Merry Catmas. #blackcats #cats

Jesus sleighs! Spread the love!

Big-eyed boy on #caturday #blackcats

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

Comfy on the couch #caturday.

"Candidate dwells on possibility."

kossuth apples, painted by elsie e. lower, 1905

Something about parking lot skies.

For #givingTuesday I'm donating to the Immigrant Learning Center in Malden, Massachusetts. They offer free English classes & other assistance, pretty cool! I think they are quite small & local so I feel like my meager $ goes further. www.ilctr.org

The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women & Black non-binary writers, a free store, a period pantry, a Reading Club, and more Read more on how to support literacy power www.thefreeblackwomenslibrary.com/new-page

More flowers now on the Winter heliotrope in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Sea and sky #Shetland

I could get so much done if we worked 4/3

A supermoon is lighting up our skies, and this one shows up before sunset! 🌕🧪 The next supermoon rises on December 4, as the Moon reaches perigee. That is its closest orbital point to Earth, where it can appear up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than a typical full moon.

Check out the #BlueskyNightMarket feed to browse the indie art market, where artists & crafters share what we’re selling to help you #SupportSmallBusiness Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/late... #art #TraditionalArt #SciArt

I'm not a DnD person but I know some folks on my dash are. Brambledragon's work is lovely, solid, and feels good in the hand, and he has some very cool DnD-ish and crltic patterned works you should check out. Buy from artists!

Happy Chompsgiving!

Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out

Happy Thanksgiving! Let's go to Les Nessman for a man on the scene report from the Pinedale shopping mall:

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

“I look up to all the old weavers whose work appears in collections labeled ‘unknown artist.’ We now frame this lack of attribution as ‘artist once known.’” —Diné weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón

"We joke that there are 365 days of the year, and the last day of picking is day 365," Cape Cod cranberry farmer James Ross told WBUR. "Then day one of next year starts."

Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

PIECRUST! A MANIFESTO! I once wrote someone trying to impress a new love some piecrust instructions and thought I'd share them here: The secret of good pie is: keep your heart warm but your butter cold.

Fired. Investigated. Silenced. Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Donald Trump — from federal workers and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. It’s the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

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TODAY at 12noon, EST. www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p.... This zoom is ALWAYS beautiful and powerful. #Thanksgiving #ThanksgivingMorning #NationalDayOfMourning @universalhub.com

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Grateful to the Pine Street Inn for their tireless work to make sure everyone in our community can enjoy a Thanksgiving meal today. Glad to come together with Mayor Wu and community leaders for another year.

"With each passing scene, the giant birds taunt me. As Steve Martin races Kevin Bacon to the cab, I wonder, 'Why not hail an eagle instead?' As Neal furiously rants to the car rental lady, I'm reminded: 'All those fucks could've been avoided with an eagle.'"

Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.

Feathursday.

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

TAPS SCREEN For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...

folks it's another @hels.bsky.social on thanksgiving banger: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Having nonalcoholic drinks for any type of guest is just basic good hosting.

Love of the Jedi, specifically Obi-Wan, and also spite

BINGO. This is why I’m not in the business of teaching “AI literacy”. “How do I assign students an AI-generated essay for assessment if they don’t have the basic knowledge to parse said essay? I can’t and I won’t.” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...

Dems need to keep repeating it, and they need to say what mean. “You can refuse illegal orders, examples of illegal orders are: intentionally harming or targeting civilians, engaging in unauthorized domestic LE actions, falsifying records, or anything else that clearly violates the US constitution”

Since I’m English, I don’t go in for Thanksgiving myself, but it’s a feast I happen to love, and this week I have a few suggestions for it, kicking off with the Turkey Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries that is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/turk...

The union is calling, Starbucks! Pick up the phone!

Gender-affirming care saves lives

Sunrise as I set out on this morning's walk.