The decline and fall of a Nation

I switched cat biscuits brand yesterday, from an American brand to an Australian brand, which meant that I needed to sit the cats down and have a conversation about tariffs. It was not as awkward as I imagined.

Breaking promises before his term begins

Time for some wild-tree purple white tea in the garden. #teahead #zen

How fabulous. I have many Regency era letters and some are crosshatched - lost domestic crafts

Just lovely

My copy is still waiting for my son to post from SF.

Wants some

Wednesday drama: I'm studying versions of Seller's Atlas Maritimus (1672) to see how they depict the peoples and coasts of East Asia.

Unexpected extra: Boston Public Library's copy notes that the prolific Forbes Smiley likely stole two maps (NJ and Cape Code to Orinoco) sometime before 2005. 🗃️

Statue of the Roman Emperor Otho in the Louvre museum in Paris.

On this day in 69 AD, Otho seized power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome. His reign lasted only 91 days, still more than twice as long as Liz Truss lasted as UK Prime Minister. #skystorians 🗃️ #AncientBluesky 🏺

It’s not essential to rhyme, but more essential to have a balancing pulse

Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.

This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.

#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/EC9Y1x2d

Irony dead; and buried in a lead coffin

Right-wing think tank plans to target Wikipedia editors via malicious links: report A right-wing think tank that helped draft Project 2025 plans to target volunteer editors on Wikipedia with malicious tracking links who it alleges are "abusing their position" by publishing antisemiti...

A right-wing think tank that helped draft Project 2025 plans to target volunteer editors on Wikipedia with malicious tracking links who it alleges are "abusing their position."

The right hates Wikipedia because they can't be bullied like Musk and Zuck.
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I aspire to be this eloquent. #toitūtetiriti

Beautiful ocean effect snow on the Cape today but THIS was last night… Chatham Bay

Dripping Faucets and Seizing Greenland: Trump Is Back and Chaos Ensues President-elect Donald J. Trump’s news conference at Mar-a-Lago was a reminder of what the next four years may have in store.

News Analysis: President-elect Donald Trump has returned to our daily national cognizance, even though one could argue he never really left. Tuesday’s news conference was a reminder of what that was like, and what the next four years may have in store.

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Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?

If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Filthy, by Jazz Overhaul 10 track album

Dig this band from Seattle. Jazz Overhaul, they perform grunge classics in the jazz idiom. jazzoverhaul.bandcamp.com/album/filthy...

A great day for heading out on a ramble through country lanes. I like the term ramble as it has a certain vibe about it. ‘I walked’, doesn't begin to describe being in the countryside on a day like this. Rambles were invented for mornings like this. #naturalist #ramble. #trees #Aotearoa

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You are so onto something.

Episode 312-3: Mama Terra; Marco Ullstein; Emily Remler [pictured]; Filippo Vignato, Federico Pierantoni, Lorenzo Manfredini; Simon Moullier; and Asher Gamedze
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The Music of Ancient Rome by Mary Ann Tedstone Glover Album · 2021 · 9 Songs

Hear The Music of Ancient Rome on Apple music.

What a morning to walk out into the hills, the sweet smell of ensilage and meadow pasture, cackling magpies and a soft brushing breeze. The sort of morning Laurie Lee wrote about #summer #Aotearoa #Watākere

Warring librarians & catrocide: This book digs into the unusual details surrounding the Great Library of Alexandria and its rival, the Library of Pergamum. One instance is of a visiting Roman who killed a cat was murdered by an angry mob. As Umberto Eco said, ‘a library is the memory of humankind’.

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.