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Keith Grant

@keithsgrant.bsky.social

PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | CoEditor http://earlycanadianhistory.ca

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Marcus Rediker@marcusrediker.bsky.social · 3d ago

For all you writers out there: a list of sixteen writing tips, culled from long experience of trying get unruly words down onto the page. Originally posted on social media, recently republished in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books (@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social). pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...

Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated

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Daniel Samson@ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 5d ago

#JamesBarryDiary 31/7/1876 A fine morning, but the most of the day was extra rainy until after dark no one working here to day. John McLeod and I went to Truro to day to see P. T Barnum's show, and it was [a] show indeed and no mistake. I never saw any thing to come near it; and seen Barnum also.

Daniel Samson@ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 5d ago

Having fun today doing some course prep and working on a module on landscape - here DesBarres's view of Canso Islands with Isles Madame and L'Ardoise across the bay. Source: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.

18th-century landscape watercolour showing near shore of islands and far shore of land and islands across a large bay
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.