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Thanks Tombolo Books in St. Pete for carrying Life After Cars. They said it's been a big seller and now there's a signed copy on the shelves! What a great bookstore.
Tombolo Books with multicolored facade, black awning, under blue sky with white clouds.
Bookshelf with books facing spine out.
Signed title page for Life After Cars.
Thanks Tombolo Books in St. Pete for carrying Life After Cars. They said it's been a big seller and now there's a signed copy on the shelves! What a great bookstore.
Tombolo Books with multicolored facade, black awning, under blue sky with white clouds.
Bookshelf with books facing spine out.
Signed title page for Life After Cars.
New Scientist named HYPERSCALE one of its best popular science books of October. Less than two weeks until you can get a copy of your own!
Preorder US: https://bookshop.org/a/18331/9798217048526
Preorder UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10298/9781805227458
More info: https://hyperscalebook.com
#tech #techindustry #datacenters #artificialintelligence #ai #newbooks #reading #books
The best popular-science books of October 2026 Hyperscale by Paris Marx Forget, for a moment, grappling with AI conceptually and think about it as an environmental issue. All over the world, the data centres already built and those planned are crucial to the current AI successes and to the ambitions of the companies involved. What’s more, say the publishers of a polemical book called Hyperscale, the centres use up resources such as water and power at “dangerously unsustainable levels”. This book’s author is Paris Marx, a tech critic, journalist and host of the Tech Won’t Save You podcast. It sounds like a wild ride, with the publishers saying the “tech overlords are waging a resource war as they trade our future for their profit”. It is nothing less than a “civilisational time bomb in the making”, where tough reporting shows that “the greatest threat is not the spectre of AI, but a global disaster that has already begun”. The book is already longlisted for this year’s Financial Times Business Book of the Year award.
UK cover of Hyperscale: Ambition, Power, and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires
Hi everyone! I wandered off, but I’m back. My joys in life: #books, #music, #coffee, #tea, #dogs, and all things #cozy. If books were people I’d marry them. Did I mention #Bookstodon? I’m #disabled and unapologetically #kinky, into #PowerExchange. Also an #exvangelical still hoping to encounter #god or #goddess when I find the courage to look. I post about #reading, #audiobooks, #neisvoid, #psychology, #deconstruction, #FemaleEmpowerment, and random snark.
I love meeting people. Come say hi!
In #books: Workaday encounters with fellow citizens, such as eating at a restaurant or filling up on gas, become freighted with mortal peril. In one darkly comic scene, an instructor demonstrates how he keeps his gun at the ready while sitting on a public toilet. https://www.texasobserver.org/basic-pistol-book-review-guns-texas/
#guns #GunViolence #MentalHealth #Texas #2A #culture #bookstodon
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At the firearms training center, fear becomes the foundation of the state's violent obsession.
In #books: Workaday encounters with fellow citizens, such as eating at a restaurant or filling up on gas, become freighted with mortal peril. In one darkly comic scene, an instructor demonstrates how he keeps his gun at the ready while sitting on a public toilet. https://www.texasobserver.org/basic-pistol-book-review-guns-texas/
#guns #GunViolence #MentalHealth #Texas #2A #culture #bookstodon
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At the firearms training center, fear becomes the foundation of the state's violent obsession.
My new book HYPERSCALE is out in two weeks — and my copies just arrived!
I recorded an unboxing video to share some thoughts as it gets closer to release and show you what it looks like. Hate data centers? You’re going to want a copy!
Preorder yours today: https://bookshop.org/a/18331/9798217048526
#tech #ai #generativeai #datacenters #reading #books #newbooks #artificialintelligence
My new book HYPERSCALE is out in two weeks — and my copies just arrived!
I recorded an unboxing video to share some thoughts as it gets closer to release and show you what it looks like. Hate data centers? You’re going to want a copy!
Preorder yours today: https://bookshop.org/a/18331/9798217048526
#tech #ai #generativeai #datacenters #reading #books #newbooks #artificialintelligence
@rooneymcnibnug @catileptic There's also a reading group on that book happening at the moment in amsterdam: https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2026/07/open-reading-group/
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researching power and contestation in transnational media infrastructures
@rooneymcnibnug @catileptic There's also a reading group on that book happening at the moment in amsterdam: https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2026/07/open-reading-group/
criticalinfralab.net
researching power and contestation in transnational media infrastructures
“A tech reporter takes on an ever-expanding story: the endless proliferation of massive data centers.”
Kirkus named HYPERSCALE one of its best books to read in October. Another great signal as the release date gets closer!
Preorder your copy now: https://hyperscalebook.com
#tech #datacenters #ai #artificialintelligence #newbook #reading #books
A timely, vigorously researched and written work of tech and advocacy journalism. — Kirkus
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires by Paris Marx. Out October 20, 2026
“There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds (often by publishers that still think AI might work for them), but Hyperscale is the one I’ve got my eye on this fall.”
@literaryhub recommends my new book HYPERSCALE on its non-fiction list!
Preorder your copy: https://hyperscalebook.com
#tech #reading #books #techbooks #datacenters #artificialintelligence
Is Nonfiction in Crisis? These 14 Books Suggest Otherwise Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires by Paris Marx There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds (often by publishers that still think Al might work for them), but Hyperscale is the one I've got my eye on this fall partly because I'm such a fan of author Paris Marx's podcast, Tech Won't Save Us.
Hyperscale is out October 20, 2026
Also periodic reminder that I are a science fiction writer! I have three books out as part of a series, with a fourth on the way:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRMPJQ7R
https://www.goodreads.com/series/449350-the-draconyma-cycle
https://app.thestorygraph.com/series/11614700
#scifi #author #writing #books about #furry #cyberpunk worlds, #hacking, and #romance while fighting for equality and trying to do the right thing.
Check 'em out. ^^
Also periodic reminder that I are a science fiction writer! I have three books out as part of a series, with a fourth on the way:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRMPJQ7R
https://www.goodreads.com/series/449350-the-draconyma-cycle
https://app.thestorygraph.com/series/11614700
#scifi #author #writing #books about #furry #cyberpunk worlds, #hacking, and #romance while fighting for equality and trying to do the right thing.
Check 'em out. ^^
Evals: Quality Engineering for AI Systems by PUDUR RAMASWAMY is a new release on Leanpub!
Every test you have ever written assumed the same input gives the same output. Large language models broke that assumption, and with it most of what our profession knows about verification.
Evals: Quality Engineering for AI Systems by PUDUR RAMASWAMY is a new release on Leanpub!
Every test you have ever written assumed the same input gives the same output. Large language models broke that assumption, and with it most of what our profession knows about verification.
Want to make sense of the AI doom loop? The Guardian says you should should check out my forthcoming book HYPERSCALE.
“This is a deep investigation into the physical impact of AI data centers around the world.”
Preorder now: https://hyperscalebook.com
Check out the full list: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/17/ai-doom-books-reading-list
#tech #ai #artificialintelligence #datacenters #reading #books #newbook
Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all Hyperscale – Paris Marx From the journalist and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, this is a deep investigation into the physical impact of AI data centers around the world, and the toll they are taking on local communities and the global environment.
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires. Coming October 20, 2026.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the…
— Charles John Huffam Dickens
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#love #bookstodon #books #literature
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Un flux infini d'extraits littéraires de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. 7 sources, 12 langues, open source.
I stumbled on this amazing french audio book project when I was looking to buy the Comte de Montecristo.
It would be so great to start an audio book project for Swedish audio books and get funding from donations and perhaps Swedish government and culture foundations to pay for proper recordings. Primarily paying the readers/actors a proper fee.
#audiolivres #audiobooks #ljudböcker #books
https://www.litteratureaudio.com/
Audiobooks on litteratureaudio.com
Hi my rinktum! Black gal sweet,
Same like goodies w’at de w’ite folks eat;
Ho my Riley! don’t you take’n tell ’er name,
En den ef sumpin’ happen you won’t ketch de blame;
Hi my rinktum! better take’n hide yo’ plum;
Joree don’t holler eve’y time he fine a wum.
Den it’s hi my rinktum!
Don’t git no udder man;
En it’s ho my Riley!
Fetch out Miss Dilsey Ann!
— Joel Chandler Harris
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/ab600658-1b4e-4be7-8b2a-aa0fd18fbd98
#lit #bookstodon #books #literature
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Un flux infini d'extraits littéraires de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. 7 sources, 12 langues, open source.
Nothing To See Here
Silly, but very fun to read.
https://ramblingreaders.org/book/468689/s/nothing-to-see-here
New set of signed copies of LIFE AFTER CARS at Community Bookstore in Park Slope! Go get 'em.
And if you're not local, we sell signed books via our new store.
white yellow and black cover of life after cars on bookshelf next to two other books.
New set of signed copies of LIFE AFTER CARS at Community Bookstore in Park Slope! Go get 'em.
And if you're not local, we sell signed books via our new store.
white yellow and black cover of life after cars on bookshelf next to two other books.
The scale of the loss is hard to comprehend: In #Ukraine 10 million #books were destroyed by russian attacks in three months.
russia attacked Ukrainian publishers and book warehouses 21 times over three months, deliberately targeting the #Ukrainian publishing industry, #Ukraine's culture and identity.
russian criminals haven’t created anything apart from the tools to destroy other people’s work. russians are carrying out a genocide of the #Ukrainian people, to destroy their language, history, culture and identity.
The image shows a two scenes. The top photo is the aftermath of russian missiles on Ukrainian publishing house burned to the ground, books burned to ashes. In Ukraine 10 million books were destroyed by russian attacks in three months. russia attacked Ukrainian publishers and book warehouses 21 times over the summer, deliberately targeting the #Ukrainian publishing industry, our nation’s culture and identity. to compare, The bottom photo shows the UK Oxford University library that has 10 million books.
The scale of the loss is hard to comprehend: In #Ukraine 10 million #books were destroyed by russian attacks in three months.
russia attacked Ukrainian publishers and book warehouses 21 times over three months, deliberately targeting the #Ukrainian publishing industry, #Ukraine's culture and identity.
russian criminals haven’t created anything apart from the tools to destroy other people’s work. russians are carrying out a genocide of the #Ukrainian people, to destroy their language, history, culture and identity.
The image shows a two scenes. The top photo is the aftermath of russian missiles on Ukrainian publishing house burned to the ground, books burned to ashes. In Ukraine 10 million books were destroyed by russian attacks in three months. russia attacked Ukrainian publishers and book warehouses 21 times over the summer, deliberately targeting the #Ukrainian publishing industry, our nation’s culture and identity. to compare, The bottom photo shows the UK Oxford University library that has 10 million books.
"The Bookshelf" in Ultrecht 📚
By Dutch street artist 'Jan Is De Man' (Jan Heinsbroek) in collaboration with tattoo and graffiti artist Deef Feed.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/04/trompe-loeil-bookcase/
A bookshelf painted across the three-tier facade of an apartment building situated at the corner of Amsterdamsestraatweg and Mimosastraat in Utrecht.
"The Bookshelf" in Ultrecht 📚
By Dutch street artist 'Jan Is De Man' (Jan Heinsbroek) in collaboration with tattoo and graffiti artist Deef Feed.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/04/trompe-loeil-bookcase/
A bookshelf painted across the three-tier facade of an apartment building situated at the corner of Amsterdamsestraatweg and Mimosastraat in Utrecht.
Libraries are a lifeline, new research finds
Public libraries play a vital role in communities, helping people connect, access support and improve wellbeing through everyday interactions.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1290826_en.html
Books about Public libraries at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136
ONE OF THE SPECIAL READING ROOMS (Genealogy and Local History) Title: Handbook of The New York Public Library Author: New York Public Library Interior view of a large library reading room, early 20th century. Long tables with individual lamps line the space, patrons reading and a librarian standing near a card catalog. Bookshelves fill the walls, with a skylight ceiling and hanging chandelier illuminating the room.
Libraries are a lifeline, new research finds
Public libraries play a vital role in communities, helping people connect, access support and improve wellbeing through everyday interactions.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1290826_en.html
Books about Public libraries at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136
ONE OF THE SPECIAL READING ROOMS (Genealogy and Local History) Title: Handbook of The New York Public Library Author: New York Public Library Interior view of a large library reading room, early 20th century. Long tables with individual lamps line the space, patrons reading and a librarian standing near a card catalog. Bookshelves fill the walls, with a skylight ceiling and hanging chandelier illuminating the room.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by Dr. David D. Burns is one of the most influential self-help books on depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and emotional well-being. Built around cognitive behavioral therapy, commonly known as CBT, the book offers a practical message: painful emotions are real, but the thoughts attached to those emotions are not always accurate.
The book encourages readers and listeners to look closely at the inner voice that appears during difficult moments. When life feels stressful, disappointing, or overwhelming, many people automatically assume the worst. A mistake at work may become “I’m a failure.” A cancelled plan may become “Nobody cares about me.” A difficult day may become “My life will never improve.”
Dr. Burns explains that these thoughts can feel completely true in the moment. However, feeling something strongly does not automatically make it a fact.
A major lesson from Feeling Good is that events do not always determine our emotions by themselves. Instead, our interpretation of an event often shapes how we feel.
For example, imagine receiving criticism from a manager. One person might think, “This feedback is uncomfortable, but I can use it to improve.” Another person may think, “I can’t do anything right. I’m going to lose my job.”
Both people experienced the same event, but their thoughts created very different emotional responses.
This idea does not mean people should ignore sadness, anxiety, or frustration. Difficult emotions often deserve attention and compassion. The goal is simply to ask whether the thought causing the pain is balanced, accurate, and helpful.
Burns identifies several common cognitive distortions—unhelpful thinking habits that can make ordinary challenges feel much bigger and more permanent.
One common distortion is all-or-nothing thinking. This is the belief that you are either completely successful or a total failure. For instance, if you do not complete every item on your to-do list, you may decide that the entire day was unproductive.
Another distortion is overgeneralization. This occurs when one negative experience becomes a prediction about your entire future. A rejected application can lead to the thought, “I’ll never get a good opportunity.” One bad date can become, “I’ll always be alone.”
Mental filtering is also common. This happens when someone receives praise, support, and positive feedback but focuses only on one criticism or mistake. The brain filters out everything encouraging and magnifies the one negative detail.
Other distortions include catastrophizing, mind reading, emotional reasoning, and “should” statements. Catastrophizing makes a small setback feel like a disaster. Mind reading assumes you know what others think. Emotional reasoning says, “I feel like a failure, so I must be one.” And “should” statements create harsh internal pressure, such as “I should always be productive” or “I should never make mistakes.”
One of the book’s most practical tools is writing down negative thoughts instead of allowing them to remain automatic and unclear. This process is often called a Daily Mood Log.
Start by writing down the situation that upset you. Next, identify the automatic thought that entered your mind. Then name the emotion you felt, such as anxiety, sadness, guilt, shame, or anger.
After that, look for the distortion inside the thought. Finally, write a more balanced response.
For example:
The purpose is not to replace negative thoughts with unrealistic positive statements. Instead, it is to replace exaggerated thoughts with fairer and more truthful ones.
Another important idea in Feeling Good is that self-worth should not depend on perfection, achievement, appearance, or approval from everyone else.
Many people delay action because they do not feel motivated, confident, or ready. Burns challenges this pattern by showing that action often comes before motivation. You may not feel inspired to begin a task, but completing a small step can create momentum.
Instead of waiting until you feel perfect, try taking one small action. Open the document. Take a five-minute walk. Reply to one email. Clean one corner of the room. Small actions can interrupt procrastination and provide evidence that change is possible.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy offers an empowering reminder: you cannot control every event in life, but you can learn to question the thoughts that shape your response.
The next time you hear an inner statement such as “I’m not good enough,” “This will never get better,” or “Everyone is judging me,” pause before accepting it as truth. Ask yourself what evidence supports the thought, what evidence challenges it, and what you would say to a friend in the same situation.
Emotional growth does not require perfect thinking or a perfect life. It begins with awareness, honesty, self-compassion, and the willingness to take one small step forward.
Saying goodbye to some dear old friends today.
A collection of old programming and user interface design books from the late 90s and early 2000s. Includes "Heads First C# covering .NET 4 and VS 2010"; "GUI Bloopers"; "Cracking the Coding Interview"; "XML Programing with VB and ASP"; "XSLT Programmer's Reference"; "The Elements of User Experience"; "Designing the User Interface"; and ""XML Syntax Quick Reference"
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Are you looking for some light, comfy reading to uplift and entertain you in these uncertain times? Try my whimsical fantasy story collection. Elves, gargoyles, mischievous young magicians, heroic aunties, very good doggos, & more.
Kobo, Nook, Kindle etc:
https://books2read.com/relicsfromatravelingshow/
buy direct DRM-free: https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/relics-from-a-traveling-show-ebook1
Boosts welcomed & appreciated.
#writing #fantasy #books
#wizards #monsters #elves #witches #magic #sorcery
#FoundFamily #bookstodon
Book cover for Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes, showing a figure seated at a desk looking out a window at a carnival tent at sunset. A bonsai tree in a blue bowl sits on the window sill, and a glowing eldritch lamp sits on the desk beside a binder labeled "DPS Orientation Guide." The figure has short brown hair, and they are wearing a green and blue traveler's cloak. At their left stands a tall bookshelf filled with artifacts, books, and knickknacks. A happy dog sits at figure's side. Their hand rests on the dog's head.
Well, this is interesting! Sighted people in my life, some of them, are using software made for us such as #Paperback and stuff like #Fedra because they say they never have that visual bloat most software has today, and they like the speed of software like Paperback. Turns out sighted people *do* get tired looking at things. https://github.com/trypsynth/paperback #Books #Bookstodon #OpenSource
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An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperback
English version of last week's cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
Cartoon depicting a sailboat named 'Reading' moored at a jetty overlooking the sea, where a galleon, a mysterious island, and a large sea monster are visible on the horizon. The sea simultaneously forms the front cover of a gigantic book. A staircase runs along the cover of the book to the jetty. Next to this staircase stands a sign reading 'Join the adventure'. This sign is completely ignored by the people walking by, who are all hunched over, staring at their smartphone screens.
Just a reminder!
The presale for our live "Life After Cars" show at Hunter College in New York on November 6th is happening now. Become a Patreon supporter for access to tickets.
Our special guest will be announced soon!
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod/posts/live-at-hunter-166860269
Just a reminder!
The presale for our live "Life After Cars" show at Hunter College in New York on November 6th is happening now. Become a Patreon supporter for access to tickets.
Our special guest will be announced soon!
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod/posts/live-at-hunter-166860269
NEW! Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 AI Generalist Engineer: From AI User to AI Builder: A Practical Guide to Building Enterprise AI Skills by Padmanabham Venkiteela
#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #AIGeneralist #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #PromptEngineering #RAG
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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for AI Generalist Engineer: From AI User to AI Builder: A Practical Guide to Building Enterprise AI Skills https://leanpu...
NEW! Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 AI Generalist Engineer: From AI User to AI Builder: A Practical Guide to Building Enterprise AI Skills by Padmanabham Venkiteela
#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #AIGeneralist #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #PromptEngineering #RAG
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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for AI Generalist Engineer: From AI User to AI Builder: A Practical Guide to Building Enterprise AI Skills https://leanpu...
On Friday, we announced the new edition of Threat Modeling: designing for security in an AI world, and I'm incredibly grateful for all the shares and kind words.
Over the weekend, it climbed to best-seller status on Amazon for "Software design tools." If you think of threat modeling as a security technique, then our choice to put it into that category might seem odd.
One of the biggest lessons of the last ten years is that bolting-on security is so much harder than building it in from the start. And so I wrote this edition to be deeply accessible to software developers, and collaborating with Jim Minatel at Wiley, we decided to categorize it into software books. That's a harder hill to climb: the #1 new release status is a tougher fight. But it's the right arena for the book, the discipline, and long-term impact.
Oh, and it's available for pre-order at Amazon https://amzn.to/4urxcBJ or wherever fine #books are sold.
#software
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hashtag#ai
hashtag#security
An amazon screen capture, showing #1 new release in software design tools
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63% of All Religious Books on Amazon are Likely AI-Written
🔗 https://originality.ai/blog/religious-books-on-amazon-study
#AI #Artificialintelligence #Technology #Tech #Amazon #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #Religion #Writing #Study
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Is that religious book on Amazon you’re reading real or likely AI? Read more about the concerning impact of AI on religious books.
Book quote:
"Tech fascism is the product of a venture capital system that has run out of unicorns and must now hunt Antichrists to meet its unquenchable thirst for acceleration."
~~from #TheNerdReich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by @gilduran
#books #reading #bookstodon #gilduran #PeterThiel #technology #acceleration #fascism #capitalism
Book quote:
"Tech fascism is the product of a venture capital system that has run out of unicorns and must now hunt Antichrists to meet its unquenchable thirst for acceleration."
~~from #TheNerdReich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by @gilduran
#books #reading #bookstodon #gilduran #PeterThiel #technology #acceleration #fascism #capitalism
Came across the James Nicoll Reviews page before summer, and have had a great time perusing.
James writes book reviews, mostly about science fiction and fantasy, but also manga, horror, main stream, and probably more that I have not caught yet. It's a wild mixture of new and old, from classic to incredibly obscure, following a standard format: a short teaser paragraph for the listing, followed by a summary of the book, followed by James' assessment, followed by ways to source the book, followed by footnotes both snarky and informative.
These are good reviews - the book summaries are concise and informative, the opinions stated are well-reasoned and, well, opinionated in a good way: no fake objective view-from-nowhere, but combining personal takes, factual background and sound reasoning in a transparent and appealing manner.
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I'm going on a reading adventure. I just finished up with Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As I started thinking about what to read next, I thought I might go back and finish series that I never completed. I try to only read book series whose story is concluded. But occasionally I can't resist like Dungeon Crawler Carl. But I'm so bad at waiting.
So thought this might be a good use case for my local AI. I downloaded by reading history from #BookWyrm and asked it to find all the series that had concluded, but I never finished. And it worked great.
So now I get to go back and jump into old worlds that I used to explore. Its going to be so much to visit old friends, old stories. Squee! First up, #Mistborn!
#bookstodon #books #reading @xavier@books.infosec.exchange
NEWS! We're returning to Hunter College on Nov 6 for a live show in celebration of the 1-year anniversary of the publication of LIFE AFTER CARS, plus a review of Mamdani's first 10 months in office. Featuring a very special guest, TBA!
Tickets are now on sale for our Patreon subscribers only. Sign up today for access to the presale!
Photo of Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear over purple graphic that says "Friday, November 6, 2026 The War on Cars Life at Hunter College" along with image of Life After Cars book cover and The War on Cars logo.
I wish people would read Gil Durán's @gilduran remarkable book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War to Democracy," to get a clear picture of what “innovation” actually looks like when technological power becomes political power.
https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/the-billionaires-who-want-to-own
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Silicon Valley's billionaires are not just betting on the future. Some of them want to decide who gets to live in it.
I wish people would read Gil Durán's @gilduran remarkable book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War to Democracy," to get a clear picture of what “innovation” actually looks like when technological power becomes political power.
https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/the-billionaires-who-want-to-own
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Silicon Valley's billionaires are not just betting on the future. Some of them want to decide who gets to live in it.
@thedarktangent @adamshostack Iain M Banks is on my list to dive into.
Finished Probability Moon a few days ago by Nancy Kress. Was very good and it's a series, so looking forward to getting into the next book soon.
Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut series is excellent. Alternate history stuff. Very engaging.
The Murderbot Diaries, of course.
And I’ve really gotten into J N Chaney’s stuff. I cannot believe how many books he puts out. I swear I get an email about a new book from him like every week.
Scott Baron has a great sci-fi/fantasy series (it's actually 4 or 5 series together, I think) about magic, science, assassins, vampires, and aliens. It was a hell of a ride and worth reading. Stumbled on it accidentally and I'm so happy I did.
Big news! HYPERSCALE made the longlist for the FT/Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award.
They call it a “a polemical on-the-ground investigation into the rapid spread of data centres and their impact on the environment and the communities where Big Tech is building them.”
#tech #datacenters #ai #generativeai #artificialintelligence #reading #books
Hyperscale is on the longlist for the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026
FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026 — the longlist Hyperscale: Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires by Paris Marx is a polemical on-the-ground investigation into the rapid spread of data centres and their impact on the environment and the communities where Big Tech is building them. Due to be published in October, the book takes issue with AI developers’ hype and focuses on the people and places affected by their ambitious plans.
Big news! HYPERSCALE made the longlist for the FT/Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award.
They call it a “a polemical on-the-ground investigation into the rapid spread of data centres and their impact on the environment and the communities where Big Tech is building them.”
#tech #datacenters #ai #generativeai #artificialintelligence #reading #books
Hyperscale is on the longlist for the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026
FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026 — the longlist Hyperscale: Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires by Paris Marx is a polemical on-the-ground investigation into the rapid spread of data centres and their impact on the environment and the communities where Big Tech is building them. Due to be published in October, the book takes issue with AI developers’ hype and focuses on the people and places affected by their ambitious plans.
📚 My book review of The AI Con
The authors make a very clear argument against all merit of the current Media extrusion machines being peddled by Silicon Valley. The book lays it all out in all the details. Unfortunately it's not helpful in giving tools how to fight back, although that is to be expected. I higly recommend slapping the leadership of your organisation in the face with this book, or at the very least make them read it.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/the-ai-con
#BookReview #Books #Reading #GeneralClassification #Nonfiction #Politics #BusinessEconomics #TechnologySociety #InformationMediaStudies
Book cover of The AI Con
📚 My book review of The AI Con
The authors make a very clear argument against all merit of the current Media extrusion machines being peddled by Silicon Valley. The book lays it all out in all the details. Unfortunately it's not helpful in giving tools how to fight back, although that is to be expected. I higly recommend slapping the leadership of your organisation in the face with this book, or at the very least make them read it.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/the-ai-con
#BookReview #Books #Reading #GeneralClassification #Nonfiction #Politics #BusinessEconomics #TechnologySociety #InformationMediaStudies
Book cover of The AI Con
Libraries remain an essential service — even in the digital age and especially so as generative AI makes information online even less reliable.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Hannah Cyrus and Alison Macrina to discuss how libraries are helping patrons gain a critical view on tech and AI.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/338_librarians_are_helping_the_public_ditch_ai_w_hannah_cyrus__alison_macrina
#tech #library #libraries #books #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #politics
"Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile" still continues to sell well at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn—and they have the new edition with the "National Bestseller" label.
Get your copy and support independent booksellers!
https://www.communitybookstore.net/item/p5lAnqxqGBSkLw-hyjX0Pw
Yellow, white and black book cover of Life After Cars on bookshop bookshelf.
NEWS! We're returning to Hunter College on Nov 6 for a live show in celebration of the 1-year anniversary of the publication of LIFE AFTER CARS, plus a review of Mamdani's first 10 months in office. Featuring a very special guest, TBA!
Patreon presale coming soon:
Photo of Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear over purple graphic that says "Friday, November 6, 2026 The War on Cars Life at Hunter College" along with image of Life After Cars book cover and The War on Cars logo.
The better.boston instance hasn't been available for like a week, so here I am.
I post about #BostonMA, #RoxburyMA, #movies, #books, #bospoli, #bikelife and misc other things.
I'll be importing my follows, blocks, and mutes to try and get things rolling again.
#introduction
This old image made me think of every single book lover in the Fediverse 📚📖
A black and white photo of a book store called "Yesterday's Books" with "Any Book $1.00" On the first floor, is a big sign "BOOKS will turn you on!"
This is a Books-A-Million display, often curated to feature classic dystopian literature and "banned books". The top shelf showcases George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" alongside Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". Middle shelves feature works by Octavia E. Butler and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale". The bottom shelf includes "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury and "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown.
This is a Books-A-Million display, often curated to feature classic dystopian literature and "banned books". The top shelf showcases George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" alongside Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". Middle shelves feature works by Octavia E. Butler and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale". The bottom shelf includes "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury and "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown.
"Never forget that you are your own data center. Drink plenty of water and consume as much literature as possible."
And don't forget to burn… calories 😉
(source: unknown)
Picture of a statue assumed to show Confucius, with a text saying: "Never forget that you are your own data center. Drink plenty of water and consume as much literature as possible."
"Never forget that you are your own data center. Drink plenty of water and consume as much literature as possible."
And don't forget to burn… calories 😉
(source: unknown)
Picture of a statue assumed to show Confucius, with a text saying: "Never forget that you are your own data center. Drink plenty of water and consume as much literature as possible."
Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.
Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
CU of an industrial-size blade slicing through the spine of one old book after another.
This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.
Photo of a huge warehouse with rows and rows of tables covered in thousands of boxes of books.
This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.
Photo of a huge warehouse with rows and rows of tables covered in thousands of boxes of books.
Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.
Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
CU of an industrial-size blade slicing through the spine of one old book after another.
"Those who conceal from themselves this total freedom, under the guise of solemnity, or by making determinist excuses, I will call cowards."
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
#books #Philosophy #Existentialism #bookstodon
"Those who conceal from themselves this total freedom, under the guise of solemnity, or by making determinist excuses, I will call cowards."
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
#books #Philosophy #Existentialism #bookstodon
The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point.
HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20.
Preorder yours today: https://hyperscalebook.com
The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point.
HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20.
Preorder yours today: https://hyperscalebook.com
As wars destroyed schools and libraries across Italy, one Roman official began copying ancient books and helped save centuries of knowledge from disappearing
The Letters of Cassiodorus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18590
Frontispiece showing Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (seated opposite Theodoric), fol. 2r of Leiden ms. vul. 46 (Gesta Theodorici), Manuscript on vellum. 186 ff., 220 x 125 mm. Fulda, dated 1176/7. A medieval manuscript illustration labeled "Cassiodor. Senator" showing Cassiodorus seated on an ornate throne, wearing a cap and cloak, holding an open book inscribed with Latin text, with one hand raised in a gesture of instruction or address.
As wars destroyed schools and libraries across Italy, one Roman official began copying ancient books and helped save centuries of knowledge from disappearing
The Letters of Cassiodorus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18590
Frontispiece showing Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (seated opposite Theodoric), fol. 2r of Leiden ms. vul. 46 (Gesta Theodorici), Manuscript on vellum. 186 ff., 220 x 125 mm. Fulda, dated 1176/7. A medieval manuscript illustration labeled "Cassiodor. Senator" showing Cassiodorus seated on an ornate throne, wearing a cap and cloak, holding an open book inscribed with Latin text, with one hand raised in a gesture of instruction or address.
A minimalist black and white art print of a person immersed in a book, with the surrounding background composed solely of vertical lines resembling a bookshelf.
A minimalist black and white art print of a person immersed in a book, with the surrounding background composed solely of vertical lines resembling a bookshelf.
Look I’m on a legit #bookshelf !!! Right now there’s three of my #books at Morgan’s Books in Upland (https://www.morgansbooks.com) with one more coming in soon. AND don’t forget I’ll be doing a #nerdy #tarot event there on August 15!! More info coming soon ;)
A selfie in front of a bookstore shelf displaying various books, including one titled "Pursuit of Truth" by Sarah Wallin-Huff. A pink arrow and a cartoon shrimp sticker with the words "notice me" point toward the books.
There are a load of great tech books coming in the next few months. In the summer reading list, I suggest 16 books to consider — and give an update on what I’ve been reading.
https://disconnect.blog/a-critical-tech-reading-list-for-summer-2026/
disconnect.blog
16 books for you to consider bringing on your vacation
Anybody here who knows anything about book marketing? I mean real marketing, not writing a blurb and setting up a blog. I know how to do that.
Where do you send your blurb? Where do you announce your book? Where do you send review copies? Are there any book sales reps who work for independent authors? What else am I missing?
Anyone?
#fedihelp #marketing #books
@standardebooks The Horned Helmet by Henry Treece
I loved it so much my grade 4 teacher let me keep one of the books from the class set (they were all falling apart anyway)
This is that same copy she gave me, i've had this book almost 50 years
Image of the cover of a torn and batter old childrens' book with the lower part of an illustration of a viking
after discovering Trici Venola’s 1-bit art from the 80s, I was excited to learn that she was featured in (what became) an extremely obscure artist journal - Verbum. she got an entire chapter in the Verbum Book of Digital Painting, along with other exceptional macpaint artists such as Bert Monroy, Junko Hoshizawa, and Martin Speed among many others.
there are very few printed books on 80s pixel art, and i’m overjoyed that this one turned out to be equal parts technical/stylistic manual, and pixel art gallery.
the best part of the book are the step by step drawing demonstrations by each artist. you really get a sense for their method and practice.
The front cover of the verbum book of digital painting, by Michael Gosney, Linnea Dayton and Paul Goethel. It shows a violin that has been scanned and digitized in low bit colour and monochrome.
A page from the book, showing two pixel art intepretations of famous paintings: The Guernica and Melancholy and Mystery of a Street.
A pixel art composition by Hoshikawa: street-poet-ray. It is drawn as a pastiche of various objects.
A pixel art painting “a Door Somewhere” by Bert Monroe. It shows a door and window in a brickwork alley.
If you would like to purchase a copy of my photo book WILD VANCOUVER ISLAND for yourself or a nature and photography lover in your circle, my stock is getting low and I won't do a reprint once the book is sold out.
Take a look inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt6iX4w9S5w
Order a copy on my website. Worldwide shipping: https://www.catherinebabault.com/book/wild-vancouver-island-photo-book
Let me know if you'd like me to sign it or add a note. Thanks!
#bookstodon #books #photography #wildlife #nature #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia
Cover of my book with the title Wild Vancouver Island and my name Catherine Babault. The photo on the cover is a beautiful black bear standing on a sandstone boulder partially covered by yellow kelp. The bear stares at the photographer and fills up most of the photo.
If you would like to purchase a copy of my photo book WILD VANCOUVER ISLAND for yourself or a nature and photography lover in your circle, my stock is getting low and I won't do a reprint once the book is sold out.
Take a look inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt6iX4w9S5w
Order a copy on my website. Worldwide shipping: https://www.catherinebabault.com/book/wild-vancouver-island-photo-book
Let me know if you'd like me to sign it or add a note. Thanks!
#bookstodon #books #photography #wildlife #nature #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia
Cover of my book with the title Wild Vancouver Island and my name Catherine Babault. The photo on the cover is a beautiful black bear standing on a sandstone boulder partially covered by yellow kelp. The bear stares at the photographer and fills up most of the photo.
The 12 year old chose this #book for her report card which I am frankly just impressed with and now I want to borrow it off her.
Child holding up Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman.
Handbook of Climate Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: A Manual for Clinicians by Elizabeth Haase, 2026
The results of climate change--more frequent and intense storms, extreme heat, and prolonged wildfire seasons, among others--are leaving a wreckage of socioeconomic consequences for society and future generations. Increasingly, attention is shifting to the neuropsychiatric damage and emotional effects of the climate crisis, including traumas, anxiety, grief, and rage.
Although a number of books have been written in response, they have largely been aimed at the layperson; none have been written by physicians to support the day-to-day work of psychiatrists as they address these symptoms and struggles with their patients. The Handbook of Climate Psychiatry and Psychotherapy has been written to fill this gap, putting everything the mental health clinician needs to know in one place. It provides the science and guidance needed for the psychiatric and psychological response to climate change in a format accessible to office- or clinic-based mental health clinicians, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and allied professionals. Divided into four sections, this volume includes * An introduction to climate justice, and the ethics and public health activities of engaging climate change as a psychiatrist* An examination of the neuropsychiatric impacts of climate effects such as extreme heat, air pollution, vector-borne illness and food and water insecurity* Practical guidance on performing climate-informed patient assessments and psychotherapy interventions at individual and group levels * A review of the community, global, institutional, research, and educational aspects of climate psychiatry Designed for maximum utility for the busy clinician, this guide features compelling case vignettes, handy tables, and key points in each chapter. Readers will gain practical tools to assess and address each patient's symptoms and to foster the innate resilience that can lead to positive change.
#Celebrity news is mostly stupid because, like us, most #celebrities are stupid. But a few, like us, are awesome
#DuaLipa you're fucking awesome
"Dua Lipa Opening Physical #Library for #Banned and #Censored #Books"
“Here you will find one hundred books that ask questions, or have been questioned. Some have been banned by #school districts for themes of #race or #sexuality. Others, written for #LGBTQIA+ readers, have been restricted from display"
Dua Lipa holding books by Margaret Atwood
Woah
Take a look at this freaking library
😲😍
'The #ManifestoLibrary will be located in #LivrariaLello’s new cultural auditorium, designed by #PritzkerPrize-winning architect #ÁlvaroSiza. The #library has also been conceived “as a living cultural space for reading, debate and public reflection,” per a press release.'
A gorgeous set of stairs in a library, organic in shape and deep red
#Celebrity news is mostly stupid because, like us, most #celebrities are stupid. But a few, like us, are awesome
#DuaLipa you're fucking awesome
"Dua Lipa Opening Physical #Library for #Banned and #Censored #Books"
“Here you will find one hundred books that ask questions, or have been questioned. Some have been banned by #school districts for themes of #race or #sexuality. Others, written for #LGBTQIA+ readers, have been restricted from display"
Dua Lipa holding books by Margaret Atwood
Every American Knows the Declaration of Independence. Almost Nobody Knows the Woman Who Printed It
As Baltimore’s postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced the first official copy of the Declaration of Independence to include the signers’ names—and added her own.
by Meredith Herndon
The Declaration of Independence is our 1st ebook produced by Michael Hart and published by PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1
Goddard Broadside of the Declaration of Independence, with "Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard" at bottom. This is the Goddard Broadside, an early printed copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed by Mary Katharine Goddard in Baltimore, Maryland. It bears John Hancock's name prominently as President of Congress, with delegates' names organized by state (Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Katharine_Goddard#/media/File:Goddard_broadside.jpg
Every American Knows the Declaration of Independence. Almost Nobody Knows the Woman Who Printed It
As Baltimore’s postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced the first official copy of the Declaration of Independence to include the signers’ names—and added her own.
by Meredith Herndon
The Declaration of Independence is our 1st ebook produced by Michael Hart and published by PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1
Goddard Broadside of the Declaration of Independence, with "Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard" at bottom. This is the Goddard Broadside, an early printed copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed by Mary Katharine Goddard in Baltimore, Maryland. It bears John Hancock's name prominently as President of Congress, with delegates' names organized by state (Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Katharine_Goddard#/media/File:Goddard_broadside.jpg
It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop through June 26. Order LIFE AFTER CARS and score free shipping all the while supporting independent booksellers, not billionaires.
It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop through June 26. Order LIFE AFTER CARS and score free shipping all the while supporting independent booksellers, not billionaires.
This is a thread of chapters from my novel #AFutureWeChose about what happens after #Communism wins it’s a #Vegan #MarxistLeninist #Landback tale about a boy who wakes up in the body of a man, to a future and family he didn’t even know he had. #Books #bookstodon #Reading #ReadRevolutionary and it comes to you free each week if you sign up for the free newsletter, so… there are reasons.
veganism.social
I’ve been writing a story, I’m gonna try and put a chapter here a week, go check it out, please and thank you. https://wilson-reads.ghost.io/prologue/
I’ve been writing a story, I’m gonna try and put a chapter here a week, go check it out, please and thank you.
https://wilson-reads.ghost.io/prologue/
wilson-reads.ghost.io
We returned the land to its original stewards and watched as everything the “people” in power before said was impossible happen. The worst part of all of it was that we waited so long and lost so many. It felt like we had finally awoke from a collective nightmare. Turns
With 100 Follower a short reintroduction
Interests:
#Videogames
#gaymer
#books
#music
#photography
#swimming
#gym
I'm gay, mid 30ies and married. I mostly post stuff of the daily life. Things I find when I am out and about.
I like about Mastodon that there are so many different topics to talk about. People are relatively open minded.
What I dont like about Mastodon is that sometimes it feels isolated. People dont interact much. Be more talkative 😄
So in this spirit #AMA (ask me anything)
Neuroscientists discover previously unknown cognitive benefits of reading physical books
psypost.org
A new study reveals that reading comic books on physical paper reduces the brain's workload compared to digital tablets. Brain scans show that paper provides sensory cues that make it easier to mentally organize and remember story details.
Neuroscientists discover previously unknown cognitive benefits of reading physical books
psypost.org
A new study reveals that reading comic books on physical paper reduces the brain's workload compared to digital tablets. Brain scans show that paper provides sensory cues that make it easier to mentally organize and remember story details.
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought
Tom Zoellner on the Antebellum Precedent of Trump-Era Censorship
A group of escaped slaves who have sought refuge at Fort Monroe during the American Civil War. There are seven them in various dress. They are standing in front of a low building and barn.
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought
Tom Zoellner on the Antebellum Precedent of Trump-Era Censorship
A group of escaped slaves who have sought refuge at Fort Monroe during the American Civil War. There are seven them in various dress. They are standing in front of a low building and barn.
Yesterday I found a good-as-new clothbound copy of Moby-Dick for a mere £7. It's a classic, but it's also a book I (briefly) mention in my own as just one example of works of literature in which the author shows their knowledge of & interest in mathematics.
What's your favourite example of maths in literature?
A clothbound hardback edition of Moby-Dick stands upright on a weathered turquoise metal table outdoors. The deep navy-blue cover is decorated with a repeating pattern of white whale silhouettes and harpoon-like arrows, with the title at the top and “Herman Melville” at the bottom. The book is photographed at a slight angle, making it appear almost monumental despite its ordinary size. Behind it, the background falls softly out of focus: a dark doorway, a bright green chair, and hints of garden furniture beneath a cloudy sky. The striking contrast between the rich blue cover and the vivid turquoise table gives the image a fresh, nautical feel that echoes the novel’s maritime themes.
Yesterday I found a good-as-new clothbound copy of Moby-Dick for a mere £7. It's a classic, but it's also a book I (briefly) mention in my own as just one example of works of literature in which the author shows their knowledge of & interest in mathematics.
What's your favourite example of maths in literature?
A clothbound hardback edition of Moby-Dick stands upright on a weathered turquoise metal table outdoors. The deep navy-blue cover is decorated with a repeating pattern of white whale silhouettes and harpoon-like arrows, with the title at the top and “Herman Melville” at the bottom. The book is photographed at a slight angle, making it appear almost monumental despite its ordinary size. Behind it, the background falls softly out of focus: a dark doorway, a bright green chair, and hints of garden furniture beneath a cloudy sky. The striking contrast between the rich blue cover and the vivid turquoise table gives the image a fresh, nautical feel that echoes the novel’s maritime themes.
Game Boy: The Box Art Collection
From Batman to Bomber Man, Zelda to ZOOP, the Game Boy boasted every type of genre. Remind yourself of the games you owned, and discover some you’ve never heard of, in Game Boy: The Box Art Collection.
Out now: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/game-boy-the-box-art-collection
#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #gaming #gameboy #bookstodon
The Games That Weren’t
Chronicles 40 years of video game projects that never made it past ‘work-in-progress’. Discover more than 80 unreleased gems from the annals of gaming.
Reprints due 17th June, get a stock alert: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/the-games-that-werent
The Games That Weren’t
Chronicles 40 years of video game projects that never made it past ‘work-in-progress’. Discover more than 80 unreleased gems from the annals of gaming.
Reprints due 17th June, get a stock alert: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/the-games-that-werent
Game Boy: The Box Art Collection
From Batman to Bomber Man, Zelda to ZOOP, the Game Boy boasted every type of genre. Remind yourself of the games you owned, and discover some you’ve never heard of, in Game Boy: The Box Art Collection.
Out now: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/game-boy-the-box-art-collection
#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #gaming #gameboy #bookstodon
"'Well, we’re dated!' the wife complains to her husband. 'That abstractionist next door built his house in space-time.'"
Gabriele Neri for The MIT Press Reader: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cartoonist-who-mocked-the-madness-of-modernism/
#Longreads #Architecture #Books #Cartoon #Art #Artists #Modernism #Criticism
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged.
Sarah Wynn-Williams was prevented from speaking at the Hay Festival of Literature because of an injunction by Meta. The author of the bestselling memoir "Careless People" sat in silence on stage with academic Tim Wu and journalist Carole Cadwalladr during panel "The Power of Tech." She faces a fine of $50,000 every time she promotes her book. "Careless People" discusses the workplace culture and political influence of Facebook during her seven years at the company, as well as her sexual harassment complaint against her boss Joel Kaplan, for which she says she was fired. Here's more from @BBCNews.
bbc.com
Sarah Wynn-Williams can't promote her tell-all memoir about Facebook due to ongoing court action.
Sarah Wynn-Williams was prevented from speaking at the Hay Festival of Literature because of an injunction by Meta. The author of the bestselling memoir "Careless People" sat in silence on stage with academic Tim Wu and journalist Carole Cadwalladr during panel "The Power of Tech." She faces a fine of $50,000 every time she promotes her book. "Careless People" discusses the workplace culture and political influence of Facebook during her seven years at the company, as well as her sexual harassment complaint against her boss Joel Kaplan, for which she says she was fired. Here's more from @BBCNews.
bbc.com
Sarah Wynn-Williams can't promote her tell-all memoir about Facebook due to ongoing court action.
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge: Book 17 of 2026: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Reading this for the first time in 2026, it’s fascinating to see where we’re heading towards what Vinge envisioned and where we’re not.
Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org
PLUS!! If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror, there is a special
@Locusmag festival for the Locus Awards on Friday and Saturday during BABF, so be sure to check that out too! https://locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards-weekend/
locusmag.com
Schedule | Buy Membership | Additional Info Join us this May in Berkeley CA to celebrate the finest in science fiction, fantasy, and horror at the Locus Awards! Locus is thrilled to announce that three of the field’s fabulously talented and award-winning authors, Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Nnedi Okorafor, will be headlining the 2026 Locus Awards as Guests of Honor this May. Bestselling novelists Due (The Reformatory), Jones …Read More
🚨 Mutual aid checkpoint 29 MAY 2026 🚨 #mutualaidspace
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"I like this notion that the outside seeps in, I like the vulnerability that it allows, indeed forces us to acknowledge: we are made by what we swim inside."
An Orion conversation 🐟 with Lars Horn, Sabrina Imbler, Lulu Miller, and Joseph Osmundson: https://orionmagazine.org/article/why-are-fish-so-gay
#Longreads #Conversation #Writers #Science #Ocean #Sea #MarineLife #SeaLife #Queer #Books
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A conversation about finding community in the aquatic
When you see a technical book is in hardcover, what does that convey to you?
Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org
PLUS!! If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror, there is a special
@Locusmag festival for the Locus Awards on Friday and Saturday during BABF, so be sure to check that out too! https://locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards-weekend/
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Schedule | Buy Membership | Additional Info Join us this May in Berkeley CA to celebrate the finest in science fiction, fantasy, and horror at the Locus Awards! Locus is thrilled to announce that three of the field’s fabulously talented and award-winning authors, Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Nnedi Okorafor, will be headlining the 2026 Locus Awards as Guests of Honor this May. Bestselling novelists Due (The Reformatory), Jones …Read More
If you're interested in using the Fediverse's reading platform BookWyrm, you can import your existing data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. More info on how to do the import into BookWyrm in this guide:
If you want to find out more about BookWyrm, there's a general guide to it here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
#FediTips #BookWyrm #Books #Reading #Goodreads #LibraryThing #StoryGraph #OpenLibrary #Alternatives #Fediverse
fedi.tips
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
One of the most gothtastic places must be Whitby. Its famous 199 steps are flanked with what appear to be benches. They are actually coffin rests, enabling those carrying caskets up to the clifftop St Mary's Church to take a break. In 'Dracula', the Count runs up these steps in the form of a huge dog, before killing his first English victim in the churchyard. This scene may be based on local legends of a phantom black dog that haunts the moors around the town. #FolkloreSunday #gothic #folklore #goth #literature #vampire #vampires #history #death #Yorkshire #weird #books
Whitby's famous steps, photographed under a blue sky looking out to sea. A lamppost is in the foreground, opposite a coffin rest.
As my days are absorbed in edits, now’s a great time to read my first book ahead of the next release!
#CrownOfHorns is a political fantasy (think 1984 meets The Witcher). Art and ingenuity are all that stand in the way as a nation descends into tyranny.
Inspired by history and myth of Ukraine, every sale means a donation to the Canada-Ukraine foundation, with $2000 raised last year.
Check out https://www.crownofhorns.com
Available through most booksellers in paper, ebook, and audiobook.
#books
A stack of books. The book in question? Crown of Horns written by F. David Schultz and illustrated by Audra Balion. The cover features a sharp, goat-eyed woman glowering at the reader, with bright red paint streaked across her face.
A bespectacled woman in traditional Ukrainian clothes reads Crown of Horns.
The Squid Pope poses behind a stack of Crown of Horns. Yes, the Squid Pope. A jolly fellow with a big red squid hat, a white cape, and a staff.
A fellow in a Phantom of the Opera hat holds up a copy of Crown of Horns.
My Partner's graphic novel APOCALYPSE BABY just had its official press release which means
I'M ALLOWED TO GUSH ABOUT IT
and tell you all to GO PREORDER IT!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
If you like:
ZOMBIES
GAYNESS
AUTISM
ROMANCE
FUN
COMEDY
EPIC FIGHT SCENES
AMAZING ARTWORK
CUTENESS
this book is for YOU!
Available from all good bookstores!
Including this one!
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-baby-anna-penn/56fe6b983b125c6c?ean=9780702340482&next=t
#books #bookstodon #graphicnovels #comics #zombies #novels #autism #lgbtq #horror #romance #fiction #yafiction
I thought about chatting about the Guardian 100 best novels of all time list https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time, because this used to be a fun way to have conversations about books & "classics" in particular (& I very often like "classics").
But instead, I'm annoyed that it's once again so anglo-centric and I don't want to talk about books written in English.
So: tell me about books that should be on this list thay weren't originally written in English!
Mine below ⬇️
theguardian.com
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
I’m looking for a few more beta testers for Readtivity before launch — a reading activity tracker focused on goals, stats, and building better reading habits
mastodon.social
A side project I have been working and my first app, is currently available in beta. It is a reading activity tracking app, called Readtivity. The aim of the app is to help people track books they are reading and also help encourage reading with goals and stats. If you’re interested in testing it here is the invite link. https://testflight.apple.com/join/tPJZwmQe
A side project I have been working and my first app, is currently available in beta.
It is a reading activity tracking app, called Readtivity. The aim of the app is to help people track books they are reading and also help encourage reading with goals and stats.
If you’re interested in testing it here is the invite link.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/tPJZwmQe
testflight.apple.com
Available on iOS
I’m looking for a few more beta testers for Readtivity before launch — a reading activity tracker focused on goals, stats, and building better reading habits
mastodon.social
A side project I have been working and my first app, is currently available in beta. It is a reading activity tracking app, called Readtivity. The aim of the app is to help people track books they are reading and also help encourage reading with goals and stats. If you’re interested in testing it here is the invite link. https://testflight.apple.com/join/tPJZwmQe
A side project I have been working and my first app, is currently available in beta.
It is a reading activity tracking app, called Readtivity. The aim of the app is to help people track books they are reading and also help encourage reading with goals and stats.
If you’re interested in testing it here is the invite link.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/tPJZwmQe
testflight.apple.com
Available on iOS
> Christians deny BDSM’s historic link to spirituality. Now a queer author is exposing it. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/christians-deny-bdsms-historic-link-to-spirituality-so-a-queer-author-is-writing-a-book-about-it/
#BDSM is not necessarily my thing, but this new book and work sounds intriguing.
#spirituality #LGBTQ #books #reading #fetish #erotica #TBR #Bookstodon
> Christians deny BDSM’s historic link to spirituality. Now a queer author is exposing it. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/christians-deny-bdsms-historic-link-to-spirituality-so-a-queer-author-is-writing-a-book-about-it/
#BDSM is not necessarily my thing, but this new book and work sounds intriguing.
#spirituality #LGBTQ #books #reading #fetish #erotica #TBR #Bookstodon
Good M🌞rning, Grace!
There's a book 📖 called "The best museum in the world" which I'm really enjoying! It invites you to visit a printed universal museum, and guides you on visited tours like in a physical one ;) pretty original, right?✨️ ☺️
https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-el-mejor-museo-del-mundo/9781838663650/12485183
casadellibro.com
El libro infantil EL MEJOR MUSEO DEL MUNDO en Casa del Libro: ¡descubre las mejores ofertas y envíos gratis!
Of the top 20 #books on The Guardian's 100 Best #Novels list, I've read Nineteen Eighty-Four (*in* 1984, for 8th grade English class), Moby-Dick, and The Great Gatsby. I *think* I read Mrs. Dalloway in school but I don't remember it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
theguardian.com
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
@vicgrinberg As a classic from the 18./19. century maybe Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" also. The quintessential Bildungsroman.
It it, Goethe als seems, as the first person, to announce the existence of an ice age.
See/listen (German) to
https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/da32522c/episode/d4a560f1.mp3?t=1708710579
from @MAnhaeuser
@vicgrinberg I don't read the Guardian but I'd guess that Vassily Grossman's 'Stalingrad', Claude Simon's 'Triptych' or Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Mandarins' aren't on the list #bookstodon #books
I thought about chatting about the Guardian 100 best novels of all time list https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time, because this used to be a fun way to have conversations about books & "classics" in particular (& I very often like "classics").
But instead, I'm annoyed that it's once again so anglo-centric and I don't want to talk about books written in English.
So: tell me about books that should be on this list thay weren't originally written in English!
Mine below ⬇️
theguardian.com
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
Of the next 20 #books on The Guardian's 100 Best #Novels list, I've read "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Things Fall Apart", both of which I highly recommend.
theguardian.com
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
Next 20 #books on The Guardian's 100 Best #Novels list are out. Of these the one I'm positive I've read (and more than once) is Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Available on @gutenberg_org :
gutenberg.org
Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads
thesmallbow.com
Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.
Of the next 20 #books on The Guardian's 100 Best #Novels list, I've read The Color Purple. I also saw the 1985 film (which I loved, and can't watch without bawling my eyes out) and the 2023 film (which I didn't care for; the musical it was based on might be better, but I haven't seen it).
theguardian.com
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
Good to see The Left Hand of Darkness by my favorite author, Ursula K. Le Guin, on The Guardian's 100 Best Novels list. I took my last name from that book.
theguardian.com
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
UPDATE 12-May-2026 07:30 UTC+7.
355/560 — 205 left to reach the goal for May, in less than 4 days 🥹 I appreciate all kinds of distribution, really. I do really need help.
Monthly support helps create a bit more stability, especially as a disabled person navigating life without fixed income or healthcare, but one-off support still makes a real difference.
If financial support isn’t possible, boosting this post helps extend its reach.
Your support helps sustain both my survival and the mutual-aid, writing, and advocacy work I continue to do across borders with others.
Thank you, thank you
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UPDATE 11-May-2026 10:55 UTC+7.
353/560 — 207 left to reach the goal for May, in less than 5 days.
Monthly pledges help ease the instability that comes with disability and having no fixed income or healthcare, though one-off support also helps immensely.
Small contributions add up toward the essentials that keep me afloat: food, bills, and internet access.
If direct support isn’t possible, please consider amplifying this post.
This support helps me stay connected, survive, and continue participating in mutual aid and political work that reaches beyond borders.
Thank you, thank you
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Meant to post this earlier:
May is my birth month, and this year, I'm turning 40! 🥳
To celebrate, I'd LOVE to sell 40 books.
I have five to choose from: four in my complete romantic fantasy series, and—if you prefer something short and fun—one middle grade adventure story (not just for kids)! I'll put the details in the comments.
Please boost and share so that I have the best chance of making this milestone birthday wish come true! Thank you! 🥰 🙏
A graphic showing all of my published books. The top show The Way of the Wielder series, books 1–4. From left to right: –The Way of the Wielder –Mysteries of the Material –Convergence of Connection –After the Awakening The bottom shows my middle grade story, Mission Aboard the Longfin.
No movement so far. I still need $212 to cover the total of $560 for this month. The deadline is fast approaching :')
I'm disabled without a fixed income or healthcare. Support helps me stay connected and continue my work in mutual aid, political writing, and advocacy.
If you have the capacity, I appreciate any support. If not, please help amplify this far and wide. Thank you, thank you
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"I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! https://longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-barnett-childrens-books-make-believe/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads
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"When we read, we make believe. We aren’t duped or ensorcelled. Deep down we decide. We make ourselves believe."
A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory 📚
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books
A photo of a library in the tunnels in Turkey
A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory 📚
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books
A photo of a library in the tunnels in Turkey
25. The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
26. The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters
More easy read books while I was on my hike. So nice I can read books on my phone from the library, certainly very handy when you're on a long walk.
#amreading #reading #books
18. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
19. What Could Possibly Go Wrong by Jodi Taylor
20. Lies, Damned Lies, and History by Jodi Taylor
21. And the Rest is History by Jodi Taylor
22. A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
23. An Argumentation of Historians by Jodi Taylor
24. No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor
I read the first couple of books in the Chronicles of St Mary's series years and years ago and had completely forgotten about them until I was looking for some lighter reads following Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I forgot how much fun these books are and just binge-read a whole bunch of them on my phone courtesy of the Hampshire County Council Library.
#amreading #reading #books
UPDATE 4-MAY-2026 18:23 UTC+7
348/560 — $212 left to cover May essentials.
Thank you to everyone who’s contributed so far 🙂↕️
I’m disabled with no healthcare or fixed income, and I need ongoing support to stay afloat.
If you can spare at least $5/month, it would make a real difference.
If you prefer one-off support, that helps just as much.
Please help amplify this so it reaches more people. Thank you, truly.
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Five Good Books about Mental Illness. As a parent and caregiver for an adult living with a serious psychiatric illness, I have read a lot about the subject. Here are my five favorite books about psychiatric illness.
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (1996) by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD. The best memoir about living with a serious mental illness and the best book overall that I have read about mental illness, in this case bipolar disorder. Fine literature written by a brilliant author who earned a PhD in psychology and has been awarded about a dozen honorary doctorates. It is inspirational.
The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill (1995) by Gerald Grob, PhD. The author was a medical historian who wrote this balanced and objective book about the history of psychiatry. It includes the good and the bad. Despite the unfortunate title, this is a great non-fiction book about the history of psychiatry in the USA.
We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication (2010) by Judith Warner. This book, written by a journalist, was originally intended to be a critique of psychiatry and the parents of children with mental illnesses. But as the author met families and did her research, she changed her mind and wrote a balanced book about parents trying to help their children. As the author points out, we parents are not eager to put our children on psychiatric medications; in fact the opposite is true.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of An American Family (2020) by Robert Kolker. This biography was written by a journalist about the lives of a large family with twelve children, six of whom were eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia. It is intense and disturbing, as is living with schizophrenia. It is not an encouraging or feel-good book.
Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (2018) by Kevin Mitchell, PhD. This book by a neuroscientist is more broadly about neuroscience, rather than specifically about mental illness. But the author addresses serious mental illness and the state of our knowledge about possible underlying causes of it as a developmental disorder. This book focuses on modern scientific evidence, rather than assumptions and the blame game often associated with attitudes about mental illnesses.
#Books #Bookstodon #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #Caregiving #Disability #Schizophrenia #Neuroscience
In April 2026, I finished reading 8 books. I'm now caught up on the #DungeonCrawlerCarl series and awaiting the next book on May 12. And still making progress on #Spellmonger. I didn't realize just how many books there would be when I started (19 and counting!? plus several anthologies and two side trilogies). My roomie opted to read the trilogies in story order, but I'm skipping the side quests for now. I want to know what happens!
My #nonfiction selection for April was the audiobook version of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick. I needed something lighter, and that fit the bill. I added a couple of her movies I haven't seen to my watch list. And I think I'll watch Into The Woods again. Boy, do I hate Annie, though.
An April 2026 Reading Calendar for @djtoebeans showing the covers of books on the dates they were finished. Each cover is outlined in a different color, and a line of that color stretches horizontally across each date where progress was made on that book. Below the calendar, the book covers are shown with their star ratings (out of 5) underneath. The number of pages read each day is shown in the bottom right corner of each square, with a trophy icon denoting that the most pages read in a day was 299 pages on the 20th. Every date has a number, the lowest being 55 pages on the 26th. 04 Apr - Thaumaturge by Terry Mancour - 4.0 stars 05 Apr - The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman - 5.0 stars 14 Apr - The Road to Sevendor by Terry Mancour - 3.5 stars 15 Apr - This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman - 5.0 stars 20 Apr - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick - 5.0 stars 22 Apr - Arcanist by Terry Mancour - 4.0 stars 27 Apr - The Wizards of Sevendor by Terry Mancour - 4.0 stars 28 Apr - City of Bones by Martha Wells - 3.5 stars Reading - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Reading - Footwizard by Terry Mancour
"We have been raised on films that end with cathartic tears and hugs, and promises never to hurt each other again. In real life, that’s not where most of my friends are with their mothers."
Rebecca Liu for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/28/asian-mothers-bad-feelings-tiger-mom-stereotype
#Longreads #Essay #Mothers #Chinese #Asian #Parents #Diaspora #Film #Literature #Books
theguardian.com
The long read: A certain image of the tiger mom – strict, cold and demanding – is ubiquitous in popular culture. Why?
wide-angle view down a quiet library aisle lined with tall wooden bookshelves
"These books have not passed through a human; they remain ignorant of culture and society." —Sally O'Reilly for Cabinet Magazine https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/oreilly2.php?src=longreads #literature #grayliterature #books #publishing #ai #artificialintelligence #longreads
cabinetmagazine.org
On gray literature and Webster’s Timeline History books
wide-angle view down a quiet library aisle lined with tall wooden bookshelves
MAY ESSENTIALS $560 DEADLINE 16/05/2026
I need to cover $560 for groceries, utilities, internet, and basic necessities after an April shortfall carried into May.
April’s goal was $625, but only $440 was met.
The minimum for April was $375, but only $190 was received for April essentials. The rest covered overdue March costs and groceries for the first weeks of April.
The remaining $185 groceries gap now carries into May.
🗒️ Breakdown:
$185 April groceries gap
$375 May basics
• $250 groceries
• $90 utilities + water
• $35 internet + phone data
If you’re able to help, please support today through the link in bio or by scanning the QR code. Monthly pledges are especially helpful due to disability and the constraints that come with it, but one-off support also helps greatly.
Even small contributions make a real difference toward food, bills, and staying connected online.
Sharing this post also helps greatly if financial support is not possible.
This support helps keep me fed, connected, and able to continue sustaining a global mutual-aid network with comrades organising across borders.
Every bit helps keep it going. Thank you.
Updates will be posted on the website and fediverse @posts
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I read the 2¼ novels making up the new series “The Captive’s War” by “James S.A. Corey” i.e. Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham. They’re most famous for “The Expanse” and while so far I’m not enjoying this series as much, I think it’s on a good trajectory.
More: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/04/26/Coreys-Captives
tbray.org
A library is telling patrons how much money they save by going to the library
#Books #Library #Reading #Receipt
A receipt with yellow circles A LIBRARY IS TELLING PATRONS HOW MUCH MONEY THEY SAVE BY GOING TO THE LIBRARY. Title: Happiness Due: 06/30/2018 Total items: 5 You just saved $112.89 by using your library. You have saved $1,438.98 this past year! Thank You! Reddit/u/ne330205 dose
A library is telling patrons how much money they save by going to the library
#Books #Library #Reading #Receipt
A receipt with yellow circles A LIBRARY IS TELLING PATRONS HOW MUCH MONEY THEY SAVE BY GOING TO THE LIBRARY. Title: Happiness Due: 06/30/2018 Total items: 5 You just saved $112.89 by using your library. You have saved $1,438.98 this past year! Thank You! Reddit/u/ne330205 dose
Review: Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui
> I thought Aicha was a better than average debut. The book did a fairly good job at developing its main character and kept a tight focus on her story and the world around her. Thematically, this focus was also to its benefit, giving the book a good sense of progression in the form of the pot of anti-colonial violence slowly boiling until it spills over.
https://nullrouted.space/2026/04/25/review-aicha-by-soraya-bouazzaoui/
If you enjoyed reading this book review, please boost this post and perhaps consider buying me a book.
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Review: Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
> Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter was fine. It was a very light and easy read and it was exactly the kind of palate cleanser I needed after my last book. I ended up finishing it in one day. I loved most of the characters, especially Agnes and her cats and the setting. However the romance subplot felt very much undercooked and I had rather the book spend more time exploring the very interesting magic system it presented.
https://nullrouted.space/2026/04/22/review-agnes-auberts-mystical-cat-shelter-by-heather-fawcett/
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OK, here is what you make it, use hashtags to find people with interests, follow any and all that seem like fun, you can always unfollow. And jump in or send an emoji in reply. The more you follow the fuller your feed and you can thin it down later if you need to.
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I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm
It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.
The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
#socialReading #reading #bookworm #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #bookworms #bibliophile #bibliophiles #bibliophilia #book
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I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm
It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.
The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
#socialReading #reading #bookworm #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #bookworms #bibliophile #bibliophiles #bibliophilia #book
Review: The Book of Fallen Leaves by A. S. Tamaki
> The Book of Fallen Leaves was a disappointment. I really wanted to like this book, the premise and the setting was very much up my alley but the execution left much to be desired.
https://nullrouted.space/2026/04/18/review-the-book-of-fallen-leaves-by-a-s-tamaki/
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Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
BookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
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BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.
I'm helping to launch Andy Southall's new science fiction novel "Perfect World" - the third book in his science fiction trilogy - at 3pm on Sunday 17th May at Johnsonville Community Centre, Wellington.
Check out more about the book and the trilogy on Andy's website, https://andy-southall.com/
Hope you'll come along to the launch!
@bookstodon #Johnsonville #Waitohi #Wellington #books #booklaunch #nzbooks #ScienceFiction
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Hi Mastodon,
I'm a PhD candidate in #philosophy at the #UniversityOfHelsinki , focusing on #metaphysics, #ontology, #processphilosophy and philosophy of #biology. I also study #theology , in which I'm most interested in philosophy of religion, #processtheology , the relationship between science and religion, and the role of #religion in matters of conflict and #peace.
I'm looking forward to share things & have conversations about #research in my fields, but also about
- #books (I read #nonfiction #scifi and #specfic the most)
- #antimilitarism , #nuclearban , #nucleardisarmament
- #pedagogy (since I occasionally work in #education )
- #games: #videogames, #boardgames & #tcg
- #movies
- #birds
Let me know if you are tooting (:D) about any of these things!
Life After Cars offers "an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years. Just close your eyes and think for a second what it would feel like to never have to think about how much gas costs again."
https://www.jalopnik.com/2144859/life-after-cars-book-review/
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The changes Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon argue for offer an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years.
Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/ 📚 #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks #eReader #Books #Reading #Tech #Jailbreak
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You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
Review: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
"The Memory Police was technically fine. It did a more than adequate job of portraying a bleak dystopian world with its plot and character interactions. However, its use of unnamed characters and occasionally sterile prose left me feeling disconnected from the overarching narrative and at the end of it I didn’t come away feeling particular strongly about any of it."
https://nullrouted.space/2026/04/14/review-the-memory-police-by-yoko-ogawa/
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
#classicliterature #books #reading #ebooks #writing #penandink
Life After Cars offers "an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years. Just close your eyes and think for a second what it would feel like to never have to think about how much gas costs again."
https://www.jalopnik.com/2144859/life-after-cars-book-review/
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The changes Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon argue for offer an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years.
Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/ 📚 #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks #eReader #Books #Reading #Tech #Jailbreak
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You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
Review: Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
"Seasons of Glass and Iron was a lovely read. Not only was it a more than adequate as a palate cleanser, it also delivered more of Amal El-Mohtar's beautiful writing in the form of poignant short stories and poetry. This book was short, sweet and packed an emotional punch."
https://nullrouted.space/2026/04/11/review-seasons-of-glass-and-iron-by-amal-el-mohtar/
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I’ve been carrying a voluntary mutual aid infrastructure project (Mutual Aid Hub) while using my platforms to push anti-imperial analysis and sustain it through whatever freelance work my disability allows. But that model has become unsustainable. For health reasons, I’ve shifted entirely to developing the Hub and offering my take when my nervous system allows.
Full transparency and the new support structure are here:
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Hi everyone! I’m John, a GenX physicist who invented laser technologies to detect diseases using exhaled breath, as well as some holographic technologies for augmented reality. But the best part of my work has been mentoring young scientists, engineers, and founders. Nowadays I live near some of the best beaches in Atlantic Canada. Interested in science, health, music, art, photography, books, biking, and D&D. On Mastodon since 2022. #introduction #physics #science #Canada #founder #books #DnD
According to #StoryGraph, I mainly read #fiction books that are adventurous, dark, and mysterious. I especially love #fantasy and #scifi, but I also enjoy mysteries, thrillers, and romance.
Some of my favorite authors are Anne McCaffrey, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Brandon Sanderson, Robert R. McCammon, David Sedaris, and Diana Gabaldon.
Series and titles I love include The Talisman, Mistborn, Discworld, Outlander, Dragonriders of Pern, Wheel of Time, Murderbot Diaries, Earthseed, and Memoirs of a Geisha. Currently enjoying the Dungeon Crawler Carl and Spellmonger series.
"Ideas and turns of phrase shake loose on a long run. It’s thrilling."
In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, New Yorker staff writer and LONDON FALLING author Patrick Radden Keefe shares what he's reading, where he does his best thinking, and more.
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The New Yorker staff writer and author of the new book London Falling on running, writing in the morning, a life-changing childhood trip, and more.
Review: The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
"The Red Winter was an incredibly good read. A well written story about power, monstrosity, and love that once it had gripped me in its talons, I didn’t want it to let go. I enjoyed everything about this book, the narrative, the characters, the fantasy world, and most of all the tragic love story. This is one of those books where I felt a bit sad after I finished it because I wanted to live in the world it had created for just a bit longer."
https://nullrouted.space/2026/04/07/review-the-red-winter-by-cameron-sullivan/
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I loved reading OverLondon by George Penney and Tony Johnson. The first chapter was a bit overwhelming: it’s a highly original world and a lot to take in, but after that, I couldn’t stop reading. It’s simultaneously very funny and engaging, with some light societal satire on the side. If you’re into goat-pulled carriages, life-extending barnacles, priests who bless with the sign of the pound, and a swashbuckling pirate who makes it Reign—this is your next read!
P.S.: @georgepenney shares *the loveliest* vignettes of market days in New Zealand on her Fedi account. You won't regret following her!
#Books #AmReading #BookReview #Bookstodon #OverLondon
17. Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
These little books have rapidly become my comfort reads. I used to read them decades ago and it's so nice to revisit them. There is some history, some intrigue, a little murder and a lovable Benedictine monk; what's not to love?
16. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Another book that was highly recommended to me by several people and that just didn't live up to the hype. I found it very dense and slow going for most of the book and the pretence that this was some sort of accurate historical tome (complete with footnotes) became grating after a while. I did finish it though.
Hello again, everyone,
I'm here for art, fact based news and science related posts. My interests include tech, music, literature and natural sciences (share those blooms, wildlife and pet pictures!)
Not a developer, but I have been coding more often thanks to LLM assistance, so I've started posting work to GitHub and have shared the link.
Take care, and be good to each other.
Outro...
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Ch. 2 The Incident Danny learns more about what happened to him… and the world around him now that he’s awake… sometimes. #Book #Books #Read https://wilson-reads.ghost.io/the-incident/
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“Well…” she begins. “The party you’re thinking of was your birthday party, the big one seven, the noises you describe were explosions, Mom and Dad hid you in a closet, because the explosion was tearing the roller ring apart and they hoped you’d be safe there, it turns
Anyone reading anything spooky?
An etching depicting the narrator from the Raven and those Fantastic Terrors!
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me-tilled me with fantastic terrors never felt betore; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating"Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;- This it is, and nothing more." From "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, best-selling author R. O. Kwon shares what she's reading these days, the word she overused in her first novel, and more.
https://longreads.com/2026/04/01/questionnaire-r-o-kwon/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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The author of The Incendiaries and Exhibit on the bed as refuge, the power of movement and exercise, a life of writing, and more.
"I come home that night empty-handed. No Yellow Bird. Not in the national libraries or in the cracked bookstores on Donceles or in the vaults of Morton Subastas."
Geoffrey Gray for Alta Journal: https://www.altaonline.com/books/a70453082/joaquin-murieta-yellow-bird-zamorano-80/
#Longreads #California #Books #RareBooks #Collecting #History #Libraries #Mexico #Reading
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Collectors have been tracking an 1854 outlaw tale from gold rush San Francisco to the alleys of Mexico City—and beyond. We join the hunt.
I finished 9 books in March 2026. Still enjoying and making progress on the #Spellmonger and #DungeonCrawlerCarl series. Both have a lot of books, and they're on the longer side. My roomie is also listening to the Spellmonger books and had spoiled a few minor things for me when they were ahead. I have now passed them by roughly two books, to my estimation. 🎉
My #nonfiction book this month was James Nestor's Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which I listened to sped up. It was fascinating and kind of blew my mind a little bit. I highly recommend it, especially for anyone suffering from sleep apnea and/or crooked teeth. (CW: medical procedures, animal testing, and a passing mention of cannibalism.)
A March 2026 Reading Calendar for @djtoebeans showing the covers of books on the dates they were finished. Each cover is outlined in a different color, and a line of that color stretches horizontally across each date where progress was made on that book. Below the calendar, the book covers are shown with their star ratings (out of 5) underneath. The number of pages read each day is shown in the bottom right corner of each square, with a trophy icon denoting that the most pages read in a day was 363 pages on the 23rd. Every date has a number, the lowest being 37 pages on the 24th. 03 Mar - The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman - 4.5 stars 05 Mar - Enchanter by Terry Mancour - 4.0 stars 09 Mar - Court Wizard by Terry Mancour - 3.0 stars 13 Mar - The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman - 4.5 stars 15 Mar - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor - 5.0 stars 16 Mar - Shadowmage by Terry Mancour - 4.5 stars 23 Mar - Necromancer by Terry Mancour - 4.0 stars 26 Mar - The Road to Vanador: A Spellmonger Anthology by Terry Mancour - 4.5 stars 26 Mar - The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman - 5.0 stars Reading - Thaumaturge by Terry Mancour Reading - The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
Review: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
"The Poet Empress is one hell of a book. I cannot believe that this is a debut novel. This is an epic story of family drama, cycles of abuse and the heartbreaking things the thirst for power make us do and it tells this story with great amounts of care for its characters and the dark world they live in. Just sublime."
https://nullrouted.space/2026/03/31/review-the-poet-empress-by-shen-tao/
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New review: Complementing other recent books on the Challenger expedition, The Wake of HMS Challenger brings a focus all of its own to the subject and firmly stands on its own two feet as a thoroughly enjoyable work of science history.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Oceanography #Oceans #MarineBiology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @princetonupress
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Complementing other recent books on the Challenger expedition, The Wake of HMS Challenger brings a focus all of its own to the subject and firmly stands on its own two feet as a thoroughly enjoyabl…
Picked this up off a Waterstones display primarily for the Glasgow setting, but I kept reading for Ellen's voice, and her dilemma over choosing an intellectual life or a conventional marriage, in an era where women were rarely allowed both.
If you enjoyed Gaudy Night, for it's exploration of this theme, I think you'll like this too. (And you may also want to punch the potential husband who suggests she should talk about books less so as not to intimidate people.)
🧵10 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The Camomile by Catherine Carswell
Really enjoyed this - a warm hug in book form. The narrative voice is excellent, really funny and witty and warm, and the characters feel like real people. The dialogue can be quite clunky and stilted, but I didn't mind as the rest was so good. Like the Detectorists, this is a story about ordinary people, ordinary lives and challenges and loves. Just what in needed and highly recommended.
Cover of Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
My first deep cut Le Guin, and the first Le Guin I've struggled with, which probably isn't a coincidence. It's also the first I've read of hers set, for the most part, in 'our' world, and again I wonder if that's connected.
There's elements here that I liked - the journey the characters go on, literally and figuratively, and the upending of the usual portal fantasy narrative.
But if felt much more obscure and dense than I'm used to from Le Guin.
Cover of The Beginning Place by Ursula K Le Guin
Tried another acclaimed collection of short stories which again didn't work for me 😭
I had the opposite problem to the Chiang with these - they were too mysterious and surreal, without enough grounding. I think I'd have enjoyed them more as standalones than collected together.
They reminded me a lot of Kentucky Route Zero though, a game I really enjoyed but found similarly frustrating.
