@lineaus.bsky.social
Reposted
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
This is a better link than the last one.
A cool thing about "The House I Live In" is that its lyrics were written by Abel Meeropol, best known for (a) writing the lyrics for the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit," recorded by Billie Holiday, and (b) adopting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's orphaned sons.
The House I Live In
YouTube video by Library of Congress
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is a better link than the last one.
The “Seven Social Sins,” enumerated by Anglican priest Frederick Donaldson and promoted by Mahatma Gandhi:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
December 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The “Seven Social Sins,” enumerated by Anglican priest Frederick Donaldson and promoted by Mahatma Gandhi:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
Reposted
The NYT asked me to write about Christmas in the Trump economy, but also assigned too many holiday columns so mine didn't make it in. But here it is! The Hallmark Christmas movie you didn't ask for: www.elizabethspiers.com/a-hallmark-c...
A Hallmark Christmas, Through the Dark Lens of the Trump Economy
A lump of coal from President Scrooge
[The NYT assigned me a column about Christmas and affordability in the Trump economy but also assigned approximately four million other columns for the holidays ...
www.elizabethspiers.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The NYT asked me to write about Christmas in the Trump economy, but also assigned too many holiday columns so mine didn't make it in. But here it is! The Hallmark Christmas movie you didn't ask for: www.elizabethspiers.com/a-hallmark-c...
Reposted
This may interest some of you.
In London a time comes every day where the ghosts get their own back. It's often subtle but always undeniable, and it's strongest in autumn & winter.
If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
December 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This may interest some of you.
On this Hanukkah, let us hope that light truly does triumph over darkness. 🙏
December 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
On this Hanukkah, let us hope that light truly does triumph over darkness. 🙏
Reposted
Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Get a heated toilet seat they said.
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
It's the best thing ever they said.
#FridayVibes 😼
#Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
Reposted
Listening to playback of Carole King's Tapestry:
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971
The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971
The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Listening to playback of Carole King's Tapestry:
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971
The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971
The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...
#xpncountdown What?!? This Jersey girl had no idea Jersey Girl wasn’t a Bruce song.
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#xpncountdown What?!? This Jersey girl had no idea Jersey Girl wasn’t a Bruce song.
#xpncountdown Millenials think they have all the power and then the Boomers represent with Manfred Mann’s Blinded by the Light. Boom!
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#xpncountdown Millenials think they have all the power and then the Boomers represent with Manfred Mann’s Blinded by the Light. Boom!
#xpncountdown We’re in the whiny white boy section of the countdown (apologies to Santana and Ritchie Havens). Hopefully it doesn’t last for the last 50 covers.
December 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#xpncountdown We’re in the whiny white boy section of the countdown (apologies to Santana and Ritchie Havens). Hopefully it doesn’t last for the last 50 covers.
Reposted
Reposted
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Fox Sports (Brady, etc) word of the day if “spark.”
a man in a suit and tie is saying ahhh .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying ahhh .
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Fox Sports (Brady, etc) word of the day if “spark.”
Reposted
share.inquirer.com/reWm4W?utm_s...
GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
share.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
share.inquirer.com/reWm4W?utm_s...
GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
Reposted
Reposted
"the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved"
PS read those emails and tell me you would pay that person hundreds of millions of dollars for investment advice
PS read those emails and tell me you would pay that person hundreds of millions of dollars for investment advice
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved"
PS read those emails and tell me you would pay that person hundreds of millions of dollars for investment advice
PS read those emails and tell me you would pay that person hundreds of millions of dollars for investment advice
Reposted
I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
Who’s the most boring yet inane sports announcer, John Smoltz or Tony Romo?
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Who’s the most boring yet inane sports announcer, John Smoltz or Tony Romo?
Reposted
The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.
October 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.
Reposted
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
Reposted
Reposted
They all look so joyous, as if they know this is the group they’ll be spending eternity in hell with.
September 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
They all look so joyous, as if they know this is the group they’ll be spending eternity in hell with.
Reposted
September 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM