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Divine might : goddesses in Greek myth | WorldCat.org

Also read this #book for something a bit lighter: search.worldcat.org/en/title/141... It's nice, a good look at the Greek Goddesses from a modern perspective. I'm not a Classicist student so I don't know exactly exact it is, but it's nice.

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"Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on

Czechoslovakia : anvil of the Cold War | WorldCat.org

Current book I started to read before all this and is now more concerning and sad: search.worldcat.org/en/title/216... I have two more weeks with it, I already renewed as much as possible. It started with WW1 and will go until 1948, I'm currently at Summer of 1938...

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This groundbreaking work presents a revisionist history of Czechoslovakia's struggle for independence from 1917 to the death of Jan Masaryk in March 1948. The authors focus on three critical events in

Oh book book book, right: 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. #booksky #bookchallenge 14/20

Large square book, showing simplified landscape with partly cloudy sky, simplified figures falling from the sky representing different nationalities. The title reads: National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our World. This edition is from 1979.

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Otherwise I took a physical vacation and helped make a short film, which I now get to edit, it's nice to have a creative thing on deck.

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

Just finished watching The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940). It all hits different, but the speech at the end <oof> I do recommend seeing the whole thing to place it into context, but here's the speech itself: youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

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m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I haven't read him myself, but here's a great website for seeing the series and pub order: www.fantasticfiction.com/b/c-j-box/ I used it a lot for library work.

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C J Box

Author C J Box's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

California Dept of Education to Trump: how about you go fuck yourself? This is the way. Do not comply.

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The California Department of Education Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on What Can Be Taught in Schools “President Trump signed an executive order today that does nothing but require the Secretary of Education to determine what federal education funds can legally be rescinded as a penalty for teaching curricula that President Trump finds objectionable, We can give the Trump Administration that answer right now: nothing. It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach by threatening to defund essential public services for students School curriculum should not vacillate back and forth depending on the occupant of the White House, which is why federal law already prohibits the federal government from leveraging grants to mandate specific instructional content in schools.”
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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

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m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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. #booksky #bookchallenge 13/20

Book cover, white sky, cartoon section of the world with a man's head on a pedistal sitting on the ground. The Cover reads "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro". Across the top it reads "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize".

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m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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. #booksky #bookchallenge 12/20

Book cover, photograph of a castle in ruins from England, sun either rising or setting but with a blue sky. The book title is "In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages. Max Adams

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m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The problem with doing the book challenge now is that I don't know what #books prepared me for what's coming.

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In other news I'm starting research on a short documentary on music venues in Cleveland. Yes, I know about the Arena. Yes, I have the Agora down. And the Richfield Colosseum, original Stadium, even Peapody's Down Under/Pirate Cove, Pat's, and a couple dozen more. It's paring them down that's hard.

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. #booksky #bookchallenge 11/20

A book cover showing a dark blue to cyan gradient sky, with a moon, silhouetting two small figures walking towards a bare tree. The cover reads "Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in two acts. Samuel Beckett." The London Times blurb on the cover reads "...one of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."

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They wish for a simple life in a complex world. I wish I could not blame them for that, but will ask instead why their all-powerful Being can't prepare them for what that Being has created.

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What have we learned Linus? That we're still the same type of people who would destroy each other out of fear. We will stop that before we destroy ourselves? Linus, I don't know.

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1983 wasn't far away from Vietnam, Cold War was still chugging along, Iran-Iraq war was happening, Soviets were in Afghanistan, I'm sure there's wars I'm forgetting. But there was a hope that maybe wars would stop as we became more connected. I think the opposite happened. Some became scared.

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Linus then asks CB "What have we learned?", the flashback ends, and Sally takes us out of the moment by pointing out CB's pics are upside down in the album because this is 1983 and he doesn't have the album with the sticky back and can't fix his mistake now.

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Anyways it's a frame story as CB tells Sally about the rest of his trip with him, Linus, P Patty, Marcie, and Snoopy in France. No real plot, but a tour of Omaha Beach (D-Day WW2) and Ypres (WW1) with archive footage made to fit into the animation. Ends with Linus reciting "In Flanders Fields".

