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January 2024

Shantell Powell @Shanmonster@c.im

#classics #pigeon #odyssey #odysseus

11:33 AM • January 16, 2024 (UTC)

Old Book Illustrations @oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social

High on a throne of royal state.
Gustave Doré, from "Milton's Paradise Lost" New York: [ca. 1880?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/high-throne/

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January 2023

Randy Lubin @randylubin@dice.camp

Works entering the public domain include:

Written work by: Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf

Art by: Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Tamara de Lempicka

Films including The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Napoléon, and Trolley Troubles

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I had an awful time building the blog because of errors fetching content from Twitter. This, I suspect, has to do with their new policies on unauthenticated access. So I’m getting rid of my link files dating back to 2016 (though I’m keeping them archived just in case). I’m still keeping my account, but not adding anything that isn’t already going to be available on my presence on Mastodon or Facebook. In the unlikely chance you might have had something bookmarked, sorry. To me, it’s just not worth the trouble.

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I’ve been on the platform for a number of years, but have been following the crowd reducing the exposure to the turmoil on Twitter. Here are a few of the items from the last few months I marked as favourites. The styling isn’t quite what I want, so I might change some of the tooling to bring it more in line with the other pages here.

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I’ve been keeping an eye on the some items that

• Something on a little bit of fossilized legal speech you have probably heard at some time.
• In my past life I did a few years of work on neutrinos, enough to find it that something as small as the Earth could manage to absorb them when conditions are right.
• True life crime can be more crazy than what thriller writers think up. The story of Susan Kuhnhausen.
• You can search for any term you like in the Trump Twitter Archive to find out what our leader has opined on the subject.
• Some of these trilobites look ready to get up and swim around.
• I could watch these traffic intersection simulations

I actually had a few more, but these are the best.

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Instead of passively consuming the nearly endless stream of content coming my way I thought I’d gather together a few items to share with everyone here.

• Forty-nine years ago this happened:

For every post here I write maybe three for my own use over on Penzu as a sort of diary of what’s going on. I’ve learned that it’s too easy to forget a lot sooner than you expect just what you were experiencing and saying and doing if you don’t leave some kind of traces for yourself to get back into your head in times past. What I write are things too personal or professionally sensitive to want to put out on a public blog like this, or more often things that only I figure I would be interested in knowing about. For me there needs to be a kind of a space between what I think about and what I put out there, which I think is nothing like the way a lot of people approach their social media presence.