Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
I initially read this as a Joe Biden applause line https://t.co/nd2xNX0FoT
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) December 22, 2020
You can believe that ‘making rich people poorer, and poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing, or you can believe in the Jesus of the Christian Bible. It’s spelled out in your sacred text, not once but many times! Don’t just wave that Book around — read it!
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No, I’m not in outer space, or even the stratosphere**. I am in fact in NYC with Samwise* and my husband. But we don’t all have that luxury–poor Santa has to deliver presents around the whole galaxy, if not all of spacetime. I have photographic proof:
I found this in a nice collection of these old Galaxy covers. It looks like Santa’s managed to relax in at least one of them. Go check it out, if it suits you; regardless, a merry Christmas to all! I’ll be doing my traditional eating of leftovers and viewing of Futurama. I especially love The Futurama Holiday Spectacular, the anthology episode featuring X-Mas, Robanukah, and Kwanzaa.
What about you?
*Speaking of Samwise…
Samwise—a real good boy for tolerating this—wishes you a merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/lJfllP9B5Y
— ☃️ Tynan ? (@TynanPants) December 25, 2020
**thanks citizen_x for the correction
This morning, this beautiful quilt arrived in my inbox from kattails:
The Christmas quilt I finally finished a couple of weeks ago. The piecing was done by at least four different women, there are four names in the seam allowances on back. Two were dated: 1989 and 1997. I “inherited” the quilt top when a neighbor’s mother passed away, lots of stuff given away. The top had been put together.
Quilters will notice quite a bit of “fussy cutting” where a specific section of a printed pattern was carefully cut to repeat within the star. I’m NOT a quilter, but my own Mom just goes nuts decorating.
This year I finally put the batting and backing together, tied it, and sent it off. Same fabric passed around for years, used in such different ways. I suspect they ran out of the dominant green border at the very end, because the upper right star contains a more recent fabric. The front: (it’s lap size, about 50 x 65”)
A closeup of the back of one of the most intricate squares, the feather star, center right in the first photo.
Going to be a quiet day here. Holiday movies, standing rib roast, writing Christmas cards, and hopefully staying offline most of the day. I’ll be so glad to see the backend of 2020….as I’m sure you all are.
What are y’all up to?
Open thread
Timeline cleanser:
Flashmob of Beethoven’s 'Ode to Joy'…pic.twitter.com/0dUuh2XTGf
— Rex Chapman???? (@RexChapman) December 23, 2020
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Final day of this New Zealand adventure, and today is more seabirds, shorebirds, and waterbirds. Map here.
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The White Heron (Ardea modesta, kotuku) is considered by some authorities to be a subspecies of the cosmopolitan Great Egret (A. alba), but New Zealand ornithologists are notorious “splitters” and have given it species status. And there are some morphological and behavioral differences to support that decision. They are a critically endangered species in New Zealand, with one known breeding site (approximately 30 pairs of birds) in the Okarito lagoon. After the breeding season they disperse widely across the country, but since there are less than 200 of these birds in the entire population, your best bet for seeing one is to go to Okarito and take a leisurely boat tour of the lagoon.
In case anyone else needed to hear this. ? pic.twitter.com/fIrclgKUdM
— Emily Calandrelli (@TheSpaceGal) December 21, 2020
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Frosty shared these photos from the early 1950s.
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1st Xmas: My twin brother and I are about 2 months old in this picture.
That’s me on the right, my brother on the left.
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2nd Xmas. That’s my brother.
I love the fence up protecting the tree.
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3rd Xmas. I think this is the 3rd, although it might be the second.
I’m on the right, my brother is on the left.
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And now Kattails:
Probably 1955, Montclair, NJ
Who is this dude?? My sister heheh.
A couple of years later, she’s still skeptical
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