Jeezuz. How long will this last before TACO has his mind changed?

The Time of the Rapture apparently has come and gone, although Auntie is confused about time zones. Her Australian friends report no known sightings of airborne Christians. Auntie is still here. This could mean at least two things. Maybe more. @tedmccormick.bsky.social says his Tylenol is gone.

They’re all hanging back for what their Dear Leader got elected on: Release the Epstein Files. Promises made; promises kept.

Surely not.

So is WLNE Channel 6 Providence/New Bedford going to show Kimmel or not? Sinclair just bought its ‘non-licensed assets,’ meaning that either Sinclair or Nexstar now controls every major network outlet in Providence. Why is this not a problem? Am I missing something here?

A new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been reported in Sindh, Pakistan, increasing the country's total cases in 2025 to 27. spr.ly/63321AZkVt

Make the solar panels solid gold and give the windmills big tits.

@rolandmcs.bsky.social can we get a RT for this thread?

Or this article. Also free. bsky.app/profile/ctim...

It all becomes clearer now!

Shana tovah u’metukah to all who celebrate Rosh Hashanah (hope Auntie got that right!).

Hello fellow archivists, can anyone think of a citable source for the fact that reformatting (digitization/microfilming) seldom obviates the need to care for the original? Like, you and I know that we don't just throw out 19th-c letters when we take them off the scanner, but LIS profs need refs

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Word.

Covered in this thread: 1. The underlying science behind the link 2. Antihistamines as COVID prevention practical advice 3. Prophylactic antihistamines to make you not feel like shit after a COVID vaccine practical advice 4. Antihistamines during an active COVID infection to prevent long COVID

Those Epstein Files out yet? Auntie’s turned off the news until we all blow past the Period of Mourning.

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

A history / science Q: Isaac Newton is said to have believed that all his discoveries had been known to the 'ancients' (Pythagoras, Euclid etc.). I'd like to find that quote. It is NOT the 'standing on the shoulders of giants' that I'm thinking of, nor the boy playing on the seashore. Anyone plz?

Displacement of local populations in the name of safeguarding World Heritage is a practice that should be discouraged. I’m surprised it is still being done anywhere. We have come a long way since this was common practice, but I guess we still have a way to go. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I'm not longer in the archive front-line since retiring, but I'd be interested to know if this is also becoming an issue with archives: hallucinated archival citations, possibly to whole collections? ascribing them to wrong repository? I can envisage nightmarish possibilities.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

BREAKING: A court ruled that the federal government can't pick and choose among viewpoints when deciding who gets a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. We took the Trump administration to court to fight artistic censorship — and won.

I’m part of the 16%. How about you?

@riaclu.bsky.social: "the ability to speak freely in one’s private capacity about public issues — including the right to criticize, challenge, and denounce opposing political views, however crudely — must be safeguarded ..." thepublicsradio.org/tgif/tgif-ia...

Cool. Free.

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Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation!

Une enquête interne à la police a été ouverte après la diffusion d'images tournées par l'AFP, montrant une jeune femme violentée par des policiers à Marseille a annoncé la direction interdépartementale de la police nationale ⤵️

There are 3 major television stations in greater Providence RI: 12, 10, 6. WJAR (10), owned by Sinclair, just took over WLNE (6). That leaves WPRI (12), owned by Nexstar. If Sinclair and Nexstar merge, nearly 100% of the market is controlled by one company. All that’s left is tiny PBS WSBE. Scary.

Auntie remembers when MAGA derided people wearing masks as cowards. Now they’re right.

For an exhaustive exploration of the history of the Giant Steps in Greenwich Park, and uncertainties about their number, see www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php...

Heads up! A very helpful thread.

Really cool to see this digital, open-access theme issue of HUMANA.MENTE on "Philosophy and Disability" www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM...

If you are Academia [edu] platform, now might be a good time to delete your account

Save these dates for JCB Reads, our virtual discussions about new books written by former JCB Fellows! Curious about other opportunities to be part of the JCB community? Check out our events page! jcblibrary.org/events

"Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Global Rise of Right-Wing Politics" - a collection of @dukepress.bsky.social journal articles made available open access through October 31. 🗃

Yes yes yes!

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

You do realize darlings that the present ruling faction is taking over every media outlet one by one. Auntie is pawning the family jewels to increase her contributions to public broadcasting and is subscribing to local news outlets. Get busy. It’s our last chance at democracy.

Well that's all right then. Auntie was worried that the mezcal margaritas had gone bad on her again.

Did they release the Epstein Papers yet?

Yes. This account is a thing.

Obviously he’s a cynical asshole then. Do keep up dear.

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

Calling all middle and high school teachers! Drawing inspiration from Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary, The American Revolution, join us for a full day of free, in-person professional development on Friday, October 17th at the JCB. Registration required! forms.gle/CT83ESjTZWeg...

Sounds interesting!

It's Constitution Day! Hello from Rhode Island, which by popular referendum rejected the Constitution and only agreed, very grudgingly, in 1790 and w addenda on rights. It was/ is a process; emblematic this tattered pamphlet (@jcblibrary.bsky.social) circulated in Massachusetts during ratification.

This is tragic. We feel we’ve lost some dear friends. Dig deep, folks. Don’t let them destroy public broadcasting.

Allegorie der Tulipomanie [Allegory of Tulip Mania], by Jan Brueghel the Younger, 1640s. A satirical commentary on speculators during the time of “Tulip Mania”