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Enchantra Sand📚🌻

@enchantrasand.bsky.social

Reader, Recluse, Mother, and Citizen. History, art, cookery, poetry, witchery, flora, fauna, music, literature, science, religion, anthropology, dogs, libraries. Maker of voluminous lists of books. Working class autodidact. No Fascists. No AI #SlavaUkraini

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Enchantra Sand📚🌻@enchantrasand.bsky.social · 9h ago

Post one book that features a #Witch for 10 consecutive days. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading #10Books10Days #WomenWriting Post a WITCH 🧹 Day 8 The King's Witch by Tracy Borman 2018 - Frances Gorges Trilogy #1

The King's Witch by Tracy Borman 2018 - Frances Gorges Trilogy #1
Enchantra Sand📚🌻@enchantrasand.bsky.social · yesterday

Post one book that features a #Witch for 10 consecutive days. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading #10Books10Days #WomenWriting Post a WITCH 🧹 Day 7 Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen 2021 - Kepler's mother Katharina and her trials. Historical Fiction

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 10h ago

THE MEDICI SEAL, by @carnegiemedals.bsky.social -winning author Theresa Breslin, is a #YA #HistoricalFiction novel set amid the deadly intrigues of Renaissance Italy. Can Matteo survive the bloody feuds of the Borgias & Medicis? #BookWormSat #KidLit #Booksky 💙📚 www.theresabreslin.com/books/the-me...

The Medici Seal - Theresa Breslin

A gloriously rich and authentic story of the Renaissance, "The Medici Seal" is also both the personal story of Matteo, a boy becoming a man, and a fascinating glimpse into the world of Da Vinci.

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Jussi@finnfolklorist.bsky.social · 10h ago

In Praise of Folly, also translated as The Praise of Folly (Latin: Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium), is an oration written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511. Inspired by previous works of the Italian #BookWormSat

Cover of a 1728 French edition, L'Éloge de la Folie featuring a central female figure holding a globe surrounded by allegorical figures.
BookWormSat@bookwormsat.bsky.social · 2d ago

'...and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.' -Machiavelli This Saturday marks 610 years since one of the Medici entered the world, #BookWormSat will travel back in time to the Renaissance! 🦁

The Lion of St Mark by Vittore Carpaccio. Painting of a winged lion holding a book open in which there is a Latin phrase.
Dr Jo Ball@drjeball.bsky.social · 13h ago

A modern statue of Publius Quinctilius Varus, in the town of Haltern (Germany). Named 'Der gescheiterte Varus' ('the failed Varus'), it shows Varus in the aftermath of the #Roman defeat at the Teutoburg (AD 9) - (or is this his ghost, which appeared years later in a dream..?)

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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 21h ago

Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h ago

Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21h ago

Mike Rogers refuses to talk about gas, groceries, seeing a doctor, or our broken infrastructure. Mike Rogers only wants to talk about old culture wars fought by small people with smaller ideas and no solutions to our actual problems.

Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 14h ago

There is a long tradition in European art of portraying happiness, few paintings I looked at this morning gave me as much joy as Albert Marquet's 'La promenade aux Sables d'Olonne,' painted in 1933.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22h ago

A significant crowd is outside the Kennedy Center for a “Hands Off the Arts” protest, as the nation’s memorial to former President John F. Kennedy remains closed. Just today, another dozen Kennedy Center employees were laid off.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · yesterday

Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · yesterday

‘The cost to transport produce out of California is up 40% to ​120% from a year ago. Independent truckers, who typically pay for fuel up front, may not be able to withstand further hikes. "We're about to see diesel price-driven bankruptcies" of trucking ​firms.’ www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Record US diesel prices squeeze farmers; food prices may rise

In northeast Missouri, Addie Yoder, a corn, soybean and cattle farmer, runs two combines, three semi-trucks and several tractors from mid-September to late October to harvest and transport her crops.

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Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · yesterday

Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.

ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters

ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.

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