So after Barack and Zohran sang the Wheels on the Bus, the children did this:

reposting this because it is simply beautiful.

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.

Chaucer Doth Tweet always says true and beautiful things.

It's JamieClaire. It's always been JamieClaire, hasn't it been?

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

SaveUSFS.org is live. This week we’re going after six major outdoor brands. Companies that have spoken out for public lands before. Companies that built their whole identity around wild places. We need them to speak out again.

Christina Koch’s facial profile backlit by Earth in the background, through the spacecraft window

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

this is so utterly cool. and wondrous fine.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth...
chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/genera...

healing karma, and prayers to the Madonna.

1969.

grazie mille for this lovely photo. I shared it with a relative who cannot get to the cathedral and your photo captures it so well.

They are perfect: the hair, the makeup, the tights! Brianna and I were born one year apart, so I know exactly how I dressed in 1968… yes, I am that old…

I start by smiling at them and saying, I have teeny tiny veins! Please be gentle! I also ask that they use a "butterfly clip" which is less painful. Some places always use those.

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’

This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is.

So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

oh. dear. sigh.

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

It does take a long time. Mine does not quite have a gazillion steps, but there are a lot of them. "Easy" is not the word for lasagna.

JS BACH - JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING BWV 147 - ORGAN OF ST. PANKRATIUS-KIRCHE, GÜTERSLOH, GERMANY YouTube video by scottbrothersduo

Happy Birthday, Sebastian Bach. Here's my favorite piece of music in all the world. youtu.be/xbQktZ1pOSk?...

A yellowed handbill headlined "TWELVE REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE" 1. BECAUSE those who obey the laws should help to choose those who make the laws. 2. BECAUSE laws affect women as much as men. 3. BECAUSE laws which affect WOMEN are now passed without consulting them. 4. BECAUSE laws affecting CHILDREN should include the woman's point of view as well as the man's. 5. BECAUSE laws affecting the HOME are voted on in every session of the Legislature. 6. BECAUSE women have experience which would be helpful to legislation. 7. BECAUSE to deprive women of the vote is to lower their position in common estimation. 8. BECAUSE having the vote would increase the sense of responsibility among women toward questions of public importance. 9. BECAUSE public spirited mothers make public spirited sons. 10. BECAUSE about 8,000,000 women in the United States are wage workers, and the conditions under which they work arre controlled by law. 11. BECAUSE the objections against their having the vote are based on prejudice, and not on reason. 12. BECAUSE to sum up all reasons in one--IT IS FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF ALL. VOTES FOR WOMEN NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING CO., INC., 171 Madison Avenue, New York City

I'm researching the 1913 Women's Suffrage March & saw this "Twelve Reasons Why Women Should Vote" on the website of the National Women's History Museum. It's WILD that in 2026 some people would take our voting rights back or give them up! That we have to reassert all of this still! Ugh, ugh, sigh.

This is such a powerful and important statement.

March 16, 2026 In early 1775, the people of Boston were bitterly divided.

Historian Heather Cox Richardson illuminates American Revolutionary history today, and my Outlander folks will find echoes and portents for the past several seasons. It's brilliant. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

wondrous fine!

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. 🖤🤍
#GNUTerryPratchett

Happy International Women's Day 🫂🤍

in another room, he who does not watch Outlander but who worked for decades in children's books, said wonderingly, "was that Jamie reading Goodnight Moon in Scot?" I wanted the whole book. On repeat.

Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death,
lying together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.

Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’ He was at the heart of 1960s counterculture, then paved the way for the libertarian mindset of Silicon Valley. At 87, Brand is still keen to ensure the world is maintained properly – not just today, but for the next 10,000 years

Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’