Sept. 22, 3019 (S.R.) Bilbo's and Frodo's birthday. Frodo is due to leave Hobbiton tomorrow. He and his friends finish the last bottle of Old Winyards during a quiet birthday dinner. No Gandalf. In Rohan, Gandalf manages to approach Shadowfax. #LOTR #Booksky

And this is just fun. (Do read tge subtitles. They're both hilarious and informative) youtu.be/WRfsibwR5x4?...

Classical composers are known for their emotional restraint and use of precision to achieve an formal beauty. In Sarabande, Handel is precise and formal yet also passionate and free. This performance is stunning youtu.be/lbzzBQc5h_k?...

#booksky 💬📚🩵 I knew Truman's dismissal of MacArthur was a big deal. I didn't realize how big a deal it was. How it almost resulted in a coup. How it nearly vaulted MacArthur into the presidency, which would have escalated the Korean conflict into a full scale war 1/

Trump's big autism announcement. Maddening in so many ways. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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this is awesome!

Nazis framed Jews as a public health threat or epidemic, just as MAGAs are currently doing to autistics. They claimed Jews tainted their gene pool, & that murdering us was good for human health as a whole. It’s the same old eugenicist song & dance, for a new era.

That it must be entirely and literally true or it is entirely and literally false is a requirement made of literally no book except the Reform Protestant Bible.

There is so much in this

Hello. #acrylicpainting #oilpainting #mixedmedia #popsurrealism

It takes two to tango but only one to start a war

Re-upping this on account of the burst of anti-religion activity following the Charlie Kirk pep rally

Because there's not enough beauty, youtu.be/tLc8YeXP8FY?...

Thank you for sharing!

What's wild about this: railing against the social gospel is — I kid you not — a more than *century-long campaign* by conservative evangelicals. Some theological debates never get old, it seems.

🚨 AUTHORS AND WRITERS 🚨 📚💙 The #1 rule of #booksky is that your self promotional posts may not outnumber your other posts to the feed and almost all of you are in violation of this rule! I get so many complaints about this - it's ruining the feeds and driving everyone's sales down too.

By me @realclimate.org: “But you said the ice was going to disappear in 10 years!” www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

I have read so many testimonials testimonializing such different, even contradictory things that I no longer have the least idea what autism is.

Because a moment of tranquility is a moment of tranquility youtu.be/JDTp_YQizqE?...

Much as I don't want to be that guy. I am, in fact, that guy. I try to do better but without much result. Sorry.

I keep thinking of this youtu.be/hUnHZAUR6hE?...

Eight Habits of Successful People (Where sucess means the morbid accumulation of wealth, power and status) Drawn from the life of Lyndon Johnson. 1. Be for nothing but yourself. It's OK to seem to align with a cause or allied with others. But as soon as a better opportunity arises, take it. 1/3

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💬📚🩵 #booksky "The belief that 'a political system created in a much simpler economic era still affords the people effective control through their votes over the complex industrial state ...' is a ... delusion." Leland Olds, 1928 as quoted by Robert Caro, "Master of the Senate, pg 237

💬📚🩵 #booksky In "Master of the Senate," Robert Cano displays a remarkable ability to state the case for a proposition or position so well as to make it seem bullet proof. And then in the next chapter to demolish it into absurdity. Truly, I'm in awe.

💬📚🩵 #booksky Under the leadership of Richard Brevard Russell Jr. the Senate was indeed the place where the South did not lose the Civil War. The great gifts for parliamentary rhetoric and maneuver, for personal leadership, of the “knightly” Richard Russell— 1/2

In 1938, seventy senators sponsored an anti-lynching bill. "...[when] [Dick]Russell [of Georgia] spoke, 'more colleagues were present to listen than at most Senate sessions' because 'they considered Russell something of a moderate on this issue'" 1/3

This is from my letter of call. And it’s the part that always gets me in the most hot water.

Reality is incomprehensible. Trying to comprehend it can only lead to sorrow. Thought after thought. That's inevitable. Let them come. Let them go. But, as Shunryu Suzuki says, don't invite them to tea.

Dyslexia isn't discussed enough, by it can be as devastating as autism or ADHD. Dyslexia and teen suicide youtu.be/YbO31cFZFuo?...

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💬📚🩵 #booksky After the court packing debacle "... the Senate was again what it had been ... during the four generations since the Civil War: the stronghold of the status quo, the dam against which the waves of social reform dashed themselves in vain ..." Robert Cano, "Master of the Senate" pg. 64

I’ve spent most of my life misunderstood, belittled, and masked. Sharing my autism journey started as self-discovery now it's a way to shift how people see autism in Black women. We deserve to be seen, heard, & celebrated not despite who we are, but because of who we are. Thank you auesomelyyoumag 🖤

Somewhere in the Platform Sutra there is a passage that runs roughly, "Thought after thought, thinking happens. Do not try to stop it. "It's in the thinking about thinking where the trouble lies."

The Ditherers A new children's series by the British author Alice Dyson Helinger Dickenson

🩵📚💬 #booksky Seriously considering skipping to the next chapter. The panygentics about the Senate is too much to bear.

Cano after pages of how the Senate preserved the Union by repeated compromises then during the Civil War passed the Homestead Act, the Pacific Railway Act, and the Land Grant College Act then says "it became very clear as these passed the Senate how the South had for so long shackled the Union."

"The Senate had been created to be independent, to stand against the tyranny of presidential power and the tides of public opinion." Robert Caro, "Master of the Senate" volume 3 in "The Years of Lyndon Johnson." Pg. 14

My High School Chemistry teacher's rendition of Parmenides: What is is. What is not is not. What is cannot change for there is nothing for it to change into. What is cannot move for there is nowhere for to go. I gather that this is a very accurate summary, but it is very hard to argue against.

Might be a Protestant thing (or at least some protestants). But it is not a Christian thing.

I sometimes think that the search for meaning is how we amuse ourselves until Death fetches us. 1/4

Is it a Christian thing, a Protesant thing to regard the Bible as monovocal?

There are times I think, "Life is suffering" is a wild understatement. More like, "Existence is a disaster."

A few large posters of my 'City' drawing are available in my shop! 24" x 36"

White autistic people face ableism ✅ Black autistic people face ableism AND systemic racism and often aren’t believed, supported, or even kept SAFE ‼️ Black struggles cannot be fully understood outside of Black culture 👩🏽‍🦱👦🏾👧🏽👨🏽‍🦱 There are experiences, dangers, and histories that we understand 👌🏽

Went to our town's wreath laying ceremony for the dead of the two world wars today. It just hits different when you're on the land where the wars happened and the prefecture where the Maquis fought and died.

In an attempt to remove Banksy's art, the UK government has created a more iconic symbol of injustice in the UK.