'Hanami' is underway in Japan — the season when people gather to watch cherry blossom trees, or sakura, in bloom.

It is an ancient tradition that has since become globally popular, with similar gatherings all around the world.

But hanami isn't just about pretty flowers...

Pandas just being pandas while a zookeeper desperately tries to rake leaves is the best video on the internet

🚨 #BREAKING : The FBI says that Chinese hackers are preparing to attack US infrastructure

📌 #Nashville | #Tennessee

FBI Director Christopher Wray has announced that Chinese government-linked hackers have infiltrated U.S. critical infrastructure. China is developing the…

I went to the Sargent exhibition at the Tate yesterday. No wonder women loved being painted by him; he made them look like people with active inner lives.

I'm looking for novel 'retellings' by women of earlier creative works. For example: Jane Smiley's *The Thousand Acres* as a rewriting of *King Lear* or Jean Rhys's *Wide Sargasso Sea* as a rewrite of *Jane Eyre*. What other reimaginings do you know that are worth a read?

What symbolism is in a daytime visit from a pair of barn owls? 😳

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

This is what American cities looked like a century ago.

Everything you see here was demolished.

Why? This is what happened... (thread) 🧵

Be honest. If you saw a trapped wolf, would you try to help it?

How In The World Is This Allowed?

Chick-fil-A, Just 2 Food Items, Contain Over 265 Ingredients 🤯

“No two foods should contain that many ingredients”

Food Contains “Anti-foaming agent from silicone”

“This is why I never eat a Chick-fil-A. I ordered a spicy chicken deluxe and…

In #JapaneseFolklore , kyorinrin is a #yokai that occurs when ancient books, scrolls and scriptures are left neglected and unstudied by their owners for many years. As with other tsukumogami, once reaching advanced age the objects obtain their own spirit and...
#WyrdWednesday
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“The novel’s not dead, it’s not even seriously injured.” —Don DeLillo buff.ly/2PEvCfU

This is such an important thing to openly discuss - bc we are all ultimately impoverished by a system where only affluent folks can afford to write books (or do journalism, make documentaries, or make art, etc).

The court needs to stop making the biographical info of jurors public. Identifying someone is pretty easy if you know their job and neighborhood.

It seems there's a curious link between our minds and our feet. nyer.cm/oslr1RW

walt whitman was enlightened. no two ways about it.

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me.'
~Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
#art -Iman Maleki
#books #amreading #weekend

me, experiencing fatigue, hair loss, skin issues, and brain fog

doctor in the US: you’re getting older, try going on birth control and taking antidepressants, that’ll be $200 :)

doctor in Chile: your blood work shows multiple vitamin deficiencies causing your hormones to go…

Despite its quite unusual appearance, the Cornish Rex cat is adventurous and very intelligent. It can readily adapt to new situations and will explore wherever it can go

[📹 pixelandsophie]

A piece I wrote on why we need older female characters in fiction & on the writers & literary characters that inspired the creation of Margo in #TheGarnettGirls . Thank you Mslexia ✨ for the opportunity to write about this subject 👇