Evilyn Knievelyn Waugh

for anyone who’s ever wanted a behind-the-scenes look at how small press publishing works

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god, i've seen what you do for others...

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

Re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment, and I'd forgotten how relentlessly Gandalf drags Hobbits.

"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"

Putting Dr Høeg in charge "is like dropping an atom bomb," an agency source said.

"Multiple top-level officials are preparing resignations."

"It's an extinction level event. She's has never supervised a drug review, never has conducted a clinical trial. She doesn't understand laws &regulations."

Happy birthday! And, yes!

My brilliant partner @fulmerford.com wrote a chilling work of short fiction on ICE in Chicago which you should absolutely read

tfw the immigration officer is crying too ...,

"We were saying, like, you know, ‘Is there any way for this not to happen? Because, you know, we've got the baby,’” she recalled. 'The USCIS supervisor was in tears herself because she's a mom and she said there was nothing that she could do.'"

James Tate born 82 years tomorrow

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Wow, so true, now to take a big sip of coffee and read up on which participants in the Israel/Palestine conflict have accepted partition and the framework of a 2SS since 1988 and which one continues to insist on total unilateral control of all of the territory between the River and the Sea.

Abolish ICE.

Phillis Wheatley had to have four prominent white men interrogate her and write a testimonial verifying that she really did write her book in order for it to be published.

#Lit #BlackSky #Poetry

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Man you are the Governor of Colorado you do not under any circumstances have to hand it to them, especially when the right wing intellectuals you're handing it to are Epstein defenders and phrenologists

"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests

whoa. scroll back up to the top

this guy is a troll

if we don't punish the creators of Lost for their crimes we can never begin to heal as a nation

Discussed here

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If you don't want anyone complaining about your decades-long penchant for human rights abuses, stop doing human rights abuses.

If you don't want anyone calling your occupation of millions of people "apartheid," end the occupation.

If you don't want anyone saying you're committing genocide, don't.

The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes

It’s Eli Wallach’s birthday. A story.
Eli once told a great one about The Godfather Part III.
Coppola cast him; Eli asked for the script… nothing arrived.
“Francis, I don’t see any lines here.”
Coppola: “Don’t worry, Eli—you’re playing an old family friend.”
(1/3)

“I’m sorry, Mittens. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

I do think Starmer thinking things were basically fine before does explain a lot tbh

WCK opened a new large-capacity Field Kitchen in North Gaza—our 2nd in the north and 6th across Gaza. Our network now serves 650,000+ hot meals and bakes nearly 500,000 loaves daily. The new kitchen alone can produce up to 150,000 meals a day. #ChefsForGaza

follow @boltsmag.org! i have gotten so much valuable information from bolts whether it's my own local politics or what's going on across the country.

My pal Jota Mun (also one of my mentos!) has their documentary coming out on PBS tomorrow!
Please check it out!
Heart aching and eye opening work.

Augsburg University officials: ICE agents pointed weapons at students, staff during confrontation Augsburg University officials say ICE agents pointed weapons at students and staff while conducting an operation on the Minneapolis campus targeting an undergraduate student on Saturday, the universit...

How all universities should respond to kidnappings on campus: "They aimed weapons at witnesses that included staff and students while many more students watched from their windows. These tactics, with the implicit threat of violence, are unacceptable, dangerous, and profoundly disturbing."

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30