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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm afraid it's worse than that.... Source: www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024.

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year.

34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US.

Massachusetts was the state with the highest rate of child literacy.

New Mexico was the state with the lowest child literacy rate.

New Hampshire was the state with the highest percentage of adults considered literate.

The state with the lowest adult literacy rate was California.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That reminded me of Billy Connolly and his stand-up on colonoscopy 😂

Billy Connolly on stage talking about his experience of colonoscopy

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not really, no. It's a 1981 observation that shortcuts don't always work and learning requires personal effort. The machine doesn't teach — it dispenses. But the full illustration reveals the real irony: the effort hasn't disappeared; it's merely been transferred to somebody else.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There was an episode of Dr Who called 'Aliens of London' 😆

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No, it wasn't. The French Mission said it on Saturday via social media.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

For visual learners: This amount of 20 pierogi constitutes what is called a standard serving in my family 😋

20 homemade pierogi in a dish, cooked and ready to be fried in butter

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It's a bit more complicated because the tree is real but the photo shared isn't. Here's the original, dating back to 2004.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The sketch on the left is real. It's a Prix Godeboeuf shop sign by Henry de Bosset from 1904. The image on the right is an AI-generated vision.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

If you're familiar with his blog posts and articles, now you can have them all in print 😆

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Winter's coming... 🥶❄️

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Ha! Just above your post 😂

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I didn't realise how many photos of sheep I've got on my phone! This one is one of my oldest and, I think, the best. It was such a miserable, monochromatic day—but just look at her! 🐑

An overly fluffy sheep posing for a photo somewhere in Devonshire. Even though the colours are subdued making everything rather monochromatic, she looks straight at the photographer in all her fluffy glory!

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Gosh, this looks familiar 😉

The Hobbit dust jacket artwork by J.R.R. Tolkien

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I really like the way you've organised your observations in this book. The chapter 'In a café' is like a warm cinnamon bun. I love it! And I think you found another Brian 😉

An extract from Miranda Keeling's new book, The place I'm in. Dappled sunlight falls on Page 49: "Man returning to his seat: Good God, Margaret. That was, quite simply, the loudest hand-dryer in the world."

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Congratulations! 🎉 I'm already celebrating your new book launch—in my garden, drinking mint tea and dreaming of... Barbados 😆 Thank you, @mirandakeeling.com and @biggreenbooks.bsky.social! #56/200

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Choose wisely... The ruins of Whitby Abbey.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

One more, if that's okay? Cambridge University Botanic Garden 💚

A tiny wooden door attached to a tree trunk. The writing on it says: LIFT - Elf and safety - max load 20 g. A little green light is on! Portal in Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"A gruffalo! Why, didn't you know?" We have this massive, A3 size book at home 💚 You had to sit on it to read it, obvs 😆

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's a murder of crows but an unkindness (also conspiracy) of ravens.

How birds got their strange collective nouns

As author Chloe Rhodes explains in An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns, unlike proverbs, rhymes or homilies, many of these words endure because they were recorded and published in Books of Courtesy handbooks designed to educate the nobility. ‘They were created and perpetuated as a means of marking out the aristocracy from the less well-bred masses,’ she writes.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Some artwork by my kiddo. He sneaked your book to school! And entertained his mates at lunch —'only the ones without swear words in them, honest!' Yeah... likely story 😂

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Fun Fact: there's a street in Warsaw (Poland) named after Winnie the Pooh! It was built in the 1950s. The name was chosen by children in a daily paper competition.

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Love the visuals in the paper!

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ines @vicariousform.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

This is so spot on. Apparently, screenwriters are advised by Netflix not to include too much in one scene because the public can't follow the plot—due to the fact that they do other stuff while watching! The attention span of a fruit fly...

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