Traditional Japan. Photo was likely taken during mid-20th century

Happy birthday Jane Austen! You're looking pretty fresh for 250! p.s. @devoney.bsky.social 's Wild for Austen is highly recommended (including by me, as you can see).

Happy Birthday, Jane 🎂 Is it possible that everyone’s favourite librarian was in charge of this post….? (this has been an Among the Stacks reference) www.instagram.com/p/DSU3Iq4jJsh/

Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨ Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels. Now on display at the Weston Library. #JaneAusten

I wrote a play! It's a comedy. It's called Mrs. Dickens' Christmas Dinner, and it's getting a staged reading by the Petaluma Readers Theater on December 19, 20, and 21. Charles Dickens' wife Kate gets fed up with all the women's work she has to do during the holidays and goes on strike.

Someone needs to make a movie about Catherine. It already has a perfect title, "The Other Dickens." The forgotten wife of Charles Dickens share.google/jQ5UvnPaRNzl...

"Rob had this reputation for getting the best out of people." Seth Meyers on Rob Reiner (and Norman Lear) is unsurprisingly worth watching, and is also the best and most sincere, solid response to Trump that I've seen today.

Michelle Obama talks to Jimmy Kimmel about Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. This is from tonight’s episode.

Donald Trump trashes Rob Reiner while forgetting a key detail of his own mythology: the cover photo for The Art of the Deal—the book he still dines out on—was taken by Reiner’s wife, Michele Singer. Trump’s “brand” was literally helped into existence by the very family he now insults.

~ "Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci ~ [“Beauty is not a luxury but a strategy for survival.” ~ Terry T. Williams, "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"] 🎵 Craig Armstrong || "Finding Beauty" youtu.be/C2d3_qbhKBw?...

youtube.com/watch?v=NwIZ... bir leonard cohen şarkısını leonard cohen'den başka kim söyleyebilir, değerinden hiçbir şey yitirmeden? nick cave hariç hiç kimse. soundtrack (13), nick cave, perla batalla, julie christensen: "suzanne", leonard cohen: i'm your man.

Gently calm...

“Surabaya Johnny“ with the Pacific Jazz Orchestra. ‘I’m a Stranger Here Myself - Wainwright Does Weill’ out now. Listen/order: 30tgrs.ffm.to/iashm-wdw

~ "For long years a bird in a cage today flying along with the clouds." ~ [from "Zenrin Kushu", in Rinzai school of Zen] 🎵 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds || "Push the Sky Away" youtu.be/4G0D56t540A?...

Happy Hanukkah! 🩷

via Humans of Judaism Light over darkness. A Chanukah candle lighting during the Holocaust in 1943 at the Westerbork transit camp. A moment of Jewish tradition, strength and resilience, showing that light can shine even in the darkest times. Photo: Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem

'Lucia Morning,' by Carl Larsson, 1908. Today is Saint Lucy's Day (a.k.a. Lucia) when some Swedish girls wear ceremonial candles on their heads.

Civil & #humanrights activist Ella Baker was born #OTD in 1903 and died OTD in 1986. Baker is "one of the most important African-American leaders of the 20th century & perhaps the most influential woman in the #CivilRights Movement." ellabakercenter.org/about/who-wa...#humanrights#OTD#CivilRights#history #blackhistory

Judy Garland by Richard Avedon (1951).

Helen Frankenthaler, #botd 1928 The exhibitions of her work at Turner Contemporary, and then Dulwich Picture Gallery — impossible to make woodcuts so nebulous, surely, surely — were revelations to me.

"Most things are about ambiguity..." Helen Frankenthaler #botd in her studio Third Avenue and East 94th Street, New York, 1960

The Life of Oharu 1952 西鶴一代女 Directed by Mizoguchi Kenji Kinuyo Tanaka 田中絹代 #filmsky #cats #japan #movies #田中絹代 #溝口健二

Rita Moreno - BOTD in 1931

Marilyn Monroe during a hair and wardrobe test for her last, unfinished film, Something's Got to Give (1962)

Reminder: 📣 Women’s rights are human rights 📣 Refugee rights are human rights 📣 Either we all have rights, or none of us do #HumanRightsDay 1/🧵

This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act

Raquel Welch appearing at the Bob Hope Christmas Special, Vietnam 1967.

🎥| Taylor Swift when asked her top 5 songs in her own catelogue: 1) All Too Well 10 Minute Version 2) I’m obsessed with “The Life of a Showgirl” the whole album, so I can’t do the rest right now 3) Except a song called “Mirrorball”

JOHN SINCLAIR (LIVE) Watch Now → youtu.be/cBM9UzXKXRw The new audio mixes for the entire John & Yoko performance at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally , Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 10 Dec 1971 are OUT NOW in the POWER TO THE PEOPLE Deluxe Box Set → bit.ly/JOLstore

#Poet Emily Dickinson was born #OTD in 1830. She wrote ~1,800 poems & only 10 were published in her lifetime (& heavily edited by publishers to be "normal"). Unrecognized in her time, Dickinson was known later for her innovative use of form & syntax and influence on #poetry styles like free verse.

Sad little man.... karma is a calling your name 👇

"Female reporters who are verbally harassed by Trump should file an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint..." They damn well should because it doesn't appear that anyone is about to stand up for them and put that orange sack of malodorous garbage in his place.

I have reached out to ABC News and parent company Walt Disney Co. for comment about Trump’s verbal abuse of reporter Rachel Scott, a Black woman journalist. No response yet.

Rachel Scott is the only reporter ever to call out Vladimir Putin to his face.

I've appreciated Rachel Scott ever since she was the ONLY legacy journalist I saw who correctly described Trump's use of "China virus" as racist. Not a surprise but also totally abhorrent to see Trump attacking her today.

" repgrijalva: I’m proud to introduce my first bill in Congress: the Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act. It’s time to protect sacred land, honor Tribal sovereignty, and defend Arizona’s water from foreign corporations." 🗽💙 Credit @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social

NEW at @thebulwark.com A conversation with @drdemetre.bsky.social about RFK Jr.’s assault on vaccines And its next, alarming phase — which could start tomorrow www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Sonoma Coast, California

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility." 🎤 Remembering #JohnLennon, who #DOTD 8 December 1980. #TheBeatles ▶️ youtu.be/HtUH9z_Oey8

45 years without John Lennon, he sadly died at the age of 40 back on December 8, 1980.

John Lennon, vermoord 8 dec 1980, in een teder lied "Julia", een liefdeslied voor zijn moeder. De helft van wat ik zeg is zinloos Maar ik zeg het alleen maar om bij je te komen, Julia

Willa Cather - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

The Moon Woman by Jackson Pollock