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worldcat sez 54 editions in 3 libraries so I bet you can ILL it

This makes me want to believe in an afterlife so I can believe he and Julie d’Aubigny are partying there

Denis was gay, pretty much openly so despite the era, and ... okay, per his Wikipedia entry, he was raised by a traveling circus, seduced a Greek prince, and was a star of the stage, all PRIOR to WWII.

That's not true. But the Sea Peoples almost entirely erased themselves from history to avoid having to do an interview with Chotiner.

that guy just did not miss

Catching The Codfather A fishing tycoon is arrested in an elaborate sting operation, but claims he’s the real hero fighting back against an overbearing Massachusetts. So who is Carlos “The Codfather” Rafael really – a folk ...

Every so often @wgbh.org drops a new season of its local history podcast and it immediately becomes a must-listen. Currently www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the... (but go back and listen to season 1, because The Big Dig has _everything_)

hey so instead of that predictably terrible atlantic piece, what's a really strong piece of reporting or a great essay you've read recently that more people should read?

divergent thinking:brassicas:: convergent thinking:crabs

I am astonished this book is not written by Chuck Tingle

The fact that my husband and I EACH took some solo, primary-caregiver parental leave 19 years ago has continued to pay dividends throughout. It was only a month or two but it established that we both COULD. Priceless.

DO go chasing waterfall, apparently

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

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Reply if you'd like a recommendation & we'll give you one based on your profile! (Apologies in advance if we see into your very soul)

I have finished several books in the last week and need more, go to town

Every book its reader, and I see @amalelmohtar.com ‘s The River Has Roots was written for me, specifically. grammar grammar grammar grammar grammar

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

A frigate with a crew of fewer than 200 is barely a "warship". The vast majority of that crew were cooks, deckhands, engineers to keep the turbines going. And to leave wounded survivors floating in open water violates the actual and moral law of the sea. You at least call for help for them.

well Boston has never taken a stand over government regulation of caffeinated beverages before, so I imagine this will go down easy

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

NOT JUST THIS:

Two other Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills (e.g. anti-trans legislation) are also losing in their primaries so far to progressive challengers.

This could be a major night in NC.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

Reading this thread is like watching a tiny little bird puff itself up in a threat display every time the judge asks a question (only to fold when the judge insist he actually answer it). The only principle here, as with so much of this administration, is "we should never be held accountable".

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Four little dinosaurs printed in a pink and purple and blue gradient.

the same dinos: a bronto, a pterodactyl, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops. This time in Northern Lights vibed colors!

now the dinosaurs are RAINBOW

these are the OG dinosaurs, printed in my desert sunset colors. also so old the picture is from before I got a light box!

We'll be closing the store for the final week of March so I can recover from surgery, which means selling as much as we can now.

Great time to buy something & force me to actually recover from surgery by not working!

(hey I ADDED ALL THE DINOSAURS!)

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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Unassailable logic

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