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Mabel Fairbanks.

#ResistanceRoots

Mabel Fairbanks was born on this day in 1915 in the Florida Everglades. She was a pioneering African American and Native American figure skater and coach who broke racial barriers in the sport and paved the way for other minorities to compete in figure skating. /1

I think some folks are way past the the skills of 3 Christmas ghosts. Let's just give Krampus a map of D.C. and call it a day.

Nao-san admires the great ginkgo at Nishi Hongan-ji.

Ginkgo fruit (when fallen and squashed they can cause quite the stink!).

Ginkgo slowly shedding their leaves.

Sunlight illuminates the golden leaves of a great ginkgo tree.

🦕🦖GINKGO🌿🍂

“The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed.
After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It’s amazing.”

-Nakanishi Kōji (中西香爾 1925-2019).
#ginkgo #イチョウ #銀杏

Glorious ginkgo outside my house, its golden leaves illuminated in the morning sun.

A statue of an Arhat collects ginkgo leaves in his lap.

Here you can see a close up of the leaves mid transformation, the green slowly being pushed back by yellow.

A huge ginkgo by the river in Uji.

Ginkgo (銀杏 'ichō') are rather amazing trees.
They are surprisingly resilient to insects, disease, air pollution, fire and even radiation: a tree 1.1km from the epicentre of the atomic blast in Hiroshima in 1945 shocked scientists by recovering without any deformations.
#Kyoto #ginkgo

The message from Trump is crystal clear - if you beat the hell of out police, if you threaten to kill FBI officers - I will make sure you get away with it if you are breaking the law to keep me in power.

If you don't see it, this is a message about 2028.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them!

The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.

This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.

I want to note, esp since it seems relevant in the Summers case, that a depressing if unsurprising aspect of the Society for Classical Studies harassment survey data a few years ago was that women who were also ethnic or religious minorities faced vastly more harassment than white Protestant women.

They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. (Chorus) Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal"; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel, Since God is marching on. (Chorus) Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

today in church we sang the battle hymn of the republic and I had never really read the verses past the first one and once you get into them it's like ohhh riighhht this is a song you sang when you went to bayonet confederates

Gary has seen some shit

Why am I not surprised?

The GOP didn't do anything for months except gavel in-gavel out literally seconds later, still received their full pay....
but not this "woke" judge who didn't choose not to be working.

Proving it's always about themselves--not the people of Wisconsin.

Inspired by Dugan, GOP Proposal Would Withhold Pay From Suspended Judges Proposal has been passed out of committee in both Assembly and Senate.

Inspired by Dugan, #WisGOP Proposal Would Withhold Pay From Suspended Judges

Proposal has been passed out of committee in both Assembly and Senate.

urbanmilwaukee.com/2... #wipolitics

SOME PIGS

My grandfather died in the Athena, Georgia, jail in 1965 from drinking bad moonshine.

Fermentation naturally produces methanol, and distilling concentrates it.

If you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s quite possible to inadvertently consume a dangerous — even lethal — dose.

TL;DR don’t do this.

a screen grab of a tweet about ocean spray cranberry jelly: **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards…. 1d i should take a moment to remind you that Ocean Spray is actually a cranberry growers collective and by supporting the superlative "goo in a can" name-brand cranberry sauce, you're supporting workers and small farmers oatmeal influencer **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards .. 1d: so many reasons to love Superlative Canned Goo this holiday season Lindsey Becker @lcatebecker • 1d Replying to @MsEmilyEdwards Plus, their manufacturing plants are

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Week 2: Festive Fibers Collection:
Adoration’s Flame 🧶

In Albrecht Dürer’s 1505 Adoration of the Magi, 1 figure stands out w/ striking presence & dignity: the Black Magus, traditionally understood as Balthazar. By the early 16th century, European artists had begun to depict
#yarnsky #yarnmarket
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Rats fleeing the Trump ship give me glee because they are a signal about structural integrity, but I don't have to hand it to the rats.

To everyone who has been following our puppy fostering adventure, these puppies are now officially up for adoption! If you live in the Bay Area and want to adopt some of the cutest, friendliest, lovely dogs around, now's your chance. Links in the thread 🧵 below to each pup's page!

MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked

Oh

A screenshot with a photograph of a light brown cat whose smooshed face has the effect of making him look grumpy. In the blurry distance is a drawing of this same cat, with a sadder expression. Under the photo, text reads: "Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees" A calligraphic "I" (the logo of the Philadelphia Inquirer) is in the bottom right corner of the image.

Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.

Awww, Chessie 🫶

A 20 year old woman in Minnesota was murdered at work by a coworker this week. Why? He didn't like the way she looked at him. And people are judging her gender presentation in an effort to justify her murder. America hates women. And children. It hates Black, Indigenous, Latine and Asian people too

And a wonderful job on matching the pattern

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Justice for the victims and survivors. #RapeCulture

do you know WHY actors and athletes are so well compensated today that it’s hard to look at them as “labor”

because they organized and negotiated for it

Tribal flafgs being raised on poles in grassy area along sidewalk

For the first time, Minnesota raises the flags of all 11 tribal nations at the Capitol

Star Tribune on IG

www.instagram.com/reel/DORE0yK...

Indivisible Brooklyn volunteers with the Hands Off NYC campaign handing out materials to defend neighborhoods from ICE.

Today, thousands of people came out to events all across NYC—picking up and handing out materials to defend their neighborhoods from ICE. There were whistles kits & know your rights cards. People went to hundreds of businesses hanging signs of solidarity. Incredible feat by @handsoffnyc.bsky.social.

People do this sometimes. I love it and never question it. This came from the lovely folks at my beloved local creative textile reuse place.

Ok, I’m going to do a little #LHSRescue thread as a reward to myself for the day. That’s Local History Site Rescue, for those of you new to the hashtag. Sometimes this is for a work thing, sometimes it’s just the stuff that finds its way to me, like this bag of “this looks old, give it to Meg.”