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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Joined Nov 2022
**The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement**
🔗 https://observer.com/2025/10/exhibition-review-getty-center-going-places-travel-in-the-middle-ages/.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Art #Culture #Museum #Archives
🇮🇪 🏴 📖 **Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland**
"_While at present it is impossible to prove beyond doubt, Whitworth’s book highlights an important new potential provenance for the Book of Kells. However, it also serves as a timely reminder that our preoccupation with the “nationality” of the manuscript is based on a 19th-century construct, which can distract from other considerations._"
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Ireland #Scotland #Picts #Manuscript
🇮🇹 🇪🇹 🎥 **Second Italo-Ethiopian War - 1935**
"_On this day in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, marking the beginning of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War._"
#Video length: three minutes and eleven seconds.
🇺🇸 **Real GDP growth by state: Second quarter 2025**
"_Arkansas had the steepest contraction, at –1.1% annualized._"
🔗 https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/10/real-gdp-growth-by-state-second-quarter-2025/.
#Data #DataViz #GDP #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Franks United? The First Treaty of Meerssen (Feb 847)**
🔗 https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/franks-united-the-first-treaty-of-meerssen-feb-847/.
**Noah’s Ark and the Slave Trade**
"_After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/noahs-ark-and-slave-trade.
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **China has not bought a bushel of soybeans from U.S. farmers this year. What happens to the crop now?**
📖 **Imagining the Ark of the Covenant, From Exodus to Indiana Jones**
🇺🇸 📖 **Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause**
"_After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery._"
🔗 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause.
#History #Histodons #LostCause #USA #US #UnitedStates #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
📚 🇬🇧 **UK Reading Crisis is About Identity, Not Appetite**
"_Millions of UK adults are reading every day, but half still resist calling themselves ‘readers,’ according to new research from national charity The Reading Agency._"
🔗 https://readingagency.org.uk/uk-reading-crisis-is-about-identity-not-appetite/.
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**Weakness persists in U.S. and California economies**
"_UCLA Anderson Forecast: Risk of rising layoffs leading to a recession is a tangible possibility_"
🔗 https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/anderson-forecast-rising-layoffs-recession-risk-october-2025.
#News #UCLA #USA #US #UnitedStates #California #Recession #Ecomony #Economics
🇨🇭 ⛰️ **Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says**
"_Between 2015 and 2025 alone, the glaciers shed 24 percent of their volume, Wednesday's report said, compared to 10 percent between 1990 and 2000._"
#News #Research #Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment
@tomwsmf This is 19 dimensional chess being played on an infinitesimal number of planes simultaneously. It is way beyond the intellectual abilities of ordinary people to understand.
**Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know**
🎙️ **Economica with Victoria Bateman**
"_The discussion covers various themes, including the impact of women's marriage decisions on population control, the relationship between women's independence and technological advancements, and the historical marginalization of women in economic history._"
🇺🇸 **Tariffs and trade war bring volatility to South Dakota ag industries**
"_The worst hit among South Dakota’s roughly 28,000 farms and ranches are the 5,000 producers who grow soybeans._
_With no China sales, they are left with the untenable situation of having a huge crop of beans ready for harvest and a gap in the traditional marketplace to sell them._"
#SouthDakota #Farming #Tariffs #Trade #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Drowning in a sea of fakery**
"_Some instances of this fakery have been met with hilarity as the images were so bad they would fool no one who gave them more than a cursory glance. Unsurprisingly, however, the technology has improved. A couple of years ago there were warnings that AI could produce convincing fake images of cancers and western blots that could fool experts._"
🔗 https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/drowning-in-a-sea-of-fakery/4022181.article.
#Academia #PaperMills #Publishing #Fake #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Images #Technology #Tech
🇮🇪 📖 **What Was Behind Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal?**
_“A Modest Proposal” is “a distinctively Irish critique of a distinctively Irish process of reconquest and recolonization,”_
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/what-was-behind-jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal/.
#History #Ireland #JonathanSwift #Books #Literature #Bookstodon
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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Joined Nov 2022
