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“Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.” –Luther Burbank, letter to the San Francisco Examiner, 1922
Happy Luther Burbank's birthday!
Choose reality, understand it, and write about it:
An uncredited color photo of author Bret Easton Ellis, circa 2019. Image source: Literary Hub
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
-Bret Easton Ellis was born on this day in 1964. He is best known for his books "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho." Both feature privileged characters who have little to no humanity or ethics.
#WriterSKy #BookSky #BOTD
An undated color photo of Erika Mitchell, aka E. L. James, author of "Fifty Shades of Grey" Image source: IMDB
“I'd like to bite that lip.”
-Erika Mitchell - better known by her pen name E. L. James - was born on this day in 1963.
She is known for her book "Fifty Shades of Grey" and the trilogy it became. Her writing revolves around themes of romance, power dynamics, and sexuality.
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
Wow.
It's almost like trimp & co. don't think or read.
Shocking.
At his piano, he began playing a simple theme with one finger. He felt it had an insistent quality and added orchestration – including a snare drum – but the first half of Bolero is that insistent theme. And then, all hell breaks loose. The music fits the kind of passion- ate movement most associated with ballet or flamenco. When the piece premiered in 1928 at the Paris Opera, the audience couldn’t contain themselves. They began stamping their feet and cheering. One woman yelled out “Madman! Madman!” When Ravel heard about this, he said, “That lady. She understood.”
A b/w photo portrait of composer/conductor Maurice Ravel. Photo credit: Photos.com/Jupiterimages Image source: Britannica
French pianist, composer, and conductor Maurice Ravel was born on this day in 1875. He wrote his best-known piece, "Bolero," after his friend, the actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein asked him for a Spanish-inspired ballet.
#MusicSky #WriterSky #History #BOTD
Throughout a career that spanned more than 50 years, he developed some 800 strains and varieties of plants. Many were flowers. His work led him to produce a catalog that offered his new, hybridized plants, then he wrote about a wide range of topics including child rearing, scientific methods, and atheism.
A b/w photo of botanist Luther Burbank Photo credit and source: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
“Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.”
-American horticulturist Luther Burbank, born on this day in 1849
#WriterSky #Botanist #History #OTD
At Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, police ordered demonstrators to disperse. One minute and five seconds after a two-minute warning was announced, the police advanced, wielding clubs, bullwhips, and tear gas. The reporting and images of Bloody Sunday’s violence shocked the nation. In response to the events in Selma, President Johnson promised to write a voting rights act that would protect people of color when going to the polls and casting a ballot. Johnson finished writing the bill in eight days. Congress debated the legislation for nearly six months, but after some political arm-twisting by Johnson, the House and Senate eventually passed it. The President signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6th, 1965.
A black-and-white photo of John Lewis (foreground) being beaten by a state trooper in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. The future congressman suffered a fractured skull. Photo credit: Associated Press Image source: Politico
On this day in 1965, more than 500 people marching for the right to vote in Selma, Alabama were attacked and beaten by police.
This was Bloody Sunday.
#VotingRights #AntiRacist #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #History #OTD
I love how the color of the dog's coat matches the color of the cliffs on the cover.
This needs to be a bumper sticker and/or embroidered on pillows, hearts, etc.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) speaks during a press conference. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
Rep Stansbury: “The president & his admin can’t explain a legal justification for an eminent threat that gave them the authority to use the military—
They can’t provide an explanation of their war plan — they can’t explain why they’ve killed over 200 civilians — the president needs to be impeached”
This song has been doing a lot of heavy lifting in my life for quite a while now:
Marquez is considered a pioneer of magical realism or writing fantastical details as if they were ordinary parts of any story. He credited his grandmother’s storytelling for this aspect of his writing. From an early age, Marquez was impressed with his grandmother’s ability to tell him about the most improbable things as if they were irrefutable fact. Marquez is best known for his novels Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude. When he died in 2014, the president of Columbia said Marquez was “the greatest Colombian who ever lived.”
An undated b/w photo of author Gabriel García Márquez Photo credit: Patrick Curry Image source: The Paris Review
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
-Columbian writer Gabriel García Márquez, born on this day in 1927
#WriterSky #BookSky #MagicalRealism #History #BOTD
In the U.S. Civil War, the soldiers said it was a rich man's war, but a poor man's fight.
It's been true of almost every war fought by the U.S., the Revolutionary War and WWII are notable exceptions.
“Accordin' to some authorities, a person, before they get married, should ought to look up your opponent's family tree and find out what all her relatives died of. But the way I got it figured out, if you're sure they did die, the rest of it don't make no difference. In exception- able cases it may be all right to take a girl that part of her family is still livin', but not under no circumstances if the part happens to be a unmarried sister named Bessie. We was expectin' her in about two weeks, but we got a card Saturday mornin' which says she'd come right away if it was all the same to us, because it was the dull season in Wabash society and she could tear loose better at the present time than later on. Well, I guess they ain't no time in the year when society in Wabash would collapse for her not bein' there, but if she had to come at all, the sooner it was over the better. And besides, it wouldn't of did us no good to say yes or no, because the postcard only beat her here by a few hours.” –Ring Lardner, "Three Kings and a Pair," 1917
Happy Ring Lardner's birthday!
Find the funny:
He began writing as a sports columnist and demonstrated a skill at satire that eventually endeared him to some of the most well-known authors of his time. Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald praised his writing, possibly because Lardner wrote things like, “Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist. Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty.”
