Bea
@beasees.bsky.social
I like learning | INFJ before it was trendy | women’s rights are human rights | nuance is like, really important u guys.
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Our database of Queen Victoria's Journals is now back online and available to internet users in the UK: www.proquest.com/qvj/?account....
www.proquest.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our database of Queen Victoria's Journals is now back online and available to internet users in the UK: www.proquest.com/qvj/?account....
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Say what you like about the cast of the Borrowers. You’ve got to give them massive props.
September 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Say what you like about the cast of the Borrowers. You’ve got to give them massive props.
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Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.
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Perhaps you, like me, need your attention drawn more to what is good. Here are words from You Have a Calling that I re-read for myself today. @brazospress.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Perhaps you, like me, need your attention drawn more to what is good. Here are words from You Have a Calling that I re-read for myself today. @brazospress.bsky.social
If We Keep This Up, Charlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die (Gift link.The publication date isn’t lost on me)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | If We Keep This Up, Charlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If We Keep This Up, Charlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die (Gift link.The publication date isn’t lost on me)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:
At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
Creators have unknowingly fueled tools that may eventually make their work obsolete.
bit.ly
September 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:
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August 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This sounds like a great morning ritual 💙
Looking for poet recommendations! I love: Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Wendy Cope, Frank O'Hara, Naomi Shihab Nye.
Starting every morning by reading a poem. then a few minutes of freewriting (poetry, scene, dialog, stream-of-consciousness writing...just for myself (not for sharing). #PoetrySky
Starting every morning by reading a poem. then a few minutes of freewriting (poetry, scene, dialog, stream-of-consciousness writing...just for myself (not for sharing). #PoetrySky
September 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This sounds like a great morning ritual 💙
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Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
@cmatbaby.bsky.social out here singlehandedly ending Bertie’s presidential bid.
youtu.be/nz8_HxITJF0?...
The line “I was 12 when the dads started killing themselves”…
My god what a poet.
youtu.be/nz8_HxITJF0?...
The line “I was 12 when the dads started killing themselves”…
My god what a poet.
CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by CMAT
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July 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
@cmatbaby.bsky.social out here singlehandedly ending Bertie’s presidential bid.
youtu.be/nz8_HxITJF0?...
The line “I was 12 when the dads started killing themselves”…
My god what a poet.
youtu.be/nz8_HxITJF0?...
The line “I was 12 when the dads started killing themselves”…
My god what a poet.
Rereading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr #prophetic
Now that the context of reading is again shifting, from the private page to the communal screen, authors will…increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the essayist Caleb Crain describes as “groupiness,” where people read mainly 1/2
Now that the context of reading is again shifting, from the private page to the communal screen, authors will…increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the essayist Caleb Crain describes as “groupiness,” where people read mainly 1/2
July 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Rereading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr #prophetic
Now that the context of reading is again shifting, from the private page to the communal screen, authors will…increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the essayist Caleb Crain describes as “groupiness,” where people read mainly 1/2
Now that the context of reading is again shifting, from the private page to the communal screen, authors will…increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the essayist Caleb Crain describes as “groupiness,” where people read mainly 1/2
Old Guy Gabriel Kay nugget:
“he doesn’t like using real lives for his fiction. “I’ve been calling it an epidemic of co-opting real lives, to do whatever we want to do with them…I don’t want to offer the assumption that I know what Abraham Lincoln’s favourite position in bed was”
shorturl.at/W5O1w
“he doesn’t like using real lives for his fiction. “I’ve been calling it an epidemic of co-opting real lives, to do whatever we want to do with them…I don’t want to offer the assumption that I know what Abraham Lincoln’s favourite position in bed was”
shorturl.at/W5O1w
Guy Gavriel Kay: ‘I learned a lot about false starts from JRR Tolkien’
Thirty years ago, the first in Kay’s bestselling Fionovar Tapestry fantasy trilogy was published – but before that, a stint helping Christopher Tolkien assemble The Silmarillion showed him the ‘drudge...
