Eva Skewes
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Yale University Press. Former indie bookseller; loves tea, cider, photography, and sleep
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sarah jeong
2 days ago
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
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My third quilt is done! I started this last year and leisurely hand-quilted it throughout 2025. I made the somewhat unorthodox decision of binding this halfway through quilting (March?) which meant there were months that passed where I didnāt work on it and just got to enjoy it nearly-complete.
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Kate Messner
4 days ago
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because.
apnews.com/article/louv...
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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
https://apnews.com/article/louvre-fedora-man-ap-photo-c0d59847ef5f836a0c5ac49de8bff441
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It is extremely easy to get a weather report for summit conditions on Mt. Washington. NHPR provides a weather report from the observatory every day!
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15 days ago
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My most excellent best friend is now on Bluesky! She is a font of knowledge of all things circus and also I was up until 1:30 this morning reading her book which hopefully will be keeping up many more people in Autumn 2026.
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16 days ago
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One of my obsessions is the Gemini and Apollo photography (there are 12 Hasselblads just lying on the moon!), so I feel like this article was written specifically for me:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth
No explorers ever traveled farther from home than the Apollo astronauts. As artists, theyāre still underrated.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/24/arts/moon-photos-apollo-nasa.html?smid=url-share
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My dad finished making his pair of Chandigarh chairs! If you are in northern New England you should get a chance to see them in early November through the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers and their New England Woodworking Competition. Theyāll technically be on loan from me!
22 days ago
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It is not done (needs a hem facing) but here is the first skirt Iāve ever self-drafted based on my measurements. Made of green Harris tweed and flatlined in silk organza.
23 days ago
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Youāll never guess who watched the quince picking at Yale University Press today.
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This pastel by my grandmother used to hang in her bedroom and now it proudly sits in my apartment. A framer friend very generously put museum glass in it (at wholesale) and I canāt stop looking over at it. Unclear if these are Green or White mountains.
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about 2 months ago
CHOTINER: And you didnāt know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So youāve said
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I finished the top of my banner. Now I need to make the backing and quilt it up! If you ever want to see this in person and also like aerials and a lovely and welcoming community in Connecticut . . . It will live there eventually.
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Working on a new project with foundation paper piecing! You really have to pay attention with this stuff and almost think backwards.
2 months ago
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Spent most of the day completing this linen robe. I am tempted to swan around my apartment in it for the rest of the weekend.
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This is my neighborhood and I'm delighted a judge agrees I should have actual neighbors and not a blighted, decrepit series of buildings:
www.newhavenindependent.org/article/gran...
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Judge Clears Way For 112 Apartments
A state judge has rejected two Lyon Street neighbors' attempt to overturn the site plan approval of a proposed 112-unit apartment building on Grandā¦
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/grand_ave_housing_court
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Siri described a photo my dad sent of several unfinished walnut boards in the back of his car as "cardboard" so that's how Apple's AI is doing . . .
3 months ago
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My dad has been working on replicating (with some modifications) a Chandigarh chair and just oiled his test, which is made of ash. He figured this out from photos, a lifetime of woodworking knowledge (his first career was making Shaker furniture), and golden ratios.
3 months ago
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Iāve made a lot from mid-June to mid-July. I completed the āfinal versionā of a dress I tested in blue cotton voile, and made two versions of a trapeze pattern I modified (changed shoulder slope, lowered armscye, shortened). Also I made a tailorās sausage to match my ham.
4 months ago
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Kenny Uong
4 months ago
For our neighbors in Massachusetts and Connecticut, consider donating to these local PBS & NPR stations šŗšļø
@wbur.org
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donate.wbur.org
@wgbh.org
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donate.wgbh.org
@nepublicmedia.bsky.social
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donate.nepm.org
@ctpublic.bsky.social
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donate.ctpublic.org
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Something keeps eating my butternut seedlings (farmers market says this is common), so good wishes appreciated for the third round of planting. They appear to be less enticing when the leaves grow hairy. I will cull, obviously, if all of these make it.
5 months ago
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Urban Dispatch
5 months ago
Ways to contact the governor to support HB5002! 1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today 2. Email directly
[email protected]
3. Online form (below) As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap
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My new couch arrived and itās perfect. If anyone wants furniture you can have forever and also the loveliest customer service, my experience with Pompanoosuc Mills was just top tier at every stage.
5 months ago
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Took advantage of a long weekend and gray weather to finish a lot of garments Iāve been working on. I finished two tees and a dress from the Elizabeth Suzann Georgia Series (Iāve been taking a class with her) and one dress from Silversaga Patterns (Francesca). All of these have enclosed seams!
