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Serene Tami Sargent 🍂
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We're all antifascists now. Jane Austen Society of North America. 📖 Know some Beatles' stuff and am picky about citations. therealtamishow.com
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My friend brought me a bag of coins two Tuesdays ago and I can't stop. Coins were always hard—two-sided is hard, period, with wire wraps—but this works. And I like making them. 😊
In a large velvet-lined jewelry box, broken into rows individual squares, are 10 wire-wrapped coins. Two photos of a coin pendant with spikes, a little like a ship's wheel barometer. The coin is a 2008 South African 5¢ piece, side one with the secretary bird coat of arms and the second with "5¢" and a blue crane bird, with a little sterling silver tree of life over side two. My first try, before the bag of coins my friend brought me. Two photos of a Sacagawea coin pendant with spikes, a little like a ship's wheel barometer. There is a sterling silver tree of life a thin crescent moon on side two. Two photos of a 5¢ German Euro coin pendant with 4 faceted Czech glass beads and 7 short spikes around the outside, a little like a ship's wheel barometer. The front of the coin is a leaf and the back has a globe and "5 EURO CENT"
May 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This stone looks radioactive and I love it.
Badass cat's eye chrysolberyl pendant that almost looks radioactive sometimes. ✨ It's hanging against a gray background. Cat's eye chrysolberyl point stone in copper pendant that I just made and looks enchanted. It's on a rock that's on a copy of Jane Austen's letters. Cat's eye chrysolberyl and copper pendant looking half lit up. It's on a rock that's on a copy of Jane Austen's letters.
April 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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It went from 3 pages of this to 1 page of reruns. And probably, about the women, but a big part of it is probably because we were never really part of the adoration fan club. For me, I LOVED Tune In, but I am a citation miner. I want the primary sources more than anything. And so I found out.
Page 1 of 3 of the May 12, 2024 Mark Lewisohn Google alert Entire Mark Lewisohn Google alert for November 12, 2024
April 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Been busy and productive and not making much jewelry, but I love this freakish beauty.

Also, hi everyone.
Sterling silver pendant. Wire woven carnelian eye of horus with a sweet aqua chalcedony below it. It's big and weird and gorgeous. Pictured below a rock holding open a book of the Letters of Jane Austen. Sterling silver pendant. Wire woven carnelian eye of horus with a sweet aqua chalcedony below it. It's big and weird and gorgeous. Pictured below a rock holding open a book of the Letters of Jane Austen. Sterling silver pendant. Wire woven carnelian eye of horus with a sweet aqua chalcedony below it. It's big and weird and gorgeous. Pictured below a rock holding open a book of the Letters of Jane Austen.
April 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Reading the complaint it really struck me how many women without power will be safer and less likely to suffer trauma because of one person raising hell in the eye of a hurricane specifically manufactured to discredit her. And how true that always is hit me in a new way.
December 24, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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I'm reading the Blake Lively complaint and it's just describing repeated instances of sexual assault, followed by gaslighting. Textbook. (I know there's worse coming bc I've seen it posted but this counts, too.)

His instinctive defense when confronted is pure Trump: “I'm not even attracted to you.”
from the Blake Lively complaint: Without these protections in place, Mr. Baldoni improvised physical intimacy that had not been rehearsed, choreographed, or discussed with Ms. Lively, with no intimacy coordinator involved. For instance, Mr. Baldoni discreetly bit and sucked onMs. Lively's lower lip during a scene in which he improvised numerous kisses on each take. Mr. Baldoni insisted on shooting the full scene over and over again, well beyond what would have been required on an ordinary set, and without advance notice or consent . On another occasion, Mr. Baldoni and Ms. Lively were filming a slowdance scene for a montage in which no sound was recorded. Mr. Baldoni chose to let the camera roll and have them perform the scene, but did not act in character as Ryle; instead, he spoke to Ms. Lively out of character as himself. At one point, he leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, “it smells so good." None ofthis was remotely in character, orbased on any dialogue in the script, and nothing needed to be said because, again, there was no sound—Mr. Baldoni was caressing Mr. Lively with his mouth in a way that had nothing to do with their roles. When Ms. Lively later objected to this behavior, Ms. Baldoni's response was, “I'm not even attracted to you."
December 24, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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I got cat's eye chrysoberyl sticks to make talisman pendants and this shit is wild. I'd never seen the stone in person and I am absolutely mesmerized. Worth the torture of the wait.
