happy bday English writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, b.1797. “I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe...

This is when the Blessed Mother came up with the idea of the board book for toddlers, so they can be encouraged to turn pages without tearing the parchment.

Look at my mighty teeth! Rowrl! Uh oh, nope, I gotta yawn. #caturday

youtube.com/watch?v=O6wB... This one is High Note by Chuck Jones for Looney Tunes in 1960.

High Note (1960) Opening and Closing

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youtube.com/watch?v=_fAP... Okay, so this one is the actual Blue Danube cartoon by MGM in 1939.

MGM Cartoons - The Blue Danube (1939)

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Let's hear it for the animators. Those who can make images dance. The teams who make art live and breathe with such vitality that we believe that lines and dots have souls.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 3d ago

This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Blue Danube. Original post

Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

So much more than a Country Music Superstar. Philanthropist, humanitarian, defender of diversity & fierce advocate for the working class, she helped fund the Moderna Covid vaccine & donated 332+ million books to children. Thank you, Dolly. We will always love you.♥️ #RIP

Dolly Parton, Hardscrabble Storyteller Turned Global Entertainer, Dead at 80

Dolly Parton, country music legend, dead at 80.

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Knocked unconscious by excessive sapphism right now. #womeninsuits

Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last wk.

Michelle Pfeiffer by Herb Ritts, Hollywood, 1991

This is THE most important paragraph I’ve seen on this and it’s the first time I’ve seen anyone mention it.

Carl Kinsella@carlkinsella.bsky.social · last wk.

This gives context to the overall argument.

If you want a timeline cleanse I lost it at the Rabbit 🤷‍♂️

A report by @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social & Glory Anumudu at @maynoothuniversity.ie has found that many crime journalists in the Republic of Ireland have been questioned by Gardaí about their confidential sources, raising concerns about source protection. Read: www.researchireland.ie/news/crime-a...

Nanopticon

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

My granny has discovered that, somehow, her TV has access to the cctv feeds around the outside of her building and is loving life.

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

#OtD 18 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was most likely executed, during the Spanish civil war. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace

An afternoon spent at Birr Castle Gardens, Offaly. Obviously, the historic Leviathan telescope is a star attraction but the fernery was so lush and green and earthy, it was my favourite spot. #birrcastledesmesne #ireland

The chatelaine was just the 19th century lesbians caribiner

#tron

The ADHD conspiracy and the gender critical movement and the Prof Arday story and the crackdown on disability support are all the same story. There is a default ideal human: a cishet non-disabled white male. The further you deviate from that ideal, the more suspect you become.

Found the link: kuber.studio/cookie/

I didn't set a cookie.

Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click.

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My camera roll says every day is black cat appreciation day.

Chocobo🐥Ska🎺Paradise🎉@chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 2w ago

Embrace the void today

Embrace the void today

it's amusing how the name of the Irish coach company ‘eirebus’ that runs the Swords Express resembles ‘Erebus’ the Greek word for darkness or the underworld. sometimes I doubt that the similarity is merely a coincidence

Morning Meerkittens

Everybody ready for another week!?

Drawing all 16,777,216 possible 12 bit RGB colours in one 2D image, each exactly once. Pixels are mapped from the 256³ colour cube, following a three dimensional Hilbert curve, to a two dimensional Hilbert curve filling the square. so nearby colours stay close.