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‘I like that I’m a woman who can still / be curious when she turns a corner.’ - Margot Kahn ‪ 'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.' - Borrowed from someone, in a meeting

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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 14h
Thank you! Haven't been on here for awhile. :)
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thoughtful piece on the sad demise of Jason Arday sarahditum.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
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The most unfortunate thing
Jason Arday's death is terrible. So is using it to attack journalism
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What's going to happen to all those special eclipse glasses after the eclipse is over????
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I love these stories - agrivoltaic farming. Hope we get a move on and introduce more widely
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hoergen @hoergen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
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American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
great itinerary, went on a tour a few years ago
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
An inspired soundtrack!
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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir @chrisoligh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Anyone and everyone - what is the best/most memorable/most enjoyable etc icebreaker you've ever done at an event you've attended with people you don't know? All ideas welcome!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
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Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Terrible
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
For all my reading group friends! www.lrbstore.co.uk/products/aut...
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Author Clock
Author Clock transforms the simple act of checking the time into a moment of literary discovery. Each minute reveals a quote from classic and modern literature that includes the current time within it...
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
grim
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
news.yale.edu/2026/04/21/l...
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‘This Land is Your Land’: A historian’s road trip across America
For a new book, Yale historian Beverly Gage explores 250 years of American history by traveling to 300 historical sites in 19 states across the U.S.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Disappointing
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Trump effect
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I downloaded it from Project Gutenberg: 3 volumes: 1 The man of property 2 Indian summer of a Forsyte and In Chancery 3 Awakening and To let - am hoping this is everything?
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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New study challenges notion that aging means decline, finds many older adults improve over time
Aging in later life is often portrayed as a steady slide toward physical and cognitive decline. But a new study by scientists at Yale University suggests an
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
especially since that time of day is literally between the acts
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
yes, I think there too
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I do too! I think her books have scenes at dusk, looking out the windows, maybe before a party or a dinner. The Years and Night and Day both come to mind, but I don't have a passage without going to look for one.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Unfortunately I don't find going further in space sublime, I find it displacement activity. Where can the human race explore and degrade next, comes to mind.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It was a pleasure to share some thoughts on Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage with the Neglected Books Pilgrimage reading group yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnY0... Thanks to @neglectedbooks.com for the opportunity.
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Reading Pilgrimage 2026: April 6 - Honeycomb
YouTube video by Neglected Books - Brad Bigelow
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Bees sleep between five and eight hours a day. They enjoy company and even hold each other's feet.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And an open-ended mess for much of the rest of the world
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Last week @freedomhouse.bsky.social released Freedom in the World 2026. The bottom line: "Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 35 countries registered improvements."
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The Growing Shadow of Autocracy
Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. But even in this especially challenging moment, there are reasons for optimism.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Laundry as art [📸 Helga Stentzel]
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Newnham is wonderful in any light. It does look a bit chilly today though!
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A disconcerting photo of the novelist Elizabeth Taylor as a little girl and her letter to Virginia Woolf about The Waves (1932). Just finished #MrsPalfrey and god how sad it is. Have also been dipping into the biography of Taylor which is really rubbing me up the wrong way. #NYRBWomen26 #BookSky
Photo of novelist Elizabeth Taylor as a little girl in a black hat and belted check coat. Text of ET’s letter to VW
Dear Miss Virginia Woolf,
May I tell you how grateful I am to you for The Waves. I have been reading your work since I was at school and it has always helped me to have an un-muddled attitude to life, to see the vividness and importance of every minute, the significance of every action.
The Waves was a tremendous adventure. I have just read it a second time. So rarely, in prose, is anyone so keenly appreciative of individual words. It is like a symphony. Suddenly the English language is translated into fluid music, like Greek.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair. Anne Sexton
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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Airfare Is Just the Beginning
Expensive plane tickets are a preview of what could come next.
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Ali khaliq @khaliqali.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is not a painting - its thd view from beneath an ancient pedunculate oak. Its over 400 years old www.facebook.com/615505373000...
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Old houses in the UK can still have this happen when the conditions are cold enough. Our bathroom and kitchen occasionally have this effect in winter. It was fairly common in older houses decades ago.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Or even a coat when there's ice on the inside of the windows!
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Only heating some rooms is historically common practice in the UK where many houses are heated by heating oil which has more than doubled in price since the start of the US and Israel war with Iran.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Guillevic, tr. Denise Levertov #soapboxpoem 27/31
Voir

Il s’agit de voir
Tellement plus clair,

De faire avec les choses
Comme la lumière.To See

It’s a question of seeing
so much clearer,

of doing to things
what light does to them.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Destroying our planet minute by minute. Time for real change. For hope for our future. Join @greenparty.org.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency says.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A 1631 edition of the Bible lists “Thou shalt commit adultery” as the Seventh Commandment. (The omission of the word “not” earned this edition the nickname “the Wicked Bible.”) There are only about 20 copies of a print run of 1000 left in circulation. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
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Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631
A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were listed inside copies of works by James Joyce, Upton Sinclair and Nicolaus ...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hard to be optimistic about anything at the moment, but there is one positive development I suppose. Donald Trump has made the strongest possible case for why countries must turn their back on fossil fuel. And they seem to be listening.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
yes, this would have seemeed dystopian. Now it seems neo-realistic.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
nice memory and story
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I liked the poem and was pleased to be reminded of Yvor Winters who I'd almost forgotten. I looked up Ellen de Kay Young aka Sister Ellen Stephen and can only find her secular name as Ellen Kay.
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Love this one
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@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminds me a tiny bit of Melissa Scott Miller
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