This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

Good one.

Tiny stars

Love this

Popeye gets it.

Stop the press!! My baby oak tree has LEAVES!!!

Biggest spring news: my baby oak tree survived the winter!!! 🥰

Found on Threads

The Almost Moon by Francesca Dottavi

You know how the metric for telling if someone is a good citizen is if they put their shopping cart away? If I worked at a grocery store, putting away shopping carts would be my FAVOURITE job. ⬇️

Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours. More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

'Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?' Carl Jung

Today in 1461 young Edward of York routed the Lancastrians, under Tudor leadership, at Mortimer's Cross. There was a parhelion, like this one I saw a few years back. It panicked the Lancastrians but Edward thought quickly & told his men it represented the Trinity; clearly God was on their side.

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Does Blue Sky have a character limit? I couldn’t post a longer thing here the other day.

If this is your idea of a good time we should be friends :)

I think something we don't appreciate enough as a society is that for the majority of human history hearing a particular piece of music was only possible if you could find someone in a public place/event playing it, owned an instrument/knew it yourself, or were rich and could employ a musician.

I like this version of The Hermit!

Frost flowers this morning!

New grandson quote: “You mean people kill animals for food!? That’s a bit rude.”