Sol 💫🐆
@leopard.bsky.social
Interested in ideas, aesthetics, the classics, cell bio, endocrinology, senescence, trichology. Armchair medievalist. Techno-optimist. Learning German. Eng/Spa/Lat. Also a MD.
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if this makes sense to you then you get the method and the madness of the american mind
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
if this makes sense to you then you get the method and the madness of the american mind
My awesome feminist rants flew too close to the sun on the bad app and now I'm held down by the system. What can I say, I'm just too based.
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My awesome feminist rants flew too close to the sun on the bad app and now I'm held down by the system. What can I say, I'm just too based.
Rants will continue on the other app until (my) morale improves.
October 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Rants will continue on the other app until (my) morale improves.
Haters mad because my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils.
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Haters mad because my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils.
the week (monday, 2 pm):
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
the week (monday, 2 pm):
Where are the hordes of furious communists of BlueSky. Are they mythical? What happens if I say I love free markets (I love free markets).
September 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Where are the hordes of furious communists of BlueSky. Are they mythical? What happens if I say I love free markets (I love free markets).
Spinster September, Saphic September or Sexless (virgin) September?
Spinster September books:
- Ann Schlee's Rhine Journey
- Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day
Saphic September books:
- Anne Carson's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet
Spinster September books:
- Ann Schlee's Rhine Journey
- Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day
Saphic September books:
- Anne Carson's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet
September 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Spinster September, Saphic September or Sexless (virgin) September?
Spinster September books:
- Ann Schlee's Rhine Journey
- Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day
Saphic September books:
- Anne Carson's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet
Spinster September books:
- Ann Schlee's Rhine Journey
- Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day
Saphic September books:
- Anne Carson's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
- Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet
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My top 10 books of 2024 (well 11, I’m cheating a little as I can’t pick one Ernaux over the other so they take one spot together) #booksky 💙📚
January 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My top 10 books of 2024 (well 11, I’m cheating a little as I can’t pick one Ernaux over the other so they take one spot together) #booksky 💙📚
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For the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Recording in the morning. Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention.
"Ramón Villaamil has been a loyal civil servant his whole
life, but a change in government leaves him out of a job
and still two months short of qualifying for his pension."
Miaow by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, coming from NYRB June 2025.
life, but a change in government leaves him out of a job
and still two months short of qualifying for his pension."
Miaow by Benito Pérez Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, coming from NYRB June 2025.
Miaow
A Dickensian tale of ambition, family, and financial ruin by the most important Spanish novelist after Cervantes, this tragicomic novel about a patriarch struggling to keep his ungrateful family from ...
www.nyrb.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
For the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Recording in the morning. Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention.
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Ten recommendations from me for #SpinsterSeptember with a particular focus on books I've read and loved in the last couple of years.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ten recommendations from me for #SpinsterSeptember with a particular focus on books I've read and loved in the last couple of years.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/s...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/s...
There is a certain magic in being a woman reader
September 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
There is a certain magic in being a woman reader
this is how i see you
September 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
this is how i see you
I have been compared 4 times in my life to Jesuits. What means.
September 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I have been compared 4 times in my life to Jesuits. What means.
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In this extract from her new book, The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing, Ayoush Lazikani discusses the medieval myth of a man in the moon.
yalebooks.co.uk/man-in-the-m...
#IMC2025 #MedievalSky
yalebooks.co.uk/man-in-the-m...
#IMC2025 #MedievalSky
Man in the Moon: A European Folktale - Yale University Press London
In this extract from her book, The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing, Ayoush Lazikani discusses the medieval myth of a man in the moon.
yalebooks.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In this extract from her new book, The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing, Ayoush Lazikani discusses the medieval myth of a man in the moon.
yalebooks.co.uk/man-in-the-m...
#IMC2025 #MedievalSky
yalebooks.co.uk/man-in-the-m...
#IMC2025 #MedievalSky
Thursday's night is the time of the week where I relish what will I study on the weekend.
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Thursday's night is the time of the week where I relish what will I study on the weekend.
next life im coming back as an accountant i swear
August 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
next life im coming back as an accountant i swear
How beautiful is to be sorrounded by beauty.
August 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
How beautiful is to be sorrounded by beauty.
Can we think big, please. I really dislike zero-sum games.
August 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Can we think big, please. I really dislike zero-sum games.
Changing but for good, not for aging, losing hopes, friends, love and opportunities. Who is building this.
August 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Changing but for good, not for aging, losing hopes, friends, love and opportunities. Who is building this.
The friendship of an older lady saying "I understand, dear, have a biscuit".
August 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The friendship of an older lady saying "I understand, dear, have a biscuit".