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  1. When we are happy,
    we are always good...

    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Photo Morten Lasskogen

    #Bookstodon #Literature #Photography

  2. When we are happy,
    we are always good...

    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Photo Morten Lasskogen

    #Bookstodon #Literature #Photography

  3. When we are happy,
    we are always good...

    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Photo Morten Lasskogen

    #Bookstodon #Literature #Photography

  4. When we are happy,
    we are always good...

    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Photo Morten Lasskogen

    #Bookstodon #Literature #Photography

  5. “Now I will tell the captains of the ships, and all the ships together”*…

    Ethan Mollick has created a new site that’s fascinating in two different ways. First and most overtly, it’s a beautiful (and thorough) visualization and explanation of the ships used by the protagonists of The Iliad.

    But at the same time, it is a powerful demonstration of (at least one of) the ways that AI might be useful in scholarship and education: Mollick spun up the site last month, using Claude…

    In the second book of the Iliad the poet pauses on the brink of the first battle, calls on the Muses, and counts the fleet: twenty-nine contingents, forty-six captains, some 178 place-names, 1,186 ships [and by Thucydides’ reckoning, around 100,000 men]. This site puts every entry on the map, rebuilds the ships from the archaeological evidence [pictured on this site], and lets you read the lines beside the ruins they describe…

    “The Catalogue of Ships” from @emollick.bsky.social.

    * Homer/The Poet, The Iliad, Book 2, lines 492-3

    ###

    As we set sail, we might recall that it was on this date in 331 BCE (long, long ago– but hundreds of years after the action described in The Iliad) that Alexander the Great and the Army of Macedon defeated King Darius III and his Persian Army in the Battle of Gaugamela, effectively the final blow to the Achaemenid Empire, resulting in its complete conquest by Alexander.

    The Battle of Gaugamela, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1602 (source) #AchaemenidEmpire #AI #AlexanderTheGreat #artificialIntelligence #boats #culture #DariusIII #history #Homer #Iliad #literature #Macedonia #Persia #ships #Visualization
  6. “Now I will tell the captains of the ships, and all the ships together”*…

    Ethan Mollick has created a new site that’s fascinating in two different ways. First and most overtly, it’s a beautiful (and thorough) visualization and explanation of the ships used by the protagonists of The Iliad.

    But at the same time, it is a powerful demonstration of (at least one of) the ways that AI might be useful in scholarship and education: Mollick spun up the site last month, using Claude…

    In the second book of the Iliad the poet pauses on the brink of the first battle, calls on the Muses, and counts the fleet: twenty-nine contingents, forty-six captains, some 178 place-names, 1,186 ships [and by Thucydides’ reckoning, around 100,000 men]. This site puts every entry on the map, rebuilds the ships from the archaeological evidence [pictured on this site], and lets you read the lines beside the ruins they describe…

    “The Catalogue of Ships” from @emollick.bsky.social.

    * Homer/The Poet, The Iliad, Book 2, lines 492-3

    ###

    As we set sail, we might recall that it was on this date in 331 BCE (long, long ago– but hundreds of years after the action described in The Iliad) that Alexander the Great and the Army of Macedon defeated King Darius III and his Persian Army in the Battle of Gaugamela, effectively the final blow to the Achaemenid Empire, resulting in its complete conquest by Alexander.

    The Battle of Gaugamela, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1602 (source) #AchaemenidEmpire #AI #AlexanderTheGreat #artificialIntelligence #boats #culture #DariusIII #history #Homer #Iliad #literature #Macedonia #Persia #ships #Visualization
  7. PSA: You are not obligated to explain why you block someone on social media. Use that option if your gut says so. Yes, that applies to mastodon too. Take care ♥️

    #socialmedia #mentalhealth #adhd #depression #quotes #reading #design #mastodon #literature #knitting #gardening #technology #hardware #programming

  8. PSA: You are not obligated to explain why you block someone on social media. Use that option if your gut says so. Yes, that applies to mastodon too. Take care ♥️

    #socialmedia #mentalhealth #adhd #depression #quotes #reading #design #mastodon #literature #knitting #gardening #technology #hardware #programming

  9. PSA: You are not obligated to explain why you block someone on social media. Use that option if your gut says so. Yes, that applies to mastodon too. Take care ♥️