I do have Link's novel on my shelf, which I'm interested to try.
Cover of Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Ch. 1 Awakening… what would you do if you woke up in the future, I mean the future, future? Danny is about to find out. #Book #Read #Books https://wilson-reads.ghost.io/awakening/
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Danny woke up fast, head a garbled mess, eyes blurry and unfocused, every body part feeling like it hadn’t been used in decades, which turns out to be the case. As he thrashes around trying to come to grips with being awake his nurse charges into the room to
15. The Impossible Truths of Love by Hannah Beckerman
I raced through this book, it was really good. The story keeps you guessing until the big reveal. It goes back and forth between Nell in the present and her mother Annie thirty years ago as Nell finds out the big secret in her family. Really well done.
The only thing that really bothered me and took me out of the story a lot was the author's insistence to write things like "blackandwhite cat" and "fiveandahalf" as one word instead of how normal people write that. I really didn't understand that choice (or the choice of the editor to leave that in).
14. The Martian by Andy Weir
I had read this book before but after reading and watching Project Hail Mary I felt like revisiting it. I'm glad I did as it's a really fun book. The movie didn't do it justice in my opinion.
The Web Development Glossary 4K:
Introducing the latest edition of “The Web Development Glossary,” featuring updated definitions and nearly 1,000 additional terms. A must for anyone looking to navigate the web ecosystem and fill in gaps they never knew existed.
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Introducing the latest edition of <cite>The Web Development Glossary</cite>, featuring updated definitions and nearly 1,000 additional terms. A must for anyone looking to navigate the web ecosystem and fill in gaps they never knew existed.
It all ends now.
The Great Wielders have succeeded. The Idol is gone, the Goddess of Connection has returned, and magic is restored. All is as it should be, but not all are pleased.
Join Jaslan, Jack, and the rest of the cast in the explosive finale of The Way of the Wielder series. Fight for hope. Fight for justice. Fight for truth. Be ready—this time, it’s personal.
After the Awakening is out now. Get your copy, or start the series, today: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYDPLBZ7
A graphic showing all four covers of The Way of the Wielder series. White text at the top reads: The Way of the Wielder A complete romantic fantasy series Colored text above each cover reads (left to right): Book One, Book Two, Book Three, Book Four White text below the graphic reads: Print, eBook, and KU options available on Amazon now!
Another newly released book under my pen name Jai Baidell.
This is a spinoff from my detective series. Not at all originally, my detective and his colleague quit the police and set up a private agency, Mallay Investigations. Their first case is looking for a boy who has been missing for 10 years.
Available from Apple, Kobo, Kindle and others.
ebook cover. A young boy, standing up, speeds along on a bicycle. He wears a red shirt which streams out behind him and colourful jeans. The ground is bright green and the sky pale blue with white clouds. Text in black. Janni. Text in white. Mallay Investigations 1. Jai Baidell.
I've been publishing under my other pen name, Jai Baidell.
Gullyraker is part of a detective series. My unfortunate protagonist is caught up in political problems around water shortages and the destruction of a water pipeline.
Set in my alternative Australia, although it's not very different.
A gullyraker is a strong and destructive storm of wind and/or water.
Available from Kobo, B&N, Booktopia, Apple, Kindle and other places as an ebook.
ebook cover. Dark ruins with a slanting red building, in the foreground black and green roiling water. White text. Detective Jud Jeffreys Book Three. Gullyraker. Jai Baidell.
I guess a re- #introduction is in order.
I'm back on Mastodon!
I've been away for a while, but I missed being here.
I'm an earthling living in the Netherlands. I like #photography, reading #books and #blogs, and #travel. I have been online for quite some time and I love the internet.
Not sure what else to add, but you can find more about me here:
https://blog.pcora.eu/about/
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👨🏻💻 📷 🕹️ ✍️ 🇳🇱 Hello, I’m Pedro. Nice to meet you and welcome to my blog. It’s my own corner on the web. Think of it as a public...
In "Good Writing," Neal Allen shares 36 tips to improve your sentences—and Anne Lamott weighs in on each one.
They bring that same dynamic to this week’s Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/03/18/questionnaire-neal-allen-anne-lamott/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Writing #Writers #Authors #Interview #Reading #Books
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The authors of the new book Good Writing share their insights on reading, writing, and their day-to-day life.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀 May luck lead you to at least an hour of reading today, and may that reading transform you like the sod and air of Ireland! #literature #stpatricksday #books #ebooks
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Will they take the good and bad aspects of their current lives to the new land? Or will they develop new ways of peaceful living? Will the rest of the world allow them to live in peace?
#bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #women #climate #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #mystery #thriller #detective #speculativefiction
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As Alia races against time to save the city, she discovers a deadly secret which turns her life upside down. Will she solve the two murders? Will the city survive?
#bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #women #climate #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #mystery #thriller #detective #speculativefiction
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Lots of new connections. Hence, a re-introduction to a hopeful story, "A New Faith," available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #mystery #thriller #detective #women #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #survival #adaptation #migration #immigration #indie #indieauthor
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Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison
"Beloved is one of those books that the more I think about it the more I like it. I think I am starting to understand why this book is so beloved (pun fully intended!) amongst critics and readers alike. Like I mentioned earlier, this is a book that demands your full attention and it rewards that attention with a story that has complex characters and a nuanced & compassionate understanding of the real history that their lives are based on."
https://nullrouted.space/2026/03/14/review-beloved-by-toni-morrison/
At long last, a new review! The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is easily the most comprehensive popular work currently available, combining a pleasingly uncluttered visual presentation with accessible yet nuanced entries for almost every dinosaur under the sun.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature @bookstodon
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is easily the most comprehensive popular work currently available, combining a pleasingly uncluttered visual presentation with accessible yet nuanced entries…
Return to the classic that is having a cultural moment! You can read #wutheringheights for free today by visiting our liberated library at the link in bio. Download the #ebook today, and join in the conversation.
#literature #bookstagram #books #WomensHistoryMonth #classicliterature
Enshittification, o livro (Cory Doctorow) - Resenha
https://curadoria.bearblog.dev/enshittification-o-livro-cory-doctorow/
#Enshittification #CoryDoctorow #livros #books #BookReview #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SurfandoWeb #BlogsBR @blogsbr #blog #Tecnofeudalismo #Technofeudalism #Technofeudalism #YanisVaroufakis #Rentismo #BigTechs #Antitrust #CuradoriaDaInternet
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O autor descreve o fenômeno da Enshitificação (Por que tudo piorou de repente) e apresenta possíveis soluções para ele (o que fazer a respeito)
I just discovered this. The biography is a little weird but not totally inaccurate. It's always odd to read about yourself on the interwebz. And it does have all the books in the right order.
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Complete order of Joyce Lionarons books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Hey Fediverse, I wrote a little book (#noai).
It's got beavers, snow, surf, games, coding, data entry, literary references, masks, vaccines and a race to the airport!
It's total FREE! And I'll even mail anyone a copy on request (see about).
<18k words.
https://2qx.github.io/monterey-protocols
#vermont #elbowsup #maskup #vaccines #smallpox #nonproliferation #books #publichealth #nurses #healthworkers #opsec #security
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A novella for nonproliferation.
Just a list of my interests:
#pokemon 🐹
#monsterhunter 🦖
#animalcrossing 🐈⬛
#stardewvalley 🐷
#gaymer 🌈
#photography📱
#books 📚
#music 🎶
#gym 🏋♂️ (just new to going to the gym, so any advice is welcome 🙏)
What about you?
Finished reading 8 books in February 2026. I think that's still pretty good, especially given the length of the month and the absolute deluge of transcripts I receive to proofread every February. (I figure attorneys start "circling back" in January to schedule the depositions they put off in December.)
Anyway, after DNF'ing a couple of audiobooks I just wasn't into, my non-fiction book for February was Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood by #DragRace alums Trixie Mattel and Katya, read by the authors. It was humorous, though they did seem to throw an awful lot of shade at one of my favorite queens. Leave Ginger Minj alone!
I'm reading two series that I'm thoroughly enjoying: Spellmonger by Terry Mancour and Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. They're different but have some things in common, including frequently making me guffaw. I think Minalan and Carl would get along really well. They're both creative problem solvers who are damn good at killing monsters.
A February 2026 Reading Calendar for @djtoebeans showing the covers of books on the dates they were finished. Each cover is outlined in a different color, and a line of that color stretches horizontally across each date where progress was made on that book. Below the calendar, the book covers are shown with their star ratings (out of 5) underneath. The number of pages read each day is shown in the bottom right corner of each square, with a trophy icon denoting that the most pages read in a day was 335 pages on the 24th. Every date has a number, the lowest being 37 pages on the 27th. 02 Feb - The Women by Kristin Hannah - 4.0 stars 08 Feb - Knights Magi by Terry Mancour - 5.0 stars 11 Feb - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman - 5.0 stars 15 Feb - High Mage by Terry Mancour - 4.5 stars 19 Feb - The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow - 5.0 stars 24 Feb - Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova - 4.0 stars 24 Feb - Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman - 4.5 stars 24 Feb - Journeymage by Terry Mancour - 5.0 stars Reading - The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman Reading - Enchanter by Terry Mancour Two covers are marked DNF without ratings because they were stopped: 03 Feb - Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas 17 Feb - Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline
I finished 14 books in January 2026, which was more than I usually get through in a month. I did a 30-day digital detox, so I was avoiding social media and not watching anything aside from exercise videos and new episodes of Drag Race.
January's non-fiction selection paired perfectly with my digital detox. I *highly* recommend that everyone read Cory Doctorow's Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. (Hi, @pluralistic!)
Where I previously typically would only read one book at a time, this is when I got into the habit of having an audiobook or two in progress along with an ebook on my Kobo. I like that I can listen to a book while doing chores or preparing dinner, but I prefer an ebook and white noise at bedtime.
A January 2026 Reading Calendar for @djtoebeans showing the covers of books on the dates they were finished. Each cover is outlined in a different color, and a line of that color stretches horizontally across each date where progress was made on that book. Below the calendar, the book covers are shown with their star ratings (out of 5) underneath. The number of pages read each day is shown in the bottom right corner of each square, with a trophy icon denoting that the most pages read in a day was 399 pages on the 5th. Every date has a number, the lowest being 47 pages on the 22nd. 02 Jan - Brimstone by Callie Hart - 4.0 stars 03 Jan - Mort by Terry Pratchett - 5.0 stars 05 Jan - A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair - 3.5 stars 07 Jan - A Game of Retribution by Scarlett St. Clair - 3.5 stars 08 Jan - Spellmonger by Terry Mancour - 5.0 stars 10 Jan - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher - 5.0 stars 12 Jan - A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair - 3.0 stars 18 Jan - Warmage by Terry Mancour - 5.0 stars 19 Jan - A Game of Gods by Scarlett St. Clair - 2.5 stars 21 Jan - A Touch of Chaos by Scarlett St. Clair - 2.75 stars 24 Jan - The Spellmonger's Honeymoon by Terry Mancour - 4.0 stars 25 Jan - The Witch Elm by Tana French - 3.5 stars 30 Jan - Magelord by Terry Mancour - 5.0 stars 31 Jan - Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow - 5.0 stars Reading - The Women by Kristin Hannah
After nearly doubling my 2025 reading goal of 40 books, I decided not to set a goal for 2026 as far as a number of books or pages. I'd rather focus on quality (or at least enjoyment) over quantity.
That being said, I am going to try to read every day and to finish at least one non-fiction book per month. You know, to grow or whatever.
Read so far in 2026, as of May 1st:
39 books totaling 20,590 pages
Average time to finish: 7 days
In light of the continued enshittification of Youtube, I've finally scrounged together the energy to get files shrunk down and uploaded to a peertube account 
@octaviaconamore@vid.northbound.online
It won't include any full streams since there's a 20GB total data limit, but I've uploaded every stand-alone book reading I've recorded 
Most of them are still waiting to be transcoded server-side, but the whole YT library will be up in a few hours~ 
oh, and despite the potato video quality (only 1500 kb/s), the audio quality is a full 320 kb/s 
add. if you follow the peertube account from your Fedi account and turn on notifications, you can get a notification every time a new video is uploaded~ 
I’m a guy (he/him) in his thirties from #Ghent #Belgium
I studied #philosophy and have broad interests, mainly #history and #politics but also things like #technology #art #books #gaming #photography #scifi #solarpunk and so on.
After my studies I drifted towards #Marxism and these last few years I’ve become very concerned about #ClimateChange This made me committed to #EcoSocialism
I’m a member of the local communist party 
#PVDA #PTB and activist with 
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Latest developments on inventaire.io:
- The entity editor got a navigation menu (visible only on large screens for now), as well as more subcategories
- We are now using a new barcode scanner engine, so if you were part of the people having troubles with the previous one, there are good chances that it's now fixed!
- It's now possible to search a book by scanning its barcode, with this new button in the top bar
A screenshot of Inventaire entity editor (open on the page of an edition of The Little Prince in Picard https://inventaire.io/entity/isbn:9783937467696/edit) with a red frame around the new menu, as well as a red arrow pointing at the new barcode scanner button in the top bar.
In the run up to the release of Book 2 in the series, The Xanadu Affair is available now on ebook from many retailers at ONLY 99p/$1. Perfect chance to grab book 1 and dip your toes into the garishly coloured pools of the Deluxe Recreational Vehicle Xanadu before its next disaster / adventure kicks off.
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I have developed a gratitude for the work of investigative journalists and activist authors. Often these writers fill in large gaps in my knowledge of history and current issues. So occasionally I'll share a title I've read that deeply moved me: "Cobalt Red" by Siddharth Kara. He probably won't see this but thank you for your work. And thank you to those who told him their story. This book is on my "keeper shelf" to reread. #books
#introduction
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Get epubs DRM-free for $0.99 on my website at this link:
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#BookPromo
#books
#reading
#writing
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#fantasy
#hopepunk
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@mwl I believe you.... Though it's usually motivation / how you frame the work.
Small example: if you wanted to help #Mastodon, like talking in #jitsi, wanted to sell #books personally, wanted to merge #selfhosted projects and people slowly by surely - then it's just a flick of a switch to find a fun way. A #Podcast etc.
I'm sure you're helping.
Solving the personal communication social growth is probably not for you or most #techies I've known.
Human sides nobody really pays, it's #true.
This one is more expensive and also the most detailed piece of art I have probably ever made. It took me a year to finish, and it is selling for 500€ (incl, paypal fee and VAT).
Please share so people can see I can do more than just silly comics. :D
Direct buy: https://ko-fi.com/s/0e5c6516e9
Or part payment options at: hiisikoloart@gmail.com
You can also commission something similiar if you like!
#art #illustration #bookcoverart #bookillustration #Bookstodon #books #bookcovers #NOAI
Illustrated eBook cover for sale. Depicts a red dragon with green horns and eyes geaming in cold sunlight with its wing over an elf-man. Sunlight shows the patterns of its wing, and reflects on its curved horns, neck spikes, and long claws. The elf man is pale, and has white, slightly curled short hair resting on his forehead and temples. The hair in a long braid that snakes down his shoulder to his exposed peck. The braid is tied with a silky white ribbon and it turns from white to pale red and finally turns entirely black at the end. His eyes are red, and his pointed ear is red and sunlight makes it look luminecent. He is wearing green, buttoned trousers and nothing else. They are resting low on his hips. His abs are visible, as he holds the head of his dragon companion. He has tattoos all over his arms, around his navel, neck, decolte, and ear. He also has scars on his side, arm, and chest if you look closely. They have long since healed. The background is of cold mountain ranges disappearing into a fog. The light is cold, and unyelding. The yellow text overlays say: Two hiisikoloART signatures, hiisikoloART watermarks, "author name" and "very cool title" on bold text. No AI label, illustrated typography! 100% human made original art!
I'm sad that these didn't really work for me, as I've only heard good things about them. They're very much *science* fiction and many were too cerebral for me to follow.
I enjoyed the ones based on historical theories like Tower of Babylon and Seventy Two Letters though.
Overall they felt more about the Big Idea than anything else; the characters and the plot felt less important than the science / theory.
Cover of Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I love Taylor Jenkins Reid's writing so much and this one didn't disappoint. It tells the story of (fictional) Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo which she tells to a relatively obscure journalist. There were some good twists, one of which I totally saw coming. I read this book in one sitting on Friday night and have been feeling sad all weekend. We are discussing this with our brand new book club from work on Thursday so that will be interesting.
#reading #amreading #books
Just completed my "Old Man and the Gulf" expedition into the unique #Everglades wilderness ecosystem. This is my 30th such trip!
https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/everglades/everglades_2026/index.html
This was my first trip using a folding sea-kayak. And the first year I mostly stayed in one place... read, explored, and meditated on "Life, the Universe, and Everything."
#Kayak #NationalParks #Birds #Nature #NaturePhotography #Books
Resting behind the mangroves
everglades trip map
LIn Conversation: An OUP Podcast: John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach #Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode webpage: https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/special-series/oxford-up-podcast
Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK9410062844.mp3?updated=1687112530
Guidebook To Computer and Smartphone Security (Second Edition) https://leanpub.com/techgeekv2 #security #SecOps #bookstodon #books #book #bookreview #booksky
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Hello #Fediverse! 🔭👀
Climbing back in the #Crowsnest.
Third (or fourth?) time's the charm! I’ve had previous incarnations of crowsnest.social that unfortunately succumbed to technical difficulties, but after some serious 'dry dock', this version of the ship is hopefully in for some smooth sailing. 🌊
Interested in:
• #Astronomy #space #appalachia #Gardening #ttrpg #books #videogames and others
#Introduction #NewHere #CrowsnestSocial #SpaceLog #SelfHosted #Fediverse
So IMHO I think this was better than Babel as a novel exploring colonialism via fantasy. The characters are excellent, the magic is cool, the world building is good and the ending felt appropriate and earned.
But it still wasn't exactly subtle - if you're remotely woke or whatever they're calling us these days, you'll see every beat of the plot coming a mile away.
Still, I'm glad authors like Kuang and Wang are writing these books, as I think we need more like them.
Cover of Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
Liebes #fediverse ,
unser neues Kulturprogramm für 2026 ist draußen! 🎉
Mehr Infos findet ihr hier: https://buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/
Wir hoffen, dass für jede*n was dabei ist. :)
Gedruckt liegt das neue Programm Ende der Woche bei uns aus.
Liebe Grüße
Tina und Max
von der Buchhandlung am Brühl in #Chemnitz
#Veranstaltungen #Kultur #Lesung #Konzert #tacheles #buch #krimi #Literatur #literature #books #bucher #livres #dielinke #leipzig #dresden #erzgebirge #mittelsachsen #bookstodon #lesen #reading
Flyer Seite 1 mit diesen Veranstaltungen: 20.03.2026 (Fr), 19 Uhr: Abendgruß: Die Chemnitz Premiere Kerstin Hensel liest aus Ihrem am 18. März 2026 erschienen Roman. Sie erzählt eine etwas andere Familien- und Lebensgeschichten aus Ost und West, die von falscher Moral, Spießertum und Anpassung handeln - und von zerplatzten Lebensträumen. Eintritt: Vorverkauf 10 EUR, Abendkasse 12 EUR Reservierungen über info.BaB@posteo.de oder 0371-27868944 24.04.2026 (Fr), 19 Uhr: Die Lage Mesut Bayraktar liest aus seinem Erzählband "Die Lage" und erzählt dabei die Geschichten von Menschen, die in der Literatur nur selten vorkommen. Moderiert von Marten Henning. Eintritt: Vorverkauf 8 EUR, Abendkasse 10 EUR Reservierungen über info.BaB@posteo.de oder 0371-27868944 29.05.2026 (Fr), 19 Uhr: Gesellschaft mit Beschränkter Hoffnung Die unglaubliche Geschichte einer gelebten Utopie mitten in der DDR: die »Krüppelkommune« von Hartroda. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Matthias-Vernaldi-Preis für selbstbestimmtes Leben 2025. Lesung mit Karsten Krampitz. In Kooperation mit dem Evangelisch Lutherischen Kirchenbezirk Chemnitz. Moderiert von Marten Henning. Eintritt frei, Voranmeldung erbeten über info.BaB@posteo.de oder 0371-27868944 Ausführlichere Infos hier: https://buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/
Seite 2 des Flyers mit diesen Veranstaltungen: 25.09.2026 (Fr), 19 Uhr: 30 Jahre QUIJOTE – Lieder und Artverwandtes Das Chemnitzer Künstlerkollektiv QUIJOTE (Sabine Kühnrich, Ludwig Streng & Wolfram Hennig-Ruitz) spielt Lieder aus 30 Jahren, von denen manche ein paar hundert Jahre älter sind. Eintritt: Vorverkauf 12 EUR, Abendkasse 14 EUR Reservierungen über info.BaB@posteo.de oder 0371-27868944 30.10.2026 (Fr), 19 Uhr: Moorgold Anett Steiner liest aus ihrem neuesten Erzgebirgskrimi, März 2026 erschienen im Chemnitzer Paperento-Verlag. Eintritt: Vorverkauf 8 EUR, Abendkasse 10 EUR Reservierungen über info.BaB@posteo.de oder 0371-27868944 14.11.2026 (Sa), 16:30 Uhr: Die Shoah und die DDR – Akteure und Aushandlungen im Antifaschismus Buchvorstellung mit Alexander Walther vom Staatlichen Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz (SMAC). Unser Beitrag zu »Tacheles 2026. Jahr der jüdischen Kultur in Sachsen«. Eintritt frei, Voranmeldung erbeten über info.BaB@posteo.de oder 0371-27868944 Ausführlichere Infos hier: https://buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/
So I guess it's time for an #introduction. Well, I'm a 30 something #Black #queer woman. I love to read #books. I love the #NYKnicks. I like #bicycles even though, it's not my primary mode of transportation. I like refurbishing and upgrading old electronics, specifically #iPods and #laptops. #TV and music have kept me going more than anything else. I'm branching into #Linux and getting more familiar with #FOSS. I am a #blogger and I have linked my blog in my bio.
Oh, the ROOM! The glorious SPACE!
Time for a re-introduction. My name is Audrey Grace Winter, RPG author and editor, political leftie and professional autistic. I'm new to the beige.party madness; I was on dice.camp for a couple years before finally having the courage to make the switch. Great folks, those dicecampers; there just wasn't enough room in a post for me to properly blather, and frankly I need a replacement for Google+, not Xitter. Thus, I have joined the cult--
What's that? Not a cult? Are you sure? ... All right, not a cult. I have joined the *server*, as it seems well-suited for my personality and needs.
I post (I don't call them toots; toots are flatulence) about things like #movies and #shows, #music, #books, #games, and of course #TTRPGs. I'm also into #science and #history like any true nerd should be.
I need somebody to tell me how to add more "Extra Fields" to my profile. I have too many things I wanna list.
The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.
These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.
As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."
If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.
#socialmedia #algorithmicbias #privacy #dataprivacy #quotes #foss #facebook #linkedin #llm #noai #enshittification #reading #books #baking #art #philosophy #adhd #depression #cybersecurity
Hello Universe!
Moved to new server.
Re-introduction - Been on here since 2022 and should write an intro again. I'm deaf, I'm a fan of open-source projects, so this will be short and sweet.
Post random ramblings, news, techie stuff, boost mostly cat pics. I just like computers and hang around here.
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I loved Towles' previous books so was really looking forward to this, but sadly found it quite disappointing.
The writing is wonderful - Towles writes prose that feels effortless to read, and he nails the feeling of time and place.
But I struggled with the characters; half of them aggravated me and the others were dull. And then the ending really annoyed me and didn't feel true to those characters at all!
I'll read more Towles, but I won't trust him as much again!
Cover of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
I'm past due for a new #introduction post! 😳
We've been on break all winter but we're getting ready to start up our daily #LittleFreeLibrary posts again in February. We've got tons of new #books, new #movies for the #FreeBlockbuster, and lots of donations for the #LittleFreePantry we put up last year. This year, we plan to add a #FreeLittleArtGallery as our last feature. Our #SilentBookClub has been hit or miss since we're in a #rural town, but the one that our friends run in the nearby city has really taken off!
As for myself, I've still been #writing almost daily. I've got a lot of material ready for my book-thing, #NotAHeroStory! In fact, I'm going to do a big round of #editing soon to trim it down. (If you're curious, it's a #fantasy that doesn't take itself too seriously but involves a lot of #PersonalGrowth and #community building. Plus #beer, #boobs, and #dragons.) I'm hoping to start #publishing it a little later this year!
Anyway, you stay classy, Fediverse! 
After some fixes and more than 400+ commits, I'd like share my repo on UI Design now having a better life on Codeberg.
https://codeberg.org/tipoqueno/UI-Design
You'll get a huge list of resources to learn & practice User Interface Design (and more)
I started this in 2017 on Github but was archived 3 years ago because I started to dislike BS from Github and Microsoft.
Enjoy!
Banner from the UI Design repository, with a purple background and the inscription "UI Design" in a rounded font
Oh, there's something like #portfolioDay ! Okay, so, I'm an #author, #podcast host and data privacy expert with a strong focus on #ITsecurity awareness. I write #nonfiction, crime and #scifi in German and English. The last two years I mainly spent with making #books and podcasts for others, like the lovely Eltville #WeinSchreibereien anthology and podcast.
Photo of a shelf of books that were either entirely written by me or have short stories or articles by me inside, sorted chronologically from left to right.
New review: A nicely balanced collection of essays with long-lived trees from around the globe that provides ten different answers to the question: "And what else can you learn from tree rings?"
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dendrochronology #Trees #Wood #Forests #Plants #Botany #Scicomm @bookstodon
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A nicely balanced collection of essays with long-lived trees from around the globe that provides ten different answers to the question: “And what else can you learn from tree rings?”
Really enjoyed this, even if the execution wasn't quite as good as the premise.
An epic story told via the obituaries of 60 people, across several centuries, past and future. It's about legacy, who and what we remember and whether words can capture a life. But also grief, the meaning of life & art and the future of humanity. I can't help but admire the ambition!
If you loved How High We Go in the Dark, Cloud Atlas or Cloud Cuckoo Land then you may well enjoy this too.
Cover of Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins
Each January, I #blog about the absolute best #videogames, #movies, and #books that were new to me the previous year. It's the article I put the most energy into and this year's has just gone up!
It's an extra special one. Not only is it my 10th annual post (!!), but there are some fun personal updates in there as well.
Thanks for reading!
david.reviews
The 10th annual celebration of the best things I played, watched, and read in 2025.
3. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I really loved this book told from four different points of view of four women whose loves are intertwined. I would have loved to know more about Zikora, I was sad that her part was so small. Although the book isn't necessarily sad, and the ending is mostly hopeful, I came away feeling very sad and melancholic. Adichie's writing style is beautiful (I equally loved Americanah) and she has a way of pulling you into the story, forcing you to not look away even if you wanted to. Some parts are brutal, and the story isn't neatly tied up in a bow, but then life never is either.
#reading #amreading #books
So I guess it's time for an #introduction. Well, I'm a 30 something #Black #queer woman. I love to read #books. I love the #NYKnicks. I like #bicycles even though, it's not my primary mode of transportation. I like refurbishing and upgrading old electronics, specifically #iPods and #laptops. #TV and music have kept me going more than anything else. I'm branching into #Linux and getting more familiar with #FOSS. I am a #blogger and I have linked my blog in my bio.
✨ 2026 reading thread ✨
Book 1 of 2026
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
4.5 stars
A feminist retelling of a Maori legend with a kaleidoscopic structure. The three parts can be read in any order and the book is bound so there is no single canonical version of the story. You can start reading from either end or the middle, then flip the book over and read the rest. Apparently the ebook and audiobook versions do the same!
I started reading with the miromiro (light) section and the middle section, which were both 10/10 for me. I found the ruru (dark) section less engrossing and it was kind of a bummer to end on a low note, chasing the high I had when reading the other sections. Personally I don't think I would have enjoyed the story as much if I started with ruru, but I'm curious about others' experience reading in different orders!
Overall, this was such a unique reading experience. I really enjoy seeing art from cultures with very different narrative structures and storytelling motifs. And best of all it's powerful and beautifully written, with a few passages that spoke to me in ways that seared my soul.
#Reading #AmReading #Bookstodon #Books #BookReview #Fiction #Litfic
Both covers of Kurangaituku. On the left side, a woman with a bird's beak and yellow face feathers on a pale background. The title is on the bottom of the page in orange text. On the right, a more human looking woman wearing feather earrings on a dark background. The title is upside down at the top, in the same orange font.
Incredible narrative voice, with a really interesting setting. I really enjoyed getting to know Mrs Duzejko and seeing just how underestimated she was by everyone around her. All the Blake went over my head, but I didn't mind the astronomy. I really appreciated how rich the interior life of this "crazy old lady" was.
The actual murder mystery feels like a bit of a narrative cheat to me, but plot wise it worked in a darkly satisfying way.
Cover of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Stolen from @Funktious as I thought it was such a great idea: a thread of all the books I read in a year.
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession, read for a #bookgroup that unanimously loved it. Set in modern day Ireland, it's a contemplative and gently humorous story of two men who in their own ways don't fit in to the world. It's lovely, and quite different in tone to the TV adaptation that treats them as a couple of kooky misfits. They are so much more than that. #books #bookstodon 🧵1
Starting my 2026 book thread with a beautiful cover 😍 And the book behind it is just as beautiful. Just the sort of 'place as character' narrative that I really enjoy, this is a lively and lyrical exploration of a certain landscape and the people, animals and plants that inhabit it. Even the clouds and the geology get a voice.
However heavy our lives may feel, Solà reminds us how fleeting they are to the mountains and the woods, which is perspective I find comforting.
Cover of When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
2. The Trees by Percival Everett
"The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk."
This was such a gripping read, I literally couldn't put it down. I read it in one day. I'd never heard of Percival Everett before but Bill Nighy recommended this on his podcast and the library had the ebook so I figured I'd check it out. I'm so glad I did. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Will definitely check out more of Percival Everett's writing.
1. White Mulberry by Rose Kwon Easton
Rose Kwon Easton based this story on the life of her grandmother, who moved from Korea to Japan during the Japanese occupation and who later moved back to Korea with her son.
It really reminded me of Pachinko, especially the parts set in Japan with how much Koreans struggled and were shunned. An amazing read, one I couldn't put down. I really felt for Miyoung and her struggle to remain true to herself while trying to carve a life for herself under very difficult circumstances.
Unter dem Hashtag #Buchbeginn poste ich hier hintereinander meine gelesenen Bücher für 2026 📚. Mal schauen, wieviel zusammen kommen und was es für eine bunte Mischung wird.
"Die Neonlichter der Tankstelle flackern und der Kaffee in meiner Hand ist mittlerweile kalt."
Between Bridges | Annemie Lang
1/2026
#bookstodon #bookies #buchbubble #currentlyreading #buchblogger #Bookwyrm
E-Book Between Bridges. Auf dem Cover eine junge Frau von hinten auf einer Brücke.
StoryGraph Wrap Ups are available, though I had to wait several hours for mine to generate.
Scroll up in this thread to find further details on ALL the books I read this year 🥰
Graphic generated from The StoryGraph App showing stats for my 2025 reads such as longest / shortest reads, top 5 genres, top rated books etc
Whew. Finally, I'd love to hear anybody else's favorite books, in any of the above categories, or all of them!
Favorite book cover:
Dominion - Addie E. Citchens
Book cover: a golden snake whose tail ends in the outline of a church
Best book titles of the year:
There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
Seascraper - Benjamin Wood
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! - Melissa Lozada-Oliva
and, of course:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
"I'd have two nickels" - Extremely specific niches that fit multiple books I read this year:
Starving lesbian nuns imprisoned with false gods:
The Unworthy (Agustina Bazterrica)
The Starving Saints (Caitlin Starling)
Part of the book is narrated over centuries by a real English landscape feature:
Helm (Sarah Hall)
The Bog Queen (Anna North)
Queer folks/Hostile town/Something woke up in an Appalachian mine:
Motheater (Linda H.Codega)
What Stalks the Deep (T. Kingfisher)
Climate crisis/Family drama/There's a secret in the seed vault :
Wild Dark Shore (Charlotte McConaghy)
Saltcrop (Yume Kitasei)
Most anticipated 2025 book I haven't read:
The Unveiling - Quan Barry
I loved Quan Barry's two previous, very different books (We Ride Upon Sticks and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East). This one promises another very different vibe: it's about a Black film scout on an Antarctic cruise who winds up stranded on a strange, remote island. Frozen setting + racial tension + encroaching madness? It really sounds like something I'm going to love.
book cover: a glacier reflected upside down in scarlet water
A book I'd like to see adapted for the screen:
The Silver Book - Olivia Laing
This book is set in the world of 70s Italian cinema; it's raw and sexy and thoughtful and gorgeously textured. Obviously, someone should make it into a movie in the style of Fellini or Pasolini.
book cover: monochrome photo of a roman plaza with a rainbowed lens flare
A book I'd assign to high school students:
Automatic Noodle - Annalee Newitz
As a companion and an uplifting antidote to the various dystopias they're already reading. Also, cool robots. And another terrific cover.
book cover: a cartoon robot hand with chopsticks and dan dan noodles, above drawings of the golden gate bridge and more robots
A book that I should have DNFed:
The Wayfinder - Adam Johnson
I liked most of this book, a historical panorama set at the height of the Tongan empire. It's got a lot of intrigue and excitement and a vividly realized world. But there are more characters than i could care about, and it's a bit repetitive, with the same events unfolding from multiple viewpoints or being retold to different characters too many times, and the ending just wrapped everything up in a bow too fast and too easily, with a plot MacGuffin Indiana Jones would love. I got everything I could want from this book by page 500 of 700.
A book about where I'm from:
The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong
I lived in Connecticut for a decade, and spent some time in certain postindustrial areas, and this book beautifully nailed the hollowed-out strangeness of such places (albeit with much more vibrant, interesting characters and higher drama than I was experiencing in those high school years).
Book cover: a figure silhouetted by a sunset
A book people would be surprised that I loved:
Stag Dance - Torrey Peters
Why this is surprising: I thought that Peters' book Detransition, Baby was pretty good, but overhyped. Also, before this year, I hadn't gotten into short stories in a long time. But I had a big short story collection renaissance in 2025, and this collection (three stories and a novella) really let the author stretch into different genres and play with different facets of trans experience.
book cover with fighting stags
A book I wish more people were reading:
Eternal Summer - Fransiska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)
A feverish yet taut novel about two women (and a child) in a hotel on the edge of a wildfire zone, and about the weight of trauma and the possibility of trust. The writing is incredibly evocative; it feels like you're walking through the flying ash and looking in strangers' windows, like the protagonist's loneliness is in sync with the world's destruction. I recommended this back in July and I've not forgotten its power.
book cover: a painting of a woman smoking in a lawn chair against a very orange background
Two books where I learned a lot:
Your Absence is Darkness - Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. Philip Roughton
Burial Rites - Hanna Kent
Two novels set in rural Iceland. One is a sprawling, nonlinear saga about the loves, dreams, and losses of farmers and philosophers. The other is a historical novel about a murderess sent to an isolated farm while awaiting execution. Though they're fiction, both books really bring the setting alive--preparations for surviving winter, the dramatic landscapes and constant proximity of death, the correspondence of priests and parishioners. Between these two books, I feel like I've glimpsed a vanished place and time. Also, some great Kierkegaard quotes.
book cover featuring a painting of an icelandic fjord
Books that made me angry:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
You know that this is about the genocide in Palestine, but more than that, it's about how these horrors keep happening and being erased, happening and being rewritten, and if you can't feel this book's anger and share in it, you need to fix your heart. The only reason I'm not writing more about it is that it has, fortunately, been recognized in a lot of these lists.
I want to mention Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, and also Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood, two very different books about Covid. It's infuriating how the ongoing effects and casualties of the pandemic are ignored by so many people, especially those in power.
book cover, one day everyone will have always been against this
Book that made me cry:
Audition - Pip Adam
I'm not a crier, but this weird, twisty book got to me. What seems somewhat comic at the beginning--a trio of giants on a cramped spaceship must constantly talk or else they keep growing--slowly reveals past human cruelties while hurtling into alien possibilities. There's something beautiful about the ways these characters recover their past and what redemption might be. It's not like anything else you'll read. Maybe if a bit of Chain Gang All-Stars and a bit of I Have Never Known Men were fused together in a Star Trek teleporter accident?...Okay, maybe just stick with "it's not like anything else."
book cover with abstracted planet images
Book that made me laugh:
Art on Fire - Yun Ko-eun (tr. Lizzie Buehler)
A Korean artist travels to California during wildfire season for a prestigious yet mysterious fellowship...curated by a dog. An arrogant dog (with plenty of minions to translate his demands) who reserves the right to burn one of the artist's works at the end of her stay. The obvious art-and-capitalism satire is good, but the absurd details make it hilarious, from the dog's meticulous outfits to the artist's side hustle on a slightly deranged food delivery app.
(And an honorable mention to Emily Adrian's Seduction Theory, a really fun academic satire.)
book cover with the silhouette of a small dog overlaid by the book title
Favorite audiobook:
Medusa of the Roses - Navid Sinaki, narrated by Michael Crouch
I really didn't listen to many books this year, but this one would stand out anyway. The story follows a gay man in Tehran trying to track down his missing, married lover, while planning to undergo a sex change so they can be together openly. The narrator brings all of that and adds a level of yearning and dreaminess that complements the mythological references and noirish tone.
book cover with a gridded photo of a reclining nude
One book I love to recommend:
The Incandescent - Emily Tesh
An original, grown-up spin on the magical boarding school novel - it's spells and curses and faculty politics, with lots of cozy and funny elements, but the stakes are high. Some demons live in fax machines and some devour lives. There's just the right level of romance on the back burner. (I retroactively edited it into my top 24, sorry to Eat the Ones You Love!) Gorgeous cover, too.
book cover with an elaborate drawing of a phoenix
One good book someone recommended to me:
Interesting Facts about Space - Emily Austin
@IPEdmonton recommended this author to me. This novel's fast, quippy and space-fact packed style belies its depths of anxiety, family breakdown, sexuality, and identity crisis. Not something that always works for me, but there were so many insights that hit way too close to home.
