Gary Pearce
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Fabulous speech - upsetting the fragile sensibilities of the colonisers (see end). “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed firmly on our past”.
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Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara: 'I covered stories and now I choose to change them' | RNZ
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October 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fabulous speech - upsetting the fragile sensibilities of the colonisers (see end). “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed firmly on our past”.
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Trump has just fired the Librarian of Congress.
Hayden is an Obama appointee who he met when she was working at the Chicago Public Library. She has been leading an initiative to bring more Black, indigenous, Hispanic Asian American works into the collection.
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Hayden is an Obama appointee who he met when she was working at the Chicago Public Library. She has been leading an initiative to bring more Black, indigenous, Hispanic Asian American works into the collection.
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Via email, Trump fires head of world's largest library: The Library of Congress
Hayden is a professional librarian nominated to the post by then-President Barack Obama in 2016.
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May 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Trump has just fired the Librarian of Congress.
Hayden is an Obama appointee who he met when she was working at the Chicago Public Library. She has been leading an initiative to bring more Black, indigenous, Hispanic Asian American works into the collection.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Hayden is an Obama appointee who he met when she was working at the Chicago Public Library. She has been leading an initiative to bring more Black, indigenous, Hispanic Asian American works into the collection.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
We’re in town to watch Joan of Arc at the Stake!
March 12, 2025 at 6:55 AM
We’re in town to watch Joan of Arc at the Stake!
Colm Tóibín introducing three books that deal with the drama of migration. My first thought was well Raymond Williams’s Border Country. My second thought was you won’t recommend that will you Colm because Williams is so underrated these days, especially his novels.
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March 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Colm Tóibín introducing three books that deal with the drama of migration. My first thought was well Raymond Williams’s Border Country. My second thought was you won’t recommend that will you Colm because Williams is so underrated these days, especially his novels.
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Cat Power sings Dylan set list from 1966 Albert Hall concert. Was rather special.
March 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Cat Power sings Dylan set list from 1966 Albert Hall concert. Was rather special.
Guess which is my great great grandfather
February 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Guess which is my great great grandfather
Colm Tóibín‘s latest gets a shellacking in NYRB.
February 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Colm Tóibín‘s latest gets a shellacking in NYRB.
Really fine work about mothers and daughters. Memories rise around leaving her daughters for several years when they are young and then returning several years later. Leaving so as not to sacrifice her own needs to her love for them and returning as part of same.
February 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Really fine work about mothers and daughters. Memories rise around leaving her daughters for several years when they are young and then returning several years later. Leaving so as not to sacrifice her own needs to her love for them and returning as part of same.
Just finished this - involved Christian fanatics, mental illness, Lech Walesa, pubs in country Qld, ‘bogans’ vs ‘elites’, complicated family relations. Quite the page turner.
January 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Just finished this - involved Christian fanatics, mental illness, Lech Walesa, pubs in country Qld, ‘bogans’ vs ‘elites’, complicated family relations. Quite the page turner.
Younger still. First motorcycle taken in country Queensland where my father ran a pub.
January 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Younger still. First motorcycle taken in country Queensland where my father ran a pub.
From when I was young and rode a motorcycle
January 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
From when I was young and rode a motorcycle
Day of reading for me: finished the Leslie Jamison book Recovery, read a bit more Brothers K, and read a 100 pages of the new Lech Blaine book - now off to reading group to continue the Octavia Butler Lilith’s Brood trilogy.
January 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Day of reading for me: finished the Leslie Jamison book Recovery, read a bit more Brothers K, and read a 100 pages of the new Lech Blaine book - now off to reading group to continue the Octavia Butler Lilith’s Brood trilogy.
Retrieved some old photos tonight. First car I owned.
December 31, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Retrieved some old photos tonight. First car I owned.
I received sailing lessons for Xmas.
December 27, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I received sailing lessons for Xmas.
Officially on summer break.
December 20, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Officially on summer break.
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Me after writing one (1) sentence in my writing hut
December 16, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Me after writing one (1) sentence in my writing hut
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Humanities academic here. Here are the top 10 books you should feel bad about not having read in 2024
December 19, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Humanities academic here. Here are the top 10 books you should feel bad about not having read in 2024
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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 20
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#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 20
December 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 20
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#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 20
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Now Human Rights Watch is saying it
December 19, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Now Human Rights Watch is saying it
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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 19
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#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 19
December 19, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 19
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#BookChallenge
Day 19
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Perry Anderson, Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War - @versobooks.bsky.social November 2024
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Disputing Disaster
In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz...
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December 18, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Perry Anderson, Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War - @versobooks.bsky.social November 2024
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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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 18
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 18
December 17, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 18
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 18