Birgitte Breemerkamp 🌈 (she/her)
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My book chapter on 'living swords' and how J.R.R. Tolkien used and adapted this concept in his fictional works was published in July 2024 in 'Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth' edited by Dr. Cami Agan. Available in paperback
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Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien’s Legendarium
Amazon.com: Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien’s Legendarium: 9781887726306: Agan, Cami D.: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Cities-Strongholds-Middle-earth-Habitations-Legendarium/dp/1887726306/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12W5MOOS6KD5J&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.drlkXUxTG7JWGnVv70e6V5yvA11IDZnF8dIDPC88lQVnDLXj_U-6zGmsfoGYrEgSIWgtEw0vBC9EByGT8dX5cg.fuLRzmyFvSF16uO3skaJ2aXRuok9LksBbkFj_2lS-y4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Cities+and+Strongholds+of+Middle-Earth&qid=1732462704&sprefix=cities+and+strongholds+of+middle-earth%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-1
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Sarah J. Jackson
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Kim Kelly
12 days ago
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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The Whimsical Muse
14 days ago
Just a friendly reminder that you’re not being “unreasonable” if you wish to pull a book from a bookshelf and find that it opens a secret door. If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.
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Christine Kooi
13 days ago
Happy anniversary to all historians who observe.
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Jonathan Edward Durham
14 days ago
Finally some good news
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again
17 days ago
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
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*Puts book on to read list for my book chapter in revision*
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18 days ago
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Silicon Republic
18 days ago
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
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New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/mozilla-firefox-ai-generative-block-user-feedback-browser
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Matthijs Pontier, PhD 🏴☠️Piratenpartij🥇
18 days ago
Petitie: Stop Amerikaanse overname DigID
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
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Christophe Schellekens
29 days ago
Early Modernists on Bluesky! Can someone provide me with bibliographical indications on fur trade in Central- and Eastern Europe in the sixteenth century?
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jAy Ph.D.
18 days ago
You know who are not in the Epstein files as predators? Trans people.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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In onzekere tijden pakt kabinet Jetten de zekerheid van alle werknemers af. Bezuinigingen op ons sociale vangnet is onverstandig en onnodig. Stop de afbraak van onze WW. Teken de petitie!
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The Whimsical Muse
21 days ago
Sometimes, self-care is spending a day exploring bookstores, museums, greenhouses, art galleries, and libraries.
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SaschaJanssen 🎸
20 days ago
Een mens illiegaal noemen, dat is radicaal. Mensen die ernstig ziek zijn geworden de armoede in duwen, dat is radicaal. Een zoveelste vliegveld openen in dit kleine land, terwijl heel veel vluchten op Schiphol tussenstops zijn en niets toevoegen aan onze samenleving, is radicaal.
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Prof Dr Ir P. Akkermans
25 days ago
#KwootVanDeDag
#NooitMeerAuschwitz
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Endless Screaming
29 days ago
death to fascism
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Nadim Mansour
29 days ago
Dit stuk is een schoolvoorbeeld van hoe je fascisme en racisme in deftige kringen schoonlikt en witwast en is daarom erg de moeite waard. Art. 1 afschaffen en deportaties (‘stevig rechts’) is je enige issue? Moet kunnen zolang je maar de partijdemocratie op orde hebt en compromissen wil sluiten.
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Fjóla
29 days ago
The Iceland Space Agency is on bluesky
@icelandspace.bsky.social
🥳 Have followed, and will now wait excitedly until they start posting Iceland Space Things.
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🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it 🇪🇺💪
29 days ago
Awesome (beta) dashboard for Dutch 🇳🇱 government agencies,
#schools
,
#healthcare
and companies:
zijnwealautonoom.nl
(‘are we autonomous yet’). Red button highlights the enormous extent to which most Dutch organisations behave like a digital colony of the US.
#onderwijs
#overheid
#ict
#cloud
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John Abernathy
about 1 month ago
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Alan Stedman
about 1 month ago
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
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Barbara Kathmann
about 1 month ago
De Sociale Verzekeringsbank, één van de grootste verwerkers van privégegevens van miljoenen Nederlanders gaat volledig naar MICROSOFT AZURE. Dit is geen technische keuze, maar een politieke. Een gevaarlijke! Debat moet snel. Stopknop moet worden ingedrukt!
