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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇

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Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore publishes in November! Pre-order your copy https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore and learn the secrets of your dark corners...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 Have just fondled my first copy of Household Lore & I'm totes emoshe (as the kids probably don't say any more). To get your mitts on my purple spredges pre-order here: watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore
#HouseholdLore #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #BookChatWeekly #Booksky #BookologyThursday 🪴🥔

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1h

I LOVED this book. You will too, I promise.

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 2h

It's #buyastrangerabook day!

@seanjones.org has bought a copy of We the People : A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore for me to give to someone.

blurb in second image.

If you'd like it, get in touch.

UK only.

Blurb for the book.

On the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era. The US Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world - and one of the most difficult to amend. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified.

Tellingly, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without amendment, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential power.

Leading Harvard historian Jill Lepore captures the stories of generations of ordinary people who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend their nation. Recounting the history of America through centuries of efforts to realize the promise of the Constitution, we witness how nearly all those bids have failed. We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitution was never intended to be preserved, but was expected to be gradually altered.

At a time when the risk of political violence is all too real, it hints at the prospects for a better, amended America.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 49m

Folklore. Reading an excellent Scottish article from 1872, full of place legends:

"First Report by the Committee on Boulders"

I would like to be on a "Committee on Boulders". Offers open.

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 20h

Finished this giant long-term embroidery project 😌✨ I’ll take a full photo tomorrow in the daylight, but here’s a preview featuring fuzzy moth. #fiberArt

A small section of a large embroidery piece on a leafy background, with colorful flowers, a big moth with a fuzzy faux fur body, and a little shimmery butterfly

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 4h

I've heard of a lovely project that some guerrilla craftswomen have been participating in - they take down flags, then paint or embroider something positive and/or progressive on them, thus changing the context, and then they rehang them. Sod £1M, let's do this instead!

🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 4h

There's still time! Besides, I reckon redheads look gorgeous in red!

🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 4h

Not a Viva prep tip, but wearing red knickers is said to boost confidence...

a cartoon rabbit wearing a red bikini bottom .

ALT: a cartoon rabbit wearing a red bikini bottom .

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Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social · 4h

Had a pre-Viva meet with my supervisor this morning and I now have about 4 weeks to prep for the big day (eeeek!). He gave me tons of great advice but I am always up for more - so what is your best Viva prep tip? #PhDsky #academicsky

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 10h

Kemi Badenoch: "As George Bernard Shaw once said 'never wrestle with a pig'..."

David Cameron, lurking at the back of the room:

a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 9h

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 10h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 7h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 7h

Not just that, if a child grows up in a home where there are books, their vocabulary is thousands and thousands of words richer than those that don't. This gives them better life chances, they are more socialised and there is less death as they can read labels on medication & other hazardous stuff.

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 11h

Good morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day!

To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869.

📷 Reserve 591.92 TAN

#WorldOctopusDay #OctopusDay #RareBooks

Cropped image showing an engraving of an octopus

Full-page engraving from a book. It shows an octopus lying on the seabed, with a squid and a cuttlefish coming towards. The cuttlefish is making a cloud. The engraving is captioned: 'Plate XI. A Poulpe. A Cuttle-Fish Making His Cloud. A Calmar'.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 10h

I think the Anakin/Padmé meme is appropriate here.

🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think it's that. I think they don't want people studying courses that lead to critical thinking, analysis or questioning of the ruling classes. A work of fiction can change minds, a style of clothing can challenge the establishment, history repeats itself. It's far too dangerous to teach.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

I can say, after many, many years of conker experimentation, that this particular piece of spider folklore doesn't work! However, an alternative is at hand...🕷️ liza-frank.com/household-sp... #FolkloreAgony #HouseholdLore #Folklore #Spiders

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that's very good.

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

RISQUE GALORE

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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