Three long, thin Cat's Eye cymophane Chrysolberyl gemstone sticks on a rock which is on a book. Two are a translucent light blue and one a light spring green, but in this photo the green one is showing its cat's eye chatoyance. (Like a star sapphire.) It looks a brighter, almost neon white-green and more opaque but the light blue ones are very transparent, almost to the point of colorless. Chrysoberyl was discovered in 1789 and is the third hardest "frequently encountered" natural gemstone: 8.5 on the Mohs scale. Three long, thin Cat's Eye cymophane Chrysolberyl gemstone sticks on a rock which is on a book in a low, medium shot. All three stones look slightly witchy and lit from within. Chrysoberyl was discovered in 1789 and is the third hardest "frequently encountered" natural gemstone: 8.5 on the Mohs scale. (And if you can find them for sale in this country not already in a setting then you're better than me. 🫡) Three long, thin Cat's Eye cymophane Chrysolberyl gemstone sticks on a rock which is on a book, two of the three fully in frame and both showing some cat's eye effect. Chrysoberyl was discovered in 1789 and is the third hardest "frequently encountered" natural gemstone: 8.5 on the Mohs scale. Three long, thin Cat's Eye cymophane Chrysolberyl gemstone sticks on a rock which is on a book. The two blue ones are about half out of frame and look a bit like frosted glass and the green guy is lit up. Chrysoberyl was discovered in 1789 and is the third hardest "frequently encountered" natural gemstone: 8.5 on the Mohs scale.
December 23, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Not according to Eric Adams. He basically said it was to 1) look luigi in the eye 2) make CEOs feel better because their mental health is suffering. No, I'm serious. Just a stupid, bad PR move.
December 20, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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QT from @Srirachachau on getty image of luigi mangione walking handcuffed in orange surrounded by law enforcement. Text reads: Kinda funny that such a Christian country doesn't understand that they're creating a martyr @uncle_gworl QT of similar image: he's kinda like a prettier jesus
December 20, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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NYT says the Air Force recently denied Musk “a high-level security access” too, besides the three investigations.
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Concerns about the reporting practices - and particularly about Mr. Musk, who is SpaceX's chief executive - have triggered at least three federal reviews, eight people with knowledge of the efforts said. The Defense Department's Office of Inspector General opened a review into the matter this year, and the Air Force and the Pentagon's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security separately initiated reviews last month. The Air Force also recently denied Mr. Musk a high-level security access, citing potential security risks associated with the billionaire. Several allied nations, including Israel, have also expressed concerns that he could share sensitive data with others, according to defense officials.
December 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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I started with a few 🐿️crowding around, and it was wild how two seemed like total idiots up close and if Gurl wouldn't have somehow become queen I would've had problems, but they deferred to her. She's as smart as a little terrier. Look on YouTube, it helped me learn a few tricks that helped.
December 17, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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This old shaky thing I used my kindle to film was about day 3 of her getting in. (4 yrs ago, I think?) Once she realized she could break the containment of the screen it was over, but she became polite very fast. Although last year I found a nut at the bottom of my clothes hamper. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯︎
December 17, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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What is going on, @support.bsky.team? 🤔
Screenshot of post draft that suddenly started writing in very tiny, black letters. The rest of the words are normal size and font, white letters on dark blue background. I have misspelled "Austen's" as "A-u-d-t-e-n-apostrophe-s" and although it's very difficult to see the black letters, the red dots telling me I've misspelled something point them out.
December 16, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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They train easily once they make friends. I have a mama squirrel who is now very bold. I am three floors up but once she got used to coming inside for food it was over. It only took a few days to keep her completely polite inside. But she's very smart.
December 16, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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Happy 249th birthday to Jane Austen. 🎂

“We have now another girl, a present plaything for her sister Cassy and a future companion.”
-Letter from Rev. George Austen, Dec 17, 1775
Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, 1804, drawn from behind. Jane looks like she's just happily plopped down on the ground. Her legs are spread out and her hands are on the knees of her dress. We can only see her rosy cheek peeking out of her untied bonnet, but you can tell from that that she is smiling. The body language is that of someone as happy, contented and at peace with herself and the world as anyone could. Niece Anna Lefroy's description of the watercolour: ‘a sketch which Aunt Cassandra made of her in one of their expeditions – sitting down out of doors on a hot day, with her bonnet strings untied’. *I love "on one of their expeditions." She was such a tomboy. It reminds me of her letter to Cassandra where she says she and a friend plan to ‘throw ourselves into a postchaise, one upon the other, our heads hanging out one door, and our feet at the opposite.’ (Letter 28, Dec 1800.) From a letter from Jane Austen to sister Cassandra: “My dear Cassandra ... You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs. Hulbert's servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not...” (Letter 12, Jan 16, 1796)
December 16, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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In a week or ten days—fingers crossed—everything will be on sale, including this pendant I just made with scrap metal.
Copper and agate pendant. The stone is on a leaf shaped piece of sheet metal and has wires climbing up it, kind of like vines. It's propped on a rock that is sitting on my open book of Jane Austen Letters. Copper and agate pendant. The stone is on a leaf shaped piece of sheet metal and has wires climbing up it, kind of like vines. It's sitting on my open book of Jane Austen Letters.
December 11, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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A few years ago when I decided that playing dead was necessary to escape my ex-husband I never thought of learning some brand new thing, and certainly didn't see myself as an artist of any kind. But I am. Turns out I wasn't particularly bad at art, but only that I'd never tried.
Laguna agate and copper pendant on a rock. The setting is wavy like something under water or fire An agate teardrop stone set in copper on a wooden ring mandrel A copper sword pendant on a rock Copper tree of life pendant over a black glass stone sitting on a rock
December 6, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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I made my first cabochon. (The "stone.") This changes EVERYTHING.
Copper pendant with a blue and purple teardrop stone that I made myself, propped on a rock on a book. The teardrop shaped glass stone on foil when I was curing it.
November 24, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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I love my clasps. They're the first thing that feels completely unique that I've made. They've developed into their own thing, and are also really functional. They're easy to close but stay closed. I'm sorta proud of myself for teaching myself. I never knew I was an artist. Just a musician.
A heavy copper clasp that I just finished, laying on a rock which is on a turquoise book of Jane Austen's letters A copper clasp and chain with a little zig-zaggy, snake-like piece I make, attached to a copper chain... on an open copy of Jane Austen's letters Copper chain and clasp in butcher paper and tissue paper about to be sent out.
November 15, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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@theonion.com really does rock. And is lovely in ways I don't expect anymore.
I got skipped on the first issue and have no rights by $$ to expect to ever see it. And I said so, but did beg mercy. And got it.
I'm putting your address on a list to receive the first issue, hand-mailed. :) — Tess at The Onion
November 15, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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It took awhile for me to realize that I would have to write about him. For decades he faded into the background of history & was just mine. But in the past 15 or so yrs I've seen the newest incarnation, & in some ways it's worse than the previous ones.
John Brown is there. Clearly. In the sources.
DuBois CH VII: Samuel Harper, husband and father that John Brown brought over 1,100 miles to freedom with his wife—child born on the way—and handful of friends. “After we was free we was wild of course, and we used to cut up all kinds of foolishness. But the captain would always look as solemn as a graveyard. Sometimes he just let out the tiniest bit of a smile, and says: ‘You’d better quit your fooling and take up your book.’”
November 15, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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It was John Brown's kindness—his deep empathy—that led him to action. Not some fearsome, crazed extremism or love of murder. It came about through his tenderness, and all the primary sources support it. ALL if them. Even when he had prisoners he stressed kindness.
Men have warped him into an untruth
[what I call the] Covenant of the Thirty-Five In Kansas, the rules regarding treatment of prisoners: Art. XV. All acts of petty theft, needless waste of property of the members or of citizens are hereby declared disorderly; together with all uncivil, or unkind treatment of citizens or of prisoners. Art. XX. No person after having first surrendered himself a prisoner shall be put to death, or subjected to corporeal punishment, without first having had the benefit of an impartial trial.
November 15, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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John Brown was quiet and serious & a new generation of biographers have split from DuBois and rendered him as cross. Brows furrowed.
But that is a lie. John Brown sang to & tucked in his father every night. Carried and sang to his dying daughter. Believe the primary sources: quiet does not mean cold
Ruth Brown: “In cold weather he always tucked the bedclothes around grandfather when he went to bed, and would get up in the night to ask him if he slept warm—always seeming so kind and loving to him that his example was beautiful to see.”
November 14, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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I feel like the attention on John Brown, filtered through over a decade of misshapen renderings requires me to emphasize his kindness. He was quiet. Serious. But repeatedly described as “tender.” And he sang to those he loved. It's easy to miss how often he's singing.
Take this crucial origin story:
Primary source, Ruth Brown, daughter, originally quoted in Redpath. (Later in DuBois and Sandborn.) “One evening after he had been singing to me, he asked me how I would like to have some poor little black children that were slaves (explaining to me the meaning of slaves) come and live with us; and asked me if I would be willing to divide my food and clothes with them."
November 14, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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This sucks
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November 14, 2024 at 11:06 PM