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Keeper of the Really Smart Words

@bookishnea.bsky.social

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Jane Austen, Murderbot, Good Omens, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes fan. Occasionally a stoic philosopher, often a writer, currently a quilter. Trying to post more about books & less about politics.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · Jun 16

I’m absolutely posting this over my writing desk. Thank you!

Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 9h

Alternating between Flashes of Brilliance by Anika Burgess about the history of photography and Gales of November by John Bacon about the Edmund Fitzgerald & wreck thereof. Both v witty & informative, thus likely to be the next in a long line this year of “get from library, love, buy my own copy”

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 1d

Very important info.

MD or Bust aka Applejuice @appyjumpindaze.bsky.social · 2d

Important information on what to do if you are a bystander to 🧊 kidnapping someone or another event where someone needs help (@tiktokce0)

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#31Daysofgraves Day 12: Notable Woman what else can this Janeite offer on this 250th anniversary of her birth but Jane Austen’s tombstone in Winchester Cathedral? “She’s still there,” a guide assured us. “We peeked when we laid some new pipe and rerouted it not to disturb her.” #neatravels

Plain black stone engraved in white. "In Memory of JANE AUSTEN, youngest daughter of the late Revd GEORGE AUSTEN, formerly Rector of Steventon in this County. She departed this Life on the 18th of July 1817, aged 41, after a long illness supported with the patience and the hopes of a Christian. The benevolence of her heart, the sweetness of her temper, and the extraordinary endowments of her mind obtained the regard of all who knew her and the warmest love of her intimate connections. Their grief is in proportion to their affection, they know their loss to be irreparable, but in their deepest affliction they are consoled by a firm though humble hope that her charity, devotion, faith and purity have rendered her soul acceptable in the sight of her REDEEMER."

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 1d

OMG shut it all off!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 1d

In this house, we believe:
- love is love
- science is real
- books are magic portals
- pants are always optional
- squirrels are little demons
- the forest accepts you as you are, and for who you will become

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 1d

!!!!! Thank you for looking that up!

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#31Daysofgraves Day 12: Military. I’m not sure if St Mary of the Mills has an actual unknown or if this is a memorial.

A plain white stone with “Unknown U.S. Soldier” carved on it. There is a pile of white gravel in front and two small American flags. St Mary of the Mills, Laurel Maryland

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 2d

I want 1; I’m getting 2

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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#31Daysofgraves Day 10: Urn. There are two urns in this shot of a crossroads in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland Ohio #neatravels

A green hill dotted with graves and ringed by trees. In the foreground are a tree, a sort of dark domed pavilion with a carved iron on top. To the left is a gray column with an urn. The other gravestones are the lower rectangular kind.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 3d

It took Michael Sheen’s latest announcement to know how to say Cymru like the Welsh do instead of centuries of linguistic “But that’s how it’s spelled” drift

Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 3d

You would! You also know how to say Bryn Mawr!

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#31Daysofgraves Day 9: Hand The carving on these hands in Winchester Cathedral is exquisite

A close up of the marble top of a monument. A lifelike sorrowful angel is clutching the shroud it is about to place over the grave’s occupant, whose hands are clasped in prayer.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

Schuylkill

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

@smapalmer.bsky.social you should be part of this conversation too

Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

Say I’m the only bee in your bonnet! (Sorry, Lisa!)

Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

I’d be fired if that were my job

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 4d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

This photo got posted on Tumblr and you can tell the age of the people who Get It (*quiet cough* @patman.bsky.social …)

A nightlight of a blue canary in an outlet by a light switch

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 4d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

If you see this, post a pet!

Eden, a dark brown marble tabby approximately 6 months old, snoozes on top of a bed

Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

All hashtag searches were down for at least 4 hours. It seems to be fixed *crossed fingers*

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah. My keyword feed is still chugging along, but clicking a tag or a tag feed gets

No results found. We couldn’t find any results for that hashtag. Retry/Go Back

Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 4d

Did hashtag search just stop working for anyone else?

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