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Posts by Carol Ann Johnston

Image is of several books in a trash bin.
Text reads: The People Who Don't Read Books
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

Image is of several books in a trash bin. Text reads: The People Who Don't Read Books Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

"I am not a fan of books.” ~ Kanye West
#Booksky

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We don't have to imagine it.

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In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

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Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

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A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

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Dolly Parton Is the Most Popular Person in America, New Poll Finds A new University of Massachusetts Lowell poll finds Dolly Parton is the most beloved public figure in America, with net

Is it any wonder?

I have always been a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age, same height, share the same values, but she can sing better. And she has more Grammys. I've always wanted to meet her!

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Unfortunately this is all his tweet reminded me of

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"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power."

{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Cartoon by David Horsey | The Seattle Times

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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

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Moon with a face from A Trip to the Moon, a 1902 French science-fiction film written by Georges Méliès.

Moon with a face from A Trip to the Moon, a 1902 French science-fiction film written by Georges Méliès.

Artemis II mission captures first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

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One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

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www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

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That’s an excellent question.

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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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Talking Heads, Stones, Johnny Cash.

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5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Deer enjoying cherry blossoms in Nara, Japan: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

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It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

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Reporter: Why didn't you notify Japan that you were going to attack Iran?

Trump next to the Japanese PM:

"Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour? You believe in surprise I think much more so than us."

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Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

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To clarify, since tone is difficult to control in social media posts, I am not trained in the history/culture of the book as you are, and I respect your knowledge and training. I come at this from a pragmatic angle, in which I'm restoring a Pearl no 11 press, and using 17th c. books in my work.

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The RSA panel, including Stallybras and Wolfe, made the pre-printing claim. Since texts were sold unbound, and sizing is a liquidy process, just materially it makes more sense for sizing to be done where the paper is made, since that process is set up to handle liquids, while binding isn't.

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Poor air quality which we now are doing nothing to improve.

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Have they not listened to the man speak?

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How dare her!! 🧐🤨

"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

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holy shit

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