Eleanor Roosevelt redefined the role of First Lady in the United States. In the years after, she served as US delegate to the UN General Assembly and had a lead role in defining the text for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
#WomensHistoryMonth
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Persephone is 11 years old.
Persephone just discovered that Mom-Hooman had something called “comb” that is the best itch-skritch EVER.
Persephone now herds Mom-Hooman into the Room of Skritch at least thrice daily, bleating like a goat and nipping at her feet.
#CatSky
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
A man with longish hair in a light coloured blazer sits with his hands up.
Email from Prime Video, where I learned that there’s a remake of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. No thanks. For me, there’s only one Illya Kuryakin 😊
Normalise the second question when you meet an American outside of America being “who did you vote for?”
I got asked exactly that just last week at my GP's office.
Also the red cap would make it easier to discern exactly whose food to spit in.
With the enshittification of everything technological that I once loved, the appeal of all things analog and offline is getting irresistible…
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Herbert Marshall in The Fly.
Herbert Marshall lost a leg in world war one, and went on to become a leading man in Hollywood. He worked to help injured troops after becoming famous, especially amputees. #TheFilmcrowd
Earlier this week, Idaho became the latest state to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s campaign to seize the private voter data of every state. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/eve...
My secret life as a cat.
Like clockwork.
Evening views of Bamburgh beach and castle from across the rocks. Partially cloudy sky gave some muted sunlight colours in the clouds
Evening stroll and dog walk at Bamburgh Beach, Northumberland. Started off relatively cloudy but the clouds started to break up a little aand give some lovely soft light in the sky across the beach and rocks. A worthwhile wander.
#Northumberland
#sunset
#uk
#evening
#Castle
Watch 'Fierce Predator' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyEg... 😽
Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!)
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
This is the way.
Sea Thrift Armeria maritima getting to the spring party early. Hayling Island, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
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Great to hear that local authorities are proposing acoustic cameras. Overly loud cars and motorbikes are a major source of noise pollution. www.portphillip.vic....
Who do you think you are?! Watch 'Fierce Predator' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyEg... 😽
On this day in 1943, a 97 year old Dutch Jewish woman arrived at the Sobibor extermination camp where she was murdered in the gas chamber. Her name was Jannetje Philipse-van Buren
Please support @sobibor.org
Defund the military.
A floating duck in profile, with her head to the right and her tail to the left. Her narrow beak is yellow at the base, gray farther out. Her breast, flanks, tail, and most of her head are gray-brown. Her crest is more of a red-brown; as it often is after dives, it looks disheveled (think Phyllis Diller). Her eye is brown. Her folded wings are dark gray. The water she's floating on is characterized by fine ripples that vary between light blue and tan.
A female hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) between dives. Photo taken at Tingley Beach, Albuquerque on March 3, 2026.
#nature #naturephotography #birds
In a recent SETI Live conversation, @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Karen Perez, lead author of a new study reporting the possible discovery of a pulsar candidate near the Galactic Center. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/lost-pu...