Book cover, Interesting Facts about Space
One book I hated:
Wolf at the Table - Adam Rapp
The first three-quarters of this book were a decent family saga. I didn't love that the story starts with POV from five siblings but only two of them end up being characters, and the real world crime references are in questionable taste, but, you know, the writing's solid, it's cool. And then it goes off allllll the rails. There's insane, cartoonish, unrealistic violence. There's chapter after chapter about the fairly uninteresting son of the protagonist and his love life. Even the prose gets worse. I spent a week ranting about everything that went wrong here.
Two books I loved, part 2:
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
In a terrific year for horror, this ghost/serial killer/pandemic/trauma novel stands out. It taps into so many different kinds of fear, melding real experiences of racism and OCD and grief with hungry ghosts and terrifying supernatural violence. If you can stomach the gore and the memories of 2020 (this isn't really about Covid per se, but it vividly reconstructs that awful early period), you get a powerful story of emotional survival and justice.
Book cover, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
2025 in #books, a thread, inspired by (but not limited to) https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2025/ :
Two books I loved, part 1:
Gliff - Ali Smith
A fable about survival in a totalitarian surveillance state. A reflection on childhood, siblinghood, and the cost and worth of kindness. A dance with language and memory. I was torn between the impulse to read it all in one sitting and the urge to savor every single sentence.
Cover, Gliff by Ali Smith
So here ends my 2025 book thread, which I'm happy I kept going all year. A few books less than I managed in 2024, largely because I didn't read for a month after Albert died in June.
Very few five star reads this year, all pictured here plus Voices by Le Guin (ebook.) However nearly all my other reads were solid 4 stars, with very few misses, so I'm not disappointed, I think I'm just getting better at figuring out what I like / love in a book.
Now, how to start 2026? 🤔 📚🥰
A stack of five books in front of a book shelf. They are A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Great House by Nicole Krause Engine Summer by John Crowley Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
Finished up the year and passed my reading goal with the last three Murderbot books. Very grateful to these immensely readable books for helping me get over the line! They really are great - the characters are just so much fun and the world gets more interesting with every book. Highly recommended - you can get these in paperback compilations in Waterstones now, UK folks!
🧵50-52 #books #bookstodon
A Kobo ereader showing the cover of Network Effect by Martha Wells
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness
And my top 12 books NOT published in 2025 that I read for the first time this year:
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin
Metal From Heaven - August Clarke
Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrakasera
Feast While You Can - Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta
Your Absence is Darkness - Jon Kalman Steffanson (tr. Philip Roughton)
On Such a Full Sea - Chang-Rae Lee
Touch - Adania Shibli (tr. Paula Haydar)
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
Interesting Facts about Space - Emily Austin
Highway Thirteen - Fiona McFarlane
Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
My favorite books published in 2025:
Gliff - Ali Smith
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Audition - Pip Adam
Dusk - Robbie Arnott
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
Sour Cherry - Natalia Theodoridou
The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley
Eternal Summer - Franziska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)
The Silver Book - Olivia Laing
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh - Colwill Brown
Woodworking - Emily St. James
An #introduction is always a good idea, even if this is just a new home of the account I already had (on a way too big server). I hate monopolies.
I have an aversion for labels, and a love for #books. I question the status quo, on the look for better ways to do things. Better for the common good, and society as whole–not élites.
I draw, read a lot, geek a bit, design web and tangible things, love to learn, and, since recently, teach.
I dream of a #solarpunk future.
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Hello! Here's what I've been up to lately–in no particular order.
I'm a big Novik fan and these stories didn't disappoint. My favourites all had elements of Le Guin to them - Seven (effortless world building), Seven Years From Home (felt very Hainsih / TWfWiF inspired) and The Long Way Round (pure Earthsea, from a different perspective and with less wise wizards). The latter world may be the setting for a new Novik series, and I hope it is!
There's a good Scholomance story in here too, the book is worth it for any Novik fan.
🧵49 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Buried Deep by Naomi Novik
I asked a question a few weeks ago about how to mount a door. Here is the result! Very pleased with this, now the storage boxes no longer haunt my video call background, and I can show off some of my favourite books.
Mounting the door was difficult as there is a concrete pillar behind the drywall, so I had to extend the mounting with some metal plates that increase torque and displacement. But it meets my standards!
Thank you all for your help!
Plywood door (stained a light cherry) filling a door way. There are three tiny shelves with books resting face-forwards on them. To keep the books in place there are black elastic strips that span the doorway (stapled on the backside). There is a black and white painting of a bird mounted at the top of the door. The books in question are Mismatch - How inclusion shapes design, The Word for World is Forest, Design for Real Life, All Systems Red (Murderbot), Legends and Lattes, Bookshops and Bonedust, A Game of Birds and Wolves, The Wager. To the right of the door is a floor to ceiling bookshelf.
First Image: Plywood door (stained a light cherry) filling a door way. There are three tiny shelves with books resting face-forwards on them. To keep the books in place there are black elastic strips that span the doorway (stapled on the backside). There is a black and white painting of a bird mounted at the top of the door. The books in question are Mismatch - How inclusion shapes design, The Word for World is Forest, Design for Real Life, All Systems Red (Murderbot), Legends and Lattes, Bookshops and Bonedust, A Game of Birds and Wolves, The Wager. To the right of the door is a floor to ceiling bookshelf. Second image: The door is now open. You can see the hinges on the right side of the door. Inside the alcove are storage boxes and a stepladder.
Well, my book on TDDA has become slightly more real:
It’s not expected to be available until April, but you can see it on the publisher’s website at
https://www.routledge.com/Test-Driven-Data-Analysis/Radcliffe/p/book/9781032897158
Although the publisher won’t let you pre-order till the end of March, the paper copy is listed on Blackwells and Waterstones:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/test-driven-data-analysis/nicholas-j-radcliffe/9781032897158
and Amazon will let you pre-order paper or Kindle copies.
#TDDA #books #data #analysis #testing #datascience #quality #AI #ML
The cover of the book Test-Driven Data Analysis by Nicholas J. Radcliffe. It is published by Chapman and Hall, part of CRC Press, from Taylor & Francis Group, and is part of the DATA SCIENCE SERIES. The cover is black with mostly white text and a white graphic. The graphic is a 3-row by 4-column grid of squares. Each sqwuare contains a number of dots laid out on a regular 32x32 grid. The top-left square has 1024 dots ("full") and working along each row in turn, the number of dots roughly halves each time, apparently at random (and, actually, pseudo-randomly). The last rows boxes have six, two, two, and one dot.
I'm Erin Darrow (she/her), #sff #author and reader.
my stories:
What the Willow Knows (dark fairytale) in Once Upon a Moonless Night: Tales of Betrayal, Revenge, and Redemption
More Than Microscopic (lunarpunk cli-fi) in @DreamForgeMag
Echo of the Desert in the Sky (ecofantasy cli-fi) in @Metaphorosis Books and All Worlds Wayfarer
I'm pinning the list of specifically sapphic (not just queer) fantasy (not sci-fi or urban fantasy) novels I've read and recommend, also because I'm starting to get trouble keeping track of this list myselves so I want it somewhere I can edit. Yes I will resurrect my bookworm account at some point ok, in the meantime I'm making a pinned.
(no particular order)
(no particular order)
@infobeautiful This post did it! I had to buy the book.
Now I have to get the 1st book, and ALL your new books! Also, I have to put you in your own list--so I don't miss a post.
Thank you, David, for the GOOD news!
It is that time of year, so I thought I’d mention that my book YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION is very much a thing you can buy for any tech workers in your life. Or yourself!
You can buy it just about anywhere books are sold, or ask your library to grab a copy! https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/
Three bright red copies of the book “You Deserve a Tech Union” are stacked on a gray wooden surface. The stack is flared slightly, so that the corners of the lower books are peeking out from below.
A screenshot of two pages from the digital version of “You Deserve a Tech Union”, showing the beginning of Chapter 3, titled “What is a Union?
Screenshot of three testimonials, titled “Praise for You Deserve a Tech Union”. Peter Olney, retired organizing director of the ILWU and the co-editor of Labor Power and Strategy, described the book as, “A wonderful back-pocket book, perfect for any tech worker interested in powering up and getting a union.” The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee described the book as “A compelling and galvanizing read — not just for tech workers, but for anyone who is union-curious. ” Nozlee Samadzadeh, a member of the New York Times Tech Guild, said, “ You Deserve a Tech Union is a how-to guide, a history lesson, and a manifesto all in one. Ethan Marcotte starts by laying out the case for unionization in tech, and ends with a rallying cry for using our power as workers. I wish we’d had this book as we organized the New York Times Tech Guild.”
More examples of my favorite book cover commissions - and now you can reserve a spot for 2025 to have your own 100% HUMAN MADE illustrated cover for your book, short story, or just for fun!
Contact: hiisikoloart@gmail.com
My website for more references: https://mxmilo.wixsite.com/hiisikoloart/hiisikoloartcover-commissions
#art #opencommissions #illustrations #Book #books #bookstodon #author #indieauthor #bookcovers #reservations
Graphic that depicts how a book cover is made by hiisikoloART. Commission me: hiisikoloart@gmail.com Commissions include: 3 thumbnails sketches, adjusted sketch, paperback - eBook, Hand drawn title, Original font (optional), separate title files as PNG. NO AI, 100% illustrated. The graphic displays how the 3 thumbnails in this work looked like - two different title sketches types, and 3 different compositions how the jaguar could be. In first one the jaguar is creeping up towards the onlooker, in second the jaguar would be in mid transition between jaguar and human-form, and third one is the one client selected. Above the sketch is cleaned up sketch of the thumbnail with color placements to help client visualize the work. Rest is a showcase of the eBook and paperback with had drawn titles like the author name "Sienna Eggler", and "Voracity" as the title of the book. The back text, is custom made for the cover and tells the story in the book. The illustration depicts a black jaguar peeking amongst jungle leaves in a dark, moon lit forest. Its eyes are shining yellow, and its maw is bloodied, the red streaming down on a hand below its jaw. The hand is pale in middle of a transfomation - finger nails turning into claws, and forearm coating with black fur. The spine of the book, like the main title, is shredded with claw marks. The back illustration depicts bloodied leaves of a jungle, and wide opening view of the endless forest revealing a full moon among sparse clouds.
Illustrated eBook cover in a clean lined sci-fi styled. Uses colors of teal, and deep blue at the forefront and the background where you can see a sprawling city of glass and tall structures. At the forefront is are papers magnetized to a wall. the papers draw a story of a detective case where a dog, which in the pciture is wearing a backwards hat, is missing. The title reads "The Celeste Files, Early Adopter Book 2", by "Sienna Eggler". Illustration is by hiisikoloART, and all of the art is original - including the title work.
Fully illustrated eBook cover with a 3d silver illustrated title work that reads "Eternal Kingdoms ALLIANCES" by "Johnathan Gaspar". The titlework at the bottom is shrouded in deep red that makes the the words shine and pop out of the background. The top title is lightly shaded with black to make the author's name more visible. There are five characters on the cover. At the top, a red and black demon-like entity with large horns and glowing red eyes that oozes black shadows around him. Below him are a black dragon and a raven back to back. They are of the same size and are shaded with red glow of the evil one at the top. Below them are the main characters. To the bottom left is a silver haired elf with elaborate braids on her long hair. She is looking up right in a different angle than the others. She is pale and looks almost startled. At the right is an asian man, a human, who looks up in a hopeful way. He too has a long hair but his is jet black.His clothes have patterned blues, that match the peeking blues of her medieval-style cut dress that is dominated with deep back over dress. His tunic is striped with white that match her barely rosy skintone. The background is teal colored and it is split by oval shapes that surround the five in ombre reds and blacks. This is a commisison made by hiisikoloART. All of the art is original, and no other assets were used.
A simple style eBook cover. Title reads in twirling ombre deep blue colors "Eldrain Four". The "O" in the word "Four" is replaced with a gold rimmed shield with a flaming sword at the middle of it. Author name "Johnathan Gaspar" is at the top, circled with golden hue like the main title. The background is of many blues that showcase the silhuette of a mountain range. The main focus is at a white wold that has stark colorful lines that create his form. The lines shine in many colors from deep blue, to teal, and gold. His nose and mouth are black, and eyes deep yellow and orange. He and the titles are surrounded with white branches that are white, teal, and shine with gold like frost would have gilded onto them. 100% original illustration by hiisikoloART - including the title work.
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A very late comer to this and I only read it because I wanted to know the story before the film.
I probably should've just waited for the film. I don't love hard SF anyway and there is So Much science in this, but absolutely zero character work which always disappoints me. The story did hook me, at least, as did Rocky. A solid three star read due to the latter, for me.
At least Ryan Gosling has buckets of charisma, which will make up for the main character having none.
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Cover of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Binged the first four Murderbot novellas in two days - that's one way of catching up with the looming Reading Goal!
Hugely enjoyable, very glad I grabbed all these on Humble Bundle a few months back, they're so easy to read and so fun. I'm enjoying the world getting a little bigger each time. Decided to save Network Effect for the holidays, so I don't run out too soon.
🧵44-47 #books #bookstodon
An ereader showing the tv tie in cover of All Systems Red by Martha Wells
I've been enjoying working my way through Lahiri's works since getting Roman Stories in a book subscription. These stories are just as readable, featuring a range of immigrant / emigrant experiences. Lahiri is so good at making you get to know and care about her characters, with very few words. Rich, bittersweet and heartfelt.
🧵43 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Out now, The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder - a spooky sapphic tender funny murder mystery.
I also wrote two cracking warm, heartfelt, smart SF novels that non SF readers also liked. Our Child of the Stars and Our Child of Two Worlds, about 60s US and a childless couple adopt a star child...
My website has buying links, services I offer writers. and other interesting shizzle.
#writer #author #reader #books #bookchat #sff #authorservices #crossgenre #indieauthor #quaker #LGBT+, #bi
Text: "A devilish dance through Victorian fakery - a story that's mysterious, driven, and above all, great fun to read." The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox A striking book cover with the title and author name dominating. A rich dark blue background, and a touch of mist. The text appears in gold in a gold rectangular frame, the font is old fashioned implying C19th century. The frame has three rondels or cameos each containing a picture. Top right is a golden bee brooch with the body and one wing streaked with red blood. Middle left is foxgloves, spires of small bell flowers in pink, white and purple. Bottom right is a dark brown medicine bottle, with a pale label. The word LAUDANUM is just visible. There are pink highlights on some of the letters. Taken together it is bold, mysterious, and Victorian.
Quick, beautiful read about Britain and magic and the Camelot stories, from a different perspective than the usual. I don't read a lot of graphic novels but I've always liked Isabel Greenberg's artwork and themes, and this was just as good as One Hundred Nights of Hero, which you should also read.
Lots of humour in the artwork and a sweet story about stories and destiny and choosing your own path. A good Christmas gift for the young, witchy woman on your list.
🧵42 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Young hag by Isabel Greenberg
Artwork from Young Hag showing a map of the Other World
Double page spread from Young Hag showing the characters dancing around a bonfire
A satisfying end to this trilogy, which nicely draws together all the themes from the previous books, like using your gifts wisely, trusting the right people, the joy and responsibility of storytelling.
Feels like these books contain more of what Le Guin wished she'd included in Earthsea from the beginning (particularly more intersectionality and an exploration of power) and I'm glad she got to write them.
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An ereader showing the cover of Powers by Ursula K Le Guin
I've been working on this for a while now: a spreadsheet with the #books currently in my library and the ones I want to get.
https://web.tresorit.com/l/4pJIZ#ellcaW3apy6AFlAYGwpsCA
Some are a priority for me to get, others, I'll get as I can. There are even a few Mastodon authors!
I have started including the dates that I add entries so the sheet can be filtered to show the newest at the top.
If you're looking for your next good read (or want to make sure I'm not missing any gems), take a look!
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This here be my beige.party #Introduction
I'm a Gen X (1967) American who works in security for a living. I feel fortunate to have grown up through the 70s, 80s, and the 90s. I kinda look at that as the Yahtzee! of pop culture. What a time to be a nerd!
Music defines me. I don't have just a soundtrack to my life, I have a boxed set, including rare demos and unreleased live recordings. Wanna get to know me? Hang around for my music posts.
A song that's...me?
I am ADHD, and have Dysthymia to boot. I live an unmedicated life, and am kind of a mess as a result. I'm not anti-medication, it's just that I can't seem to stay on the wagon. If you follow me, and I don't immediately follow you back, don't take it personal. I'm trying to deal with over stimulation.
Politically...jeebus. To make it easy, I'm a Democratic Socialist. Honestly, I hate trying to define myself.
What I am (consider the following "AF"): Pro-choice, Pro trans rights, as well as a firm believer that women can do whatever the blue hell they want. I'm pro-sexwork, and pro pineapple on pizza (DO NOT COME AT ME ON THAT ONE).
I DO NOT. LIKE. NAZIS.
If you are a nazi, I do not like you. My great uncle put bushels of you in the ground in WW II. Follow Hitler's example and suck on the end of a loaded Luger.
I'm religious, and by that, I shall refer to a quote attributed to Gandhi: "I consider him religious who recognizes the suffering of others." I am a bit all over the place, and do not blindly follow any specific dogma. I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, but that's okay. Everybody else has their thing. It may not necessarily be my thing, but that's okay. Whatever your thing is, may it bring you comfort and peace of mind. Just don't be a wanker.
I am very pro Fediverse, and pro FOSS. Technology can be very cool and wondrous, if we choose to make it that way. I'm a Linux user, and have shed all but two mainstream social media platforms. I am attempting to de-google my life. I am VERY anti-AI.
Be kind. Always.
Lord, but I did ramble a one. That's ADHD for ya, folks: LOADS of bonus content!
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Oh my name is Jock StewartI'm a canny gaun manAnd a roving young fellow I've beenSo be easy and freewhen you're drinking with meI'm a man you don't meet ever...
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion
Levi Jacobs always of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi's journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.
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The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion. (Background) View of a planet from space. (Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text: Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my! Just another day for a young wizard. (Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf. (Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed. (Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends. (Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads. (Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather. (Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.
You won't find it on any bestseller lists, but if you take a chance... you just might find your next favorite read.
"Dark Presence is an intriguing paranormal psychological thriller that is perfect for those fans of this genre. But…..be warned…..you will not be able to put it down once you start reading!!!"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ11LT4F
#darkthriller #thrillerbooks #ThrillerReads #booksworthreading #books #indieauthor
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Out Now! Tiny Moments of Joy: #Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand
Hello lovely people,
Today's the launch day for Tiny Moments of Joy and we couldn't be happier to share the news with you.
You can get your copy here:
https://www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments-of-joy
It's available in print worldwide from our small publishing company, Swashbuckler Press* - with a special version for Kiwis and Australians.
You can also get it in ebook form in all stores (Follow the above link for all details)* *
Spoil yourself or gift someone you love with a little slice of Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Inside, you'll find 240 of the best market day moments from 2024/25, selected for how much our readers enjoyed them.
You'll also find a glossary at the back of common Kiwi terms and days just in case you're not familiar.
Huge, huge thanks for all your valuable support and positivity this year.
Sending a very big and maybe a bit emotional smile from the living room of a little wooden cottage in Aotearoa New Zealand.
xxx George
(Continued below)
The image is the cover of Tiny Moments of Joy: Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand. It's a deep pink colour with a white and orange serif font. There is a border of pale ferns and the vibe is of calm and chill, maybe invoking the desire for a cosy chair and a cup of your favourite beverage... and hopefully ca
The second image is of the inside of a book, propped open at the middle by a ceramic red love heart and a bunch of stones that were found on a beach in Golden Bay a few months ago. I knew they'd come in handy. Rocks are the best souvenirs. The book's interior is white paper with black writing, centred with a vignette per page. Looking at this picture, you now know that this is not an illustrated book, the words draw the pictures, but you get the impression that you will not need pictures because you will enjoy these words very much.
I loved this. Very similar to The Tombs of Atuan, in that it features a new protagonist in the same world, but also that that protagonist is a clever, driven girl who makes her own future.
Full of the importance of literacy and story, and the responsibility that storytellers have to their listeners. And wonderful characters who you come to love after only a few pages. I'm excited to read the last in the trilogy now.
🧵40 #books #bookstodon
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Now Available: “On Web Development II”!:
A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to 2025.
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A comprehensive ebook marking another 10 years of meiert.com, featuring 180 curated articles on web development from 2015 to 2025.
Do you like reading fantasy and/or science fiction? You can get my mini collection "Distant Worlds: A Science Fiction & Fantasy Sampler" as a subscriber gift when you join my newsletter.
When you receive your welcome email, and every newsletter after that, there will be an "unsubscribe" link so you can end your subscription whenever you want.
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This collection of short science fiction and fantasy works gives you five tales in different worlds created by indie writer Stuart J. Whitmore. It includes three short stories and two novellas, with a total of more than 60,000 words (about equal to a short novel). The tales included in this sampler are: Tea Leaf Technology (Science Fiction) - a short story about a galactic con job in a tea cup. The Vengeance of Mirickar (Fantasy) - a novella about a farm boy who is driven to take up a sword to avenge his parents. Wolf Block (Science Fiction) - a short story / novelette about a rich young woman who gets more than she bargained for when she obeys her government's call to service. The Prophesied Awakening (Fantasy) - a short story about a young woman who survives a sacrificial rite. KINRU (Science Fiction/Psychological Thriller) - a novella about three men in a high-tech society who have a strange and surprising connection to each other.
📚 Afin de financer les deux premiers livres de la collection, nous lançons aujourd’hui une campagne de financement participatif avec un objectif de 9 000 €, qui permettront de prendre en charge l’ensemble des dépenses liées à la collection (lien en bio)
👍Votre participation sous forme de précommande vous permettra de recevoir les livres dès qu'ils sont imprimés / février et juin 26 ✅️
❗️❗️Votre soutien est essentiel pour faire naître cette collection, diffuser ces textes, faire circuler les idées abolitionnistes et renforcer les solidarités autour de ces luttes❗️❗️
Nous comptons sur vous pour faire vivre ces luttes et ces textes !
Couverture de livre rose et bleu avec les titres : La bureaucratie de la punition et « Nous détruirons les prisons coloniales ! »
❗️❗️Nouvelle collection & premier financement participatif ❗️❗️
🔶️ Nous sommes super content·es de construire, avec @GwenRicordeau , une nouvelle collection : Cahiers Abolitionnisme Pénal.
🔶️Une collection dédiée aux pensées et aux luttes abolitionnistes pénales, qui vise à nourrir l’imaginaire abolitionniste tout en créant un espace de réflexion et de discussion.
🦉 https://ulule.com/cahiers-abolitionnisme-penal/
🗓 Fin de la campagne : 11/12/2025
#books #livres #sortielitteraire #abolishprisons
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Continuing my (deliberately) slow paced Le Guin read. This is a quiet and thoughtful book with not a lot of action, but plenty of wonderful world building and character work. No one can do as much with as few words as Le Guin.
There's a lot here about using your gifts wisely, but also about making your own choices and not letting yourself be used by others. When to use power and when it's more powerful not to.
Diving straight into the next one!
An eraser displaying the cover of Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin
Perhaps this might be easier for some to read? #gaza #Palestine #Israel #news #books #poetry #writing #bookstodon
“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote Adorno in 1949. Yahia Lababidi’s new volume—the poet’s eleventh—Palestine Wail, affirms how “during a genocide, most words lose their meaning,” they become uneasy, while tears and kindness speak more accurately.
On a certain level, then, violence affects language fundamentally, as Adorno intuited. The genocide of the Palestinian people, carried out by the Israeli army since 2023, has indeed put language to shame.'
https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november/palestine-wail-yahia-lababidi
#books #bookstodon #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #news #writing #poetry
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Daraja Press. 2024. 116 pages.
If you like character-driven dark, epic fantasy you might like my book Shadow of the Elders. It's the first in a series where three people get swept up in a series of escalating crises during a world-altering drought! Secondary world with low magic, witty banter, and harsh consequences.
You can find it at most bookstores https://books2read.com/shadowoftheelders or if you don't want to buy it, check your local library! My website www.willelmauthor.com for more details
Book promotion image with a hooded rider on horseback on the left Shadow of the Elders book cover on right. Author Will Elm. Red background, black tree in the center growing out of a white angular design and surrounded by repeating white lines that recede into distance. Three people, black, shadows, walk white paths towards the tree. Quotes on the left read "Imaginative, intense, and full of heart." with 5 stars beneath it. Available wide at barnes and noble, amazon, apple books, ratkuten kobo, smashwords, bookshop.org, google play books, and more.
Hello le Fédiverse,
Nous sommes l’Atelier Téméraire, maison d'édition associative anarcha-féministe. Basé·es à Brest, les Téméraires se déploient à Angoulême, Bruxelles, Lyon, Bagnolet et Strasbourg. Nous publions plusieurs types d'ouvrages, du fanzine au livre d’artiste en passant par des livres traditionnelles.
Depuis 2023, l'association édite une revue autour des pratiques du graphisme politique et militant. Nous concevons une partie de nos livres avec des outils libres, dans une démarche d'émancipation et de partage des savoirs.
Retrouvez nos actus ici !
#introduction #books #bookstodon #print #art #graphicdesign #MastoLivre #Livres #Zines
Scan d’une couverture de livre de couleur rouge et noir qui laisse penser à de la lave en fusion. On peut y lire le titre ZORBA et le nom de l’auteur Jack Torrance.
Photo d’une brochure de couleur orange ou l’on peut lire dans un dégradé Manifeste Féministe Pro-Droits Travailleuses et Travailleurs du Sexe.
Scan d’une couverture ayant une esthétique de glitch pixellisé de couleur rouge et noir. On peut lire le titre PARADOXE en haut à droite de la page.
Scan d’une couverture de livre blanche avec une typo à empattements indiquant le titre « Quand je n’écrit pas », l’autrice Vincianne Mandrin, la collection Écrits d’artistes et l’éditeur Atelier Téméraire
Read this in one wet, windy night, which was atmospherically perfect for this wonderfully woody novella.
If you like Green Men and folklore and autumn and forests, then you'll love this, plus it has a lovely queer love story too.
If you're in the UK you'll need to buy it online (try Blackwells) as it doesn't seem to have reached the shelves but her latest (The Incandescent) has so Ill be reading more of her.
🧵38 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
A seasonally appropriate read, and interesting to read some 'foundational' SFF short stories.
My favorites were The Emissary, Scythe, Uncle Einar and The Wind. No one can write nostalgia quite like Bradbury.
I was going to whinge about the female characters, but he saved himself with Tildy in There Was an Old Woman, who was excellent.
Small Assassin and The Next in Line were very creepy.
Short stories are sso good for SFF, must seek more out.
🧵37 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The October Country by Ray Bradbury
A wide, slightly shallow, survey of British children's literature - not that it could have been much wider without doubling the length!
Really good indepth looks at some authors (Kipling, Nesbit, Hodgson Burnett) not enough on others (Lucy M Boston) and a few unforgivable absences (Joan Aiken, Elinor M Brent Dyer)
Interesting how many children's authors were terrible parents, and had terrible childhoods themselves - giving us the idyllic pasts they never actually had.
🧵36 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith
A short but beautiful and sad read. Loved the way you get such a vivid portrait of the family from so few pages, and how real their grief feels.
I've read Porter backwards, as I read both Lanny and Shy before this. I think this and Lanny are my favorites - I love how Porter brings an earthiness and sense of folklore to ordinary human lives.
🧵35 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
I wish I'd read this when I was younger. Loved the endless summer vibes, the adolescent angst, that feeling of escaping an ordinary, humdrum existence and lovely Willmouse.
But oh it's so hard in this day and age to read all the fully grown men lusting over the 'blossoming' 16 year old girl, like it's normal. That part has not aged well, which is a shame, because so much of the rest is timeless.
🧵34 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
#ScribesAndMakers 10Oct—Shameless self-promotion day!
If you like fantasy stories where:
❤️ the romance is sweet
💧 the magic elemental
🔮 the mystery deep
🗡️ the action & adventure edge-of-you-seat
🫂 the emotional trauma real & raw
Then check out my almost complete series, The Way of The Wielder! Available on Amazon in print, ebook, and KU.
US series link (others in comments): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYDPLBZ7
#books #SelfPromo #reading #fantasy #RomanticFantasy #SelfPublishing #Writer
An image showing the covers for my published books. The series name (The Way of the Wielder) is in white text at the top, and immediate beneath that is Book One (in blue text), Book Two (in red text), and Book Three (in green text). Beneath that is the covers for each book, respectively. Book one is on the left. It’s titled, “The Way of the Wielder”. On the cover is the profile of a young woman looking left, staring at a glowing blue orb in her hand. Behind her is a misty cityscape, and between her and the author’s name (at the bottom of the cover) is a vignette of a fox running across a mountainous landscape. Book two is in the center. It’s titled, “Mysteries of the Material”. On the cover is the profile of a young man facing right, staring at a fox mask in his hand; the other is holding a dagger. Between the title and the author’s name is a vignette of a woman standing before a glowing stone building. Book three is on the right. It’s titled “Convergence of Connection”. The cover features a young woman facing the viewer, her hands before her with four orbs (green, gray, red, and blue) hovering around them. Behind her is a green and gold glow with leaves and vines along the edges. Between the title and the author’s name is a vignette of an angel before a starry golden sky. Below that, the following text in white: Paperback, Kindle, and KU options available on Amazon now!
For advanced readers:
Machiavelli on International Relations by Marco Cesa (2014)
This anthology gathers together for the first time all of Machiavelli's writing on international affairs. About 60 excerpts are organized around key themes, such as: the idea that political action takes place in a context that constrains decisions and affects outcomes;
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the central role played by fear in influencing foreign policy; the ways in which domestic politics and international politics interact; the fundamental functions performed by the armed forces; the similarities and differences in the foreign policy of republics and principalities; the ambivalent relationship between defence and expansion; the curse of neutrality and the ambiguities of alliances; the precariousness of international arrangements and the inherent instability of any settlement. An introductory chapter and accompanying illustrative materials guide the reader through the conceptual world of Machiavelli and the complex political events of his time.
Recommending reading (a starting point) in international relations:
International Relations: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Wilkinson, 2007
Of undoubtable relevance today, in a post-9-11 world of growing political tension and unease, this Very Short Introduction covers the topics essential to an understanding of modern international relations. Paul Wilkinson explains the theories and the practice that underlie the subject [see alt text]
and investigates issues ranging from foreign policy, arms control, and terrorism, to the environment and world poverty. He examines the role of organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union, as well as the influence of ethnic and religious movements and terrorist groups which also play a role in shaping the way states and governments interact. This up-to-date book is required reading for those seeking a new perspective to help untangle and decipher international events.
Looking for a good read for the weekend? Check out my debut novel, Critical Balance.
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Two women float in zero-g in front of a city-sized space station.
From today on, new posts from my website's #RSS feed will be automatically posted here (for simplicity's sake, I'm trying out #MastoFeed via https://mastofeed.org/). In the mean time, here is an overview of my latest posts that I haven't mentioned here before:
- I'd like to be better at book reviews: https://kedara.eu/better-book-reviews/
- Blaugust 2025: https://kedara.eu/blaugust2025/
- Blaugust 2025 Favorites: https://kedara.eu/bookmarks/blaugust2025/
- More multilingualism please: https://kedara.eu/more-multilingualism/
- Back to sketching: https://kedara.eu/back-to-sketching/
#books #writing #blaugust #PersonalWeb #indieweb #language #house #sustainability #BlogPost
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"The Gift & The Legacy: African American Philanthropy as Power, Purpose and Promise, Taroue W. Brooks reframes the conversation, reminding us that philanthropy is not confined to financial contributions but encompasses time, talent, ties, testimony, treasure, and trust." By Staff Heart &Soul Magazine 9.16.25
https://www.heartandsoul.com/culture/the-heart-of-philanthropy/
#bookstodon #books #Blackmastodon #BlackFedi
Book cover of The Gift & The Legacy: African American Philanthropy as Power, Purpose and Promise, by Taroue W. Brooks. An abstract drawing of vibrant colors of green, orange, blue, red, and yellow.
@DCBookstoPrisons for discovery, to help you get some follows/traction - tagging in #dc #FreeThemAll #prison #abolition #prisonabolition #prisons #jail #bail #books #aclu #nonprofit #WashingtonDC
During the birdsite's heyday, it was a place where we engaged with other people who cared about sending #books to incarcerated #readers. We followed and retweeted #prison book programs in the US, Canada, UK, and France. We also chatted with many of our volunteers and supporters.
We love Mastodon, but are finding it a bit lonely. We would love to follow other groups that send books to people in #prisons. Does anyone have recommendations for whom we should follow?
Boosts welcome.
The most original novel I've read in a long time, with fantastic world building and language. The magic and mythology is rich and varied. Chandrasekera does a brilliant job of giving us an immigrants POV into a complex, bureaucratic, often violent city / state and keeping you on edge throughout.
It can be a confusing read but I think we're meant to be confused, and not try too hard to make sense of things.
I have Rakesfall on my shelf already and looking forward to it.
🧵33 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
This leftist book co-op just launched a GoFundMe to open its own brick and mortar space in DC! #books #cooperatives #democracy
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IT’S HAPPENING! Bol is excited to announce that we are moving into a brick-a… Bol Coop needs your support for Help BOL Launch Its First Brick-and-Mortar Store
If you've been enjoying the content for my upcoming book, "Dragon's Reign: The Lost Society" well good news! I made a mailing list and if you join the mailing list, you can receive the advance reader copy a month before the actual book comes out!
#dragons #writing #reading #books
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Thank you for wanting to join the mailing list! I promise not to spam you as I'll only send emails relating to any of my upcoming books! If ...
Updated introductory post:
Hiya! I'm Cris, a 40+ expat living in #costarica. My family moved here recently to escape the American nightmare hellscape. Struggling daily to learn Spanish and to function outside the US.
Married with 2 kids, 2 cats, and 2 dogs. I'm a knitter and gamer. I'm slowly teaching myself #SwiftUI in my spare time. Once I'm able to ship my bass from where it's stored in the US I’ll get back to learning that as well.
I play and run TTRPGs. Mostly D&D 5e, but I'm always looking for opportunities to try out other games and systems. I prefer my video games solo and story-driven. I know I'm bad at them. I don't need any witnesses to that fact 😂
When I'm not gaming or working, I’m usually knitting while watching something scifi or horror. Trying my best to get out of the house and explore my new country, but the backlog is vast.
Topics of interest:
#tech
#apple
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#ttrpg
#books
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A quick read for a hot weekend spent doing very little - lovely to read about lakes when it's too hot to go outside*!
A great wee book, ranging over many topics including motherhood, discovering your roots, language and indigenous history. Erdrich asks "Books. Why?" and gives several satisfying answers.
Really enjoyed exploring a corner of North America I knew nothing about and falling down wiki holes afterwards.
🧵32 #books #bookstodon
(*for Scotland, we overheat easily!)
Cover of Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich
A really good city read, full of New York glamour, dancing and jazz. Excellent characters as well - so many could be stereotypes but Towles makes each of them fully dimensional. Katey is a great narrator and I really enjoyed spending her year with her. Left me thinking about my own twenties in London and what choices I made to end up where I am now.
🧵31 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Ok. Poll ends. 7% of those who responded “have a life,” so aren’t interested in a free chapter of my friend MS Harker’s book on “the secret life of pianos.”
For the rest of you (93%), be sure to get your free chapter at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com
#Msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon #free
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@secretgeek
Only somewhat more exciting.
#books
I suppose an introduction is in order. Better make one before I forget...
I'm Ferrus, your local queer goat! 🐐
I'm a #pansexual, #agender, and #aromantic of the #autistic #furry variety! My presentation is primarily feminine, though I incorporate some masculine or neutral pieces when the mood strikes me.
I was born and raised in #newzealand, though you wouldn't know that from my accent, a weird american-british-kiwi hybrid.
My Hobbies/Special Interests include but are not limited to: #linux, #anime, #vidogames, #tabletop, #books, #movies, #tv, #space, #fantasy, #sciencefiction, #oldtechnology, #lego, and #sustainablefashion
My favourite pieces of media are: #Warhammer40K, #TheExpanse, #StarTrek, #StarBlazers, #Tensura, #DungeonsAndDragons, #Pathfinder, #WorldofDarkness, #Stargate, and the #nasuverse
I may occasionally toot about these
Currently looking for education in some kind of Systems Administration Role, and run #NixOS on a daily basis. I also build my own machines.
My toots and boosts may occasionally be #NSFW. DNI with these unless you are of legal age.
Feel free to DM me, unless you're a #troll, #bigot, or anything else of the sort.
Offenders will find themselves fed to an Elder Wyrm (the mute/block button)
There are the beginnings of a good book here, but I feel like it needed 2-3 more revisions to get there.
The atmosphere of the house, and the Djinn, are really good, to be fair, and are the only thing that carried me through. There's some good character work, but it's often too thin and spoiled by poor dialogue. And there's some clunky grammer and mistakes that should easily have been picked up
It's a shame, it feels rushed out and I think that's the publishers fault.
🧵30 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
🎹 Would you read a book about “the secret life of pianos?”
ps. Get a free chapter at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com
pps. PLEASE BOOST SO THAT PIANO ENTHUSIASTS WILL SEE. Thank you.
🎹 📕 📖 ✍️ #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #published #books #writing #writinglife #music #pianos #musictech
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Hey! I've got eight #scifi and #fantasy #books available for sale. Six of them are #shortstory collections; two are novels.
You can get #DRMfree copies at https://ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop
Or you can find them through your favorite vendor at https://books2read.com/ap/ng21bz/Steve-DeGroof
Cover art of eight books
Thank you so much to the many people who helped and inspired me along this writing journey!
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A sad and difficult read, not really what I needed right now, but thought provoking nonetheless. And an interesting contrast with Life After Life; these characters, being Austrian, have a very different experience of the war than Atkinson's. Erpenbek explores how so many ordinary lives, families and communities were shattered in the first half of the 20thC, and like WG Sebald, she does it very well.
🧵29 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time!
https://books2read.com/shadowoftheelders
#bookstodon #books #fantasy #SFF #writingcommunity @indieauthors@a.gup.pe @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Book promotion image with a hooded rider on horseback on the left Shadow of the Elders book cover on right. Author Will Elm. Red background, black tree in the center growing out of a white angular design and surrounded by repeating white lines that recede into distance. Three people, black, shadows, walk white paths towards the tree. Quotes on the left read "Imaginative, intense, and full of heart." with 5 stars beneath it. Available wide at barnes and noble, amazon, apple books, ratkuten kobo, smashwords, bookshop.org, google play books, and more.
