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carlmalamud, 14 days ago to random

Trump, showing sense of purpose, goes to see the libertarians. https://www.rawstory.com/chaos-trump-should-have-taken-bullet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon It is not going well.

yvanspijk, 16 days ago to random

English has a bad name when it comes to preserving words of Germanic origin. In the centuries after the Norman Conquest, a lot of native English words, inherited from Proto-Germanic, were supplanted by French and Latin words.

However, what's less well known is that English also preserves quite a few Germanic words that were lost in the other West Germanic languages, such as Dutch, German, Low Saxon, and Frisian.

The infographic shows 12 examples. The next one will contain nouns and more verbs.

oldbookillustrations, 17 days ago to illustration

"Come on!" cried the Gryphon.
Peter Newell, from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, London, New York: 1901 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/come-on/

ic, 19 days ago to art

« Peace Machine » (sans date), collage en volume par le graphiste et plasticien Kass Copeland (Etats unis).

« Je trouve très plaisant d’assembler des objets et des images qui n’avaient auparavant aucun rapport entre eux. Comme lorsque l’on assemble des mots pour former un poème, mes œuvres se révèlent à moi au fur et à mesure que je crée de nouvelles associations avec des éléments qui ont déjà une histoire distincte (...). »

« Je récupère des meubles et des articles ménagers mis au rebut dans les allées et je cherche dans les brocantes des objets et de vieilles photos qui ont une histoire à raconter (...). Ces objets jouent un rôle fondamental dans mon travail et sont associés au collage et à la peinture. »

« J’incorpore également des déchets numériques recyclés en utilisant des phrases et des noms provenant de courriers électroniques indésirables pour inspirer les concepts de mes œuvres. Mon travail est ancré sur une base narrative, car les mots ont toujours évoqué des images pour moi (...). En me concentrant sur ces textes, j’espère offrir une vision alternative du passé en plaçant ces thèmes dans un contexte contemporain, social et parfois politique. »

https://kasscopeland.wixsite.com/kasscopeland

#art #ArtsVisuels #collage #assemblage #sclupture #KassCopeland #EtatsUnis

hybridhavoc, 19 days ago to random

#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

rbreich, 20 days ago to random

When I was a mere clerk for the 1st circuit appeals court, I wasn't allowed to have a political bumper sticker for fear of creating even the appearance of bias on the court.

How can Justice Alito be allowed to rule on Jan 6-related matters after flying a pro-insurrection flag?

GottaLaff, 20 days ago to random

International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza,

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl?cid=ios_app

ruralgloom, 20 days ago to comics

Things like "Jail-Jamas" are why all of our parents divorced. #comics #romance

hermeticlibrary, 20 days ago to random

The Light Eaters #OmniumGatherum https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/05/19/the-light-eaters/

jdmccafferty, 20 days ago to random

St Bernardino of Siena (feast #otd 20 May) from Bodleian Library Oxford MS. Lat. liturg. g. 5, p. 314. c. 1500.

Often depicted as a very angular austere preacher, here the Franciscan Bernardino is given softer features as he contemplates the Infant Christ.

jdmccafferty, 20 days ago to random

Sandglass in a turned ivory frame & orange 'sand',
Italy, c. 1550-1600.

These were used for a variety of purposes from timing sermons to cooking.

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

RelicsOfReveries, 20 days ago to random

Hi! I'm Julien. I'm a self-taught bookbinder.
I make ancien-looking journals and fantasy stationery out of wood and leather.

#introduction #bookbinding

A5 Leather, wood, cloth and rope journal, with a decaying-undead look in a gloomy setting
2 tiny books used as keychains
A6 Wood and leather journal

jeffowski, 21 days ago to random

#ManVsBear

weirdfictionquarterly, 20 days ago to random

We just dropped the cover for our upcoming Folk Horror installment, with Liv Rainey-Smith joining us as the cover artist this time.

https://weirdfictionquarterly.com/folk-horror-cover-reveal/

#WeirdFictionQuarterly #FolkHorror #LivRaineySmith

MarkTedesco, 21 days ago to italy

Please check out this week's blog on the historical libraries of Rome.

https://www.marktedesco.com/blog

#TravelItaly #Italy #Book #Travel #Travelwriting #travelblog #trip #expats #expatItaly #Tuscany #blogging #bookstodon #traveling #tourism #explore #travelgram #trip #Authortube #Bookworm #share #adventure

RIDDLES, 21 days ago to random

skepticsbookoflists, 21 days ago to random

I still have my copy.

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#LindaFrum

overholt, 21 days ago to random

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s racist views on eugenics were deeply intertwined with her pioneering feminism. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2024/05/16/race-pseudoscience-and-the-yellow-wallpaper/

jdmccafferty, 21 days ago to random

19 May 1536: Henry VIII's son Henry Fitzroy attends the execution of Anne Boleyn for adultery & incest #otd (NPG)
This was considered a sign of favour. He’d already been treated to viewing the execution of five priests two weeks earlier.

NWBison, 21 days ago to HashtagGames

Joseph “The Mastodon Man” Merrick

#FediAFamousPerson #HashTagGames

overholt, 21 days ago to random

The work of Averill Cole, at one time America’s most famous female bookbinder. https://grolierclub.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/rediscovering-averill-cole-bookbinder-and-dictionary-cover-patenter/

GayDeceiver, 21 days ago to HashtagGames

“HULK SMASH BECAUSE HULK NOT KNOW EMOTIONAL REGULATION SKILLS.”

#hulksinnervoice
#HashtagGames

ryanfb, 21 days ago to random

May 19th, 296 CE—Aurelia Apollonia aka Dieus petitions the board of protostatai of Oxyrhynchus #OTD #OnThisDay, saying that while the normal rotation of duties would require her yoke of oxen to haul stones for construction, one of her oxen has injured its foot

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;38;2849

clayt, 21 days ago to random

The #poem "The Amityville Horrors" from my 2018 collection of poems Noisesome Ghosts first published in the Ebb & Flourish re-published here at The Poet's Bridge in 2022 #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #ExperimentalPoetry @poetry

https://rb.gy/h0283f

MargueriteHBC, 21 days ago to random

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, AND PERILOUS JOURNEYS OF THE FUR TRADE
#Blogpost
At Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla the incoming HBC Brigades of 1826 were forced to go to the Indian camps to purchase their own horses for the Brigades, as the gentleman in charge of Fort Nez Perces was unable or unwilling, to secure enough horses -- this was a chore that the gentleman in charge of the brigades did every year afterwards. #HBCHistory #AmWritingHistory #HistoricJourney https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-ten/