Juli
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I'm going to assume they mean the Vatican, but it would be so funny if they literally just meant like, Italian restaurants having Italian flags
losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I'm going to assume they mean the Vatican, but it would be so funny if they literally just meant like, Italian restaurants having Italian flags
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Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
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as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
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When I encounter someone else who has READ MIDDLEMARCH, I don’t just identify w them bc key-to-all-mythologies jokes are hilarious (though they are), but also bc I know they spent hours getting increasingly irritated w Fred Vincy or saddened by Lydgate or exasperated with Dorothea but kept reading.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
When I encounter someone else who has READ MIDDLEMARCH, I don’t just identify w them bc key-to-all-mythologies jokes are hilarious (though they are), but also bc I know they spent hours getting increasingly irritated w Fred Vincy or saddened by Lydgate or exasperated with Dorothea but kept reading.
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
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And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
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Catholic teaching on migration begins with the foundational truths that undergird the Church’s entire social doctrine. Every person is created in the image of God and possesses inherent dignity. All belong to one human family. The goods of the earth exist for all.
The Doctrinal Crisis over Immigration In the US Church
A deep divide has opened between the Catholic Church’s consistent teaching on immigration and the instincts of many US Catholics shaped more by partisan identity than by the Gospel. Catholic teaching ...
wherepeteris.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Catholic teaching on migration begins with the foundational truths that undergird the Church’s entire social doctrine. Every person is created in the image of God and possesses inherent dignity. All belong to one human family. The goods of the earth exist for all.
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Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
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if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
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Are your #Thanksgiving cooking plans half-baked? 🧑🍳 Don’t stew in your own juices—simmer down and take some time ⏲️ out to peruse these vintage manuals for slow cookers, blenders, cookware & ovens.
Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️ archive.org/details/@ias...
Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️ archive.org/details/@ias...
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are your #Thanksgiving cooking plans half-baked? 🧑🍳 Don’t stew in your own juices—simmer down and take some time ⏲️ out to peruse these vintage manuals for slow cookers, blenders, cookware & ovens.
Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️ archive.org/details/@ias...
Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️ archive.org/details/@ias...
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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POLLUTERS DON'T PAY -
AS SOME PROTECTIONS GO AWAY
Multiple industries in low-income, fenceline communities suffer excess malignancies.
Benzene is a known cause of leukemia and possibly of lymphoma.
Fine particulates cause lung cancer.
Ethylene dichloride is a probable
cause of several cancer.
AS SOME PROTECTIONS GO AWAY
Multiple industries in low-income, fenceline communities suffer excess malignancies.
Benzene is a known cause of leukemia and possibly of lymphoma.
Fine particulates cause lung cancer.
Ethylene dichloride is a probable
cause of several cancer.
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
POLLUTERS DON'T PAY -
AS SOME PROTECTIONS GO AWAY
Multiple industries in low-income, fenceline communities suffer excess malignancies.
Benzene is a known cause of leukemia and possibly of lymphoma.
Fine particulates cause lung cancer.
Ethylene dichloride is a probable
cause of several cancer.
AS SOME PROTECTIONS GO AWAY
Multiple industries in low-income, fenceline communities suffer excess malignancies.
Benzene is a known cause of leukemia and possibly of lymphoma.
Fine particulates cause lung cancer.
Ethylene dichloride is a probable
cause of several cancer.
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To join everyone else in offering up hot pie takes: crisco crust is easy and flaky but not that flavorful. Lard is the best, but how many of us have it on hand? Coconut oil - too dry. Frozen grapeseed oil - not bad, but tough. Margarine can be good if you add an egg yolk and a pinch of bkg powder.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
To join everyone else in offering up hot pie takes: crisco crust is easy and flaky but not that flavorful. Lard is the best, but how many of us have it on hand? Coconut oil - too dry. Frozen grapeseed oil - not bad, but tough. Margarine can be good if you add an egg yolk and a pinch of bkg powder.
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Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
To join everyone else in offering up hot pie takes: crisco crust is easy and flaky but not that flavorful. Lard is the best, but how many of us have it on hand? Coconut oil - too dry. Frozen grapeseed oil - not bad, but tough. Margarine can be good if you add an egg yolk and a pinch of bkg powder.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
To join everyone else in offering up hot pie takes: crisco crust is easy and flaky but not that flavorful. Lard is the best, but how many of us have it on hand? Coconut oil - too dry. Frozen grapeseed oil - not bad, but tough. Margarine can be good if you add an egg yolk and a pinch of bkg powder.
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Please share widely! 📜
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Please share widely! 📜
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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sometimes i get annoyed with all these NPR sponsorship messages from companies selling luxury goods, like “retirement planning”
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
sometimes i get annoyed with all these NPR sponsorship messages from companies selling luxury goods, like “retirement planning”
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Are they shrinking or being cut? 😕
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Are they shrinking or being cut? 😕
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You know, the ones that have been systematically defunded over the past 2 decades, now being gutted by state laws requiring removal of any references to DEIA and the destruction of faculty governance and free speech…
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You know, the ones that have been systematically defunded over the past 2 decades, now being gutted by state laws requiring removal of any references to DEIA and the destruction of faculty governance and free speech…
The only ones to keep ate 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The only ones to keep ate 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.