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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 1m

Dolly might have something to say 'bout that...

📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 2m

Shakespeare was a prescient genius. Quoth he:

"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the frogs of war"

Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.

And this is where we are now!

Man in inflatable frog costume faces off with ICE in Portland.

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 7h

Go your own way.

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Greg Fields @gregfieldsauthor.bsky.social · 18h

Frank Herbert (1920-86) While writing an article about Oregon sand dunes he became enthralled by his research. He abandoned the article and wrote 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒆, which was rejected by 23 publishers before a small press known mainly for its auto-repair manuals took a chance

#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 9h

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) was born 105 years ago today.

Here's Frank Herbert with David Lynch, who wrote and directed the first Dune adaptation in 1984 (and who passed away in January).

David Lynch and Frank Herbert during the production of Dune (1984)

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 23h

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

Master Debator Row?

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

Gifts from the soil.
Gifts from above.
All these cat gifts,
are gifts of love ❤️ 🐱

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Louisemac.bsky.social @louisemac.bsky.social · 8h

Glasgow city lights… #Glasgow #Photography

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

I see the ghost of Groucho Marx 👀

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

Ah potato, potato...That old conservative repurposing, of other's values as and when it suits.

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 8h

Dystopian fiction is NOT A HOW TO GUIDE.

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

Should be a how not to guide... we are so very close to 'The Death of Grass' now.

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

Heard its whiskers Wednesday.

#catsky ❤️🐱

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

Powell?

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 8h

Shakespeare was a prescient genius. Quoth he:

"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the frogs of war"

Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.

And this is where we are now!

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📚Erin Houston📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 9h

I'm glad I came to your Ted Talk.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 16h

"Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

Blood Meridian (1985, McCarthy)