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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

📍Barna Woods, Galway. Trees damaged during Storm Éowyn transformed into these beautiful pieces.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 3d

“In the future, people will look back and thank John Gibbons for what he has done for Irish farmers, just like his father before him”.

Very positive review of THE LIE OF THE LAND in current edition of Village magazine by former Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan.

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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been away, but I hope you’re all well. It’s nice to be back & here’s to magical autumn in Brambly Hedge ♥️🍂 (created by Jill Barklem)

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3d

Pink empress Mantis

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David Soto @davsot.bsky.social · 2d

Viaje a las Terranas 🇩🇴

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 2d

All Greece hates…
… God’s daughter, born of love

Helen by H.D.
(No one does alienation — from society & circumstance — like H.D. Calm distant fire)
#poetrysunday

All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles, hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white, remembering past enchantments and past ills.
Greece sees unmoved,
God's daughter, born of love, the beauty of cool feet and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid, only if she were laid, white ash amid funereal cypresses.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

In this NYT review, Jacob Heilbrunn is writing about the past, but could be writing about the Stephen Miller present: "Goebbels had good reason to believe that American bigotry could be exploited for Nazi gain." The spirit of Goebbels stalks the halls of the White House today, and his image.

These New Yorkers Hated Fascists Before It Was Cool

www.nytimes.com

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 3d

Georgia, you’re not alone — we’re with you all the way.

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Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 5d

I met Bishop (now Archbishop) Sarah in 2022 when she was the speaker for the Church Club dinner. We had a wonderful conversation, including about inclusiveness and I spoke to her husband as well. Really great and of course, historic news!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury

No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service Sarah Mullally has been named as the first female leader of the Church of England as Downing Street announced the 106th archbishop of Canterbury nearly a year on from Justin Welby’s resignation over the handling of a safeguarding scandal. This is the first time an archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen since the Church of England allowed women to become bishops in 2014. Continue reading...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury

No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service Sarah Mullally has been named as the first female leader of the Church of England as Downing Street announced the 106th archbishop of Canterbury nearly a year on from Justin Welby’s resignation over the handling of a safeguarding scandal. This is the first time an archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen since the Church of England allowed women to become bishops in 2014. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 5d

Claus Offe was a major thinker who influenced many disciplines. I was privileged to hear him speak once. A very sad loss

Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 6d

Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 6d

She placed this striking young person from the first in a story, saw her, by a necessity of the imagination, for a heroine, felt it the only character in which she wouldn't be wasted;

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

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Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 6d

At Bus Stop Café, Greenwich Village

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 6d

Jane Goodall made the world a better place.

She helped shape how we view the world around us, fought vehemently for the environment, and her love of chimpanzees was infectious. She will be greatly missed.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

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Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social · 6d

Let’s try this post again with the full appropriate title.

@ronajohnson.bsky.social’s new book —Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution—is out this month! 👇🏼

Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 6d

📚These are the new books we are releasing this October. 📚🌟
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-published-in-october-2025/

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Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 6d

A memory of a place and lost things…

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 8d

“I don’t belong to anyone. I am the daughter of Thomas Gardner of Nantucket.”
yesterdaysisland.com/the-exciting... In 1850, Nancy Gardener Prince, a Black Nantucket descendant who traveled the world in the 1800s, self-published her life story, wh/proved so popular that it went through 3 editions.

The Exciting Life of Nancy Gardner Prince

The Nantucket Historical Association releases The Adventures of Nancy Gardner Prince, an illustrated edition of her remarkable life story.

yesterdaysisland.com

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Mercury Natis @mercuryreads.bsky.social · 8d

Just got back from a family trip to Riga, and came back with some artists I now really like a lot: Janis Rozentāls (1866-1916) and Sigismunds Vidbergs (1890-1970).

Black and white photo of Janis Rozenthals as a young man, in a suit with a moustage and his arms akimbo

Black and white photo of Sigismunds Vidbergs as an older man in a black suit

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Maxou Rona 🎸 @maxourona.bsky.social · 9d

WE HAVE WON! 🇲🇩🇪🇺 Moldova has chosen Europe. Mulțumesc!

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Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 9d

Rockwell Kent painting of Greenland, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 9d

At the university of Delaware botanic Gardens

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 10d

One of genealogies of Media Studies is that many early methods began as advocacy strategies of 1940s media reform, in the attempt to change broadcast regulation to allow for more educational channels. Put differently, Media Studies originated as a research movement to build US Public Media.

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Nicholas Birns @nicholasbirns.bsky.social · 11d

If Arthedain had decisively beaten all the other kingdoms in the north in Third Age 1600 that would be about the equivalent. It made France the leading country in Europe.

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 11d

I’m always game to follow the data in publishing, and so grateful when the smartest folks (like @tajjaisen.bsky.social) want to hop in the weeds with me. A brilliant piece of reporting.

Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 11d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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