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Officially a Bluesky member now
Find and friend me at davehoward.bsky.social! I am really not full of much enthusiasm to investigate and understand a new social media platform, but Meta is so incredibly corrupt it’s hard not to feel conflicted every time I use Instagram (which I enjoy) or Facebook (which I really hate). But it’s sort of like extortion,…
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Britain’s decline more about austerity economics than Brexit
https://boingboing.net/2024/06/25/john-oliver-britains-14-year-decline-more-about-austerity-economics-than-brexit-but-all-of-it-sucked.html It had been so, so long since I had seen the Boing Boing jackhammerer-in-pigtails icon – this time on Instagram – that I really had to stop for a moment and sort of re-set. What was I seeing? Boing Boing, one of the OG link-list blogs of pre-social-media internet fell way off my radar…
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Fabulous Illustrations for Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
I follow Maria Popova’s blog The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) and receive her newsletter every Sunday. Like all email newsletters, I don’t read every issue, but this one linked to a wonderful post on different illustators’ interpretations of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. I share it with you! https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/20/best-brothers-grimm-illustrations/Here you’ll find Edward Gory Maurice Sendak Lizbeth…
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