“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

📣 Job alert! 📣 The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...

I need to pack up garbage and recycling and take it out, and grab the flat of eggs from the car. I believe in me. I can do this. (I'm so tired.)

The autumnal teabag bookmarks are still available on Ko-fi! .𖥔 ݁ ˖🍁๋࣭ ⭑🍂༘

Browse a Collection of Over 83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns

I am super unmotivated to make the really boring shift for my historical outfit. But I need at least one, so I should probably get going to have at least one for the winter event season.

Today I need to pick up some seam seal, and seal my tent fly. My ~25 year old MSR Hubba is still going strong, except for the flaking seam tape. A friend is visiting in a few weeks and we're hoping the weather will be decent enough for camping. As in, less than 6" snow in the mountains.

This survey is kind of terrible, but if you're Canadian I do recommend you check it out.

My beautiful city is under siege, and it's breaking my heart. Please read, and share if you like the post. www.bryndonovan.com/2025/10/10/m... #chicago #ice #nationalguard

I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women. - Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

If you are a Canadian NSFW artist, please keep an eye on your account after Oct 15 and contact me if any of your media/account is censored with the new ToS. I may have a follow-up meeting with the federal government in the coming months to address this. Save my info: linktr.ee/rjainxiv

I always forget about popcorn, but it's so delicious and so easy to make.

For the Americans.

Canadians, please sign!

Is this... pizza?

Drinking in bed is dangerous. Now I have damp sheets that smell like herbal tea.

“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly. “Not even one.” “Yes,” said Frog, “but we have lots and lots of will power.” “You may keep it all, Frog,” said Toad. “I am going home now to bake a cake.”

A reminder that if you're not able to fast on Yom Kippur for any reason -- and mental health is a health reason -- it's regarded as a MITZVAH to eat. Resources and more here:

A momentous occasion: 'Java Man' is going back to Indonesia, along with more than 28,000 other fossils that Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois collected during the colonial era. My story: www.science.org/content/arti...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

It's the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in "Canada." 🧵 If you are unfamiliar with the Calls to Action from the commission, a short pdf is at the bottom of the page here: nctr.ca/publications... If you'd like to donate some of your stat pay to assist efforts across Canada: payyourrent.ca

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

LGTBQ+ youth disproportionately experience homelessness compared to their straight and cis peers. In the US, up to 40% of unhoused youth identify as LGBTQ+. That’s why this series was created - to provide support, essential tips, and resources to youth who are so often overlooked by the system.

I am the gar I long and thin I have a jaw things fit within Yet sometimes shapes are wrong for head so do my best & lik the bread

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

this thread, and everything bearing witness to the honorless slaughter at Wounded Knee, is important

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Do read through this thread--a very interesting project, with policy applications that could actually become reality in a place like Sweden, where they do fund trials of things like this, if the evidence supports doing so.

I packed extra snax today and am very excited. I should probably plan to make some snax and freeze them, instead of buying. GF stuff just isn't super great, and it's expensive.

Moss!!

Uh oh. I think part of my problem is I'm not eating enough food at work, so I get hangry a couple hours after dinner, and that's eating too close to bed time, which makes me feel bad. So, snackies are needed for the afternoon.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

The way to diminish the Substack brand so you don’t “have” to have your newsletter (it’s just a newsletter!) on Substack is, in fact, to just not use Substack.

A dream of the fields study

I've had a muscle in my quad/knee area twitching all day, and I've done various gentle stretches and squats and some tennis ball rolling and the only thing that's changed is the twitch is now under my kneecap. 😭

The paper has helpful diagrams and it's WILD. They clone the other species so they can produce sterile hybrid workers. It's like if a horse could occasionally give birth to a donkey deliberately so they can make mules to serve them while they sit on their... horse throne... as horse queens do.

in a bid to avoid doomscrolling on my lunch break i made a menu for my cat

This video is fantastic and absolutely true. We're going to get to some of this later in the series on peasants but the time-labor demand of 'household chores' before ten seconds ago was enormous. One 1900 report put the average food prep per week per woman at 44 hours; another 14 hours on laundry.

There are studies about ice cream and diabetes, showing that it doesn’t increase A1C levels, and the scientists who conducted the studies concluded these must be something wrong with the studies. (I say, ice cream is magic.)

Thandiwe Muriu (b.1990) Photographer, Kenya

your periodic reminder that “archaeology isn’t political” is a political statement

I had some wild rice in the cupboard and made a delightful soup. Oyster mushrooms sauteed in butter with chives, thyme, and a little paprika. The rice. Thickened with a cream and corn starch slurry. If I had fennel and carrots I would have added them too. Ate with a freezer naan. Yum.

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu

Sadly, I can't link to the story b/c of Globe & Mail paywalls. But I feel that I have to share big news from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. It has bought at auction the plaid shirt & the Mountie costumes used in the Monty Python skit in which all sing "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay." 👀

Urf, subskeeting here but folks . . . Don't touch evo-psych. Don't talk about how "we evolved" to think a certain way. That's not how evolution works and it's not how psychology works, and the foundations under all that are more racist and fascist than you probably realize.

I can't find the leave on conditioner I want, so like the absolute nerd I am, I'm gonna make some. I'm pretty sure I have all the ingredients. Time to go look!

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

- Fallen - I dropped a small piece of butter into the floor and it just stayed there