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#Features Still asking question, why this platform doesn't support multi-format posts, unlike most other platforms? In other words, I can use images with text, but NOT a gif & an image, or images. Utterly frustrating, if this platform wants to compete, then I think this feature should be available!

A #giraffe looking for something to eat, shot in #blackandwhite. The #features of this #african #animal are easily #identifiable, even without #colour. Shot by an #awardwinning #Cheshire #photographer on location. See more #photos / #images like this at www.darrensmith.org.uk

Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him: In time he will say that The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been the most important novel in his life; but at twenty he does not use the word of this or any book, and would think it pompous, embarrassing, #CraftandCriticism #Features

How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs: Leo Tolstoy should have been triumphant. By the 1880s, the Russian novelist had written the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina, achieving what he’d spent his life pursuing. But he was consumed with despair. On paper,… #Features #Health

top expensive gifts for Christmas 2026

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What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe: “But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn…” –William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1.1.3-5 * It was a cold January afternoon when… #Features #History

This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”: This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City apartment, a drunk William S.… #Features #History

How AI built the world’s most valuable company – and no, it isn’t Apple: A Practical Look

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On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla: Ferréol Bellier-Beaumont recounts the 1841 eureka moment—when a vanilla plant was first manually pollinated—as follows: One day as I walked with my faithful companion, I noticed that my only vanilla… #Features #History

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries: Fifteen-year-old Eileen disappeared on a quiet Sunday evening in February 1954. She was at work when it happened. Eileen was a maid at a bed-and-breakfast in a large Georgian… #Features #History