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Viv Schwarz
@vivschwarz.bsky.social
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Author, artist, interactive stuff. Runs betonmond card games. Hopes you are mostly happy. She/they
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 4h
I need a covid jab, a haircut, a day off and a salad and I wish someone would just come round to apply all those things to me and tidy up the flat while they're here
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 1d
Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.
A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name. A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition. A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 4h
As in, I had fun helping Chris get an IMPOSSIBLE PICTURE together, that's all I did there
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 4h
I had fun making this happen.
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Betonmond Games @betonmond.bsky.social · 4h
We'll have a double page spread in tomorrow's Observer in the UK... Have a look at your newsagent's if you want a HUGE CROWD to play with.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 11h
Was asked to do a questionnaire for an autism assessment of a young person and the form is from 2005, titled Asperger's assessment and using "he" throughout. Come ON.
I'm requesting an update, this is no good.
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Andrew Wetzel @circlereader.bsky.social · 1d
Nested Frog Skeets
Screenshot of a quote Skeet of Rose Lerner appreciating a screenshot of Claire Willett's skeet about the Portland Frogs being followed on her feed by the Frog and Toad Bot's skeet reading, "Don't be silly," said Frog, followed on my feed by Django Wexler's skeet imagining the office conversation between the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits and his boss… (Sorry I called them "skeets.")
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 11h
We still got some in stock as well! betonmond.co.uk/games/little...
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 12h
I don’t want a surprise.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h
As it is, I don't actually ever need them, so I wouldn't have any on me if anyone else did. Makes me happy seeing things like that, thoughtful stuff.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 12h
Here's a reminder that putting an emergency supply box of tampons in the staff toilets at work is nice. I did that a year ago and other people (no idea who) kept refilling it. Makes a person feel good to realise people got their back in little ways, doesn't it.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12h
I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 13h
It really really really really really really is "ok stop and think about what you just said and maybe talk to ANYBODY ELSE about it and when you got it out of your system ENTIRELY we can talk."
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 13h
And if they'll follow it up with "I just mean to say you're so brave" they can STILL WORK IT OUT IT'S NOT DIFFICULT
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 13h
I really think it's fair that anyone who says that can work out why it's taken badly. They really can
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 13h
Dream Rewind is such a good skill
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h
"To show that someone has touched this", they said.
I've been a bit worried that this time around I'll find that the children want to use AI to make their pictures look "good". But they absolutely still want to think with their hands and make their mark. Of course they do.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h
In every class I visit the kids all why I use fingerprints in my books. I ask them right back and this is what they suggested this week:

Because it's a circle
To make it beautiful
To show that it's real

They used to say "because they are all different". They still said that but first, "real"
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h
Teachers: we are overstretched and struggling to connect with the students at times when they need us
Bosses: go on strike then, we got you sampled
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h
Anyone who tells us that arts and humanities are frivolous wants to control our stories. It's as simple as that.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h
To see an entire classroom start to doodle and scribble zines, form little editorial teams, make plans for publication, it's so obvious that sharing stories is how humans connect, and how we understand the world. It's not frivolous.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14h
I think letting children make books together gets them thinking in a lot of ways that inevitably lead to increased media literacy. Telling stories helps you to recognise stories elsewhere. Who is telling them? How are they being told? And why are they being told this way?
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15h
Frog and Toad went outside.

“We can try to climb this mountain,” said Frog. “That should tell us if we are brave.”

Frog went leaping over rocks, and Toad came puffing up behind him.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
Oooh maybe I can build in an extra day if I get a free stay! We're still planning. But Dublin seems very likely
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah! January
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
Finished my North England tour and now I'll go home and lie down and hope I didn't catch covid and I'll rest and I'm not going back on tour until next year when I'll travel round Ireland, make up stories, visit schools and that.
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