At 13, Charlotte Brontë Already Knew How Good a Writer She Would Be An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

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Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann

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. 📚💙

9/20

Teaching my mother how to give birth by Warsaw Shire

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8/20

we just need stupider leftists. I'm dead serious. charismatic guys with the stamina to record 100 instagram reels a week in the front seat of their car saying stuff like "trump made summers too hot" and "the fries at wendy's taste better ever since they went woke"

Headline, from THEM magazine that says "Chappell Roan Reveals Her Type "Weird Art Girls", "Women Who are Not Scared of Bugs or Snakes", with a picture of a blonde lady standing next to chappell roan

Big day for weird art girls who are not afraid of bugs and snakes.

Oh shit. Oh fuck.

I am wearing a tan shirt with an illustration of a Rhody Red rooster holding a sign that reads “free people deserve to read freely”

Chaperoning my kid’s school field trip to the library 🐓

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy featuring a woman in a black and white striped corset holding a small bouquet

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7/20

Do I have to call them Democrats who collaborated with the fascists or is it redundant to say fascist twice?

Don’t ask where Miley is when Hannah Montana is performing. Democrats haven’t done their job in a long time. If they had, they wouldn’t be the Republicans of 30 years ago.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë featuring a dark landscape of a large house and tower with only one window lit from within.

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6/20

More relevant than ever.

A very happy Ides of March to you all.

Columbia hears plea for expelled student is the title of the article from 1936, underlined text reads that the student was expelled for anti-Nazi demonstration

A friend just sent - shared without comment 👀

What do you call an Environmental Protection Agency that doesn’t protect the environment?

Bill Burr Just Destroyed 'Idiot' Elon Musk While Explaining Why People Shouldn't Fear Him Tell us how you really feel, Bill 😆

No holding back, Bill 😆

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

You can believe the personal is political and still give people the grace to navigate their lives.

Three notebooks lined up on a wooden desk. The leftmost one is opened to reveal pages with blue cursive and notes on post-its. The middle is a travelers style notebook, with the first insert visible, covered in stickers. The third notebook is a basic composition book, but with Dean Winchester on the cover.

What’s even the point of being an ethnographer if your field notebooks aren’t cute.

Same, sporophytes.

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler with a beautiful abstract art cover, and two large white circles featuring the title and subtitle.

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5/20

1/4 What do fungal networks sound like? Have a listen! This week’s @nature.com cover is a multi-sensory spectacular, complete with the fascinating, almost wet sound of fungal networks spreading, recorded by artist @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social in an Araucaria forest on the side of a volcano Chile.

more countries and universities should be doing this! this entire horrifying debacle is a golden opportunity for somewhere other than the US to become the world leader in scientific research since we seem bound and determined to give up that role

Real:

Mythology by Edith Hamilton featuring the titan Atlas holding up the sky.

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4/20

Participating in a nationwide economic boycott is easy when you live in a small town with no national chains and also you had no plans to leave your house anyway

Cubes of butternut squash, diced red onion and chickpeas with herbs in a curry sauce with rice

Butternut squash curry

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