Happy #Caturday to all.

gravy boats imply the existence of gravy maritime law

When it comes to trans rights, the BBC has been reversing through the marketplace of ideas, smashing into fruit carts. But it's interesting that its conservative critics still regard the broadcaster as a font of pro-trans propaganda. How odd! Perhaps a few more concessions will win them over?

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

Why does screen legend Dick Van Dyke support the fight for equality? It's simple: "Hate eats up your insides." Happy 100th birthday to #NOH8 supporter #DickVanDyke #NOH8Day #DVD100

Small appreciation post of the Origami Peace Crane tattoo on Rugby Referee Kat Roche (here in Cape Town, Dec 7th, 2025). Any relation to the sisters Roche (Maggie & Terre & Suzzy)?

I was just reading an article about menopause that said in Victorian times the process was labelled Uterine Fury. So that is what we shall call it henceforth.

Kildunne shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/w6n/news/...

I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for

Harvey Pekar. (Not sure who the illustrator is.) #illustration #comics #books #HarveyPekar #AmericanSplenor

In conclusion there was only ever one good alt-comix guy, it definitely wasn't Harvey Pekar or Bob Crumb, he was in the comics section of every paper and he's never received a fraction of the love he deserves

“I am feeling much better now. Toad,” said Frog. “I do not think I need a story anymore.” “Then you get out of bed and let me get into it,” said Toad, “because now I feel terrible.”

youtube.com/shorts/QxrhX... Heads up to my kids.

Wassily #Kandinsky - Der Kleine Punkt (Little Dot) - 1944 #painting #art #AbstractArt #ArtSky

He admitted as much in the first debate with Clinton.

Turning and turning!

An oldie but a goodie. "Hygiene Hazard" - source forgotten in the mists of time (probably Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, c. 2015). #latentnarratives latentnarratives.blogspot.com

Selling songs in the days before point-click-download. Winnie Lightner, in The Life of the Party (1930).

Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...

youtube.com/shorts/Os0gQ... Too late!

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Boulevard des Сapucines #edouardcortes #postimpressionism

Yay!!!!

www.youtube.com/live/APAqlUl... A good amount of Canadian Olympic Silver here on this Premiership Women's Rugby London field from this morning's well-contested match.

From t.me/Pravda_Geras... 🇨🇿🇨🇿Echoes of 1939: #Czech President Urges #Europe Not to Appease #Russia “If we allow #Russia to emerge from this conflict as the victor, we will all lose,” #Pavel stated in an interview with #The_Sunday_Times. Even #Putin's account of the start of the war reminded him

youtu.be/_Ny3QlR8mMk?... !!!

When I am President I will establish a nationwide chain of Modernist poetry theme parks hosted by an army of Wallace Stevens clones.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

History will be made during next year’s much-anticipated Rugby's Greatest Rivalry, with the confirmation that the Springbok Women would meet New Zealand’s Black Ferns for the first time on South African soil. www.springboks.rugby/news-feature...

Mourning Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake. gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

Power Lines Drawing #138 (Pearl Beach, MI) marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...

Red and Brown, 1957 #colorfieldpainting #americanart

Untitled (Black on Gray) by Mark Rothko, 1969 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137160

Fresh off meeting France in the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup bronze final, the Black Ferns will welcome the French side back to Aotearoa New Zealand for a blockbuster three-Test home series in 2026, as part of the new WXV Global Series. www.allblacks.com/news/black-f...

It makes me both sad and energised having seen how much of the media is either complacent , appeasing or supportive of the hatred of trans people - the cowardly thoughtless cesspool of mediocrity bubbles with their bylines