    #socialmedia #mentalhealth #adhd #depression #quotes #reading #design #mastodon #literature #knitting #gardening #technology #hardware #programming

  10. PSA: You are not obligated to explain why you block someone on social media. Use that option if your gut says so. Yes, that applies to mastodon too. Take care ♥️

    #socialmedia #mentalhealth #adhd #depression #quotes #reading #design #mastodon #literature #knitting #gardening #technology #hardware #programming

  11. « En compagnie de Senghor : quand la Culture rencontre la Diplomatie »

    Suivez les traces du Pape Jean-Paul II, découvrant l’œuvre Chants d’Ombre (1976) du président Léopold Sédar Senghor, illustrée par André Masson grâce à du sable de Joal…

    ⏳ Notre exposition s’installe cette fois à la Bibliothèque des Batignolles, à partir du 1er octobre 2026 ! Si vous étiez passés à côté, c’est l’occasion de redécouvrir l’ancien président-poète sénégalais sous un nouveau regard : sa diplomatie culturelle.

    Et dans quelques semaines, la chercheuse Claire Riffard (CNRS/ENS) y donnera une conférence à l’occasion de la parution de son nouveau livre « Dans l’atelier de Léopold Sédar Senghor ».

    🗓️ Jeudi 5 novembre 2026, de 18h30 à 19h45
    📍 Bibliothèque des Batignolles - 18, rue des Batignolles, Paris 17e

    @cnrs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @TheConversationAfrica @the_conversation_fr @academia @ferrandnathali1 @musitelli @estruppi @ucad_senegal

    #research #socialsciences #ITEM #CNRS #ENS #livre #literature #Senegal #pape #Masson #culture #art #diplomacy

  12. « En compagnie de Senghor : quand la Culture rencontre la Diplomatie »

    Suivez les traces du Pape Jean-Paul II, découvrant l’œuvre Chants d’Ombre (1976) du président Léopold Sédar Senghor, illustrée par André Masson grâce à du sable de Joal…

    ⏳ Notre exposition s’installe cette fois à la Bibliothèque des Batignolles, à partir du 1er octobre 2026 ! Si vous étiez passés à côté, c’est l’occasion de redécouvrir l’ancien président-poète sénégalais sous un nouveau regard : sa diplomatie culturelle.

    Et dans quelques semaines, la chercheuse Claire Riffard (CNRS/ENS) y donnera une conférence à l’occasion de la parution de son nouveau livre « Dans l’atelier de Léopold Sédar Senghor ».

    🗓️ Jeudi 5 novembre 2026, de 18h30 à 19h45
    📍 Bibliothèque des Batignolles - 18, rue des Batignolles, Paris 17e

    @cnrs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @TheConversationAfrica @the_conversation_fr @academia @ferrandnathali1 @musitelli @estruppi @ucad_senegal

    #research #socialsciences #ITEM #CNRS #ENS #livre #literature #Senegal #pape #Masson #culture #art #diplomacy

  13. « En compagnie de Senghor : quand la Culture rencontre la Diplomatie »

    Suivez les traces du Pape Jean-Paul II, découvrant l’œuvre Chants d’Ombre (1976) du président Léopold Sédar Senghor, illustrée par André Masson grâce à du sable de Joal…

    ⏳ Notre exposition s’installe cette fois à la Bibliothèque des Batignolles, à partir du 1er octobre 2026 ! Si vous étiez passés à côté, c’est l’occasion de redécouvrir l’ancien président-poète sénégalais sous un nouveau regard : sa diplomatie culturelle.

    Et dans quelques semaines, la chercheuse Claire Riffard (CNRS/ENS) y donnera une conférence à l’occasion de la parution de son nouveau livre « Dans l’atelier de Léopold Sédar Senghor ».

    🗓️ Jeudi 5 novembre 2026, de 18h30 à 19h45
    📍 Bibliothèque des Batignolles - 18, rue des Batignolles, Paris 17e

    @cnrs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @TheConversationAfrica @the_conversation_fr @academia @ferrandnathali1 @musitelli @estruppi @ucad_senegal

    #research #socialsciences #ITEM #CNRS #ENS #livre #literature #Senegal #pape #Masson #culture #art #diplomacy

  14. « En compagnie de Senghor : quand la Culture rencontre la Diplomatie »

    Suivez les traces du Pape Jean-Paul II, découvrant l’œuvre Chants d’Ombre (1976) du président Léopold Sédar Senghor, illustrée par André Masson grâce à du sable de Joal…

    ⏳ Notre exposition s’installe cette fois à la Bibliothèque des Batignolles, à partir du 1er octobre 2026 ! Si vous étiez passés à côté, c’est l’occasion de redécouvrir l’ancien président-poète sénégalais sous un nouveau regard : sa diplomatie culturelle.

