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MaryMolitierno

@marymolitierbo.bsky.social

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Retired History teacher, Gardener, Avid reader (formerly @corneliagracchi at X) No Chats henceforth🥲. Ohio asking for SS to prove over 21, nope, not gonna! #GardenGrewPeas #BalconyGardening #ResistanceGardening 🌱

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Keep a light in the window, dear friends. (Home of abolitionist John Rankin which overlooked the Ohio River on a bluff easy to spot by refugee slaves making the crossing) #WeCanSurviveMaga

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 2h

G’Morn from #Brookside. Woke to spooky skies!!!

#GardenGrewPeas

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy is on the ballot Nov. 4th
Vote YES on Prop 50 California‼️

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 9h

True, no one of us, all of us together must speak up

TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 5d

The White House filmed this ad after the "Antifa roundtable" yesterday. I fear there's simply no way any of us can compete with the millions of dollars they're spending to make people believe Antifa is real.

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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 23h

Just beginning to read @nicolawriting.bsky.social latest book.
I have already experienced that precious overlapping which occurs when a great writer simultaneously invites you into their inner life and returns your own to you.
Carpet farms, the breath of cows, a child galloping ❤️

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 6d

Read this article (and Julian's book!) and listen to the podcast about Balkan cuisine here coz we are more beauty and food and culture rather than war!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · 1d

So thrilled that @canongate.co.uk will be publishing A Stranger in Corfu in February. A retirement home for spies, secrets that rise up from the past, the beauty of Greece. @waterstones.bsky.social are offering a big preorder discount on the hardback here: buythebook.online/astrangerinc...

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 3d

Country #79 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is IRAN 🇮🇷

Ghormeh Sabzi is a meat stew (I used beef) with sautéed onions & mushrooms, plus lots of fresh parsley, coriander, & spinach. Also kidney beans. Spiced with turmeric, fenugreek, saffron, & Persian dried limes. Served with saffron rice.

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · Jun 16

On this exclusive episode, I'm discussing ancient Greek music, Byzantine music and how Pavlos approached writing the traditional music for the amazing Fall Of Civilizations podcast episodes of Byzantium, Incas and Carthage.
Listen here:

www.patreon.com/posts/ancien...

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 22h

Day #6 of my Anglo-Greek adventures. Back at the #Benaki’s historical archives, completing my examination of the Ritsos-Stangos correspondence. Two excellent books of translations by #Stangos of #Ritsos’s work emerged from often angry correspondence—conducted in very different styles of handwriting.

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 1d

Day #4 of my Anglo-Greek decameron. Having reached #Athens yesterday, I spent the day in the wonderful historical archives of the always hospitable #Benaki Museum, exploring #YannisRitsos’s collaboration with #NikosStangos and #PenguinBooks.

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 4d

Day #2 of my ten Anglo-Greek days. A great morning at the 9th Greek-British Symposium, in #Cambridge, where I heard a thought-provoking keynote by Greek Defence Minister, Nikos Dendias, and a stimulating if gloomy panel discussion on geo-political trends.

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 5d

Day 1 of 10 intense Anglo-Greek days.

A talk by David McClay of @britschoolathens.bsky.social, hosted by John & Virginia Murray in the historic home of John Murray publishing: 50 Albemarle Street.

Here, Thos. Phillips’s great painting of Byron, above the fireplace where his memoirs were burned.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#BiodiversityMatters

From 🐑 to🐄 Cattle use their long tongues to rip up the moor grass, and their hooves break the surface of the ground, allowing seeds to get established, increasing #biodiversity.

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

Country diary: An easy-going bunch doing hard work on the moor | Ed Douglas

Big Moor, Derbyshire: The change from sheep to cattle grazing here was intended to restore wildlife – and it’s working

www.theguardian.com

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GardeningWell @gardeningwell.ie · 18h

We’ve a hedgehog house tucked away under the shrubs — and it’s one of the best things we ever added to the garden.
Here’s where to put yours so they’ll actually use it: 🦋🌱🌎 #spéirgorm
gardeningwell.ie/climate-action/hedgehog-house

A hedgehog chomps on some food on a log in our garden.

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 1d

Undoubtably, the Grandiflora and Spencer hybrids offer a greater range of colour, a greater solidity and length of stalk and more flower-heads to a stalk, nor can it be said that they lack the fragrance which gives them their popular name.

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 1d

October ’52 A complaint commonly brought against many of the modern or 'improved' varieties of favourite old flowers is that they have lost their scent. In some cases this complaint is justified; in others not. #gardening
www.thompson-morgan.com/top-10-fragr...

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The Anglo-Hellenic League @anglohellenic.bsky.social · 9d

The 2026 Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is about to launch! We'll be back with further details very soon.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17h

Unconstitutional, damaging to our democracy and--last time I checked--murder is a crime. Let's not gussy it up and call it acts of war. This is murder.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 17h

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

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US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend this beautiful book. @nicwilson.bsky.social writes like an angel: a lost little girl, snickets, John Clare, memory, thunderstones, unpredictable illness, deep falling dives into bogs, wild clematis & so much more.. you can read my review @waterstones.bsky.social & order! #booksky

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h

14 Oct 1644: b. Willian Penn, future founder of #Pennsylvania #otd in #London. When arrested at a #Quaker meeting in #Cork city in 1667, he was heir to an estate of 7,500 #Irish acres in Co. Cork

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British Gardening History @britgardhistory.bsky.social · 9d

First published in 1956, and written by Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th baronet (1897-1988, brother of the eccentric Dame Edith), this remains an excellent bibliographical record of two centuries of finely-illustrated flower books from around the world.

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British Gardening History @britgardhistory.bsky.social · 7d

Golden Crab Apples, Eliot Hodgkin, 1957, private collection.

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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 13h

A Port Hardy mother is calling for EpiPens to be available in public places after her 14-year-old son Malachi Flores died from a severe allergic reaction during a hockey trip.

Island mother urges public access to EpiPens after son’s fatal allergic reaction

A Port Hardy mother is calling for EpiPens to be available in public places after her 14-year-old son Malachi Flores died from a severe allergic reaction during a hockey trip.

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jen-l-espinoza.bsky.social @jen-l-espinoza.bsky.social · 21h

“Only 17 more days till Halloween,” said granddaughter this morning. Sugar can hardly wait. #Cats #Halloween

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 11h

Taking good care of your health habits….

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