ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

At this point, I'd say that if you truly want to make a difference: Cancel Prime, Netflix, Disney+ ... in fact, cancel all streaming services. Go get a Blu-Ray player and buy DVDs and BluRays from Goodwill or the Library. Buy books from Used Bookstores. Buy stuff locally - community grown

INDEED 💥💥💥

"Death Blowing Bubbles," 'Created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany.' bamberger-dom.de/gotteshaus/N...

Stop buying books you cannot hold. If you do buy from Amazon, strip the DRM the day it arrives and keep a clean file somewhere they cannot reach. A book on your own drive is yours forever. A book in your Amazon account is yours until a lawyer in Seattle decides otherwise. c: @Hostis on X #Kindle

In the same way that Trump is a weak man’s idea of a strong man GenAI is a talentless person’s idea of art

I expect a fun new episode of Only in Monroe any day now

Ukrainian artist, Olga Grigoreva Klimova Self portrait

I recently watched an interview where actor /comedian Martin Short, talking about his daughter who passed away, said: “She did the best she could until she couldn’t,” and described mental illness as often being a “terminal disease.” We need more compassionate honesty and conversations like this

This is why Google is no longer my default web search engine

In the US: a reignited surge in activism in YA literature including titles addressing union activism, environmental justice&community organising. A surge close to our #LittleRebelsAward hearts 💜💜 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #KidLit

Man the sequel to The Truman Show looks wild

It’s not gone. Just so well hidden under mountains of bullshit that you have to be intentional about it.

Book illustration for Intermezzo, M. Stüler-Walde.

@lyceuminstitute.bsky.social A little wordy for a coffee mug but important nonetheless

Umm maybe double check with the health department on that one?

Can confirm

the magic of secret doors in old libraries

I have bought a nonzero number of books based on Bluesky recommendations (hi @hankgreen.bsky.social)

i show up to the function like this

Good morning ☕️

Morning Kitten

“In my lifetime I have witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.” What an immense privilege it has been to be alive at the same time as this incredible human being—David Attenborough. #Happy100thBirthday🥳 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky

"Make Art Not War" #Art #War #VivRus

Cyndi Lauper has something to say. Listen up!! #USDemocracy

Girl who calls her vagina “Ph.D.” because she doesn’t have one yet.

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

Beltane blessings. Walter Crane, 1889.

Thinking about that point in the decaying Roman Empire where all forms of divination came under fire because the Imperial powers had grown so paranoid, the idea of even asking -if- the Emperor might die was seen as a direct attack upon his life (and punishable by death)

Also please don’t lock up the library, I need to get some more books.

I miss all of this.

Congratulations! You've unearthed a solid case for universal healthcare.

all the good software is more or less free so it makes sense that all the financial incentive in the tech industry has turned into figuring out how to scam people who haven't realized this yet

My tattoo artist just reposted this enthusiastically endorsing the messaging "what next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?"

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Title page from Rachel and the Seven Wonders by Netta Syrett, New York, 1923. #booksky #artsky #travelsky

Book Cover of the Day:

Crows remember human faces. For years. If you wrong one, it will tell other crows about you — and they'll harass you too. Even crows that never met you! This is not just a bird. This is one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. #birds #crows #animas #nature

I have owned this book since it came out and have been embarrassed that I never quite got around to reading it. I finally did and it was just incredible The mix of murder and architecture cannot be beat!!! #thedevilinthewhitecity by #eriklarson

Imagine a monument based on this #Cat #Caturday

You do not need to cling to the hateful wizard author when the works of wonderful souls like Ursula K LeGuin and Tamora Pierce are right there (and many many others and many more recent! but I'm trying to reach my fellow elder white millennials here)

Trump thought he could control the war in Iran. Three weeks in, it’s clear he can’t. Allies have their own agendas, the objectives are unclear, and the political pressure is mounting. History tells us what happens when leaders walk into traps they cannot escape.

I'm a huge Iris Dement stan. 10/10 recommend all her music.

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Such a wonderful thread