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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

How to ymprove higher ed
And win all the pryzes:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

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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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Everye seasoun of *Slow Horses* thei slowe the horses downe even more. Eventuallye you will not be able to see the horses move at all. The horses will seem eternallye still, yet motion will rest wythin them lyke the oak within the acorn.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Back yn the daye Ich saw The Three Terrors even!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Watchid *I Saw The TV Glow* agayne, and was reminded just how powirful and ymportant that movye ys. Ther ys no filme quite lyke it yn the worlde. Heart-wrenchinge despayre and desperate hope all at once. There ys still tyme.

A still from the 2024 film *I Saw the TV Glow* depicts a suburban street covered with graffiti and the chalked message "There is Still Time."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

"Ahead of the inevitable ovation, Merritt declares a 'ten-day interval' before they’re back at the chapel to 'begin again' in mid-October. That’s ten days to beg, steal or marry for a ticket."
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The Magnetic Fields at Union Chapel: '69 Love Songs over two nights is staggering'

New York cult band The Magnetic Fields play their legendary album 69 Love Songs over two nights at the reverential Union Chapel

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction begins Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

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

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas:

Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme
Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer
Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn
Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Uh, whoa! Dude! Look what you glorious weirdos did! WHAT STALKS THE DEEP is #12 on the New York Times!

A celebratory image of the cover of what stalks with New York Times, USA TODAY and Indie Bestseller emblazoned across the top!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas:

Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme
Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer
Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn
Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

How to ymprove higher ed
And win all the pryzes:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

alas once agayne not noticed by the MacArthur Foundacioun

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

Influencers? Meanest thou the three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whispere-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme and that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save the three, everyethinge that ys, was, or will be? Aye, Ich knowe of influencers.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 6d

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5d

I just hit 32,000 followers. With any luck, not too many of you will want to hit me back. Thank you all. I've been gere less than a year, and have about 90% of the following I got in 7-1/2 years on Xitter.

🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

All of these IPs beinge recycled and an Elric of Melniboné filme ys still not yn productioun

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

🎵 Hey, gramerci for the lovelich bouquet
Thou art sweetir than a peache
Yet thou knowest not the lyfe of a showegirle, babe
And nevir evir wilt thou 🎶

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

The best signe of an awesome restaurante ys big plush red leather seates yn corner booths lyke you are sittinge on a giant tomato hidinge yn the darke.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

AC: Shadows ys reallye awesome

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

Nosferatu be or Nosferatu not to be

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

Influencers? Meanest thou the three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whispere-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme and that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save the three, everyethinge that ys, was, or will be? Aye, Ich knowe of influencers.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 6d

Peacehammer 40K: Yn the cozye glowe of the far future, ther ys onlye warmth.

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