1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Who among us has not been there? Her pigeon side-eye is magnificent.

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

Happy Carmentalia! 💃⏳✍️ may her life-bringing and omniscient future outlook bless us in this new year✨

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Do I need to know anything about ancient Akkadian for any reason whatsoever? No. Am I immediately running to this dictionary so I can look up how to write "I have a pretty cat" in a dead language and listen to someone recite the Epic of Gilgamesh? Yes.

Today seems like a good day for a pigeon wearing an Egyptian headdress. I mean every day is a good day for a pigeon wearing an Egyptian headdress but I feel like for the interruption of doomscrolling, you can't beat a pigeon wearing an Egyptian headdress. There she is! In her Egyptian headdress!

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

I enter 2026 as I left 2025: under-caffeinated and with my arms full of Cat.

My spouse and in-laws en masse: "AAAAAARGH!" Me: "Did they just sportsball the ball?" My father-in-law: "No." Look, at least he's used to me.

Looking for something else, I got sidetracked by an April 1919 issue of "Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine," produced for ANZACs in France. Specifically, I wondered about Pte. V. McFarlane, the soldier who did the sexy "Salome Dance" in the 2nd Division spring concert. Who was he?

I'll be honest, what I really want is basically Norton Critical Editions of some of my favorite historicals, not fancy hard covers with sprayed edges.

I feel certain there's a fish in that hat to keep the cat model's attention. I just don't think cats were ever that interested in human headgear, even in the 1930s. Give a cat a fedora and he'll sit in it; give him a pillbox with a little veil and he'll just stare at you in disgust.

Apropos of my attempting to watch a TV show about a Victorian lady detective and bouncing off it, hard, might I recommend The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Lady Detective as a work which discusses both historical and fictional lady detectives of the Victorian era?

Full disclosure: much as I enjoy Murderbot, this is my favorite series of Wells's. It's also 99 cents on Kobo (yay!). Do I already own a copy in at least one format? Yes. Do I now own it in at least two formats? Also yes.

Boston Boston Boston come on!

I am officially a middle-aged housewife: I spent a delighted afternoon running my new full-size carpet cleaner for the first time. Do you have any idea how dirty that water was? SO DIRTY. Do you have any idea how clean my carpets are? SO - well, no, truthfully, slightly cleaner at best.

Michael Sheen: wow edition.cnn.com/2025/03/10/e...

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

What girl indeed????

“Why is it my lord is silent while I wag my tail and run about like a dog?” I’ve been left on read too many times. A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

Suddenly I want to write this FMC.

Giving Cat One his daily epilepsy medicine has become a generally smooth procedure (knock on wood) but involves the administration of a Churu treat at the end, which of course is shared with Cat Two because Cat Two is a relentless food-driven piggy... (1/4)

I've been reading up on World War I prison camps because if I'm not going down a random history rabbit hole am I truly living??? Currently reading The Escaping Club by AJ Evans (cw: racism) who was a British pilot during WWI, captured over the western front, spent time in German POW camps... (1/7)

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

I love old-school dress underpinnings. It makes me more grateful than ever that at least I live in the era of Leggings As Outdoor Pants.

In Totally Unexpected Things I Learned Today: King Ashurnasirpal II had some styling footwear.

I have been going through a romance drought lately - everything I pick up is too cute, or not cute enough, or just so meh that I can't keep reading - but I did discover the mysteries of Michael Gilbert, who seems in a very profound way to think, "okay, how can I gut-punch the reader today?"

NEW In the heart of the Eurasian steppe, a #BronzeAge metropolis has been unearthed, showing that the settlements of nomadic steppe societies were just as sophisticated as contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations. #AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

This reminds me of college, when all of my classmates insisted that they would NEVER lower themselves to read THOSE books... and yet when my roommate and I finished our latest romance reads and put them in the unofficial book exchange, they were gone within minutes.

Right, this event needs $1500 to happen. There are 600 participating bookstores & for most it’s their busiest sales day of the year, or is second only to Indie Bookstore Day / Small Business Saturday. Editors/publishers, this is a no-brainer of an opportunity for your imprint. Romancelandia: pls RT

there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting again, i am not exaggerating

My cat would like you to know he is the saddest, most mistreated cat there ever was: it is almost DARK and I am in the KITCHEN so clearly it is CAT DINNER TIME when he gets his goat milk shreds (the nectar of the gods, although or perhaps because his brother won't touch them), and YET NO SHREDS.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

This is absolutely delightful.

Have found myself at an unexpected Renn Faire. 20somethings in face paint and cottagecore hobbit dresses mingle with dudes in kilts and elf ears and kids solemnly clutching plastic swords. Good Saturday.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals. I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons. We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely! imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

These days I alternate between feeling like the horned tiger griffin and feeling like the lizard, gotta be honest.