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Researching Educational Isolation to understand impact on schools. Education, social justice, disability, ME/CFS, neurodiversity, LGBTQ, books, medieval history, all things Nordic. She/her. Views mine. [banner photo: candle burnt down, looks like a crown]

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · Oct 24

A short animated overview of the concept of Educational Isolation and how it affects schools: youtu.be/1N-9DUA2BO4. #EduSky

What is Educational Isolation?

YouTube video by Plymouth Marjon University

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 18h

Today's art: two short stories, 'The Last Wolf' & 'Herman', by Nobel award-winning author László Krasznahorkai. I haven't read them, but they've been suggested as a good entry point for the author's writing. Now on my tbr list! Post below is within a thread about him & his recent win for literature.

Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 19h

The Last Wolf & Herman are excellent entry points, I think. V much representative stylistically/in terms of themes, but they are two short stories.

(it was, of all things, pandemic reading, for me)

www.ndbooks.com/book/the-las...

The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai

The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell–it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf of Spain...

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 1d

Today's art: as someone who's loved Edgar Allan Poe's work since I was a child, I appreciate these pieces of art - especially the raven.

Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 2d

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 2d

More info and resources here: www.slj.com/story/Banned...

Banned Books Week 2025 Resources to Educate, Inspire Action

These resources and ideas from ALA, Unite Against Book Bans, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and others will help plan for Banned Books Week Oct. 5-11.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 2d

Today's art: since it's banned books week, it's this cartoon by @fieldexplores.bsky.social. And this website has news about and resources and information to celebrate Banned Books Week for those interested: bannedbooksweek.org/resources/ba...

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 2d

Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 4d

Oct 7 Politics and Prose, Washington DC 2/11

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Martha Wells — Queen Demon (Rising World #2) - with Dr. Leigha McReynolds — at Union Market

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 3d

Today's art: 'The Yorkshire Couple', by a young Kate Rusby. My favourite version is live with her nephews in attendance, but I can't find that one on Youtube anymore. This one's pretty good though! (For those who don't know, 'Dog and Gun' is the name of a pub.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSNE...

Kate Rusby at The Hoy April 1996-The Yorkshire Couple.mp4

YouTube video by Dave Alan

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for acknowledging that. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were unconscious. Over the years, I’ve come to recognise just how much internalised ableism, racism, etc. I’ve had to change growing up in our world. It’s good when doctors can truly listen to patients & value their lived experience.

Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for this list!

Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 4d

Today's art: this painting, The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, 1857, which I first saw in a textbook in middle school. To this day, I still don't know why this painting made such an impression on me. I suspect the fact that women are faceless has something to do with it.

The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 4d

Gleaning is the act of collecting the leftover harvest left by industry in the field, an act reserved for the impoverished. Stemming from the Book of Ruth, this practice was protected by Christian law in many parts of Europe, then took socialist tones #FolkyFriday

🖼️ J-F Millet

Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners, an 1857 painting showing a group of three women gleaning after commercial harvest, with more in the background; they get barely any sheaths of barley at all, and remain faceless. This became a symbol of modern socialism in the 1890s.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 4d

In-person care is important & definitely necessary a lot of the time. But ‘the only place for virtual appointments…’ is ableist. Some patients - esp those who know themselves & their conditions well - do better with phone or online appts in certain circs. I urge you to recognise this & rethink.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 4d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s art: this reel by Ren. Don’t know much about him but will definitely be checking out more of his work. www.facebook.com/reel/1234791...

7.1M views · 173K reactions | This is the Britain I know, this is the Britain I love... Big up the reactorssss❤️ @jamel_aka_jamal @halfandjai @gotgamesluke @reactiontherapy @sofaandchill @AudioLunch ...

This is the Britain I know, this is the Britain I love... Big up the reactorssss❤️ @jamel_aka_jamal @halfandjai @gotgamesluke @reactiontherapy @sofaandchill @AudioLunch @dna2001 #renmakesmusic...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 5d

Green Women's Declaration, a gender critical group in the Green Party which campaigns for single-sex spaces (& which has been labelled transphobic by some members) was denied a stall at Green Party conference, a couple of days before it began. They're leafletting outside instead. Email from Green HQ

Dear Green Women’s Declaration

I write further to our exchanges regarding your request to book a stall at Green Party autumn conference 2025 and our subsequent correspondence, including your letter of 17 September, in which you declined to sign the stallholder agreement which set out the expected standards of conduct. We note that no payment has yet been made.

