So it’s a wee bit of a leap over to the 🦋 place, where I’ve got 70 followers rather than 33,000, but some of the nicest people are already there and I hope more friends give it a try. See you there for the Sunday caption contest, my name there is also @GirlsOwn
In Japanese legend, the city of Nagoya had a demon cat (“bakeneko”) who liked to put a napkin on his head and dance.
My cats have done far stranger things, tbh. #FolkloreThursday
Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.
Josh Rosenfeld, a supply chain specialist dressed as a big brown horse, seemed bemused at being asked how people felt about the election, but he politely tilted his muzzle and answered, “Yes, there’s a lot of anxiety here.”
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