6 months ago
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If tomorrow is Indie Bookstore Day, is today Indie Bookstore Eve?
7 months ago
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We found bloodroot thriving by the side of the road at the edge of my parentsā field and transplanted a select to my momās woodland garden.
7 months ago
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Made my voice heard at the New Haven HandsOff protest yesterday and sewed 15 buttons and buttonholes.
7 months ago
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The Yale Review
7 months ago
Between 1916 and 1949, The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost, including āNothing Gold Can Stay.ā In celebration of National Poetry Month, weāve made all of his poems available on our site for the first time.
yalereview.org/robert-frost...
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I rebuilt my community garden plot! I used untreated fir and applied tung oil. The community garden manager cut the wood for me (one long board into the short ones and the 4x4 pole), and then it was just me, a drill, and an impact driver. The fence posts should enable vertical growth.
8 months ago
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On Monday I finished my first shirt! This was technically a test (toile) and mistakes were made/ lessons were learned while making it. Pleased to have it in my closet though I do now need to make a camisole as cotton voile is sheer. Pattern is the Amelie blouse from Silversaga Patterns.
8 months ago
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Forsythia on the New Haven Canal Trail, Spring 2023 on Kodak Portra. Self developed and scanned.
8 months ago
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NH was the easiest state Iāve ever voted in, and the republicans have always hated this, particularly for students (it has long had same day registration). Now theyāve targeted half the population.
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8 months ago
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Iāve now completed by first jury summons (read a book in a room for 4 hours, name was never called).
8 months ago
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I finished binding my quilt! It is not actually complete, as I still need to quilt lines in the opposing direction, but now I can really quilt at my leisure and enjoy it without distributing stray threads and batting.
8 months ago
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Someone in my local Buy Nothing put out a call for broken pottery to practice kintsugi and they've confirmed they can mend my chipped East Fork mug. Sharing if you needed a bit of community joy.
9 months ago
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Helena Fitzgerald
9 months ago
I really canāt second this recommendation strongly enough, itās one of a very small number of movie scenes I canāt even talk about without struggling not to cry
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Everything is a nightmare, but I have made progress on sewing my first dress. Hem has just been pinned, not sewn.
9 months ago
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Jason Koebler
10 months ago
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
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My amaryllis has produced a 2nd bloom! The kit my mom gifted began growing in the box and first bloomed just as I was leaving for the long holiday.
10 months ago
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Made a toile of a dress this weekend and successfully modified the bodice (plus figured out how to translate that to the pattern pieces). The focus and problem solving of sewing garments is a great doomscrolling alternative. (Yes the drawstring is off center, but that wasnāt important to fit)
10 months ago
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A K
10 months ago
Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. Iāve survived the influenza pandemic, Iām feeling good about life, and Iāve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract
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I made my first garment! Itās a skirt, with a pattern from soften studios (Clo Bias Skirt). Iām wearing it here with a sweater my mom made for me.
10 months ago
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The Yale School of Architecture sponsored screening of The Brutalist reached capacity basically 45 minutes before it was set to start. Best friend and I did not make it in, despite arriving half an hour early. Pretty good evidence New Haven should have a first run movie theater!
10 months ago
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Maren Day
10 months ago
One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. š¹
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Sarah Jones
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Helen Rosner
10 months ago
A rumor requires nothing, & can be instantly dismissed; a firsthand account requires one person, & can be easily waved away. The importance of a full investigation by a known & (mostly) trusted publication canāt be overstated. Reporting, fact-checking, and legal vetting are arduous and essential.
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lila pearl
10 months ago
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse.
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html
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Rachael Levay
11 months ago
Strong endorse! For editors looking for reviewers and also to reach out to potential authors, a current CV (with contact info!) helps so much.
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I think the LOTR versions on Max reflect a remaster because the Council of Elrond does not look suitably orange/yellow.
11 months ago
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Laura Helmuth
11 months ago
Guinea worm used to afflict 3.5 million people each year. This year, thanks in part to Jimmy Carter, there have been 7 cases. He negotiated the longest humanitarian cease-fire in history to distribute water filters & larvicides
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm...
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Jimmy Carter, Who Has Died at Age 100, Spared Millions of People from Guinea Worm, a Debilitating Parasite
Former president Jimmy Carterās charity has helped transform Guinea worm from a disease that used to infect millions to one that infects fewer than a dozen
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimmy-carter-who-died-at-age-100-spared-millions-of-people-from-guinea-worm/
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I tend to commit hard to a hobby, so I made a tailorās ham and filled it with wood shavings from my dadās woodshop before I even made a garment. One side is green wool from a skirt I adored but no longer fits. The other is chambray from a shirt I loved that also no longer fits.
11 months ago
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