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This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.

An excellent, precient read, directly relevant to our situation today.

Next up in my occasional series: "Can it swim?" BATS!🦇🏊 As video captured by Rob Mackereth (@mack2526 on IG) in the Lake District, England shows, bats can indeed swim. In fact, they're pretty good little swimmers. But there's an asterisk. Also, standard disclaimer: do not handle downed bats!

Anyway now that we know who the nasty freaks behind the dem spam texts are I think we should find all their personal and professional contact information and sign them up for five million spam lists because what i actually want to do to them is illegal data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

When a nobleman came in to the tavern and put a note on the board, the monster hunters went to check it out. Laughter erupted. "A gazebo? Quick, someone get Eric!" Then the bounty caught their attention. "That's a lot of gold. Why?" "This gazebo," the nobleman said, "was made by Baba Yaga."

People keep suggesting works of fiction but like. That's what you give people to prevent pet vaccine hesitancy. If they're already hesitant, you show them actual videos of how hard a rabies death is for human beings.

"When my Chinese colleagues sent me a full-size 3D print of this skull, I couldn’t believe it. I’ve seen hundreds of fossil human skulls, and this was the biggest I had ever set eyes on." 🧪🏺

youtube.com/shorts/uWr4Q... What makes Norwegian sweaters awesome. Also I have knitted some and they are fun.

After years of fighting for better pay and benefits, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have unionized. If successful, they would be the first NFL cheer squad to reach a contract.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

"oil companies, whose rapacious greed and bottomlessly funded anti-science propaganda are jamming the environmental collapse pedal to the floor, release glossy ads filled featuring adorable ducklings, assuring us that they love us and just want us to stay all warm and snuggly." - Dennis Perkins 🔥🤌

listen, I'm not saying that making private equity firms turbo-illegal would fix *everything* that's wrong with the world, but I am saying it'd be a good fucking start

Let them have the damn candy

"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed." "Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon. "You agree?" "These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"

Neurodivergent & #NEISvoid Bsky! Folks start to react strongly to things that weren't rude & definitely weren't personal, due to some changes in chronic illness & neurodivergence presentation this time of year. You can see a surge on social media every fall! 🍂 So literally: winter is coming ❄️

"The October Slide" A lot of symptoms get worse, but I notice something surging that is quite a lot like the ADHD-coded "rejection sensitive dysphoria" People start responding like everybody hates them/means them ill. Every neutral comment is taken badly, every critical comment = a spiral

This photo of bat-butt & twinkly bat-toes by Fernando Gual-Suárez reveals a mystery. Mexican free-tailed bats(Tadarida brasiliensis) have special spoon-shaped bristles on their toes. During an attempt to trace the movements of bat colonies with a fluorescent dye, a UV light showed 'sparkle toes'.

And weirdly it was the inspiration to an Agatha Christie Miss Marple novel. She contracted it from a fan who knew they were sick with it and knew Tierney was pregnant and broke quarantine to go meet her at an event, and I’m glad to say that in the book the movie star offed her.

welcome to the cybersecurity apocalypse everyone I hope you remembered to disconnect all your shit from the internet

guys the PHP vuln is the real version of that fake “Ukraine destroyed a Russian datacenter and all the botnets stopped” story

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

I wrote about *exactly* this scenario in my book Under Alien Skies, and this is exactly how I imagined it. I hope the reader does too.

Samhain and the White Stag This is Samhain, a traditional time of the ‘thinning of the veils’. #Folklore #Myth www.pennybillington.com/blog/samhain...

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like. (I didn't even try searching, I just scrolled and was amazed to find any boats at all. Thought I was going to have to settle for the Cybertruck someone drove into a lake.)