thelilyriver
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hot mayor summer
5 months ago
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Proud of my city ā¤ļø
10 days ago
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I'm going to need a Book of Dust Volumes I and II recap before Thursday...
25 days ago
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Perry Como - Kol Nidre
YouTube video by Jewish World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeIYLGJF0kc&list=RDVeIYLGJF0kc&start_radio=1
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
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Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus veloces superasse viros. Non fabula rumor ille fuit:
about 2 months ago
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Jonn Elledge
about 2 months ago
I once got back to a table in a beer garden and the whole vibe had changed and people were muttering to strangers, and it turned out to be because a northerner had been rude about Sadiq Khan and the entire place had instinctively rounded on him. Anyway that's how I feel tonight.
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and the putting the books away
about 2 months ago
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I did it šš»āāļø
2 months ago
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The Guardian
3 months ago
New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned
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New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned
Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned the snailās left-spiralling shell results in reversed reproductive organs ā a barrier to mating If you thought your dating pool was limited, spare a thought for Ned, a very rare snail unearthed in New Zealand. Due to a left-spiralling shell, Ned has a vanishingly small chance of finding a mate ā a predicament that has sparked a nationwide campaign. Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Nedās left-spiralling shell is like a mirror image, resulting in a flipped shell and reversed reproductive organs ā a configuration that affects roughly 1 in 40,000 snails. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/27/campaign-find-love-left-spiralling-snail-ned-launches-new-zealand?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Simone Weil, and would that more might read her
3 months ago
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Dr Sophie Hay
3 months ago
Dramatic end to the day. Fire on the slopes of Vesuvius lit by the setting sun.
#Pompeii
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Regret to inform that I enjoyed two dates from the fridge as a little treat this evening
3 months ago
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Well I impulse bought a ticket to London and I do blame the stormy weather but I have no regrets
4 months ago
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Peaches from the farmerās market and chamomile tea from Crete and Mary McCarthy
4 months ago
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vague magazine (I'm two episodes behind, no spoilers please)
4 months ago
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I feel like we're not talking enough about Ovid's Heroides
4 months ago
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the substack algorithm is super weird and/or every single person on that platform is currently reading east of eden
4 months ago
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One for
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Joshua J. Friedman
5 months ago
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayorāwhat could be more NYC than that?"
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hot mayor summer
5 months ago
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"what fools we are"
5 months ago
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This language is ridiculous
5 months ago
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There are too many screens
5 months ago
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Voting for the nyc mayoral candidate most likely to call a snow day
5 months ago
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We're all rereading Syme because of the fascism, right?
5 months ago
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Might rewatch all of Endeavour just to feel something
5 months ago
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I feel like itās time for a third series of Fleabag
5 months ago
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Just got to the part in my book where itās revealed āheās writing a magic bookā and then it was my stop and I had to get off the train and go to work and oh
6 months ago
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Mollie Goodfellow
7 months ago
They gotta make a 30+ railcard
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Send those emails! Do things!
7 months ago
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Numinous
8 months ago
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U.S. Marine Band forced to cancel concert with students of color after Trump DEI order
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1SnA&ab_channel=60Minutes
8 months ago
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āMany and different are the stories told about Delphiā Ī»ĪγεĻαι Γὲ Ļολλὰ μὲν καὶ ΓιάĻĪæĻα į¼Ļ αį½ĻĪæį½ŗĻ ĻĪæį½ŗĻ ĪελĻĪæĻĻ Pausanias
8 months ago
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I am so tired and I sharpened so many pencils today
8 months ago
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Sometimes you need to go somewhere simply because you read about a place in a book twenty years ago
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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Dr Hannah ÄulĆk-Baird
10 months ago
For
#BlackHistoryMonth
this year, Iām going to be posting daily about: representations of blackness in Greco-Roman antiquity, the history of scholarship by Black classicists, and the history of Africana receptions using the hashtag
#AncientBlackness
. Join me.
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āAnne of Green Gablesā Star Megan Follows to Play Its Author Lucy Maud Montgomery in Series āLucy. Maudā (EXCLUSIVE)
āAnne of Green Gablesā star Megan Follows to play its author Lucy Maud Montgomery in upcoming title, pitched at Berlinās Co-Pro Series.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/anne-of-green-gables-megan-follows-lucy-maud-1236311127/
9 months ago
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I canāt be cold anymore, Iām done with this winter, itās too cold and I have to go to work and it is unbearable and I just wonāt have any more of it
9 months ago
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Obsessed with Lawrence Durrell naming his daughter Sappho Jane
9 months ago
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10 months ago
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āShe gets the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown And all her empire's falling down And winter's closing in.ā Joni Mitchell
10 months ago
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Chalamet does a Sherlock Holmes cameo in Gerwigās Magicianās Nephew, you heard it here first
11 months ago
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Levi Stahl
11 months ago
Muriel Spark is here for the winter. She is a Great Dear. She has a horrifying habit of telling everyone the truth, and things have been lively during her stay. āShirley Hazzard, letter, 1962
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collyram cum pulte nuceum pinearum et brassiculam assatam coquo
11 months ago
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If youāre going to give a grammar activity, make it group work
11 months ago
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Irish Literary Times
12 months ago
Okay, my ardent followers who have been troubled wondering what to get me for Christmas; your troubles are over.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Simone Weil making the case for compelling input
12 months ago
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Beatgrrrl
12 months ago
The real Alice of Arlo Guthrieās āAliceās Restaurantā dies at 83
#RIP
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The real Alice of Arlo Guthrieās āAliceās Restaurantā dies at 83
The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrieās epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song āAliceās Restaurantā has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfl...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/22/alice-brock-alices-restaurant-dies
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