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Samuel Pepys, being normal as usual

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I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

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A very grumpy feline face at Southwell Minster for #Caturday

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from wiktionary

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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Another Friday night whale spent

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this nameless phantom feeling

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The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?

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UD Special Collections has 2000+ miniature books, and I love them very much. I even wrote about one particularly wee example: Schloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1840! library.udel.edu/news/2023/08...

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The Pomological magazine;. London;J. Ridgway. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21999619

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The Virginia state flag is the only American state flag with a boob on it. Plus rad motto: sic semper tyrannis!

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Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs

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My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

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A friend from days gone by died of flu this year. He was 50 with a 10 year old daughter.

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all mortal greatness is but disease

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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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A simple shift from "I told you so" to "I was scared this would happen" is an opening. Follow that up with, "how can I help" and links and numbers to immigrant rights orgs, labor orgs, and community health and you are, in fact, building solidarity.

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Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

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his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark

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People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 8 days ago • 233 comments

what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me

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As you steel yourself for today's news and navigating this crueler, more precarious world in general, perhaps you might find inspiration in the magpies of Antwerp who looked at anti-bird spikes and thought "I could build a nest with that" (research and pix by @aukeflorian.nl)

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I like to post contemporary Japanese artists on this feed from time to time. Tetsuya Noguchi (b.1980) is known for his images of samurai in everyday situations. They are often really funny. This is his painting, "Warrior Takes Armoured Cat for a Walk".

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

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Petit Livre d’Amour, c.1500.

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I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans

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Watson reminds you to relax your shoulders, unclench your jaw, and take some slow, deep breaths. Take a break from scrolling, and have a glass of water. You are loved. You are enough. You matter.

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well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

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The Viking Mask Stone. A runestone set up in memory of a warrior who died in battle, c. AD 970-1020. Runic inscription: ‘Gunnulfr and Eygautr/Auðgautr and Áslakr and Hrólfr raised this stone in memory of Fúl, their partner, who died when kings fought’. From Aarhus, Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Reader, he snuggled him.

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Why are we destroying a planet full of lil guys??

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This frog looks like he’s gonna grant you a wish 🐸

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We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl. 🦉

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This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

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It's Friday. You want to talk about sex, right? Snake and eel sex? 'Cause medieval people thought that was maybe a thing. Many medieval bestiaries tell how male vipers go to the beach at night & hiss to summon female sea eels for trysts on the sand. Booty call for Ms. Eel? 1/4 🗃️🧪

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let’s drink shame upon all cowards! I name no names. Shame upon them!

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Happy birthday to this ABSOLUTE QUEEN, Empress Matilda👸🏻👑 As the only surviving legitimate child of Henry I, Matilda should have been England’s first Queen Regnant Instead, she was challenged by her cousin, Stephen, & England was plunged into the period known as the Anarchy

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This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

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Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

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I’ve always known in my heart that if I had lived in Nazi Germany, I would’ve fought Hitler tooth and nail. But what’s happening here is pretty different and I’ve got bills to pay so…

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Historians are really extra not okay right now

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