Under a new expansion, families in 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties have full access to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which gifts books every month to children from birth until age five: www.kptv.com/2024/12/18/d...

#homeless #unhoused #harmreduction

Then there's the Welsh tradition of the Mari Lywd. Christmas carolers come around with a horse’s skull hoisted up on a stick with a giant white cloak. They aggressively sing at homeowners until they're let in to have drinks and food.

So sorry to hear about Johnny Hockey 😢Sympathies with the family and the team and the fans. This is heartbreaking.

Does anyone know who the para taekwondo commentator is? Is it John Cullen? Because whoever it is keeps punning expertly and I'm randomly in stitches. #Paralympics #Puns

In Scots Gaelic, 'cur-' or 'ker-' prefixes can be used to intensify a word.

So, fuffle is "throw into disarray", hence 'kerfuffle'.

Likewise, a 'muigean' is "an unpleasant person", hence modern 'curmudgeon'.

The same prefix gave us onomatopoetic:
kersplat
kerchunk
kerthump
kaboom
kapow

Y'all aren't ready for the mascots of the 2024 Paralympics sports. (Pictured here are wheelchair rugby, archery, and goalball—a game played by the blind, in which the ball is rigged for sound.)

Moritz Brückner will alles geben#Paralympics

Wheelchair rugby, often referred to as “murderball,” is a physical game. While athletes can’t hold onto or push other players’ wheelchairs with their hands, they can ram each other — hard, challenging stereotypes that view people in wheelchairs as fragile.

#JackieChan did the Coup de Baton for the Para Taekwando and it just made me so happy to see him. Also, Laarif Naoual and Chachibaia Lia's match was amazing. I can't wait to catch up on the other matches later.

Stepping down and walking away from my soapbox now.

I like social media fics because it's similar to actually being on social media except there's an end and no real people.

Okay, this has been bugging me. Watching back the derby - the swells busy pointing their cell phones at Wynona Judd during the national anthem is about as disrespectful as it fucking gets. I don't care if they were on their feet. The form without the content means jack.

Remembering Terry Pratchett on his birthday 🎂
📷 Boris Spremo, Toronto, 1995

"Give a man a fire & he's warm for a day, but set fire to him & he's warm for the rest of his life."

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Being a retvrn guy for 1950s cars but for the part where they sliced you to pieces and not the aesthetics

Of all the Tesla fan arguments that I don't understand, the " it was unscathed in a crash only the occupant was hurt" one is by far the most batshit, why the fuck would I want a car that doesn't sacrifice its body to save mine are you aware of how a car person relationship actually works

In place of a night's sleep, you shall have caffeine! Not awake, but functional and able to tolerate the dawn.