An interesting read about the stories of different Saints, and also what these stories can tell us about medieval society. Jeffs also explores how these shared stories supported the rise of Christianity and were then repressed by the reformation hundreds of years later.
Not quite as beautiful and poetic as Wild, but really informative and useful for pub quizzes!
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Cover of Saints by Amy Jeffs
Hi everyone! I’m John, and I live minutes away from some of the best beaches on the east coast of Canada. I’m a 50-something physicist who invented laser technologies to detect diseases using exhaled breath, as well as some holographic technologies for AR smartglasses. I’ve built several gender-balanced R&D teams that have done amazing (even supposedly “impossible”) things. The most rewarding part of my career has been mentoring young scientists, engineers, and founders. My interests are wide-ranging, including music, art, science, health, photography, books, reading, D&D, video games, biking, hiking, gardening, pottery, and much more. I am a lifelong feminist and ally. When I came to Mastodon from Twitter in the fall of 2022, I had no idea that I was actually autistic. If you made it this far, please wave or say hello! #introduction #actuallyautistic #physics #science #Canada #startups #founder #mentoring #books #DnD
Devoured this in a day! I love this series - every entry is so readable and the world Aaronovitch has created is so detailed and fun. I usually have minor quibbles with them but they never undermine my enjoyment. Great dialogue, characters and action scenes. And effortlessly funny.
I always want more Nightingale, and the cast is very big this time around, but the story is still a good romp.
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Cover of Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch
Severely lost my reading mojo, trying to get it back.
This was an excellent book to try with; gorgeous prose, a complex main character and lots of russian folklore. This reads like a modern fairytale, which is a really difficult tone to get right. I lost the thread a bit towards the end, but will definitely come back to this and seek out the authors other work, which seems disappointingly rare this side of the Atlantic.
🧵26 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Deathless by Catherynne M Valente
Some shameless self-promo: I've set up a #kofi shop. You can buy DRM-free copies of my #sff #books there (your choice of epub, mobi, azw3 or pdf). You can also buy me a coffee if you'd like.
Current cover art for 8 of my books
I'm a guy who reads, although not much, only a book a month or two, only fiction. I don't have a favourite genre. I mostly read books that were published before 2000s. Not that there aren't any good books published after that, it's just that they don't excite me that much.
These are my faves, The Stars My Destination, the stand by Stephen King, 11/22/63 by Stephen king, the dispossessed, a fire upon the deep.
#Favourites I keep coming back to when I’m looking for a comfortable known-happy time:
#Books: Discworld, The Culture, De Heersers van Kant
#Games: DiscworldMUD, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
#Music: Garbage, K’s Choice, Blondie, ABBA, The Last Internationale, VNV Nation, Florence + the Machine, Client, Ladytron, Night Club, Xandria, Spray, Sophie Straat, MINKA, Moloko, Inkubus Sukkubus, Within Temptation
#TvShows: Firefly, The Middleman, Coupling, Better off Ted, The Avengers, Hustle, Smack the Pony
#Movies: Ultraviolet, The Craft, Wir sind die Nacht, Boss Level, RED, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Atomic Blonde
#Beer: Grolsch
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BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm
This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.
If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
fedi.tips
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
*Please only add me if you're over twenty-one.
Since the Bio field has such a short character limit, consider this to be my profile/biography.
I don't write about American politics, race, anticapitalism, world affairs (wars, poverty, oppression, etc.), loneliness, bad self-esteem, or anxiety/depression, and will not add those who do so often. The same is true of those who feel it necessary to use obscenities. I am not a modern programmer or gamer, I do not use Linux, and I don't care what social network you use.*
Hello. For the sake of honesty, Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I use. I live in New Jersey and am forty-two years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century English grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, the Italian language, British history, the Regency, opera, and MS-DOS. I like coffee, tea, wine, cooking, reading, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I love opera, particularly singers from the 1940-s and earlier, classical music, from Baroque through early Romantic, and popular music from the 1950's through the 1970's, along with some acoustic recordings. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. I am happily childfree, am not religious, speak my mind and am against political correctness. I also love cats. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
http://dandylover1.dreamwidth.org
This is my dating post on Mastodon, which is shorter than the one on Dreamwidth. It's somewhat similar to this one, but it contains an explanation of what I am seeking in a partner. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, an intelligent, single, childfree man over sixty, please read the link below and/or pass it on to him.
https://someplace.social/@dandylover1/114966815790206512
If you're on MSN via Escargot I am dandylover1@escargot.chat.
I am also the administrator of the Old Opera, and Blind and Fine, subreddits.
Interests
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someplace.social
This is my Mastodon dating and friendship post. I will begin with what I want in a partner and/or friend and then explain a bit about myself. I am also considering this a second #introduction. For the sake of honesty, Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I use. I live in New Jersey and am forty-two years old. I am seeking a man over sixty (most likely over seventy) who is well-educated, well-dressed (suit/tie), confident, and witty. You should appreciate the finer things in life and strive for them when possible. I adore the voices, bodies, experiences, and company of seniors. Since this is clean, I will only say that I have no interest in bdsm or role play, and I prefer things soft below the belt, so do not worry if you're that way. I would prefer you to either live in or near New Jersey or to be able to visit me frequently if you don't. No married men (or those in monogamous relationships), one-night stands, parents/caregivers, workaholics, or recreational drug users. I am open to both fun with no strings attached and a committed relationship, but I must get to know you first. For friends, I am a lot more lenient. You can be either a man or a woman, should be over twenty-one, and should share at least some of my interests. You don't have to be single or live in or near New Jersey, though if you do, we could go places together. Please note that I have no understanding of depression, anxiety, mental illness, low self-esteem, etc. I also have no interest in politics or world affairs. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. This doesn't mean I don't enjoy adult fun. I enjoy discussing various topics and learning new things. I am happily childfree, am an atheist, speak my mind, and I am against political correctness in speech and writing. I also love cats. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century English grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, the Italian language, history, and the Regency. I enjoy coffee, tea, wine, cooking, reading, nature and historical documentaries, antiques, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I love opera, particularly singers from the 1940-s and earlier, classical music from Baroque through early Romantic, and popular music from the 1950's through the 1970's, along with some acoustic recordings. I prefer antique menswear and accessories (no makeup or feminine clothing). My Ideal Man A bit about me, what I am seeking in a man, plus extra commentary on both. All content is clean and suitable for everyone. However, it does contain links to two entries with adult content that may be of interest to potential partners. https://dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/2263.html Escargot Chat (Windows Live Messenger): dandylover1@escargot.chat #AgeGap #BoardGames #blind #cards #childfree #coffee #cooking #ClassicalMusic #culture #dandies #dandyism #dating #Dreamwidth #fashion #friends #friendship #gardening #HighCulture #history #Italian #literature #men #MSDOS #NewJersey #NewYork #opera #reading #Regency #relationships #seniors #singles #Windows7 #WindowsXP #wine #writing
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Didn't enjoy this as much as Oryx and Crake or The Handmaids Tale. It's very darkly funny in places, deeply uncomfortable in others, and scarily prescient about things like AI powered sex bots. But the characters are all horrible, which I always struggle with, and it all came together too neatly at the end.
Has reminded me to reread Oryx and Crake and then the sequels, though!
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Cover of The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
I was just told that I will be allowed to do a reading of my Fantasy/Attempted Comedy, The Last Philosopher, at this years Eurocon called Archipelacon 2 😁
@bookstodon@a.gup.pe @fantasybookstodon@a.gup.pe @speculativefictioncomedy@a.gup.pe @bookbubble@a.gup.pe
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#High #Science #Comedic
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Didn't enjoy this as much as I was expecting to. Its a lovely story, but not very well told. The dialogue in particular is clunky and the secondary characters all very wooden.
I enjoyed learning about Mesopotamia and about Yazidi culture - the ending of Narin's section is heartbreaking and the best part of the book. The description and imagery are lovely too, but the "telling" over "showing" really let the whole thing down for me.
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Are you looking for something to read this summer?
I've made a list of book suggestions for your summer reading. Not only do they all exist, but I have read and enjoyed them.
Shannon's Summer reading list for 2025
https://blog.shannonkay.com/2025/05-31-SummerReading2025/
#Books #SummerReading #Bookstodon
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Are you looking for something to read this summer? This list is a mix of old and new books that I can happily recommend. Not only do they all exist1, but I have read them. They’re not all explicitly summer-themed, but I think they would be good for reading in the summer. This list includes Adult, YA, and Children’s(middle grade) books, but I wrote these recommendations with adult readers in mind. If you have a child or teen in your life that would also enjoy the YA or kid lit suggestions, that’s a bonus. Maybe you can read them together!...
Amplitudes is out and available! I have a story in this! The feminine aspect of the Holy One fucks a closeted trans woman! There are lots of other good stories too! Read it!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770919/amplitudes-by-lee-mandelo/
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Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. USA Today Bestseller!...
I've avoided older fantasy works, assuming (unfairly) that they're all Tolkien rip offs, but I've seen McKillip's books suggested as being similar to Le Guin, so I gave this a try and wasn't disappointed.
Her prose has that similar simple and timeless quality, and she uses the worlds and language of fantasy to explore themes like power, control, the pointlessness of revenge and how men fear a powerful woman. I'll definitely be getting the Riddlemaster books next.
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Cover of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
Some other stuff I've done includes the periodic podcast Read One Other Book, reading through Classic Canon Lit as though it is... exactly what it was: popular literature that people read for pleasure. Season 1 covered The Grapes of Wrath with bonus episodes on The Worm Ouroboros. #literature #books #podcast
https://read-one-other-book.pinecast.co/
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A podcast about why you should read literally any other book besides the one being talked about on your social media of choice. Reading the Classics the way they were meant to be read: as popular lit.
Beautiful essays on the transformative nature of loss and being lost. Really thoughtful and cleverly expressed but requires concentration to follow the threads. I really enjoyed this and will come back to it, particularly the sections on 'The Blue of Distance' that explore memory and place.
🧵22 #books #bookstodon
Cover of A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
This won the Ursula K Le Guin prize a couple of years ago which is how I came across it - had to order it from Blackwells as it hasn't been distributed in the UK.
Its a short but lovely read about how small communities could cope with the climate crisis, how small actions matter and how we might make it through. Recommended if you liked Station Eleven and need a bit of hope in your climate fiction.
🧵21 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
My latest #ScienceFiction #novel is available in #eBook format!! 💫
It's about two women agents who are highly skilled fighting with blades. While they are undercover in enemy space, they find themselves in need of a new pilot. But they quickly attract attention from the oppressor enemy soldiers, which further threatens their mission.
It is a novel inspired by Western settler #colonialism and the taking of #indigenous land.
https://books2read.com/u/bWa70q
#Books #Writing #SelfPublishing #Scifi #Resistance #IndieWriter #Cyborg #Espionage
Book cover for The Planet of the Dispossessed by Lydia Conwell. Font is block type. There are line drawings of three swords in the middle. The background is a blurred star chart with planets and stars labelled.
It took me 9 days to get through the first 100 pages of this, then 1 day to finish it 🤣 So definitely a slow starter, not helped by a frustrating protagonist who makes awful decisions.
But getting past that, you find a noir detective story set in an AU where several million Jews relocated to Alaska post WW2. The language is incredible, the characters flawed but loveable and the setting rich in detail. A bit darker than my usual reads, but I enjoyed it once it got going!
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Cover of The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
My #introduction post. I’m a Canadian entrepreneur.
#Graphic artist, lifelong #musician, industrial #design school graduate, long-time #coder of things with microchips. Cross platform agnostic — all computers are good #mac #pc #unix, #linux, #ios, #macos, #android. Lives in the future & thankful for it. Loves #books, #movies, #cars, #airplanes, #computers, musical #instruments & fine #clothing. #He.
I dislike racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes and bigots of all types.
Green Queer Erotic Love Magic is the sometimes poetic and sometimes discursive imagination of a green queer erotic love-based anarchy. It discusses the meanings of green, queer, erotic and love and argues for the imagination to create "anarchy".
https://archive.org/details/gqelm-c
#politics #green #queer #erotic #love #anarchy #magic #imagination #pagan #art #writing #books
Black book cover which reads Green Queer Erotic Love Magic in rainbow colours
New #intro!
I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.
My website https://meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.
Some stuff I love:
#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction
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Website of hyperjack music producer, writer and video artist, Meljoann.
"Die betroffenen Arten spüren den Wetterumschwung immer ein bisschen früher. Sie sind wie Vögel“, schreibt Mely Kiyak. Seit 15 Jahren warnt sie vor dem Aufstieg des Faschismus. Sie schreibt mal wütend, mal witzig, mal polemisch, mal zynisch (ein Lachen am Abgrund), aber immer seismographisch genau in der Beobachtung und geschliffen im Wort.
Diese Beiträge von Kiyak tun weh zu lesen. Und das ist gut so. #Bücherwabe #bucher #books #livre #politics #politik #chemnitz #antifa #Faschismus #melykiyak
Zu sehen ist das Coverbild des Buches "Werden sie uns mit FlixBus deportieren?" von Mely Kiyak. In weißer Schrift stehen auf einem orangefarbenen Leineneinband der Name der Autorin und der Titel des Buches. In dem Band sind ausgewählte Kolumnen aus den Jahren 2013 bis 2020 versammelt. Das Buch ist im Hanser Verlag erschienen.
Fun, fast and frothy - not my usual sort of read, but several reviewers I like raved about this, so thought I'd give it a go.
Magical realism meets romcom as a single woman's attic starts delivering husbands - swapping them out whenever they go up the ladder. We never find out why, which mildly annoyed me. But the characters are great, it's laugh out loud funny in places and quite poignant in others. Lots of fun in contemplating the different lives you might lead.
🧵19 #books #bookstodon
An e-reader displaying the cover of The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Boost if appropriate!
Fediverse: suggest me the best (introductive) political philosophy book that I can binge on instead of doomscrolling.
Bonus point if it includes indigenous philosophies and bonus bonus points if it includes women philosophers or scientists!
I'm already familiar with reading secondary texts on philosophy, as I've read a fair amount of will durant and have been 'trying' to read A.C Grayling.
I'm loosely familiar with anarchism and Marxism purely from being affiliated with communists and anarchists online, but haven't read both the philosophies thoroughly.
Thank you fedi, stay kind and swag
Read over two long train journeys through sunny Britain - not quite as picturesque as sunny Italy, but still a good way to read this cheerful springtime story.
Four women, each with their own troubles, go on holiday together in Italy and find happiness.
There's lots to like here about the importance of beauty and love, and loving openly and whole heartedly, but modern readers would probably prefer they all left their husbands and started a commune.
🧵18 #books #bookstodon
Cover of The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The last of the Hainish novels for me!
This is a thought provoking, character driven exploration of an alien world and how we (Terra - future Earth) have managed to fuck it up. Similar to The Word for World but less overtly violent, here Le Guin focuses more on the dangers of organized religion, proselytising and cultural colonialism.
Beautifully written if a little thin on plot, and a tough read in places given certain governments actions and aims.
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Cover of The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
A really interesting read, ranging widely across history, geography, geopolitics and environmentalism using the various places she visits (Chernobyl, Montserrat, Swona) as an anchor point.
Lovely writing and just enough detail, with an extensive bibliography at the back. Flyn tries to strike a balance between moments of hope and despair, concluding that there's still time for hope, but that while Life may find a way, it might not include us if we don't change.
🧵16 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
In ihrem Essay zu Lessing betont Arendt die politische Relevanz der Freundschaft. Politisches Denken ist parteiisch, dabei jedoch nicht subjektiv oder relativistisch. Allein im Ideal der Freundschaft kann der politische Diskurs vollzogen werden. Das Verstehen-Wollen des Anderen ist die Grundlage von Politik. Die grundsätzliche Ablehnung des Anderen,wie es im totalitären Denken geschieht,ist damit der Tod von #Politik . #Faschismus ist nicht politikfähig.
#books #philosophy #politics #bücherwabe
Zu sehen ist das Cover von "Menschen in finsteren Zeiten" ein Essayband mit Essays von Hannah Arendt, erschienen im Piper Verlag. Das obere drittel des Covers ist eine Schwarzweißfotografie von Hannah Arendt. Darunter folgen Name und Titel in orangen Buchstaben auf weißem Grund.
A short and unique read, that has a very different take on the zombie apocalypse, asking "but how do the **zombies** feel?"
Surreal and quite brutal in places, this is a meditation on grief and love and loss, but I found it more Profound and experimental than I tend to enjoy, and despite some very beautiful passages, the prose teetered on the edge of overdone.
🧵15 #books #bookstodon
Cover of It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne De Marcken
In #Machtübernahme nimmt @arnesemsrott die politischen Institutionen und Regierungsprozesse einer Demokratie und ihres Zerfalls unter die Lupe. Dabei hält er sich mit übertriebenem Idealismus zurück. Stattdessen gibt er eine konkrete Gebrauchsanweisung für den Widerstand. Denn von großer Bedeutung ist hierfür der (scheinbar) vor-politische Raum zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen. Vom Nachbarn bis zum Buchladen. :)
Findet Gleichgesinnte und vereinigt Euch!📕 🌟 #books #politics #bücherwabe #chemnitz
Man sieht das Cover von "Machtübernahme" von Arne Semsrott. Auf dem Cover sieht man einen abstürzenden Adler. "Machtübernahme" ist in weißer Schrift groß auf einem roten Grund. Der Name des Autors steht in schwarzer Schrift ganz oben. Man sieht das Buch vor einer Häuserreihe von oben. Der Himmel ist durch die Untergehende Sonne gefärbt. Das Bild hat eine Stimmung der Dämmerung.
Loved this, despite high fantasy and long lists of unpronounceable names not usually being my thing.
All courtly intrigue and claustrophobia, but with a good person just trying to do the right thing at the heart of it all. "A Gentleman in Moscow" in Elfland, essentially. Destined to become a favourite reread!
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Cover of The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Loved this book, which reminded me very much of The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald and is similarly an exploration of the effects of WW2 on different characters and lives, via a writing desk that they've all come into contact with, which was stolen from it's Jewish owner.
Has a lot to say about the meaning with which we imbue objects, secrets and secrecy, loss, and generational trauma.
You won't like it if you need a plot, but if you like Sebald, you should try this.
🧵13 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Great House by Nicole Krauss
Doing this a third time since I migrated to gamepad dot club (yay!) ....
I have a passion for all things #art, #knitting, #spinning (fiber), #books, #gaming, and of course #cats - I have #multiplesclerosis and often forget I cannot do all the things.
Below are some pictures of stuff I've done:
(For the Horde mittens, electric Daedalus spinning wheel, and a digital drawing done in Procreate on my iPad)
A pair of mittens knit in black and red, with the symbol of The Horde from World of Warcraft on them.
A daedalus electric spinning wheel. It's 3d printed.
A drawing of a house on a hill, blanketed by forest and fog.
First new book on my new e-reader was a fun, fast mystery with a fantastic narrator who is both witty and full of themselves, and an entertaining cast of supporting characters.
The mystery ends up being a bit convoluted and solved rather abruptly, but all the fun is in the characters trying to figure it out.
Recommended for those in / near the English legal profession who might find some extra laughs in it too.
🧵12 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell on a Kobo ereader
It's here! Available now from Apress/SpringerNature, "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" brings to life tales of the unsung heroes of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them.
Find your copy at your favorite online bookstore, or learn more at https://thehammerbook.com
Boosts appreciated!
#TechJustice #EthicalSource #ResponsibleTech #TheFutureIsSoft #books #bookstodon
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Stories of visionaries from the past, present, & future of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them. Available now from Apress.
''Catherine Babault's Wild Vancouver Island is perfectly framed, visually stunning. She has clearly mastered the technical aspects of her art, and that mastery frees her to bear witness to the spirit of joy, discovery and delight that informs her engagement with the creatures and elements she portrays.'' - Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun. https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-catherine-babaults-wild-vancouver-island-is-perfectly-framed-visually-stunning
You can order a copy of my photo book here: https://www.catherinebabault.com/book/wild-vancouver-island-photo-book
#bookstodon #books #photography #PhotoBook #wildlife #nature
Cover of the book with a black bear filling most of the frame. The bear stands on a rocky shore and looks at the camera with intent.
-- Jacques Lusseyran
"Das wiedergefundene Licht": Als Blinder im französischen Widerstand
Die Lebensgeschichte von Jacques Lusseyran als Blinder im französischen Widerstand, erschien auf Deutsch schon 1966. Jetzt gibt es eine überarbeitete Übersetzung dieses tief berührenden Buches.
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Die Lebensgeschichte von Jacques Lusseyran als Blinder im französischen Widerstand, erschien auf Deutsch schon 1966. Jetzt gibt es eine überarbeitete Übersetzung dieses tief berührenden Buches.
New server, new #introduction!
My name is Seth, I am a #migrant from the #US to #Germany and am a #cybersecurity manager, having been in #IT for 10 years and #security for 5.
My interests are #politics and #CurrentEvents (with a CW), #history, #art, #books, #scifi, #nature, #science, and #technology.
I am a diehard #leftie #communist / #Marxist / #socialist and will always fight for #humanrights and #workersrights. I'm very boring and boost more than I post.
Lovely collection of folk tales, reinterpreted and retold in an imagined setting, based on the Isle of Man.
You'll recognize lots of the elements in these stories, but they're all explored in new ways and in gorgeous prose. The characters could easily be unbearably twee with names like Werrity and Plum, but they're not at all; they feel real and pull you into their stories.
Highly recommended if you like a bit of myth and magic, and a beautiful cover!
🧵11 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Folk by Zoi Gilbert
Aaaaand that's a nice reminder of why I don't typically chose books by Important Male Authors. I very nearly put this down after the first few pages but persevered to the end, mainly from stubbornness.
I can't say it was all style over substance as there was plenty of substance, particularly with Alex and his family, but it was all so obscured by the style that it was hard to connect with.
🧵10 #books #bookstodon
Cover of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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PT Rhyl " Detailed, sympathetic and both gripping and emotional. I had difficulty in not leaping ahead but by and large controlled that urge. The 'Reflections' chapter is a thoughtful way to conclude Williams story. I cannot think of a better way. I see what the author means about the appendices being time consuming. They are also fascinating from my quick read through. So many Polish and Australians as well as Brits, I must find time to read them again."
MO Cornwall "Congratulations, Rob, what a fantastic achievement! It's a wonderful, much needed piece of work that honours the forgotten everyman. An amazing example of military research, that would be of interest to military scholar and appeal to a smaller number of specialists (specialists in military history, but also students who would benefit from studying research methodology in its own right - whatever the subject)."
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I now have a date for publishing :- 28th February 2025. The paperback and e-book are already listed on Amazon, Foyles Waterstones and a dozen other places round the world (Denmark Taiwan, USA, Japan, Holland, Poland . . .) and should soon be available on https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/forgottenhero which is my store-front there. I will have a direct link as soon as it is listed as available there.
Here are some of the comments from my 'early readers';-
ML Abergavenny "I am not an historian or regular reader of military literature, but this charming and hugely informative book captivated me from the start - it even made me cry a couple of times! Well done to the author whose relentless investigative skill and sensitivity is obvious on every page. I plan to read it again, perhaps a little slower, and appreciate the smaller details even more"
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I couldn't bring myself to post it yesterday because I was completely floored by this. But Jay from Liminal Fiction has reviewed #HeraldPetrel and it came back with a solid 5 stars and the summary:
"If you enjoy ‘hard’ science fiction and space opera with a helping of romance, you will love this book."
I never would have been bold enough to even think of it as hard #SciFi
https://www.limfic.com/2025/02/16/review-herald-petrel-strange-seawolf/
@floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @QuokkaMocha @Firlefanz @paulk @HeliaXyana @SJHoodlet
#WritingCommunity #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #bookstodon #books #bookreview
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Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon About The Book Another spaceship, another explosion. Harold Galahad would love to wake from this particular nightmare that is so eerily similar to the events that cost him his beloved wife and destroyed his soul. But the only way out is by saving the ship...
A good read about a country and period I know little about (although I am mindful that this shouldn’t be my only read, per https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/06/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia-account-spanish-civil-war-wrong)
Mainly I enjoyed Orwell's account of the long periods of boredom versus the much longed for but terrifying periods of action at the front, and the creeping, tense atmosphere in Barcelona. And his observation that “Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.”
Cover of Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Raced through this very readable story with a loveable teen narrator who I really wanted a happy ending for.
Loved the setting, the characters and the Buddhist philosophy threaded throughout. Nao's part is definitely stronger than Ruth's, though I loved her Island home and investment in Nao's story.
The ending lost me with the quantum mechanics meets Zen Buddhism and left me wondering if any of it was real, or if in fact, I am, which is probably the philosophical point.
Cover of A Tale For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
* You can read Kathleen Jamie's response to The Wild Places here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n05/kathleen-jamie/a-lone-enraptured-male I think it's an interesting read alongside this book, and Kathleen Jamie's nature writing is well worth seeking out too.
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What’s that coming over the hill? A white, middle-class Englishman! A Lone Enraptured Male! From Cambridge! Here to...
A lovely meditation on how we shape our landscapes by walking, and how the landscape shapes us. Made me think about how old the paths I walk every day might be, and who has walked them before.
Perhaps in response to criticism of his earlier work* MacFarlane acknowledges the people who have walked these paths, keeping them visible / useable, even if they remain anonymous to us / history. I found the final section; the neolithic footprints in Formby Sands, very affecting.
Cover of The Old Ways; A Journey on Foot by Robert MacFarlane
Hello Fediverse,
I am a researcher in #geoscience, focusing mostly on hydrogeology, hydrology, evaporation and rock weathering. I am affiliated with Charles University (Czech Republic).
I am here to stay in touch with – and share – news about #science and academic life. That's why I chose #Fediscience as my home server and will mostly contribute to the tags #academia and #academicchatter.
I am in my mid-thirties and live near Prague with my family. I enjoy reading #books and spending time in nature. Addicted to #coffee.
"Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times" by Eyal Press is a book I first read a dozen years ago. I've been thinking about it lately, because its lessons seem more relevant than ever in our present situation.
It's about the willingness of individuals to stand against the tide, to say, "Nope, not going along with this", when confronted with immoral or unethical demands.
What impact can a single person have? How can one person stop an avalanche? This book shows us cases where someone wasn't paralyzed by that question, but did the obviously right thing anyway, under the pressure of surrounding group conformity.
I wrote about this book in more detail at that time, in a book blog I was keeping then. I think I want to re-read it again now, and to recommend it to others.
https://mariasbooks.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/beautiful-souls/
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Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press “Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times” This is the second time in about a year that I’ve been drawn back to t…
A fast, fun, summery read - would be a great holiday book.
I don't know Our Town at all, and I suspect it helps if you do, by but I enjoyed it anyway.
Lots of good stuff about the innocence and ephemerality of youth, how time heals all wounds, and children learning that their parents are actual people.
Cover of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
I need to update my intro post!
I'm Jo, I like to #read (most things), and do #knitting, #sewing & #crotchet. I also like to #write (fantasy) (1 book now out! The Raindrop Ramblers age 7 +. For your wildlife-loving kids)) https://mybook.to/RaindropRamblers
I do deep dives on rabbit holes #books
have taken me down : youtube.com/@jrbee
I have PLANS to learn other crafts.
I have one cat- Perdy.
Thanks to everyone who made me welcome, I look forward to getting to know you all better!
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I’ve been here a while, but I’m just now posting an #Introduction. Why? I’ve been a bit shy to, and as an observer by nature, I wanted to understand what this space can offer and what I can offer in return.
I believe in kindness, curiosity, and the types of communication that can arise when people hold those two values close.
I’m looking to connect with people who want to have these types of conversations and prefer going below the surface, sharing personal experience, and practicing empathy.
I also appreciate those discussions, ideas, and facts in my feed that scratch my intellectual itch as well as the beautiful moments that people share. I moderately boost.
I’m interested in topics such as better communication, belonging and connection, art history, sociology, culture, and the preservation of our collective and individual humanity.
I have many causes that I care deeply about, such as women’s issues and intersectional feminism, human rights, and information about covid/public health, and media literacy. Books and Eastern Europe are also high on my list.
While I believe in staying aware, I rarely post about straight politics.
I’ve already connected with some thoughtful, insightful, caring, curious people – would love to meet more.
#Introduction #Empathy #Kindness #Communication #ArtHistory #Books #Sociology #Connection #CovidInformed #Curiosity #Belonging
Wow, this was an incredible read! Better than Little, Big for me - the same beautiful atmosphere and prose but more plot. Not a lot of plot, but enough.
Not an easy read and I think I'll get more from it every time I go back, yet it's practically a cozy read in that it depicts a post apocalyptic society that's happy and peaceful, much like Always Coming Home.
Wonderful themes about the importance of stories to personal / community identity, and to passing on knowledge.
Cover of Engine Summer by John Crowley
Well, I promised myself that I would do this so here it is!
Lyss was as a peasant farm girl, daughter of her tiny village's woodworker. When an old hermit settles nearby she learns through him how to read, write and wield a sword, and about the world beyond her village. She decides she can't stay to be wedded off and live a quiet domestic life ...
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A Novel by Matt Pierce
Those looking for a Goodreads alternative, check out #BookWrym, it's a federated book tracking site.
I'm skribe@bookwyrm.social
joinbookwyrm.com
BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.
My bio is getting unwieldy, so here's a pinned post with all relevant info about me!
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I'm Layne (he/him), an early 30s bi trans guy from Germany and a library assistant and research specialist irl. Autistic, disabled, nerdy & chronically online. Ecosocialist antifascist.
trans rights are human rights!
punch fascists!
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Have a list of things you will encounter here:
#accessibility (I only boost posts with alt text)
#art
#books (fantasy, scifi, thriller)
#bunnies
#ClimateJustice
#MTG
#pathfinder
#photography
#politics (working on always CWing)
#Space (fuck SpaceX)
#transjoy
#VideoGames (rpg, action adventure)
[Header ID: progress pride flag comprised of NASA astrophotography © @thatfrisiangirlish.
Profile picture: a rainbow neon sign on a purple background featuring the phrases "love is love", "love wins", "support love", "live and let love" and "love is a human right" © Jason Leung @ Unsplash]
Hello Fellow Comrades and Survivors,
I wanted to write an #Introduction. I'm a mom trying to set a good example to a daughter in a deeply conservative state. I hope to build community and skills on how to survive and thrive through these times.
Let me know if anyone has any recommendations for some pages to follow. Since I'm #new here!
"Project 2025- much easier to understand in its original German"
#AntiFascism #anticapitalism #personalsecurity #selfsufficiency #antiMAGA
And because you have to have fun once in a while...
#crochet #books #buddhism #baking #cozygames #dungeonsanddragons
A fun, frothy story about girlhood in 1940s/50s South Africa, thrown into absurdity at regular intervals when the author reminds us what else is happening in the country at the time. A good example of the monolith of white privilege and institutions.
I also enjoyed the various character studies of why people had emigrated to the country and the prejudices and assumptions they brought with them.
A good read to learn more about a shameful time.
Cover of Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido
hello new followers and welcome! a little about me, 5 years ago, i was intubated with severe breakthrough #covid i had a #stroke and i am currently #disabled and doing my best to recover i read a looooot of #books and i like to post and talk about themas well as other random stuff i hope you enjoy following me and vice versa
@nikswonder @admin
Hi!
Welcome to both Mastodon and this server. Thank you for coming here!
Following people and hashtags are how your timeline gets populated. And since it's not an AI sending you stuff, eventually it's only about what you're interested in.
Many people follow hashtags, so maybe worth editing your post and putting a hash mark in front of your interests, like #books, and #science, etc. Use a lot of hashtags in your introduction.
And, follow interesting people.
I'm always here if you need help. We all are. Glad you are here!
Jerry
Warm hello from my corner of the internet -- here's my #introduction #introductions stand-up for hear-me.social
I'm in my late 30s, from the Elmhurst-Oak Brook, IL, area, USA, introverted, and I love waffles. I'm a lover of all things good, nourishing, and positive. Anti-Trump (but not socially political, will probably extremely rarely talk about politics here), progressive, and lover of wonder, serenity, sunlight. Hoping to contribute the good, inspiring, and cute here (like cute #cats ) . Maybe even get more serious and post some fiction and poetry as I know AI scraping is blocked on hear-me.
I appreciate the way hear-me.social implements Mastadon and the way hear-me chooses to open and closed- the protection against AI is my biggest fave. It is the only server stating that they do so. Utilization of many technologies to protect users is also another. Implementing the fediverse as the way it should be - federating openly -- while having moderation rules that are safe and pro-human. So thank you to @admin for that
My follow motto: #Nourishing, Cultured, Likes #books (especially #fiction and high #fantasy !) and #poetry, #positive, progressive, pro-science, anti-misinformation, anti-Trump, #LGBTQA +-friendly/allied, #BIPOC friendly/allied, pro-immigrant and allied, not overly-political or confessional.
Can't wait to meet everyone!
Borrowed from my mum; it's her favourite book so she warned me not to say a word to her if I didn't like it - luckily I did! Long but easy read full of the sort of escapades common to the British boarding school genre, with a lot of heart and idealism and sincerity, the sort that's very unfashionable these days.
It's heartbreaking towards the end to see a generation of boys raised in the shadow of one war sacrificed in the next.
Cover of To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield
Seeds of Spring is a 15 part comic book series based on the real life story of Peter Kropotkin, a former Russian prince who gave up his aristocratic life to become a notable geographer who mapped uncharted parts of Siberia, and one of the leading anarchist thinkers of his time, who escaped Russia's most dreaded prison.
The story is told from the perspective of Naguset, a 17 year old girl who is learning to reconnect with her Mi'kmaq heritage with the help of her grand-parents.
In many ways, both their lives parallell each other.
Physical copies can be purchased from Microcosm Publishing https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/10448
I am also selling PDFs of book 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 via my Ko-Fi
https://ko-fi.com/sacharavenda66232
(I am remaking this post to include volume 6)
#kropotkin #anarchism #comics #mastoart
#comicbooks #art #kofi #イラスト #books #bookstodon #indycomic
A series of comic books fanned out on a wood floor. The title reads "Seeds of Spring" volumes 1 through 6.
A good read for an icy day - raced through this multiverse story of the dual lives led by one woman after making a pivotal choice in her early life. Neither of the post WW2 worlds she experiences are the same as our own, meaning neither feels more "real" than the other.
There's often more 'telling' than 'showing', whereas I always prefer the reverse, but it kept me reading nonetheless.
TW for dementia.
Cover of My Real Children by Jo Walton
I need to be clear that my #math skills are embarrassingly limited and something I've always struggled with as an #ADD and dyslexic person. Going through school, subject after subject was presented as, "Now memorize this because you have to." Which was not very compelling without the context of what it can really be used for. I tried, I got high marks, but I wasn't included in the better classes with better teachers which created a cycle of disinterest.
As I read, "Dark hero of the information age : in search of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics" which tells the stories of how mathematics, biology, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, and computing were brought together to holistically in the 1940s to examine problems that span subject matter, it makes me want to go back and restart my mathematics journey looking at the contextual challenges those solutions were applied to. I think I could probably overcome many of my limitations by taking a different learning route.
Does anyone have other interesting books on mathematicians or resources that can build up math skills with independent study? Are there corners of the #fediverse that I can look at? I would appreciate recommendations.
I don't ever expect to be very good, but I would like to challenge myself to be more mathematically capable if I take the time to learn more behind the equations themselves.
Started this years reading - and therefore my 2025 book thread - with this lovely, short but thoughtful read from the author of Braiding Sweetgrass (which everyone should read!)
I prefer the longer, more varied essays in that book, but this is still a beautifully written piece about how we could reshape the way we think about economics and the gifts of the earth.
Cover of The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Newly migrated account means a new profile and a new #introduction!
I'm AllKeysGDS, or just "AllKeys", an amateur/home #chef always researching my next recipe
She/Her, Cis, Het, Black AF, early 30's
here for #AEW #ProWrestling #cooking #fantasy #books #anime #bookstodon & #gaming esp #PCGaming and #Switch #Nintendo #RPG and #JRPG ,
Also expect anxiety, #ActuallyAutistic, and some #NSFW #MarriedLife posts, including #BDSM
If any of that sounds fun or exciting, say hi or drop a follow!
Grateful to make this end of the year list & be among authors that I admire 🇵🇸
THESE 12 PALESTINIAN BOOKS DESERVE YOUR SHELF SPACE :
https://muslimgirl.com/these-12-palestinian-books-deserve-your-shelf-space/
#FreePalestine #books #palestine #newyear #poetry #bookstodon #writing #WritingCommunity #israel #news #politics #MiddleEast #ceasefirenow #genocide #peace
Excited to see that my forthcoming #book, a collection of my New & Selected #Aphorisms is available for pre-order in the #UK, today 😇 www.waterstones.com/book/what-re...
Kindly, help me get the word out, if you appreciate #poetry, proverbs, #meditation, wit and #wisdom, #philosophy, #spirituality 🙏🏼✨
https://www.waterstones.com/book/what-remains-to-be-said/yahia-lababidi/9781804323649 #books #bookstodon #reading #writing #WritingCommunity #inspiration
“Friend. What a word. Most use it about those they hardly know. When it is a wondrous thing.”
I've not read too many new releases this year but picked up Hisham Matar's "My Friend's" in March, based on how much I loved his previous works. It did not disappoint one bit, and I had to write on it. Such a *perfect* novel. Do read it if you have not yet!
https://thenovel.substack.com/p/chapter-2-in-exile-withmy-friends
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“Friend. What a word. Most use it about those they hardly know. When it is a wondrous thing.”
I think if the English language survives another five hundred years, P.G. Wodehouse might still never be topped.
Here's the dedication page for his short story collection The Heart of a Goof, published in 1926.
#literature #pgwodehouse #1920s #fatherhood #parenting #books #bookstodon #quotes #quotation #qotd #quoteoftheday #internetarchive
To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
hi, i'm Jiji, a somewhat shy, but very curious, queer tech cat (they/them) living in berlin. 
