Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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🇬🇷 **Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind**
Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado
“_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._
_Solar and wind have replaced it; their share has tripled in the last decade; when combined, they’ve become the largest source._”
#Data #DataViz #Energy #Coal #SolarEnergy #Wind #Renewables #Greece
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Flirtation under difficulties**
Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Flirtation under difficulties / J.S. Pughe. Canada United States, 1904. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., March 2. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011645511/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Canada #UncleSam #Tariffs #C20th #20thCentury
🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**
Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/94507245/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #Capitalists #Financiers #Industry #Manufacturing #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury
📸 📖 🇷🇺 🇯🇵 **A photographic record of the Russo-Japanese war by James H. Hare**
“Read or download for free”
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76109.
#History #Histodon #Russia #Japan #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Book #Ebook #Books #Bookstodon #Images #Photography #Photos @histodons @bookstodon
**'Dumpster fire': Retailers urge shoppers to buy now before tariffs raise prices**
_“Let's skip the corporate-speak: This tariff situation is a complete dumpster fire, and we're all getting burned. Here's the situation: Costs are up, and unfortunately, our prices will have to follow suit,”_
🇺🇸 🚢 **Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports**
“Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year_”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/28/trump-tariffs-shipments-us-ports.
🇺🇸 💻 **Trump tariffs taking out AI data centres too**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/27/trump-tariffs-taking-out-ai-data-centres-too/.
#Data #DataCentres #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Tariffs @ai
🇺🇸 📉 **The domestic fallout from Trump’s tariffs, in 3 charts**
“_Businesses and consumers are already appearing to panic._”
🔗 https://www.vox.com/politics/409835/trump-tariffs-trade-war-consumer-confidence-manufacturing.
#Data #DataViz #Trump #Economy #Money #Politics #USPol #Economics #Business #Trade @economics
🇺🇸 **DHL will stop shipping packages over $800 to U.S. customers due to new customs rules**
_“The carrier cited the 10% tariffs implemented by the Trump administration in early April, which it says had the effect of subjecting parcels worth over $800 to increased scrutiny by U.S. customs inspectors. That has led to shipping backlogs, DHL said.”_
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371307/dhl-stops-shipping-packages-800-us-customers.
📚 **16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time**
Regina Sienra
"_Centuries ago, academics had an alternative to juggling several tomes and propping them open all over a table. They used the bookwheel, a rotating device that allowed people to browse multiple books at once, allowing them to go from one text to the next without even having to stand up._"
🔗 https://mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-history/.
#Image attribution: Gaspard Grollier de Serviere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grollier%27s_Reading_Wheel.jpg.
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**
“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”
Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.
#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon
🔴 🏴 **Bank Of England Charter Sealing 1694**
#History #England #Economics #Finance
#Image attribution: Lady Jane Lindsay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_England_Charter_sealing_1694.jpg.
🔴 🇺🇸 **Major foreign holders of US Treasury Securities (2022)**
#Tariffs #Trade #TradeWar #Commerce #Economics #Debt #Data #DataViz #Chart #Graph
Image attribution: Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MAJOR_FOREIGN_HOLDERS_OF_TREASURY_SECURITIES.web.
🔴 📚 **Sunday Reads**
I am making my way through the weekend edition of the Financial Times and also through the Nathaniel Hawthorn's Scarlet Letter (Norton Critical Edition), what are you reading this Sunday?
#Read #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Man_Leaning_Against_a_Tree_With_a_Book_MET_DP849001.jpg.
🔴 **Joint Sovereigns**
On 11th April 1689 William III and Mary II were crowned joint sovereigns over England, Scotland, and Ireland.
#History #OnThisDay #OTD #England #Scotland #Ireland
#Image attribution: R White, engraver, died 1703, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William%26MaryEngraving1703.jpg.
🔴 **The Arctic is the world’s region that has warmed the most, followed by Europe**
Veronika Samborska
“_The Arctic warmed more than any other region — by the 2010s, it was 2.8°C hotter than in the 1940s._”
🔴 **Born On This Day: James Mill**
James Mill was born on this day in 1773. A Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist, his major literary achievement was authoring the first history of British India in the English language.
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Mill
#Image attribution: James Mill (1773–1836), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_British_India_1817_James_Mill.jpg.
🔴 **Jack Dorsey And I***
I received notification from 'Jack Dorsey' informing me that he wants to chat with me and all I have to do is click on the provided link (see image below). In response, after due consideration of the matter, I decided to block the account.
🔴 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 **On This Day: The Convention of Kanagawa Is Signed**
On 31st March 1854 the United States forced the Tokugawa Shogunate to open access of two Japanese ports (Shimoda and Hakodate) to American trade and vessels.
#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Trade #Japan #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
#Image attribution: U.S. Government., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KanagawaTreaty.gif.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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