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Somewhere I have a VHS copy of a Peanuts special, technically a sequel to "Bon Voyage Charlie Brown" called "What Have We Learned Charlie Brown?" I'm going to spoil it in the next posts in case you want to try and hunt it down. Here's the wiki page if you like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Ha...

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It's one of my most frustrating things about all this: Despite all the tech, info, science, and all other things "rational", we're still the same people who lived not only in Rome, but possibly all the back to Çatalhöyük. We just have a different face to the faith and keep our dead elsewhere.

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Julius Caesar - Entire Play | Folger Shakespeare Library

Huh neat you can read Shakespeare's Julius Caesar online don't know why that popped into my head, funny how trying to stop something happening caused that thing to happen: www.folger.edu/explore/shak...

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Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar's death at the hands of friends an...

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m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Since I started poking around here, might as well 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. #booksky #bookchallenge 10/20

A well worn paperback book cover, depicting a full moon in a purple night sky. The personification of Death as a skeleton is riding a horse, carrying a scythe in the background. A woman is riding the horse behind him, holding on to Death. There is a man in a coffin drinking a beer and a gnome walking in the foreground. The title reads: "Reaper Man: a Novel of Discworld. Terry Practchett."

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...

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Consumer Complaint Against A Business/Company

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m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

<A good chunk of my fb peeps leave> fb: omg do you want to take a survey about trustworthiness and happiness?!?!?!?!? me: sure lol I'm not giving you any words tho We'll see if it changes anything, I only like things, I post less there than here and make a beeline to the ppl I want to see.

NealWiser @nealwiser.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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To screenwriters currently querying anyone in LA; DON’T QUERY ANYONE for the rest of the month unless they specifically say they’re accepting. It’s going to take months for people to get settled and the last thing they need is you flooding their inboxes. Seriously, read the room.

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a man holds his hand up in front of a red stop sign

ALT: a man holds his hand up in front of a red stop sign

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Action Lines @actionlines.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The daily struggle of being a gamer AND a writer. Who else feels the same pain we do when you can’t decide between gaming and writing?! #screenwriting #videogames

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Thanks thanks for quoting him I really believe what he said.

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m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I've been watching the LA fires to much - I keep on looking at Watch Duty, which looks like a lovely app but I'm thankful it doesn't cover my state (yet lol).

m @m-anywhere.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Well, anyways: 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. #booksky #bookchallenge 9/20

A book cover, a stylized city at night. There is a drawing of a man smoking a cigarette, behind him is a monster. The title of the book is "Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator", by Ryan Holiday. The quote on the cover reads "A Playbook for the dark arts of exploiting the media" from Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power.

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I find it amusing that the more advertising I see the less I want to buy stuff.

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Why should I be impressed that a car can drive around a green screen set? I'd be more concerned if it couldn't! Why bother buying this car? Why bother with any of it?

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Ok nm I'm back because what the everlasting eff is this candycane thing in the corner? I didn't link to the ad as I don't want to give views, I'm sure it'll be pushed all over, I watched a bit to see that they used the ai in the commercial (which they did). Are the cars real? Why care?

Screenshot of a Youtube thumbnail. The video is an ad from Honda for their "Happy Honda Days" promotion, specifically for their Pilot, Passport, and Ridgeline cars. The thumbnail shows a Honda Pilot on a grey snow covered road, driving through an ai generated image of misshapen evergreen trees, blobs that might be pastel colored sugared almonds, and half melted candy canes. The candy cane on the lower left has bent over and appears to be melted into itself, looking more like a knot of candy. If you click on the video you see candy-esque blobs forming and reforming in the background.

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Think about this long and hard over the next few years as the government tries to privatize everything from the post office to libraries. They’re going to say at first it’s because they’re losing money, then they’ll go away entirely.

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I've been working more on video editing lately, it's a sort of strange comfort to put a bunch of clips together and realize it creates a mood. No samples: I don't know if I want to make this my professional bsky yet. The whole "how to brand yourself" thing never sat well with me so yeah idk...