Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**Flag: American Party, 1844-1860**
#History #Flag #KnowNothingParty #AmericanParty #USPol #Politics #Nationalism #Nativism #Populism
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31 Maria-Elisabeth Brunert/Nadir Weber: Diplomatic Reporting: Negotiating the Truth in Westphalia and Beyond
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-033
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Top 10 Most Educated OECD Countries in 2024 (% of adults aged 25-64 with tertiary education)
1. 🇨🇦 Canada - 63.3%
2. 🇯🇵 Japan - 56%
3. 🇮🇪 Ireland - 55.3%
4. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 54.5%
5. 🇦🇺 Australia - 51.4%
6. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 51.3%
7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 51.3%
8. 🇮🇱 Israel - 50.3%
9. 🇺🇸 United States - 50%
10.🇳🇴 Norway - 48.1%
Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2024
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And now: A thread regarding my thoughts on "1.5°C"--not only as a Paris Agreement target, but also re: relevance to recent #climate events & overlaps (or not) w/geophysical realities. (This was originally written as a response to a journalist, who used excerpts in their article.)
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@bibliolater This guy and the podcast he does with Jess are great.
**The entire history of English in 22 minutes**
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and twenty-one seconds.
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A look at the recent sea surface temperature trend (annual mean) for the Gulf of Mexico... 🫣
See more at https://zacklabe.com/united-states-climate-indicators/
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Diagram of orbits BnF MS Latin 5239; Varia de computo; 10th century; France (Limoges); f.39r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 **Trump has set the stage for a colossal trade war - and it could spiral out of control**
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/news/trump-set-stage-colossal-trade-war-could-spiral-out-of-control-3802860.
📚 **The Association of University Presses: ‘Essential Reading’ on Immigration**
"_The movement of people from one place of residence to another is as old as humankind itself. So how and why does human migration collide with geopolitics periodically, resulting in the demonization of human beings who have chosen to migrate or been forced to flee?_"
#Immigration #Migration #Reading #ReadingList #List #Books #Bookstodon #UniversityPress @bookstodon
📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
#NPR #Reading #Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Linux now owns 5% of the desktop OS market.
And no, that’s not counting ChromeOS—even though it runs a Linux kernel and uses a Linux userland, but let’s not start that fight today.
Still, I can’t help wondering: how much of that growth is just gamers? It’s hard to ignore the timing. Linux starts climbing right as the Steam Deck blows up. That’s not a fluke. That’s momentum.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxs-ascendancy-charting-open-source-surge-desktop-os-arena
And no, that’s not counting ChromeOS—even though it runs a Linux kernel and uses a Linux userland, but let’s not start that fight today.
Still, I can’t help wondering: how much of that growth is just gamers? It’s hard to ignore the timing. Linux starts climbing right as the Steam Deck blows up. That’s not a fluke. That’s momentum.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxs-ascendancy-charting-open-source-surge-desktop-os-arena
🇫🇷 **People In France Want Fewer Children**
A good piece of parenting #advice.
Let Your Kid Climb That Tree https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/07/wild-free-play-children-mobility/683482/?gift=NBdGSmKfDQzLc1B6N1F-g...
🇪🇺 🎙️ **What makes population statistics unique?**
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Anna Roemers Visscher engraved one of her own poems on a wine glass as a gift for Constantijn Huygens. The verses: her pen has run dry, and her mind has turned to rust. She asks him to fetch her some water from Helicon. (1619, Rijksmuseum, BK-1983-15)
🇨🇳 **How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point**
Afternoon all.
**The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**
"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"
#Video length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.
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