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Polkagoat
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Voracious reader, Central Asian history, history, fibre arts, gardening, tomato breeding, cats, dogs, blues, and hockey. Canadian. I don't like doomers or fascists.
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This boy loves bees
Bee eating lab and his squeaky banana
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Book mail today.
Anima Fatua by Anna Lidia Vega Serova. The Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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This whole album is fantastic to listen to vinyl.
Still Bright by Amythyst Kiah vinyl album.
September 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Book mail! Pretty relevant today
The Cold War in Europe: Era of a Divided Continent by Charles S. Maier. Cover shows a split map of Europe coloured blue and red.
September 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Found two great albums recently by Amythyst Kiah and Samantha Fish. Really love Gods Under the Mountain by Amythyst Kiah
Amythyst Kiah vinyl with her on the cover. Background is orange with a muted sun and some plants Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton vinyl with both of them on the cover. Cover is yellow and black portraits of them
August 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Black lab snoot
August 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Found a great book today. The world to come: Ukrainian images of the last judgement. Cover is an image from the Bogliarka icon in Bratislava
Image of the Bogliarka icon . Portrays the last judgement with devils, the damned, the tempted and the saints
July 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Found a couple great albums today
Dr John the Night Tripper Remedies vinyl album. Samantha Fish Belle of the west vinyl album
July 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Pelican throwing hands on a beach
June 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Stopped by a bookstore I hadn’t visited before and found lots of great books @magpiebooks.bsky.social
Stack of books found at Magpie Books. Titles include: Heaven looks like us by George Abraham The Unicorn woman by Gayl Jones Nights too short to dance by Marie-Claire Blais Napalm in the heart by Pol Gausch The pure and the impure by Colette Mornings without Mii by Mayumi Inaba We are green and trembling by Gabriela Cameron Camara Reservoir bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda We speak through the mountain by Premee Mohamed The annual migration of clouds by Premee Mohamed
June 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Found a great book today. I’ve read only one chapter but it was an emotional journey between giggling and being horrified.
Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno Garcia. Cover depicts a woman smoking a cigarette and wearing big sunglasses. A very noir vibe
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Found this book recently and it’s a stunning read. Highly recommend.
Ukrainian poetry book titled “A crash course in Molotov cocktails” by Halyna Kruk. Cover shows two abstract figures in red and white block holding each other
June 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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No thanks.
Tanks being transported by train to a parade to honour a draft dodger
June 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Bookmail! Hope to start this one soon.
To the success of our hopeless cause: the many lives of the Soviet dissident movement by Benjamin Nathans
May 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Went out to two of my favourite used book stores and came home with loot.
Large stack of history books Another large stack of history books A third stack of history books Final stack of history books
May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Found some new books. A little poetry, non fiction, fiction
A stack of books. This day is dark, Dengue boy, The conspiracy against the human race, What to expect when you’re dead, Shroud.
May 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Happy black lab with a squeaky banana in his mouth
May 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I took this pic in London. Seems relevant
Statue of Millicent Fawcett in London. Millicent is holding a banner that says “courage calls to courage everywhere” Statue of Millicent Fawcett in London. Millicent is holding a banner that says “courage calls to courage everywhere”
April 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Bookmail! I’m excited to start this one this weekend
Goethe: his Faustian life by A.N. Wilson. Covers has a portrait of Goethe on it
April 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Seen in London. It’s probably my favourite statue in this part of London.
Statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett holding sign that says “courage calls to courage everywhere”. Found near Westminster Abbey Closeup pic of Millicents’s sign saying “courage calls to courage everywhere”
April 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Found two amazing prints at the Imperial War Museum in London. I highly recommend visiting this museum
Post with blue and red blocks. There is a woman in aviation gear in the forefront with more women in aviation in the red block. “The future is female” is written in the blue block Poster that says “keep mum she’s not so dumb! Careless talk costs lives”. There is a beautiful woman slouching on a sofa with military men behind her gabbing away.
April 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Found this great book in Belgium
Russia’s Last Gasp:the eastern front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar. Cover is black and white with Russian grenadiers.
April 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Found in the Invalide in Paris
French resistance poster from the Invalide museum in Paris. Blue and white background with a German soldier head in centre. Red flames rise up centre right to the head with white hands choking soldier. Poster says “ French resistance helps throttle the boche “ at the bottom
March 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A new find today in La Havre
Wanted poster for genocide found in La Havre. Poster shows Netanyahu and Gallant.
March 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Saw this lovely hippo at the Louvre
Blue hippo from Egypt at the louvre museum
March 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM