A split montage image of Charlotte Brontë: on the left, a vintage colorized portrait shows her seated in a dark Victorian dress with white lace collar, cuffs, and a red bow at the neck, her reddish-brown hair in a bun, holding a small brown book and gazing forward; on the right, a close-up of the title page of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë features a black enamel pin shaped like a woman’s profile silhouette filled with birds and branches, bearing the quote “I AM NO BIRD & NO NET ENSNARES ME,” with decorative leaf illustrations below.

English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë was born #OTD in 1816.

Her novel, 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘳𝘦, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. She is the eldest of the the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature.

#litsky #booksky

A small puppy sits in the sun, casting a shadow that looks like Batman.

It’s not all about who you are, it’s also about how you show up!
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"That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in is place is not a thought that occurs to his mind."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, describing Sauron and every other authoritarian.

This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.

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#Corgi #CorgiCrew

Well done, Sabres!

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Golden retrievers gathered on Boston Common today to honor Spencer, the beloved Boston Marathon dog known for holding a Boston Strong flag along the route.

Spencer passed away after battling cancer.

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There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

We Deserve Better Than This….

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.

We should be learning from other countries...

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

Temporary Squeaker Mike is so dumb it hurts.

Our guy plays hockey with the Ottawa Charge women’s team and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

The clown on our southern border shit-posts about world leaders and insults the women’s Olympic hockey team.

#NoContest

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I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

This is what Times Square will look like when Congress or a cheeseburger finally does its job

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Absolutely!

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The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

... And never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Very true...

So we're blockading something that's already blockaded to try and get it unblocked even tho it will stay blocked because we're blocking it.

Of course. That makes total sense.

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.

Art of the deal, baby.