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I've created this account so BSK becomes bigger than X. Also, I am a bookstagrammer, find me @andreea.readss on IG
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Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
andreeav.bsky.social
This:
March 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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March 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Women Resisters!
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
andreeav.bsky.social
I am reading The First Woman and damn, why don’t we talk more about it?
February 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
andreeav.bsky.social
The 30% of Americans who vote for nobody are to blame for the existing situation too.
funnymichele.bsky.social Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · Feb 23
Absolutely
February 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
andreeav.bsky.social
America, she could have been your president. You chose a 🤡 instead.
February 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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whodat35.bsky.social
Wise man…
Wise man in a sweater in his home library 📚 contemplating: I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it. ~Noam Chomsky
February 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
andreeav.bsky.social
Anyone else wakes up wondering what kind of horror will happen today?
February 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 18, 2025 ~ With canaries!

"We are not sleepwalking into the apocalypse—we’re charging toward it with full awareness of what’s at stake."

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Has Global Warming Accelerated – a short response to Hansen et al - Climate Uncensored
I was asked by Bob Berwyn of Inside Climate News for my thoughts on James Hansen and colleagues’ recent paper  Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the
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February 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
andreeav.bsky.social
Anyone else feels abused by the news? I’m opening social media up ready for being hurt.
February 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...
Letter From a Federal Worker
This is a heartbreaking letter that a federal worker has asked me to share with the public.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
andreeav.bsky.social
I’ve finished Reformatory and damn, it’s such a good read! 55/5 ⭐️
February 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Good! 👇
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
It really is this simple.
February 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
andreeav.bsky.social
The Russians trolls are out of a job because America is keen to self-destroy.
February 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
andreeav.bsky.social
This is Yeti, he’s very naughty. I wanted my first post here to be this cutie.
November 21, 2024 at 6:59 AM