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Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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People who never read books now in charge of books.
May 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Alphabet Updated With 15 Exciting New Replacement Letters
theonion.com/alphabe...
May 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Read Patricia Lockwood’s famed review of John Updike – angel, critic, ‘malfunctioning sex robot’ – here:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I love the London Review of Books.
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A frog wizard and his faithful familiar on this international bat day

These two will be the leads on my next frog book (whenever I finally get to it)
April 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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April 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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For the most part, sprawl means those of us who are nondrivers (youth, disabled people, people aging out of driving) are stuck at home or reliant on favors from family and friends to meet our basic needs. This shouldn’t be our future.
Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.
America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What a show/story etc
April 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Commentary: "Trump, a man who dodged the draft with phony bone spurs, and Hegseth, who has spent his career exploiting veterans for personal and political gain, have done more to dishonor military service than any foreign adversary’s propaganda ever could."
Trump and Hegseth Are Dishonoring Black and Latino Veterans' Service
The Pentagon’s Arlington National Cemetery website deleted Black, Latino, and women webpage memorials as part of Trump and Hegseth’s DEI purge.
www.rollingstone.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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IMPORTANT ALERT:
March 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Packing up plates ~ #finechina
March 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And this too ~
March 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Finally reading this :)
March 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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‘The Augustan Romans, masters of a tricontinental empire, had need of works like Agrippa’s “Orbis Terrarum” and Strabo’s “Geographica” that could help them conceptualise their vast domain.’

James Romm on a new edition of Strabo’s ‘Geography’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Romm · Mapped Out: The World according to Strabo
Strabo’s rather egregious overestimate of the eastern extension of Asia may have reached the ears of the mathematician...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Some further thoughts at Ye Olde Blogge as to why you have to talk about your art, and why sharing it is not trivial:
Please Promote Your Work In The Face Of Uninvited Nightmare
I’ve seen people say they don’t want to share their books, their art, their work right now because it seems trivial in the shadows of these dark times, and I thought, I should talk abou…
terribleminds.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
End of day snowshoe :) ❄️❄️❄️
February 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM