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American Robin in the midst of a Holly feast #birds #NativePlants 🌿

KIMMEL, to the UK: “.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.” @jimmykimmel.com

16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...

Behold here are wrens for your delight! Happy Christmas

‘Winter.’ #Illustration by Ota Janeček (1919–1996) #art

Genuinely shocked at a rule-of-law based result from this Court.

"Is a River Alive?" by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social is the most significant book that I read this year. The lyrical writing braids activism, indigenous and western science, and personal narrative, like streams throughout a flood plane joining into one roaring river of a book, full of hope. 💙📚

The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...

of Irish Elementals Seamus Heaney | Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Murphy’ manuscript

of Irish Elementals Seamus Heaney | Samuel Beckett

Generations of quite strategic right wing scheming to establish perma-dominion and the guys charged with getting across the finish line are... these guys

so thank you, Bari, for streisanding this so hard that a bunch of terminally online 38 year olds who haven’t watched cable television since saturday morning cartoons are glued to fucking 60 minutes you monumentally incompetent goon

Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news

Millennials have been training for this since teenagehood lfg

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

* This is Just to Say * (doing William Carlos Williams proud)

Watch Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes piece on CECOT, axed by Bari Weiss, here—thanks to some Canadians who captured it, and to some Bluesky users who recorded and uploaded it to YouTube (so a Canadian VPN is not required): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...

Samizdat network news. Wild.

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

The minute by minute battle between people uploading the video and companies taking it down is a real early internet idealism information wants to be free cyberpunk situation

Just within the past hour, nearly a dozen YouTube accounts have posted the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT story. CBS and Google can keep trying to take them all down, but it's sort of pointless now.

The 60 Minutes piece on CECOT that was to air last night, but was spiked by Bari Weiss. Gratitude to the Canadians who captured it—and to all those on Bluesky who made iterations viewable in the U.S. Sharyn Alfonsi appears to be the correspondent on camera doing the opening narration:

The 60 Minutes piece on CECOT that was to air last night, but was spiked by Bari Weiss. Gratitude to the Canadians who captured it—and to all those on Bluesky who made iterations viewable in the U.S. Sharyn Alfonsi appears to be the correspondent on camera doing the opening narration:

Some Nobel prizes are deserved

WINTER SOLSTICE 2025 The light comes back to take us by the hand, leads us out of the dark to what comes next. We move with it, exalted by the thought of what lives beyond light. Greetings and Best Wishes from Charlotte & Robert

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite. ~ William Blake The Poems of William Blake edited by W.B. Yeats | 1893

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite. ~ William Blake The Poems of William Blake edited by W.B. Yeats | 1893

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

As others have pointed out: Trump was selling MERCH for this place not that long ago. Almost like public pressure has shifted their sense of what they can get away with.

They say the sun will come back at midnight after all my one love ~ W.S. Merwin ~ from The Solstice Anselm Kiefer | Transition from Cool to Warm

If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is the Solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath — Margaret Atwood Edvard Munch Starry Night . 1893; 1922/24 Edvard Munch Kiss by the Window . 1892

For the Solstice ‘Because the solar year is an ancient twelve-bar blues, and the solstices are caesurae, natural breath pauses.’ — Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social via David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social from that other site back in the day Ger Kelliher | Irish Light

‘you have come to the breathturn’ ~ Paul Celan Anselm Kiefer

The light increases and in three days the world will start to feel it, see it, after the Sun pauses, takes a new breath and starts again. Then all our bones are Stonehenge stones and it all begins again. ~ Robert Kelly thanks to @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social 📷 Bill Brandt 🎨 JMW Turner

• Honoring the Winter Solstice • shortest day. longest night. celebrating the caesura. the pivot point. • Hail the ReBirth of Light JMW Turner . Angel Standing in the Sun

* Winter Solstice * of Pause, then Pivot. Prelude to the Solstice, through the dark hours of night. Winter Solstice Morn, this morning. Mark Rothko | Mark Rothko

So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending. 🧵 6 of 9

This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all! 🧵 9 of 9

And my neighbors who are cold, wet, hungry, and overwhelmed…are now happy that their humble little refuge — where love gets traction, and prayers are answered — will stay in business. 🧵 8 of 9

It's an invisible need… an invisible center… helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I’m haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed that’s so widespread (and sadly, celebrated) in our multi-millionaire and billionaire class. 🧵 5 of 9

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Prelude to the Solstice, through the dark hours of night. Winter Solstice Morn, on the morrow. Mark Rothko | Mark Rothko

Prelude to the Solstice, through the dark hours of night. Winter Solstice Morn, on the morrow. Mark Rothko | Mark Rothko