I’ve been having a rather lousy week and then the man in front of me in line at the cafe paid for my order like we were in Naples. 🥹
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Liz Loveland
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mastodon 4.7.3Historian (#history) & pro genealogist (#genealogy) originally trained in #anthropology & #archaeology. New M.A. in History of the Family. Some research interests: slavery in the northern colonies/US, #EarlyModern era, women's history, African-American history, genocide.
Traveling, #ArtHistory, gardening, human rights, climate change, early music, photography, vegetarian, historical fiction, fantasy & sci fi, origami, antiquity, finding turkeys in Renaissance art. 
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My close-up photo of part of a 14th c. mosaic in Venice.
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Graffiti saying, "If you're reading this, we made it." In Elbasan, Albania (my photo).
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Massachusetts, USA
This is now at the top of every page on PBS sites
Unsubscribed from a newsletter today:
"Very disappointed that your newsletter today included a long screed about how the protests must be peaceful because otherwise they will use them against us, because it makes clear that you still don't understand that they will simply make stuff up if there is nothing they think they can use."
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@dorward Just want to add that today I tried again and figured out the other spot where I'd been going wrong and used your video to finally successfully extract my tweets. Thanks again for helping the many of us who are less programming savvy!
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@dorward I did not personally add a space, but if Terminal added one, I didn't know I should delete it. Thanks again for your help.
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The foreign press, at least, is not afraid to draw explicit parallels.
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@dorward I tried doing this and it didn't work.I got to step 3 so I think I am not properly running the command but I am not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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@dorward I've now watched and tried it. Watching told me that I should probably have been dragging the folder with the code to Terminal. But when I did exactly as you did, it told me that "python" is an invalid command. So then I tried using the command that the Python runner I downloaded yesterday for my Mac suggested, but Terminal responded "can't find '__main__' module in '/Users/lizl/Downloads/twitter-archive-parser-main'." Not sure what else to try.
Thanks again for trying to help me.
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@dorward I apologize that I wasn't clear. I included parser.py at the end and that's the error message I got.
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@dorward You were right that that was the problem. But I have now gotten a new error message so at this point I think it is time to give up. Thanks again for trying to help me.
In a class this week I learned Renoir was, and I quote, "a virulent antisemite." So I asked a scholar of Impressionism I know about it and learned that not only do museums usually omit this, but many actively suppress attempts to mention it. Renoir died over a century ago. What are we even doing here? 🎨
There are a lot of products being recalled due to possible salmonella contamination of cucumbers. There's a table at the link. https://www.fda.gov/safety/major-product-recalls/2025-recalls-cucumbers-associated-bedner-growers-inc-boynton-beach-florida-due-potential-risk
Response I've sent to a query:
"I am surprised that as the founder of a for-profit company, you would contact people through their professional profiles asking them to write for exposure rather than for a fee. I hope that you will reconsider doing this in the future. For-profit companies asking professionals of any field to write for free ("exposure") lowers the pay and devalues the work of all writers, and in my opinion it is particularly inappropriate to do so via a professional directory."
"I think these brilliant works of art often blind us to the violence they are depicting," says a museum director close to retirement age, having apparently never talked to a single woman about any of the works of art he referenced in this talk nor in this answer to an audience question.
Totally the kind of email newsletter subject heading you receive in a functioning democracy
When I was doing my thesis research in NZ on mid 19th century assisted emigration a year ago, a report came out that 1000 Kiwis were emigrating per week. It seems it has continued to worsen: "Figures remain high, with 69,100 leaving in the year to February 2025..." I wonder if many are still blaming immigrants. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/leaving-new-zealand-record-departure-numbers
"'In the United States, Donald Trump's second term as president has led to an alarming deterioration in press freedom, indicative of an authoritarian shift in government,' RSF said. 'His administration has weaponized institutions, cut support for independent media, and sidelined reporters.'" https://www.dw.com/en/global-press-freedom-at-all-time-low-in-2025-rsf-says/a-72411797
