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#BookHistory, #VictorianStudies. Writing: NYRB / TLS/ NYTBR/Basic Books. Making: Scarlet Letterpress. Mid-move from Rutgers U to Oxford U. #Prosopagnosiac.
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@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyAs opposed to the middle-grade Broccoli Boy graphic novel for adults. #bookstodon
@ecfriedman.comReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyIt’s the final hours of the second edition of my students’ favorite Austen TTRPG, Good Society. If you teach Austen, this is a fascinating addition to your library of adaptations. The Deluxe edition is a clever set of tools that I will be curious to put in front of students.
@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyOther critics writing on #Gissing: do you find yourself ransacking the thesaurus to avoid gerunds?
@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyIf bathrooms are gendered, why not cereals? (See also: A Modest Proposal.) #FoundInanity
@mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyThe Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-dawo-initiative/
@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyNiche #vegetarian question: best storebought lentil-based #veggieburger available in UK that includes some actual vegetables? Am trying to recreate perfect patty available only wholesale from Paramount: red lentils flecked with carrot/onion, bound with cornflour + tomato puree, overloaded with […]
@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyWanted: a dystopian novel that resists temptation to signal The Future by adding initial caps to every single Common Noun.
@davidho.bsky.socialReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyWtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyTo finish: bad olive oil. #FoundInanity
@baloouriza.social.tulsa.ok.us.ap.brid.gyReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyOK, so send some #Alphabet executives to prison for computer trespass and wire fraud. #KevinMitnick went down for 8 years over far less than this shit.
@wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gySo it seems the proposed cuts to TMAG will include herbarium staff and librarians. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/stem-researcher-gintaras-kantvilas-sacked-by-rockliff-govt/107188650
@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy@mpe Infuriating. I am so sorry that this is happening.
@drmikepj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyRE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@gilbertwhite/117324487288510842
Huh! Gilbert White (18th-C naturalist who lived near to where I grew up) saw the aurora! In southern England! 1777 was pretty close to the solar maximum, which was apparently in May 1778.
This bot puts out his diary entry for the […]
@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyKing / Midasplayer, the Swedish video game studio behind Candy Crush, has turned down an attempt from their employees to get a collective bargaining agreement. A strike is brewing, which is sensational. Because these employees are largely in Engineers of Sweden, a union that has never striked […]
@oldlaphotos.palewi.reReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyLong Beach petroleum plant https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101247
@veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyThe Schrödinger Center For the Arts.
@kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyHow a Tamil folk performer is taking the art form beyond epics, highlighting climate change, health
https://thefederal.com/category/features/tamil-nadu-folk-performing-art-kattaikkuttu-dance-drama-music-mahabharata-climate-change-menstrual-health-gender-thilagavathy-256501
@leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy@philipncohen.com See also: Why say "Florida" when you could say "the Sunshine State"?
@philipncohen.comReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyI'm reading a book by a journalist who gooses every single statistic. On one page 46% is "nearly half" and 34% is "more than one-third." And any number that just needs to sound big is "fully" that number. It's exhausting.
@philipncohen.comReposted by @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyWhat if the only way to see if college is worth attending anymore is to make it free.
