Leah Price
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Dropping off books at a community bookshelf at a local queer cafe. Going to have a rummage and see if there's anything to take home.
I'm a big believer in passing on books and that i don't need to keep them all, even the 4 star reads!
📚💙
I'm a big believer in passing on books and that i don't need to keep them all, even the 4 star reads!
📚💙
October 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Dropping off books at a community bookshelf at a local queer cafe. Going to have a rummage and see if there's anything to take home.
I'm a big believer in passing on books and that i don't need to keep them all, even the 4 star reads!
📚💙
I'm a big believer in passing on books and that i don't need to keep them all, even the 4 star reads!
📚💙
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Great idea!
"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that’s illegally cut.
The state should also eminent domain Trump’s golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable […]
"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that’s illegally cut.
The state should also eminent domain Trump’s golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable […]
Original post on stefanbohacek.online
stefanbohacek.online
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Great idea!
"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that’s illegally cut.
The state should also eminent domain Trump’s golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable […]
"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that’s illegally cut.
The state should also eminent domain Trump’s golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable […]
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Also - anyone have a Mastodon instance that has a good bunch of narrative nonfiction authors / historians / nerds with a conscience?
September 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Also - anyone have a Mastodon instance that has a good bunch of narrative nonfiction authors / historians / nerds with a conscience?
Please come to a day conference on Printing Politics, Thursday, October 23
2:00-5:00pm: poster printing and zine making workshop
5:30-7:00pm: roundtable discussion with artists, art workers, and scholars on the role of print media in their diverse practices.
Rutgers Book Initiative, Murray […]
2:00-5:00pm: poster printing and zine making workshop
5:30-7:00pm: roundtable discussion with artists, art workers, and scholars on the role of print media in their diverse practices.
Rutgers Book Initiative, Murray […]
Original post on historians.social
historians.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Please come to a day conference on Printing Politics, Thursday, October 23
2:00-5:00pm: poster printing and zine making workshop
5:30-7:00pm: roundtable discussion with artists, art workers, and scholars on the role of print media in their diverse practices.
Rutgers Book Initiative, Murray […]
2:00-5:00pm: poster printing and zine making workshop
5:30-7:00pm: roundtable discussion with artists, art workers, and scholars on the role of print media in their diverse practices.
Rutgers Book Initiative, Murray […]
October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How I feel whenever I set type. #letterpress
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September 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
How I feel whenever I set type. #letterpress
Hot take: #bookerprize screwed up in dropping the devastating (and funny, unlike AUDITION) MISINTERPRETATION by #lediaxhoga.
September 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Hot take: #bookerprize screwed up in dropping the devastating (and funny, unlike AUDITION) MISINTERPRETATION by #lediaxhoga.
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I really wonder about Google Maps sometimes. The other day I got in the car and plugged in my phone, and at the top of its list of likely destinations I might want to drive to was... the British Library. The one in London.
I am in Texas.
I am in Texas.
September 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I really wonder about Google Maps sometimes. The other day I got in the car and plugged in my phone, and at the top of its list of likely destinations I might want to drive to was... the British Library. The one in London.
I am in Texas.
I am in Texas.
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I was just looking up books for a course proposal, and I discovered that, according to Amazon, _The Left Hand of Darkness_ was published in 1708.
Talk about *pioneering*!
#sff
Talk about *pioneering*!
#sff
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I was just looking up books for a course proposal, and I discovered that, according to Amazon, _The Left Hand of Darkness_ was published in 1708.
Talk about *pioneering*!
#sff
Talk about *pioneering*!
#sff
The morning is inspiring, the breakfast is hot, the look at the strategic plan is inside: how much oatmeal would it take to bribe a professor to attend a talk by upper management? #foundinanity
September 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The morning is inspiring, the breakfast is hot, the look at the strategic plan is inside: how much oatmeal would it take to bribe a professor to attend a talk by upper management? #foundinanity
First they came for the nursing homes; why wouldn't #privateequity target textbooks too? https://jacobin.com/2025/09/wall-street-college-bookstore-education
College Textbooks: Wall Street’s New Cash Cow
For years, textbook prices have burdened students already struggling with loans and sky-high tuition costs. Now Wall Street is taking over the market, tightening its grip on a staple campus institution: the college bookstore.
jacobin.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
First they came for the nursing homes; why wouldn't #privateequity target textbooks too? https://jacobin.com/2025/09/wall-street-college-bookstore-education
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The game may have given me an unrealistic expectation of how fast I can run from Back Bay to Malden (5 min)
September 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The game may have given me an unrealistic expectation of how fast I can run from Back Bay to Malden (5 min)
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I am in Boston. I’ve only been here once but I feel like I know it very well. That’s likely because I have been playing Fallout 4 consistently for a decade.
September 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I am in Boston. I’ve only been here once but I feel like I know it very well. That’s likely because I have been playing Fallout 4 consistently for a decade.
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The richest man in the world addresses your rally, and you claim to be plucky underdogs? F*ck off, flag-shaggers!
#tommyrobinson #standuptoracism
#ukpolitics
#tommyrobinson #standuptoracism
#ukpolitics
September 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The richest man in the world addresses your rally, and you claim to be plucky underdogs? F*ck off, flag-shaggers!
#tommyrobinson #standuptoracism
#ukpolitics
#tommyrobinson #standuptoracism
#ukpolitics
Safety training egging the custard: choose between a grammatical statement containing an acronym and an answer containing the advice "if it smells real bad wear gloves". #makerspace #letterpress
![How do you find out about the hazards associated with a chemical or material you are using? [ ] Don't worry about it because all art related chemicals are safe to use
[ ] Find someone else that is working with the same material and ask them
[e] Check the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
[ ] Smell the material and if it smells real bad use gloves](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6v7rr25nz67zlay2uspbke/bafkreiadlupfueahtqnw7ekfbf5sei7ms5lcglrvtmu5si7qathrhk3hiy@jpeg)
September 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Safety training egging the custard: choose between a grammatical statement containing an acronym and an answer containing the advice "if it smells real bad wear gloves". #makerspace #letterpress
Grateful to safety training for making the quiz so painless. #makerspace #letterpress
September 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Grateful to safety training for making the quiz so painless. #makerspace #letterpress
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From today’s @bostonglobe.com. I’ll link the full article below, but for those who hit a paywall…
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
September 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
From today’s @bostonglobe.com. I’ll link the full article below, but for those who hit a paywall…
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
#ice now charging veteran with resisting "orders to disburse" #freudianslip
September 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#ice now charging veteran with resisting "orders to disburse" #freudianslip
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I didn't know about this story when I wrote this letter. My jaw is on the FLOOR.
My letter: "Ban stock trading by members of Congress. It’s widely known that elected officials have access to information that could influence markets, and when they profit from trading stocks, it looks corrupt […]
My letter: "Ban stock trading by members of Congress. It’s widely known that elected officials have access to information that could influence markets, and when they profit from trading stocks, it looks corrupt […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
August 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I didn't know about this story when I wrote this letter. My jaw is on the FLOOR.
My letter: "Ban stock trading by members of Congress. It’s widely known that elected officials have access to information that could influence markets, and when they profit from trading stocks, it looks corrupt […]
My letter: "Ban stock trading by members of Congress. It’s widely known that elected officials have access to information that could influence markets, and when they profit from trading stocks, it looks corrupt […]