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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 5h

It is ethical to download an illegal pdf of a book *that I have already purchased* a hard copy of? Would it be a different answer if I already had a legally acquired electronic copy but in a format I didn’t like (like epub, where pagination is screwed up even if I convert it to pdf)?

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 23h

Pickle juice *is* brine

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh just seeing this now a year + later

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Michel-Rolph Trouillot has a wonderful chapter on the invention of Columbus Day in Silencing the Past

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 2d

Good time to remind everyone that Toronto is south of Seattle, by about 4° of latitude.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 2d

Nowadays when I see crossword clues whose answers are EPA or OSHA, eg, I think, do those agencies actually do that anymore?

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 3d

And you could say, “so what was it like to be monitored and harassed by the FBI? A lot of us need some insights.”

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 3d

Meet the “yellow line.” Mark my word, this won’t be some kind of temporary thing that will soon be irrelevant when Israel withdraws further. I suspect we’ll be continuing to refer to it for many years. (I hope I’m wrong).

Image of map of Gaza with yellow line showing Israeli withdrawal plans in first
Stage of ceasefire.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 3d

Well that’s a return to the whole settler colonial concept—that citizenship comes from being a settler from the right set of places, not from being a native.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 3d

I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
I fear thy skinny hand!
And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 3d

One might think sheriff is from Arabic, because tariff is, but no

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 3d

In a few weeks I’ll remind them that the Biltmore Hotel was not in Baltimore

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 3d

It’s that time of the term when I remind students that Hussein (of WWI fame) was not the sheriff of Mecca (sharif ≠ sheriff, unrelated origins)

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to a Minesweeper-themed NYT crossword recently, I rediscovered minesweeper, which I was so thoroughly addicted to in high school in the 1990s that I got repetitive stress injuries in my wrist. Report: it’s just not the same without a two-button mouse.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 4d

PSA: Greenwood branch of the Seattle public library is closed October 8-28 for roof replacement. www.spl.org/hours-and-lo...

Greenwood Branch

Find hours and information about the Greenwood Branch.

www.spl.org

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 5d

This approach has historically not worked out so well for Israel/Palestine, to put it lightly

Jared Kushner: get to a yes first and hash out the details later

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 5d

Or they turn people into cautious anxious wrecks. Either way. It’s not pretty.

Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

If fascists are the only true natives, then anti-fascists are by definition foreign

Trump looks to label antifa as a foreign terrorist organization

President Donald Trump instructed members of his Cabinet to move to declare antifa a foreign terrorist organization at an antifa roundtable event Wednesday.

www.seattletimes.com

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

@kuow.org host before my interview joked that instead of asking me about Israel/Palestine she could ask me about the Mariners postseason. Fear gripped me. Oh, please don’t, i said. I know nothing about that.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

@thedailyuw.bsky.social gives a little love for the tiny Wallingford branch of the Seattle Public Library @spl.org www.dailyuw.com/article/seat...

Seattle on Hold: Exploring the Wallingford Library

www.dailyuw.com

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

Our email guidance from UW about what to do in the event of a disruptive intruder in class (following the well publicized incident last week in a psych class) ended on the following upbeat note

Ps, another type of disruptions, earthquakes!

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

This is my answer to every survey question I receive from now on

Donǎt€tmt know which is supposed to be “don’t know”

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

Whatever genius decided that ebooks need not show the pagination of the original book really f-ed things up.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 6d

Hooked on Books, Margaret Chiu Greanias/ Kristyna Litten (2023) www.peachtreebooks.com/book/hooked-...

Red lantern fish in dark blue sea reading a shell book