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First image, a Bluesky post from Song of Songs bot. “Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where dost thou graze? Where dost thou rest at noon? For why should I be as one enveloped by the flocks of thy companions?” Second image, from the account Possum Every Hour: a possum surrounded by shady foliage looks fetchingly over their shoulder up at the camera.
From “What Kind of Lesbian Are You?” Question numer 8: what Lesbian played trumpet in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm in the 1930s and 1940s before forming her own group, the Hell Divers?
Album cover, looks like early 1970s, from the Westminster Gold label. Title at the top, in small flowing script: Flute and Harpsichord Sonatas, Jean Pierre Rampal, Flute, Robert Veryon Lacroix, Harpsichord. Against a white background are two musicians in formal concert dress, seated, playing their instruments.The man on the left has slightly shaggy beard and is leaning back and looking over at the other musician. She wears a gorgeous dark gown with a full skirt and a black choker, dark round glasses, her long hair is pinned up. There is jokey and flirty energy between them. The man is playing a bassoon. The woman is playing a cello.
I acknowledge that this approach requires more work from women at the outset, but I believe that work is worth it if it helps create a positive feedback loop with significant long-term benefits.
Photo 1: Men have been slow to change due to persistent gender norms and, as many tell me in therapy, because it's difficult to give up arrangements that seem beneficial.
What worked: When DeGregorio’s layoff and his wife's health issues forced a redistribution of responsibilities, the transition was difficult. Learning to cook and do many other home chores was harder than he had anticipated, but he quickly noticed how much it improved their understanding of each other, eased resentment and deepened their closeness.
Based off the newest tranche of emails and texts released by the Justice Department this weekend, Epstein, at the very least, believed that he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order in the 2010s. In June 2016, he emailed venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel, writing, "Brexit, just the beginning." He then laid out the most succinct mission statement we currently have for what Epstein was trying to accomplish. "Return to tribalism," he wrote. "Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances. You and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high, and as I said in your office. Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain."
Based on the emails to which we currently have access to, populist politics, online disinformation, cyber warfare, and cryptocurrency were all just scaffolding for his work as a financier and sex trafficker. A way to destabilize the global order, make connections with the world's elites, and continue enriching himself and preying on vulnerable young girls. Reading through his messages, it's clear that he was someone who was learning to speak the language of social media and far-right populism at the same time everyone else was.
Epstein, possibly the most prolific sex trafficker in human history, spent the last decade of his life investing in technology that would help Russia, as he wrote in a 2013 email, "leapfrog the global community by reinventing the financial system of the 21st century." He was fascinated by websites like 4chan and technology like Bitcoin and was personally invested in the success of far-right politicians in the US and Europe. He believed he was months away from ushering in a new world order that would allow him to continue with his monstrous passion projects, like creating a super-race of children with his own DNA and building fascist nation states to manage overpopulation and climate collapse. And he wined and dined the world's most powerful men (none of whom seemed to have an issue with these ideas), inviting them to his island and his ranch, and made sure they were surrounded by an endless supply of young girls. And I'm just not sure what we're supposed to do with that knowledge.
A 1947 black-and-white photo. At what looks like a fancy dinner party, a man and a woman sit in front of empty plates and glasses on a white tablecloth. The slightly older elegant man is slumped, he looks directly into the camera with his head tilted, and an expression in his eyes that looks like, “oh my God, I feel like I have been here 1 million years and can’t handle much more of this.” The woman has dark hair and big dark eyes. She is wearing an off the shoulder party dress, and she has some kind of garment on one shoulder as if she might be about to make a break for the door. She looks up and to the right of the frame, she looks dissociating in self-defence from boredom and maybe hunger. The way their two bodies slump slightly together makes them look like best friends who will make funny jokes about this miserable party after.
MARTIN SHORT: Your acting style is so authentic. It often gives the audience the impression that you're improvising. How faithful are you to the writer's actual words? KEATON: I do kind of mess them up a bit. I'm surprised that I'm still working. I always feel much better when I can play around more. You nailed it, Marty. I do love to loosen up the script. SHORT: Who's sexier, me or Steve Martin? KEATON: I mean, you're both idiots.
From the blog link above: First, the government needs to be run top down from the Oval Office. This is why we call it the, “executive“ branch. “Executive“ is a literal synonym for “monarchical”– from “mono,” meaning “one,” and “archy”, meaning “regime.” “Autocratic” is fine too. The “executive branch” is the “autocratic branch,” or should be if English is English. Libs: F words don’t mean what they mean, what *do* they mean?
@idaolson.bsky.social writes: Fun fact: when I worked for uncle Ted in the Senate in 2000, Strom Thurmond was basically a corpse in a wheelchair at that point, and the other staffers were still warning young women not to go within 10 feet of him and to get out of an elevator if he got in.
From: William M. Treanor Dean and Executive Vice President Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair March 6, 2025 To: Edward R. Martin, Jr. Interim United States Attorney District of Columbia Judiciary Center Dear Interim United States Attorney Martin: I write in response to your letter dated February 17, 2025, which you sent to me via email on March 3, 2025. As a Catholic and Jesuit institution, Georgetown University was founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical, and spiritual understanding. For us at Georgetown, this principle is a moral and educational imperative. It is a principle that defines our mission as a Catholic and Jesuit institution. Georgetown University also prohibits discrimination and harassment in its programs and activities and takes seriously its obligations to comply with all federal and local laws. Your letter challenges Georgetown's ability to define our mission as an educational institution. It inquires about Georgetown Law's curriculum and classroom teaching, asks whether diversity, equity, and inclusion is part of the curriculum, and asserts that your office will not hire individuals from schools where you find the curriculum "unacceptable." The First Amendment, however, guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it. The Supreme Court has continually affirmed that among the freedoms central to a university's First Amendment rights are its abilities to determine, on academic grounds, who may teach, what to teach, and how to teach it. This is a bedrock principle of constitutional law - recognized not only by the courts, but by the administration in which you serve. The Department of Education confirmed last week that it cannot restrict First Amendment rights and that it is statutorily prohibited from "exercising control over the content of school curricula."
A list of times followed by blue sky addresses. These people are virtually DJing tonight to raise funds for abortion access. Noon to 1 pm ET @carolynchernoff.bsky.social, @mminthecity.bsky.social 1 to 2 pm @compvla.bsky.social, @logansolsun.bsky.social 2 to 3 pm @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social, @silvergoldsea.bsky.social (2-3 EST) 3 to 4 pm @barbylon.bluesky.social, @blabigael.bsky.social (noon PST) 4 to 5 pm @sonofahurricane.bsky.social (3-4 CT), @annekosseffjones.bsky.social (3-4 CT) 5 to 6 pm @banannav.bsky.social, @firewordsparkler.bsky.social (4-5 CT) 6 to 7 pm zacharylipez.bsky.social, @missalboogie.bsky.social 7 to 8 pm @tedos.bsky.social, @niais@bsky.social (but happy to do a late night pacific time zone push) 8 to 9 pm @emmapayitnomind.bsky.social 9 to 10 pm @biblioclast.bsky.social, @dianajoy.bsky.social 10 to 11 pm @mortabasi.bsky.social (7-8 p.m. PST I believe) 11 to Midnight @prisonculture.bsky.social
A painting in warm greens and browns. Inside a barn, standing on a bed of golden straw and looking out the door into a pastoral landscape stands the biggest brown pig ever, with an exaggeratedly long body.