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If I had billions of dollars, one of the things I’d do is build a bunch of libraries that I’d make free for public use if you passed certain tests, like, “do you think a storybook about two penguin fathers raising their chick should be banned?” Basically, private public libraries It’d be awesome

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Steampunk style 'book dress' by contemporary French designer Sylvie Facon #womensart

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Terminal Island’s Japanese American residents rally to save its last standing buildings. After bulldozing an entire Japanese American village during WWII, San Pedro is about to destroy the only two buildings that survived – unless preservationists can stop the clock.

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The Flag,1918 by Georgia O Keeffe #WomensArt

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Ancient Chinese people even performed specific religious rituals when bringing a cat into their homes, viewing them not as mere possessions but as honored guests. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

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#Cat, c.1904, by Welsh painter Gwen John #womensart

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Ginger Rogers (1911- 1995) US actress and dancer.... "did everything that her partner Fred Astaire did....but backwards and in heels" #WomensArt

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Children dancing in Harlem, NY, c.1940 by photographer Helen Levitt #womensart

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Follow the Two Rogers Rule: Don't do what they wouldn't. Absolutely do what they would. #BeAGoodNeighbor #PunchANazi

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“Happiness gained by education might not be the same at every point in your life,” writes Arthur C. Brooks. "At 18, I was not ready to study, and doing so gave me no joy. At 29, I thrilled to the glories of differential calculus and the mysteries solved by regression analysis."

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Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt

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Why do we keep localizing oni as “demon” or “devil”? We don’t localize kelpie as “demon lake horse” We don’t localize selkie as “wereseal” We don’t localize centaur as “horse person” We just leave them as is So why do we keep localizing oni?

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Night night sweet dreamies Be gentle You are still healing from what you did not deserve Treat yourself with kindness

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The Japanese-American community finds it difficult to support FDR at all because he and his administration imprisoned tens of thousands of US citizens, and seized our property, based on nothing more than our ethnic heritage That said, FDR’s 2nd Bill of Rights is something we should all get behind

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A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

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Passage, 2007 by installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Beltane #May1st

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This is why I will never get over the fact that Victorian era British people went to Japan, then wrote travelogues describing Japanese wives as “ideal, demure women” They obviously never got past the public-facing demeanors of anyone they met Japanese women are fierce! youtube.com/shorts/3Ozmw...

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This is why it drives me crazy when Kansai dialects get localized as generic-US-southern. It’s not culturally equivalent at all! That’s why I prefer to localize it into some variation of generic-London. It’s a closer cultural/historical match youtube.com/shorts/dePw3...

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We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Prof. Brian Cox

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In traditional Japanese culture, gender is not central to one’s identity In Shinto, this is likely because the fact that you’re human and not, say, a tree, is more relevant than your gender In Buddhism, every bit of you is constantly changing, so fixating on a single aspect is counterproductive

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Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road review – ‘I could look forever at these passing moments in cosmic colours’

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Underwater photography in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1916). Underwater scenes had been popular since the 1890s but had been achieved via sets, props and even shooting through a water tank. This film was properly in the ocean.

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This is one of my favorite sets in my collection. Somewhere out there in the 1960s, a kitten and bird were pals. 💕

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I love this historical tidbit It illustrates that Japanese women have always had rights and recognition One point of clarification: Sasaki Rui’s husband was adopted into the Sasaki family. Rui wasn’t adopted by her husband. That’s a translation error youtube.com/shorts/pc_v6...

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It would be very healthy for human species, If there is less Discouragement.

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"I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance." -Josephine Baker #FridayFeeling

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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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confession: i started out with kill it, kill it! when i saw a spider. then i evolved to: take it outside. and this morning: how did you get here little guy? and my motto now:

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good advice

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THE HAUNTED HOTEL (1907) was a playful special effects fest using every form of animation available to filmmakers at the time. Stop-motion, miniatures, puppetry, wires, magnets and more, it showcased every trick in Vitagraph's arsenal.

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❗️🇯🇵Japan agreed to provide satellite images to 🇺🇦Ukrainian intelligence

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“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” ~ Carl Sagan

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The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real. When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains. Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

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🩷 Have fun rebelling against an empire this weekend! 🩵

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Sound on 😽🤍 #cat #purr

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A pysanka is a Polish-Ukrainian #Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method #WomensArt

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A la maison' by contemporary, Hungarian born painter Eva Fialka #WomensArt

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