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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 3h

[incomplete thoughts about fear of books and power]

White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 15h

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like we're so close to legislation on "is this a sandwich?" and they are being cowards about it. "Oat drink." Bah.

www.reuters.com

Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 22h

Bwahahaha!! New books!!

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 1d

New Tolkien Society publication!

Releasing on 25 November, "Númenor, the Mighty and Frail" includes 10 articles relating to Númenor, and its legacy. Edited by @willsherwood.bsky.social and published by @lunapress.bsky.social, it's now available to pre-order. www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/10/new-...

New Tolkien Society publication – <em>Númenor, The Mighty and Frail</em>

The Tolkien Society is pleased to announce that Númenor, the Mighty and Frail: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2023, the twenty-fifth book in the Peter Roe series, is now available to pre-o...

www.tolkiensociety.org

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 1d

We're settling in for @aelang.bsky.social's @scholarslab.bsky.social talk connecting literary studies w/explorations in 3D making to visualize, explore, inspire new approaches to interpreting & appreciating poetry. Lovely to see colleagues from the west coast & UK time zones! Livetweeting 🧵: +

aelang @aelang.bsky.social · 2d

For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

a clear resin cube with text on one face and a curved design extending from another face in front of a window

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 2d

I laughed so hard.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 3d

Ah googling shows the editor wants to retire. Well okay, no one else wanted the job?

Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 3d

It's always weird when series end. (NB no reason is given why the series is being retired.)

What Was Best About the ‘Best American Poetry’?

www.nytimes.com

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 4d

Achievement unlocked: Covid vax!

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Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social · 4d

Good interview with @RichardOvenden on the upcoming release of the NEW #Tolkien book The Bovadium Fragments youtube.com/watch?v=IGuQ... @harpercollins.bsky.social

Richard Ovenden OBE talks Tolkien and The Bovadium Fragments

YouTube video by TolkienGuide

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 4d

Also my Big Bro Bestie was the one that told me the new Taytay album has a song about Kelce's dick, which means he had to 1) read at least one review in order to find something to razz me about and 2) the thing he picked was dick. 🤷‍♀️🎶

Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 4d

Great pics of the writing tablets at the article!!!!!!!!!

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 4d

At Roman Isarnodurum in France, they discovered a # of wooden writing tablets and some really cute wooden shoes at a newly identified woodworking (lots of boxwood) workshop. The area is already known for comb-making and this is just a great Roman economic find. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/r...

The two maple wood soles, belonging to shoes of the sculponae type (shoes with a wooden sole to which a piece of leather is nailed). Credit: Flore Giraud / Inrap

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 5d

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 5d

“We are witnessing an unprecedented situation – really as far as I can tell in history – where a global leader of education and research is voluntarily dismantling that which gave it an advantage.”

Global academic freedom group warns Trump is dismantling US higher education

Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025

www.theguardian.com

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 5d

My advisor's comment on one of my diss chapters: "What were you thinking here?"

Me, rereading: "What WAS I thinking here?????????"

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 6d

Check out the list of releases for the Black Friday edition of @recordstoreday.bsky.social

Record Store Day Announces Black Friday 2025 Releases

Record Store Day, the music industry holiday in which artists release lots of exclusive vinyl in a bid to attract foot traffic to independent record stores, happens twice a year: once on a Saturday in...

www.stereogum.com

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 6d

Florida.

bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social · 6d

A District Court judge rules that neither library patrons nor authors have First Amendment rights when it comes to library collections.

#Booksky

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Another Judge Chips Away at Library Patron First Amendment Rights

A District Court judge rules that neither library patrons nor authors have First Amendment rights when it comes to library collections.

bookriot.com

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 6d

Last night I dreamed I was teaching a class on Fantasy and I was starting with The Velveteen Rabbit and I have no idea why dream!me wanted to hurt people like that.

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 6d

COOL!! Also happy birthday!!!

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 7d

A+ no notes on this interview on fic, from the salaciousness assumptions of smut to the derision aimed at works by women and LGBTQ+ writers.

The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven-figure film deal

SenLinYu’s debut started life as Harry Potter fanfiction. The Alchemised author shares why they were drawn to a war-torn love story, how a conservative upbringing shaped their writing, and the snobber...

www.theguardian.com

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 8d

A floral palate cleanser. My designs for Field Notes’ fall flowers edition, inspired by publishers bindings. Thanks, librarians!

Three Field Notes notebooks lined up to showcase floral designs.

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Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 9

A number of paintings depicting Jesuit missionaries to Ming and Qing China, as well as Xu Guangqi 徐光啟, were returned to the Institute from the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore, where they had been on loan. The paintings were made at the T'ou-sè-wè 土山灣 orphanage in Shanghai before 1915.

A painting of Matteo Ricci lies on a table, encased in protective wrapping. Another painting is placed on a table behind it.

A scan of a painting depicting Xu Guangqi.

A scan of a painting depicting Ferdinand Verbiest (Nan Huairen 南懷仁).

A scan of a painting depicting Matteo Ricci (Li Madou 利瑪竇).

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