#introduction
i work as an admin and it security coordinator for a local non-profit.
i love all things #cats #books #tea #fountainpens #movies #gaming and #scifi, especially if it's just plain weird.
ngl, i'll mostly lurk for now since i mostly just like to follow the amazing things others do. but from now on you might occasionally see me in your notifications :3
Hi, Emil here. I'm a lvl 30+ Tundra Wolf #furry roaming the European Continent. 🇪🇺 🐺 🏳️🌈
Formerly a musician, my main trade is electrical engineering (power engineering, energy systems, power electronics) as well as mathematics, and I've been known to make and post artworks and write from time to time. (I'll probably make an art account at some point).
I'm passionate about #mathematics #education (and more generally #STEM and adult education), as I've witnessed first-hand how many doors mathematical fluency opens.
Things I like:
- #books and #reading
- #jazz and #jazzfusion (but I like most any music that is good, from classical to country to hardcore punk)
- #philosophy (I think Žižek and Adorno are pretty neat)
- obscure #technology
Fuck Nazis. Be excellent to each other.
When I joined Mastodon two years ago, the #7Books #7BooksToKnowMe hashtags were a thing, and I had fun compiling my list. How do I choose only SEVEN?!? At the time I declared that my list was by no means permanent. With that said, I feel an update is past due, especially since one of the authors from my original list turned out to be... problematic. I'm posting the original list, as well as the current version (images to save characters, with #AltText of course).
#Bookstodon #Books @bookstodon
Text only: "#7Books to get to know me (in no particular order, and not a stagnant list): The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid American Gods by Neil Gaiman The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal 1776 by David McCullough November 2022"
Text only: "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen November 2024"
Called a "first-stop, must-read," the 2nd edition of our book, "Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism: Between Now and Dreams," debuts Friday.
With the re-launch, Shahla and I created Love & Science Publishing, in addition to making the book more accessible to more #autism families, teachers and therapists.
The audiobook is available now. You can also pre-order the low-cost ebook or standard hardcover.
Details, other resources here:
https://peggyheinkelwolfe.com/between-now-and-dreams/
Hi, I'm an immigrant tech worker living in Seattle (aka a gentrifier; sadly). #seattle
Agender. #gender
Book lover but a slow reader (my therapist told me I have dyslexia but I think I just hate English /s). #books
Urbanist (not the liberal kind; pls don't call me liberal, I'll cry). #urbanism
I may or may not be an anarchist, depends on who's asking. #anarchy
Can't say I'm into #cycling or #rockclimbing anymore cause chronic pain sucks!
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my second novel, Prince Of Flowers, King Of Shadows.
Available to download FOR FREE until 8th November 2024. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLR1CN11
#fiction #sciencefiction #booklaunch #newbook #freebook #books #bookrelease #publishing #amazon #newrelease #ebook #kindle #kindleunlimited #free #speculative #speculativefiction
What do #Ents have to do with illegal miners in the Amazon rainforest? What do water protectors share with Hobbits traversing the wastes of Mordor? "Where the Roots are long" is an upcoming book (by me!) which explores environmentalist themes in the Lord of the Rings and how they resonate in the modern movement to address the climate crisis.
Read an excerpt: https://derek.caelin.cloud/roots
Follow on fedi: @Roots
water color painting: an ent looks out over Isengard, a burning industrial site
I write (frequently queer) fantasy fiction with entertaining characters, enjoyably perilous adventures, romantic entanglements, some dark undertones, but always happy, hopeful endings.
They’re widely available in ebook, and the most recent are also in print. Find out more on my website: https://wendypalmer.au/books/
or find your preferred retailer here: https://books2read.com/wendypalmer/
My latest book is Grace & Favour, a friends-to-lovers historical gay romance set at Hampton Court Palace.
https://books2read.com/b/gracefavour
#Books #Fantasy #RomanticFantasy #IndieAuthor #LGBTQRomance @bookstodon
A graphic of my book covers, with the word New written over the cover for Grace and Favour, which features two cartoon-style men and a dog in a daguerreotype frame, with a ghostly figure behind them, below the title title in big fancy font.
SEEDS OF SPRING UPDATE:
The book is no longer listed as a pre-order in the publisher's website. That means that the book is officially printed and ready to ship. https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/14448
Seeds of Spring #6: The Principle of Common Understanding
The synopsis reads as follows:
In a boat on a serene lake, Naguset and Mandy discuss their futures and their mothers. Later, they dance away their troubles. Peter, stymied by bureaucracy heads even further east to conduct a survey of Manchuria. His new beard creates welcome moment of levity before he has to deal with a disaster that makes him question his life choices. He takes charge of what he can, crystallizing his principles about leadership and community.
In this innovative serial graphic novel, Naguset, a modern Canadian Mi'kmaq teenager, exchanges books and mix tapes with her pen pal, Chris. Her imagination sparks when he sends her a biography of the 19th century Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin. The story juxtaposes Naguset's personal and political coming-of-age in her loving family home with Kropotkin's rocky upbringing in a princely palace. These two stories of eventful lives and bold hearts are interwoven with Kropotkin's theories of freedom, Mi'kmaq vocabulary and social history, and an uplifting punk soundtrack, creating a unique reading experience bound to inspire readers to think in new ways about the issues of our time.
by Christopher Coquard Author and Sacha Ravenda Illustrator
#mastoart #art #bookstodon #books #illustration #イラスト #anarchism #kropotkin
Comic book cover art. The title reads "Seeds of Spring - A Mi'kmaq teen discovers Kropotkin, punk and her place in the world, volume 6, by Chris Coquard and Sacha Ravenda The image shows a group of explorers in tan coats overlooking a snow covered Siberian landscape. The landscape in questions is called "Kropotkin Range"
My book, Flexible Typesetting, originally published by A Book Apart, is now freely available as a PDF: https://flexibletypesetting.com/
On my website, I wrote about why I decided to make it free: https://tbrown.org/notes/2024/10/26/flexible-typesetting/
Get your copy, and let’s move design forward together.
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My new title "Runner Available" has arrived on eBook and paperback on Amazon.
https://voxgeekus.com/runner-available
Fans of #cyberpunk and #sciencefiction, this one's for you 😎
This old image made me think of every single book lover in the Fediverse 📚📖
A black and white photo of a book store called "Yesterday's Books" with "Any Book $1.00" On the first floor, is a big sign "BOOKS will turn you on!"
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books #music
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
@mkb I may have to participate with you on this. Thank you.
#20books #books #20books20days
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
On the hunt for epigraphs.
https://openingquot.es/quotes/a-dreamer-is-one-who-can-only-find-his-way-by-moonlight
2 epigraphs on an ebook copy of The Night Circus.
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
Aloha! 🌈💐
Here's a #photo
I just took, on my way from Kona to Hilo, Hawai'i.
I started programming computers 40 years ago. Got a degree in Computer Science. I'm interested in a wide range of subjects.
Love word play, puns, poems, stories, and #books in general.
Have a sense of humor that's very eccentric and spicy.
Introverted. Love #Nature, solitude, #meditation, camping, hiking and #ocean frolicking.
Excited about using #technology to improve people's lives in a tangible way.
Support #unions !
Into #degrowth
Avid user of #Cannabis
Enjoy a good exchange of ideas.
Live in #Hawaii
Enjoy learning #languages ( human and otherwise )
Wide and eclectic taste in #music
Do say hello!
Photograph of a cloud covered valley. The Sun is shining majestic rays through the clouds. There is a tree in the foreground.
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
Hello! 😊
I’m a #Photojournalist. I love #Music, mostly weird alternative stuff. I read a lot of #Books and #Comics. I’ve been #Gaming since Commodore 64, and I watch a lot of #Movies, with a taste as eclectic as my taste in music. Sometimes I #Skydive!
If you’re offended by this 🏳️🌈, you’re not going to like me either!
Oh, I have two black #Cats!
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #20Days20Books
#introduction: I'm interested in how tech and society interact in ways that impact marginalized people. I'm currently focusing on the intersection of high tech police surveillance & racial residential segregation in the US.
I'm known for my work centering marginalized people in tech & gaming: AlterConf & Fund Club.
I talk about #surveillance, #police, #AntiCapitalism, #AntiRacism, #AntiImperialism, #abolition, #leftist politics, #sociology, #PublicInterestTech, #STS, #tech, #AI, and #books.
A quick #introduction, although I am not sure how often I will be posting here.
My interests are #photography, #literature #history and #travel and I collect both #books and #antique #photographs.
I identify as #Scottish through ancestry (Grandfather), and am decidedly #gay, #queer, and #LGBTQIA.
I am new to this instance, but not to #Mastodon, and look forward to seeing, to hearing, to reading from around the world and, occasionally, contributing.
I’m an author and journalist writing about science and technology and media and information. My books include Chaos, The Information, and Time Travel, as well as biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton.
My new history of the telephone will arrive in November.
#Introduction #authors #science #chaos #books #information #timetravel #telephone
"I find it hard to imagine how we could ever have "free societies" if we cannot even raise in ourselves the desire to be such people as think for themselves and create their own ethical values and relationships. The latter is a necessary and sufficient condition of the former."
I write about this - and how we need to become guerrillas, pirates and anarchists possessed of an "anti-politics" - in my book GUERRILLA MIND.
Authoritarian capitalism will only ever lock us in a prison as it kills everything. Are we - not them - really serious about change?
You can read my book here:
Black front cover of a book that features a skull and cross bones motif. The book title "Guerrilla Mind" is highlighted in purple.
#introduction in English
My toots are in Dutch and English.
Employed at the Dutch Court of Audit.
Collector of antique #books: city monographs and #local #history, printed in the 17th and 18th century. Owns an online #antique #bookshop to pay for this hobby.
#Blogger.
More than 40 years of involvement in #genealogy. My database of more than 100,000 people can be consulted on my website fasol.nl.
Own #mastodon #instance: fasol.org.
Hi I'm Nicholas but you can call me Nick, I live in South Australia.
I self published a book or two, the whole idea behind it was to make a present for my amazing partner, Bec.
I can't give her crap so I made some coherent stories. I didn't do it to become a famous author.... I'm a self-published author now.
I hope she likes it.
#writing #shortstories #books #introduction #author #selfpublishing #ebook #AustralianAuthor #shortstorycollection #reading #Hello #NiceToMeetYou #kindle #Adelaide
Just in: my publisher has sent me this photograph with new born book!
I’ve not held ✨Palestine Wail✨in my hands yet, but am excited to see that it exists in the world 🤗
You can order your copy, here:
https://darajapress.com/publication/palestin-wail-poems
Thank you, for your support, friends 🙏🏼
#Gaza #palestine #books #writing #bookstodon #WritingCommunity #poetry #reading #politics #news #canada #usa #genocide #ceasefirenow #peace #inspiration
''Catherine Babault's Wild Vancouver Island is perfectly framed, visually stunning. She has clearly mastered the technical aspects of her art, and that mastery frees her to bear witness to the spirit of joy, discovery and delight that informs her engagement with the creatures and elements she portrays.'' - Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun. https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-catherine-babaults-wild-vancouver-island-is-perfectly-framed-visually-stunning
You can order a copy here: https://www.catherinebabault.com/book/wild-vancouver-island-photo-book
#bookstodon #books #photography #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada #giftidea
Cover of the book with a beautiful black bear filling up most of the frame. It looks directly at the camera.
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens is an unusual ghost story -- one set in modern-day Miami.
Maybe it's haunted. Maybe it isn't? Palma leaves it to the reader to decide what's real. https://toot.lgbt/@lisawilliams/112079438893460746 #ghosts #ghoststory #spooky #books 4/x
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Attached: 1 image #Book recommendation: I loved Raul Palma's 'A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens.' I love #ghost stories in any case, but it's rare for me to find a contemporary one set in #Miami. https://libbyapp.com/library/bpl/similar-9537902/page-1/9537902 [1/x] #bookstodon
We're all going through a tough time right now — but we can still embrace our independent responsibility in order to succeed.
I've worked very hard to bring forth my best insights and perspectives to help others of all ages thrive. "Essential Information After #HighSchool #Graduation" is my proudest #nonfiction work. Ebook starts at $2.
Link below! ❤️🧠
https://amazon.com/author/mikewhitewriter
#selfhelp #books #America #English #audiobook #equality #freedom #money #success #peace #feminism #politics #respect
Oh, hello there! New instance means it's time for a new #introduction!
I'm Justin, a big fan of #StarWars, #Tennis, and #writing. I used to manage my own instance, but I am really excited to be among the fine people of https://social.lol!
Expect random takes on #PopCulture, #SocialMedia, random #movies I'm watching, and #books I'm reading.
I write a #newsletter every Tuesday and #interview an #author every Wednesday.
I am glad to be here and hope you say hello!
social.lol
social.lol is a lighthearted social hangout for the omg.lol community.
#introduction. I am a Reproductive Scientist in #Canada who studies how the uterus becomes a powerfully contractile organ at labour as well as placental development across mammalian species. I am passionate about #Science, #Scicomm, #books of all kinds, #history, #SexEd, and the countering of #disinformation.
20+ years of creating art professionally and writing poetry for self care = 5 books! High end 80# paper 100 full color pages. Large at 8.5x11 and suitable for framing.
HERE: https://www.artwanted.com/sharoncummingsart/store/
#book #books #Bookwyrm #bookboost #author #authors #poetry #art #poet #poets #poem #poems #artist #artists #artwork #artbook #gift #gifts #giftidea #giftideas #fedigiftshop #writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #writer #writers #haiku #smallpoems #smallpoem #creative #creativity #supportartists
Colorful compilation of 5 books by artist and poet Sharon Cummings.
New-to-me instance, so I suppose I should do an #intro again -- and pin it.
Late-realized #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #GenX #Enby and more or less lifelong Kansan living once more in the blue bubble of #LFK. In one year I will have lived in my current house as long as I lived anywhere else in my entire life. That is kind of scary to me.
I have no idea what I said as an intro when I joined Mastodon in late 2022. I had just gotten slapped by the book of face because I said I wanted to drive to Texas to punch a Nazi. That'll tell you a lot about who I actually am.
I'm still #Novid because masking is punk as fuck, as is caring about other people in your community -- not just the shiny loud ones who are always talking and saying everything is fine.
It's not.
I believe it's going to be some version of OK, but it's going to be really different, and it might be pretty difficult, and a lot of people are going to be really uncomfortable -- but you probably already know that.
I love reading, learning, sleeping, foraging, unlearning, listening, learning to repair things, and being quiet for long stretches. I grow as much food and medicine as I can on my own small property. I try to be a good steward and give back to the land and the animals.
I am a chicken tender, and they are the joy of my existence. Those goofy birds helped me get through some really rough years recently. When you've got creatures that you have to get up and tend to many times a day, there's a reason to keep your feet on the ground on this earth for a while.
I have two dogs, FOUR cats, and never enough time to do all the learning and reading or even work that I want to do.
I've been in my profession of bodywork for over 30 years and still love it. I'm only able to work part time due to my AuDHD and chronic physical conditions, so my work fits my needs very well.
I'm redheaded, left-handed, short, fat, and existentially angry most of the time, but I am also one of those people that will usually shut up after complaining and try to find a solution.
I'm a #meditator, meditation teacher, certified #yoga teacher, certified listener #poet, am becoming a certified #herbalist, and I like to question everything, especially authority. I have too many #typewriters and only two hands, and never enough time for all the poems that want to be scribbled down or typed out.
I'm a big fan of classic sci-fi, new sci-fi, speculative fiction, memoirs, and #books packed with useful information. I'm on the hunt for an entire set of encyclopedia, as I'm increasing my useful paper book collection. My TV choices tend toward #StarTrek, British comedy, and documentaries about weird cults/religions.
I'm very literal, and my sense of humor is very dry. I cut my teeth on 1970s #Doonesbury, to give you and idea of what I mean.
I am a weird combination of mostly vegan/vegetarian, but I do eat some chicken -- and the eggs my hens produce. So figure that one out if you can. (I can't!)
I love to cuss but I am very, very bad at it.
Some things I love about Mastodon: My Au friends here, all your cat and dog and rat and plant posts, watching monster movies on Sunday nights, my Novid and Covid-cautious friends, my #MLS soccer friends, and the character limit on this new-to-me instance. Woot!
Any questions? Thanks for reading.
Property and Contract in #Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy by David Ellerman
This book makes 2 arguments.
1. The employment contract is the core of the #capitalism rather than private property
2. The employment contract is invalid because it violates #WorkersRights to #democracy in the firm. All firms should be structured as worker #coops for economic justice
https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Ellerman-Property-and-Contract-Book.pdf
#books #philosophy #ethics #anticapitalism #capitalist #anticapitalist #BusinessEthics
#Bookstodon is now live on #FediGroups.
Follow the account, and/or mention it to have your post boosted to all followers.
Being on FediGroups means we work with many different server types. Some servers can't follow @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Hi! I'm Monday, your friendly tea fiend of a vtuber who also loves learning and indie and retro games! I stream on Sundays & Thursdays at 4 pm PST / 7 pm EST and Mondays at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST! Have a linkity! https://www.twitch.tv/itsmondaymoon/
This space is mostly to talk tea and geek out over vtubing tech and other fun stuff! I'd love to hang out with fellow tea fans, baking fans, and geeks!
Interest pile: #nature #food #baking #sewing #crafts #videogames #books #tea #vtuber #VRoid 
A reference sheet for Monday Moon, a white woman vtuber with pink hair with purple highlights. She's shown from multiple angles, wearing a tie dye lavender sweater, periwinkle shorts, deep purple tights, and light pink sneakers, with a large crescent moon in her bangs. The text reads "Monday Moon! Your friendly neighborhood moon vtuber!" at the top, and then below reads "Pronouns: she/her; Likes: tea, video games, cake, sewing, space, science, robots; Dislikes: being without tea, the void of space."
Big day! 😃
I’ve just sent my first photobook "4xKungsleden" to Apple Books and It’s available to pre-order 👉
http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6478578616
A few pages are available as previews to give you an idea of what the whole thing will look like.
I'll also have a few promo codes for you, so hit the notification bell on my profile so you don't miss out!
Graphic showing a grey photo album with coloured photos on the cover, lying on white sheets of paper on a desk. There is a plant next to the album and a piece of a notebook.
Podcast interview with Greg Newby
Thanks to Neel Lopes for an interview podcast with Greg Newby (@gbnewby), Director of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. The podcast covers Greg's early involvement with Project Gutenberg, and discussion about the background and status of Project Gutenberg's role in the world of online literature.
Prof. Dr. Greg Newby on being CEO of Project Gutenberg and being in the Government of Yukon Territory
youtube.com
Welcome to first ever Podcast of Life Information & Things (ITL) or more shortly known as Knowledge & Mind featuring our honourable guest , Dr. Greg B. Newby...
Introducing the Newsmast Books & Literature Channel. Hand-curated content from all over the Fediverse. A mix of hashtags, follows, filters and mutes to bring you up to date, engaging posts. Published by @newsmast as part of our mission to make knowledge accessible across social media.
Just follow, create a list, add the feed and exclude from your home timeline - see the bio for more tips.
Please boost and help share knowledge in the Fediverse.
Extremely in love with my next book's cover, illustrated by Rebecca Burgess (a fellow autistic) 💕
This book explains what it means to be autistic to kids (and adults!!) in a neuroaffirmative and fun way, and I can't wait for it to hit shelves in June 🎉
Published by #JessicaKingsleyPublishers
#writing
#KidsBooks
#Books
#Autistic
#ActuallyAutistic
Yellow book cover with 3 kids on it. Background of cover has numerous items such as fidgets, ear defenders, lava lamp etc. Book Title: "Being Autistic (and what that actually means)" by Niamh Garvey (me) Illustrated by Rebecca Burgess
Hello fediverse. I just wanted to let everyone know that I am currently seeking new freelancing opportunities to offer my #illustration services. I currently have experience in #comics , illustration for #books as well as album covers for musicians and 2D art for independent gamedev studios. I am also still taking private #commissions for #dnd and #ttrpg characters. Here are some exemples of my work. My full portfolio is: sacha.artstation.com #commissionsopen #mastoart #art #freelance
Illustration showing two teen girls in a canoe on a cloudy day. One of the two seems upset and the other seems concerned.
Album cover illustration featuring a clearing in an enchanted forest coloured with purple and blue hues. The ruins of an archway is standing over a small swamp surrounded by stylized vegetation ans many small specs of yellow light are scattered though out. The title reads “Le Bosquet” by Philomene Gatien.
An illustration of four characters First character is a young brunette women with long hair dressed in a Victorian era dress. She is lifting up her skirt and petticoat to reveal that she is wearing trousers and boots under her skirt. Second character is a red bearded dwarf dressed like a mountain climber. His pack is overloaded with equipment. Third character is purple android dressed like a maid. Her skin appears to be made of porcelain and she is articulated like a ball jointed doll. Fourth character is a tall half orc woman. She is carrying an oversized travel bad over her shoulder, and she is wearing a light weight dress.
An cartoon image of Albert Einstein, Robin Hood and Cleopatra, exiting a dimensional portal. They are all equipped with very inappropriate gear. Einstein has a colander on his head and is carrying an axe and a club. Robin hood is armed with some kind of sci-fi ray gun and Cleopatra is holding a spell book.
Hello! Here's a small #introduction. 📚
I'm using this account to track my reading. I plan to write down some of my thoughts after I finish a book, mostly for my own memory, but hopefully you'll find some interesting reads here too.
I read almost every genre, from any country, about anything that piques my interest. My favorite reads are often memoirs and speculative fiction. Disability lit holds a special place in my heart, and I'm passionate about books in translation.
I care a lot about the ongoing pandemic, so please #MaskUp and recommend me some good plague books!
ANYWHERE BUT SCHUYLKILL chap 1 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQb-BXzNBY
#HistoricalFiction #AnywhereButSchuylkill #WorkingClass #strike #Union #ChildLabor #books #bookstadon #MichaelDunn
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New instance, new #introduction.
I'm Daisy, a 30s #queer #demisexual woman, living in a rickety old house in Oklahoma with two #cats. I'm totally blind, so the use of alt text is mandatory for me to follow you. I write #poetry, voraciously consume all the #books, obsess over #horror, should be in jail for my crimes against plantkind in an attempt at #gardening, and listen to nonstop podcasts and folk and hip-hop music.
I would like to be a librarian if I grow up, or a social worker of some kind, or an editor, or. There are a lot of things to be and do and love in this world. My life's work is to dig them from the ground with my bare hands and hold them up to the light. In the coming years, I would like to start learning to bake, knit, read tarot, and roller skate, and learning to play guitar is a more ambitious long term goal.
I don't talk about these things much, but I live with #lupus, #ADHD, and #PTSD. I've been in therapy for over 7 years now and I'm mostly thriving, mentally if not physically.
I'm a #leftist and very firm about it. Cis but a supporter of trans rights, white but a supporter of BLM. ACAB, land back, free Palestine, etc etc.
Sunny.garden was one of the first instances I joined last year when I first came to Mastodon, but I wandered away from it for various reasons. I'm happy to be here now and I hope it will be a good and cozy home for me. I'm already delighted to have 3 times as many characters as I had before.
It's time for an #introduction post! Yes, I've been on Mastodon for a while, but decided that I should really be on my own (private, maybe with some friends) instance.
So as of today, I am @jarjan
My #interests are diverse, but I'll try a little list:
#books #reading #scifi #nature #climatechange #photography #streetphotography #humanism #travel #sportsclimbing #cycling #humanitarian #3dprinting #cats #music (lots) #punkrock
Please reach out if you have questions or want to connect!
ANYWHERE BUT SCHUYLKILL
Working-Class Historical Fiction
Available from these retailers:
https://www.keplers.com/
https://www.greenapplebooks.com/
https://christophersbooks.com/
https://boundtogether.org//
https://www.historiumpress.com/michael-dunn
Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!
#workingclass #LaborHistory #AnywhereButSchuylkill #fiction #novel #author #writer #historicalfiction #books #bookstadon #childlabor #union #strike #police @bookstadon
Image of a gallows headframe, above a mine, with a powder blue sky, with clouds, in the background. Caption reads: That damned headframe always gave Mike the shakes. It looked like a giant wooden gallows towering over the mineshaft, only eviler, with its cables and hoist, and the illusion of security. A gallows, at least, was honest. With a gallows, you knew exactly when you would die.
“It’s time to turn off this car accident of a tech future, and get on with reclaiming the world from this new generation of robber barons. These are not the demigods we’re looking for.” @Rushkoff brilliant article.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-the-unbearable-hubris-of-musk-and-the-billionaire-tech-bros
#books
#socialmedia #technology
theguardian.com
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial
Gaming in the obscure is available to buy https://mixam.co.uk/print-on-demand/6813e21211c9951bff4316db
#books #RetroGaming
The front cover of a book titled, Gaming in the Obscure. It's black with the title in blue and red. The cover also features 10 square tiles featuring red tinted images of consoles
A page from a book, the page is blue with second generation in large letters and two columns. The left column is a list of consoles and the right column is a generation summary: Thad largely consisted of machines with but in games, mosty artants on Pong, a game that Atari had used to create the modern idea of an arcade. With the second generation, games were Ataridecided to take its domina nice of the arcade popularised by Jerry Lawion as part of the the most popular machine of this goneration. Fairchild Channel F console. it wait without compcoton. Tholtoy punt Mattel released their locellivision console, it was Th created an hose Before, games technically superior to the 2600 and Mattel used developers were part of the company that their international cornections to secure some key exclusives. selected and pre-Installed. Consumers bought a machine and that was that, no extra games. Coleco released the ColecoVision. It was a powerfull system and had a number of add.on The move to cartridies not orsy created an devices to increase its features. Possibly the after-sales market, where consumers would buy games, but it also created the ides of game extension added the ability to play Atari 2600 developers and publishers, companies that just make and sell games independently from existing library of games.
A long picture containing three pictures of a book, the pictures show retro games and consoles
I've been on Mastodon for a year, so it's time for a new pinned #introduction post with an updated dog pic! I'm a lecturer in #computerScience at Australian National University #ANU in #Canberra , #Ngunnawal / #Ngambri country. I research #typeTheory , #logic , #proofTheory and a little #categoryTheory , and teach an intro to programming class in #Haskell . Sometimes I post about work; when I'm busy at work I'm more likely to post about #books , my #labradoodle , and other pleasant distractions
A black shaggy labradoodle in a red harness stands on some grass, looking with open mouth at the camera
#hi: After a month in #Mastodon, I started in #Fosstodon. So here's my #introduction- #presentation:
My paternal grandfather told me that, in order to get along (one person w/ others), it's preferable not to talk about #football or #politics or #religion and, even so, these're my top topics,🤨!
I'm from #sevilla & #sevillafc'fan,😏!
A lot of #news & some #culture (#art,#cinema,#books,#music,#videogames, etc),🤓!
I get along well w/ any #pets (except w/ “humans”), although I prefer #dogs, 🐶!
🖖🏻!
I'm also busy with #crossfit to keep my sanity in check, and am known to play a game from time to time on the #PC. Mostly open-world #RPG's, or the occasional #RTS.
I've also been a fairly avid #DungeonsAndDragons player, being either #DnD (2, 3, 3.5, ...), #Dragonlance, #Pathfinder, ... but currently that's a bit on the backburner due to time constraints.
Love to #read #books, mostly #scifi or #fantasy. Or #detective novels.
Updated a #Cuecat decoder for Python 3 compatibility and wrote a little one-liner to convert barcodes to #bibtex. Thank you, O Grey Ones, for keeping your code online for 23 years. #books 🐱📚📝 https://github.com/driscoll/cuecat/
github.com
CueCat scanner helper scripts. Contribute to driscoll/cuecat development by creating an account on GitHub.
I'm a #programming dude who works in #javascript, #react, and #sql by day and #jellyfin and #roku by night.
I love #horror #movies, #punk #music, playing #bass #guitar and #drums, #reading #books, #skateboarding, #vinyl #records, and #opensource #software
I love #popculture and frequently speak in #movie quotes.
I am accepting new coaching clients!
If you are a writer, aspiring author, or just someone who uses writing in their work and you want to *improve your writing,* please contact me. I would love to help you reach your goals.
My specialties are adult genre fiction (thriller, mystery, soft sci-fi/fantasy, historical, women's fiction), memoir, self-help, and true crime.
Sorry, no romance or horror.
#Writers #WritingCommunity #coach #coaching #books #essays #fiction #nonfiction
Loki: meow?
Me: Migrating a Mastodon account from the server I started out on back in 2022.
Hazel: meow
Me: Nope, don't worry. It should be pretty transparent. One of the main reasons I moved is the character limit in posts is larger here. You fuzzballs get to have longer conversations with me.
Loki: meow
Me: Oh, right.
- Things I am: In a #Polyfidelitous family of 3 older adults and 4 equally awesome (now mostly grown!) children.
- How I pay the bills: #DataEngineering now, #WebDevelopment and #DevOps before that, #Chemistry even longer ago.
- Other things I like: #Cats, obviously. Also #Astronomy (#AmateurAstronomy in particular), #History, #Science, #Books, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #SFF, #Programming, #Hiking, #Nature.
Hazel: meow
- Some weirder, more specific ones? Fine. #StudioGhibli. Indoor #Rowing. #Languages, currently learning #Spanish and #Latin.
I geek out a lot about astronomical data and I maintain a widely-used database of stars (the HYG catalog, and its new extension, the AT-HYG catalog with Gaia data) at https://codeberg.org/astronexus.
Yes, I'm a geek. But you still put up with me, right?
Loki: meow
Hazel: meow
Me: Love you both too.
Loki, a gray and white cat, and Hazel, a tabby cat, hang out on the deck behind our house. Hazel is standing on a bench cushion, and Loki is sitting on a low wall above the bench.
#Introduction I am Geoff Notkin. I hosted TV's "Meteorite Men" and "STEM Journals" and made shows for PBS, NASA, NatGeo, Disney, BBC, et al. I'm a science writer and have adventured on six continents pursuing my love of #paleontology and #meteorites.
Optimistic about the #Fediverse, I love to talk arts and sciences 🔭 😀 📽️
Interests: #fossils #geology #science #tech #astronomy #scifi #photography #cinema #filmmaking #indie #music #graphicdesign #typography #books #comics #cats #animalrescue
Television host and science writer Geoff Notkin leans across the hood of a vintage Land Rover in the Sahara Desert
I ❤️ seeing all kinds of book, art, & photography posts. If this describes your acct. please introduce yourself.
If you ❤️ seeing & posting ad nauseum, news, politics, & stuff of that nature, keep on scrolling, as you will never see that on this acct. Please & thank you. #books #art #photography #introduction @bookstodon
Hi😊 I just moved here from another server, so I thought I’d introduce myself: My name is Lisa.
My 1st love is books, a close 2nd is drawing/painting. I walk a lot & place a high value on daily exercise. I work in the field of ophthalmology, but have a background in teaching & aviation. I am married, w/ 2 teenaged boys. Originally I’m from SoCal, but have lived in TN for many yrs & love it. I am definitely a country mouse (vs. city mouse).The older I get, the more I enjoy cold weather, which has led to an obsession w/ sweaters & sweatshirts. There is also a corkscrew in my purse for red wine emergencies.#books #life #photography #introduction @bookstodon
#introduction
Since I've just moved (thanks to the Sunny Garden admins/mods for this place, and Cup of Tea people for my old home)🔃
🌍 I'm Enne (ɛn), punny full name: Aily Enne Bee, they/them, e/em/eir/emself, a trans/non-binary/polygender, neurodivergent, bilingual, omni-demisexual human who happens to be visually impaired.
I have 12 years of experience in:
✔ Music production and sound design (mixing, editing, sample creating, synth programming, synthesis…).
✔ Audio game/software/web development (AngelScript, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, PureBasic, some (C and Python)).
I like nature, pets (especially cats), wind chimes, light rain, music (especially EDM), poetry, Critical Roll, Doctor Who, Formula1, audio dramas, technology, books (especially fantasy and romance), mental health, etc.
I believe in peace, treating everyone equally (with respect), and using one's privileges to benefit people who aren't as fortunate.
The rights of marginalized minorities are basic human rights.
I'm accepting of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, ND and DID people, as well as everyone else.
#sunnyGarden #cupOfTeaSocial #trans #nonBinary #polygender #neurodivergent #bilingual #omnisexual #demisexual #visuallyImpaired #musicProduction #soundDesign #reaper #gamedev #angelScript #php #javaScript #html #pureBasic #python #nature #pets #cats #windchimes #rain #music #EDM #poetry #criticalRoll #doctorWho #f1 #audioDrama #tech #books #fantasy #romance #mentalHealth #peace #lgbtqia #bipoc #did #woke
Collector of #books + fat cells + #truecrime podcasts + creative curse words. Feisty, fierce, #feminist, #liberal AF, 🏳️🌈 ally, #BLM. I’m #GenX, a small biz owner, former web dev, stationery + sticker creator on Etsy, old school #penpal,#StephenKing’s #1 fan, #bookworm, #ambivert, #fibro warrior, and incredibly lucky wife and mom of three amazing boys. I love #walking, taking amateur #nature, #wildlife and pet photos with my phone, posting about #KansasCity, #bloomscrolling, and #birdwatching.
SELF PROMOTION! My book, Taliesin, Chief of Bards, was just awarded a 5 star recommendation from the Historical Fiction Company!
You can read their review of the book here: https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/post/a-welsh-legend-rises-an-editorial-review-of-taliesin-chief-of-the-bards
And in case anyone wants to buy a copy, it's available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Taliesin-Chief-Bards-Alexander-Corby-ebook/dp/B09P64ZJYJ
#Books #Bookstodon #histfic #Wales #Reading #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookReview #Taliesin #Medieval #mythology #IndieAuthor
The cover of my book, titled Taliesin, Chief of Bards. The image shows a young boy in a green tunic looking up defiantly at a king sitting on his throne. The king, only visible from the back of his head, stares back. On the left side of the cover is the award badge from the Historical Fiction Company, a silver circular badge with the head of a red lion wearing a crown. The banner on the bottom of the badge reads HFC 5-Star Award, 2023
Hard to resist, though it's a fairly random exercise because it relies on my memory of the past five decades of reading LoL.
- In no order at all
- Strong recency bias except for #1 (my all time favorite)
- In many cases it was hard to choose one thing by a beloved author
- Based on my pleasure in reading, not on my conception of "literary value" or other BS notions
- Yes I know they are all by women--I read women authors almost exclusively and have for over ten years, no regrets
1. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
2. MurderBot books by Martha Wells
3. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
5. The Imperial Radch novels by Ann Leckie
6. Broken Earth novels by N.K. Jemisin
7. Ruth Galloway novels by Elly Griffiths
8. The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
9. Who Becomes Death by Nnedi Okorafor
10. Dublin Murder Squad novels by Tana French
11. Semiosis books by Sue Burke
12. Monk and Robot books by Becky Chambers
13. Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
#introduction: Hi I’m Farah. I’m originally from a small South Asian country; now live in Iowa, USA. I talk about my hobbies, #books, #gaming, #sciencefiction and #StarTrek and other isssues like #mentalheaIth #science #psychology. Occasionally I’ll talk about #USpolitics. I complain about the world a lot. I am pathologically anxious and make jokes to compensate, they aren’t always funny. Trying to connect with people because it’s hard to make friends in real life. Peace! 🖖🏼
#2 (2023-08-23) #ImInLoveWithTheVillainess (manga vol. 1-2)
I first read the volume 1 two years ago, and happily re-read it as a refresher before starting on the 2nd book.
Vol. 1 could be accused of being a bit one-note for most of the story, while vol. 2 develops both of the leads in some nice ways, as Rae prioritizes Claire's happiness over her own desires, while Claire's thorny exterior softens in response.
There's also some explicit discussion of *various* sexualities.
#1 (2023-08-22) #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles (#IDW) vol. 5
Finally started and finished reading the fifth volume of IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic. I'd read the previous four volumes on Comixology, but since Amazon couldn't help being Amazon... I've moved to paper. (More expensive, but whatever.)
I'd honestly had some spoilers for this bit earlier (thanks, YouTube), but it still hit pretty hard in the end.
I'm looking forward to reading more.
📚 #BooksFinished in 2023
Let's see if I'll actually read some books this year. Graphic novels/comics/漫画 do get at least partial credit, but what I'm really curious about is if I'll finally break the curse and read some stuff that doesn't depend on pretty pictures.
That said, this thread is totally starting with some comics.
Starting to actively look for information about & from other #Jewish #Homesteaders, so far I've basically just found #books from or on it as it existed about 150 years ago, a video or 2 of an introduction &/or Kosher animal slaughter on a farm but.. even as I'll likely order as many of those as I can over the next few year, I'm definitely looking for more information.
One of the problems with the videos I've seen of Christian homesteaders is beyond animal slaughter itself is so many recipes
Looking for a new read?
⭐️SPSFC2 3rd Place 🥉 | 2021 Kindle Book Review Award Finalist ⭐️
An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. A society under attack. And a young solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city…if she doesn’t get herself killed first.
#books #scifi #SFF #bookstodon #ScienceFiction #dystopian #reading #ScifiBooks #ScifiBookSeries
Cover art for Aestus 1 against red background. Reviews: “…has the makings of a viral sensation.” -Ian the Reader “…nothing less than brilliant.” -C.J. Shane “…at the level of…Dune.” -IHeartSci-fi “…masterful…on par with the best in the genre.” -A.R. Saida Medallions: SPSFC2 Finalist, 2021 Kindle Book Review Award Finalist, B.R.A.G. Medallion. Find the bestselling first book at szattwell.com!
Aestus 1 against black background. Cover art has a red sunset over a desert wasteland with city structures. Review: “One of the best books I’ve ever read” - The Very Bookish. Award medallions at bottom: B.R.A.G. Medallion, 2021 Kindle Book Award SFF Finalist, SPSFC2 Finalist
I suppose no time better than the present, on Singapore's Independence Day. I've put up a website for my book, magazine and on-line fiction reviews. It currently covers what I've read from the present back to 2019, with further back-dated reviews (my Goodreads reviews) to be added from time to time.
The reviews are simple markdown formatted text files. They are hosted on Github with Github Pages being used to generate the final HTML files.
sohkamyung.github.io
Soh Kam Yung’s Website
I'm interested in science, particularly in #informatics, #maths and #linguistics. If you didn't figure it out already, I also very much enjoy #programming, although I only really know #Python.
#Books and stories in general catch my interest too. My favorite is probably the whole #Cosmere by #BrandonSanderson. Other ones are #Dune, #Arcane, #ASilentVoice and #TheOwlHouse.
I like to create things, whether it be a program, music, stories or #worldbuilding that won't get finished ever.
