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Lotr Universe @lordoftherings.world · May 9

I AM NO MAN! 💪 😉

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memmis.bsky.social @memmis.bsky.social · May 10

@whatshernamepod.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n... 🙂

Under the spell of Hildegard: A new album reboots ancient music

The 12th century abbess, scientist and composer inspires new interpretations of her music, and new works, on an album spotlighting soprano Barbara Hannigan.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · May 9

Cringepunk. Ys thys anythinge?

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Internet Archive @archive.org · May 9

🎂 Celebrating the birthday of J.M. Barrie, born #OTD in 1860! Known for PETER PAN, his tale of the boy who never grew up still speaks to the young & young at heart. 🧚

📖 Read an illustrated edition here ➡️ archive.org/details/pete...

#PublicDomain #ChildrenBooks #Fantasy #authors

Illustrated front cover of a hardcover edition of Peter Pan, The Story of Peter and Wendy by James M. Barrie, depicting Peter sitting in a tree.

Illustration by F.D. Bedford from a 1911 edition of Peter and Wendy, titled "Peter flew in." It features Tinkerbell's glow lighting the Darling children's bedroom and Peter entering through the window.

Illustration by F.D. Bedford from a 1911 edition of Peter and Wendy, titled "Let him keep who can." It features Peter and the Darling children flying to the Neverland and pursuing birds who had food in their mouths suitable for humans to snatch it from them.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · Mar 15

night and day

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · Mar 8

We hold still. We hold hopes. We hold our pain and the world’s pain. We hold each other. We hold up our values and hold down our tasks. We hold on, and this might be the single most defining feature of human life. We hold on.

www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/26/w...
#InternationalWomensDay

Women Holding Things: Artist Maira Kalman’s Tender and Quirky Ode to the Weight of the World and the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being

“There can never be enough time. And you can never hold on to it.”

www.themarginalian.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 20

Happy Person Must Either Be Stupid Or Evil
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · Feb 13

wolf pack

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Feb 10

Jane Eyre
Jane Watir
Jane Erthe
Jane Fyre

Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...

Until the Fyre Janes attackid.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Feb 3

Nevir shal Ich give thee up
Nevir shal Ich let thee doun
Nevir shal Ich runne arounde
and go from thee
Nevir shal Ich make thee to crye
Nevir shal Ich 'farewell' sigh
Nevir speke falsehood
And cause thee sorowe

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Jan 27

But thei were all of them deceivid for anothir environment-killinge plagiarism machyne was made

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Jan 20

the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.

. [from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: “a state of exhaustion inspired by senseless tragedies and acts of violence, which force you to abruptly revise your expectations of what can happen in this world, trying to prop yourself up like an old scarecrow, who’s bursting at the seams yet powerless to do anything but stand there and watch”].

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memmis.bsky.social @memmis.bsky.social · Jan 1

MÍRENME

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Jan 1

“We can begin a whole new year together,” said Frog. “We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods. In the evenings we will sit right here on this porch and count the stars.”

“You can count them,” said Toad. “I’m going back to bed.”

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memmis.bsky.social @memmis.bsky.social · Jan 1

Te estaba esperando 🫶🏽

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memmis.bsky.social @memmis.bsky.social · Jan 1

Deseo que en este año pongan los límites que necesiten y utilicen sus libretas bonitas.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Dec 30

Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new?

Your support makes it possible!

👉 Like & share to spread the word.
💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · Dec 27

You've heard of “a murmuration of starlings,” but did you know that a group of crows is called “a murder” and peacocks “an ostentation”? How groups of birds got their names, with magnificent vintage illustrations:

A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…

www.themarginalian.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · Dec 26

Everyone In Restaurant Jealous Of Toddler Who Gets To Wear Pajamas And Watch iPad
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Ere Derbez @erederbez.bsky.social · Dec 20

Women around the world have followed the case, discussed it, thought about it. But have men? Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit

This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

www.theguardian.com

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memmis.bsky.social @memmis.bsky.social · Dec 15

¿Te mando mensajito en tuirer?

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Arturo Espinosa🍉🔻 @arturoe.bsky.social · Dec 8

Me robé esto de tuister: el actor Brian Cox leyendo el poema "If I must die, let it be a tale", del poeta palestino Refaat Alareer, asesinado por Israel hace un año y un día.

#Refaat_Alareer