#amerika
Lees 👉🏻
www.barbarakathmann.nl/svb/
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
about 1 month ago
A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Emily Dickinson wythout her lightsaber.
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Bibliofilie
about 1 month ago
Geboortedag filosoof, essayist en 'bijenkoningin van intellectueel Amerika' Susan Sontag (1933-2004). Ze was ook politiek activiste en nam in die hoedanigheid, als 'Amerika's geweten', geen blad voor de mond. Haar essays, zoals die over de impact van ziek zijn, zijn zeer invloedrijk gebleken.
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Art Herstory
about 1 month ago
This self-portrait by Louise Hollandine will soon be on display at MSK Gent in the exhibition "Unforgettable: Women artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750," opening March 7 -
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Unforgettable
In spring 2026, the MSK offers the chance to discover the fascinating works created by women artists in the Low Countries.
https://www.mskgent.be/en/exhibitions/unforgettable
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Maaike Dirkx 🎨 👀
about 1 month ago
Making sure no one in the convent eats your hidden stash of donuts. 😆 (Dublin, Trinity College Library, B.11.22, fol. 213r)
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Emily Hay
about 1 month ago
Excited to say I have a new book chapter out in 'Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England', part of the Queenship and Power series from Palgrave Macmillan. My chapter explores the anti-Scottish nature of Elizabethan propaganda on Mary Queen of Scots. Read it here:
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Jesse Locker
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Louise Hollandine, Princess Palatine, Self-portrait holding a paintbrush, c. 1650, oil on panel (formerly Sotheby’s)
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Decoherence Media
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.
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Elon Musk’s “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis
One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor
https://decoherence.media/elon-musks-grok-is-undressing-women-and-showing-them-in-swastika-bikinis/
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Henk Looijesteijn
about 2 months ago
Het Zwitserse zwartneusschaap in uw tijdlijn, graag gedaan.
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Oscar Goff
about 2 months ago
At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
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Twonks
11 months ago
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Jip Leest
about 2 months ago
We hebben een piano 🎹 🎶gratis af te halen. Heeft al eerder voor een schijntje op Marktplaats gestaan, maar weinig respons. Hopelijk hier meer succes. Moet weg voor 5 januari ivm behandeling van onze vloer. Delen = ❤️
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≥ Wuhlfar Piano - Gratis af te halen! — Piano's — Marktplaats
Deze charmante Wuhlfar piano heeft als decoratie in onze woonkamer gestaan, maar het is tijd voor iets anders. De piano is al jaren niet meer gestemd
https://link.marktplaats.nl/m2346892173?utm_source=ios_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_ios
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#CarrieOn
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about 2 months ago
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The Whimsical Muse
2 months ago
Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.
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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥
2 months ago
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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Endless Screaming
2 months ago
solidarity with trans people and death to fascism
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Christine Kooi
2 months ago
Lol. AI can't even run a vending machine.
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Jonathan Edward Durham
2 months ago
The horrors persist, but so do the horrors wait
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Nadine Akkerman
2 months ago
2026 will be the year I return to the correspondence of the boar-spearing Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), sometime Queen of Bohemia, ridiculed by most historians as The Winter Queen but known in the 17thc as The Queen of 💕. If I have missed any letters in Volumes 1-2, DM me or forever hold your peace.
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Prof Dr Ir P. Akkermans
2 months ago
"Weit je wat hieâh illeigeal is in dit land? Dat kreupele deimissiaunèâhe klaute kabinet!"
#GehoordInHetKoffiehuis
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite
2 months ago
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Die Liser
2 months ago
All I want for Christmas is the downfall of AI
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iucounu
2 months ago
—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
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Conor Byrne
2 months ago
My article, ‘Visualizing the executions of British queens in early modern Europe‘, has been published in “Historical Research” and can be read here:
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Visualizing the executions of British queens in early modern Europe
Abstract. The executions of British queens between 1536 and 1587 were sensational news events, both in the British Isles and on the Continent, and were vis
https://academic.oup.com/histres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hisres/htaf024/8377924
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Poldermanie
2 months ago
Politiek in december Vandaag in
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Mike Drucker
2 months ago
i stand by this statement every year
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Jorge Liboreiro
2 months ago
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.
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