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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 20h

Ping @ellenbre.bsky.social !!!

Alison @finger-post.blog · 8d

My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.

"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next.

Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters.

On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."

Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 21h

Vilken dag som helst kommer min essä "Kaffet i Tartts romaner - mörker, blask och katalysator"

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 21h

Och om snabbkaffe äter jag det hellre i pulverform, tbh

Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 21h

Eller så flyttar man till ITALIEN och promenerar ner till sin lokala bar för en PERFEKT kopp.

Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 21h

Känner att vi har möjlighet till ett nytt penicillin här?

Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 22h

*tröttma

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 22h

Satte mokabryggaren på spisen utan vatten i pga tröttna och visserligen blev det liksom en slags trevlig liksom kafferökelse men nu är den för varm att skruva isär och allt är misär

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 5d

Är inte med i artikeln tyvärr, men vet ALLT om Dark Academia ju!

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 5d

good morning, Bunny! new from me at the
@nytimes.com, just in time for spooky season: a Dark Academia starter pack, feat. Sofia Samatar, Melina Marchetta, Mona Awad, and unexpectedly, Sarah Rees Brennan, for lo, I am Like This full time.

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

www.nytimes.com

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 6d

IDAG!!

Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 22d

Hurra! Jag ska få prata om Den Hemliga Historien och Dark academia i eminenta Roslagens bokhandel med den lysande @ellen-s-s.bsky.social !

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 8d

Hector for #MosaicMonday?

Very little is known about this mosaic including the provenance, but the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna offers a tentative date of C1st–C2nd CE and the tantalising hint that this may be part of a Trojan War cycle depicting Hector.

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #TrojanWar

Mosaic depicts five warriors. The left-most figure appears to be able to throw a javelin with his shield raised in his other hand. He is seemingly watched by three others who stand ready but not about to throw anything. A fifth figure can be seen about to take action though the nature of the action is not clear.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 8d

#MosaicMonday

As we move into Winter proper. A final look at summer 👀

Lullingstone floor mosaic depicts the mythical figure of Summer wearing a garland of corn.

#AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History

Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated in Lullingstone near the village of Eynsford in Kent, south-eastern England. The villa is located in the Darent Valley, along with six others, including those at Crofton, Crayford and Dartford. Constructed in the 1st century, perhaps around AD 80–90, the house was repeatedly expanded and occupied until it was destroyed by fire in the 4th or 5th century. The villa was occupied over various periods within the Romano-British period, but after its destruction, it is only thought to have been reoccupied during the medieval period. The occupants were most likely wealthy Romans or native Britons who had adopted Roman customs.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 14d

Har en rätt strikt en-in-en ut-policy för att inte bli överhopad.

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 14d

SvD, Essä, Flamman, Etc, 20tal, LRB

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 14d

Kudos to Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki for having obtained red hats simultaneously from Pope Eugene IV and Antipope Felix V, top work

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 15d

Den 8 oktober kommer bli episkt!!

ellen-s-s.bsky.social @ellen-s-s.bsky.social · 15d

Sann lyx är att läsa böcker inför kommande boksamtal: att få läsa och få hit författaren för att få fråga saker om det man läst? Drömmer jag??? Denna pärla ska jag få prata med @quosego.bsky.social om i oktober

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 16d

Visste ni att Edgar Mannheimer och Kristofer Folkhammar är TVÅ OLIKA PERSONER?

En insikt på denna bokmässan sladdag.

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 17d

Det enda sättet att hålla isär dagarna på bokmässan är genom de varierande färgerna på Jonas Ellerströms kavajer.

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 17d

"Malte Persson ersätter" är det nya "Looptroop ersätter"

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 17d

Den SORTENS människor som går runt med GIGANTISK ryggsäck på det KNÖKADE mässgolvet. Det sanna åsykopat-testet.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18d

Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good).

Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 18d

Virgil wrote FanFic.

And while parts of his epic are very good, Aeneas himself comes across as a self-righteous prig.

#ISaidWhatISaid

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 19d

Anyways, många mingel i afton!

Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 19d

*i förlängningen SENANTIKEN, FUPP U autocorrect

Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 19d

ABSOLUT sista DIREKT FRÅN BOKMÄSSAN: blev så starstuck och knäsvag av att prata med Agneta Rahikainen (Kampen om Edith, en bok som verkligen format mina idéer om reception och sålunda i förlängningen semantik, LÄS DEN) att jag benämnde henne som Agneta Harkonnen. THE SHAME

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Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social · 19d

Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!!
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

www.wired.com

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