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Tim Skellett
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Tim Skellett

@Gurdur

Me: interests: #scicomm, books, gardening, philosophy, science journalism, photography, #nature, #travel, #DiscWorld, and so on.

Solingen, Germany
Joined March 2010

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    Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

    *looks over the discourse* I think I'll invest in an asbestos-bound copy of "Fahrenheit 451". Yes, such copies exist. You never know when it could come in handy.

    9:42 PM - 9 Jun 2020
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      2. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

        Tim Skellett Retweeted Melissa Chen

        "How did it come about? How did it begin? How could someone like you be doing this work? I know everyone says that but you — you're not like them. When I say something to you, you look at me. Why did you choose this job? With you it doesn't make any sense"https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1270579223468691457 …

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        Melissa Chen @MsMelChen
        I don’t think we’re very far from hearing about the first library to remove its Harry Potter books
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      3. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

        Maybe I should ask Juniper books to do a new book set. https://www.juniperbooks.com/products/banned-books-set …pic.twitter.com/Ah7JIF5ZrU

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      4. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

        Tim Skellett Retweeted Claire Lehmann

        Guy Montag: [reading from David Copperfield] David Copperfield. Chapter one. I am born. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1270581926105997313 …

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        Claire LehmannVerified account @clairlemon
        Why don’t you join my book club? We read a new novel and non-faction release each month. Bonus: we don’t screen members on their ideological purity so you can hate Quillette all you like 😁 https://quillette.com/book-club/  https://twitter.com/jason_pontin/status/1270565805139406849 …
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      5. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

        Tim Skellett Retweeted Melissa Chen

        "Go on, Montag, all this philosophy, let's get rid of it. It's even worse than the novels. Thinkers and philosophers, all of them saying exactly the same thing: "Only I am right! The others are all idiots!"https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/875995300669870084 …

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        Melissa Chen @MsMelChen
        Ideas have consequences. But so does silence. Don't be afraid to speak up, even as tribes and communities breed conformity of thought.
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      6. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

        Tim Skellett Retweeted andy s

        Guy Montag: "He doesn't want to find out anything. He knows someone who has books, so he got hold of the person's picture and number and is going to drop it into that box". Clarisse: "But he's an informer!" Guy Montag: "No, he's an informant".https://twitter.com/CIAGoFundMe/status/1270460192203911169 …

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        andy s @CIAGoFundMe
        well, we did it guys!!!! We got that 7th grader expelled from his jr high after making a racist joke on tik tok he had overheard his dad say
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      7. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

        The mash-up of The Adventures Of Harry Finn will be wildpic.twitter.com/WzByFU5i3D

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      8. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 9 Jun 2020

        Tim Skellett Retweeted

        "Good work with lots of variety. Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That's our official motto". https://twitter.com/jason_pontin/status/1270561689436672001 …

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      9. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 10 Jun 2020

        Tim Skellett Retweeted The Washington Post

        “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.” “Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1270581413532897286 …

        Tim Skellett added,

        The Washington PostVerified account @washingtonpost
        Opinion: J.K. Rowling’s transphobia shows it’s time to put down the pen https://wapo.st/2BRHDKk 
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      10. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 10 Jun 2020

        “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” “But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under then. It can’t last.”

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      11. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 10 Jun 2020

        Tim Skellett Retweeted

        “There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves & shadows of themselves” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (as all these quotes) https://twitter.com/mollylroberts/status/1270479005326639104 …

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      12. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 19 Jun 2020

        Speak of the Devil, and.... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/12/harper-lee-mark-twain-banned-minnesota-schools/ …pic.twitter.com/VRjmInQJd2

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      13. Tim Skellett‏ @Gurdur 19 Jun 2020

        JK Rowling already near the top. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 …pic.twitter.com/veH08Q43GA

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