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Dante's Circles of Hell
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Oh, lol Lancashire.๐
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One of the most gorgeously bound books arrived yesterday.
It's the poetical works of Longfellow, published by Nimmo in c1870.
It is full leather, with a faux tortoishell piece in the front & an embroidered silk panel...so beautiful!!
Look at it!!๐๐๐
#books
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When we look back in fifty years and ask ourselves how democracy gave way to tyranny, a huge part of it will be that everyone voluntarily abandoned reading, and it turns out you canโt have a modern, developed, free state without a highly literate population.
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Buuuuuu
The spookiest and most fun weekend of all is beginning!
King Maxi and all the animals in Syria invite you to join our partyโwill you choose?
trick
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or treat ?
justgiving.com/crowdfunding/โฆ
You are ALL invited toโ partecipate ๐๐๐ป
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Orwell's great observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that to shrink a person's vocabulary is to shrink his capacity to think.
An impoverished version of English removes the mental tools needed to formulate and communicate complex (and dissenting) ideas. Such is the deep, complex relationship between language and thought.
We don't read "difficult books" to say that we've read difficult books. We read them because they expand the boundaries of what we are capable of thinking and feeling โ we ascend to their level. Vocabulary helps us to recognize truths otherwise beyond our grasp.
This revelation is worse than you may think. This must be reversed.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300โ340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
I honestly have never felt so judged in my entire life.
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โSomeone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again.โ
Jean-Luc Picard
'Britain's enemies'....you mean, like these enemies...
'The UK GOVERNMENT-backed Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is funding a nearly ยฃ60 million research programme to explore Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)โoften called "sun dimming"'
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Italy still does deals like this
- 1900s Art Nouveau villa
- 480mยฒ (5,167 sq ft)
- 4 bedrooms
- 3,000mยฒ (0.74 acre) plot
Price: โฌ330k ($367k)
Location: Asso, Como. ~20 min to the lake, ~30 min to Bellagio, ~1h15 to Milan
Needs some work though, since nobody has lived in it for a while. But it's not a bad price, this close to the lake.
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Aiutooooo...c'รจ un invasore...๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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Sto guardando in loop per la quindicesima volta e ho ancora le lacrime ๐
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Between 1563 and 1736, Scotlandโs Witchcraft Act sent around 2,500 people to their deaths. Most were women. Many โconfessedโ only after torture.
Most were strangled at the stake, then their bodies were burned so there would be no grave. Today, only one accused witch in all of Scotland has a known grave.
In 2025, the Witches of Scotland campaign registered a tartan in their memory. Black for the history. Gray for the ash. Red for the blood. A white check for the campaignโs three demands: a pardon, an apology and a memorial. And 173 black threads, one for every year the law was in force.
They werenโt witches. They were mothers, daughters, widows and neighbors. Now theyโre woven into Scotlandโs story for good. ๐ฏ๏ธ
via Nordic Sisterhood
@WitchyWednesday #WyrdWednesday #BurningTimes #Witchcraft #Witchhunts #Scotland #Witches
At my friend's gypsy caravan yesterday.
Sooo much to do, but it wil be amazing when finished.
Spent the day painting everything with primer...phew!
Ear-defenders because the generator was on & drilling was happening!
