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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From the award-winning duo Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot, #LoAnAmazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft is OUT NOW! 🔗 buff.ly/mG1yxV5 @bryan-talbot.bsky.social #publishing #bandedessinee #graphicnovel #selfmadehero #marywollstonecraft #womensirghts

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our idea of citizenship in the Western Hemisphere is really special and you don't really get that until you try to integrate somewhere else. One more thing about this guy: he loves Michigan as much as I do AND he knows other places. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Who will pay me to make a guide solely addressing how to sit, order, and pay in restaurants in different regions of Europe? I’ll feel awkward and uncomfortable so you don’t have to.

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Had fun interviewing Scott Peeples on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his @reaktionbooks.bsky.social How Many Roads: A Life of #BobDylan. #folk #music #skystorians #Americana newbooksnetwork.com/how-many-roa...

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My kind, beautiful, brilliant, and beloved dog died day before yesterday and I am devastated. Alice, my darling girl. I will miss her as long as I live. #dogs

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 15/07/2026

Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated.

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Get in the car. We're going to Bologna.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 07/07/2026

Bluesky this morning:

Tintin and Snowy in a parade where everyone is cheering. (Still from Tintin in America)

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Connections Puzzle #1121 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Great puzzle!

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

1. It is astounding to me how many Americans cannot understand why the world is now rooting for #Belgium. 2. Why are we plagued with #FIFA? Were we all, globally, bad people in past lives? 3. I miss loving my country. #FIFAWorldCup2026 #TeamUSA Stop ruining football, you twat. Go Belgium.

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Me, watching some tradesmen: Those guys all have dedicated pants. Painters’ pants, carpenters’ pants, plumbers’ pants. Why don’t we have academic pants? Felicity: I think those are just corduroys. Was hoping for a chat about dedicated dictionary pockets but I’m not sorry. #academia #skystorians

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Rider Helena de Jong with Ed van der Elsken's iconic photo of her outside Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

Screenshot from a video of a woman smiling astride a bicycle. Behind her is a museum with a photo of her on it taken approximately 40 years earlier.

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In Walks A Woman Podcast @inwalksawoman.com · 15/06/2026

New Show! Shout out to @janalena.bsky.social for letting us interview her! Spotify, Amazon or 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... #skystorians #feminism #allabouteve #inwalksawoman

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Goddamn. So much for her 2028 aspirations

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I have not lost a chapter since graduate school. Feels the same now, decades later. Fetch me my bathing toaster #skystorians #BookSky

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I manage to forget for 47 months what this one crazy month is like. #WorldCup #WK #VK #HupHolland

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I got cardoon in my CSA box. It tastes like celery with a grudge raw. Any favorite #cardoon #recipes? #cooking #food

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

When I'm not interviewing authors, writing history, or planning parties for the AWCA, I'm doing development work for this truly outstanding playhouse in the place I will always call home. If you're in the midwest, make your way to the GhostLight for some amazing performances.

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GhostLight Theatre tackles highly charged ‘Next to Normal’, opening June 11

The GhostLight Theatre is preparing to tackle one of musical theater’s most powerful and emotional productions when “Next to Normal” opens June 11 in downtown Benton Harbor’s Arts District. Winner of ...

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social just reissued an old favorite. Check out my interview with the lovely Tim McCall about @uchicagopress.bsky.social Making the #Renaissance Man: #Masculinity in the Court of Renaissance #Italy. #skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/making-the-r...

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

#AndreHazes blasting from this worksite this morning. ❌❌❌ #Amsterdam

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Geen idee. Just one mannequin leg. #Amsterdam

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Check it out! My @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Denise Davidson @cornellupress.bsky.social Surviving #Revolution: #Bourgeois Lives and Letters. #skystorians #EarlyModern #HistFrance #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/surviving-re...

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

One of my former students just got into Edinburgh for her PhD in counseling psych. I’m so proud of her! I forgot how good this feels!

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Guys, this is where my bike is supposed to go. #Amsterdam

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Summer bowl season has begun. First #CSA #cooking

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

These people do love a good English-language pun. #Amsterdam #Dutch

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm (always) homesick for the Northwoods. I read this brilliant piece by my friend* @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social and it helped. Folks, this is local history done beautifully. #skystorians #GreatLakes racketmn.com/whats-the-de...

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What’s the Deal With Paul Bunyan? - Racket

A Racket investigation that’s larger than life.

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Delightful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Paola de Santo of @universityofga.bsky.social about The Ambassador and the #Courtesan: Political Bodies in #Renaissance #Italy #earlymodern #Skystorians #booksky #academicSky newbooksnetwork.com/the-ambassad...

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Someone told me I need to stop using em- and en- dashes because AI uses them. From my cold dead hands, you hooligans. FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

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Trevin Ward @tedger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Oud West /Noord /De Pijp

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Look what I got today! Go check out @universitypress.cambridge.org Barbara Strozzi in Context and enjoy my short but very sweet little essay that attempts to capture #Sex, Trade, and the Sex Trade in #EarlyModern #Venice. #skystorians #Renaissance

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Pleased to say that this volume on 17th-century composer and singer Barbara Strozzi and her world, “Barbara Strozzi in Context,” is finally out. I have a small essay in it, “Artemisia Gentileschi, Padovanino, and the Venetian Academies” www.cambridge.org/us/universit... #musichistory #earlymodern

Cover of "Barbara Strozzi in Context" by Beth Glixon and Wendy Heller

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Lively @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Bowen and Imhof about @brepols.net The Burgeoning #European #Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints via the Platin-Moretus Press of #Antwerp. #Skystorians #EarlyModern #Belgium #LowCountries newbooksnetwork.com/the-burgeoni...

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In case you forgot, I’m a Michigander and I live in The Netherlands. #tulips #Dutch #NS #lgrw #Detroit #RedWings

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Suggestion from a neighborhood street sign. XO from #Amsterdam

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Alice, unbothered by the return of fascism, wars nearby, or climate-driven environmental collapse, enjoys having humans who will move her bed into the sun.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Don't know who may be interested in this, but the ACLU of Delaware is looking for a volunteer archivist. I'd be interested but I'm maxed out on volunteering between work as a literacy tutor and political stuff. It's under "Administration" on this page. www.aclu-de.org/volunteer/

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Volunteer - ACLU of Delaware

Volunteer with us Thank you for your interest in volunteering for the ACLU of Delaware. Volunteering with the ACLU-DE is a mutually beneficial opportunity for both our organization and the volunteer. ...

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Jan van Eyck zegt Goede Morgen!

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