Beagle and Sparky, 1967

Chicago Athletic Association.

You love to see it

It almost always results in death: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... I've read of cases where people have accidentally killed themselves by burning oleander trimmings.

It’s rare to come across a heartwarming story about disability that avoids falling into the “disability porn” trap. This one doesn’t even toe the line. Just a genuinely heartwarming (and heartbreaking) story about community care:

I love these old menus with local merchants advertising their businesses. This cafe has pretty much everything you could possibly want, except I’d steer clear of the oysters in landlocked Wyoming in 1940 Range Cafe Rawlins, WY 1940 #VintageMenus

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

Columbia and the iron law of institutions

Republicans Will Need Democrats’ Help to Fund the Government Again In Early 2026 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republi...

Repubs argue that injecting toxic sludge into the ground is better then having "ugly" windmills. Sigh. "Swaths of the Permian appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction... the liquid...can flow to the surface and pose a risk to underground sources of water." www.wsj.com/business/ene...

I once debunked a saying attributed to Roger Williams (1603-1683) that just didn't sound 17th cen., but attributed to him in numerous online collections and quoted on the RWU website. Traced it to a 1980s self-actualization article by a different Roger Williams.

“There used to be people from all different social classes, but more and more Paris is a city for the rich.” Can a new mayor take Paris back to its glory days? www.thetimes.com/article/b5db...

Btw if you like steak frites, in NYC the best ones are made by a genius chef who could work at any fine dining overhyped place but left them all behind to put his magic perfection in a paper tray with chopsticks in a dive bar for 1/3 what they charge youtu.be/IAJuRClMLKU?...

The fabric is described as lavender voile, which sounds as if it could be the name of a 1920s detective. The sheer drapery is decorated with bright pink spangles of flowers and bows, sparkles across pale background #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

One Worth dress I immediately recognized was this 1901 purple velvet evening dress. It's absolutely stunning, with its minimalist metallic embroidery, sequins, pearls, and the tulle covering the neckline and the ends of the sleeves. Oh, if only to send one evening in that dress.

3/ More on Brian Armstrong in this article. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Skimming across the ice #1870s style did not have to be a dull affair. Imagine this absolute cluster of colour whizzing by, on some frozen lake past. Movement was absolutely possible too, just check out YouTube for the proof via various makers #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Veronica Escobar didn’t get to celebrate her son’s 8th birthday. Victor Madrid missed picking up his children at school for the first time. Patricia Quishpe was forced to spend her first night ever away from her youngest child. https://cnn.it/3MRvXf3

Anna May Wong

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Two weeks after a Dem governor's win, the North Carolina legislature’s GOP supermajority fast-tracked a bill that would transform the balance of power in the state. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

#OtD 25 Dec 1951 Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore, teachers and civil rights activists, were killed on Christmas Day when their house was bombed by racist terrorists in Florida stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9726...

A top Florida lawmaker questions why the state would delete 80% of the references to Hope Florida from the state Medicaid contract at a time when the program championed by First Lady Casey DeSantis faces heightened scrutiny.

Readers and bookshops: please boycott any publisher that replaces literary translators with the non-reading, uncultured, lying, manipulative plagiarism regurgitator.

"David Ellison dropped out of the University of Southern California’s film school and started an acting career. His father heavily financed his first major movie as an actor, 'Flyboys,' which was widely considered a flop." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Cheering Christmas titbit dug up after family watched North by Northwest yesterday. The brilliant Eva Marie Saint is still with us, and recently turned 101.

The real reason to tax billionaires isn’t to let the government spend their money, it’s to prevent them from buying government and directing how they spend our money

"What if science fiction had never existed and it had to be re-invented in modern conditions," I dunno, that works for science sometimes *Especially when some new science instrument shows up www.robinsloan.com/lab/unground...

Eric went back and did the work, finding that FDR had campaigned in detail on these proposals. Why does that matter? It dismisses the line that FDR didn’t really have a mandate for the New Deal because he was vague and voters just hated Hoover. Nope. He laid out a plan and they voted for it.

Eric’s book WINTER WAR is a great example of this work. For far too long, scholars believed a line from a disgruntled FDR aide — that he hadn’t really campaigned on the specifics of the New Deal, just some vague gestures that he filled in later. Wrong!

This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible. I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”

When they are expressing agitation, and you redirect them with 'Yes, we can go to suchandsuch but first...' or 'they'll be home soon' when they're looking for someone who died 30 years ago... that's different. This is introducing something to them because you can fool them because they're sick.

This is wrong, and this is abuse. I know people don't see it as such, they see it as a prank with no harm, but you're using someone's medical condition to fuck with them, and that's not okay. When people with dementia have to be redirected, sometimes with fibs, that is different.

Morning all. Boxing Day, South Bank, Middlesbrough 1982. 'Who She Wanted and What She Got' Photographer Graham Smith.

Today is the anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Let’s hope history repeats itself with its successor.

"Robert May never really fit in as a child. He was awkward and experienced bullying due to his religious background. And he had, well, a rather prominent nose - a trait that the bullies used for ethnic slurs. When he created the Rudolph story, he based it in part on his own experience."

A growing number of patients who have sued their insurance companies this past year, arguing they promise mental-health coverage that is virtually nonexistent (gift link) www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Got the house to myself for a few days - the first of nine Universal Horror films...SPANISH DRACULA!!

In the era when snow was a thing.

​​The Washington Post editorial ​predictably ignores research showing that a single-payer system would save hundreds of billions of dollars—and tens of thousands of lives—each year.

What will we ever do now that any image you see in the media might be a complete lie?

Jimmi Pickles is constantly attacking Benne to get him to chase her and there’s so much hissing and fighting and then I wake up in the middle of the night and they’re like this

*A Cambrian Explosion of AGI superintelligences, they're all chart-bustingly "intelligent," yet they're as radically different as Burgess Shale mud-blob things, gelatinous, spikey, toothy, seven different eyes, spikes for legs

There are two venerated, much feared trees on the edge of Barwell Common. Known as Whip Scar and Tangle Knife, they are home to particularly quarrelsome Wood Sprites. To pass between them has a fearsome terror tithe and even if it's paid, you are still likely to hear them spitting curses.

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans claimed to be the party of local control.

*I blame AIs for causing the First World War (when I might have blamed paranoid "scientific romances" of the 1890s) *I really like prompting "Microsoft Bing" because Bing is super-expensive and nobody uses it

In case you forgot about Hurricane Helene, nobody here has, and people aren't getting the help they need to move on. Climate disasters take years (if ever) to recover from. wapo.st/3LbLnKx

I watched this movie this year as part of my big-cats-in-Hollywood research; I'm 99% sure one of my Lion Queens was the animal wrangler for it. If I'm right, the black panther the women transformed into IRL was named "Midnight."

I remember being autistic and transgender in the 1980s, I remember in the 1980s when we would have universally mocked anyone like David Wolfe who doesn’t believe in gravity or pillows