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Reads. Walks. Watches. Mother of hummingbirds.
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Make a lot of noise, but don't do the laundry!

🎵 It's the Most #Liminal Time of the Year. 🎶

That special time #BetweenTheYears again - the old one not quite over, the new one not yet begun.

(Playing cards and putting up a clothesline at your own risk. 🤷🏻‍♂️😉)
Festive looking info graphic with elements of a Christmas card like fir green and a candle, titled "It's the most liminal time of the year" accompanied by the drawing of a Krampus-like creature, a ghost, and a calendar highlighting the "Raunächte" between Christmas and January 6th. A couple of explaining text boxes read: "Those days "between the years - the old one not quite over, the new one not yet begun - is a curious Little period, a time out of time. The last days of Long cold and dark - before light and spring finally return." "Boundaries berween this world and the realm of myths are, as folklore has it, particularly this period porous during this period also called "Raunächte" in some regions - maybe after these rough cold nights or coming from the old word for "hairy" after the furry demons now crossing the threshold together with a Wild Hunt of angry ghosts and lost souls." "Rauhnacht Etiquette: Keep the house tidy! Make noise to expel ghosts & demons! Don't play cards! Don't do the Laundry! Don't put up a clothesline (in which the Wild Hunt could become entangled)!"
December 25, 2024 at 1:00 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
Mark Mazower starting off strong in What You Did Not Tell
"Today many people seem to be too chastened and paralyzed by their suspicion of social utopias, even the most practical ones, to want to fight for anything much at all beyond the perfection of their own souls."
December 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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bcdreyer.social
today's random theater photo:

Raul Julia in rehearsal for Via Galactica (1972).
December 3, 2024 at 3:53 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 20/20
Book cover for Wild Dog Dreaming by Deborah Bird Rose. The cover image features a dog among brush vegetation, staring melancholically behind a barbed wire fence.
December 1, 2024 at 2:42 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 19/20
Cover for the book Dayspring, by Anthony Oliveira. The image is split in half vertically. The left half is a painting of a young man with soft features and wavy hair, gazing dreamily upwards. The image continues on the right half, where the young man's hand becomes part of a photograph of two, apparently nude, men.
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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acterw.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 17/20

For reasons, mind you, unrelated to the book itself.
November 30, 2024 at 6:29 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 18/20
Cover of the diaries of Silvia Townsend Warner. The cover features the drawing of a woman's face, executed with sketch -lile lines and a few colours. The woman has a strong jaw, wears glasses, and is subtly smiling.
November 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
AI: destroying a library not by burning it but filling it to the brim with shit
November 29, 2024 at 5:53 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 17/20
Book cover of Come, Tell Me How You Love by Agatha Christie Mallowan. The bottom third of the cover shows a watercolour of a village on a hilltop. The houses are made of clay bricks and three crossing paths lead up the grassy hill to the village.
November 28, 2024 at 8:17 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 16/20
Cover for George Seferis' collected poems, featuring a picture of the poet.
November 27, 2024 at 7:21 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 15/20
Cover of the book The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin. The cover is a hazy, blue tinted photograph of the seashore, as a low wave breaks.
November 26, 2024 at 12:33 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
All of that, articulated exactly right. This thread also explains why I immediately switch off when I mention a subject and someone immediately replies "This is the summary ChatGPT gave me on this!"
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Nov 26
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
November 26, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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acterw.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 13/20
November 26, 2024 at 5:51 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 14/20
Book cover for Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. The cover illustration is a colourful manuscript -style illustration of two people being burned at the stake next to river, as gathered people watch.
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
It's becoming increasingly apparent to me that a privileged immigrant, like me, is still very much an immigrant. We need more solidarity. We also need the word "expat" to die.

(Given my country of origin I was thankfully spared the cluelessness of even considering of thinking of myself as that).
November 25, 2024 at 7:44 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 13/20
Image of the cover of My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell. It is an old, slightly battered Penguin copy featuring a close-up image of a dragonfly
November 24, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair
February 13, 2024 at 5:37 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 12/20
Cover of the book Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett. The cover is decorated in a very busy, slightly exaggerated style and prominently features three witches riding broomsticks. Two are older and dressed in black, while behind them follows a younger blonde witch dressed in green. They are surrounded by swamp plants and animals while a city shows on the horizon.
November 23, 2024 at 8:04 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 11/20
Cover of Jean Genet's The Thief's Journal. The cover is a pale green colour and features a bronze sculpture of a head with mouth open, potentially screaming. Cover of Jean Genet's The Thief's Journal in Greek. The cover depicts a painting of a gaunt, bearded male figure stared at by a mocking toothless face with exaggerated, caricature-like features.
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 10/20
Cover of the book White Teeth by Zadie Smith. The title and the author's name are written in large white letters in the foreground. The background consists of bright areas in pink, yellow, and blue with additional colourful patterns, such as golden embroidery on the pink and a rose on the blue.
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
I'm gonna be so real with you, if I ever see you post the word "females", unless you're talking about like a scientific study on newts or sommat, I will never trust anything you ever say again.
November 19, 2024 at 6:05 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
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Day 9/20
Book cover for Eduard Said's Orientalism. The cover features a painting of a young boy handling a large constrictor snake, while an old man plays the flute, as a group of other men watch. The walls of the room are tiled in blue and feature Arabic calligraphy.
November 20, 2024 at 8:45 AM
genoveval.bsky.social
Indiana Jones looking for a sample in 20 crates with completely faded labels
barpublishing.bsky.social BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 19
We can't wait for Indiana Jones and the 100 hours of sieving to find one pottery sherd 😍
lexie-henning.bsky.social Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social · Nov 19
Would actually watch any of these…
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
genoveval.bsky.social
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.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge
💙📚

Day 8/20
Book cover for Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf. The cover is cream coloured with vertical mustard yellow lines and features a close-up of a wolf's eyes.
November 19, 2024 at 9:15 AM