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Re: Last Week 1. Chose commoner bride 2. Announced betrothal 3. Planned wedding 4. Hired men to kidnap her 5. Framed Gilder for it Frankly I’m swamped.

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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California’s connecting MPAs, and fish populations are rebounding Fish biomass has surged throughout California's 25-year-old marine protected area network, with the greatest gains in older reserves containing diverse habitats. https://buff.ly/4hMwBoR #ShareGoodNewsToo

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A List of Things People Blamed for the High Cost of Living 🧵

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In terms of the female bald Centauri, some of those were skull caps, and others weren't; we let it be known that we wanted to support women going through chemo or other treatments who had lost their hair by casting them here, money that could also help pay for medical bills.

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"Our streets are now more safe. There has been a 51% decrease in injuries and a 55% decrease in crashes in the congestion relief zone compared to the same period in January 2024."

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Done! Hugely looking forward to reading this and @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social's "The Benefactors". I love a good pre-order.

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Be a shark in a sea of stars! ✨ #pottery

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A Polish acquaintance went to British Museum specifically to see this tablet only to be cheated by Ea-nasir from beyond the grave

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Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

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This is pretty clearly the result of someone not thinking things through sufficiently before making a wish

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Finished my rewatch of season 3 of Babylon 5. But it's in a week long limbo now where it's gone from Prime and only on a Discovery trial but then it's back? So no screenshots atm but it hits just as hard numberofyearsidontwanttothinkabout later.

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Huge thanks to Premee for spending time with us this morning. We all loved these stories! And hearing Premee read from her new collection was like magic! @premeemohamed.com @psychopomp.com

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Scientists have reconstructed the insane weather of Tylos, a world so hot, and so close to its sun that the clouds are made of vaporised metal, and where it rains liquid sapphires and rubies. https://buff.ly/41a3GnB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Can we save coral? I think so. Moorea reel part deux. 🦑🌎

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I ordered @adapalmer.bsky.social 's Inventing the Renaissance through the post and have been eagerly awaiting its arrival. Postie staggered to the door with it today. Nobody warned me it is SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY FREAKING PAGES LONG. Is it really a good idea to start reading during the semester?

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PSA: When feeling stressed, remember the miracle of modern technology that you can listen to the overture from Branaugh's "Much Ado About Nothing" at any time! youtu.be/sJKPLjjE91k?...

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Daffodils, Mary Delaney, 1776.

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BRB, haven't finished writing my book yet! Hans Weiditz satirizing self-aggrandizing scribblers in the "Petrarch" Book of Good and Bad Fortune, Frankfurt, Egelnoffs Erben, 1572. @dbellingradt.bsky.social

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Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

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I met Leland Melvin in 2017. He was very kind. When I apologized for fan girling a little and being annoying he said I wasn't annoying and that even if i had been ultimately it was his job as a public servant to be there for the public

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#SomethingBeautiful the Duomo lit up on the edge of night

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Another in my series of libraries Wren Library (interior), Trinity College, Cambridge #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

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Making Discovery Easy: Designing a Better Library Search Experience #UX 📚 blogs.lib.umich.edu/tiny-studies...

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LGBTQIA+ in the Renaissance, now as a blog post www.exurbe.com/lgbtqia-rean... and @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance is out in the UK (coming to the US in March) and I am starting to see it in bookshops in Florence!

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Todays @wikipedia.org page of the day is the page on Tesla’s relationship with labor unions. What a great topic to have an exemplary Wikipedia page. Kudos to those who teamed up to make it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_a...

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Queer Palestinian singer Bashar Murad for Vogue Japan. He wears an "Intifada Obi", which includes embroideries made by Gazan refugee women, supported by a collective that preserve Palestinian embroidery in kimono designs. My favorite songs from him are "Mashkara" and "Antenne". 📷: Hiroshi Asakura

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A phenomenol joke.

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@jacklynch000.bsky.social you got a wearable Johnson dictionary yet?! getmansvirtual.com/philip-salmo...

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THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 8 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

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A must read. @lollardfish.bsky.social

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just ordered myself some ! do it while you still can 🥺

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It was such a joy discussing Inventing the Renaissance with New Books Network!

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#Medieval records reveal that transgender people existed long before modern medicine or assumptions about gender. An English literature scholar has been diving into 14th-century archives: By Sarah Barringer, University of Iowa 🩺 🗃️ #histsci https://buff.ly/3EGttMl

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