Monica Keane

What a miserable crank

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Rep. Khanna's Super Bowl Emergency Constituent Services Sunday, February 8th between 3:00pm -7:00pm PT Rep. Ro Khanna's district office will hold virtual office hours to offer resources and emergency casework for constituents after reports that ICE could be present at the Super Bowl at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Office hours will be hosted by Tom Pyke, District Director and Simeone Chien, Director of Constituent Services. To register please email: CA17@mail.house.gov For updates, check my Facebook, Twitter, and Bluesky. Please contact the CA-17 District Office at 408-436-2720 if you have any questions.

If yours in Santa Clara County in District CA-17, there are some resources being provided tomorrow afternoon by @rokhanna.bsky.social’s office during the Super Bowl in light of increased ICE presence.

California clematis vine with white flowers

🌱 forgot the sprout and the clematis

Orange monkey flower

Blue eyed grass

Hummingbird sage with pink flowers

It's going to be amazing next month

Pink clarkia

Pink flowering currant

Golden currant

School garden flower report #CaliforniaNativePlants

So many are 😂

Ideal? A man famous for red baiting and being in movies with monkeys?

"If you haven't washed your hands, the bathrooms are by the elevator"

YouTube video by EWTN News Pope Leo Flips through Italy’s most precious illuminated manuscript | Borso d’Este Bible

Anyway, here is Pope Leo asking if he needs to wear gloves to touch a Renaissance Bible and being told "no," so gently www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNj... 📚 📜

❤️

I am very excited to report that a project I have been working on for 3+ years is finally seeing the light of day! Along with @byzcapp.bsky.social and Jesse Torgerson, we debut a new annual section in Digital Philology that proposes the dataset as a new genre of publication. odfms.hcommons.org

What kind of Protestant nonsense is inviting people to breakfast anyway

It's so weird

It's impossible to use

Mark Kelly voting for Trump's judicial nominees remains truly insane.

That's really too bad because he seems like a decent man

Records of Stanford student’s incarceration during WWII digitized by Stanford University Libraries | University Libraries The Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, comprising digital scans of correspondence, photographs, and related materials created and collected by Stanford University graduate Kazuyuki “Kaz” Takahashi and his wif...

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20 minutes if you're lucky!

The Frankish monk Rabanus Maurus died #OTD in 856. His ‘De laudibus sanctae crucis’ (a series of poems on the cross) involves complex imagery, the letters within it making new texts. Here’s the first printed edition of the text, produced at Pforzheim in 1503. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Tb.51.57.

Supreme Court refuses to block new California congressional districts that favor Democrats WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a la…

Supreme Court refuses to block new California congressional districts that favor Democrats trib.al/vlPxlD0

Altadena Library to Help Lead $1.2 Million Countywide Effort to Preserve Wildfire Memories 📚
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I briefly hoped this was an adaptation of Barbara Pym novel but alas

What on earth is that weird picture

11th century manuscript fragments used for binding. Book approximately hand sized.

Close up of stab binding knot.

Inside of the cover - much clearer than the outside!

Always great to dig in the collection: small 1588 book by Bonaventure Bertram bound in 11th century gospel of Matthew. 😍😍

So, if I were searching on Ravelry, I would limit it to cables or texture and a large gauge/chunky yarn

Free Bernat Cable Knit Baby Blanket Pattern Find thousands of free knitting patterns at Yarnspirations, including the Bernat Shadow Cable Baby Blanket. Explore over 10,000 free easy-to-follow designs & start crafting your next project today!

It's a bernat pattern. Here you go:

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ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army.

If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.

I have a subscription to a newspaper but my kids only read the funnies anyway

At a clown school near Paris, failure is the lesson For decades, students at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier have been paying to bomb onstage. The goal isn't laughs — it's learning how to take the humiliation and keep going.

For decades, students at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier have been paying to bomb onstage. The goal isn't laughs — it's learning how to take the humiliation and keep going.