The Party’s Executive Committee has considered feedback from concerned members about the possibility of GWD attending, who described the hostile and demeaning encounters they have had with GWD in the past (including at previous conference). They also noted the confrontational and derogatory ways in which some of GWD’s leaders and supporters have campaigned on issues of sex and gender identity, including online. The view taken is that there is a real likelihood that GWD would behave in a similar way at conference this year, and that in any event their presence would deter other members from attending and so would inhibit our ability to run an effective, inclusive event.

So, having considered the matter further, the conclusion reached was that the Party cannot allow GWD to have a stall at conference this year. A stall at conference represents a significant platform and as a political party we are entitled to exercise our discretion over who is granted such access.

We appreciate this will be disappointing news but would be grateful if you would confirm receipt of this email.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 6d

Is this a kitten? Or a squirrel?

A curled up ginger tabby kitten enveloped by a fluffy pink cat bed, which is on a bed with a checked purple and white duvet. His large, long, bushy tail hangs over the side of the cat bed, making him look squirrel-like.

Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 7d

Today's art: The 1912 watercolour painting 'White-Bear King Valemon', by Theodor Kittelsen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-B...

Watercolour painting of a white (polar?) bear ambles through a thick forest. The trees are dark green (almost black) pines, with a mossy undergrowth and a heavy, grey sky.

The white bear stands out in the centre of the image, in stark contrast to the forest. A young woman holding a golden wreath sits on his back. She has a small crown on her head and is wearing a long, low-cut, long-sleeved, pale red dress. Her hair is straight, blonde and reaches well beyond her waist. Her eyes are closed and she looks peaceful.

Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 7d

Hope this helps!

Two ginger tabbies, one lying across the other perpendicularly. The kitten, on the bottom, is stretching. They’re on a bed covered with a white and green blanket with a checked pattern. There are two cat toys nearby.

Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 8d

Today's art: Lady Gaga's music video 'Bad Romance'. When I first saw it, I thought 'what?!'. So inventive and original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4...

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 9d

Today's art: these poems shortlisted for Verve's Poem of the Month. 'Wish You Were Here, postcard to my unborn child', by Angela Cheveau, struck a chord with me.

RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 9d

I got shortlisted for Verve's Poem of the Month! The Poem can be read here alongside the winner and other shortlistees! vervepoetry.substack.com/p/september-...

SEPTEMBER Poems of the Month

This month’s selection gathers poems that move through address, memory, and observation. What binds them is the way images stand in for presence.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 10d

Glad it brightened your day! That’s why I’m posting, in the hope that the art makes things a little better for people.

Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 10d

Today's art: the superb final song and dance from the 2011 revival of Cole Porter's 'Anything Goes', performed at the Tony awards that year. It was introduced by Joel Grey and features Sutton Foster, choreography by Kathleen Marshall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3b5...

Anything Goes - 65th Annual Tony Awards

YouTube video by The xNYr

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 11d

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 11d

Today's art: the tv show 'Ted Lasso'. It's filled with compassion, empathy, positive relationships & brilliant role models. But it also deals with some serious issues & shows that you don't need to make everything a drama or crisis to make it watchable. So, so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u7E...

Ted Lasso — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

YouTube video by Apple TV

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 12d

Boosting this for the afternoon:

Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 13d

“QUEEN DEMON is a powerful work of art. I’ll be thinking about it for a long time to come.” @hawkwing_lb reviews new work from @marthawells.com

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Queen Demon by Martha Wells: Review by Liz Bourke

I’ve loved Martha Wells’s fantasy novels ever since I picked up The Element of Fire. Queen Demon is the direct sequel to Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-nominated Witch King. It’s not a stand…

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 12d

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Philly 🇵🇸 🍎 @phillyhart4.bsky.social · 12d

Today's art: what a photo! I think it's by someone called James Lucas.

image of a bird watching (bird-identifying?) book held by someone out of frame in a wooded area. The page is open to a chestnut-backed chickadee, which is a small bird with a very dark brown head that has white 'cheeks' from it's bill to the back of its head, with medium brown feathers below. Ir's chest is a light brown or grey colour, with grey, black and white feathers on its wings.

A chestnut-backed chickadee seems to have seen a fellow chickadee in the book and has come to investigate, sitting on the top right corner of the book, helpfully posing like the bird on the page for the photo.