#RainbowSerpent #IndigenousSpirituality #IndigenousAustralians #AboriginalAustralians #missionaries

Many books from my university days (1985–1995) remain in my collection and formed its core, though many fell by the wayside. With the use of e-texts for students now, perhaps fewer students will have personal libraries?

#slacktivism #technology #MichaelBurleigh

Reframing or mental gymnastics? #Kierkegaard

#Horace #psychology

#fortune #selfworth #Montaigne

#Kierkegaard #life

#Epicureanism #goldenmean #Horace

#selfreflection #knowthyself #Montaigne

#defence #defense #military #war #MichaelBurleigh

I was once daft enough to think that the "reasonable", "moderate" transphobes would speak out against the extremism of the Republican version but I haven't seen much evidence that they care what happens

#Russia #postSoviet #Putin #MichaelBurleigh

#Dubya #neocons #evil #MichaelBurleigh

#currentlyreading #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

#IndigenousAustralia #AboriginalAustralia #Australianprehistory #archaeology #deephistory #Australianarchaeology #BillyGriffiths

#Aztecs #warfare #flowerdeath #BrianFagan

“Kirk wanted the America he was killed in. He fought for it. Became rich in doing so. And up until his final breath was continuing his harmful grift that has seen trans-people demonised across world. So I do not mourn that.” open.substack.com/pub/amyremei...

#busyness #selfreflection #innerdialogue #Kierkegaard

#currentlyreading #MiguelDeLaTorre

#dialogue #debate #Montaigne

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

#sympathy #sympathyfatigue #Kierkegaard

#currentlyreading #Australianpoetry #MiriamWeiWeiLo

#fortune #Horace

Beirut was once the beating heart of Arab publishing. Now, amid bookshops shuttering and self-censorship, readers and booksellers fight to keep the city’s literary spirit alive, reports Amelia Dhuga for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

#colonialism #imperialism #Aztecs #Incas #Montaigne

#AugustineofCanterbury #manuscripts #ChristopherdeHamel

This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van. “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!” What has America become?

#historiography #history #happenstance #AJPTaylor

#manuscripts #needlework #sewing #ChristopherdeHamel

Montaigne's insights into the nature of rulers and the ruled is stunning.

#sexualharassment #creepymen #Horace

#currentlyreading #ancientgreece #jkdavies

#equity #workplace #leadership #Montaigne

#JohntheBaptist #truth #Kierkegaard

#Epicureanism #carpediem #Horace

#phoenix #folklore #EarlyChristianity

#artcollecting #artmarket #artethics #BookofKells #manuscripts #ChristopherdeHamel

“I often note that poor men are wiser than the rich and that those who make small sacrifices to the gods are more pious than those who sacrifice oxen.” (Euripides "Danae" fr. 327, ll. 5-8) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

#inflagrante #ChristinedePisan #ChristinedePizan

Sidney Herbert Sime, “Landscape Decoration” (nd), oil on canvas (courtesy Sidney H. Sime Memorial Gallery

#willtopower #Nietzsche

#currentlyreading #VirginiaWoolf

#willtopower #selfsacrifice #Nietzsche