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Plus side to #Mastodon is the uninhibited flow of information. Downside is the world sucks right now. #Fascism, #racism, and #bigotry aren't just problems limited to the US. It's a global epidemic.
#ClimateChange is real. And #war has devastated the lives of many.
Pace yourself. Follow some fun accounts. Post pictures of #cats. (Okay. #Dogs, too.) Embrace #art. Talk about your favorite #VideoGames, #books, or #hobby.
Don't look away, but don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed, either.
Hashtags to follow? #JukeboxFridayNight is one of many music themed # activities here.
Someone posts a #theme and folk add music video links with name of song and performer. JFN starts in New Zealand late afternoon and is picked up by other timezones later.
Catlover? Try #Caturday on Saturday where ever you are.
#Bookstodon or #books seems to be anywhen
Same with #Mosstodon
The #tag list is endless!
Ten Favourite books
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science - Jim Al-Khalili
You Are What You Speak: -
Robert Lane Greene
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Guy Deutscher
My main #introduction was too long to include hashtags so here are those I most associate with:
#criticalrole #heroesreforged #blindwave #indiegames #caneandrinse #pc #xbox #gaming #boardgames #rpg #ttrpg #books #reading #movies #tv #citiesskylines #stellaris #dwarffortress #fediverse #denmark #doctorwho #fediverse #TerryPratchett
Working as a requirement specialist in the railway industry. Outside of work an expert on all industries, based on my googling skills. Collects CD records and books.
Interest and tooting on #requirements #engineering
#systems
#quality
#nuclear power
#electricity prices
#energy
#PublicTransport
#railway #safety
#railroad
#music
#travel
#books
#hifi
#SciFi
#Italy
#Spain
#wine
Mostly in Finnish, but also in English.
I never wrote an #introduction or at least don't remember.
I'm Tim - a dedicated #gamer #streamer and #linux enthusiast. I dream of doing #gamedev but tend to lose focus and drive early on.
Things I will post about:
- #memes lots of them
- #gaming - my backlog makes dragons jealous
- #manga #anime #japan
- #cyberpunk
- #comics
- #books as I work through my backlog
- #security
- #python #programmer
- #archlinux #linux
*Probably not an actual King
Time for an #introduction post!
I'm making a new account to try to connect with the #gamedev crowd. I've made a handful of silly little games in the past (link to one in my bio ^^), and hoping to make more when I magically have more free time.
When I'm not making games I like #books (mostly fantasy (any #brandonsanderson fans here?)), #music (playing and listening), #gaming, #pokemon, and a few other bits. Will probably follow back if interests are similar, looking forward to interacting here!
I feel like my first #introduction wasn’t great. So I made a new #intro!
My name is Clayton and I'm a high school math teacher! I love playing #videogames, #books (feel free to ask what I'm reading), listening to #podcasts and #audiobooks on my commute, and #streaming. When I’m not doing any of that, I’ve been trying to learn how to #draw and I practice my #photography.
I’m playing #EldenRing, #CS, or #battlebit usually!
Et j’aime parler le #français :)
Hello everyone, I’m freshly migrated from the main instance! I think this is the perfect place for me to be since I love spending time in my sunny little concrete garden.
My name is Cal and I’m in my late 20’s. I have two pet #snails and several #plants, and I enjoy things like #art #cooking #baking #gardening #hiking #camping and various #crafts. I’m #gay #asexual #poly and #nonbinary (I use he/they pronouns!) I am a #socialist and I am #ChronicallyIll #Neurodivergent and #Disabled. I have an interest in news, current events, and politics, though I’m perhaps not as active as I might be.
Some other tags I use include: #Anime #Manga #OnePiece #Pokemon #drag #rpdr #BloomScrolling #LichenSubscribe #MagicTheGathering #books #SnailPosting #FoodPorn #photography #macrophotography #comics #MarvelSnap #selfie #horror and many others!
I am always open to chatting and I hope to have a great scrolling experience with you all! Nice to meet you everyone #introduction 
A medium-sized garden snail and a smaller snail, both in a terrarium.
Seven potted plants in a row. There is a white ceramic mushroom and a small Litten figurine among them.
A Paldean Wooper plush and a Substitute Pokemon plush cuddling.
It’s me! Backwards cap, black glasses, black studs, a little scruff. I’m wearing my Gengar shirt and showing off my rainbow phone case with a Tony Tony Chopper sticker on it.
Quoting @draNgNon@hachyderm.io: I'm #CurrentlyReading _Under Alien Skies_ by Philip Plait, PhD. It bounces back and forth between and imaginary future tour of various extraterrestrial locations and a layman explanation of why these would be your experiences. https://www. google.com/books/edition/Under _Alien_Skies/mGSNEAAAQBAJ?hl=en The original post is available at https://hachyderm.io/users/draNgNon/statuses/110677435302877986
I suppose I really should have a #Introduction post.
I'm a white Irish emigrant who does Stuff with Computers. I'm more of a lurker than a poster.
I speak English and Spanish fluently; I apologetically mangle a couple of other languages as occasion requires.
Interests include #cats , #comics (digital and print), #film (fairly broad range of tastes), #videogames (indies, puzzles over FPS and mostly SP), #music and #books . Genres: SF/F, horror. Music: Electronic, punk, rock, metal.
#introduction make over for all the newbies.
My name is Patrick Stewart; yes, this is my real name. I'm a father, husband, writer, and publisher.
I run a publication on @medium called The Taoist Online, which you can find here:
I talk a lot about #taoism, #philosophy, my #kids and #wife, and I post a daily #morning #mantra and pictures, so follow along!
I hope to get to know you all more and share my life with you.
If this is all you ever read from me then let it be this: I hope you aren't working too hard and try to let go of your worries. Focus on today because it's all there is.
#writer #author #father #husband #taoist #learner #tech #startrek #fedora #linux #disabled #tinnitus #teampixel #pixel6pro #anxiety #startrek #books #author #publisher #writing
thetaoist.online
Wow, I get to redo my #introduction 
My name is Moll. I'm 28. She/her. Based in India. Casual #gamer, casual #weeb, casual #casual. I also #write from time to time.
Expect to see posts from me on (but not limited to):
- #Anime
- #Manga
- #Gaming (Switch, PC)
- #Books I'm struggling to finish
- The current love of my life, #Dimension20 🧙♂️🧝♀️✨ (and #ttrpg in general)
I'm looking for folks with shared interests to interact with. Hit me up! 
I live in #Italy, where I ride #bikes, #ski / #snowboard, and read #books and listen to music. I write about all these things on my #blog, although I've been so busy lately I haven't got around to posting much.
I miss #Twitter and I still lurk there, but I love the network here, not least the fact that lots of it doesn't look like me.
See you around!
Alrighty, seems like it's finally time to be active on here, starting with an #introduction !
Hi, I'm Kjaro, a student from Switzerland interested in #art and #illustration of all kinds, #games , #comics, #books and #animation
My main focus probably lies on someday doing #conceptart professionally, so get ready for boatloads of WIPs and Studies!
See ya further down the line!
Hi, I’m Haiyue. I am the Co-Founder of Demonic Trader, a Canadian marketplace for Trading Card Games. I am also Co-Chair of the VML, a (soon-to-be nonprofit!) organisation breaking down gender barriers in tabletop games. Sometimes I do tournament coverage for various #magicthegathering events.
I’m based in #Vancouver #BC, the most beautiful city in the world.
Interests include #Tolkien, #politics, #diversity, #adhd, #boardgames, #nature, #gender equity, #mtg, #books, & #cats.
So I thought I would do an updated intro as there seems to be a lot of new people :)
I love gaming. I play on #Xbox #PS5 #Switch and also love #retrogaming and handheld emulation devices. Love collecting games.
I love #baking and really enjoy #cakedecorating as a hobby and a way to relax.
I am a avid reader and love #books. I read a lot of #psychology, #folklore, #mythology, and #horror.
I work in the #MentalHealth field and have an interest in #forensicpsychology and #clinicalpsychology
re #introduction Hi, I'm Chris (he/him), 49y, nerd, cyclist, gamer.
I'll post and boost mostly gaming related posts, thoughts and recommendations, no rants, no spoilers.
Things I enjoy: #biketouring #hiking #filmphotography with old #analogphotography cameras #bookstodon #books #FOSS #linux #anime
I care about #climatechange, pedestrian-friendly and bike-friendly cities and #sustainability but not here to talk politics.
I'm currently learning #Japanese #日本語.
はじめまして
よろしくお願いします
I suppose it's time for an #introduction!
I'm Jacky, 31yrs old, a Community Manager by day and witch by night ✨ I work in the video game industry for 7 years now and my hobbies and passions include #videogames, #books, #cooking, #tarot, #art, and quite a bit more!
I also stream for fun on #Twitch and play mostly indie games there.
Phew, that was quite a bit. I hope to reignite my love for social media here 
For those in the back that just wandered in: a new introduction!
#introduction #introductions
Tech geek at a professional level.
Here mostly to talk about: personal #tech projects #books #movies #photography #gaming
Lover of #sciencefiction #scifi #historicalfiction
#SteamDeck tinkerer 
Friend to #BigStompyRobots
Possibly The Last Webmaster.
🏳️🌈 
Hi! I've just moved to .art so here's my #introduction
I'm Seventeen Magpie (they/them), I'm a #physics student who's into #books and reading. I love #music , especially #FolkMusic and I'm currently teaching myself to play the #accordion and #TinWhistle . I have many other hobbies so here's a list:
#writing #ttrpg #dance (swing, English folk dances) #tinkering #programming #gaming and more probably...
Happy to be here, and excited to get to know you all.
#introduction #introductory post with some hashtags - feel free to say hello!
Life
#Welsh #Cymraeg
#Hackney #London
#policywonk
#polyam #polyamory #ENM
Hobbies & Nerdery
#photography
#whisky
#books
#coffee
#tarot
#pokemon #PokemonTCG #pokemongo #nintendo
#poppunk #rockmusic #GreenDay #TaylorSwift #MCR #ATC #Springsteen #FOB
#SciFi #Horror
#StarWars
#DoctorWho
#WTNV
#HisDarkMaterials
#7DaystoDie
#Solarpunk
#OurFlagMeansDeath #OFMD
#TheDragonPrince
Hello! An introduction-ish for the #TwitterMigration newcomers. Welcome!
I live in #SanFrancisco and I love it. My sweet #Caturday kitty is named Olive.
Some other things that I enjoy: #LiberalPolitics #Cocktails #SlowStreets #Books #Travel #BikeTooter #SFGiants #Warriors #Cooking #Puns #DadJokes #Judaism #CommunityRadio
Am aspiring gardener without a garden
Some of my favourite #books
#ilovebooks #reading
- Lord Of The Rings (anything from Tolkien<3 )
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
- ChroniclesOfAlice by ChristinaHenry
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Remote Control, Who Fears Death & Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- Pet Sematary & Carrie by Stephen King
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Lady Trent Memoirs by Marie Brennan
- Kingdom of Souls trilogy by Rena Barron
+ anything from Terry Pratchett
Hi! I’m Violinknitter, and I joined Mastodon in one of the fall 2022 Twitter exoduses. I found a fairly comfy little niche, and have been chattering happily here ever since.
I play violin, teach violin & viola, have a ridiculously long TBR list, listen to audiobooks & podcasts constantly. I like to chatter about #books, #yarn, #knitting, #HandSpinning, #fantasy, #musicology, #violin, #Pokémon, and #cooking & #baking
Hello again FediFriends! New acct from not paying attention and my instance closing
I’m Joe, 40something #nerd into #Apple #iOS #sneakers #F1 #NFL #Patriots #tech and a bunch of other stuff
I was from the #TwitterMigration in November and I’m looking to find my friends again!
Love to talk #Politics #humor #weird #books #podcasts #Apple
Will update soon
#introduction
Newbie here, just fleeing the hellsite.
#books reads most things, #nature #RegenAg. I make things with #wool & also plant fibre. Keen to find other listeners to #podcasts #TheArchers #TheArchersBBC & makers #knit #crochet #spin
Curious nerd who loves to learn, keen on facts.
Since I'm moving here from Fosstodon, I suppose it's a good opportunity for a re-#introduction.
My name's Michał Górny. You may know me as a Gentoo developer, though my social media usage extended beyond that.
I've joined #Gentoo in 2010, back when I was still a student. You could say that we've both matured together, perhaps became less bleeding edge and more stable. There are some things that I'm still doing all these years later, notably the maintenance of #Python ecosystem in Gentoo (which is superior to other distributions, I must say), #LLVM, #XFCE and some other random packages, building Distribution Kernels. I also create #OpenSource software (mostly tools related to Gentoo package management), work in QA, and either do or have done a lot of random stuff that simply needed to be done.
Professionally, I used to be a programmer. However, I quit my last job in 2022 due to health breakdown and haven't managed to find a good job so far. Right now, I'm mostly surviving on what I've managed to save years ago, with some help from my gracious sponsors (thank you for your donations!). I've started a new job recently, though onboarding is taking quite long and it's not yet clear if I'll manage to actually make any profit.
I am very #introvert. I always enjoyed #hiking and fast walks around #nature, and since I've been diagnosed with #diabetes in 2022, this changed from just a pastime to a necessary exercise. That said, I don't like repeating the same routes too often, so I go around by #rail. My main interchange stations are #Poznań, #Leszno, #Głogów and #Wrocław.
A few years ago I adopted three stray #cat siblings: Blackie (or Lulu), Ruh and Mr. Gray (or Mr. Ek!). They are going to cyclically appear in my avatars and profile backgrounds. That said, they made me realize I'm actually a cat, and a big cat too (that's why the "territory" I keep patrolling has roughly 200 km radius).
I hate #politics and I'm quite angry that I am forced to take interest in it. I'm a strong believer in the #CarFree ideology (I don't even have a driver's license). I will sometimes rant in the #AntiCapitalism mood, with a sprinkle of #ecology and #degrowth in the face of #ClimateCrisis.
I enjoy reading #books (fiction and non-fiction alike), watching #movies or #series (though I usually don't manage more than 30 minutes at a time) or playing computer #games (preferably slower, older, single-player games these days).
I generally toot simultaneously in english and polish (except for word plays that don't make sense in the other language). My polish account is: https://pol.social/@mgorny
Reposting my #Introduction for a new server post-migration.
I'm a geek from Aus. I work in IT, but most of my posts aren’t about that. My interest (definitely not comprehensive):
- Reading (sci-fi, fantasy, urban fantasy)
- Music (esp KPop. ARMY 💜)
- Science and technology
- Data
- TV/cinema (esp KDrama & CDrama)
- Writing
- Gaming
- Travel
- Lego
#IT #gaming #aov #BTS #BTSARMY #kpop #kdrama #books #HoK #cdrama
I'm a Science Fiction lover of all kinds and formats, mostly books, shows, games, and movies. I'm a huge Trekkie (TNG), Star Wars, Culture universe, The Expanse & many, many more. I tend to prefer hard SciFi over Fantasy. Marvel over DC. I'm a Book lover, digital and physical, with hundreds of both, mostly a mix of SciFi and non-fiction.
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#SciFi #Trekkie #StarWars #Culture #TheExpanse #Marvel #MCU #Books
Hello, cutie.city and all other instances and all ships at sea! Yes, it's a new instance, but it's the same old nonsense. 😉
Welcome to Tamsin's Pinned Toot. Please enjoy your stay... unless you're a fascist, a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe, or any other flavor of garbage person, in which case please step on a LEGO forever.
What follows are a few things you might want to know about me if you plan to hang around.
So, who the heck am I?
Hi! I'm Tamsin: a white, middle-aged, #queer, #sapphic, #nonbinary #trans woman who likes doorstopper novels, director's cuts, extended remixes, table-top roleplaying games, 5-string basses, double-cutaway Les Paul Jr. guitars, beaches, forests, mountains, witchy things, living places that haven't outlawed her yet, late nights, lazy afternoons, and writing down half of everything she thinks.
I'm happily monogamously married to a polymath superhero, and we share our lives with my marvelous teenaged offspring, two adorable cats, and a host of delightful friends and co-conspirators.
Things I post about, in no particular order: queer stuff, being a trans girl, #magic, #music, #books, #movies, #TTRPGs, #ADHD, #politics, #philosophy, #spirituality, making stuff, and whatever else is going though my brain at any given moment.
When I talk about #gender and #sexuality, it's probably helpful to know that I have a degree in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (with a focus on #feminist history, queer theory, and trans studies) from the University of Washington. Sometimes I joke that I had to get a degree to realize I'm a gay trans girl, which isn't quite true, but still makes me laugh.
I'm exactly the kind of person who likes prog rock, punk rock, post-punk, trip-hop, house, dark folk, black metal, '70s funk, old-school R&B, early rock'n'roll, acid rock, acid folk, blues, early music, minimalist composers, anime soundtracks, and everything Prince ever recorded.
I have a profound fear of spiders, heights, and isolation.
Sometimes I make things. I craft, I cook, I play (and occasionally run) role-playing games, I play (and occasionally write) music and songs. Most of all, though, I write: essays, poetry, stories, and—when I was feeling particularly sassy—a whole-ass book about gender, sexuality, and queerness for witches, Pagans, and occultists. (If you want to check that last one out, here's the publisher's page: https://llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738761329)
My politics are a simple story: I started out as a liberal in the 1980s and, flying in the face of conventional wisdom, became increasingly leftist as time went by. I support universal healthcare, universal basic income, BLM, antifa, indigenous rights, trans rights, queer resistance, sex workers, undocumented and migrant rights, disability rights, autistic people, plural folks, defunding the police, and radical inclusivity. I'm not an uncritical leftist, however, and I'm probably not ideologically pure enough for most movements. (Then again, I'm a gay trans girl, so most leftist movements don't want me around anyway.)
I offer no quarter for fascism, racism, colonialism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, ableism, or exclusionary gatekeepers. I think all modern conservative movements are intrinsically evil, and if that describes you, exit the ride now. You're gonna have a real bad time otherwise. (I also recommend fixing your heart or, alternately, dying in a fire. Your choice.)
I've never been one of the Cool Kids™, and I never will be. I'm just an middle-aged geek.girl: sad in some ways, happy in many others, with a messy bookstore for a brain and a whirlwind of a heart which loves fiercely, if sometimes clumsily.
It's nice to meet you. 🥰
llewellyn.com
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New instance, new #introduction.
I'm Chelsea, a 30s #lesbian somewhere on the #asexual spectrum, living in #Oklahoma with 3 #cats and my best friend, Elijah. I'm totally blind, so alt text is mandatory for me to follow you.
I write #poetry, read all the #books, listen to all the #podcasts, obsess over #horror, kill plants in an attempt at #gardening, and do my best to find joy in the mundane.
White but a supporter of BLM, cis but a supporter of trans rights. Happy to be here, it seems lovely.
Check out the new book cover art I made for Sebastian Nothwell's upcoming gay fantasy of manners!
#books #bookcover #bookcovers #gayromance #queerart #art #artistsonmastodon #MastoArt
Digital artwork. Book cover art for the gay fantasy of manners called Fiorenzo by Sebastian Nothwell. Two men, one wearing a mask and a Venetian 18'th century nobleman's attire and the other one a wearing a simple man's 18'th century clothes, stand on a bridge at night with a view on a venetian channel. They look flirtatiously at each other.
#introduction time because of new place!
Hey my name is Rini, I'm from Finland🇫🇮 but I live in Sweden🇸🇪 and I love horror genre, movies, tv series, books & games etc!
I also love #kdrama , #tea , #books , #folklore , #DnD , #moomin , #videogames and #photography to name a few.
I am autistic and I have ADHD&Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
I have a little potato sploot (CardiganWelshCorgi) named Chester (named after Chester Bennington<3)
Selfie of a Rini, white cis woman, with pink short hair and black rimmed glasses in a black long sleeve shirt with a D&D logo.
Chester, a cardigan welsh corgi puppy with big bunny like ears, looking at the camera sitting down with a yellow Critical role bandana around his neck.
Chester, a cardigan welsh corgi puppy with big bunny like ears, looking upwards slightly off camera and light blue Critical Role bowtie around his neck
Chester, a cardigan welsh corgi puppy with big bunny like ears, looking at the camera sitting down surrounded with autumn coloured leaves.
Hi, I’m Haiyue. I am the Co-Founder of Demonic Trader, a Canadian marketplace for Trading Card Games. I am also Co-Chair of the VML, a (soon-to-be nonprofit!) organisation breaking down gender barriers in tabletop games. Sometimes I do tournament coverage for various #magicthegathering events.
I’m based in #Vancouver #BC, the most beautiful city in the world.
Interests include #Tolkien, #politics, #diversity, #adhd, #boardgames, #nature, #gender equity, #mtg, #books, & #cats.
Hello everyone,
I'm Steve and I work mainly as a #frontend developer with a focus on #html #css #javascript and #accessibility.
I'm also a music nerd and #HotSauce lover and recently got back into the habit of reading #books. #VideoGames are also something that is dear to my heart.
Feel free to reach out if you want to talk about any of these topics. Welcome to the #FediVerse!
I fight for the users.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. on FOSH assistive consumer electronics.
I'm sober.
#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #copyleft #gpl #agpl #mozilla #license #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #pacifist #antivolence #antigun #noguns #schoolshooting #antiwar #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #blind #lowvision #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #sober
I've stumbled upon this place looking for some kind of calm, relatively cozy internet space where I can seek out a tiny community. Or just talk into the void, that works too. I'm looking to find my voice again and what it is I want to say.
I'm Jen. I'm a writer, lately more of a thinker, and I'm looking to start fresh with something new. And not just my writing but my whole self moving forward. I've been through so much internal transformation in the past few years that I've come to feel alienated from pretty much everything/one I know. I need to re-orient myself within all of this change. I'm finding that difficult to do with the people who have known me for a long time---it can be so hard to break out of the expectations of those closest to you, those who think they see you so well, but no longer do. I aim to create a little chrysalis for myself, so to speak, so I can embody myself more fully.
some hashtags:
#writer
#queer
#autism
#bpd
#adhd
#loner
#philosophy
#spirituality
#metaphysics
#tarot
#astrology
#books
#jung
#greenwitch
#stardewvalley
#420
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my first novel, My Brother's Unicorn.
Set in Australia at the end of the 20th century, My Brother's Unicorn is a heartwarming fantasy about loss and grief, love and family, forgiveness and redemption, and rugby league, the greatest game of all.
Available to download FOR FREE for the next five days: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6Q3C3QH
#fiction #fantasy #booklaunch #newbook #books #bookrelease #publishing #amazon #newrelease #ebook #kindle #kindleunlimited
Time for an #Introduction now that I've moved to the @Flipboard Mastodon server! I'm Jennifer, aka Dr. J.
My motto is: Work to Live, Live to Travel, Travel for Work.
I have a full-time job in the tech industry and I'm a part-time #travelblogger at Sidewalk Safari.
I'm also obsessed with photographing #doors.
I'm currently living in #Lisbon #Portugal after spending 12 years in #Dublin #Ireland.
Interests: #travel #wine #food #books #travelphotography #flipboard #tech #science #writing
Collage of Lisbon doors in all the colors of the rainbow.
Collage of Dublin Doors in all the colors of the rainbow.
I just learned that #hashtags in one's profile don't show up in searches.
So here are some hashtags relevant for me:
#cooking #wfpb #fermentVegetables #tempeh #wetshaving #books #go #movies #jazz
Update: Profile hashtags are, however, used by the Mstodon/Fediverse Directory. See this post:
https://mstdn.ca/@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services/110655927430163216
I note that I am (currently) the only person listed with #wfpb.
social.growyourown.services
Looking for #MG (middle-grade) #books with #queer #trans representation! They don't have to be new books, at all. They just have to be good, and appropriate for Grade 4-7 students. Think Ramona Quimby or Tuck Everlasting or even the first couple of Harry Potters, but with #lgbt characters.
Extra bonus points if there are any materials available for the book on Teachers Pay Teachers (but if you don't know what that is, ignore this bit).
kid with rainbow t-shirt and rainbow face-paint
i seem to have made a slightly popular post & am getting a bunch of new follows, & I guess I should make a proper #intro now:
#queer #bi #NonBinary #knitting #crochet #spinning #CrossStitch #embroidery #running #hiking #reading #books #SciFi #fantasy #drawing #PenAndInk #art #ttrpg #PBTA #SwordDream #OSR #RuneQuest #minecraft #SnailMail #MailArt #cats #tarot #vegetarian #chef #cooking #baking #homeschool #pagan #adhd #linguaphile #esperanto #ASL #Welsh #PokemonGo #photography #gardening
Intro Post: Obvs #politics #ScottishPolitics #ScottishIndependence
All things #Ukraine
I’m also interested in #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI & its potential impact on politics
My first proper word was ‘book’ so expect #Books #Reading - and #ScienceFiction #SciFi because I’ve been hooked since the days of Outer Limits & the Twilight Zone
All things #StarTrek
#Catholic stuff - #Cats & some other beasties - & #DuolingoSpanish #DuolingoItalian & er #DuolingoKlingon 😂🖖🖖
Favorites
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook
#ZinInEenLiedje #MusicalMusings
#Nieuwswijsheid #NewsLiteracy
#Katteboutjes #Synchronicicats
#Parkbieb #2xLezen
#FocusOpHetGoede #HopePunk #Ustopia
+
#Bibliotheek #Libraries
#Tsundoku #AntiLibrary
#Boeken #Books
#Burgerschap #Commoning
#Journalistiek #Journalism
#Lezen #Read
#Minibiebmaandag #LittleFreeLibrary
#Onderwijs #Education
#Taal #Language
#Wetenschap #Science #SciComm
#Caturday #EdTech #Film #Pareidolia #Prince #StreetArt
Advanced Dreaming
Someone must have slandered K's dreams, because without him dreaming anything bad, he was told one morning that his dreams could no longer be offered in the Dream Store. - https://www.vnzn.de/en/2022/04/21/advanced_dreaming/
vnzn.de
Fragments and comments from the past, present and future
I add a new #BookReview on both my #KoFi pages on #Sundays. The six most recent for each site are pictured here (image updated each Sunday).
For #vegan & related #nonfiction themes and #VeganAuthor #fiction, visit #StephanieJane https://ko-fi.com/StephanieJane
and if you love globally diverse #books then #MyWorldReads is the place for you https://ko-fi.com/MyWorldReads
All #BookReviews are free to view without signing up to anything 😉
Book covers for my 12 most recent book reviews: On my Stephanie Jane ko-fi: Lost Solace by Karl Drinkwater, Wildwood by Roger Deakin, Cruel Summer by Bernard Jan, Truth vs Illusion by Joy Su, Totems & Truth by Whitney Metz, and A Dark History of Tea by Seren Challington-Hollins. On My WorldReads ko-fi: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Second Chances by Miriam McGuirk, The Baghdad Villa by Zuheir El-Hetti, Spring Blight by Olena Nikitin, Twelve Hours In Manhattan by Maan Gabriel, and Salty Bitter Sweet by Mayra Cuevas.
In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory.
It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don't shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren't damaged; they're strengthened, matured, humbled. The U.S. needs to do same with slavery.
Not that complicated.
Hey, #introduction time! I'm Andrew Kravchuk (pronounced "KRAHV-chook"), and I'm thrilled to make my first official post on Mastodon. I've been lurking here for quite some time now, and I have to say, I absolutely love it. It's like the blue bird site, but here I feel like I'm in the warm, weird (in a good way) company of like-minded individuals.
I'm a proud #tech #geek and #programmer by trade, currently teaching programming in #C and #Python. However, my true passion lies in the #Lisp family of languages. For the past three years, I've been working on a hobby #gamedev project, which is an action RPG similar to Diablo 2 in #CommonLisp. Needless to say, I use #Emacs (but with evil-mode, since I don't have forty alien fingers 😅). Also I'm a proud Microsoft hater and #UNIX lover.
Born in #Russia, I fled to #Montenegro after the war. I'm passionate about being #anti-ruscist and generally #antiauthoritarian. Also, I happen to be an #atheist and an #introvert.
I'm a big fan of #anime, and I believe that #Evangelion is the best dramatic piece of the 20th century. I enjoy reading #books, and I dream of writing #fiction someday.
I'm excited to join Mastodon and look forward to making friends 😊
P.S. This post may or may not have been written with the aid of LLM.
Decided to switch instances so… new #introduction post!
I am a 30 year old #gay man, living in the Midwest USA. Left politically. I'm a fan of #scifi and #fantasy novels and games, #tech especially Apple products and gaming PC builds, #music (prog rock mostly), #cooking, anything and everything #plant related, and #anime and #manga, or just Japan in general. I'm also obsessed with #books, like, the word obsessed isn't strong enough 😆. Currently working on a Masters in Library and Information Science. Let’s be friends! 😊
Recently finished #Mistborn #TheFinalEmpire by #BrandonSanderson and started #TheWellOfAscension, continuing my #reread of the series. I have made progress on #Solasta in our 4-person co-op game and recently started playing a 2-person co-op game of #SunHaven. I absolutely love Sun Haven! It is very similar to #StardewValley in terms of mechanics while also including fantasy/magical elements. I was also gifted #TabletopSimulator and am excited to explore playing games using it. #books #gaming
#introduction
Hi, I'm Jen, my day job mostly involves being a embedded software engineer mostly in C++, I likely won't talk about it much here except in very abstract terms due to contractual reasons.
I play a lot of #boardgames, love #StarTrek (DS9 is my fav) and other sci-fi, #books, #running and exploring #vegan food from around the world
I'm a #trans woman, and transitioned back ~2000. While I was stealth for many years, I'm almost fully out to friends and quite a few work colleagues.
@joannarifkin This is so important. If you really want a book don't order it from Amazon, order it from a library, they'll happily get a copy.
Then it can be read by countless people for years. You can read it whenever you want.
You don't have to own something to enjoy it.
📖Some #books I love:
-"The man who fell in love with the moon" Tom Spanbauer
- "We have always lived in the castle" Shirley Jackson
- "Las malas" Camila Sosa Villada
- "Circe" Madeline Miller
- "Piranesi" Susanna Clarke
- "Las voladoras" Mónica Ojeda
- "Nuestra parte de noche", Mariana Enríquez
- "Canto yo y la montaña baila" Irene Solá
- "La mala costumbre" @velvetmolotov
- "The Last Unicorn" Peter S. Beagle
- "Six Ways" Aidan Wachter
- N. K. Jemisin
- #TheSandman
- "The Wicked + The Divine"
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 25
There was something formless and perfect
before the universe was born.
It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.
It is the mother of the universe.
For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.
It flows through all things,
inside and outside, and returns
to the origin of all things.
The Tao is great.
The universe is great.
Earth is great.
Man is great.
These are the four great powers.
Man follows the earth.
Earth follows the universe.
The universe follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself.
#Tao #Taoism #TaoTeChing #Dao #Taoist #Chinese #Philosophy #Quote #Books
Screenshot of Same chapter 25 text as in post
New instance, new #introduction, hopefully for the last time.
I'm Chelsea, a 30s #lesbian #writer of #poetry somewhere on the #asexual spectrum, sharing my house with 3 #cats and a roommate named Elijah. I'm totally blind and use a screen reader, so image descriptions are mandatory for me to follow you.
I have a soft spot for #FolkMusic and #podcasts, I'm a huge fan of #FairyTales and #folklore, and I want to learn #knitting and #baking and #rollerskating. I'm an aspiring #library worker of some kind.
I post about #books, #horror, bad #gardening, and occasional #disability things and #leftist politics. I also boost a lot of #nature #photography, but I don't post much myself since taking photos is hard with no vision.
Cis but a supporter of trans rights, white but a supporter of BLM. This is not a space for TERFs or nazis or any other alt right/conservative/fascist types.
Trying to follow all the #wlw #sapphic #queer women.
Happy to be in such a welcoming space for both my queerness and my disability and looking forward to connecting with even more new friends.
New instance, new #introduction
1. I'm bad at shitposting
2. Generally very #nerdy and enthusiastic about lots of topics.
3. Married, dad, #bisexual, he/him
4. Originally a scientist, now work for a non-profit, but the goal for this account is to not think (or post) about work too much
5. Activist left-wing politics
6. Formerly @crowsandpawns@mastodon.lol
Likes: #SciFi #SciFiArt #science #math #osint #solarpunk #QueerArt #maps #python #activism #democracy #running #hiking #socialism #QueerCommunity, most types of #music, most types of #movies, basically any #books I can get my hands on
Dislikes: mean-spirited bigots, billionaires
Well, everyone, after so many setbacks and delays, I have finally managed to get my website fully relaunched. This marks the beginning of a new phase in my growth as an author, and will lead nicely into my expanding my social media presence in the coming weeks. Stay tuned, because a lot of really cool stuff is in the works over here.
#Bookstodon #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Author #WebDev #SciFi
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: The Language of Languages: Reflections on Translation
"Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been at the forefront of world literature for decades. He has also been, in his own words, “a language warrior,” fighting for indigenous African languages to find their rightful place in the literary world."
#NgugiWaThiongo #African #Translation #Languages #Literature #Books #BlackMastodon #Kenya #Art
A book by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: The Language of Languages. The book cover has a light green background, with flowering petals and two images of aliens rendering.
New #introduction for the new gamepad.club instance I just joined. Doubling down on a lot of what's in my profile:
I believe everyone geeks out about something in their life that they're passionate about. I love finding new people to geek out with!
I'm a Husband, Father, Reader, Runner, Gamer, Developer, Communications Professional, Podcaster, occasional Blogger, and more.
Interests include
#reading #books
#running
#mediastudies
#videogames
#finalfantasy
#jrpg
#nintendo
#playstation
#xbox
As mentioned in my intro, I've acquired too much material for my #ScannedCollages. I'm branching out with #AlteredBook #AsemblageArt. #Collage #CollageArt #Assemblage #Books #AlteredBookArt My first attempt at this goal has begun, and is definitely #WIP. 
To begin with, I dove in head first, doing it my way (without tutorial instructions) - so it is definitely wrong & messy. 😂 The rough, messy look actually works (what else am I going to say?) with my #Dadaist style & #Asemic content. So far, it does not have that polished artistic antique Victoriana quality that seem to be typical of many of the examples I found.
I've incorporated #AsemicWriting, #AsemicPoetry, #DadaistPoetry #ErasurePoetry, #ProsePoetry & #CollagePoetry. I have kept the #Book's original #BlackandWhite #Illustrations.
**CW #Face #Eyes
#AsemicArt #Dadaism
#Poetry #DadaistProsePoem #MixedMedia #BookArt #BookIllustrations #Illustration #Art #MastoArt #FediArt
The book is open to the inside cover and the opening page. The top half of the inside cover is the face of a smiling black woman behind in the far background are rows in a farm field. The text directly below her - When you make Natural Calm. Next text piece - without a map these differences between them accepted them would follow shiny fluid leaking -sluggishly a crushed bug, from his mouth. The opening page consists of text pieces, words printed on the page, the asemic glyph writing bleeding through from the other side of the page, and a torn piece of cardboard with stylized paw prints. The Text: 1.10E BRAUNE BROWN the old life was gone forever. A dead man in the knife, dark bladed beside time trying to rescue the old peace, of time before the Ensemble couteau TRUE TALES OF EPIC ESCAPES
In his memoir "Burragorang Tales", George Gordon James takes readers on a nostalgic journey through his childhood in the 1920s, growing up in the rugged wilderness of the Burragorang Valley, west of Sydney.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BT1G2ZNS
#Historical #biography #autobiography #memoir #NonFiction #booklaunch #newbook #books #book #bookrelease #publishing #amazon #newrelease #ebook #kindle #newbooks #writing #indieauthor #ebooks #booklaunching #publish #booklaunchparty #bookbuzz #kindleunlimited
I recently published my father's stories about growing up in the Burragorang Valley west of Sydney (now drowned beneath Warragamba Dam).
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BT1G2ZNS
"From the beauty of the valley's natural landscape to the hardworking community of farmers, George shares personal stories of adventure, hardship, and family, offering a unique perspective on the area's history."
#memoir #autobiography #biography #books #ampublished #published #sydney #australia #history #localhistory
#Introduction (end)
Aside from spending all my free time at a computer, I like cooking simple meals for my wife (who thankfully isn't picky), will occasionally take advantage of accumulated exercise equipment, and wonder if I'll get back to making music with the guitar chops built up since childhood, but lately neglected. I read a lot.
There are cats: one indoor spoiled, variable outdoor strays; all lovingly attended to at their convenience.
#Cooking #Music #Guitar #Cats #Books
🧵 3/3
Since I had to move, a new #introduction is in order. I like #science #physics #philosophy #nature #art #information #biology #evolution #mathematics #evolution #animals #pets #activism #history #writing #programming #gaming #books #logic #atheism #fiction #nonfiction it's all good. I tend to boost/fav informational posts or nature photos/art, and my dash is currently set up to show the science and nature hashtags in their own columns. I have a tendency to not sign in for days or months and then burst re-boost when I do come on, but I lurk on a lot of instances since I find the trending feeds can be a little bit different.
The less grounded in reality/pragmatism a given philosophy is, the less I like it. A definition of 'truth' that doesn't connect to reality or changes for everyone? Ehh. In general relativity, it is actually the invariants (light speed is constant for all observers) that are most important.
Giving citations for facts = <3 Love.
No, youtube doesn't count!
Updated introduction (October 2025, 3rd anniversary):
I’m a #Colorado #gay continuing on my quiet, down-to-earth life journey. I enjoy gardens, plants, flowers, books, games, hikes, bike rides, vegetarian home cooking, taking photos, as well as various queer, science, and geeky stuff.
I joined Mastodon in October 2022, and I am enjoying my time here. Thanks for the fun, kindness, and friendship.
Random interests and #introduction:
#tea #wildflowers #books #fiction #vegetarian #cooking #bicycling #photography #garden #plants #flowers #veggies #chiles #pickling #climate #weather #hiking #walking #sunrise #sunset #science #chocolate #introvert #queer #gayfiction #art #creativity #games #gaymers #mindfulness #quiet #lgbtq #beard #geek #astronomy #space #climatechange #parks #equality #equity
Selfie of a smiling man with a gray mustache and long, gray beard, wearing a purple hoodie and a purple baseball cap, perched on the edge of a rock in a Colorado state park with beautiful rolling hills and mountains covered in dark green pine trees stretching off into the distance behind, with mostly sunny, blue skies above, just a few, wispy cirrus clouds above the hills.
