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Enchantra Sand📚🌻
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Reader and Recluse, Mother and Citizen. History📜, art, cookery, poetry, witchery, flora, fauna, music, literature, science, religion, anthropology, dogs, libraries. Maker of voluminous lists of books. Working class autodidact. No Fascists. #SlavaUkraini
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Enchantra Sand📚🌻 @enchantrasand.bsky.social · Feb 18
I have ten thousand books on my TBR list. I am 70. If you didn't just win the Nobel, I am probably not going to get to your book.
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meakoopa.bsky.social
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
samthielman.com CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 19h
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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tinseltowntwins.bsky.social
Enrique Rivero in The Blood of a Poet (1932) 🩸
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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snarkysteff.bsky.social
In case you didn’t see the original post. Just wow:
JOYCE CAROL OATES WUOTE TWEETING ELON MUSK: Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk @elonmusk 9 .. You are a taker, not a maker. All you've done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it becomes obvious that the path to prosperity for all is just let the makers make. Regarding Tesla, the reality is that I have been given nothing. However, if I lead Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world by far and it stays that way for 5 years, shareholders voted to award me 12% of what is built. Anyone who wants…
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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jimmello.bsky.social
ahem
OP skeet saying “he’s gonna post about a book he never read in 24 hours” in reference to Joyce Carol Oates accusing Elon Musk of not reading
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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lamhfada.bsky.social
Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates made recently about Elon Musk. Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce....17h ... So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates- scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This is meant as a message to anyone who will help Trump break the presidential term limits in the 22d Amendment: "You won't pay a price for undermining the Constitution for me."
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Symbolic Move, Trump Pardons 77 Allies Who Tried to Steal 2020 Election for Him
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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screenmedia.bsky.social
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal, Sandy Dennis “WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?” (1966) dir. Mike Nichols

🎬 Warner Bros.
#RichardBurton100
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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nytimes.com
The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina celebrates the Gullah Geechee people. But after several years of traffic complaints, the parade has been scaled back. Black residents say a new route makes it feel as if their legacy is vanishing. nyti.ms/3LxuAl2
A procession of vehicles, with people in sashes sitting atop, travels down a tree-lined street. A headline reads: "For Black South Carolina Residents, a Rerouted Parade Feels Like Erasure." Photo by Donaven Doughty for The New York Times
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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rmh111.bsky.social
Uncommon Common Camellia painted innocent pink. First bloom of the season for this bush.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Absolutely correct
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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screenmedia.bsky.social
A centenary celebration today of the late 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh-born stage, film, radio and television actor and narrator #RichardBurton CBE born #OnThisDay 100 years ago in Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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youngpilots.bsky.social
there is no opposition party. there is no left and right. both parties are conservative. both parties serve donors
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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ricva73.bsky.social
www.commondreams.org/news/republi...
GOP Accused of Trying to Slip Backdoor Abortion Ban Into Government Funding Bill | Common Dreams
"Trump said he’d leave abortion care up to the states. Well, this latest scheme makes it crystal clear: A de facto nationwide abortion ban has been his plan all along," said Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.
www.commondreams.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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pamkeithdc.bsky.social
Why is no one talking about the GOP effort to sneak a nationwide abortion ban into the CR?
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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softtail65.bsky.social
Does anyone know? 😉🤷‍♀️🤪
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ Albert Lebourg, c.1870.
A charcoal drawing titled Still Life with Candle by the French artist Albert Lebourg, c.1867-1870. The drawing depicts a dimly lit, intimate scene centered around a single burning candle. The flame casts a soft, gentle light. The light illuminates several objects on a surface, including a jug or pot, the candlestick, and a box-like form partially covered by a draped cloth.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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thebookerprizes.com
Our reading guide for Flesh by David Szalay includes everything you need to get to know this Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted novel:

☑️ Synopsis
☑️ Judges comments
☑️ An extract from the book
☑️ Discussion points
☑️ Book recommendations

https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/r4zrkzd7ct
Reading guide: Flesh by David Szalay | The Booker Prizes
A spare but propulsive novel, Flesh follows a man from adolescence to old age as he is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp
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November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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thebookerprizes.com
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’

We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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poetessoprunty.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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sal46.bsky.social
It doesn’t get much better than this!

Husker Du are cult legends but should’ve been bigger. But then their very appeal was that they never entirely fitted in: they didn’t look like typical rock stars, they were two thirds gay. That’s what made them cool.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=82t4...
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
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November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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nakhthor.bsky.social
Ashamed to say I had never heard of the work of David Brion Davis, historian of slavery (and National Humanities Medal recipient under Obama)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...
David Brion Davis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
enchantrasand.bsky.social
#CurrentlyReading 📚💙 #Books #History 💡📚💙 My dreams are getting weird again.
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation
Charlotte Beradt with Damion Searls (Translator), Dunya Mikhail (Contributor)

131 pages • first pub 1966
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation Charlotte Beradt with Damion Searls (Translator), Dunya Mikhail (Contributor) 131 pages • first pub 1966
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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writeforwellbeing.bsky.social
‘When I create I am true, and I want to find the strength to build my life wholly upon this truth.’
— Rainier Maria Rilke
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #creativity
Rainier Maria Rilke
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Again: This entire shutdown fight is one big advertisement for #MedicareForAll

Making a broken system less bad is not a real answer and never was.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social
Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM