Still Indomitable
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One of the things @lizclimo.bsky.social does best is tiny, charming details like the tag on this present and the cat’s nose barely peeking out over the top of the bag in the second frame. Just darling!
December 24, 2024 at 10:46 PM
One of the things @lizclimo.bsky.social does best is tiny, charming details like the tag on this present and the cat’s nose barely peeking out over the top of the bag in the second frame. Just darling!
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To dismiss the grief in Victorian stories as old-fashioned is to assume they're outdated bc of the passage of time. But a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. To dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invites those horrors to return.
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:31 PM
To dismiss the grief in Victorian stories as old-fashioned is to assume they're outdated bc of the passage of time. But a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. To dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invites those horrors to return.
This all feels very much like UltraWord™️.
Says the CEO of HarperCollins on AI:
"One idea is a “talking book,” where a book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an AI facsimile of its author."
Please, just make it stop, somebody.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
"One idea is a “talking book,” where a book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an AI facsimile of its author."
Please, just make it stop, somebody.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray on Hot Print Book Sales and the Use of AI
Deluxe editions of popular titles are driving sales of print books this holiday season, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said at a media conference this week. The company is also looking at various AI-d...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:22 AM
This all feels very much like UltraWord™️.
Enjoying the fall flavors
December 10, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Enjoying the fall flavors
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The most arrant denier must admit that a man often furthers larger ends than he is conscious of, and that while he is transacting his particular affairs with the narrow pertinacity of a respectable ant, he subserves an economy larger than any purpose of his own.
December 4, 2024 at 5:04 PM
The most arrant denier must admit that a man often furthers larger ends than he is conscious of, and that while he is transacting his particular affairs with the narrow pertinacity of a respectable ant, he subserves an economy larger than any purpose of his own.
In honor of Advent, here is perhaps my favorite painting of The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner:
December 3, 2024 at 3:18 AM
In honor of Advent, here is perhaps my favorite painting of The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner:
It really is just more sensible to buy.
December 2, 2024 at 1:13 AM
It really is just more sensible to buy.
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When the stricken person is slow to recover and look as if nothing had happened, the striker easily glides into the position of the aggrieved party.
December 1, 2024 at 4:59 PM
When the stricken person is slow to recover and look as if nothing had happened, the striker easily glides into the position of the aggrieved party.
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We Lacanians call it Lack Friday
November 29, 2024 at 5:40 PM
We Lacanians call it Lack Friday
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Hosting a fundraiser for The Marine Mammal Center over on Instagram! 🦭💙
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November 26, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Hosting a fundraiser for The Marine Mammal Center over on Instagram! 🦭💙
www.instagram.com/linking/fund...
www.instagram.com/linking/fund...
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The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”
When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn
When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn
November 17, 2024 at 3:28 PM
The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”
When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn
When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn
“—aye, he would be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords it over all below!”
—Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
—Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
November 19, 2024 at 12:44 AM
“—aye, he would be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords it over all below!”
—Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
—Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons. — Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Happy Sunday!! 🤣🤣🤣
Happy Sunday!! 🤣🤣🤣
November 17, 2024 at 4:42 PM
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons. — Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Happy Sunday!! 🤣🤣🤣
Happy Sunday!! 🤣🤣🤣
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“The naked, silent trees have taught me this—”
(Elizabeth Stoddard, “November”)
(Elizabeth Stoddard, “November”)
November 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM
“The naked, silent trees have taught me this—”
(Elizabeth Stoddard, “November”)
(Elizabeth Stoddard, “November”)
This scarf choice reminded me of that portrait of Byron. The similarity (mostly imagined) ends there.
November 17, 2024 at 3:35 AM
This scarf choice reminded me of that portrait of Byron. The similarity (mostly imagined) ends there.
This is what I’m here for—3 days of threads on William Morris wallpaper.
Today, a nice weekend thread about William Morris (1876) Pimpernel and a discussion how it represented a new phase in his wallpaper designs in conversation with his lecture “Making the Best of it” as we all once again try to make the best of living in the darkest timeline
November 17, 2024 at 2:36 AM
This is what I’m here for—3 days of threads on William Morris wallpaper.
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow & the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
George Eliot, Middlemarch
November 17, 2024 at 2:09 AM
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow & the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
George Eliot, Middlemarch
It’s been 29 years since my 7th grade teacher gave me this copy of Northanger. I forget how many times I’ve read it since.
November 17, 2024 at 1:56 AM
It’s been 29 years since my 7th grade teacher gave me this copy of Northanger. I forget how many times I’ve read it since.
This is my dog Lucy. She is named after Lucy Snowe from Villette.
I have the names Jaggers and Barkis in reserve should I ever own a bloodhound or a male dog, respectively.
I have the names Jaggers and Barkis in reserve should I ever own a bloodhound or a male dog, respectively.
November 17, 2024 at 1:14 AM
This is my dog Lucy. She is named after Lucy Snowe from Villette.
I have the names Jaggers and Barkis in reserve should I ever own a bloodhound or a male dog, respectively.
I have the names Jaggers and Barkis in reserve should I ever own a bloodhound or a male dog, respectively.
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Here's a new discovery: *3* brothers of #JaneAusten participated in public anti-slavery activism, as my research has uncovered. My piece in Conversation US describes Frank Austen's previously unknown abolitionist activities in Gosport in 1826. theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au...
3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Here's a new discovery: *3* brothers of #JaneAusten participated in public anti-slavery activism, as my research has uncovered. My piece in Conversation US describes Frank Austen's previously unknown abolitionist activities in Gosport in 1826. theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au...
Trying to apply for disability has convinced me of one thing:
There is definitely not a welfare state.
There is definitely not a welfare state.
November 14, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Trying to apply for disability has convinced me of one thing:
There is definitely not a welfare state.
There is definitely not a welfare state.
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How was it that in the weeks since her marriage, Dorothea had not distinctly observed but felt with a stifling depression, that the large vistas and wide fresh air which she had dreamed of finding in her husband’s mind were replaced by anterooms and winding passages which seemed to lead nowhither? 2
November 13, 2024 at 12:31 PM
How was it that in the weeks since her marriage, Dorothea had not distinctly observed but felt with a stifling depression, that the large vistas and wide fresh air which she had dreamed of finding in her husband’s mind were replaced by anterooms and winding passages which seemed to lead nowhither? 2
“Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do?”
Still indomitable was the reply—“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
—Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Still indomitable was the reply—“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
—Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
November 12, 2024 at 9:45 PM
“Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do?”
Still indomitable was the reply—“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
—Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Still indomitable was the reply—“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
—Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë