wasn’t clear…

maybe sand isn’t so bad #reylo #reyloart

He’ll never escape the Han parallels

American newspaper clips from 1940, “Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis Claim. Plus, my Vanity Fair story: Can Superman Win the Culture War?

The right-wing backlash against #Superman has happened before.

Here’s my @vanityfair.com report w/ the full history —starting with April 1940, when the official SS newspaper attacked the comic book hero & its creators.

Plus, that time Superman fought the KKK…

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Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

A witch sitting in a batthub in a flower field surrounded by ghost cats.

Reflourish. 🌼

It goes without saying but this place is so much nicer than the bird app. I had so much anxiety over there, so the chill vibes over here are so nice

Kylo is fascinated by the first force bond. Rey is angry. Scene from The Last Jedi.

#reylo #reyloscenebot

average liberal: hohoho, methinks president cheeto is in for a rude surprise when these orders hit the courts 😏

average judge: i love hitler

A misty sky with northern lights shows a serious-looking face blended into the clouds. The caption reads: “Ancestors looking down on you like: always on that phone,”

Goodnight

Mafia king and queen! Everyone knows that if you want to be in the king’s good graces you have to treat the queen, well…….like a queen.

He may or may not have physically thrown a guy who disrespected her across a room.

Fan fiction writers will craft book-length pieces with the promise of no monetary gain, all for the love of the craft and the fandom. People writing for months on end amidst their busy lives. It’s a testament to the fact that humans will create with no other incentive than for the joy creating.

A Kylo for every season

#KyloRen #AdamDriver

I cannot wait for Ryan Coogler’s SINNERS… #horror #filmsky

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Many stars crowd the image, shining in shades of white, blue, and orange, and more closely concentrated at the center.

Bright blue stars are in a cluster at the center of the image. They are surrounded by a shell of brownish and burnt orange dust and gas. The shell has ridges that reach towards the stars like teeth. Stars within the dust and gas are hidden from Hubble but visible to Webb in the infrared. A number of more distant galaxies also appear in the background.

Ferocious stellar winds, likely from the bright blue star at the top of the image, are blowing through a curtain of dust. The fine dust scatters the starlight at blue wavelengths. Farther down, another bright, super-hot star shines through filaments of obscuring dust, looking like the Sun shining through scattered clouds. A diagonal string of fainter accompanying stars looks reddish because dust is filtering starlight, allowing more of the red light to get through. The bottom of the picture presents a keyhole peek deep into the dark nebula. Hubble captures the reddish glow of ionized hydrogen. It looks like a fireworks finale, with several overlapping events.

Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny pale blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob. Taken together, the structures resemble a spider or a squid. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout the image. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team

i can’t fix anything that’s going on right now, but i can show you some beauty that’s out there… 🌌✨

I am having many thoughts right now 😂🫠

Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday.

I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon

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Haven’t posted art in a while. So I’m here to share some Rey art.

Rey forever💛

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