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I'm still trying to formulate where I am on that. I abandoned several books because I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters. But relatable is not similar, or I'd be out of fiction altogether

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🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

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The very talented Sydney Padua made pictures based on the jobs Victorian woman had according to the 1881 census, reminding us they didn't all just stayed at home cooking and looking after the kids. This should be a book. sydneypadua.com

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Honored to be juried into the annual Infected By Art competition with a 5th Place Grand Prize recognition from the jury for my oil painting, Frodo's Inheritance. Congratulations to all the jury selected artists. Infected By Art is run by Todd Spoor and Bill Cox, this new collection will bring ...

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If you have never seen a pre-Code (right-wing Hollywood censorship apparatus) movie, do yourself a favor and watch one like this. You will not believe what they were up to in movies back then. The cut of Clara Bow's dress in this would have been completely verboten just a few years later.

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Still more useful than Gemini

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A few more owl photos on this #SuperbOwl Sunday, because why not? #wildlife #birds

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New Shakespearean insult just dropped

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Wake up babe, new JWST image just dropped 💯 🔭 🧪

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Ok, wait. I've inherited several small containers of pennies. Could I start a treasure hunt for local children? 🤔

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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

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Grammar pet peeve - using "and I" when "and me" is correct

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I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn’t exist.

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Tea with the Black Dragon is my cursed book - every time I start, something happens to derail my reading. But I keep coming back because it is clearly a very special book

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Ballrbs

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Egyptian blue pigment found in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. The pigments were used in wall paintings. In #Roman times, Egyptian blue was distributed throughout the Empire in a more or less standardised form of small balls of 15-20 mm in diameter. 🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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She looks like this was the only way the painter could get her to stay still, but once she got to the good part she was happy to model for ours

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Looks like the follow bots figured out that they shouldn't follow too many accounts at once

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I'd like Snippy to play me in my biopic

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My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

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how it feels when you're an introvert and go to a social gathering:

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There are few certainties in the world, but one of them is that the account with no posts that tried to follow me is not the real Shania Twain

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I'm not really one for fan art but here is the gang from T.Kingfisher s book Nettle and Bone 🦴

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So many book summaries make all fantasy sound the same. "She is an outcast who must choose between practicing her Special but Forbidden Gift and boning the hot enemy, but to save the world, she must do both" The books may all be unique but the summaries

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/

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Welcome to the Year of the Luminous Lemur. @terryandrob.bsky.social

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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

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