Jamie Harris

Braving the elements since 1984. Unrepentant bibliophile. Love is love, babes. 🔥 She/her.

[Ada Palmer @Ada_Palmer]

Good question about how book purchases support authors, with a thread of answers.

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

ursula le guin is without a doubt the best author who has ever happened to me, and I apologise to no-one for my bias in that regard

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

all I want is a mysterious stranger to bequeath their gigantic, shadowy library to me so I can spend the rest of my life deciphering its mysteries is that too much to ask

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

the real problem with our lamentably rich villain overlord types these days is that they don't have any class

no commitment to the -aesthetic-

where are the dark reliquaries. the bat-filled towers. the crumbling spires.

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

No big deal, just me staring at my own eyeball making the pupil dilate over and over because it’s fascinating and profound.

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

The QTs and comments on this are a thing of beauty. 😌🙌

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Just so you know:

There is not a single edit you could make to Scripture to improve it.

Anything you would do to amend so much as a biblical comma would drastically demote it.

You can’t improve the Word of God. You’d only ruin perfection.

Keep your edits on the shelf.

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

DRACULA: do you know who I am

ME: sir please calm down

DRACULA: I am Dracula, lord of the night creatures

ME: be that as it may sir we don't allow customers to hang from the cases, upside down or not

[Benjamin C. Kinney (mostly on Bluesky) @BenCKinney]

As a neuroscientist who studies handedness: this is spot on.

Handedness is congenital, not learned. But the frequency of left-handedness varies between cultures - in a way that almost certainly reflects social acceptance, not heredity.

[The CryptoNaturalist (Jarod K. Anderson) @CryptoNature]

If you weigh the importance of your actions in the scales of "what is best about life," you find that doing something "just because it's fun" is a perfectly worthy reason.

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

This whole thread is so comforting 😌

[rogue alpaca @LtCatra]

my very religious but supportive elderly neighbor asked me what I’m giving up for pride because I think she thinks it’s like lent and the pride parades are like mardi gras?? anyway I panicked and said oatmeal

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

First dose today. How can I tell if it’s vaccine brain fog or normal brain fog? How can I tell if it’s vaccine sore arm or sore arm because pharmacist said to keep moving it and I’ve been flapping it around like a chicken wing all day

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

I’ve never related more to anything in my life. #GhostLunch

https://t.co/wm7FYzkt4R

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

“Morning is morning, mid-morning is 9 to 10:50, late morning is a little hard to pin down, noon isn’t anything, doesn’t count, can’t be lunch because morning didn’t start until 9 but it’s when everyone else is doing lunch so it’s ghost lunch...

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

...then sometimes things can happen at 1, but then 2-3:30 is lunch on account of missing lunch earlier, which means 4 is too heavy, and then 5 is evening, I think. Yeah, five’s evening, seven’s supper, nine is for remembering things from 2, and then ten is night.”

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

@skyekilaen Gumroad or Smashbooks if possible, Apple Books as second choice, Amazon as last resort.

[Austin Kleon @austinkleon]

Today I learned that “rivals,” originally, just meant two people who lived on the banks of the same river.

But, since people who live on the same river usually fight over water rights, the word “rivals” came to mean anybody in an “unfriendly competition.”

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

6. The Politics of Dispossession, Edward W. Said
7. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi
8. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappé
9. The Question of Palestine, Edward W. Said
10. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Norman G. Finkelstein

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

If you’re looking for resources in book form, I can vouch that any one of these is an education on the context and crisis of Palestine. #FreePalestine

[Jamie Harris @jamiesaidthis]

1. On Palestine, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
2. Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Y. Davis
3. The Palestinians, Rosemary Sayigh
4. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, Marc Lamont Hill
5. Justice for Some, Noura Erakat