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Brandy Schillace

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Author+Historian (sci/med), Mystery Novelist, Host of PeculiarBC, Editor of Medical Humanities BMJ. Mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. Next nonfiction: #trans rights against Nazis. @SciAm @WSJ @wired. #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her

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Melanie Baker's avatar Melanie Baker @melle.ca
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Well worth the reading time. So charming. And a remarkably illustrative bit of anthropology. 🙂

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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excellent choice.

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Kristen's avatar Kristen @kjeanveau.bsky.social
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Got some new bookcases so I can finally stop stacking everything in my spare room closet. I like how you can look at each shelf like a sedimentary rock record to see where my pop-history tastes were at any given time. 🗃️ Next up: assembling the buddy cabinet for fiction.

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Diane Tucker's avatar Diane Tucker @dianetucker.bsky.social
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TGIF, everyone

For just one more week "Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment" is at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A remarkable exhibition, it celebrates the (difficult) birth of French Impressionism 150 years ago.

If you're nowhere near Paris, this feature article gives you a taste:

#ArtHistory 🗃️

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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Hey. If you have ever been somewhere near David Tennant and are semi-randomly approached to see if you have any anecdotes about David Tennant, assume it's enemy action. Sorry for vagueness.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Look, I’m guessing you need this as much as I did—the tumblr heritage post about native fauna of hardware stores has been updated for craft stores: “Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing”
#crafters #homedepot 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
www.tumblr.com/brandyschill...

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Mo Schoenfeld (she/her)'s avatar Mo Schoenfeld (she/her) @moschoenfeld.bsky.social
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I hope the door actually does hit every single Tory who lost their seat on the way out, all 250 of them. Buh-bye.

But, I am not okay w/Starmer/Labour's pandering to anti-trans & anti-migrant bigotry in order to win votes. If you live in the UK, please sign.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Happily a storm has been a damper on it for now. Lucky Wallace is an inside kitty now. I’m gonna go put pillows over my head.

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Seth Trueger's avatar Seth Trueger @mdaware.org
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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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We need to have a serious conversation about if Biden's too old to run, then Boomers are too old to vote. There are age limits for young people voting, why not just set the limit at 65 at the other end?

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Stephen Gallagher's avatar Stephen Gallagher @brooligan.bsky.social
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I had a postal vote but I stroked a dog outside Lidl this morning, if that counts

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Stephen Gallagher's avatar Stephen Gallagher @brooligan.bsky.social
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Conservative party activists reflect on their campaign experiences

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Anyway, billionaires spend a lot of money on depriving their opponents of the right or will to vote, and they aren't opening their wallet out of the kindness of their hearts. It's because it does, when all is said and done, matter quite a lot

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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A lot has happened in this past week, but don't forget that Neil Gorsuch and the rest of the conservatives said cities can criminalize needing a blanket in the cold.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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Bonus Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

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Helen's avatar Helen @tenerduende.bsky.social
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Poland saved itself from autocracy w/massive voter turnout: "leadership played a pivotal role... a veteran insider successfully challenged an authoritarian incumbent... baggage of Tusk’s career was offset by the benefits of his vast experience.. self-restraint & collaborative spirit were crucial."

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Doctora Malka Older's avatar Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social
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why are there people getting in the way of that photo of the termite mounds?

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Jeramy Neugin 's avatar Jeramy Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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Ada Palmer's avatar Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social
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first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...

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Publius Maximus (He/Him)'s avatar Publius Maximus (He/Him) @publiusmaximus.bsky.social
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We should probably spend a week talking about nothing but this.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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I drove to the market by myself. ‘I don’t see any hanging baskets, do you?’ I asked. Of myself. Being myself, I hadn’t seen any either. It seems absurd but anything less felt impolite. And I agreed. So anyway, there is a reason my language production works like it does.

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wishda's avatar wishda @wishda.bsky.social
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You see it with the Post-Structuralists after WWII too - the idea that root of the madness lies between the world and how we process it through language.

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wishda's avatar wishda @wishda.bsky.social
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Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.

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John Bull's avatar John Bull @garius.bsky.social
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Also the author of Watership Down admitted that a lot of the rabbits - and the emotional arc of their stories - was based on his experience fighting at Arnhem in Operation Market Garden during WW2.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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We hunted with them. But even my dad had to agree 16 was too many (one of our dogs had a litter of 12 and we sort of just kept them)

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TerynceRecherche's avatar TerynceRecherche @terynce.com
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My experience here has been find cool people, notice other cool people in their orbit, find more cool people, repeat. On Mastodon it was find cool people ... space. Oh, look, a comet... space. And there's a lot more space. It was a place to go with no reason to stay.

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