Ms Otobo
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Ms Otobo
@mskomeotobo.bsky.social
· Apr 13
A handy guide for buying my books:
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Jazzhole [Nigerian Gods]
Laterna [The Healthy Perfectionist]
Ouida [Nigerian Gods]
Quintessence [both books]
Rovingheights [both books]
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African Books Collective [both books]
Amazon [both books]
Foyles & Waterstones [The Healthy Perfectionist]
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Jazzhole [Nigerian Gods]
Laterna [The Healthy Perfectionist]
Ouida [Nigerian Gods]
Quintessence [both books]
Rovingheights [both books]
🌍
African Books Collective [both books]
Amazon [both books]
Foyles & Waterstones [The Healthy Perfectionist]
📚💙
'Protesters have targeted a new multi-million dollar museum in Nigeria and forced organisers to postpone Tuesday's planned opening.
Mowaa has now cancelled all preview events and advised visitors to avoid the campus until the situation is resolved.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mowaa has now cancelled all preview events and advised visitors to avoid the campus until the situation is resolved.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nigeria's Mowaa museum: Edo protesters storm brand new home for West African art
The protesters are angry that the area's traditional ruler is not involved in the new museum.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
'Protesters have targeted a new multi-million dollar museum in Nigeria and forced organisers to postpone Tuesday's planned opening.
Mowaa has now cancelled all preview events and advised visitors to avoid the campus until the situation is resolved.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mowaa has now cancelled all preview events and advised visitors to avoid the campus until the situation is resolved.'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Your periodic reminder that people blithely saying things like 'Shop around!' to minimise price rises almost always relies on women spending large amounts of unpaid time having to go to 6 different places just for groceries. I could list others - so many money-savers are just 'women's free time'
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Your periodic reminder that people blithely saying things like 'Shop around!' to minimise price rises almost always relies on women spending large amounts of unpaid time having to go to 6 different places just for groceries. I could list others - so many money-savers are just 'women's free time'
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For a Distinctive Black Culture, a Rerouted Parade Feels Like Erasure
The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina draws hundreds to celebrate the Gullah Geechee people. But a new route has Black residents feeling as if their legacy is vanishing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina draws hundreds to celebrate the Gullah Geechee people. But a new route has Black residents feeling as if their legacy is vanishing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
For a Distinctive Black Culture, a Rerouted Parade Feels Like Erasure
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
For a Distinctive Black Culture, a Rerouted Parade Feels Like Erasure
The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina draws hundreds to celebrate the Gullah Geechee people. But a new route has Black residents feeling as if their legacy is vanishing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina draws hundreds to celebrate the Gullah Geechee people. But a new route has Black residents feeling as if their legacy is vanishing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
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Got new book mail 🥰✊🏽 thanks to @haymarketbooks.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Got new book mail 🥰✊🏽 thanks to @haymarketbooks.org
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Sent some nicely coordinated snail mail yesterday. (Card by @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social )
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sent some nicely coordinated snail mail yesterday. (Card by @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social )
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Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883-1957), Dusk at Aso (Ibaraki Province), 1936, woodcut, ink and color on paper, 36.2 x 23.8 cm, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC, USA
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883-1957), Dusk at Aso (Ibaraki Province), 1936, woodcut, ink and color on paper, 36.2 x 23.8 cm, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC, USA
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Shull 618: times as shall
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Shull 618: times as shall
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president pears, painted by royal charles steadman, 1921
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
president pears, painted by royal charles steadman, 1921
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Quoin 59: part of a dollar (2009 D Birth and Early Childhood)
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Quoin 59: part of a dollar (2009 D Birth and Early Childhood)
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Benjamin Ralph, Norwich Castle,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133205
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133205
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Benjamin Ralph, Norwich Castle,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133205
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133205
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beautiful new sun-dried white tea from this autumn in Yunnan
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
beautiful new sun-dried white tea from this autumn in Yunnan
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"I am part of everything I have read.'
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"I am part of everything I have read.'
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell
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Agnes Martin. The Islands, 1961
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Agnes Martin. The Islands, 1961
VALERIE: What I say does not matter.
SANKARA: It matters.
You cannot claim not to have an opinion.
You cannot say you are unbiased; that is most dangerous because those who refuse to have an opinion, who sit on the fence, are the ones who allow injustice thrive.
Jude Idada • Sankara
SANKARA: It matters.
You cannot claim not to have an opinion.
You cannot say you are unbiased; that is most dangerous because those who refuse to have an opinion, who sit on the fence, are the ones who allow injustice thrive.
Jude Idada • Sankara
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
VALERIE: What I say does not matter.
SANKARA: It matters.
You cannot claim not to have an opinion.
You cannot say you are unbiased; that is most dangerous because those who refuse to have an opinion, who sit on the fence, are the ones who allow injustice thrive.
Jude Idada • Sankara
SANKARA: It matters.
You cannot claim not to have an opinion.
You cannot say you are unbiased; that is most dangerous because those who refuse to have an opinion, who sit on the fence, are the ones who allow injustice thrive.
Jude Idada • Sankara
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Mark Rothko, Earth Green (detail), 1955
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Mark Rothko, Earth Green (detail), 1955
I didn't realise that we have emoji reactions in Gmail now, until someone used one in an email trail yesterday.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I didn't realise that we have emoji reactions in Gmail now, until someone used one in an email trail yesterday.
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Kogarashi (Japan) - lit. ‘leaf-wilting wind’.
A wind that comes at the start of winter & blows the last leaves off of the trees.
A wind that comes at the start of winter & blows the last leaves off of the trees.
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Kogarashi (Japan) - lit. ‘leaf-wilting wind’.
A wind that comes at the start of winter & blows the last leaves off of the trees.
A wind that comes at the start of winter & blows the last leaves off of the trees.
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But of course...
Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work
A group representing Studio Ghibli and other major Japanese publishers is drawing a line in the sand against OpenAI's copyright abuses.
futurism.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
But of course...
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Fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains (November, 2025)
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains (November, 2025)
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Hexagon Rulers are back in stock. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/hex...
These are very popular with architect customers!
These are very popular with architect customers!
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hexagon Rulers are back in stock. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/hex...
These are very popular with architect customers!
These are very popular with architect customers!
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Quoin 54: thouſandths (1950 S)
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Quoin 54: thouſandths (1950 S)
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"What is happening in Nigeria is not a Christian genocide. It is worse than that
Breakdown in justice and good governance stokes violence within all communities where trust has been lost"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Breakdown in justice and good governance stokes violence within all communities where trust has been lost"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"What is happening in Nigeria is not a Christian genocide. It is worse than that
Breakdown in justice and good governance stokes violence within all communities where trust has been lost"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Breakdown in justice and good governance stokes violence within all communities where trust has been lost"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...