Dammit. It's been a rough week for the Second Wave.

Tracy Baim@tracybaim.bsky.social · 14h ago

Robin Morgan has died: Women’s Media Center Co-Founder, Poet, Journalist, Author, Activist, Feminist, Organizer. The center said: Morgan, 85, died just two days after her good friend and feminist partner, Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. All these powers leaving hopefully inspires a new wave.

Excellent opportunity for Kent police to mass fingerprint and DNA sample a group of men, some of whom who will undoubtedly be wanted for violent, sexual and child abuse offences.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 21h ago

Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover

I took that dialect quiz and it said I sound like a dumb bitch!

Always tip your delivery drivers. If fact, go ahead and tip the other ones too.

Watch the two most ridiculously sexy people of the 80s sell a scooter

Bryan Blessed@bryb.bsky.social · 2d ago

Let's do an occasional thread of celebrities in the '80s advertising Hondas.

Back in 1987, Steinem wrote about Dolly. Seems appropriate to share today.

Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (January 1987)

Woman of the Year Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (From the January 1987 issue of Ms. Magazine)

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Wow, this year sucks.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Gloria Steinem has died. She was 92.

Burying my mom's ashes tomorrow, and the vault looks so much like a styrofoam cooler that we probably should have put a couple Buds in with her.

Introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice: Paul McCartney Sleater-Kinney the Mountain Goats Superchunk A Giant Dog

Shechemist@shechemist.bsky.social · 5d ago

Tom Petty Marilyn Manson Neko Case Motörhead My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult

If you like the stuff I draw on MIWHT you can support the work! I sell all kinds of weird stuff: octophant.us/buy Including MIWHT-specific prints: www.inprnt.com/collections/... Any tips kindly accepted at: ko-fi.com/phineasx Commission me! I like commissions! DM or email through my site.

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It Could Feel Like 100 Degrees This Week As September Ushered In By Heat Wave

A heat dome will trap warm air over the city this week, when high temperatures and muggy conditions could make it feel like 105 degrees by midweek.

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You know it’s a banger when your therapist writes it down on their little pad

People, if I could still see live music, I would be all over this festival. You should go in my stead. Dressy Bessy? The Softies??? Come on!

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · last wk.

We’re less than a month out from Windy Pop Weekender, a three-day celebration of twee music and community in Chicago 💖 $69.22 gets you a dance party/swag swap at Reed’s Local + 12 bands across 2 days at Subterranean. It’s all happening September 25-27! www.windypopweekender.com/music/music-...

It doesn’t matter what you put on the maps, you can’t change the sacred texts

These Crop Art Tributes to the Minnesota Resistance are stunning and heartbreaking in equal measure

If someone wanted to commission me for a thing for a gift for one of the myriad end-of-the-year holidays the time to do that would be around right now. If you hadn't considered the matter before now you might want to. If you don't know what things I make I have a lot of posts here.

Tag yourself I'm the yellow pylon peering out through the gaping neck wound in the other yellow pylon

Pareidolia@pareidolia.bsky.social · last wk.

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Thursday Morning Infinity Net Dance Party Yes, it does involve shaking your ass.

Superchunk - Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)

YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube

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Waiting for the other 80 year old to die

Antici (Say It) Pation! - Rhps

Alt: Tim Curry: Antici [pause] Pation!

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"It’s one thing to donate your money to make sure children have books, but Dolly had the idea to send something that would arrive in our mailbox in California, or in some other mailbox in Tennessee, or a mailbox in Ontario, or a mailbox in County Cork"

Long Live Dolly Parton, Giver of Books

I signed my first baby up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library when she was one week old, at the advice of her pediatrician. It was May 2020, and the pandemic was just beginning to close its fist…

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It's hard to overstate the impact of this movie on my worldview. When it came out in 1980, I was 10. I loved it so much, I saw it 8 times in the theater -- eventually my mom would just drop me off instead of sitting through it with me again. Dolly, Jane, and Lily made me a feminist.

Forty Years Later, ‘9 to 5’ Still Speaks the Truth

It’s been four decades since the iconic Dolly Parton-Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin film dropped, and it’s as relevant as ever.

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Three Dollys, one Beatles song, and some fabulous wigs and dance moves

Dolly Parton - Help! (Official Video)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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The absolute pinnacle of my career was getting to talk to Dolly Parton about books for 15 minutes. Dolly was the kind of person we should all aspire to be -- talented, funny, generous, a ray of goddamn sunshine. The world is going to be a much grimmer place without her.

Newsmaker: Dolly Parton | American Libraries Magazine

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library charity delivers more than a million free books each month to kids. Parton spoke with American Libraries about reading, books, and her first children's album.

americanlibrariesmagazine.org

BEAN KING

Wisconsin kitten with 29 toes breaks world record for most toes on a cat

Maine Coon named Erebus Anomaly breaks previous record of 28 toes held for over two decades after overcoming illness

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Anyone heard from Jimothy lately?

It's back-to-school season . . . in my nightmares! I spent last night's restless slumber running around campus to find the bookstore so that I could get the textbook for the class that was starting in 10 minutes on the other side of campus.

Off to camp!* (Actually the hospital for a week of inpatient migraine treatment. Send me cute animal videos I can watch while I get pumped full of drugs! HA HA HA i'm scared!)

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.