Cats being instructed In the art of mouse-catching by an owl - Lombard School, ca 1700, unknown artist #art #cats #caturday #owls #owlishmonday

My idea of a witchy potion haven - (1 of 2) the 2nd photo is the cat that would sell me magic potions in the woods

"The Body of the White Cat Grew Large and was Transformed into that of a Girl" 🐾👣 - Art by Jennie Harbour, ca 1921 #caturday #cats #transformation

“Who are we as a species if we allow monarch butterflies, a living symbol of metamorphosis, to cease to exist?” Terry Tempest Williams on the plight of the monarch butterfly.

The best part about writing a book is planning and researching. The worst part about writing a book is writing the book.

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom

Welcome to #BookologyThursday Join us today as #BookologyThursday takes a pastoral jaunt through literature, art & lore with the theme: 🍃🐑IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃 🎨 Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945) #Womensart

Dreaming fox. art by Fang Chuxiong #BookologyThursday

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Adam Johnson: I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

What a fox bathing spot , shared by @jonheslop.com for your #FoxOfTheDay today !

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

Canada's former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy: "We invoke international law and the 'rules based order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it's the Americans — whose gov't 60% of Canadians see as a threat" www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ducks on my pond in a pot basking in the Spring sunshine #SmallBeauties

An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home ~Dylan Thomas This week #BookologyThursday takes a pastoral jaunt in literature, art & lore with the theme: 🍃🐏IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃 🎨Dora Carrington (1921)

In these times of strife, I find myself with far more empathy than a lot of other people. What Elon Musk said is a horrific example of what we are witnessing daily during this regime. #USDemocracy

Take me 🙋🏾‍♀️

RIP Terry Watkinson of Max Webster. First group I ever saw. They blew my mind. An incredible talent. Go to the angels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=27wc...

'Owl on Tree Stump' - Tejima Keizaburo, ca. 1980s. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

New concentration camps & #ICE presence in blue states. If djt declares a state of emergency & suspends #elections, they're already in place to quell dissent & haul people away. washingtonmorning.com/2026/02/27/l...

Here's the finished image once again! "She had never fully perfected the spell to turn her worst enemies into cats." #grickledoodle #cartoon #drawing #art #funny #humor #horror #witch #cats

How and when to see the total lunar #eclipse on March 3 in Canada. 🌚 www.cbc.ca/news/science...

In this episode of Rupert, our intrepid little bear receives instruction in sorcery from Baphomet; he eats the magic berries and thus obtains a vision of PAN.

Art. Writing. Reading recs. Music. Folklore. History. Science. Whatever each day's prompt inspires, whether it's creative work or something to help stoke morbid imaginings. Then on March 31st, same thing but no prompt. Don't forget to tag #MorbidMarch. Please use alt text on your images. No A.I.

Your pets have joined a class action suit against you for posting their photos without consent.

Primroses and dandelion along top of bank covered in moss, ivy, pennywort, hart's tongue ferns, grass #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

Timeline cleanse. These amazing animals are not spiders, but Opiliones, arachnid cousins.

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, for the first day of the month. #March #rabbits 🐇 #superstitions (Feeding white rabbits, by Frederick Morgan, ca 1904)

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

A hand made of bronze and gold. It has been interpreted as the earliest proshetic hand for a casualty of conflict, a symbol for the status of the bearer. However, the solar symbols on the cuff suggest that it had also a cosmological significance. Found in Prêles, ...🧵1/2 #archaeology 🏺 📷 me

Spring Is for Monsters, Ancient Rituals, and Scary Stories From haunting tales of the Bell Witch to child-eating swamp monsters, the season is full of frights. #Folklore www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spr...

"She could not help setting the door a little ajar, just to peep in, when—Pop! out flew the Moon." Kay Nielsen (illustrator). East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North. New York: G.H. Doran, 1922. #art #fairytales #childrensbooks #books

Thinking the Steele dossier, aka Trump–Russia dossier, needs another look. Much of it has since been corroborated. #krasnov #russianasset en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_...

Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study

When Aldous Huxley Wrote a Script for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland

Yes, billionaires will control our food supply and the few family farmers left will vaporize.

A stunning #Neolithic rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.🧵1/3 🏺

Bummer.

A forest knows things. They wire themselves up underground. There are brains down there, ones our own brains aren’t shaped to see. Root plasticity, solving problems and making decisions. Fungal synapses. Link enough trees together, and a forest grows aware. 💚 ― Richard Powers #ForestFriday #ECK

EAGLE FOLKLORE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIES’ CONSERVATION AND EXTINCTION #Folklore www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Excellent read: Who's Behind the Hard-Right in #Canada? A Reference Guide to Canada's #Disinformation Network. #cdnpoli #idu #fascism thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/whos-behin...

RIP to all the American soldiers who are about to die to protect a paedophile from accountability 😭😭😭

This weird and wonderful Greek amphoriskos (flask) depicts a bird-man, but the explanation is astonishing. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' famous comedy 'The Birds' (first produced 415/414 BCE) and may represent a costume worn by members of the chorus. 🏺 #ancientbluesky #MetMuseum 📸 me