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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 11h

Fran Lebowitz: “Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn’t make up yourself.”

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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 1d

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David Foster Wallace on Why Reading Feels So Hard

YouTube video by Neil Pasricha

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 1d

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Buckingham Nicks - Frozen Love (Official Lyric Video)

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 1d

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Illustration Inspiration Goldmine: Vintage QSL Cards

The podcasters of the 60's and 70's were also branding geniuses

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 1d

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Animation Obsessive Staff (@animationobsessive)

A little of Labyrinth Labyrinthos (1987), directed by Rintaro.

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 2d

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How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?

There are cases of important literary and historical works that survive in only one or two manuscripts. If they had suﬀered some accident, then our picture of the past might be altered in important…

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 2d

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Hypatia of Alexandria: Meet the Ancient Woman Mathematician

Hypatia of Alexandria: ancient woman mathematician who led Alexandria's philosophy school. Her brilliance and tragic death changed history.

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 3d

Happy 89th Birthday to 🇬🇧British theatre, radio, film and television actor, narrator, presenter, writer and explorer #BrianBlessed OBE born #OnThisDay in Mexborough, England

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 2d

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-...

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 4d

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Earth Hymn (Live from Snæfellsnes - Official Video)

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 4d

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How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 5d

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Roman writing tablets discovered in ancient wells

Archaeologists from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) have discovered a rare collection of wooden writing tablets dating from the Roman period. - HeritageDaily - Ar...

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 5d

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Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 5d

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Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 5d

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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 7d

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Eight Takes: How to Tell a Truer Love Story

“Mistake” is another word for a working draft we are unable or unwilling to revise, a draft that stands at odds with the story we wish to tell about who we are and what we want. It is a…

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 8d

I’ll always repost LF.

Abandon despair, all ye who enter City Lights bookstore.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8d

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland over the governor's objections.

This decision reinforces one of our country's core principles: The military has no place policing our communities.

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 8d

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

— Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), “War and Peace”

J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 10d

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Rather than AI, this professor chooses a chalkboard and old-fashioned books

An English professor at Boston College makes the case for discussion-based teaching and learning — without machines.

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 10d

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A reading by Rae Armantrout

YouTube video by Kelly Writers House

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J.C. Joranco @jcjoranco.bsky.social · 10d

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The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over...

And the tech bros won

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 10d

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

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