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Michelle at Paper Blogging
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Sound walking, drawing, and noticing daily in Harvard's Arnold Arboretum.
Blending analog tools with digital reality.

Analog joys explored online: www.paperblogging.com
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Michelle at Paper Blogging @paperblogging.bsky.social · Nov 21
Studio view. "Sometimes you have to make your own sunshine." One of my kids made me this card after I wrote this: www.paperblogging.com/stories/27-w...

#rainyday #typewriters And yes, I do use this shiny beasty, most days.
Smith-Corona Silent 8 typewriter, tray of colorful TWSBI fountain pens, hand-painted card on windowsill with quote, 'sometimes you have to make your sunshine.'
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theatlantic.com
There's no use in making the humanities relevant, @chatterton.bsky.social argues, because "the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one:"
Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’
For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
A 2kg book of Olivetti’s design history.

www.presentandcorrect.com/products/oli...

Our final restock on these for 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
Hot off the keyboard and gifted:

Hegseth has to go.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social
After Kennedy’s assassination, NBC newscaster Chet Huntley spoke about the “ominous and sickening popularity of hatred” in the US. A viewer wrote to him, hoping that people would learn from his message.

jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/chpp-001-003#?image_identifier=CHPP-001-003-p0117
On Friday evening while talking about the tragic death of President Kennedy you delivered a very short and poignant speech on the hate we Americans have been building up recently. I wish we might all read, re-read, and hear again your words and most of all heed them. Perhaps President Kennedy will not have died in vain if we could learn this one lesson of the futility of hatred. All reporters, announcers and commentators deserve a special word of praise for their coverage during this tragic period - and of course a special word of praise to you and your co-worker, David Brinkley.
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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archivist1001.bsky.social
Here's the AD that caused the meltdown

youtu.be/XWQRuRIxMBI?...
Now he's made the commercial MORE FAMOUS!
The Ontario anti-tariff ad which led Trump to end trade talks with Canada
YouTube video by Global News
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October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
paperblogging.bsky.social
Touch grass.
My response.

www.paperblogging.com/stories/go-o...

Walk, see, sketch, wonder.
It helps.
Go Outside & Touch Some Grass: the Fall Meadow — Paper Blogging
At this time of year, I walk to the meadow on Peters Hill in the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University every day. It’s too good to miss.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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onlyinbos.bsky.social
The Garden of Remembrance in the Boston Public Garden honors over 200 New Englanders lost on 9/11, with a Callery pear tree, cultivated from the 9/11 Survivor Tree found intact at Ground Zero, as a symbol of resilience and renewal.

💚
September 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
paperblogging.bsky.social
Basically, my ideal day.
September 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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meganpiont.bsky.social Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · Aug 25
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

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Please share!
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August 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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And the rainbow! @universalhub.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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rowanauthor.bsky.social
Gentlecreatures, if any of you is on Instagram, go turn off the new map feature that tells everybody where you are.
August 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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jonostrower.com
This is a great mini-doc from @nytimes.com about the camera and its role in shaping how we see the world. Just remember, that the airplane (and yes, train, car, boat, horse) is the only *real* way to find the truth. You have to go there and see it all for yourself. youtu.be/Sf3wEg9tsCY...
Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth? | Death of a Fantastic Machine | Op-Docs
YouTube video by The New York Times
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July 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'From a Window at 45 Brook Street, London, W1' (1926) by Cedric Lockwood Morris

(National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff)
July 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
paperblogging.bsky.social
@gratefullysarah.bsky.social thank you for your beautiful, restful photos.
June 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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mkoh.bsky.social
Here are links to specfice Harvard government courses offered to the public for free. Spread the word:
* pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...
* pll.harvard.edu/course/us-pu...
* pll.harvard.edu/course/citiz...
* pll.harvard.edu/course/us-po...
* pll.harvard.edu/course/we-pe...
May 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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cissybgood67.bsky.social
The Sole Prototype of the First Chinese #Typewriter Was Discovered in a New York Basement

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-sole-pro...
The Sole Prototype of the First Chinese Typewriter Was Discovered in a New York Basement
The whole notion that a language with around 80,000 written characters could somehow be adapted for use in a typewriter seems bonkers.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
paperblogging.bsky.social
Lovely Greek typewriter but with English capitals in unexpected places.

This beauty seemed completely unused. Sold to a retired minister who plans to add Greek scripture to her collage art.
May 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
paperblogging.bsky.social
I'm giving away this beautiful Hunter Red Smith-Corona Galaxie! Enter to win at the link. Deadline to enter May 13th EST. #typewriter #giveaway

www.paperblogging.com/stories/the-...
The Paper Blogging Typewriter Giveaway 2025 — Paper Blogging
It’s time for the 2025 typewriter giveaway! Every year, I like to give away at least one typewriter, and it’s time for the 2025 giveaway! And for another year, I’ve found a Hunter Red Smith-Corona Ga...
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May 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
My life as a reader will not be complete until I get hold of one of these 18th Century book wheels, designed to allow a person to keep seven books open at once.
A 300 year-old book wheel in the Bibliotecha Palafoxiana, Mexico.
April 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
paperblogging.bsky.social
Perfection at the Arnold Arboretum last week. #Boston #Spring #Cherry #SaturdayPhotography
April 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
The great @hcrichardson.bsky.social from her speech on the 250th anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church. Read this excerpt to the end and you will be rewarded. Read it aloud and it gets better. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2...
Heather Cox Richardson says in her speech: "Revere simply offered what he could to the cause: engraving skills, information, knowledge of a church steeple, longstanding friendships that helped to create a network. And on April 18, he and his friends set out to protect the men who were leading the fight to establish a representative government. The work of Newman and Pulling to light the lanterns exactly 250 years ago tonight sounds even less heroic. They agreed to cross through town to light two lanterns in a church steeple. It sounds like such a very little thing to do, and yet by doing it, they risked imprisonment or even death. It was such a little thing…but it was everything. And what they did, as with so many of the little steps that lead to profound change, was largely forgotten until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used their story to inspire a later generation to work to stop tyranny in his own time. What Newman and Pulling did was simply to honor their friendships and their principles and to do the next right thing, even if it risked their lives, even if no one ever knew. And that is all anyone can do as we work to preserve the concept of human self-determination. In that heroic struggle, most of us will be lost to history, but we will, nonetheless, move the story forward, even if just a little bit. And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze.
April 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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April 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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northendpage.bsky.social
On the Old North church tonight
April 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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emersonwbaker.bsky.social
#OTD April 18, 1775, Boston, c. 10PM. Revere left Dr. Warren and went to Robert Newman's home. The church sexton with Thomas Bernard & Captain John Pulling, entered Old North Church, climbed the church tower, and briefly signaled to the Charlestown group with two lanterns, to prepare for Revere.
April 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM