Absolutely wonderful
Absolutely wonderful
I'm happy and proud to support @51st.news. In this era in which Bez@s destroyed the Washington Post, and @wamu.org destroyed DCist, we need local DC reporting more than ever!
If you're fat and you used to fly Southwest, I'd advise you to book with someone else from now on. #flyingwhilefat
Brown t-shirt with flowers. In white text it reads "the horrors persist but so does the library."
The back of the shirt has white text reading "read and fight for your rights, woodstock public library."
New Friends of the Library merch dropped and it's good. Here's one of the new shirts: www.bonfire.com/the-horrors-...
‘I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
‘Yeah, you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.’
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons
Basic, but also true
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Horrible situation, good answer!
Oh man. You are in for a treat.
dark squirrel eating a walnut
Squirrel of the Day for March 11, 2026 is a sweet mama with a walnut #sqrlpix
Trahison des Clercs ❌
Trahison des Clarks ✔️
“garden breeze coming into a vast private library” YESSSS 🖤
10/10 would absolutely have checked a half-shredded copy out of the junior high library paperback spinner.
Also $2 at bookshop.org!
Bugguide photo of a "Thief weevil" (Attelabidae: Pterocolus sp) by user Metrioptera. He is a jolly iridescent turquoise and sort of rectangular in shape, with an unusually wide stance.
let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons
I keep looking at this thinking it will be from The Onion
OYG, right?!
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Wow! I knew nothing about him & even just his Wikipedia biography is an amazing read.
Fighting apple tree from The Wizard of Oz
What is our modern day equivalent of yeeting all of the tea into the bay
RIP Country Joe McDonald, who died yesterday at 84.
Here he is in 1969 at the original Woodstock, singing the Vietnam Song aka “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag.”
Absolutely NO relevance to today’s situation. NONE.
youtu.be/ft0vkKCadgk
Sure there’s a nonsensical, horrific war, the environment is destroyed, jobs are in shambles, and secret police are disappearing people on the streets while any semblance of democratic leadership has abdicated responsibility, but at least there isn’t glass in our foo— www.cbsnews.com/news/frozen-...
Otis the black cat looks moody among a frame of flowers
Sarah, how's the writing going?
Wellll I started taking pictures of my cat as if she was getting married, so, yeah. I mean, great.
This is SO funny. I wish them all ill-fitting shoes every day they carry this fascist’s water. Blisters for all MAGAttry!
Good day, dear Bibliophiles!
Happy #OwlishMonday
art by Via Fang
Whedon: i know you're all excited for the return of the most feminist man of 1995
Angela Carter: weren't you outed as a sex pest?
Whedon: like i said
Whedon: the most feminist man of 1995!
btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)
That might also change the timeline!
Weirder than this one?