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Albany NY 50501 protest

Fun Valentine’s decor to hang by your front door ❤️💕#cutewinterboots

If you haven’t been calling your US reps, pls start there. It may not feel as satisfying as big gestures, but it’s often more powerful — & doesn’t require other ppl’s time/energy. Don’t skip effective action bc it feels unsexy, esp when the action you’re waiting to take requires other ppl’s work.

What a month this week has been.

Lemon, it's Tuesday.

This is a gentle reminder to relax your shoulders and unclench your jaw. Stay informed, but give yourself a break from the fire hose. You may not realize how intensely disregulating the constant stream of bad news and horror is until you do.

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done?
Thou art a pynke ponye girle
Yn the daunse at the clubbe!'
'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe
On the stage yn myne heeles
It ys wher Ich belonge
Downe at the
Pynke Ponye Clubbe
Ich shal keepe on daunsinge
Downe yn West Hollywoode'
[lute solo] 🎶

#tudor nerds! What prayers were said for Henry VIII’s funeral? How widespread would the #reformation rejection of purgatory have been in 1547?

Thanks 🩷

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.

Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”

We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

I ❤️ leakers!

ooo girl same

"Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" - Maintenance Phase - Apple Podcasts Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 05/09/2024 · 1h 28m

Think that gender-affirming healthcare for teens & tweens might be harmful (or want ammo for convos w ppl who do)? Listen to the “Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria” eps of Maintenance Phase — they’ve read waaay more of the data than any of the other folx you’ve heard from.

Hey, you matter to a lot (a lot a lot) of people. Want to learn to zentangle? I’ll teach you on zoom. It’s fun and silly. Want to be in my book group? I want good things for you. I want you to be ok. Hang in there, sweetheart.

a colorful hand-woven shawl messily folded

a colorful hand-woven shawl wrapped around a woman with glasses

a rigid-heddle loom with work just begun on a rainbow-colored warp

a rigid-heddle loom being warped with rainbow self-striping yarn

Finished my second weaving project a while back. #weaving #loom

My 13YO’s poor urban middle school announced D&D club expecting like five kids, and 25 showed up, and they’re DMing for each other. Would they count it as reading? Maybe? But they’re sure as heck engaging w written word and imaginary worlds.

Taiwan level fights in the legislature

I remember a player in a bog-standard D&D setting arguing with our DM about something he didn’t like by saying “Back then, they wouldn’t blah blah,” and the DM responding, “Back then? Back in imaginary times?”

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i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!

I learned recently that she was actually Blanche ap Harry, and not related to Thomas Parry, Elizabeth’s cofferer. The story goes that she taught Elizabeth to speak Welsh — is there any evidence to support that?

Maybe the meme creator was confusing Anne Boleyn with Margaret Pole, another of Henry’s victims: she got the axe, not a sword, and the executioner bungled it badly. She was in her 60s.

Do you know who the subjects are?

John Guy’s recent bio is good — he’s a real historian. Antonia Fraser’s is good too.

Next: buttery leggings stockpile, Christian essential oils stockpile, crummy makeup stockpile …

Also smug questions about why people were surprised by things they never said they were surprised by.

Is this one believed to be a copy of an original?

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