Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Tiny books 🥹 This magical peek at New Your Public Library's collections is one reason (out of a million) to love the Library. Miniature items from the Rare Book Division must be three-inches or less to hitch a ride in a repurposed card catalog where they’re snugly stored.
#NYPL #books #libraries
@nypl

“‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.
‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’”

Christmas in the Kyiv subway
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Kyiv

#Caturday morning bath time #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Cats #TheHardyBoyCats

Today in Labor History December 25, 1951: A bomb exploded at the home of Harry and Harriette Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing them both. Harry Moore was an African-American educator and founder of the first branch of the NAACP in Brevard County, Florida. Harriette was also an educator and civil rights worker.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #civilrights #bombing #assassination #racism #blm #BlackLivesMatter #florida #murder #teacher #education

Time to sleep for me.

For those of you, who are already up: have a lovely Boxing Day!

🎄Merry #Christmas and Happy Holidays to the lovely pet community ! 🎁

✨We are thankful to all of you for your ongoing support and care for #Ukraine and its #CatsOfMastodon 🇺🇦

❤️ Please let us know if you helped and we can mention you. We are new to mastodon, and don't know many folks here 🐾

I live several blocks from the Milwaukee Art Museum, famous for the Quadracci Pavilion created by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Last night, on a chilly, foggy Christmas Eve, we walked to the museum, and I snapped a few photos. I thought I'd share a couple!

How the economy works:

Republicans take office for 4-8 years, and absolutely destroys the economy.

Democrats take office for 4-8 years, does their best to fix tanked economy.

Republicans take office 4-8 years, and takes all the credit for the economy now being good. Republicans start destroying the economy again.

@thor @anarchiv @Arcana @baardhaveland @ichbindabomb @jared2876 @kaia @MostlyHarmless @MrLovenstein @vriska @warandpeas @Sargoth @admiralwonderboat @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon @iska@catposter.club @wholesomememes Tracking all.

Also here: Cat, who considers himself one of the Christmas gifts, and also one of the two reasons all the baubles hang so high.

I need a list of funny people on Mastodon. I like smart, now I need funny.

For this year's gingerbread I made... the VLA!

#gingerbread #astronomy #radioastronomy #space

@aljazeera
If there's no profit in it, the world will just stand by...

#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #TheWest #ArabCountries #Tyranny #Capitalism #America #WeNeedARevolution

On no longer reading on Substack

https://popula.com/2023/12/23/deleting-substack/

Another impressively unimpressed expression from Ketzeleh

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Ketzeleh

Yet here we are.

#BBCNews - #Ukraine celebrates first Christmas on 25 December
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67816987

Reuters has taken down -- globally -- an important hacking-for-profit investigation that included details about an Indian hacking "entrepreneur" -- because he got a court in that country to say so.

This is a huge danger to free speech and serious journalism.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-killing-all-these-stories-about-rajat-khare-controversial-tech-mogul

Reuters deserved praise for its initial investigation. It deserves the opposite now.

(The New Yorker is apparently one of the few publications that hasn't bowed to the pressure.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry