It’s a CocoRosie sort of day.
“Moscow’s stray dogs have begun using the city’s subway system. Zoologist Andrey Poyarkov of the Moscow Ecology and Evolution Institute, who has been studying the city’s 35,000 strays for 30 years, says some dogs scavenge downtown during the day and board trains in the evening to travel to industrial complexes in the suburbs, where they sleep.”
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Pomegranate (Punica granatum) - Family Lythraceae
from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885
Beautiful. A friend reminded me earlier this week about a video I taped for NPR.org several years ago: How to get the seeds out of a pomegranate, without ruining your shirt. See it here, if you’re interested! —Sarah
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (via veiledisis)
Mother Jones' Interactive Map of Abortion Restrictions by State
“Are you sure you want an abortion?” by Michael Mechanic of Mother Jones
Infuriating.