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Old Guy Gabriel Kay nugget:
“he doesn’t like using real lives for his fiction. “I’ve been calling it an epidemic of co-opting real lives, to do whatever we want to do with them…I don’t want to offer the assumption that I know what Abraham Lincoln’s favourite position in bed was”
shorturl.at/W5O1w
“he doesn’t like using real lives for his fiction. “I’ve been calling it an epidemic of co-opting real lives, to do whatever we want to do with them…I don’t want to offer the assumption that I know what Abraham Lincoln’s favourite position in bed was”
shorturl.at/W5O1w
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Anne Enright on where are all the male novelists . . . www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
June 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Anne Enright on where are all the male novelists . . . www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Just when you think you know how to spell something in Polish, there’s always another z
May 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Just when you think you know how to spell something in Polish, there’s always another z
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- Published in one volume for the very first time
- The classic Irish trilogy: Under the Hawthorn Tree, Wildflower Girl and Fields of Home
- Out next week!
- Limited to just 600 copies
You can order one here: www.kennys.ie/shop/kennys-...
- The classic Irish trilogy: Under the Hawthorn Tree, Wildflower Girl and Fields of Home
- Out next week!
- Limited to just 600 copies
You can order one here: www.kennys.ie/shop/kennys-...
May 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
- Published in one volume for the very first time
- The classic Irish trilogy: Under the Hawthorn Tree, Wildflower Girl and Fields of Home
- Out next week!
- Limited to just 600 copies
You can order one here: www.kennys.ie/shop/kennys-...
- The classic Irish trilogy: Under the Hawthorn Tree, Wildflower Girl and Fields of Home
- Out next week!
- Limited to just 600 copies
You can order one here: www.kennys.ie/shop/kennys-...
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April 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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my mom knocked on my door and said "I found a turtle and thought you'd want to see him" then put him on my floor
April 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
my mom knocked on my door and said "I found a turtle and thought you'd want to see him" then put him on my floor
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"one of the great issues in [Henry] James’s writing...is how people treat one another, how they interfere in each other’s lives, and the necessity to grant everyone a measure of freedom to work out his or her own destiny."
Peter Brooks in an interview with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Peter Brooks in an interview with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
De-gilding the Gilded Age: An Interview with Peter Brooks on "Henry James Comes Home" - Chicago Review of Books
My native land, which time, absence and change have, in a funny sort of way, made almost as romantic to me as “Europe,” in dreams or in my earlier time here, used to be—the actual bristling (as fearfu...
chireviewofbooks.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"one of the great issues in [Henry] James’s writing...is how people treat one another, how they interfere in each other’s lives, and the necessity to grant everyone a measure of freedom to work out his or her own destiny."
Peter Brooks in an interview with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Peter Brooks in an interview with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
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“As we plan our next vacation,” a reader writes of her family, “I can’t help dreading being locked in a hotel room for a week with this perfect storm of people.”
Read James Parker’s advice on how to move past old hurts in this week’s “Dear James”: https://theatln.tc/bCqpt9cl
Read James Parker’s advice on how to move past old hurts in this week’s “Dear James”: https://theatln.tc/bCqpt9cl
April 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“As we plan our next vacation,” a reader writes of her family, “I can’t help dreading being locked in a hotel room for a week with this perfect storm of people.”
Read James Parker’s advice on how to move past old hurts in this week’s “Dear James”: https://theatln.tc/bCqpt9cl
Read James Parker’s advice on how to move past old hurts in this week’s “Dear James”: https://theatln.tc/bCqpt9cl
“I am not writing fiction at the minute, and I blame global politics for that – it is hard to hold a sense of reverie. But I don’t think I could blame teaching, which is usually a source of energy and interest for me. Actually, what eats your creative time is promotional work.” 😊 👏
‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize
Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize
Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes
www.irishtimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“I am not writing fiction at the minute, and I blame global politics for that – it is hard to hold a sense of reverie. But I don’t think I could blame teaching, which is usually a source of energy and interest for me. Actually, what eats your creative time is promotional work.” 😊 👏
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Whenever they ask about “the reason for the return” you should be able to say “my husband bought the wrong thing because he’s a man”
March 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Whenever they ask about “the reason for the return” you should be able to say “my husband bought the wrong thing because he’s a man”