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What does it say about the US justice system that over two years after the Capitol attack and deadly insurrection, its ringleader is not only still unindicted, he’s still inciting violence and plotting to retake office?

I grew up in an observant (devout?) Muslim household. When I questioned my faith, my folks didn't ban books. They encouraged me to read books by Muslims AND non-Muslims—Christian, Jewish, atheist, or other. It was life changing. And it's a message I'm passing on to my children now, and one I hope they pass to their children when the time comes.

Parents: Trust your kids. Ban ignorance—not books.

He looks like a grumpy old man, but not yet 3 years old.

#cats #caturday #catsofmastodon

This is just absurdly pretty

We are all stardust.

That oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their light in a supernova.

The iron in your blood? Some massive stars dying, but mainly white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.

The gold ring on your finger? Mostly merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.

#astrodon #scicomm #astronomy #VicisAstro

Eighteenth Advent Window.

Epona's Day. More snow had come in the night and the little village was very quiet and still.

When Old Fox went for his morning constitutional, he climbed up Maygad Hill and stood looking out across the whited land and he bowed and thanked the Lady of the Horses for such glising beauty.

#OldFoxAdventCalendar

It's disturbing for me, as a journalist, that I feel so little sympathy for my profession in the war with Leon Twitler. My beliefs in the vital role played in democracy by a free press are unchanged, but I know - from the inside - that the media are now part of the problem.
[interview]
HR: Can you give me an example of your problem solving skills
Me: I was fired from my last job and now i'm applying for this one
There's a fine line between a denominator and a numerator
‘His post was in as solitary and dismal a place as ever I saw. On either side, a dripping-wet wall of jagged stone, excluding all view but a strip of sky’.
Dickens, The signalman 1866
Tavistock’s old railway line path in winter #Devon #Dickens #victorian #ghoststory