💥 Famous for its dangerous dogfights and extravagant production, the film became one of the most expensive movies of its era. #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #PreCodeHollywood #ClassicFilm

on today’s episode of “The Boys Was Actually A Documentary”

I want things to be better I want people to be kind I want us to value art and science and education as much as certain white men love their guns

Bit by bit, B.C. has lost up to 85% of wetlands in urban areas. Campbell River residents are fighting to keep some of theirs. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

A bird like this can change your life (Blackburnian Warbler)

Rachel Carson was born 119 years ago today. Her 1962 book Silent Spring was responsible for revitalizing American interest in ecology after the consumption-driven 1950s, just as her books of the 1950s rekindled enthusiasm for marine biology. tinyurl.com/47bf62k4 #WomenInSTEM #Ecology #BioSky

The Haunted Mill Girl: The True Story of the Keighley Poltergeist (ASSAP: the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1M...

Coming soon to the Racket merch shop... limited run 👀

This week on BoA: The Revival, Lisa Sweasy, curator of Kentucky's fantastic Vent Haven Museum, joins us for a fascinating in-depth conversation about the world of ventriloquism and the incredible museum that has become a mecca for performers and fans alike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Yi...

🧵 “People aren’t sure what’s true, and what libraries are here for is to help with that.” So says Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive, discussing the future of the Wayback Machine on ABC Radio National (Australia) 🇦🇺. 🎧 Listen ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

YASSSS! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

NEW: This is the story of one couple’s long fight with their health insurer — and the little-known tool that helped them finally win. In this episode of “Paper Trail,” we’re going to tell you what it is:

On the Literary Afterlife of Japan's First Working Woman Writer Translator Bryan Karetnyk Considers the Work of Higuchi Ichiyō lithub.com/on-the-liter... Books about Japanese literature at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #Books #Literature #WomenInArt

3/4 Kahle argues that libraries help create an informed citizenry by preserving books, films, music, and historical records across generations. “Our evolving digital age can be our next Carnegie moment or it can be a Library of Alexandria moment. It is up to us.”

🧵What happens when libraries can't preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️ @Brewster.Kahle.org warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously fragile. Read Preserving the Library System in VANISHING CULTURE ⤵️ archive.org/details/vani...

What is missing from the Guardian’s 100 best novels list www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... Our Top 100 EBooks last 30 days can be downloaded at PG: www.gutenberg.org/browse/score... #Books #Literature

For this week's episode of The AP Strange Show, it was a real thrill to talk with John Cox about Harry Houdini. Cox is one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet when it comes to Houdini history, and as a big Houdini nerd it was a real gift to be able to🧵 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

MEMORIAL WEEKEND SALE ON ALL REPRODUCTIONS AND PRINTS AT FINE ART AMERICA!! 20% OFF fineartamerica.com/profiles/jea...

Posting this with a heavy heart. Richard (and his wife Marion, who predeceased him). were wonderful people and a key part of my getting involved in fandom. Please reboost far and wide. Poster details in alt-text.

Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

Scottish pediatrician Helen Mackay discovered the link between infant anemia & iron deficiency. She was born #OTD in 1891. + First woman Fellow, Royal College of Physicians + First woman physician, Queen Elizabeth Hosp for Children + Founding member, British Paediatric Assn #WomenInSTEM #medsky

Found an actual nice bigfoot doc that isn't full of hoaxery and right wing bs. Enjoy! youtu.be/NORdzE9lltk?... #bigfoot #vancouverisland

You can always enjoy the classics over on @gutenberg.org

Creature performer/actor Doug Jones will get the spotlight in documentary GET ME DOUG JONES. The doc will explore how an actor and mime became one of Hollywood’s most sought after performers when it comes to creating fantastic creatures in full body make-up & costumes.

_Your Body Is a Fever Dream_ This is not my work alone (although I have a story in it) An anthology of queer cosmic horror from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social which will raise money for trans charities (a companion volume to their award-winning YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY)

I always enjoy @rachelnevada.bsky.social ‘s videos on the weird; our conversation was so fun for me as she asked me fresh questions that gave me new perspectives on experiences Ive been having throughout my life @apstrange.bsky.social @pwnmerlin.bsky.social @tamlynrogers.bsky.social

Did you discover, as part of the Anthropic settlement, that your publisher failed to register your copyright? The @authorsguild.org is collecting information authorsguild.org/anthropic-cl... (This is a correction of something I posted yesterday w/ a significant error. Apologies for the mistake)

Did the First Robot Come from Oz? Long before chatbots, fiction grappled with rule-bound intelligence, exploring what it means to build and rely on thinking machines. By: Livia Gershon daily.jstor.org/did-the-firs... Wizard of OZ at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #Books #Literature

This week on BoA: The Revival, Loch Ness Monster researcher Roland Watson returns to the show for a fantastically information conversation about Scotland's beloved Nessie, which has been having something of a renaissance in recent years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts6k...

We got in a couple hundred original NeeDohs today, but instead of selling them and creating a big hullabaloo, we donated them to HCMC. Their pediatrics department will give them to kids who need help healing. Thanks to Alyson, HCMC's Child Life Program Coordinator, for making this possible. 💖

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

My mom also submitted one of my poems to an LDS magazine when I was 14. I'd read it at a sacrament meeting and it's critical of Mormonism. I love my mom for getting me published for the first time, but that's a bad poem and I won't share it. Instead, please enjoy this business cootie catcher. [6/n]

Free event at the Weston Library in collaboration with @ochjs.bsky.social and part of Jewish Culture Month. A talk featuring two case studies of Jewish and Christian scholarly collaboration in past centuries by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Dr César Merchán-Hamann.

Surprisingly modern designs in this French silk sample book, circa 1900: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/french-silk-sample-book

Sandhill Cranes making sure their young one crosses the road safely.

Interested in learning how to work with open data and maps online? Come by this evening to the workshop on Open Street Map and MapLibre.

Could not tell with my craft light that the white was a slightly different white, oh well. I am too far gone to frog it 😂 #crossstitch #xstitch

Without the library, there is no history, only the stories power wants told.

#SundayReads— “The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires”, in which Paulina L. Alberto searches for the life behind the legend of Raúl Grigera, a mysterious staple of Buenos Aires nightlife in the 1910s and 20s: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/raul-grigera-black-dandy-of-buenos-aires

A male Indigo Bunting sings over a field of yellow flowers.

A Sandhill Crane couple guides their colts over the metal bridge. This is the same couple that raised a Canada Goose several years ago. I can tell as the male Sandhill Crane is missing part of a toe on his left foot.

I had a blast talking with the great John E. L. Tenney for this week's episode of The AP Strange Show! We really covered a lot of weird topics including (but not limited to) Bigfoots, Frog Witch Men, comedians, and green witchery! Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Inside Yale University’s Fascinating Collection of “Magic Books” Making Sense of the Medieval World By Sage Helene mymodernmet.com/yale-hidden-... 1742 Library of Yale at the Beinecke Library www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzR1... Library of Yale @ PG www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #Books #Library

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, #AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

New to the #SoloRPG List: Lonely House by @sethanikeem.bsky.social A house that is also a memory. Welcome home. Hybrid novella and journaling game LINKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

This is a painting I made a few years ago. Golden Sky 40x60 acrylic on canvas

6 Discontinued '90s Gadgets People Still Miss From the Walkman to the Talkboy, these were '90s classics. www.mentalfloss.com/6-discontinued #technology

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