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tollingabell
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Yeah, I don't really do social media, but BTS, books, theatre, and a desire to find some unbiased news brought me here.
Canadian, she/her/they, still trying to figure things out.
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tollingabell.bsky.social
In no particular order, and just because, a slowly growing thread of my all-time favourite comfort reads.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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susiedent.com
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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btsisinart.bsky.social
💜 BTS is/in Art - Re-Post 💜

Another timely re-post, I feel!

ART: Freedom of Speech, Norman Rockwell (1943)

#btsisinart #bts #namjoon #rm
Namjoon (well, his head) on a man standing at a meeting. Others look up at him with pride.
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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nerdiestviking.bsky.social
She really is the best to ever do it. I will always adore Le Guin.
A tumblr post that says The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.” She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
tollingabell.bsky.social
I've been thinking about this for a while, and it could make a brilliant series of maybe 3 seasons, if taken seriously like Andor:
Call it "The Colony".
Start with a new arrival of colonists in the early days.
Slow burn of working out education for kids, a working government, food production. +
September 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
tollingabell.bsky.social
I needed this so badly today.
btsisinart.bsky.social Maerlyn8_BTS7 @btsisinart.bsky.social · Sep 8
💜 BTS is/in Art 💜

I think we could all use a silly little treat to start this week off right!

ART USED: Confections, Wayne Thiebaud (1963)

#btsisinart #bts #namjoon #rm #yoongi #suga #namgi
Yoongi and Namjoon eating ice cream. Yoongi is shoving Namjoon away as he jokingly pulls him close. It's too cute.
September 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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lisalisa42.bsky.social
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” — Spock
September 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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authorstuartmiller.bsky.social
Video credit: itsjuliencohen

Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"

This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵

#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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asls.org.uk
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of #HistoricalFiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those fateful words:

“Lymond is back.”

A 🎂 🧵
💙📚
1/6
booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/redi...
Rediscovering: Dorothy Dunnett - Books from Scotland
'Her brilliance lies in her combining of literary skill with the integrity and passion that underlay her depictions of human lives, histories and societies.'
booksfromscotland.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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lucagalletti.bsky.social
Naturally formed hexagonal basalt pillars from past volcanic activity in Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa, the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
tollingabell.bsky.social
I'm trying seriously to downsize my books - a lot - because I may be forced to move, and I finally got rid of about 100 childhood books I've been keeping for too many years. It took a week of daily decisions over one batch of books, but I did it. I'm keeping 9 from that batch only.
Proud of me!
August 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
tollingabell.bsky.social
My problem with last night's SNW is it portrayed someone 2nd in command of a starship as having no actual leadership experience. He wasn't an ensign - & they let Ensign Uhura be amazing from the start. It undermined his character. He could have been unconfident without being useless. +
August 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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btsisinart.bsky.social
💜 BTS is/in Art 💜

Sometimes I see them in even the paint strokes.

ART USED: Untitled, Franz Kline (1953)

#btsisinart #bts #jungkook
Standing Next to You Jungkook with arm extended along a line of black paint,
August 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Tomorrow’s front page of Scottish newspaper, The National.
The headline below a photo of Trump’s eyes says: CONVICTED US FELON TO ARRIVE IN SCOTLAND. The sub-heading reads: Republican leader, who was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, will visit golf courses.
July 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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betsytheflyingcow.bsky.social
This one hit me in the feels today
June 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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btsisinart.bsky.social
💜 BTS is/in Art 💜

Another Yoongi edit? Why not!

ART USED: Rectangle and Circle, Kazimir Malevich (1915)

#btsisinart #bts #suga #yoongi
Yoongi in white with fluffy black hair, sitting on a stool, "spinning" a black circle on his fingers.
June 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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tinysquash.bsky.social
no i will not "ask chat gpt" i will be scrolling Wikipedia with whimsical abandon like god intended
June 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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btsofficialtweets.bsky.social
[ #2025BTSFESTA ] 🕛608 오늘의 아미★613 Behind 📸📹 (weverse.io/bts/media/4-20…) (youtu.be/vm9RgRQfdEM)#BTS12thAnniversaryr#끝인_줄_알았지��#오늘의아미_탄생_비하인드��#보자마자_입꼬리_수직상승😊�#613에_꼭_이렇게_하기로_약속해요_아미💜��
June 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
tollingabell.bsky.social
Suggestions for future Knives Out films:
Varada Sethu, Michael Sheen, Amar Chadha-Patel, Daniel Henney, Toya Turner, Sandra Oh, Saoirse Ronan, Enver Gjokaj
June 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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rcdewinter.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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btsofficialtweets.bsky.social
진 (Jin) Main Track
'Don’t Say You Love Me' D-1 Poster

#진 #Jin #Jin_Echo
#Dont_Say_You_Love_Me
May 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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ellenkushner.bsky.social
“What is kindness exhibited knowing there is no payoff?”
Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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guygavrielkay.bsky.social
This has been posted to the @locusmag.bsky.social website. It is a fair bit of the long interview/conversation we had. The full one is in the magazine, of course.

locusmag.com/2025/05/guy-...
Guy Gavriel Kay: Margins of History
GUY GAVRIEL KAY was born November 7, 1954 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up in Winnipeg. He was influenced by Greek myths, fairy tales, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, E.R. Eddison, an…
locusmag.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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btsofficialtweets.bsky.social
진 (Jin) Official Teaser
(youtu.be/WU_9OETw0eM)

#진 #Jin #Jin_Echo
#Dont_Say_You_Love_Me
진 (Jin) 'Don't Say You Love Me' Official Teaser
YouTube video by HYBE LABELS
youtu.be
May 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM