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Elsa Devienne
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Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻‍♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
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let's keep each other updated 😅
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
elsadevienne.bsky.social
oh goodness, the chorus pro website 😱. It sends chills... Shall we set up a support group?
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
elsadevienne.bsky.social
So nice to hear John!! The topic does seem to engage people easily. I've received a not insignificant number of emails from everyday folks about it.
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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@racheledini.bsky.social :-)
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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This is basically my explanation for everything that is wrong with everything today
Time Is a Bitch: On Cinematic Snore Core
Some recent films that try to bore us for the greater good
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November 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM