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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The snow is finally melting. At last.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 14/02/2026

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

"I say! Are you Georgina?"
The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short
curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and
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her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was
rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's.
"No," she said. "I'm not Georgina."
"Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?"
"I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl.
I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I
can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any
fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if
you don't."
"Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't
care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway,
you look like a boy."

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The dog is living his best life today, even with ice balls stuck between his toes.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Lies American movies told me as a kid: Oreos were good biscuits and would not have a strangely ashy-greasy mouth feel, Hershey’s was actual chocolate, and s’mores were a treat. I did like Dr Pepper when I finally had one though!

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

First page of Google search for ‘Lydia Pinkham’. They keep telling me that AI is going to do my job (historical researcher) but…

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A little boy is going to bed without his mother tonight. She will never put him to bed again.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

As a child I read compulsively, all the time, gobbling up books. At some point, somebody convinced me that I needed to live in the real world. …except that I just read three books in three days, and it was SO MUCH better than the real world, I can’t tell you.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Among those murdered in Sydney is Rabbi Eli Schlanger. Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...

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An incredible story spanning generations

From Poland to Sydney, a bar mitzvah amidst rising antisemitism

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

“Part of it was I always thought I could at least someday put things right and I guess I just dont feel that way no more.”

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: weta red squirrel timber rattlesnake fox great white shark

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

i came across the saying "to follow like a Tantony pig" so I get curious and look it up, but Tantony isnt a place, it's a contraction of St Anthony who is the saint of swineherds, so the proverb means to follow someone like a pig following the hog messiah. alas this information will not pay my bills

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is brilliant. And it’s the kind of wonderful, complex prose that your students will never learn how to write if they’ve dependent on generative AI.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting."

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

My child had a theory that his teacher was grading his weekly essays with Chat GPT, so he tested it by submitting two identical essays to different prompts in different weeks. Almost identical feedback.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The thing about spending my childhood in NZ is that I forget that most of the people tossing around sheep metaphors don’t know what sheep are really like.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Norwich Cathedral Green Man.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Amazing. Chortling the whole way through the thread.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The thing about bread and circuses as a strategy is that you really can’t endanger the ‘bread’ part.

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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House. That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.

This photo, taken on April 1, 1941, shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in front of a fireplace, accompanied by her staffers Malvina Thompson and Edith Helm at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Somebody told me that October 16 was a good night to watch SINNERS at last, and my God, what a movie. Still grappling with how I could sing all the monster’s songs because I knew them by heart.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Woolly bears are more optimistic about this winter than I am.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Golden grapes and quinces in an Oxford garden.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I think a lot about how when they did a study on job satisfaction in the US, ‘nun’ came in at the top of the list.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

My ancestor. I am descended from the child on her lap, who chose to pass as white. He didn’t go home when his mother was dying, and regretted it until the end.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Someone in my neighborhood has dug up their entire lawn and turned it into flowers. The results are spectacular.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Today I was showing a ninety year old patron archival photos from her school days, and she pointed at a photo of a girl in 1952 and told me: “Your hair looked much better like this! Why did you change it?” …meekly agreed that yes, it had looked better that way.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Reading about an eighteenth century Quaker who got kicked out for “studying the stars.” Was he an astronomer, an astrologer or a poet, I wonder?

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I don’t know why folklore tends to have witches turning into hares rather than rabbits, but hares just have more of an eldritch look to them.

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Good Morning ☀️ 🌵 Black-tailed Jackrabbit at daybreak

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is not a photo of the otter I saw this morning as I was too spellbound to take out my phone so you’ll have to settle for a photo of the otter’s buffet.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

after the storm’s washed through

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

þyrel, n.n: hole. (THUE-rell / ˈθy-rɛl) Image: De natura rerum; E France, 9th century; Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Nat.1, f. 26v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

A hole in a page of a medieval manuscript reveals a dragon on the page beneath.

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What Kind of Times Are These - Adrienne Rich

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Tam not Lin @tam0lin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I just hope that some of the kids disappointed by this get fired up to study history in college.

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