Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Speak up for libraries today at www.speakupforlibraries.us #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

Flower Power at NYBG

Day lily, wild geranium, purple clematis.

Share & repost! "Built by former members of the team behind the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's popular climate.gov website, Climate.us will keep climate information accurate, accessible, scientifically rigorous, and useful..." www.climate.us/news-feature...

Tiny flowers from our tiny yard on the northern edge of New York City

The first, and beloved, Indiana Jones movie was released 45 years ago. Our beloved Sam and Cait were born that year. Holy mother goddess, I am old. #Outlander #IndianaJones.

rest well, Jane Yolen, our dragon mom who raised us

TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE: Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne! Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!

Today’s Clematis

Fussing at my desk the morning after my birthday weekend, I rediscovered the piles of small soft-cover notebooks, boxes of stationery and postcards, pads of rainbow paper, and realized that all of it is my emotional support paper.

Anthony Head, our beloved Giles, has left this life. I wrote and spoke about him a number of times in my pre-retirement days. girasoleazzurra.com/2014/01/17/g...

Pink Columbine at the base of our mailbox. Colorado flowers in NYC. #FlowersonFriday

Leo the Grey

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

Just going to say, if you want to read an adult nonfiction book that thinks deeply about the qualities of excellent children’s literature, isn’t snobby about the many types of children’s books people write & read, and will help you make your own book even better:

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

The Outlander shelf; the dogwood at twilight.

The first of May. Beltane. May Day. The Month of the Lady.

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

This is too wonderful, and I had to share. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/t...

So after Barack and Zohran sang the Wheels on the Bus, the children did this:

reposting this because it is simply beautiful.

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.

Chaucer Doth Tweet always says true and beautiful things.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

SaveUSFS.org is live. This week we’re going after six major outdoor brands. Companies that have spoken out for public lands before. Companies that built their whole identity around wild places. We need them to speak out again.

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

this is so utterly cool. and wondrous fine.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth... chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/genera...

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Happy Birthday, Sebastian Bach. Here's my favorite piece of music in all the world. youtu.be/xbQktZ1pOSk?...

I'm researching the 1913 Women's Suffrage March & saw this "Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote" on the website of the National Women's History Museum. It's WILD that in 2026 some people would take our voting rights back or give them up! That we have to reassert all of this still! Ugh, ugh, sigh.

This is such a powerful and important statement.

Historian Heather Cox Richardson illuminates American Revolutionary history today, and my Outlander folks will find echoes and portents for the past several seasons. It's brilliant. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...” GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. 🖤🤍 #GNUTerryPratchett

Happy International Women's Day 🫂🤍

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

So lovely. So meaningful. It means so much. Outlander owns my heart in so many ways.

The Horse May Talk girasoleazzurra.com/2024/10/30/t...

To my abject shock, I was the winner this year of the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, a.k.a. the Skylark, given every year at Boskone by NESFA. Given who the past winners are, I'm stunned and humbled to be in such august company. (Past winners: nesfa.org/awards/the-s...)

“We’re family and we’re bonded for life. So, you can’t get rid of me that easily.”—😭🤍 (🎥: youtu.be/uYusqXAvogI?...)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Yesterday, we had an internet outage for awhile. I tried to explain how I got my email on my phone by using "cellular dada" and now that phrase is haunting me.