Finger puppet of a sea slug

Finger puppet of a dragon

These finger puppets got me at my last bookstore trip.

Working list of senior figures reportedly killed in Iran today (all tbc, and several not verified as yet); hearing plenty of other names too - but attributions more vague/less reliable as yet:

Ali Khamenei, Supreme leader
Mojtaba Khamenei, son and heir apparent
Aziz Nasirzadeh, Minister of Defence

Surfacing to #HistBookChat

HANDS OFF CUBA | Reading List The United States, emboldened by its kidnapping of Venezuela’s sitting President, Nicolás Maduro, openly declared in January that it aims to destroy the Communist Party of Cuba by the end of the year....

Trump’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba has triggered a humanitarian crisis. This is but the latest attempt by the U.S. to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. For more on that history, consider these titles.

No worries at all! I actually already own it so clearly I was already in the loop 😂

Do you have the title handy?

Yes! Exactly. The baffling part to me is what they can see and then they execute it. 🤯

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone.

@wgreaves.bsky.social

www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.

Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today

styleguide.transjournalists.org

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Next month is Black History Month ... celebrate diversity and culture with these books:

THE LITTLE REGENT
OSCAR LIVES NEXT DOOR
READY, SET, MANGO!
BEAUTIFUL YOU, BEAUTIFUL ME
PATTY DREAMS
A LIKKLE MISS LOU

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BHBFMonth ##BHBF #BHMReads #PictureBooks #Teachers #KidLit

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

On my reading list as well, I started it but fell down another rabbit hole. Let me know how you are liking it.

Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
Coll Thrush

i read a bunch of polar exploration books about greenland and the thing about greenland is the land fights back. like it doesnt want you there at all. you will lose a foot! or die in an ice cave. theres literally thousands of miles of empty ice

Hope in humans post of the day

I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for in a politician but not having every day be a nightmare of horrors would be pretty high up so someone should run on that

Oh good. This is next up for me. Glad you liked it.

Excellent, glad it is a good one!

Book mail!

#HistBookChat

I didn't actually watch it but still have some in my head or things I say that didn't know come from the Simpsons. "I ch-ch-choose you" is probably the most common.

There is a podcast that is making me considering starting from the beginning: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Yes, hopefully they have shown that they are absolutely worth funding with how they brought the country together to support them.

There is a pirate history tag! How delightful.

The "right" holds a near-monopoly on politically motivated murders in the United States. Here is a map compiled by the Anti-Defamation League, showing right-wing political murders from 2002 to now.

#ADL
#PoliticalViolence
#signalboost
#fascism

Exactly David Brooks:

"The humanities, which teach us what goes on in the minds of other people, have become marginalized."

Such a good definition of humanities.

Also why it is essential to teach people to be good humans, not just preparing them for their careers.

Also Stephanie's ponytail...with about 15 close seconds.

Yesssssss.

don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten