While the news of Austen’s complete works now available at Chawton is not new news, this article does discuss more of the exhibition, “Jane Austen and the Art of Writing.”
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
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This is quite the question! You can write an essay as an answer. But can you answer it in 25 words or less?
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Big news! The Rijksmuseum's brand-new Collection Online is here! Dive into thousands of stunning artworks, captivating stories and rich history, based on what inspires you. Start exploring and let your curiosity lead the way!
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection
💡 Discover art like never before with the AI-tool ‘Art Explorer’: find pieces that perfectly match your mood
🖼 Create your own Gallery of Honour
📥 Download high-res images to share, keep, or use your way
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Now open at Tate Modern! Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet. 🤖 💽
Discover how artists imagined the future using machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s, in one of #TateModern ’s most ambitious exhibitions to date.
#ElectricDreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet is open at Tate Modern until 1 June 2025. Members go free. bit.ly/419gJHw
In partnership with @gucci
Supported by Anthropic
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Here’s a #TBT photo from 1969!
On this Thanksgiving, the parade passed the American Museum of Natural History’s turret with a special float: a sauropod dinosaur. This inflatable Apatosaurus measured ~60 ft (18.3 m) long! The giant green dinosaur also featured big eyes, a wide grin, & a 20-ft (6-m) tail.
American Museum of Natural History
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Anyone else waiting for Thanksgiving dinner?
Meet Linda, the daughter of photographer Richard C. Miller and his favorite subject to photograph. He specialized in celebrity portraits and advertising, and was particularly skilled with color photographic processes.
@GettyMuseum #Thanksgiving #photography
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The golden Herakles knot on this armband is enriched with floral decoration and inlaid with garnets, emeralds, and enamel (3rd–2nd Century BC), #Greece.
According to the Roman writer Pliny, the decorative device of the Herakles knot could cure wounds, and its popularity in Hellenistic jewellery suggests that it was thought it could avert evil as well.
NAM, Athens
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Before mastering French cuisine, Julia Child mastered espionage! As an OSS agent in WWII, she handled top-secret intel.
Her turkey tip: "I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the bird likes it!" 🦃🔍 #Thanksgiving #History
@IntlSpyMuseum
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A rare and wonderful survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of plain-woven, undyed silk, c. AD 900. An exotic material in 10th-century Britain, the silk was imported to York from Persia via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Yorkshire Museum 📷 @AlisonFisk
#Archaeology #York #Vikings #clothing #silk
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Most people do NOT need multiple accounts to use the Fediverse. The servers talk to each other, so even if an account is on a different server you will be able to interact with it seamlessly. (For example you are able to read this post even though I'm on a different server to you!)
However, there are certain niche situations where multiple accounts can be useful. More info in this guide at:
➡️ fedi.tips/using-multiple-accou…
If you do use multiple accounts, have them on different servers!
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You can only use your account to log in on your own instance. You can't use it to log in on any other instance.
But you can interact with accounts on other instances (including PeerTube instances) from your own instance. For example if you click on the PeerTube account @thelinuxexperiment it should show up on your server like any other profile. Its videos show up like posts.
You only need to log in on a PeerTube instance if you want to upload a video.
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@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. With a mastodon account you can already open new threads on Lemmy: informapirata.it/2024/01/02/ma…
In fact, Lemmy communities are nothing more than Activitypub groups, just like Friendica groups and gup.pe groups.
Unfortunately, mastodon does not help manage an adequate display of Activitypub groups, but there are apps like RaccoonForFriendica that allow you to display groups correctly, displaying only the topics, even if you use it with a Mastodon account.
informapirata.it/2024/10/18/ra…
As for PeerTube, the story is a little different, because Peertube channels are actually Activity pub groups, but at the moment you can publish videos on those channels only if you are the owner of the channel and therefore only if you are a PeerTube user. But if the developers decided to do it, you could publish on a Peertube channel, simply by sending a video from a Mastodon account. If they haven't done it, it's only because it would be something quite useless...😁
The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents.
A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.
And when he was told the sale price, he began to cry.
“I am a poor man,” Mr. Alam, 74, said, his voice breaking. “I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money.”
nytimes.com/2024/11/27/nyregio…
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Having read the artist’s response, I feel the need to revive an old New Yorker meme:
“Christ, what an asshole!”
This is your final final call to get your submissions in for 2025 AGM! Deadline is November 30! More details

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