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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 9h

Always love your posts! Thank you for sharing. 😊

Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 1d

The first line of "Fahrenheit 451" is: "It was a pleasure to burn." This is the essence of Donald Trump's appeal. Truly making America great would involve hard work. Keeping America angry? That's easy.

#bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #trump #maga #raybradbury #fahrenheit451 #booksky

A photo of Ray Bradbury's book "Fahrenheit 451," in front of glowing embers.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 1d

The woman is a goddess of words. 🤍

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 1d

"In the pewter mornings, the cat,
a black fur sausage with yellow
Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries
to get onto my head. It's his
way of telling whether or not I'm dead.
If I'm not, he wants to be scratched; if I am
he'll think of something."

Margaret Atwood, from "February"
#cats #poetry

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 4d

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"
- Helen Exley

#helenexley
#bannedbooksweek
#bannedbooks
#bookbans
#censorship
#books
#booksky

Photo of travel mug with a quote from Helen Exley: "Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 4d

Insta's idiotic insistence on cramming everything into a square was one of the many reasons I left. Apart from that, I was always amazed by how many often Insta would drastically alter the contrast of black and white images. Truly an awful platform.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 4d

Tina Was Here. Chicago, 2018.

#graffiti #tinabelcher #bobsburgers #silly #butts #iheartbutts #istandwithtina

Black and white photo of graffiti along a Chicago street: "I (heart) butts"

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Zeus (and Hera) @zeusherashare.bsky.social · 4d

✌️📖🤓 (Taken from the interwebs)

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 4d

On the Edge. Model: Sunshine
#blackandwhite #photography #monochrome #originalphotography #blackandwhitephotography #sunshine #chicagomodel #chicagophotographer #sansbook

A black and white photo of a young woman in a leopard print body suit, reclining in front of a window overlooking offices in downtown Chicago.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 6d

"Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden."

Mark Twain, "Eve's Diary"

#marktwain #eve'sdiary #adamandeve #eden #love

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 6d

Hope would be nice. We could definitely use some hope if you can find some out there.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 6d

Funny, didn't Trump disavow Project 2025 during his campaign? Nah, my memory must be faulty. It's not like he would lie, right?

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 7d

Easier said than done — If only we could listen more and say less. I'm working on it.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 6d

"[P]oets and playwrights as a group show unusually severe symptoms of depression... by creating worlds of words... they can act with abandon, erasing from the mind the existence of a troubling reality."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "Flow"
#poets #poetry #writers #booksky #depression #flow #coping

A photo showing a passage from the book "Flow," (Harper Perennial, 2008) by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi: "Many have commented about the fact that poets and playwrights as a group show unusually severe symptoms of depression and other affective disorders. Perhaps one reason they become full-time writers is that their consciousness is beset by entropy to an usual degree; writing becomes a therapy for shaping some order among the confusion of feelings. It is possible that the only way writers can experience flow is by creating worlds of words in which they can act with abandon, erasing from the mind the existence of a troubling reality." The words "Without Joy" and "Doubt" can be seen on the cover of other books in the background of the photo.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 10d

Been writing again today.

A Man Tells Me To Get Back In The Kitchen
As though the kitchen is a small place, a place he believes should only fit women, he says the kitchen is where women stay out of trouble. But I remember the way women gathered in a kitchen, how grandmothers gave their daughters and granddaughters solace, the amount of women our mothers have carried through their brutal marriages around kitchen tables, the cadence of stories we have told each other as we build nourishing meals from mere ingredients - fierce fables and tales rooted in rage, how we plotted rebellions in kitchens, navigated painful secrets, taught each other politics, confided our fears, our sorrows, our anger - and found ways to help each other thrive. They relegated us to a "small space" but we made it magic, powerful, beautiful anyway.
Get back in the kitchen, he says. Without realising, that in my home, the kitchen is where the revolution is.
- Nikita Gill

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 10d

"O you shunned persons, I at least do not shun you,
I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,
I will be more to you than to any of the rest."

Walt Whitman, from "Native Moments"

#waltwhitman #nativemoments #poetry #poets #literature #outsiders #shunned

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 11d

Tattered Literature. Model: Diem

#womenandbooks #blackandwhite #photography #monochrome #hiddenwomen #diem #chicagophotographer #latenightposts

Black and white photo of a woman, unclothed, holding an old and tattered book.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 11d

"What had she said about passion and the elements?... There she was, a cloud black-bosomed and charged with thunder, and he, like some absurd little Benjamin Franklin, had sent up a kite into the heart of the menace. Now he was complaining that his toy had drawn the lightning."

Aldous Huxley
#quote

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 14d

Ahhh, Henry! So that's it. I always wondered what the "H" stood for.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 14d

"I Have Seen a Road," from "Chinese Love Poems," Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, 1942. The author is anonymous, and the translation is by Peter Rudolph.

#poetry #poetrybooks #chinesepoetry #lovepoems #chineselovepoems #vintagebooks #peterpauperpress #books #booksky

Photo showing an excerpt from a poem called "I Have Seen a Road," by an anonymous author, from the the book "Chinese Love Poems." (Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, 1942.) The excerpt reads: "When she was born, they bound her little feet with leather bands; my beloved never walks the road of shade and flowers. When she was born, they bound her little heart with leather bands; my beloved never listens to my song."

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 15d

It is not until I am back home that I notice that the pretty young woman who helped me at the store has written her name on the receipt. Her name, in another language, means "Happiness," and she has added a smiley face.

This small thing makes me happy.

#happiness #kindness #sachi #happy

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 15d

Elegant photos, eloquent words.

Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social · 16d

Organic Reach: Thread Count
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Latest temporary gallery is up! I love this one - the photos are a vibe and I'm very proud of the poem 🖤
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laurenjanek.com/organicreach

Two images side by side. The image on the left is bright and rotated, a body stretched out on the bed legs bent, anonymous face not visible just the landscape of bent knee, long thigh, sweep of hip and dip of waste, anonymous and dressed in pale beige underwear, displayed on a bed, silk and cotton and rumpled sheets. The image is flipped upside down - and seems to melt almost seamlessly into the image on the right. Darker - the same body but right side up, a similar pose but their knee pulled higher their hand reaching back... The composition of each image. The rotation of one photo creates a strange, almost confusing, but somehow perfectly aligned tangent.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 16d

"To combine the rational and the intuitive, the straight line and the curve. The one without the other doesn't balance; it is the juxtaposition of the two that informs the whole."

Maya Lin, "Boundaries"

#mayalin #design #art #architecture #brilliantwomen #balance

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 17d

The first few times it happened, the appeal was successful almost immediately. The last few have gotten no response.

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Pandora Books @pandora-books.bsky.social · 18d

I love Bluesky, but this is frustrating. It's not just happening to me: Other photographers have commented on the same thing. Photos are being inexplicably marked as "explicit sexual images." Did they hire John Ashcroft to review posts? WTF?

#bluesky #frustrating #photography #nudity #censorship

Sceen capture of an appeal of a content label automatically applied by Bluesky: "Are these labels being added automatically? They are wrong. This is at least the 4th or 5th time one of my photos has been labeled as an "explicit sexual image." If you do not differentiate between artistic nudity and sexual images, why do you even have the categories?"

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