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π£οΈPEOPLE HAVE THE POWER
Patti Smith π₯°
If you are a Texan being investigated for your connections to "radical leftist" groups, I am interested in representing you against harassment by Ken Paxton's office.
07.10.2025 19:21 β π 361 π 179 π¬ 7 π 4I am absolutely emptying out my craft studio which is why I just bought another loom and a carry case for it. It'll help going through the yarn faster than my other 4...5??
07.10.2025 23:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We added a 90's era lipstick red push button phone to the kids room in the library. Listening to parents explain what it is is a real giggle
07.10.2025 19:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Canβt decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead π
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
07.10.2025 10:19 β π 228 π 101 π¬ 2 π 12The cover should have that too! Because otherwise I have to get out the markers
07.10.2025 17:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0With a fuzzy blanket
07.10.2025 16:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Free shipping on books? I'm going to die in a bookalanche. Don't try to save me
07.10.2025 16:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Something fishy about this
07.10.2025 13:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I just unpacked probably our last bookbox from them today. This is going to mess with a lot of the smaller budgeting libraries
07.10.2025 00:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll hold your hat
07.10.2025 00:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
06.10.2025 19:45 β π 11577 π 3481 π¬ 495 π 182It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that itβs easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.
05.10.2025 18:42 β π 1788 π 481 π¬ 30 π 10𧬠Universal kidney transplant breakthrough
Scientists transplanted the first kidney converted to a 'universal' type O organ using an enzyme to remove type-A antigens. This could ease donor shortages and reduce wait times.
π doi.org/10.1038/d415...
#SciComm #Medicine π§ͺ
Yellow and red pumpkins
All kinds of weird lumpy gourds mixed together
Many different colors and types of pumpkin
Can I offer you some nice gourds in these trying times?
05.10.2025 21:40 β π 201 π 37 π¬ 6 π 1If you or someone you know has been detained by ICE, and would like to be on the Pun Show, DM me. I would like to have a show dedicated to this topic.
05.10.2025 02:33 β π 102 π 39 π¬ 2 π 1It's ACL season! Recommend extra sunscreen, personal hand sanitizer, and a friend who will drop off/pick up because all of downtown parking is going to be extra extra
03.10.2025 19:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan MuΓ±oz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
A good example of how to grow
03.10.2025 13:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am adding 'pisspuffin' to my local vocabulary as soon as possible. Hope you get some rest soon
03.10.2025 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."
Timeline cleanse.
Newspaper clipping, 1906.
I am sorry, but it's an image of a table. That's how it is being published.
Microsoft have dropped a list of the 40 professions most threatened by AI. Your first instinct should be to dismiss it due to their mountains of interests in convincing the world that AI is more than horribly inept at most jobs
But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?
I wonder if this would taste good on shortbread
03.10.2025 05:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone π§΅ (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
02.10.2025 23:13 β π 1788 π 1433 π¬ 40 π 76Head of the Eisenhower Presidential Library has now "resigned".
He was told to either resign or be fired because he refused to give a sword from the library's collection to Trump to use as a present for King Charles.
www.cbsnews.com/news/sword-t...
Utterly delightful
02.10.2025 21:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0GNU Jane Goodall.
01.10.2025 21:37 β π 586 π 119 π¬ 9 π 6Had dinner tonight with a friend who goes every day with a bunch of other septuagenarians to be βobserversβ at the immigration courts. ICE thugs routinely throw them out out of public courtrooms, and then public hallways, and then public waiting rooms as they grab immigrants who did nothing wrong.
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