Love Tokarczuk! Great translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. #booksky 💙📚

Up next: Bitch by Lucy Cooke.
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Fun history on illuminated manuscripts!
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Go seems like a good follow up to Robinson’s book. Also having fun doing down the medieval rabbit hole. #booksky 💙

Thomas Jones · Lords of the World: Keeping Up with the Caesars As Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a...

‘Whether or not half the stories that Suetonius tells about Caligula are true, their common thread is the sadistic pleasure he took in rubbing everyone’s noses in the power he had over them.’

@moonjets.bsky.social on a new translation of ‘The Lives of the Caesars’.

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt. Imagine the Black Death wiped out 95% of western civilization and then Asia and the Middle East ended up discovering the Americas.
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House of Day, House of Night, a “constellation novel”, is crafted with her consistent fable-like, parable structure. Nonlinear tales yet woven together through a wider lens. Like fables and myths they also ask critical existential questions about human values, morality and the search for meaning.

Walk for Peace

What we wish for: Walk for Peace ☮️💖☮️

Opinion | Trump sides with agriculture again in California's neverending water wars Trump pushed changes at the Central Valley Project — a set of reservoirs and canals supplying water to Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys — pleasing farm groups.

Opinion | Trump sides with agriculture again in California's neverending water wars

Trump pushed changes at the Central Valley Project — a set of reservoirs and canals supplying water to Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys — pleasing farm groups.

Wow! #booksky 💙

Done. Well written. Nice alternative to Gibbons.

In Praise of Nature Writing The narrator of Louise Erdrich’s novel The Sentence keeps a stack of Hard books and Lazy books by her bed. Unlike Tookie, I have only one pile somewhere in between. I learned long ago not…

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Stephen Golub: Wed. Nov 25 deadline to comment on $millions for Benicia

November 25 is the deadline to submit to the Bay Area Air District comments on its Draft Guidelines that will govern use of $60 million in Valero fines for the benefit of Benicia and surrounding communities.  (Valero was…

HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: Why Colorado River negotiations are so difficult Basin states have had 2 years to figure out how to share the shrinking river. Will they get there before the feds step in? by Caitlin Ochs, High Country News  On the day of a Nov. 11 federal deadline ...

Today is the federal deadline for states to submit a water management plan for the Colorado River, and negotiations remain deadlocked. Without agreement, it is unclear how the river will be managed after the fall of 2026. #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/11/h...

Organizing for and with solidarity works.

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Ah, but it “can’t”/won’t pay for lying about 8,400 tons of toxic emissions.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Book banning. Don’t read, don’t speak, and especially, don’t think.

Not just banning books! Banning words too!

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak | Substack Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks. Click to read Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shaf...

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Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years YouTube video by nationalgalleries

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#environmentalart

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”. ~ Isaac Asimov.
#booksky #scifi

As many as 100 Epstein victims will attend Washington rally Wednesday The rally comes as lawmakers Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) want a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to release Epstein files.

As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.

Museum of Color – Stephanie Kryzwonos From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.

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Next up: The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger. #indiebookstores #booksky

Wow! Congrats to Michael Chabon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is one of my all time favorite books! If you are in NYC go see this.