An undated b/w photo of writer Ring Lardner Photo credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Image source: Encyclopedia Brittanica
It is the birthday of the author who wrote,
“Are you lost, Daddy?” I asked tenderly.
“Shut up,” he explained.”
-American storyteller extraordinaire Ring Lardner, born on this day in 1885
#WriterSky #BookSky #Satirist #Humorist #History #BOTD
The play titled Cyrano de Bergerac, written by Edmond Rostand and published in 1897, is largely fiction. Some historians of literature now think the actual Bergerac was an immature and immoral playboy who may have been assassinated.
An engraving or illustration of the actual swordsman and author Cyrano de Bergerac, circa 1654 Artist: Zacharie Heince
It is the birthday of the author who became one of the world’s great stories. The novelist and swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac was born on this day in 1619.
#RealityVFiction #History #BOTD
Because trimp, et al, couldn't give a fifth of a fuck about killing anyone who isn't maga/christo-fascists.
This box of 1 ounce Aspirin dates to after 1913 when Bayer established its New York office at 117 Hudson Street. The box bears the “Bayer Cross” logo with the text “Registered Trademark/1 Ounce/Aspirin/(Monoaceticacidester of Salicylic Acid).” Bayer originally marketed its trademarked Aspirin in powder form only to the medical profession and drug firms, to distinguish the product from patent medicines sold directly to the public. On this package the name "Aspirin" is followed by "Monoaceticacidester of Salicylic Acid," the generic name Bayer provided for the product. Aspirin already had a fairly simple chemical name, acetyl salicylic acid or ASA, but the more complicated generic name helped Bayer maintain its monopoly on this lucrative new drug. The brand name “Aspirin” proved much easier to remember, and it was soon in popular use for all ASA products. Image source: The Smithsonian
On this day in 1899, Bayer Corporation put a trademark on acetylsalicylic acid. Since that day, the company has sold the NSAID or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug as “Aspirin.”
#Health #Medication #Aspirin #PainReliever #Pill #History #OTD
Scott had been held as a slave in Missouri, but was taken to Illinois and Wisconsin territory where slavery was illegal. Because he had been taken into “free” territory, Scott believed he could no longer be enslaved and sued for his freedom. Many legal scholars consider the Dred Scott decision to be the Supreme Court’s worst ruling, some even refer to it as America’s worst self-inflicted wound. The decision was eventually overturned by passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.
The 1888 painting of Dred Scott by Louis Schultze Missouri History Museum © Art Reserve/Alamy Image source: Encyclopædia Britannica
On this day in 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the nation’s Constitution does not extend citizenship to people of color. In a 7 to 2 decision, the justices denied the protections of citizenship to Dred Scott.
#Racism #Slavery #SCOTUS #DredScott #13thAmendment #History #OTD
You’re clearly quite knowledgeable about this.
Would you consider being a guest on my podcast?
Clarifying the Church’s position in 1616 would be great.
Talking about your research on Riccioli’s Almagestum Novum would also be really interesting.
Thank you!
I’ll edit my description.
I try to keep an eye out for things that are comically blasphemous - to any and all religions, including agnosticism and atheism.
But it's really hard to find anything that atheists consider blasphemy. Because atheism.
Instead of Kentucky Colonel Harlan Sanders and the initials for Kentucky Fried Chicken, this meme features "white Jesus" in the white colonel's suit and the letters JFC for Jesus F*cking Christ.
The guy in the blue suit is Sen. Tim Sheehy
He didn't need to take part in what appears to be assault of a Marine veteran, but he did.
Now he's bragging about it and probably fundraising on it - on x.
youtu.be/9xbMmsz1z7A?...
“'The New Freewoman' is not for the advancement of Woman, but for the empowering of individuals—men and women; it is not to set women free, but to demonstrate the fact that ‘freeing’ is the individual’s affair and must be done first-hand… it is not to create something, but to liberate something: not to create thoughts but to set free life’s impulses. Its effect will be as though it had created a new life force: but in reality it will bare life to the light as the threshing-machine lays bare the corn.” –Dora Marsden, Editor of "The New Freewoman," 1913
Happy Dora Marsden's birthday!
Emancipate yourself:
She proved her intellect at a young age and was given a Queen’s Scholarship to study in Manchester. Marsden rose to headmistress of a school, but was soon arrested for demonstrating and demanding more rights and recognition for women. She wanted women to have the right to vote, certainly, but more than that, she demanded a culture in which women could act in their own self interest.
She joined the administration of the Women’s Social and Political Union, but proved herself too radical for the group. So she developed a following and began publishing a weekly called The Freewoman. Marsden wrote that marriage insulted women, that the institution itself was detrimental women’s lives. This newsletter soon ran out of money.
Marsden began publishing The New Freewoman. This magazine allowed Marsden to develop her philosophy of egoist anarchism, which held that self-interest was the highest priority and that ethical standards revolved around the liberated individual. Subordination, of any kind, was unacceptable to her.
A, b/w image of Dora Marsden, 1912 Phot credit: G. C. Beresford Image source: Wikipedia
“Life is feasting and conflict: that is its zest.”
English philosopher and radical anarchic feminist Dora Marsden, born on this day in 1882
#WriterSky #Feminist #Anarchist #TheFreewoman #History #BOTD
"Diapers and congressmen need to be changed often - and for the same reason."
-Mark Twain
Succinct. Accurate.
I've started this. It's good, though it follows the style/form of the bible.
It's described as "a secular alternative to religious text, and to be read as a narrative drawing on non-religious philosophy"