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Thank you everyone sharing. I'm hitting emergency stations here, less than a week to go and zero safety net, so the more eyes on this, the better.

(Yes, I am looking for other work etc. I'm unfortunately very disabled, so options are just... Not.)

Fun task last thing on a Friday: recataloguing (because it had disappeared from the catalogue) Francis Bacon’s presentation copy to Cambridge University of his Works (London, 1623). In a contemporary binding of blue velvet embroidered with silver thread. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Sel.2.84.

That is gorgeous! I know the silver is tarnished, but I think it makes it even lovelier.

Woodcut of the dog & its reflection, from a Latin edition of Aesop’s fables, printed at Verona in 1479. This edition contains 66 woodcuts, possibly by Liberale da Verona. Bought by @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1870 & now Inc.4.B.19.2[2161].

Some warehouse owners have even backed out of sales after learning how the properties might be used. It feels like something bigger is unfolding, and it doesn’t sit right. Please pay attention. Why would this many warehouses be needed to hold people?

We just shared the link from NBC about three warehouses being bought to house immigrants, but it now looks like we seriously underreported how many are being purchased. Based on information many of you have shared, the number appears to be over 26.

Coworker has an automatic litterbox at home, with an app on her phone. The app tracks her cats deposits and tells her anything is wrong. However, it also notifies her by saying, "Tell 'catname' we said hi!" She thinks the app is flirting with her cat.

Pink is definitely their color!

I'm so hipster! I followed you before you were cool! I mean...I'd rather follow a niche interests guy, but I think you're ok

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)

Don't forget unicorn horn goblets and vegetable lamb paste

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Ah, the sizzling of human flesh. I assume it's too hot for leather car seats and seat belts as well?

Tracing the origins of Stradivari’s resonance wood Stradivari’s violins represent the pinnacle of classical instrument making, yet the origins of the wood used to construct their soundboards have long …

If you want a fun science (🧪) article to read this weekend, make it this one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Stradivarius #Dendrochronology

It's true it seems, with no warning or explanation CIA simply discontinued and removed the World Factbook this week.

I imagine they'd say we have wikipedia now wo who needs it, but check the footnotes and see how many wiki entries get their data from the CIA factbook. Lots.

Yearly PSA y'all, because people argue this on every platform every year during Black History Month and when talking about Black Romance.

Not a hot take, clear definition: Black romance is: written by a Black author, the main character is Black, and all the love interest(s) are Black. Every time.

Context: collecting Skymiles to fly people home who were kidnapped in Minnesota and released in Texas.

My friend, you are way cooler than I am. I would have absolutely raced around the house shrieking. You may actually have done that, but nobody knows

I think I've decided I'm just too tired to be surprised by any Epstein news anymore. There are only 500 rich people in the world and they all know and enable each other and they are goddamn exhausting.

Oh that's pretty!

I needed this today. Every single stitch is a step forward

Wooooowww. Huh. That certainly is a statement

Details for H.Res. 996: Impeaching Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors. - GovTrack.us Details for H.Res. 996: Impeaching Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

If your rep, no matter party, is not on this list as a co-sponsor to impeach Noem, be on their case until it is. Non stop emails,calls, posts on their social media & encourage other constituents to do the same.

Mine is not and he is getting an earful.

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

Blocking the construction of ICE detention centers is much easier than closing them once they're built! If you're in this county, follow the OP for some ways to support; if you're not, keep an ear out for proposed detention facilities in your zone

I did not know Godzilla did Scottish dancing. He gets some good height too

Fancy a Jelly Baby?

A group of quiet gray nondescript people sit on a bench, all looking down, their hands held in various positions of distress and anxiety. In the second panel, the one in the middle speaks up - “We're all... here... right?” “I think we're here together...” “... I think we all want to scream for help...”

We zoom in on the talking middle person as the others try to avoid looking at them, the person continuing, “But we know we're all here... And if we need help, so does everyone else... We want to help, I think”... in the second panel the face is zoomed in completely but layered over images of colorful bright happier people helping their loved ones – one cooks for a sick friend, an abled person is sweeping up for a person in a wheelchair, two are hugging as one cries, and one is a person painting a fence.... “I think we fantasize about all the ways we wish we could help the people we love...” “All the ways we could be there if we weren't so broken, so tired, so numb...” “... Then we swim in the guilt of not doing any of those things...” “... Because we need help too... but there's no one we can ask... because we know they need it more” “... We're all... HERE... right?”

The gray middle person looks to their side as the others stay silent, the room darkening around them as they wait. In the last, they look even more alone as they speak, “... It's okay. I know you're too tired to answer” “... I'm here too” “... I get it...”

just a comic about society-wide burnout, depression, and isolation

I think about Elijah McClain a lot. How he was a sweet, lovely young soul who used to play the violin for stray cats. How brutally his young life ended and how the State sent riot police to interrupt the violin vigil in his name. The cruelty was always the point.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are stand together and pronounced gahdawguh eejoolah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.