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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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📚Taskmaster Book Club

@alexhorne.bsky.social introduces a 90-minute Taskmaster Club session where young people tackle book-inspired tasks in teams—designed to promote reading for pleasure.

Perfect for #WorldBookDay and the #YearOfReading

taskmastereducation.com/buy-resources
#Taskmaster #goallin

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.

#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam

YouTube video by GGAwards-PrixGG Noah Reid performs A Case of You | Noah Reid interprète A Case of You

Noah Reid, Catherine O’Hara’s costar from Schitts Creek plays piano and sings a song for her. #Canada

A Case of You 🎶

Get out the tissues 😭💔

youtu.be/vOWn4CUsFak?...

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Best news I've heard all day . . .
#trains #publictransportation

L'actrice canadienne Catherine O'Hara, notamment connue pour ses rôles dans "Beetlejuice" et "Maman, j'ai raté l'avion !", est décédée à l'âge de 71 ans, ont annoncé plusieurs médias américains. Aucun détail n'a été communiqué dans l'immédiat sur la cause de sa mort.

It’s too cold in NY even for penguins. The Long Island Aquarium brought 20 penguins indoors due to frigid temperatures. South African black-footed penguins prefer milder weather, so when temperatures drop below 30 degrees, they’re moved inside. (ABC News)

a childlike drawing of stick figures behind bars

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

YouTube video by National Geographic This Is 40,000 Years of London’s History—Made Entirely of Paper | National Geographic

This is amazing and not Al:
youtu.be/ovzoNbUkg6k?...

#democracytuba (yes yes I know, i do have a degree in this, but i'm now trying to hashtag all the brass bands together)

Marram grass leaf. Light micrograph of a cross section through a closed (unravelled) leaf of Marram grass, Ammophila arenaria. The deeply grooved leaf is thrown into folds. The folds conserve water and withstand salt, and prevent excessive evaporation. Round vascular bundles are visible inside each fold, serving to transport food and water through the leaf. They look like smiley faces. The large "eyes" are the xylem, which transport water. The bright blue "mouths" are the phloem, which transport sugars produced during photosynthesis. The spiky, curved structure is a natural adaptation to drought conditions, helping the leaf to roll up and conserve water. Spines on the surface discourage animals from eating the leaf. Marram grass is important in coastal ecology, since it is one of the commonest grass species in Britain to stabilize sand dunes.

Mother nature is a raver.

Loon Rebel Alliance for Minnesota by Caitlin Cahill @loveandopeshop https://www.etsy.com/shop/loveandope/

Common loon #RebelBird for Minnesota by Caitlin Cahill

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

Independent bookstores! When I taught elementary, mostly ages 7 -13, Kidsbooks in Vancouver gave suggestions that always went over really well — they have a good website, ship, and will chat over the phone too

That said, don’t forget to get Calvin & Hobbs so it’s ready when they are

'Zoe, these are so beautiful, and that’s what we’re fighting for. We’re being angry and complaining because we have to, but where we want to go is back to beauty. If you let go of that, we don’t have anywhere to go.'

— David Wojnarowicz to Zoe Leonard, after she showed him her photographs of clouds

The Killing of Alex Pretti YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

The Killing of Alex Pretti—What we know so far. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/_r8fI8D...

YouTube video by 22 Minutes It's time to play... Describe! That! Video! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

It’s time to play, “Describe that Video!” This Hour Has 22 Minutes at its most blistering - and prescient. This was posted yesterday. But it couldn’t be more timely. Whether or not you can bear to watch “that” video today, you need to watch this one. #Minneapolis #CBC

Portrait frontal rapproché d'un pélican blanc sur un fond blanc uni, mettant en valeur son long bec texturé et ses yeux rouges.

#ImageDuJour Tête d'un pélican blanc 📷. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9...

Sadly I only know this because one of the kindest people I know in Ottawa lost a son to the toxic drug crisis and is now a broken hearted force for change. They move within similar spheres of influence

Yes and I believe his sister still lives there. She has been a driving force behind this

Politics Chat, January 20, 2026 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/cyB2JQq...

Bullet Bird - Northern Pygmy Owl in flight and perched. Photo By:
nathanclarkwildlife.

~Devon

January 18, 2026 You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.

January 18, 2026

Photo of a sculpture resembling a.side view of a hare's head facing left on a rectangular stone plinth against a white background

'Hare head Study' in bronze by Nichola Theakston, one of the UK's foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre #womensart

This a picture of Ogier the Dane. When I was a student in Sweden, I went with my family to visit him in the basement of Kronborg Castle in Denmark. Legend has it that he sleeps until the country of Denmark is in mortal peril, and then he’ll awaken and save the day. Posting for no reason. Obvi. 👀

Job opening: “The British Museum Plans to Hire a Treasure Hunter. Duties Include Recovering Missing Artifacts Before They’re Lost to History” Christian Thorsberg, The Smithsonian, 7 January 2026 bit.ly/3LD5529