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DuskCatharsis
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Public preschool custodian. Not good at follow backs due to work schedule. She/They #Hiddlestoner #Cavillary #Ghestie #resist #MeToo #survivor #VoteBlue #doglover
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When she first started writing a newsletter, her candor was radical—and just what women were seeking. on.wsj.com/49JhLxB
Janine O’Leary Cobb, Who Educated the Public About Menopause, Dies at 92
When she first started writing a newsletter, her candor was radical—and just what women were seeking.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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This is the video.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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This is Chilli. He can go from zero to sixty in a matter of seconds. Uses this extraordinary ability to say good morning very promptly. 14/10 (IG: chilli.thegreyhound)
January 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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🔭 M1: The Crab Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Chen

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A dark starfield surrounds a colorful nebula filled with tangled filaments. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
December 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Two great blues musicians, and 2000 more records

By John Mark Ockerbloom

More than 2500 records from 1925 digitized by the UC Santa Barbara Library will soon be freely downloadable there.

Full list is available online:
www.library.ucsb.edu/1925-recordi...

#music #publicDomainDayCountdown
12th Street Rag by Euday L. Bowman. Sheet music, early (first?) edition, 1915, published by J.W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. The central image depicts a bustling urban street scene, likely representing 12th Street itself.It shows: A crowded sidewalk filled with people in early 1900s attire Men wearing bowler hats, straw boaters, and other period headwear Women in long dresses and elaborate hats typical of the 1910s A figure on the right wearing what appears to be striped pants or trousers Buildings with awnings and storefronts lining the street in the background The scene captures the energy and social atmosphere of a busy commercial district https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Street_Rag#/media/File:12thStreetRag1915.jpg
December 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from significant editions of Shakespeare's plays in the Victorian period.

by Michael John Goodman (thanks @rossolson.com )

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpU...

#books #literature
Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
YouTube video by Michael John Goodman
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December 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
heretictrance.bsky.social
When you just keep going until you run out of the second double batch of masa and have five husks left
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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there is a tree. in the household. i went to take. my late afternoon snoozle. and i come back. now there’s a tree.. who approved of this. i didn’t. is this. one of many? what depths. does this tree army reach. where is the human. i have questions
December 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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🔭 Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy

Image Credit & Copyright: Valter Binotto

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Trees on a hilltop are seen in a starry sky but with clouds on the far horizon. A strange red circular band of light is seen in the sky. Near this band's center, some bright jellyfish like structures are visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge

Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage, Josh Dury

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The sun is setting across a field in a clear sky. In the field are the famous stones of Stonehenge. The Sun peaks out from the center of the stone array. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 Jupiter and the Meteors from Gemini

Image Credit & Copyright: David Cruz

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Jupiter, the Solar System's ruling gas giant, is the brightest celestial beacon at the center of this composite night skyscape. The scene was constructed by selecting the 40 exposures containing meteors from about 500 exposures made on the nights of December 13 and 14, near peak activity for this year's annual Geminid meteor shower. With each selected exposure registered in the night sky above Alentejo, Portugal, planet Earth, it does look like the meteors are streaming away from Jupiter. But the apparent radiant of the Geminid meteors is actually closer to bright star Castor, in the shower's eponymous constellation Gemini. In this frame that's just a little above and left of the Solar System's most massive planet. Still, the parent body of Geminid meteors is known to be rocky, near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon. And the orbit of Phaethon itself is influenced by the gravitational attraction exerted by massive Jupiter, in concert with planets of the inner Solar System.
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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"Art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe. "
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (1928)

~Rebecca West, born #OTD in 1892.

About Rebecca West:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

#books #literature
Rebecca West papers. The image is a black-and-white, grainy portrait photograph, likely from the early 20th century. It shows a young woman in close-up, facing slightly to the viewer’s left, with a calm, serious, and introspective expression. Her gaze is steady and directed just past the camera. She wears an ornate, beaded headpiece that fits closely around her head and extends down the sides, with strands of beads hanging near her ears. Her hair is mostly concealed beneath it. She is dressed in a dark garment with a simple neckline, which contrasts with her pale complexion and draws attention to her face. https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/rebecca-west-papers
December 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The Drawing That Got a Renaissance Master Banished From Rome

Is all press still good press?

by Verity Babbs

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Renaissance art at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#art #books #culture
Portrait of Federico Zuccaro, by Fede Galizia (1604), oil on canvas, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. It shows Zuccaro in three-quarter view against a dark, neutral background, emphasizing his face and upper body. The sitter has short, thinning gray hair, a high forehead, and a neatly trimmed gray beard and mustache. His expression is calm and introspective, with slightly downcast eyes. He wears a dark, austere garment typical of late 16th–early 17th century elite fashion, offset by a crisp white collar. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fede_Galizia_-_Portrait_of_Federico_Zuccari_-_WGA8432.jpg
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Today’s #dailytees are mad as hell and they aren't gonna take it anymore! www.theyetee.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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darkhorse.com
Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher: The Witcher is now available wherever you buy books! Details: https://bit.ly/3MnAkhH

By Andrzej Sapkowski, Michael Dowling, @luisnct.bsky.social, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, with cover by Kai Carpenter. With @cdprojektred.com
Cover of Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher: The Witcher
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The Geminids meteor shower appears every December, but it will peak this year on Saturday, the 13th. n.pr/44WMNiI
Skywatchers rejoice: The Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight
The Geminids meteor shower appears every December, but it will peak this year on Saturday, the 13th.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
No theme for this weekend's #ShakespeareSunday!
a man in a black and white sweater says maybe just a smattering of everything
ALT: a man in a black and white sweater says maybe just a smattering of everything
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December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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🔭 The Horsehead Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: George Chatzifrantzis

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Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance has assumed an immediately recognizable shape. Fittingly known as The Horsehead Nebula, it lies some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall," the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33, first identified on a photographic plate taken in the late 19th century. B33 is visible primarily because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glow of emission nebula IC 434. Hubble space telescope images from the early 21st century find young stars forming within B33. Of course, the magnificent interstellar cloud will slowly shift its apparent shape over the next few million years. But for now the Horsehead Nebula is a rewarding though difficult object to view with small telescopes from planet Earth.
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The Mathilda Effect - The Missing Heroines of Science

By Martha Rossiter

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More about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda....

#books #womeninStem
Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, three-quarter length portrait. A formal black and white portrait of Dr. Lise Meitner, the pioneering Austrian physicist, seated in professional attire with a book in hand before a library bookshelf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner#/media/File:Lise_Meitner_NatGeo.jpg
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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This is Pebble. She may be the reason you're late, but wants to remind you she's also your reason for living. 13/10 (IG: pebbletherottie)
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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We only rate dogs. This is a very cozy bed bug. We advise you to get a new bed, since this one is taken, and kindly request you only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (TT: coldsmuckersuncrustable)
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of November!
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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freedom.press
The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees
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November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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If you have a problem with women playing video games then you’re a sexist piece of trash 🗑️
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM