Enchantra Sand📚🌻
@enchantrasand.bsky.social
Reader and Recluse, Mother and Citizen. History📜, art, cookery, poetry, witchery, flora, fauna, music, literature, science, religion, anthropology, dogs, libraries. Maker of voluminous lists of books. Working class autodidact. No Fascists. #SlavaUkraini
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I have ten thousand books on my TBR list. I am 70. If you didn't just win the Nobel, I am probably not going to get to your book.
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It is the birthday in 1949 of the American author and illustrator Jan Brett. If you’ve gotten books for a child in the last 30 years, you know her work. Her titles include "The Mitten," "The Hat," "Gingerbread Baby," and "Who’s That Knocking on Xmas Eve?"
#WriterSky #ArtSky #BookSky #BOTD
#WriterSky #ArtSky #BookSky #BOTD
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It is the birthday in 1949 of the American author and illustrator Jan Brett. If you’ve gotten books for a child in the last 30 years, you know her work. Her titles include "The Mitten," "The Hat," "Gingerbread Baby," and "Who’s That Knocking on Xmas Eve?"
#WriterSky #ArtSky #BookSky #BOTD
#WriterSky #ArtSky #BookSky #BOTD
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Good morning! Woke to find that it’s apparently now December, winter solstice within touching distance!
Somehow I know I’ll dreaming of the light all day!
Happy new month to you!
Somehow I know I’ll dreaming of the light all day!
Happy new month to you!
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Good morning! Woke to find that it’s apparently now December, winter solstice within touching distance!
Somehow I know I’ll dreaming of the light all day!
Happy new month to you!
Somehow I know I’ll dreaming of the light all day!
Happy new month to you!
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Can we at least see an MRI of the Epstein files?
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Can we at least see an MRI of the Epstein files?
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“Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn toward the sun. We are bibliotropic, naturally turning toward the bookshop.” The Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton was born on this day in 1964.
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn toward the sun. We are bibliotropic, naturally turning toward the bookshop.” The Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton was born on this day in 1964.
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
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This Is What It’s Like In Our Country Every Day….
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This Is What It’s Like In Our Country Every Day….
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#WorldAIDSDay this year is a grim one
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#WorldAIDSDay this year is a grim one
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end…
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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As i was packing for the move, I ran across my World AIDS day T-Shirt from 1994 (I was in graduate school). It's a cool shirt and I'm glad I kept it.
#worldaidsday
#worldaidsday
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
As i was packing for the move, I ran across my World AIDS day T-Shirt from 1994 (I was in graduate school). It's a cool shirt and I'm glad I kept it.
#worldaidsday
#worldaidsday
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HIV stigma is still one of the biggest barriers to care, but storytelling can shift culture.
This #WorldAIDSDay, GLAAD celebrates the advocates, artists, content creators, and community leaders using their voices to challenge misinformation and reimagine what HIV representation looks like in media.
This #WorldAIDSDay, GLAAD celebrates the advocates, artists, content creators, and community leaders using their voices to challenge misinformation and reimagine what HIV representation looks like in media.
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
HIV stigma is still one of the biggest barriers to care, but storytelling can shift culture.
This #WorldAIDSDay, GLAAD celebrates the advocates, artists, content creators, and community leaders using their voices to challenge misinformation and reimagine what HIV representation looks like in media.
This #WorldAIDSDay, GLAAD celebrates the advocates, artists, content creators, and community leaders using their voices to challenge misinformation and reimagine what HIV representation looks like in media.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled," 1991, originally appeared on a series of billboards throughout NYC. Gonzalez-Torres, a wildly inventive and influential artist, died of AIDS in 1996, age 38. #WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled," 1991, originally appeared on a series of billboards throughout NYC. Gonzalez-Torres, a wildly inventive and influential artist, died of AIDS in 1996, age 38. #WorldAIDSDay
#WorldAidsDay #Books #Reading #HistorySky 📚💙 💡📚💙 #Booksky
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by
David France
624 pages • hardcover • 2013
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by
David France
624 pages • hardcover • 2013
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#WorldAidsDay #Books #Reading #HistorySky 📚💙 💡📚💙 #Booksky
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by
David France
624 pages • hardcover • 2013
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by
David France
624 pages • hardcover • 2013
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Today December 1st is #WorldAIDSDay.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today December 1st is #WorldAIDSDay.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
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On #WorldAIDSDay we remember the incredible activism that turned the tide on this deadly epidemic in the past
I’m sad that funding cuts by G7 nations are making such activism necessary yet again
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
I’m sad that funding cuts by G7 nations are making such activism necessary yet again
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
AIDS Activism, A Playbook For Global Health Advocacy
AIDS activism was exceptionally successful. Other areas of global health can and must use the AIDS activism playbook.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
On #WorldAIDSDay we remember the incredible activism that turned the tide on this deadly epidemic in the past
I’m sad that funding cuts by G7 nations are making such activism necessary yet again
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
I’m sad that funding cuts by G7 nations are making such activism necessary yet again
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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Know who's still getting HIV? Adolescent girls. Don't let them die in silence. #WorldAIDSDay
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Know who's still getting HIV? Adolescent girls. Don't let them die in silence. #WorldAIDSDay
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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World AIDS Day. We remember.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
World AIDS Day. We remember.
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She would’ve failed a theology class essay as well since she didn’t actually write an essay or cite her source properly.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
She would’ve failed a theology class essay as well since she didn’t actually write an essay or cite her source properly.
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And that is one of the problems. She did not appropriately use or cite the ONE “source” she claimed to have.
November 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
And that is one of the problems. She did not appropriately use or cite the ONE “source” she claimed to have.
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She didn’t even quote the Bible. She just mentions it without giving any actual citations.
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
She didn’t even quote the Bible. She just mentions it without giving any actual citations.
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This is tantamount to quoting characters in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" making small talk about constellations for your Astronomy exam.
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is tantamount to quoting characters in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" making small talk about constellations for your Astronomy exam.
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Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
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my hometown is so awesome bc tell me WHY (I know the reason) the university of oklahoma put a PROFESSOR on leave bc a dumb bitch of a student “wrote” a 3RD GRADE COMPREHENSION ESSAY saying man man woman woman because god say so.. that’s her only “source” (not even cited) is THE HOLY BIBLE BRUH
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
my hometown is so awesome bc tell me WHY (I know the reason) the university of oklahoma put a PROFESSOR on leave bc a dumb bitch of a student “wrote” a 3RD GRADE COMPREHENSION ESSAY saying man man woman woman because god say so.. that’s her only “source” (not even cited) is THE HOLY BIBLE BRUH
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It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
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I also can't help but believe that this is targeted against the professor because they're queer. This is exactly what happened in Texas. It's a witch hunt to push LGBTQ people out of academia.
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I also can't help but believe that this is targeted against the professor because they're queer. This is exactly what happened in Texas. It's a witch hunt to push LGBTQ people out of academia.