The Book Scholar
@libellum.bsky.social
I really, REALLY like books
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Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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America feels like that the cartoon scene where Wile E. Coyote runs off the cliff and floats in the air, legs moving, before he looks down and falls
February 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
America feels like that the cartoon scene where Wile E. Coyote runs off the cliff and floats in the air, legs moving, before he looks down and falls
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Prequel haters in ruins now that Revenge of the Sith is one of the most prescient films of all time
January 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Prequel haters in ruins now that Revenge of the Sith is one of the most prescient films of all time
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Oh look. A President, a Governor, a Mayor - all at the crash site at the Chesapeake Bay with first responders. Not swimming. Showing empathy and leadership.
February 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Oh look. A President, a Governor, a Mayor - all at the crash site at the Chesapeake Bay with first responders. Not swimming. Showing empathy and leadership.
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Long eared owl clapping in flight as he hunts over the buttercup fields
📸 driver.david
#Owl #Photography #Nature #Birds
📸 driver.david
#Owl #Photography #Nature #Birds
January 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Long eared owl clapping in flight as he hunts over the buttercup fields
📸 driver.david
#Owl #Photography #Nature #Birds
📸 driver.david
#Owl #Photography #Nature #Birds
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God, I can't describe how passionately I dream about working at an old-school rock music radio station and writing about whales and Antarctic exploration without having a single thought about war and global politics.
January 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
God, I can't describe how passionately I dream about working at an old-school rock music radio station and writing about whales and Antarctic exploration without having a single thought about war and global politics.
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Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
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Today is bad. Here’s a whale. I hope it helps.
His name is AP9 “Red” and he is from the southern Alaska resident killer whale population.
His name is AP9 “Red” and he is from the southern Alaska resident killer whale population.
January 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Today is bad. Here’s a whale. I hope it helps.
His name is AP9 “Red” and he is from the southern Alaska resident killer whale population.
His name is AP9 “Red” and he is from the southern Alaska resident killer whale population.
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One thing before tomorrow:
Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
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Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
📚
January 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
One thing before tomorrow:
Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
📚
Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
📚
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Sometimes I see book covers in book stores and want to buy them just because they look really stunning.
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sometimes I see book covers in book stores and want to buy them just because they look really stunning.
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Bluesky is my safe space, so here it goes: The Oppenheimer script was bad and the movie was saved by its visuals. The women are so poorly drawn (Nolan is infamous for this) and the dialogue is thumping and heavy-handed. His films have a reputation of being intellectual but they feel shallow to me!
January 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Bluesky is my safe space, so here it goes: The Oppenheimer script was bad and the movie was saved by its visuals. The women are so poorly drawn (Nolan is infamous for this) and the dialogue is thumping and heavy-handed. His films have a reputation of being intellectual but they feel shallow to me!
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This is so fucking annoying it’s like yall don’t see them stripping our rights away right in front of your fucking faces and you make your little satirical posts about it like you’re cooler than everyone else. Wait until they come for something you care about.
So wait… Can I stop giving a fuck about TikTok now?
January 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is so fucking annoying it’s like yall don’t see them stripping our rights away right in front of your fucking faces and you make your little satirical posts about it like you’re cooler than everyone else. Wait until they come for something you care about.
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I hear what you guys are saying about the Oscars, and how they're a celebration of life, and the show must go on, blah-blah-blah, so-on-and-so-forth. It all makes a degree of sense, but to me it still feels like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Or in this case, wearing fancy clothes while LA burns.
January 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I hear what you guys are saying about the Oscars, and how they're a celebration of life, and the show must go on, blah-blah-blah, so-on-and-so-forth. It all makes a degree of sense, but to me it still feels like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Or in this case, wearing fancy clothes while LA burns.
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THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE by @megelison.bsky.social.
What a wonderful novel. Follows a midwife wandering a post-plague America secretly supplying birth control to outnumbered, enslaved women. Humane & complicated & messy & dire & inspiring. And, wow, TIMELY.
What a wonderful novel. Follows a midwife wandering a post-plague America secretly supplying birth control to outnumbered, enslaved women. Humane & complicated & messy & dire & inspiring. And, wow, TIMELY.
January 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE by @megelison.bsky.social.
What a wonderful novel. Follows a midwife wandering a post-plague America secretly supplying birth control to outnumbered, enslaved women. Humane & complicated & messy & dire & inspiring. And, wow, TIMELY.
What a wonderful novel. Follows a midwife wandering a post-plague America secretly supplying birth control to outnumbered, enslaved women. Humane & complicated & messy & dire & inspiring. And, wow, TIMELY.
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he has no idea what is going on and i’m so proud of him for it
January 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
he has no idea what is going on and i’m so proud of him for it
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Today, 130 million Americans—54% of adults aged 16-74—lack the literacy skills that many take for granted, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-li...
Reading the numbers: 130 million American adults have low literacy skills — APM Research Lab
About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 1...
www.apmresearchlab.org
January 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Today, 130 million Americans—54% of adults aged 16-74—lack the literacy skills that many take for granted, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-li...
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
January 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
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Here are some nice mushrooms
January 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Not voting in the Oscars this year. IMHO they should cancel them. No glitz with Los Angeles on fire.
January 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Not voting in the Oscars this year. IMHO they should cancel them. No glitz with Los Angeles on fire.
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Black Mirror is starting to look a bit over optimistic
January 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Black Mirror is starting to look a bit over optimistic
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WR-124
Classification Wolf-Rayet Star
Image credit NASA/ESA Hubble
Constellation Sagitta
Distance 21,000 light years
Discovered in 1938 by Paul W. Merrill
The star is surrounded by a nebula of expelled hydrogen and one of the fastest run away stars known with a radial velocity of about 200km/s.
Classification Wolf-Rayet Star
Image credit NASA/ESA Hubble
Constellation Sagitta
Distance 21,000 light years
Discovered in 1938 by Paul W. Merrill
The star is surrounded by a nebula of expelled hydrogen and one of the fastest run away stars known with a radial velocity of about 200km/s.
January 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
WR-124
Classification Wolf-Rayet Star
Image credit NASA/ESA Hubble
Constellation Sagitta
Distance 21,000 light years
Discovered in 1938 by Paul W. Merrill
The star is surrounded by a nebula of expelled hydrogen and one of the fastest run away stars known with a radial velocity of about 200km/s.
Classification Wolf-Rayet Star
Image credit NASA/ESA Hubble
Constellation Sagitta
Distance 21,000 light years
Discovered in 1938 by Paul W. Merrill
The star is surrounded by a nebula of expelled hydrogen and one of the fastest run away stars known with a radial velocity of about 200km/s.
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Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
January 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were