    Et dans quelques semaines, la chercheuse Claire Riffard (CNRS/ENS) y donnera une conférence à l’occasion de la parution de son nouveau livre « Dans l’atelier de Léopold Sédar Senghor ».

    🗓️ Jeudi 5 novembre 2026, de 18h30 à 19h45
    📍 Bibliothèque des Batignolles - 18, rue des Batignolles, Paris 17e

    @cnrs @cnrsshs @mate_shs_cnrs @TheConversationAfrica @the_conversation_fr @academia @ferrandnathali1 @musitelli @estruppi @ucad_senegal

    #research #socialsciences #ITEM #CNRS #ENS #livre #literature #Senegal #pape #Masson #culture #art #diplomacy

  15. HECTOR. bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  16. HECTOR. bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  17. HECTOR. bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  18. HECTOR. bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  19. HECTOR. bully, a swaggering coward. To hector; to bully, probably from such persons affecting the valour of Hector, the Trojan hero.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

    --
    #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

  20. Was hast du schon von der Welt verstanden? – Über Erkenntnis, Verhärtung und die Frage, wie viel Verständnis wir anderen zugestehen.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/was-ha
    #Philosophie #Kultur #Literatur

    What Have You Already Understood About the World? – On understanding, hardening, and who gets to claim insight.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/what-h
    #Philosophy #Culture #Literature

  21. Was hast du schon von der Welt verstanden? – Über Erkenntnis, Verhärtung und die Frage, wie viel Verständnis wir anderen zugestehen.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/was-ha
    #Philosophie #Kultur #Literatur

    What Have You Already Understood About the World? – On understanding, hardening, and who gets to claim insight.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/what-h
    #Philosophy #Culture #Literature

  22. Was hast du schon von der Welt verstanden? – Über Erkenntnis, Verhärtung und die Frage, wie viel Verständnis wir anderen zugestehen.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/was-ha
    #Philosophie #Kultur #Literatur

    What Have You Already Understood About the World? – On understanding, hardening, and who gets to claim insight.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/what-h
    #Philosophy #Culture #Literature

  23. Was hast du schon von der Welt verstanden? – Über Erkenntnis, Verhärtung und die Frage, wie viel Verständnis wir anderen zugestehen.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/was-ha
    #Philosophie #Kultur #Literatur

    What Have You Already Understood About the World? – On understanding, hardening, and who gets to claim insight.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/what-h
    #Philosophy #Culture #Literature

  24. Was hast du schon von der Welt verstanden? – Über Erkenntnis, Verhärtung und die Frage, wie viel Verständnis wir anderen zugestehen.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/was-ha
    #Philosophie #Kultur #Literatur

    What Have You Already Understood About the World? – On understanding, hardening, and who gets to claim insight.
    👉️ whisper7.substack.com/p/what-h
    #Philosophy #Culture #Literature

  25. 30 September is International Translation Day!

    THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation

    🇩🇪SUNSET SONG in the GDR
    🇮🇹THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
    🏆Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
    🇫🇷Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
    🏗️Transcreating concrete poetry

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/ba

    #Scottish #literature #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Germany #German #GDR #Italy #Italian #Esperanto #France #French #postcolonialism #ConcretePoetry

  26. 30 September is International Translation Day!

    THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation

    🇩🇪SUNSET SONG in the GDR
    🇮🇹THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
    🏆Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
    🇫🇷Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
    🏗️Transcreating concrete poetry

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/ba

    #Scottish #literature #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Germany #German #GDR #Italy #Italian #Esperanto #France #French #postcolonialism #ConcretePoetry

  27. 30 September is International Translation Day!

    THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation

    🇩🇪SUNSET SONG in the GDR
    🇮🇹THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
    🏆Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
    🇫🇷Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
    🏗️Transcreating concrete poetry

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/ba

    #Scottish #literature #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Germany #German #GDR #Italy #Italian #Esperanto #France #French #postcolonialism #ConcretePoetry

  28. 30 September is International Translation Day!

    THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation

    🇩🇪SUNSET SONG in the GDR
    🇮🇹THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
    🏆Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
    🇫🇷Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
    🏗️Transcreating concrete poetry

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/ba

    #Scottish #literature #translation #InternationalTranslationDay #Germany #German #GDR #Italy #Italian #Esperanto #France #French #postcolonialism #ConcretePoetry

  29. Leute, dieses Buch ist der Hammer. Ich habe es zu meinem diesjährigen Geburtstag (62) im Juli geschenkt bekommen. Hier geht es ans Eingemachte. Idolerne werden gestürzt ( Marx, Brecht, Picasso, Einstein...) und ich bin teilweise echt schockiert über die männlich dominierende Geschichtsschreibung. Dabei bin ich ja schon auf dem Weg, meine Überzeugungen zu hinterfragen, gerade auch mit meinen Feministischen Scherenschnitten.
    #frauenpower #female #frauen #mastodon #fediverse #literature #buch

  30. Leute, dieses Buch ist der Hammer. Ich habe es zu meinem diesjährigen Geburtstag (62) im Juli geschenkt bekommen. Hier geht es ans Eingemachte. Idolerne werden gestürzt ( Marx, Brecht, Picasso, Einstein...) und ich bin teilweise echt schockiert über die männlich dominierende Geschichtsschreibung. Dabei bin ich ja schon auf dem Weg, meine Überzeugungen zu hinterfragen, gerade auch mit meinen Feministischen Scherenschnitten.
    #frauenpower #female #frauen #mastodon #fediverse #literature #buch

  31. Leute, dieses Buch ist der Hammer. Ich habe es zu meinem diesjährigen Geburtstag (62) im Juli geschenkt bekommen. Hier geht es ans Eingemachte. Idolerne werden gestürzt ( Marx, Brecht, Picasso, Einstein...) und ich bin teilweise echt schockiert über die männlich dominierende Geschichtsschreibung. Dabei bin ich ja schon auf dem Weg, meine Überzeugungen zu hinterfragen, gerade auch mit meinen Feministischen Scherenschnitten.
    #frauenpower #female #frauen #mastodon #fediverse #literature #buch

  32. Leute, dieses Buch ist der Hammer. Ich habe es zu meinem diesjährigen Geburtstag (62) im Juli geschenkt bekommen. Hier geht es ans Eingemachte. Idolerne werden gestürzt ( Marx, Brecht, Picasso, Einstein...) und ich bin teilweise echt schockiert über die männlich dominierende Geschichtsschreibung. Dabei bin ich ja schon auf dem Weg, meine Überzeugungen zu hinterfragen, gerade auch mit meinen Feministischen Scherenschnitten.
    #frauenpower #female #frauen #mastodon #fediverse #literature #buch

  33. Schau auf unsere Gärten, unsere Taubenschläge und Geräteschuppen. Schau auf die Unterhosen, die auf der Wäscheleine hängen. Da siehst du Gartenzwerge, unseren Sellerie und unseren Porree, unsere Terrassen und unsere gemauerten Grillöfen.
    finest.day/posts/fahr-mit-dem-

    #blog #blogging #PikaBlog #writing #literature

  34. Schau auf unsere Gärten, unsere Taubenschläge und Geräteschuppen. Schau auf die Unterhosen, die auf der Wäscheleine hängen. Da siehst du Gartenzwerge, unseren Sellerie und unseren Porree, unsere Terrassen und unsere gemauerten Grillöfen.
    finest.day/posts/fahr-mit-dem-

    #blog #blogging #PikaBlog #writing #literature

  35. Schau auf unsere Gärten, unsere Taubenschläge und Geräteschuppen. Schau auf die Unterhosen, die auf der Wäscheleine hängen. Da siehst du Gartenzwerge, unseren Sellerie und unseren Porree, unsere Terrassen und unsere gemauerten Grillöfen.
    finest.day/posts/fahr-mit-dem-

    #blog #blogging #PikaBlog #writing #literature

  36. Schau auf unsere Gärten, unsere Taubenschläge und Geräteschuppen. Schau auf die Unterhosen, die auf der Wäscheleine hängen. Da siehst du Gartenzwerge, unseren Sellerie und unseren Porree, unsere Terrassen und unsere gemauerten Grillöfen.
    finest.day/posts/fahr-mit-dem-

    #blog #blogging #PikaBlog #writing #literature

  37. Schau auf unsere Gärten, unsere Taubenschläge und Geräteschuppen. Schau auf die Unterhosen, die auf der Wäscheleine hängen. Da siehst du Gartenzwerge, unseren Sellerie und unseren Porree, unsere Terrassen und unsere gemauerten Grillöfen.
    finest.day/posts/fahr-mit-dem-

    #blog #blogging #PikaBlog #writing #literature

  38. Indian genius Rabindranath Tagore barely attended school & never completed his degree.

    He received his main education from private tutors at home & through self-learning, yet he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

    I think school, college, & university education are overrated, except for STEM fields.

    Prioritize Knowledge over Formal Education.

    #knowledge #education #learning #stem #literature #Tagore #learn #opinion #school #college #University #degree #selflearning #advice #teaching

  39. Indian genius Rabindranath Tagore barely attended school & never completed his degree.

    He received his main education from private tutors at home & through self-learning, yet he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

    I think school, college, & university education are overrated, except for STEM fields.

    Prioritize Knowledge over Formal Education.

    #knowledge #education #learning #stem #literature #Tagore #learn #opinion #school #college #University #degree #selflearning #advice #teaching

  40. Indian genius Rabindranath Tagore barely attended school & never completed his degree.

    He received his main education from private tutors at home & through self-learning, yet he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

    I think school, college, & university education are overrated, except for STEM fields.

    Prioritize Knowledge over Formal Education.

    #knowledge #education #learning #stem #literature #Tagore #learn #opinion #school #college #University #degree #selflearning #advice #teaching

  41. Indian genius Rabindranath Tagore barely attended school & never completed his degree.

    He received his main education from private tutors at home & through self-learning, yet he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

    I think school, college, & university education are overrated, except for STEM fields.

    Prioritize Knowledge over Formal Education.

    #knowledge #education #learning #stem #literature #Tagore #learn #opinion #school #college #University #degree #selflearning #advice #teaching

  42. Indian genius Rabindranath Tagore barely attended school & never completed his degree.

    He received his main education from private tutors at home & through self-learning, yet he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

    I think school, college, & university education are overrated, except for STEM fields.

    Prioritize Knowledge over Formal Education.

    #knowledge #education #learning #stem #literature #Tagore #learn #opinion #school #college #University #degree #selflearning #advice #teaching

  43. I've resumed writing the manuscript for an (obviously) unfinished piece of fiction. As it stands, it might be best categorised – if one is so inclined; I'm not a fan of the limitation of genres – as literary fiction, and more particularly as a biographical novel in the tradition of transgressive realism.

    brywillis634737.substack.com/p

    #writing #reading #books #fictionbooks #biography #novels #realism #literature

  44. I've resumed writing the manuscript for an (obviously) unfinished piece of fiction. As it stands, it might be best categorised – if one is so inclined; I'm not a fan of the limitation of genres – as literary fiction, and more particularly as a biographical novel in the tradition of transgressive realism.

    brywillis634737.substack.com/p

    #writing #reading #books #fictionbooks #biography #novels #realism #literature

  45. I've resumed writing the manuscript for an (obviously) unfinished piece of fiction. As it stands, it might be best categorised – if one is so inclined; I'm not a fan of the limitation of genres – as literary fiction, and more particularly as a biographical novel in the tradition of transgressive realism.

    brywillis634737.substack.com/p

    #writing #reading #books #fictionbooks #biography #novels #realism #literature

  46. I've resumed writing the manuscript for an (obviously) unfinished piece of fiction. As it stands, it might be best categorised – if one is so inclined; I'm not a fan of the limitation of genres – as literary fiction, and more particularly as a biographical novel in the tradition of transgressive realism.

    brywillis634737.substack.com/p

    #writing #reading #books #fictionbooks #biography #novels #realism #literature

  47. I've resumed writing the manuscript for an (obviously) unfinished piece of fiction. As it stands, it might be best categorised – if one is so inclined; I'm not a fan of the limitation of genres – as literary fiction, and more particularly as a biographical novel in the tradition of transgressive realism.

    brywillis634737.substack.com/p

    #writing #reading #books #fictionbooks #biography #novels #realism #literature