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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Sep 9

So do most of the Democratic power brokers, who still carry the Clintons’ water — and for this reason they will inevitably soft pedal their already lukewarm-at-best fervor to release the Epstein files.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Aug 8

Just after they install half a dozen eight foot tall chocolate fountains festooned with golden cherubs.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Aug 1

So now 135 pages of manuscript and I finally believe this will be a book.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · Dec 20

NEW FOLLOWERS: you MUST have a profile pic (not neccessarily of yourself!) and/or a header image, a biog + a couple of posts or I'll assume you are a bot/troll/bad faith person and block you.
Please do the *minimum* to show you're not a scammer!

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Jul 27

O-o-h Child, by the Five Stairsteps

youtu.be/dguz0IsCuKU?...

The Five Stairsteps - O-o-h Child (Audio)

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes. I recall a thought experiment from grad school: if the universe will end momentarily, and the last thing you can do is press or not press a button that will allow one last flower to bloom for five extra minutes, would you press the button?

A thousand times yes.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 18

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes indeed. I am researching/writing about the parallels, which as you suggest are eerily close in a number of ways. I think that perhaps the English universities recovered in less time than ours may.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is quite small, but I just picked fresh Greek basil and green aji rico peppers for tonight’s stir fry and am listening to classical music with an ever-hopeful Malamute while watching the sun set.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks, JSTOR, but I find that my Non-Artificial Intelligence Research Tool works just fine. Been using it for decades.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Jun 24

I am delighted to report that my daughter is editing a new literary magazine that is already getting great reviews! Do please check out the debut issue - and consider making a submission.

www.househousemagazine.com

[ ] House House Magazine

www.househousemagazine.com

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · May 25

I see what you did there. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · May 25

Let us learn the Way of Toad.

Mandoline L’engle @jennylawson.bsky.social · May 25

Relatable, Toad.

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Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social · May 15

It’s still my birthday month, so why not do a giveaway of one of my books? 📚 🏴‍☠️
Rules: like this post and be following me for 1 entry. Share this post for another entry!

Winner will be randomly selected and announced at 9:00 am (ET) on Friday, May 23rd!

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` the opportune moment '' written on the bottom .

Alt: a close up of a pirate Captain Jack Sparrow’s face while he speaks with the words “the opportune moment” written on the bottom.

media.tenor.com

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · May 13

Because this heartfelt story is so important, so vital in the course of our history and the pattern of this moment, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has very kindly shared it here in its entirety, as a thread. #IslandOfFlowers #IslandOfFriends #OldFox
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · May 13

An Island of Flowers, an Island of Friends.

The Stoat who ran the flower shop in Dorchester was originally from Madeira, his stately old family having established themselves there during the Napoleonic Wars. His kit-hood on the island in the parish of Santo da Serra had been idyllic,

A old travel poster advertising Madeira.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · May 13

Thank you, Anne Louise Avery, for this gift.

I stand in gratitude with the Stoat.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · May 12

Exactly.

Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · May 6

So this country is in the hands of a malign, sadistic, narcissistic version of Chauncey Gardiner. Oh, good.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · May 4

Peed

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Apr 23

Seconded. Penzey’s spices are excellent and the owners are good people. I just placed an order yesterday for as much of their Trinidad spice as I could rationalize.

Which is kind of a lot, not gonna lie.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Apr 23

Yes, that seems entirely compelling. And so it is in part a way of banishing personal unease by “taming” the other?

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Apr 22

There’s something deeply wearying to me about the laziness, and sometimes malice, of being reduced to just one aspect of ourselves and then being expected to live only and always in whatever silo that may be. The quiet fascism of ein Fach.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Apr 14

This is how your email finds me.

A man sitting and looking towards the viewer of the engraving. The man leans his arm on a parapet and is surrounded by female personifications of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture as well as a winged angel with fanfare trumpets (Glory), Father Time with his scythe and the skeletal figure of Death clutching an arrow; a putti holds aloft a wreath and carries a palm. The image is part of a larger engraving, made around 1600, and nowadays at the BM 58490001 (Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/58490001 ).

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Apr 11

This is the correct response for every university to take with the Trump administration, as the latest demand of a *consent decree* on Columbia demonstrates.

They intend to kill you anyway. Do not cooperate.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 10

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Apr 9

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 9

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University

Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · Apr 7

I suspect that friendships and even otherwise promising marriages have foundered over omelet philosophies.

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