Nigel Beale The Biblio File

Podcast host & biblio-tourist. Mission to document & understand the art & business of books, magazines; print culture worldwide
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[Nigel Beale The Biblio File @nigelbeale]

Zohran Mamdani: “A society that produces billionaires while millions go hungry isn’t successful; it’s broken. I don’t think we should have billionaires. Full stop.”

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And if it runs out of gas...

@VW #advertising

[WIRED @WIRED]

From San Francisco to Stockholm, a new generation of electric ferries is entering passenger service, marking a tipping point for green maritime technology. https://t.co/gfwL6a5qW2

[Bloomsday Festival @bloomsdayfest]

Ulysses in 60 Minutes Walking Tour 📖⏰
Join a lively hour-long stroll diving into the wild world of Ulysses and James Joyce for the Bloomsday Festival!

For more information and tickets, please see https://t.co/khDQSXUIdy

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Attention all children: don't forget to buy Dad a book

https://t.co/jiB9LK3dZZ

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"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is still young on the inside and wondering what happened to the outside." -- Clive James

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Btw, Ukraine is capable of targeting Russian civilians the way Russia does. In fact, Russia can reserve more of its air defenses for military & energy targets because Ukraine doesn't do so. Murdering innocents is a choice Russia makes every day. So is Europe not stopping it.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

More of CNN's false equivalence language. Ukraine is not targeting St. Petersburg, but striking military installations, Russian warships, and oil refineries. It's the Russian terror state that strikes cities and targets civilians. https://t.co/Cy7DgqtkuT

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Yankee go home

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Look! Holiday magazine, Ottawa-Prague comparisons, coincidences, and more https://t.co/TwKDisbL2u

[David Frum @davidfrum]

This is just crime

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Not visiting as often, due to it being a festering shithole here.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

This fight isn't over. We need law, not promises.

And remember: Trump's settlement forces the IRS (that he controls) to drop ALL audits of Trump, his family and businesses.

Dropping one of those audits could save Trump $100 MILLION.

I have a bill to stop this corruption.

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Hard to miss in #Lifemagazine

[Commonweal Magazine @commonwealmag]

"Reading is probably the most widespread and effective technology ever devised for extending the human attention span."

@rooseveltmontas on deep reading, print culture & liberal democracy:
https://t.co/Q4MpAC0GBk

[Simon Beattie @simon_beattie]

As I said before, it's always worth getting hold of exhibition catalogues on subjects of interest. Here's a great example from the British Museum, from 2015. For me, it ticks the boxes of visual (things with pictures are easier to sell), print culture, and cross-Channel. #shelfie

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Nodding my head a lot at @j_amesmarriott here: "Democracy is the creation of a print culture. I'm very skeptical you can have democracy without print. It's basically never been tried."

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

This is what scares me most about screen culture. It's extinguishing hobbies, communities, print culture, curiosity, embodiedness. All the things that once brought meaning and fulfillment. We need a return to reading, a return to nature, a return to tangible living.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Amusing Ourselves to Death is the book for our current moment. Postman warned in the 1980s that the loss of print culture would have calamitous effects for our sense of history, our democratic institutions, our ability to reason and focus.

[Msoarescorreia @msoarescorreia]

Evacuation order for 125,000 Lebanese living in Tyre. Ancient Tyre, a city crucial to our history, civilization, and material culture. Israel is destroying Tyre, after destroying Gaza and entire parts of Beirut. Pure urbicide.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

“Today, Russia inflicted yet another blow to our heritage, once again proving that the Russian Federation is purposefully destroying our (Ukraine’s) material culture to erase Ukrainians as a nation," Acting Culture Minister Rostyslav Karandieiev said.