Victoria
@vixilated.bsky.social
Bookdragon. Educator: NYC History, Movies. Dancer past. Freaked out citizen of a flawed, now hijacked, "Democracy". What have black people ever done to you???
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‘The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
December 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
‘The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.’ ~ E Brontë #BookWormSat
🖼️ Pekka Halonen
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How to criticize with kindness – philosopher Daniel Dennett on the 4 steps to arguing intelligently www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d...
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?”
www.themarginalian.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
How to criticize with kindness – philosopher Daniel Dennett on the 4 steps to arguing intelligently www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d...
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Winter Sunrise, S R Badmin.
December 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Winter Sunrise, S R Badmin.
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Thank you for your amazing posts throughout the year, dear Bibliophiles! Wishing you a magical 2026!
Looking forward to seeing you next year on #BookologyThursday ✨
Looking forward to seeing you next year on #BookologyThursday ✨
December 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Thank you for your amazing posts throughout the year, dear Bibliophiles! Wishing you a magical 2026!
Looking forward to seeing you next year on #BookologyThursday ✨
Looking forward to seeing you next year on #BookologyThursday ✨
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Book Cover of the Day:
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
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1933 newspaper article on artist Frida Kahlo #WomensArt
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
1933 newspaper article on artist Frida Kahlo #WomensArt
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According to a Flemish folktale, a woman rumoured to be a witch only left her house during the winter months. She once gave her neighbours enchanted apples that danced during the night. Instead of rejoicing at the sight, they were scared out of their wits.
🎨Florence Harrison
🎨Florence Harrison
December 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
According to a Flemish folktale, a woman rumoured to be a witch only left her house during the winter months. She once gave her neighbours enchanted apples that danced during the night. Instead of rejoicing at the sight, they were scared out of their wits.
🎨Florence Harrison
🎨Florence Harrison
💜💖
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
💜💖
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Good evening! This week's theme was Christmas 🎄
Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.
Have a great Christmas and wonderful 2026 🎄👋🏻
Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.
Have a great Christmas and wonderful 2026 🎄👋🏻
December 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Good evening! This week's theme was Christmas 🎄
Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.
Have a great Christmas and wonderful 2026 🎄👋🏻
Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.
Have a great Christmas and wonderful 2026 🎄👋🏻
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Just been up there - apparently they've been told to be out by the end of January, after 44 years. They're fighting hard, and really want people to sign this petition. Please spread it wide!
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Just been up there - apparently they've been told to be out by the end of January, after 44 years. They're fighting hard, and really want people to sign this petition. Please spread it wide!
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Business Rates: From next April, rates will rise by 115% for the average hotel and 76% for a pub, compared with 4% for large supermarkets and 7% for distribution warehouses
"when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves—for you will have lost the last of England"
Business Rates: From next April, rates will rise by 115% for the average hotel and 76% for a pub, compared with 4% for large supermarkets and 7% for distribution warehouses
"when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves—for you will have lost the last of England"
December 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Business Rates: From next April, rates will rise by 115% for the average hotel and 76% for a pub, compared with 4% for large supermarkets and 7% for distribution warehouses
"when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves—for you will have lost the last of England"
Business Rates: From next April, rates will rise by 115% for the average hotel and 76% for a pub, compared with 4% for large supermarkets and 7% for distribution warehouses
"when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves—for you will have lost the last of England"
😆
December 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
😆
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Christmas in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2024/12/chri... #Christmas
Christmas in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net
Did you know the Christmas traditions we cherish today—from carols to decorated trees—have their roots in the Middle Ages? This feature explores how the festive season evolved through centuries of…
www.medievalists.net
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Christmas in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2024/12/chri... #Christmas
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A beautiful piece on landscape, loss, and transformation by one of my favourite writers: Terry Tempest Williams, based in Utah.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
A Hollow Bone – Terry Tempest Williams
Bringing us into her love affair with the receding Great Salt Lake, Terry Tempest Williams embraces a fearless interspecies intimacy and summons us to be present with the losses in this landscape.
emergencemagazine.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A beautiful piece on landscape, loss, and transformation by one of my favourite writers: Terry Tempest Williams, based in Utah.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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This is why Johnson sent the Congress home during the Shutdown for 54 days, nearly 8 weeks, so the FBI would have time to redact Trumps name from the Epstein files.
What a joke !
What a joke !
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is why Johnson sent the Congress home during the Shutdown for 54 days, nearly 8 weeks, so the FBI would have time to redact Trumps name from the Epstein files.
What a joke !
What a joke !
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
Gotta love the righteous indignation at the duplicity of the non-release; also gotta wonder how naive folks can be to think anything would have gone to any extent otherwise.
December 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Gotta love the righteous indignation at the duplicity of the non-release; also gotta wonder how naive folks can be to think anything would have gone to any extent otherwise.
Emma Thompson in Down Cemetery Road: "No Means Fuck Off" 😂🤣
December 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Emma Thompson in Down Cemetery Road: "No Means Fuck Off" 😂🤣
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New snow | Edward Munch
December 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New snow | Edward Munch
Dear England, You are, at best, 6 months behind us; please stop. Follow your highest not our lowest nature.
“Why are these columns published to appease the deluded?”
And the prize for the most joyless and miserable newspaper column of the year goes to…
December 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Dear England, You are, at best, 6 months behind us; please stop. Follow your highest not our lowest nature.
Ethan Hawke, being deep, and full of what I would call Hot Tips for Actors/Performers/Artists:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9Q...
Sydney Sweeney & Ethan Hawke | Actors on Actors
YouTube video by Variety
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Ethan Hawke, being deep, and full of what I would call Hot Tips for Actors/Performers/Artists:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9Q...
I don't know either one of them, but the idea of
Emma Thompson and Greg Wise is
pretty sexy...
Emma Thompson and Greg Wise is
pretty sexy...
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I don't know either one of them, but the idea of
Emma Thompson and Greg Wise is
pretty sexy...
Emma Thompson and Greg Wise is
pretty sexy...
You know what?
FK. DEZE. GUYZ.
FK. DEZE. GUYZ.
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
You know what?
FK. DEZE. GUYZ.
FK. DEZE. GUYZ.