Jennifer Sherman Roberts

Thank you for this! Terrific take-away ideas and advice for a much, much, much smaller-scale protest against the possible closure of a local library.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Generally speaking, I feel safer in the UK than in the US, like pretty much everywhere, because there aren't as many guns

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Also:

Oregon ash seed collection workshop

🚨 Oregonians, save our ashes!! 🚨

#Oregon #ash, an important W. Coast species will likely become extinct in much of its range due to invasion of emerald ash borer.
Join the effort to collec OR ash seeds throughout its western range.

8/14 12-1 info sesh

extension.oregonstate.edu/events

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

*laughs nervously*

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Some gold detailing above the Oval Office entrance.

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit

Pic 1: Oval Office
Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine

Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes.

I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.

PhDs in your pocket for sure

Republican Mike Flood’s comments being drowned out by chants of “tax the rich” at his town hall

Sheesh!!! Those seagulls have moxie!

Some days you're the hawk, tired of everyone's tomfoolery. And some days you're the cute lil Tweety Bird, just trying to bonk a bitch on the head

Hear hear!

Everybody talks about how wholesome Dad Jokes are, but nobody talks about the sweetness of teenagers who politely laugh because they love their dad so dang much.

Be the Bert you want to see in the world 🐦‍⬛😍

from @washingtonpost.com Exclusive: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump's two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

scrub harder, lady macbeth

What????? No......... 😆

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

An affidavit in the case revealed that investigators used surveillance video that caught grainy images of a man picking up and throwing rocks outside the front door of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on June 14. The man was dressed in dark clothing, his face obscured by a gas mask with a barely visible tattoo on his left forearm, the video showed. Investigators then found a photo of what appeared to be the same man that ran with an Oregonian/OregonLive story online that showed the man’s face and a tattoo of a vine of leaves on his left arm, according to the affidavit. The FBI entered that photo into “commercially available facial recognition software” used by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the affidavit said. The software provided 30 possible comparison photos culled from various public databases, including one from a Reed College photo-sharing page of “Canyon Day” from April 2023 that showed a man of similar build and appearance with the identical tattoo, the affidavit said. The software also turned up an Instagram account with a profile that revealed the man’s name, “Jacob Hoopes,” according to the affidavit. The FBI contacted Reed College’s community safety director and obtained alumni information on Hoopes, the affidavit said.

this is so fucking creepy www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

ooooh! This is so good!

"A dirtbag is certainly not the best thing one could be, but it’s probably not the worst, either." 😎

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

If this is what's necessary to enforce the law, then the law is the problem.

The great thing about Scottish insults to Trump is you don't even have to understand them to enjoy them.

As a former college instructor, I'm surprised somebody's actually going to read the syllabus

(Gallows humor)

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet