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cuties!! Did you catch the news and pic of Tom Baker celebrating his MBE with Louise Jameson?
Tom Baker, known for playing the 4th Doctor Who, wearing a light gray jacket, shirt and tie, and dark waistcoat and pants, with a memorial poppy boutonniere, poses with Louise Jameson, known for playing Leela in the series stands next to him, wearing a flowing white blouse and dark pinstripe vested suit. She is clasping his arm and looking at him with great affection; he is midsentence looking intensely off-camera and gesticulationg as he seems to be describing something.
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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love and hope
"The Lower Mountain Fork River Rock Garden" by FreeWine is licensed under CC BY 2.0. photo credits: Dianne and Thomas Jones
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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According to a recent Pew Research Center Study, more than one third of Americans identify as not Christian
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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🖊️Annie Dillard
📷Matt Clark CC deets in Alt
A photo of a single golden autumn leaf resting on a river rock, titled "Move over, summer, autumn is here now [explored]" by join the dots and from the Creative Comons Archives, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Overlaying this photo is the text from a quote by Annie Dillard, taken from her natural history work "Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek". The quote is " It was as if the season’s colors were draining away like lifeblood, as if the year were molting and shedding. The year was rolling down, and a vital curve had been reached, the tilt that gives way to headlong rush. And when the monarch butterflies had passed and were gone, the skies were vacant, the air poised. The dark night into which the year was plunging was not a sleep but an awakening, a new and necessary austerity, the sparer climate for which I longed. The shed trees were brittle and still, the creek light and cold, and my spirit holding its breath.”
October 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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August 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🖊️Patrick Rothfuss
🎨Thomas Hill 1829-1908

Of Trees and Taverns: a quote from Bast in Patrick Rothfuss' "A Wise Man's Fear"--a counting charm, left unfinished for the reader until the last page. The setting is the Waystone Inn.

Illustration: The Wayside Inn, Sudbury, MA

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A reproduction of a painting by Thomas Hill of "The Wayside Inn" shared by Boston Public Library, licensed under CC BY 2.0. A large brick building with smoke coming from its chimney, seen in the distance behind large majestic trees, all lit by late afternoon sunlight. Accompanied by the quote :"Maple. Maypole. Catch and Carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at Night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Barrel. Barley. Stone and Stave. Wind and water.." (Misbehave) from the book A Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss. The quote is a counting charm, used by the character Bast in the beginning of the book and the last line ("Misbehave") is not learned by the reader until the very end of the book. The setting for this scene and others is the Waystone Inn, a fictional place possibly inspired by one of many historic Wayside Inns.
August 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"New growth after Bootleg Fire Fremont-Winema National Forest Oregon 81121" by Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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not even real power, the temporary power of bully ascendant
July 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🖊️Federico Garcia Lorca
📷Natalie Medd "Seashell" licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
A photo of two sea shells resting on glistening sand, with sparkling reflections from the sun surrounding them and in the background. "Seashell" by Natalia Medd is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. The text from a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, titled Caracola: Someone brought me a seashell. Singing inside is a sea from a map. My heart fills up with water and little tiny fish silvery, shadowy Someone brought me a seashell.
July 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🖊️Leif Enger : I Cheerfully Refuse
📷sagesolar on Flickr, further info in alt
A photo of a sailboat anchored on a still lake at sunset, with muted reflections in the water of the boat and the mountainous shoreline behind. The picture is from the photographer sagesolar, who includes this descriptive title: "Sometimes life makes you drift on like a sailboat on a lake" by sagesolar is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Superimposed over the photo is a quote from Leif Enger's book I Cheerfully Refuse: "All that day I worked up the channel. All the day the sky was clear and the sun convivial and distant trees swayed in profligate beauty. I began to feel quite sentimental toward Flower. What a stout small craft she was. I was not much sailor nor navigator, yet she'd protected me in all conditions. Look at her move, reaching along on a mild southeasterly, telltales streaming like pennants from the shrouds".
July 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Seeing a recent video animating the construction of Roman aqueducts rekindled my awe of this ancient yet enduring undertaking, and was my first thought at this week's theme of the literature of ancient Rome for BookWorm Saturday:

