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Bethany Keats

@bethanykeats.bsky.social

Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Artist 📷 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲 Also: languages PhD: gothic literature, family history Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷) co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social

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Michael Herzing@mherz67.bsky.social · yesterday

E-bikes give people affordable, clean transportation. If kids are getting hit by pickup trucks, the answer isn’t to treat e-bikes like the problem; it’s protected bike lanes, safer crossings, lower traffic speeds, and infrastructure that keeps everyone separated from multi-ton vehicles.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 2d ago

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

André Brett@drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 3d ago

Really good piece. It's struck me that the one group I've not seen up in arms about this is librarians, accustomed as they are to weeding collections. Pat's navigated a route between the fact that pulping is a normal part of the publishing cycle and that there are issues with this specific pulping

Patrick Stokes@patrickstokes.com · 3d ago

Me in ArtsHub on destructive scanning for AI training. We probably need to avoid fetishising books, and warehouses full of Max Walker memoirs and WordPerfect For Dummies aren't the Library of Alexandria. But even for non-rare books, destroying them *purely to maintain legal cover* is just perverse.

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d ago

There is zero reason for the Govt not to ban pervert glasses except for cases where they have been prescribed for medical reasons (ie assistance for those with vision impairment).

Bethany Keats@bethanykeats.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trying to find an academic reference for some folk culture. Found a book that looked promising. It had a chapter on something I learned was fake as an undergraduate. Awesome. Guess I'll keep looking.

Bethany Keats@bethanykeats.bsky.social · 7d ago

Except when you change platform without announcing and I only happened to look up and see the sign with a minute to go and leg it up the stairs and down the stairs to a different platform. Made it, but was a close one.

Photo of a digital ad on a train saying “catch the train / make the plane”
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · last wk.

In 1544 an English merchant in Calais named Otwell Johnson wrote to his brother John, & asked him to remind their sister to buy some eels in London for Lent. Which is basically the 16th C. version of texting someone to stop by the store on the way home. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval illumination of a woman drawing. She is sitting at a desk, and writing in a book with her right hand. Her left hand is holding something that looks like it might be a Twizzler. There is a box on the table, which looks like it holds her pen (and her Twizzlers). At her feet is a small dog, groaking like it's going out of style. The woman is sitting in a high-backed chair, and is indoors, under a window. She is wearing a blue gown is draping sleeves, and a white hennin with roses on it. She's clearly wealthier than I am. Without any contradictory evidence, we can assume that the woman is writing a sort of Beowulf / City of Ladies fanfic crossover piece, called something like "Grendel and Berit" in which a strong northern prince gangs up with a swamp monster to try to shake down a group of women who are building a mead hall on a moor. The women tear his arms off and send him home to mamma. Meme text reads: "Dear Otwell, Get your own damned eels. These ones are mine."