🌍 2025 🗓 3rd - 4th December 🕛 12:00Z 🛰 Meteosat-11

The answers to my reader Q & A are up! Topics covered include GOP crimes, Dem complicity, Ukraine, Epstein, the best Christmas movies, and much more! Read here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

“I think women dancing together is just one of the most beautiful experiences of connection and exaltation of feminine energy.” religionnews.com/2025/12/02/h...

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.

Art of the day Saara Tikka (b.1942) - The Star Counter II. 1979. Gouache.

“Night's black Mantle covers all alike.” (Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas) 🎨 Benjamin Rabier #owlishmonday

It can appear absurd to speak of friendship with animals, let alone trees. But is it so strange? Empedocles argued that our circle of belonging doesn’t stop with humans. Animals, plants, even trees are our kin, and so treating them well isn’t optional, but a moral obligation

Goodnight. 🖼️ El árbol Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929.

This explains why that pizza topped with glue, rocks, and staples tasted so awful. Jeez.

Lynda Barry on writing without thinking open.substack.com/pub/masoncur...

Looking for something to cosy up with on these cold autumnal nights? Ms Shipton's Travelling Teashop from @localfiles.club and @oldermodal.bsky.social is a micro audio fiction about a tea witch and the stories that emerge with her brews. And there's a cat. www.theend.fyi/shows/ms-shi...

Folks were protesting in front of the White House saying, #TrumpMustGoNow! I love this but you know he was seething! Keep up the good work D.C.! #Pinks #SheShed

sometimes to read a book of poetry is to be reminded that another person is much funnier and better at expressing their pain than you are

The fossil fuel era is ending. The only question is whether it ends fast enough, and fair enough, to give us a livable future, says @rlalen.bsky.social of @oilchange.bsky.social.

Its contents tell the stories of early Japanese immigrants to an area now overtaken by urban sprawl. religionnews.com/2025/11/07/c...

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

As negotiations unfold in Belém, #COP30 offers a historic opportunity to embed food systems into the heart of climate policy, says Nicholas Ceolin of @ciwf.org.

🖼️ Autumn Afternoon, Thomas Little.

21 Vintage Snapshots Of Women in Killer Sunglasses - flashbak.com/21-vintage-s... sunglasses To hide behind. Sunglasses To cry behind. Sunglasses To die behind. – Tracey Ullman, Sunglasses

According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first. #PhantomsFriday

A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations have resisted President Trump's policies. n.pr/4nzgcWA

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

“We can have good things” weirdly inspiring to voters

Chef Roy Choi, known for his Korean-Mexican fusion food trucks, focuses on veggie-forward dishes in a new cookbook. He shares techniques to get you excited about your greens, plus 3 flavorful sauces.

Another month, another woe for Percy Shelley! Come, Months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array; Follow the bier Of the dead cold Year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. (From 'Autumn: A Dirge') #poetry #gothic #romantics #booksky #books #BookWormSat

'The spirits of the dead, who stood In life before thee, are again In death around thee, and their will Shall overshadow thee; be still.' -Edgar Allan Poe 🎨Edmund Dulac #BookWormSat

#bookwormsat HAMLET "..alas poor Yorick, I knew him well, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.." #shakespeare #bookchatweekly

As U.S. wheat farmers face painful losses in the global market due to President Trump's policies, one domestic flour mill on a reservation in Oregon is expanding its production twelvefold.

Who decides how we adapt to climate change? | Leah Aronowsky

'Song In The Twilight' by Franz Sedlacek #bat #artsky #CzechArt

Happy Halloween from the scariest creatures ever.

Forget stopping and smelling the roses, it's time to linger and listen to the fungi.

DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!

New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

'The Ghost Book' (1955) and 'Phantom Footsteps' (1959) by Scottish author Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. They both have rather smart cover designs (shame about the damage on the first one). Many stories were collected by MacGregor first-hand, so both books are worth exploring. #31DaysOfHalloween #ghosts

Things that are good worthwhile art: Fridge poetry Friendship bracelet with swears Doodle of a dog on a skateboard Half a knitting project Song for your pet Cookies Halloween makeup Bread brick with bad yeast Dance for left foot while on a train Gardening Lopsided pottery Collage vision board

These creatures were often a way for societies to understand and explain the natural world and disease transmission in the absence of scientific knowledge. (via @us.theconversation.com) https://to.pbs.org/3JbEN5V

‘It’s a bit clandestine, a bit punk’: the guerrilla scheme letting skint artists mass-share gallery membership cards

LFG 🇺🇸 #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels. #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

This is one of my favorite pictures from yesterday, Governor Pritzker with the protesters... #NoKings

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

My nam is fishe And normily I swimm in rivere Lek or see butte somtime i swimm up to farre i fal from skeye an smashe yor carre

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...