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🖊️Vitruvius
📷Schmeeve.com
This is a photo of the well-preserved Roman Aqueducts in Barcelona, Spain. Depicted is a section of the double storied waterway, a construction of a stone channel, supported by a series of graceful stone arches, standing atop a second series of arches. The quoted text superimposed over the photo reads: "All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the Firmament", attributed to Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, often known simply as Vitruvius. The photo, titled "Roman Aqueduct' is by Schmeeve, a photographer in Portland, OR, and is licensed through the Creative Commons, under CC BY-SA 2.0.
July 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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July 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Trans Rights are Human Rights

"The Enemy" is a false label of convenience meant to erase non-combatant victims

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A picture of a trans flag with blue, pink and white stripes, containing the Iranian national emblem of the stylized arabic word for Allah in red calligraphy, encircled by a wreath of white funerary roses. Attributions: wreath: <a href="http://www.freepik.com">Designed by Drawnhy97 / Freepik</a>; Iranian emblem: Madden. Derivative work: Zscout370. - This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Red color from the flag for the  Emblem of Iran.svg: . Modifications made by Zscout370., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19842580
July 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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oh yeah we do
no kings protest at St. Paul MN
July 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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June 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Celebrating Summer Solstice
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🖊️Isabel Allende, "The House of the Spirits"
📷Jason E. Jenkins: "Mount Starr King Sun-rays" by j-d놘0(THANK YOU FOR 100k+ Views) is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
the quote "Outside, the fields were shaking off their sleep and the first rays of sunlight were cutting the peaks of the cordillera like the thrusts of a saber, warming up the earth and evaporating the dew into a fine white foam that blurred the edges of things and turned the landscape into an enchanted dream" by Isabel Allende, from the book "The House of the Spirits". The quote is superimposed over a photo by Jason E. Jenkins of a mountain range resplendent in the sunrise with mist and trees in the foreground and the rays of the sun radiating in a pattern of sharp points as they pour over a distant peak.
June 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Happy Solstice all my friends
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🖊️Paulette Jiles, "The Color of Lightning"
📷Matthias Bachmann, "Sunrise" by FotoArt MB is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
A photo of the sunrise, with the quote “She was afraid of the slow death of confinement. Of being trapped inside immovable houses and stiff clothing. Of the sky shuttered away from her sight, herself hidden from the operatic excitement of the constant wind and the high spirits that came when they struck out like cheerful vagabonds across the wide earth with all of life in front of them and unfolding and perpetually new. And now herself shut in a wooden cave. She could not go out at dawn alone and sing, she would not be seen and known by the rising sun.” by the author Paulette Jiles. The photographer is Matthias Bachmann and published under Creative Commons: "Sunrise by FotoArt M.B."
June 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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2/2 and decimated our experts and professionals in all areas of health care and public safety using superstitious, ignorant conspiracy-theory wielding thugs to try to steer our country to an MLM oligarchical circle jerk.
Gender inequality is crucial to hierarchy, as scapegoating is to dictatorships
It's not about the bathrooms as it was never about water fountains. attributed to George Takei
June 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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This is a frame with text only, reading "Years ago, I had multiple miscarriages. Twice, I was unable to go to a caregiver when this happened. I did not attempt to preserve the remains.Miscarriage can be very painful and sometimes sitting on a toilet is the best physical support for this medical event. The men who wrote this law have no experience, authority over or empathy with women's health. This law is a miscarriage of justice." Not depicted: the grief and outrage that anyone would dare criminalize a very common biological condition that is sometimes already harrowing if not life-threatening.
June 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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took me an awful long time to reconcile my deja vu
June 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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For today's #BookWormSat theme including ghosts, a quote from Lauren Groff's @legroff.bsky.social story "Eyewall":

"ghost in the window" by The Raggedy-man (Ryan Remillard) is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
An image of a woman gazing out a window with the text "He came closer and stood next to me in the window. I went still as I always did near him...You're still here, of course, he said. Even though they told you to get out days ago...He winked at me and the mint smell intensified, and there was a pressure on my mouth, then a lessening. And then it was only the storm and the house and me." followed by the attribution to author Lauren Groff: Eyewall (a story included in her collection "Florida Tales") "ghost in the window" by The Raggedy-man is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
May 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM