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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 43m

At least it’s off my checklist? I was curious.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 8h

I’d rather live in peace than rest in peace

Proof that a federal ban on assault weapons work

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 3h

Aww, thanks. She and Remedios Varo are my whole heart when it comes to that era.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4h

Seeing a Leonora Carrington today was definitely the high point of my day.

It’s called “Dear Diary—Never Since We Left Prague” and you can read more about the piece here: new.artsmia.org/programs/tea...

Ethereal figures father in a room with ghostly glass and alchemical instruments

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 5h

I have been to the Mall of America.

Never gonna do that again.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 9h

Here’s my favorite of my great grandfather’s paintings, called Wisconsin Dells. I have two of his at home. He was… a complicated man, but undoubtedly talented, and made beautiful art.

A painting of trees with a dell in the distance with snow and rocks

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 10h

At the American Swedish Institute here, and saw three painting by my great-grandfather unexpectedly! So cool.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 1d

Now I have!! ❤️

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Yeah, migraines here and often not super responsive to meds.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow. I’m curious.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 2d

Today in dayjob:

“Natania, I don’t think anyone on that call knows what ergot is.”

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 3d

Audiobook for 50% off? Yes please!

The perfect autumn read, if I may say so myself.

Sapphic ✅
Regency ✅
Witches ✅

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

50% OFF Netherford Hall

Pride and Prejudice and Witches After a mysterious fire at their home in Regency London displaces Gentlewitch Edith Rookwood and her now much-reduced family to their ancestral seat of Netherford Ha...

www.audiobooks.com

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 3d

Audiobook for 50% off? Yes please!

The perfect autumn read, if I may say so myself.

Sapphic ✅
Regency ✅
Witches ✅

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

50% OFF Netherford Hall

Pride and Prejudice and Witches After a mysterious fire at their home in Regency London displaces Gentlewitch Edith Rookwood and her now much-reduced family to their ancestral seat of Netherford Ha...

www.audiobooks.com

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 3d

::snarls::

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 3d

Once again, DLS WAS SAYING THIS NINETY YEARS AGO

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 3d

I’m curious how Amazon can even manage Prime Day in this environment. I’m sure they pre-stocked their stupid warehouses, but like, this isn’t sustainable. And Americans love their same day shipping.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 3d

I do believe simply “not getting our stuff fast enough” may the folks against this administration.

I ordered some hair clips from China three weeks ago. They are small and plastic.

They have been held up in customs for TWO WEEKS.

I personally don’t care much, but it’s wild to see.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

Wrote. Feeling smug. About to start a Palomydes chapter and am very stoked.

Also, amused by Tristan telling Dinadan he might as well kill him because he’s in love with Isolde and Dinadan is like “okay how about tomorrow though.”

(Dinadan is my favorite right now.)

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

Dale, illuminated

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

Mesmerizing!

Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

I almost missed World Octopus Day!? Whew!

Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 4d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

Behold my light up gargoyle!

His name is Dale.

A large blowup gargoyle with glowing red eyes

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

I want a tarte tatin. But I want someone else to make it for me.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

Oh tobacco is lovely! Have you tried Guerlain’s Tobacco Honey? It’s amazing.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorites to wear at night when it’s chilly.

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