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towntaker.bsky.social
@towntaker.bsky.social
Historian, educator, librarian. I collect fashion, borrow books, and lend attention.
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Librarian Josh Westbrook, “Kids are living stories every day that we wouldn’t let them read.”

Radical Reads 2: Working with the Newest Edgy Titles for Teens, Bodart 2009.
I exist here.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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October's theme: Fabulous Gowns in Art
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES (1780 - 1867), “Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galand de Brassac de Béarns, Princess de Broglie”, 1851-53. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City US.
#arthistory #art #portrait #Ingres
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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"Le Bain Turc," Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), 1862, oil on canvas, 43.3" dia., Louvre Museum.

#NudeArt #Naturism #NonSexualNudity
October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1788-1839), 1823 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Madame Moitessier, 1856
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780 - 1867)
oil on canvas, 120 × 92.1 cm
National Gallery, London
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I wonder if Puritans are really pissed that there are cutesy illustrations of them laughing and enjoying life
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
You watch holiday romcoms about divorcées being won over by how kind the new guy is to their kids. I read books about the widow mopping up the new guy’s bursting buboes as he infects her whole town with plague. We are not the same.
December 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes

every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Is there Star Trek technology for creating Gibson Girl hairstyles in captains too busy to eat?
a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words " please state the nature of the medical emergency "
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words " please state the nature of the medical emergency "
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Ensign Ro to Guinan
Toad went to Frog’s house. He found a note on the door. The note said, “Dear Toad, I am not at home. I went out. I want to be alone.”
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Toad went to Frog’s house. He found a note on the door. The note said, “Dear Toad, I am not at home. I went out. I want to be alone.”
December 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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#OtD 6 Dec 1965 Rose Pesotta, Russian Jewish anarchist garment worker, died in Miami. Leaving Russia in 1916 to avoid an arranged marriage, she found work in the textile industry and became one of America's first women union leaders stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1060...
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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tis the season
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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It's that time of the year where I need Star Trek playing in the bg to stave off the sads.
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Vrai
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Gandalf Express
For arriving exactly when you mean to
There's still time to order fantasy subway map for Christmas presents! Surely you know someone who needs:
- a Hobbit subway map
- a LoTR subway map
- a Narnia subway map

They're right there, at my Etsy store, waiting for you!
#LOTR #Narnia #Maps #Subway

www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Maybe it's making things worse, but at least it's trying.

#mentalhealth #anxiety
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The federal government has decided against listing the American #eel under the Species at Risk Act, a move that comes after more than a decade of indecision and years of controversy in the lucrative Maritime #fishery for juvenile eels, known as elvers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Federal government decides it won’t list American eel as species at risk | CBC News
The federal government has decided against listing the American eel under the Species at Risk Act, a move that comes after more than a decade of indecision and years of chaos and controversy in the lu...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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As a Democrat, I do not believe in the goals of the company SauronMurdersEveryone Inc and do not trust their claims that they will not murder everyone. However, in the spirit of bipartisanship, I will be voting to give SauronMurdersEveryone Inc the government contract monitoring citizen locations.
hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM