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Elyse Graham
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Professor, Stony Brook University. Four books, including the New York Times bestseller BOOK AND DAGGER (Ecco, 2024).
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · Nov 20
This is the song "Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy," which featured in casinos and nightclubs in Istanbul in the 1940's:

soundcloud.com/wartimeistan...
Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy
Listen to Boo Boo, Baby, I'm a Spy by Wartime Istanbul #np on #SoundCloud
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elysegraham.bsky.social
When you read a scientist for filth
Two checkboxes from an online form. The form reads: "Are they: __ A scientist __ Deceased"
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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My father: "He is a smart guy, but he has a sneaky approach to things. I admire that."
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
contemplating murder
a rotund tux cat sitting atop her cat tree, looking down upon her subjects below through the sunny window
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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brooklynmarie.bsky.social
You would never believe that just 15 minutes ago she knocked everything off the countertop onto the floor just so she could get to a treat that she didn't even want once she got it
A beautiful innocent angel of a fluffy tortoiseshell cat, fast asleep in a patch of sun
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Raise a glass to Bill Watterson, wherever he is and whatever he’s doing. Not only did he give us the genius of Calvin and Hobbes, he has kept it evergreen by steadfastly refusing to monetize it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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It was fun to do this “Authors in Conversation” feature with @elysegraham.bsky.social , where we reviewed each other’s books. My favorite thing about scholarly writing is engaging with other scholars, and this gave it an additional level. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
H-Diplo Authors in Conversation: Greg Barnhisel and Elyse Graham | H-Net
H-Diplo Authors in Conversation21 November 2025 | PDF: https://hdiplo.org/to/AiC-1 | X: @HDiplo | BlueSky: @h-diplo.bsky.social
networks.h-net.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
You and the text you need to trim in order to meet the word limit
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
elysegraham.bsky.social
That winter warmth
A squirrel peeping sleepily out of a nest of moss, looking very cozy
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Oh my God
A photograph of someone lifting a Labrador retriever puppy by the handle of a dog lifejacket, in the way someone would lift a briefcase by the handle. Someone comments below the picture, "I almost forgot my briefcase!" Someone else comments, "it contains important lab results."
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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A character alignment chart, shaped like a triangle, showing the relative positions of various authors according to three different alignments: "We have food at home," "Pulls up to drive thru, orders a single black coffee, and leaves," and "McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!" The alignments are: "We have food at home": Agatha Christie, Jane Austen "Pulls up to drive thru, orders a single black coffee, and leaves": Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut "McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!": Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss Between "We have food at home" and "Pulls up to drive thru, orders a single black coffee, and leaves": Charlotte Brontë Between "We have food at home" and "McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!": J.R.R. Tolkien Exactly in the middle of the triangle: Mary Shelley
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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ME: After that, I just have grading.
DAD: I've got one.
ME: ...
DAD: It's de-grading work.
ME: Thank you. I'll make a note of it.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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You can volunteer to be a citizen historian at the Smithsonian.
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian | Protect History
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is a “Crowd to Cloud” effort to steward and safeguard our institution by preserving the Smithsonian Institution’s contents as they exist in 2025. With our feet ...
www.citizenhistorians.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Hold up
ner experience of texting with vesus. Here s everytning she shared. What is Text With Jesus? Text With Jesus offers users an interactive experience with a religious deity. In other words, us s can text questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan.) While testing the app, Thompson was curious to ask Jesus why bad things happen to good people.
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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me when I see your aurora borealis pics
mobydickatsea.bsky.social Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15d
Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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My dog sulking and giving me an accusing look when I leave for work.
A painting of the Lamb of God giving the viewer what seems to be a very disapproving look.
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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ebrandom.bsky.social
Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?
Two books next to each other. Clarissa by Richardson, and Marx's Grundrisse. Both in Penguin editions. Clarissa is much larger
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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unicouniuni3.bsky.social
So cute!!! I love it!!
Thank you for drawing Uni 😭
poorlycatdraw.bsky.social poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 17d
be there or be square!

me:
a poorly drawn uni the cat shaped like a square uni is a tuxedo cat with bright yellow eyes, and a white chest that contrasts with its black fur, and he’s looking like a square in the picture
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I, as I have done for three or four nights, studying something of Arithmetique, which do please me well to see myself come forward.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
We probably all need this right now: Japanese surrealist Tohukiro Kawai’s saintly cats. 🐈 🐱 www.gyokuei.tokyo/globalstore?...
Tohukiro Kawai saintly cats print Tohukiro Kawai saintly cats print with roses and nun in habit Tohukiro Kawai saintly cats print being held by a woman in pj k headscarf
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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ellenforget.bsky.social
The Bruce Peel special collections library at UAlberta recently acquired a Bible in moon, and I'm so excited—you might even say that I'm over the moon about it.

It's a 1960s reproduction of a mid-1800s volume (moon was invented in the 1840s). Unfortunately. It's only volume 1 (of 3).
Title page of the moon bible, which is embossed in the moon tactile code. It says that it is volume one of three and that it was published by the Moon Society, a branch of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. The opening page in the moon bible, which just says "moon" repeatedly across the whole page, embossed in the moon tactile code. A close-up of the interior spine and margin on a page, which shows the running head that is embossed vertically in the inside margin rather than at the top of the page. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code. A close-up of the outside margin and top right corner of a recto page, which shows a page number in the very top corner. It also shows parantheses-like markers at the edge of the page, which are used to guide the finger as you read lines back-and-forth. The page is embossed in the moon tactile code.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
Photograph of a field of poppies
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM