Random Thoughts and Interesting Things

[portmanteaublerone]

ALL VULVAS ARE BEAUTIFUL

⇓ bush under the cut btw. If you even care.

[hot-boy-autumn]

[mapsontheweb]

The Shire - English counties ending in ‘shire’

[longreads]

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

The June 14, 2024, edition recommends stories from David Pierce, C.J. Chivers, Paige Kaptuch, Michael Adno, and Jessica Winter.

Our Top 5:

- The sport of competitive Excel (The Verge) - The opioid epidemic at sea (The New York Times Magazine) - Running away from FLDS (Runner’s World) - The art of worm grunting (Oxford American) - Using parents as content (The New Yorker)

Go to Longreads to read why our editors selected these stories. 

Enjoy your weekend!

[harvardfineartslib]

#LibraryShelfie to start the week!

How do you like our color coordinated bookshelf?

[myjetpack]

Book Mouse

[fangbangerghoul]

The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968

photo from this twitter post as the NYPD continues to brutality arrest students and push out journalists from reporting what is going on tonight.

You can listen to WKCR for live updates.

[booasaur]

Terrified for the students in NY tonight.

Both Columbia and CUNY tonight.

The student reporters, through their panic and even tears and doing a great job.

It may be hard to find a working link for them, so many people are listening, but the above link or here might work:

[pensivethundercloud]

lots of feelings tonight.

thankful for student journalism.

[chillyfeetsteak]

coming for you

[hack-saw2004]

HAPPENING NOW: passover seder from our comrades in columbia's liberated zone/gaza solidarity encampment. this encampment is a profoundly religious space. we've seen muslim protesters praying multiple times a day, a christian communion was held, and multiple jewish prayers/celebrations have taken place. solidarity is a beautiful thing, palestine will be free.🖤🇵🇸

[sayruq]

[probablyasocialecologist]

[intersectionalpraxis]

Shai Davidai needs to be FIRED and de-platformed. He's a danger to Palestinian/Arab/Muslim students and allies to Palestinian liberation. That has been proven time and again.

Here is another beautiful moment/act of solidarity I wanted to share that happened on the same campus:

[nezreblogz]

[bestmusicalworldcup]

2024 Best Musical World Cup - Loser's Bracket - Round 1 Section A

Camelot

Ragtime

Voting ended onApr 28, 2024

[toiletpotato]

[pensivethundercloud]

obligatory reblog for the ragtime songs

[mapsontheweb]

Average Ping Times (ms) to Tokyo, Japan.

[ur-daily-inspiration]

The moon dressed as Saturn.

[nasa-real]

silly moon, you aren't a gas giant that's 990.44 million miles away