I'll make an #introduction post like the rest of the cool kids. 😀
Hi, I’m Adam (he/him, 
). I work in #technology, as an #IT director for a consulting firm here in #Chicago.
I love #reading #books and #travel. I’m a #DnD amateur.
Some favorites: #StarTrek, #StarWars, #Heartstopper, #OFMD, #Archer, #SchittsCreek
Lightning round. Good: democracy, equal rights, the #LGBTQ+ community (protect trans kids!). Bad: fascism, the patriarchy, billionaires, book bans.
Hello! Having moved to a new server, this seems like a good time to post the long overdue #introduction 😄
I'm a geek. Mostly about #books, #gaming, TV shows/movies, tech, and all things #SciFi. I dabble in writing #fanfic, mainly for my own amusement. I'm also an introvert, so don't expect too much chatter from me…
A few things I love, in no particular order:
#MassEffect games
#TheExpanse (books & TV series)
#StarWars (AND #StarTrek)
#NoMansSky
#cats
#LadyAstronaut and #Murderbot book series
Here's a new post on my blog. 'And I thought writing the book was hard!' Tells a little of my journey.
https://www.riklonsdale.com/post/and-i-thought-writing-the-book-was-hard
riklonsdale.com
At last my book is to be published. Water and Blood will be available from 22nd March. How hard can it be? I thought when deciding to self-publish. My admiration for others who have trodden this route grew as I learnt what it involved. The cover has had many iterations. This last is my own design using GIMP so I’m totally responsible. Here is the full paperback cover, without ISBN barcode, let me know what you think:It took a while, and many online tutorials, to get to grips with the software, s
#Intro #Introduction Well, here I am posting about #BookishThings. I joined a #Mastodon instance back in April of last year, when the threat of Muskification of Bird began looming on the horizon. By January of this year, I began thinking about the overabundance of material-topics I had for potential posting.
Three projects also came to mind. 1) A #TarotCard layout based on #Narrative #PlotLine. I've explored this idea using the #CelticCrossLayout, and will try to take it a bit further.
#KelticLayout #SelfExploration #Jungian #CreativeWriting
https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/the-keltic-layout-for-the-tarot-plot-structure/
2) I've acquired too much material for my #ScannedCollages. I'm branching out with #AlteredBook #AsemblageArt. #Collage #CollageArt #Assemblage #Books #AlteredBookArt
3) "Try to motivate my reading by using the #PicturePromptBingo #2023 to give me as much flexibility in choices." My #BookPile needs to get a small dent (at least). 😂 Picture Prompt bingo card a loosey-goosey#ReadingChallenge in which you match books that you’ve read to one of the pictures on the bingo card. The key thing is that you be as #creative in your #interpretation of the picture as you like. #BookChoice #Book #Prompt
https://bookforager.wordpress.com/2022
So here I am - even more #SocialMedia activity as I fill time and a small part of the #Fediverse with talk #OfBookishThings.😉
bookforager.wordpress.com
10 posts published by bkfrgr in the year 2022
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 23
Express yourself completely,
then keep quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows, there is only wind;
when it rains, there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.
If you open yourself to the Tao,
you are at one with the Tao
and you can embody it completely.
If you open yourself to insight,
you are at one with insight
and you can use it completely.
If you open yourself to loss,
you are at one with loss
and you can accept it completely.
Open yourself to the Tao,
then trust your natural responses;
and everything will fall into place.
#Tao #TTC #TaoTeChing #Chinese #Philosophy #Books #Taoist #Taoist #Dao
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 22
If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything,
give everything up.
The Master, by residing in the Tao,
sets an example for all beings.
Because he doesn’t display himself,
people can see his light.
Because he has nothing to prove,
people can trust his words.
Because he doesn’t know who he is,
people recognize themselves in him.
Because he has no goad in mind,
everything he does succeeds.
When the ancient Masters said,
“If you want to be given everything,
give everything up,”
they weren’t using empty phrases.
Only in being lived by the Tao
can you be truly yourself.
#Tao #TTC #TaoTeChing #Dao #Chinese #Philosophy #Books
#Emptiness #Zen #Taoist
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 21
The Master keeps her mind
always at one with the Tao;
that is what gives her her radiance.
The Tao is ungraspable.
How can her mind be at one with it?
Because she doesn’t cling to ideas.
The Tao is dark and unfathomable.
How can it make her radiant?
Because she lets it.
Since before time and space were,
the Tao is.
It is beyond is and is not.
How do I know this is true?
I look inside myself and see.
#Tao #TTC #TaoTeChing #Dao #Chinese #Philosophy #Books #Taoist #Taoism
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Been here a little while, though I haven’t yet sunk into the universe until I got all pruney. These here #introduction toots will maybe clear up my intentions.
Hello all! Glad to be here. I’m a #UnionStrong #PublicServant who #writes #poetry. I’m hoping to find community with people who enjoy #books #reading #StarTrek #Proprioception #DoctorWho #sushi #cheese #puns #ActionMovies #mythology #tangents #SFF #science #art #history
Since I've been here almost a week, it's probably time for a real #introductionpost complete with hashtags:
So ... I'm Judy. Some of my favorite things include: #reading #books #writing #fountainpens and ink #stationery #hiking #walking #photography #music #cats over dogs What else? Favorite places: #scotland #capecod
Oh, and #tea How in the world did I forget TEA?! I can't start the day without my cuppa
Redoing my #introduction since I managed to unpin it and then it vanished into the sea of posts…oops…
Hello! I’m Sabrina (S. Z. Attwell) - I am a bestselling #scifi #ScienceFiction #author and #SFWA member. I write #ClimateFiction (am interested in #ClimateChange and #policy) and am a #science #writer. I live in the Boston area and do #archery and #photography (example below), and really love #cats, caffeine, and #books. Huge nerd. I’m very friendly, say hi!
My site: http://szattwell.com
Black background. Top left: 5-star review of Aestus 1 (“…at the level of…Dune" -IHeartSci-fi). Below: B.R.A.G. Medallion. Right: Aestus, Book 1: The City cover art (red sunset over desert wasteland with city structures) with medallions: SPSFC2 Quarterfinalist and KBR 2021 SFF Finalist. Text: An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. And a solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city.if she doesn't get herself killed first. szattwell.com
Blue background (Book 2’s cover art): bluish moonrise over dark canyon with lit rock structure. Books 1 and 2 at left (along with Book 1’s award medallions. Text at right: “If They come, don’t run. Hide. They can see you in the dark.” 5 stars: “…at the level of…Dune…” - IHeartSci-fi
Pale waxing moon against grey evening sky. Foreground: bird in flight, delicate tree branches.
Re-#introduction: recurring topics here.
#Wikimedia #Wikidata #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #OpenStreetMap #Wikimania #Wikisource #WikiCite #OpenRefine #wiki #Wiktionary #WikiLovesMonuments #Wikibase #Wikiquote
#i18n #L10n #translatewiki.net #Unicode #CLDR #languages
#Copyright #PublicDomain #PubblicoDominio #Copyleft #CreativeCommons #OpenData #UploadFilters #LicenzaLibera #DatiAperti
#InternetArchive #books #biblioteche #library #Koha #KohaILS #GLAM
#WikiTeam #digipres #ArchiveTeam #XSLT
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New #introduction
Hi! I'm Elaine a.k.a. Lanika, a #brazilian #designer, mother and #cat person. I talk about everything #creative and post a lot of #design content across medias, but also interact with people, talk about #comics, #books, #illustration, #packaging and I'm in love with #sustainable solutions and #circulardesign.
I'm a big nerd and a bit introverted. Always learning new things, always reading something different.
You can talk to me in Portuguese, English and French!
#introduction here I go, I guess:
I am random as hell, so my interests can pretty much change like flipping a switch. Currently obsessed with #MassEffect, #HouseofAshes and some fandoms that are more on the "low-burner" right now are #DetroitBecomeHuman as well as #Vampyr. I am a huge shipper and write #fanfiction as well which I've come to post on #AO3 as of late (due to my best pal encouraging me).
#Videogames #Manga #Anime #Fanfiction #Books #Photography #Stationery #GFX #Yaoi #Shipping
@rdm has inspired me to finally do an #introduction - I think he's been on Mastodon less than 24 hours, and me, well, I've been active a little while. Better late than never?
Kaya, nganyang kwerl leece, wer ngany Whadjak #Nyoongar boodja-k nyininy. I give my respect to the Nyoongar people, and to the Elders of the past, present and those who are to come.
For tens of thousands of years they have lived, worked and played and cared for the land of South West Australia.
They have been very kind to share their #noongarlanguage and their culture with me and I deeply appreciate that.
Likewise my respect goes out to the Elders of First Nations everywhere.
Hello, my name is leece, and I live on Whadjuk Nyoongar boodja. I have a passion for nature and #citizenscience and am a moderator for the Western Shield Camera Project on Zooniverse.
Pronoun wise she/her is fine although I think baal/baalap is better. I'm an #artist - I have a Diploma in Fine Art (sculpture) but mostly 2d these days.
I'm married to @rdm who is a really cool dude who joined me in my interest in #birdwatching , enthusiastically joined me in #mermaiding and taught me how to sail, and to manage a #kayak and generally watercraft, and already loved #sf and #fantasy #books #movies and #ttrpg as well as #boardgame
#GURPS #gm too. I am a latecomer to the world of #lego but have become something of an #afol in the past year or two.
I have been on Mastodon a little while and I like it here, so let’s make it official with an #introduction post
I am a 30-something gay man living in lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia. Married for 7 years, our lives are ruled by our two pugs, Oscar and Stanley. My day job is in #martech but never fear, I will basically never post about that 😅
I consume waaay too much #PopCulture particularly #ScienceFiction #fantasy #books, #movies and #tv. Also do a fair bit of #gaming on #PS5 and #Switch. Ask me about my #MarvelSnap addiction.
Also interested in #lgbtq, #sustainability, #veganism, #MentalHealth, #fitness, #running and an #AusPol tragic (I grew up in Canberra, so I think it was something in the water)
Trying to take myself less seriously 🤙
Tao Te Ching
Ron Hogan #translation
Ch. 18
When people lose touch with Tao,
they start talking about
“righteousness” and “sanctity.”
When people forget what’s true,
they start talking about
“self-evident truths.”
When people have no respect
for one another,
they start talking about
“political correctness”
and “family values.”
When the nation is unstable,
people start talking about “patriotism.”
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 17
When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.
If you don’t trust the people,
you make them untrustworthy.
The Master doesn’t talk, he acts.
When his work is done, the people say, “Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!”
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Oh, more tags I should have added in my #introduction:
Need a bookcover? Illustration? MoviePoster? Open for business. Reasonable rates. 20+ years of experience. Not an asshole. DM or email. 😎
#bookstodon #bookcover #coverdesign #coverart #illustration #BookTwitter #Books #fiction #publishing #crimefiction #scifi👇
A selection of book cover designs by yours truly, ranging from crime fiction to illustrations, science fiction and thrillers, in English and Finnish languages.
Is there a group on Mastodon that provides any support to self-published #authors? I mean, even as readers to help find good self-published authors?
I find most book club type groups are very focused on supporting authors that are from traditional publishers. There's nothing wrong with that, but I find they almost all shy away from supporting self-published authors. I almost never see the good self-published authors mentioned.
Some hashtags for my re- #introduction . Just moved here from another instance. I never have any idea how to intro myself, so this will have to do. :)
Catching up to an #introduction:
I'm admin here on spaceup.city. By day I lead #software teams at Blue Origin in #Seattle, holding #space where I can.
I'm an amateur at #photography but hope to snap more #cities and share what makes a city livable, like #carfree streets and #PublicTransit and #trains. Until then I post pictures of #cats.
I'm a #geek about #StarTrek #reading #books #SciFi #BoardGames #physics #tea and #TimeTravel, so don't expect a consistent theme.
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 16 2/2
If you don’t realize the source,
you stumble in confusion and sorrow.
When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao,
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready.
2/2
#TTC #Tao #Taoism #Dao #Zen #Chinese #Philosophy #Books #Quotes
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 16 1/2
Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings,
but contemplate their return.
Each separate being in the universe returns to the
common source.
Returning to the source
is serenity.
1/2
#TTC #Tao #Taoism #Dao #Zen #Chinese #Philosophy #Books #Quotes
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 15 2/2
Do you have the patience to
wait till your mud settles
and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things.
2/2
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 15 1/2
The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.
They were careful as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.
1/2
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After over twenty years online and five in the #fediverse, a new identity on a new instance deserves an #introduction, so hello!
This is a side project to while away some free time on topics such as #apps, #architecture, #books, #cinema, #cubing, #games, #music, #photos, and #theatre.
There may also be mention of #computers, #FLOSS, #linux, #maths, #programming, and #tech.
Likewise #climate, #collectives, #commons, #environment, #equity, and #privacy.
Here's to bringing pixels together!
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell translation
Ch. 13 2/2
What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
2/2
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell translation
Ch. 13 1/2
Success is as dangerous
as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
1 & 2
#TTC #Tao #Taoism #Chinese #Dao #Philosophy #Quotes #Books #Taoist #NonDual
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell translation
Ch. 12
Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.
The Master observes the world
but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell translation
Ch. 11
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
Same chalter 11 that is in text of post.
Tao Te Ching
Ch. 8
The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
#TTC #TaoTeChing #Taoist #Dao #Tao #Chinese #Philosophy #Books
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Belated introduction. Been here a while, but I just learned how to pin posts.
I have a ton of interests: #democracy, #music, #art, #books, #science, #ScienceFiction, #scifi, #cinema, #CarlJung, #DonnieDarko, #WorldMusic, #LegendaryPinkDots, #TheChameleons, #AvantGarde, #HipHop, #BillyWoods, #African, #Psychedelic, #Tolerance, #UnitarianUniversalist, #eclectic, #cultures, #history, #writing, #literature, #storytelling, #celiac, #Underground, #caves, #nature, #ElPaso, #FolkMusic, #LatinAmerica.
I suppose I should do an #author #introduction to the #writingcommunity . I'm Mariam El-Masri, the pen name I use for my #sff and #speculativefiction projects.
I'm an Egyptian-American graduate student working on my debut novel. Using #bookstodon to connect with other people and #authors to talk #books.
Will likely be posting about Arabic poetry I'm translating for my alternate 19th century Cairo novel, talking about writing or just book recomondations that I'm really into atm.
@bookstodon@a.gup.pe
#Introduction I'm into good #beer #gin #whisky and #wine, love #cooking #baking #eating, a bit of #photography, watching #sport (#football #soccer #afl #WomenInSport), reading #books and big into liveable communities for #PublicTransport #pedestrians and #cycling. Also #LGBTIQA rights and all the good things. My pronouns are she/they.
White and living on Wurundjeri country (Naarm/Melbourne), from Kaurna country (Tarndanya/Adelaide) originally.
The proof of my newly released book, Smoochy and the Maga, arrived today and it looks great! Pictured here with my cat Smoochy. It’s a middle grade fantasy and it possibly has a character modelled after my cat. #caturday #cats #books #writing
A proof of my book with my cat, Smoochy, that was inspiration for it.
#introduction #introductions #newhere
Tech geek at a professional level.
Here mostly to talk about: personal #tech projects #books #movies #photography #gaming
Lover of #sciencefiction #scifi #historicalfiction
Possibly The Last Webmaster.
Hi!
Just migrated from mas.to and so it is #Introduction time.
I am a #gamer and a bit of a #lurker in the social media space. Moving over to #mastodon has made me realise that I very rarely engage with people online.
I thought maybe this would be a good space to explore more human based connections surrounding my interests.
I enjoying #reading #books: #fantasy #scifi #action #thriller. I am a big fan of #manga: #SliceOfLife #MagicGirl and generally laid back storied. I enjoy #videogames too.
The main #videogames I am #playing at the moment are #FinalFantasyXIV #Splatoon #Harvestella . I play on the #NintendoSwitch #Playstation5 and some #PC
I really enjoy the #Atelier games, such as #AtelierRorona and #AtelierRyza games.
I am an #Australian that is currently living in #England.
If you are into any of these I would love to chat and connect. It would be great to play some #Splatoon or even #FinalFantasyXIV
I also enjoy #tech and #technology.
🎉 🥂 I just published by first novel on Amazon under my pen name Lea Kinley!
It's called Smoochy and the Maga.
It's a fun, fanciful, and charming middle-grade urban fantasy novel. The perfect cozy fantasy for tweens, teens, and the young at heart. Recommended for Grade four and up or ages 8 and up.
If you're interested, you can buy it here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQ5GXSLQ
#author #bookrelease #newbook #fantasy #middlegrade #tweens #pre-teens #teens #books #cats #newrelease #bookstodon #reading
Smoochy and the Maga novel by Lea Kinley cover art.
A 2nd #introduction is needed:
I'm Victor, Clinical Data Scientist researching in #AI applied to medicine.
Although AI is something that interests me from many aspects (technical, mathematical and critical) I do not limit myself to write only about this as I have many other interests (#opensource, #python, #SocialJustice, #diversity, #books, #comics, #basketball, etc.).
Also, I speak SP, EN, DE & FR
Looking forward to interact with the Dair-community.
#Books on my Kobo.
I've created another account on another instance for toots which are *not* related with the scientific community:
@cyclotopie
So here @jocelyn_etienne I'll toot in English about #OpenScience #ScienceMastodon #Research in general and the scientific communities I belong to, #biophysics, #AppliedMaths, #DevBio
@cyclotopie will toot in French and English about #society and #citizenship topics, and also #books, #films,...
So #introductions I suppose for yet another #twittermigrant
I'm #Welsh #Cymraeg living in #Hackney #London and work in #policywonk circles. I'm #polyam & one of my partners dragged me here.
I like #photography #pokemon #pokemongo #poppunk #rockmusic #starwars #tarot #doctorwho #scifi #WTNV #HisDarkMaterials and much more nerdery.
I may post #cat pics. Nights without work I spend with #whisky and #books. I have measured out my life with #coffee spoons. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/morgangd
linktr.ee
Linktree. Make your link do more.
New book arrived and it’s beautiful!
(I am now at stage 3 in the above/OP depiction… 😬)
I'm a storyteller, not a writer. I'm under no illusions. I don't have a way with words, can't describe a jaw-dropping sunset or the pain of losing someone in such a way that it would bring tears to your eyes. The ability to write beautiful prose is a gift that can't be learned. Believe me I've tried. But I've come to terms with that. So, all I do is tell a good tale in a pared-down, hard-boiled sort of way - and hope it works.
I guess I missed the introduction post. So I’ll try and rectify it now. I’m an #exevangelical #exconservative who now decidedly leans #Progressive. I’ve worked in construction and Tech. I’m educated as a Graphic Designer. Something of a #PopCulture junkie, #music, #movies, #comics, #books. My wife describes me as Cisgender Romantic Ace, whatever that is. I like to think about things and I hate injustice. Oh and if it matters I’m #GenX and don’t act my age.
#7Books of a lifetime - and to #knowme - fiction only, no order …
Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit - #MarcelProust
Das Buch von Himmel und Hölle - #JorgeLuisBorges, Adolfo Bioy Casares
Land des Lachens - #JonathanCarroll
Reise um den Tag in 80 Welten - #JulioCortazar
Sudelbücher - #GeorgChristophLichtenberg
Erzählungen - #AntonCechov
Owen Meany - #JohnIrving
Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz - #IrmtraudMorgner
But ... Jean Paul, Büchner, Kafka, Woolf … Oh!
#books @bookstodon
To help some of the newcomers make connections: name subjects and topics that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. (via @jdarnold)
#Books
#Travel
#Wine
#StreamingShows
#Geocaching
#Ocean
#Beaches
#Sacramento
Edit: #Otters. Where is Steve?
#Wolves #Hedgehogs #Foxes
New Edit: #cooking
My little free library is a #ReadInColor #LittleFreeLibrary. But what does it mean ?
Read in Color little free libraries distribute #books that provide perspectives on #racism and #socialjustice . They celebrate #BIPOC, #LGBTQ+, and other marginalized voices and incorporate experiences from all identities for all readers.
You wish to know more ? https://littlefreelibrary.org/programs/read-in-color/
@littlefreelibrary #LittleFreeLibrarySteward #littlefreelibrarylove
littlefreelibrary.org
Read in Color brings diverse books to Little Free Libraries worldwide. The program grants little libraries full of diverse books; shares diverse book lists; and encourages everyone to sign the Read in Color Pledge.
5-7 books to something something about me? Good Lord. Um...
Okay, "A Wrinkle in Time", that's like a free space.
Thaddeus Golas, "A Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment".
Robinson, "A Short, Sharp Shock".
Me, "All Reality" (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KH-ZR3A8va_QVaVVP5EWb3SIUUJF2o0g65hOV3pVspA/)
Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"
I don't know! Maybe Morick (ed) "Challenges to Empiricism".
Ooh how about Abbott's "Flatland"?
"Principia Discordia" of course.
Darn, that's eight already, and I haven't listed "The Wind in the Willows" yet, which should probably have been first.
And lots more!!
docs.google.com
All Reality The Nature of the Game I want to be sure that you know that we've been playing a game. I make up some constraints, I assume that we are sharing some other constraints, and then things happen, or don’t, to me and to you and to some other people and things, within those constraints. Som...
I’m in healthcare to pay the bills but my real interests are #livemusic #gratefuldead #phish #improvisationalmusic #outdoors #hiking #skiing #sports #dogs #sushi #books in no particular order. My teams are #Yankees (originally from CT/NY) #Warriors #Sharks and #49ers .
I got on the bus at Shoreline in October ‘87 and never got off. Saw many incredible shows w/Jer and many others post-Jer. I truly love that the music is still being played by others as loudly and proudly as it ever was. ✌️🌹💀3/3
So seem to have unpinned my intro toot. I work teaching the whole curriculum outside threading environmental issues through the learning. The importance of good #education means it is a right not a privilege. #Paint draw a little-not well #gardening #cooking #books #Biodiversity; #environment #art; #climateaction #NHS #bekind #science #plants #trees #gtto #notmypm #european
The joy of finding an amazing bookshop, spending hours browsing the shelves, discovering new books, carefully deciding which ones to take—and having the magic destroyed by someone yelling at you: “Who are you, and what are you doing in my house?”
Hi ! I am the Steward of a small Blue Box growing in my yard where I share books with the Community. I read a lot. So I share a lot of books.
#ReadInColor
#LittleFreeLibrary
#Literacy
#Bookstodon
#books
#fantasy
#sff
#historicalnovel
#romcom
#kidlit
#yabooks
#graphicnovel
#comics
#picturebooks
#fairytale
#folklore
#legend
#folklore
#folktale
#Faery
#Mythology
I should put something here...
#Introduction Part 1: B&R in #Chicago, I'm adjusting to suburban life as a #gay / #queer #ISTJ #Aquarius #caregiver for a disabled Hubz, whom I've been with for 20 yrs. I'm #catdad to two #kitTeas, Pekoe & Earl Grey. After 8 yrs in a #tollbooth, I'm now a #WFH CSR. I enjoy #dance music, #crossstitch, #Tarot, #BttF, #books, #strongman events, #XFiles, #ushistory, #roadtrips, #malepolish, fun #socks, & social #nudism. Sometimes I write words that sound nice together.
Time for an #introduction:
My name is Thom - https://tragically.social is my personal instance. My tech profile is over at https://indieweb.social/@thom, but there will be crossover.
Can't say there's much focus here, I used to #blog regularly, occasionally dabble in #photography, read #books, listen to lots of #music, and watch too many #movies. I'm an avid collector/cataloger of media & #LEGO.
My politics have swung far left. So expect some posts about #anarchism #abolition #anticapitalism #antifa.
indieweb.social
1.1K Posts, 170 Following, 104 Followers · Working with big tech professionally, but interested in small tech personally.
I write at the intersection of #space, #science, #tech, and pop culture (#scifi). I’m the host/writer of PBS’s YouTube show Far Out. I’ve got a book on stargazing coming out in 2023 and co-edited the Arthurian anthology SWORD STONE TABLE.
I have a Wired column where talk about #gaming as a parent. I contribute to #StarTrek dot com and co-host of the podcast Desi Geek Girls.
Other things I talk about: #scicomm #knitting #parenting #starwars #books
You don’t know if there is a #LittleFreeLibrary near you ? Check the map !
https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/
Note : Only registered Little Free Libraries will appear on the map. As many are not registered you can still have the surprise to find an unexpected one near you.
You can also check #StreetLibrary or #BoiteALivres.
#Australia : https://streetlibrary.org.au/find-2/
#France : https://boite.a.livres.zonelivre.fr/
@littlefreelibrary @bookstodon #littlefreelibrarysteward #littlefreelibrarylove #books #bookstodon
boite.a.livres.zonelivre.fr
Armoires, boîtes… transformés en bibliothèques où chacun peut prendre, déposer des livres qui fleurissent aux coins de nos rues.
Here’s my #introduction, better later than never! Born in #GenX and I live on unceded #Ngunnawal land in #Canberra, #Australia. I have two teenagers, a husband, and a cat called Bluebell. After more than a decade as a SAHM I now work as an administrator for a company that manages the environmental upkeep of Defence bases. I still feel like the work experience kid and find I don’t have time for much else besides work and housework any more. Wish I could get back into #drawing, #craft or #photography (something creative!) but I’m happy to enjoy the endeavours of others. I love watching good quality tv and movies, having a laugh or playing Just Dance with the kids, and going for walks in #nature or exploring new cities with my family. Got to #travel a fair bit pre-pandemic, saw a lot of Asia, never got to South America, wouldn’t mind getting back over to Europe some day.
I read plenty of #books (mostly #LiteraryFiction) including #audiobooks on my commute. I’m trying to learn to speak #French with Duolingo but finding it hard to progress despite my 1473+ day streak (I really don’t practice enough).
I’m also interested in #science, #space, #art, #culture, #history and #auspol.
#introduction post.
Hi, my name's Danielle Louise, I'm 31 years old and my birthday is the 1st of September 🎉.
I'm a mother of two and I'm engaged to @danielholt
I live in #leicester and have done all my life.
My hobbies are #crossstich, #cooking, #books and #videogames.
I have no idea what I'm doing on here but feel free to #follow 🖤
I thought I should try to post & find some friends with some of the same passions. I love #horror (really #movies in general), #scifi - and esp #sciencefiction #books. I’ve been going to see #livemusic since I was a baby. I love LOVE #radiohead #JackWhite and #thirdmanrecords. I am obsessed with my #cats #dog and #rabbit. I love #gardening and #birdwatching. I’m in therapy for hyper-empathy and my personality is that of a care giver. I am excited to find mutuals!
Oh, whoops, we're supposed to do an #introduction?!
Um, ok. Belated intro 🙃
I love #books, #movies, #art, #podcasts & #music w a proclivity for #horror & the #weird / #eerie. I write #reviews & make #spooky & not-so-spooky art. I'm #autistic & wildly verbose about things that enthuse me but simultaneously #introverted generally. I am fascinated by the #odd, love #cosmichorror, #folkhorror & #hauntedhouses. I play #piano. I share things that I think are awesome. Is this enough?
I have been reading way too much about the Simulation Hypothesis lately… I see glitches and malfunctioning NPCs everywhere. 🤔
#science #scifi #philosophy #gaming #quantum #matrix #digitalart #cybersecurity #ai #books
let’s do an #introduction bc i’ve been inconsistent about coming on here.
Sharing would be appreciated :)
#college #hebrew #jewish #antisemitism #jew #writer #writing #history #historical #historicalfiction #romance #romancenovels #reading #books #bookstore #scifi #fantasy #journalism #archaeology #truecrime #genealogy #Israel #boston #astronomy #wwii #wwi #woodrowwilson #greatwar #lordhuron #taylorswift #catfishandthebottlemen #washingtondc #maryland #moco #mcps
About time I did an #introduction
I'm a creative soul who loves #art #soundDesign and anything crafty. I own a lot of #books and #graphicNovels. I will probably post a lot of #animals art and general derp. I #knit and #crochet whilst watching comedy, #horror and #scifi
One last #introduction for my fellow licorice fans.
I'm Andy. I play #Drums and enjoy all types of music especially #Jazz #ExperimentalMusic and #Improvisation. Big fan of #GratefulDead and #MMW. #Krautrock #Ambient #Electronic you get the idea. My living room is full of records.
Still miss living in #Yosemite.
Hobbies and interests include #Baking #Cycling #Hiking #Books #Photography #Horror and #RollerDerby.
Happy to be here!
👋 Time for an #introduction!
I'm a backend #software #engineer, mostly doing #Python. I also help organize #PyOhio, serving as its program chair since 2018.
📻 For a while in the 90s, and briefly in 2020, I was a #radio #DJ on #WRUW.
I love #music, #scifi, #fantasy, #movies, #books, #comics, & #animation. For a while my main hobby was #photography. Lately, I enjoy #guitar, #DnD (as player and #DM), #gaming, #cats, #dadops, and (begrudgingly) the #Peloton.
I’ve never done an intro post. Former single mom on welfare who established an NPO that awarded cars to women in transition, based on my life experiences. Have since transitioned to life coach/author/speaker on topics incl resilience, happiness, mindset, kindness, community. Background incl 30+ yrs in media, tech, climate, infrastructure. I love cooking, eating, reading, writing, art, gardening, travel, fitness, biking & the ocean. Chicagoan. #introduction #books #BikeTooter #LifeCoach #FediBiz
Okay, new server, new #introduction: I’m a #writer, #BookReviewer, and #podcaster currently living on #Florida’s #NatureCoast with my husband and our two dogs. I’m using my phone to write this and can’t figure out how to do line breaks. I love #kayaking, #books, #music, #MusicalTheatre, #improv, #BoardGames, #cooking, the #ocean, #mysteries, and #SciFi. I love #StarTrek in all its incarnations. I’m #leftist, #feminist, have been an #activist since childhood. #UU
I’m a #polymath who gets her kicks learning and doing new things.
I started in corporate finance, then went freelance as a #writer, #author of #tech #books, articles, and #video training material. Along the way, I learned to fly #helicopters and bought one. I launched my own helicopter charter business and a popular #YouTube channel of #flying videos. Now I’m mostly #retired, a #jewelry #artist and #boat #captain, #RVing and #boating with my pups when I’m away from home.
Hey! I'm Elisse. I'm a computer engineer, and I work in medical tech.
I love video games -- I've played #WorldofWarcraft for over ten years, and currently play #FinalFantasyXIV, #LeagueofLegends, #Overwatch and #AnimalCrossing.
I also adore (real-life) crafting! I've been #knitting for many years, I do #crossstitch and I'm learning #sewing and #crochet. I’m also in love with #books.
I have two dogs, and I am powered by #kpop and iced coffee.
Hope to see you around! 💗
Hi! #Intro redo as I moved to Polyglot City.
I'm Francis, 24, He/Him. I'm Indonesian, of the Indonesian-Chinese ethnic minority.
I'm the_pyroneer on Twitter. Happy to connect on #langtwt #langtoot #booktwt #booktoot
Hobbies: #LanguageLearning #Reading #Writing. Langs I speak are on my profile. Fav #Books genres: mystery, thriller, crime fic, sci-fi. I write on my #WordPress blogs.
Other hobbies: #Anime #VideoGames #Football #Jpop #Kpop #PersianMusic #WWE #DC #Marvel
Nice to meet you all!
Une petite introduction tout de même !
📫 Je suis historienne à l'université Rennes 2
📚 Je travaille sur l'histoire du genre et du catholicisme au XIXe siècle, principalement en France - mais ces temps-ci je prépare surtout des cours !
🔔 Mes projets du moment : les pratiques de contrôle et d'écriture de soi ; les archives familiales ordinaires ; ère numérique & pratique de l'histoire
🔰 Partage de lectures, de questions, de petits chats
I am really enjoying my timeline and all the new people I'm seeing on it. On my first day, I mostly had to go through the federated timeline to find people to connect with but now my home timeline is very active and all the awesome people I'm following are boosting other awesome people. I really want to find more people to connect with.
If you're into #WebDevelopment, #Jamstack, #Comics, #Horror, #TabletopRPGs, #dnd, #videogames, #Music, #Art, #Books, or something else cool, let's connect!
In the distant future, life isn't exactly the utopia we all thought it would be. In a galaxy sitting on a knife's edge preparing for war, one criminal falls into an adventure fueled by intrigue and violence as he desperately searches for a way out of his unfulfilling life of crime...
Buy my debut novel, The Data Runner, only on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0B7H99X12
#Reintroduction for a new server: Part of the #twittermigration and am loving the #Fediverse: community, thoughtfulness, intellect, substance, and nerdiness galore! I look forward to contributing. Interests are many - some listed below.
#Reading
#Education
#Kindness
#LifelongLearning
#PacificNorthwest
#TV
#Beading
#Needlework
#CrossStitch
#Embroidery
#Homesteading
#Gardening
#Spirituality
#Aging
#Ethics
#Geek
#Food
#WorldOfWarcraft
#MacOS
#Books
#Travel
#Canning
#DIY
@maireadhearne Mairead 😊🤸♂️👌 brilliant. I need books on my timeline! #books
I'm a guy in his 40's who lives in New England with his family and dog. I'm a bassist, an amateur photographer, and wood builder. For now. I'm interested in tech, astronomy, books, snowboarding, and trying to find the beauty of the world. ☮️ I believe in equality for ALL.
#introduction #bassist #dad #father #newengland #photography #woodworking #astronomy #books #snowboarding
Ok #introduction time! Hi I’m Farah, mama to an energetic toddler. I’m originally from a small South Asian country; now live in Iowa, USA. I talk about my hobbies, #books, #gaming, #sciencefiction and #StarTrek and other isssues like #mentalheaIth #tech #psychology. I complain about the world a lot, (you’ve been warned). I am pathologically anxious and make jokes to compensate, they aren’t always funny. Trying to connect with people because it’s hard to make friends in real life. Peace! 🖖🏼
Finally getting around to my #introduction. I’m a sometimes #artist, #writer (#poetry and #fiction), maker of various #crafts. My interests are too varied to list in full. Think arts and humanities, things having to do with bodies or of minds, the land, the sky, the sea. Pretty much anything. Except sports. I follow the #news. I read #books. #Politics are important. #Covid is airborne. CW should be used when talking about spiders not #racism.
Love #books?
Looking to add more cutting-edge nonfiction to your book list?
Polity is an independent publisher committed to publishing work that opens up conversations around the issues that matter to us.
Follow us for our latest book news and to keep up to date with our new releases!
Outside of work I am interested in lots of things. Hashtags below to connect with those who might share some interests. I try to learn from & boost Indigenous voices.
#healthcare #highereducation
#adulteducation #AdultLearning #relationallearning
#indigenous #landback #decolonize
#nature #hiking #NordicSkiing #birds #vegetarianfoodie (most of the time & with 0 judgment - eat what you love) #tea #coffee #books
#humility #humour #resilience
#contemplative #mindfulness #adhd #heds
Hi everyone, excited to be here.
I’m a scientist from Galway in Ireland. I’m an avid home cook and I love to read cook books and try new recipes. My favorite food is cheese and I am always on the lookout for a new, exciting cheese! I am a big reader and read 60-80 books a year of all genres. I am learning to paint (oil, acrylic, watercolor) and I love to craft (quilt, sew, knit, crochet). I have two large, crazy dogs. #CheeseLover, #dogs, #IrishFood, #Reading, #books, #art, #quilt
A cute 45 year old lady with curly blonde hair, wearing a black jump suit.
Wouldn't want to spurn the #mastodon tradition ...!
I live in Dayton, OH, USA.
I'm a Research Engineer at Radial R&D, building stuff in MATLAB & Python and making sure the automation hamsters are happy and healthy.
Spare time is:
- #opensource, #python & #js (https://github.com/bskinn/ & https://bskinn.github.io/)
- #music (clarinet, piano, guitar & vocal tenor)
- #books (mostly SF/F - itching for the next Dresden Files)
- #boardgames (https://boardgamearena.com/player?id=86994365)
en.boardgamearena.com
Manage your account and see your game results
So I just migrated from mas.to to ART. I seem to have lost some people on the way 😭
Anyway here is a repost of my interests
#art
#painting
#crafting
#books
#animals
#cats
#scienceFiction
#mythology
#Fallout4
#theWitcher
#ME
#CFS
#ChronicIllness
#spoonies
#postpunk
#goth
#metal
#languages
#ancientHistory
#introduction Hi I'm ricmac and I'm looking for a new type of social media. Something akin to the blogosphere in 2004. I'm an old-school tech blogger; started a site called ReadWriteWeb in 2003 and then chronicled the Web 2.0 era on it.
These days: before breakfast I tend to my #InternetHistory website, Cybercultural — writing & developing. #IndieWeb
I'm a #Type1Diabetic #T1D
My interests:
#InternetHistory
#WebDev
#Fediverse
#11ty
#ElectronicMusic
#Books
#Birds
(Updated: 14 July 2025)
#Read a lot of #Books & watch a lot of #TV.
Paint #Art tho' I can’t feel my fingers so well these days.
Left-leaning, happy old duffer who has to use a #Wheelchair or can take a few steps with walking frame. #MS #PPMS #Ocrevus.
“ ‘er indoors” because I can’t get out easily. Live in a very beautiful place, the weather is pretty appalling.
Fond of #Animals & #Nature #Trees #Dogs.
Plan to build an air & weather-tight Scandi #PassivHaus #PassiveHouse.
She/Her
I love #cooking, #theatre, the #Mediterranean, science fiction and fantasy #books, and (mostly) non-fiction #comics.
I’m one of nature’s dabblers, not her deep divers (ADHD they call it these days). Which is to say I know a little bit about a lot of things and a great deal about almost nothing. I will bring you shiny things that catch my eye and we can examine them together.
I am half Greek, Generation X, the mother of a brand new university student, and trying to reinvent myself.
I gather it helps to write an #Introduction (including that # ) as a pinned tweet that includes a bunch of other hashtags so people can find you on here?
❤️🔥🪗
#accordion #AccordionMastodon #Music #Books #FolkMusic #MusicHistory #Jazz #Blues #ExperimentalMusic #Klezmer #Zydeco #TraditionalMusic #ClassicalMusic #Punk #EthnoMusicology #Radio #CommunityRadio #Vancouver
#Emoji ❤️🔥🪗
#Disability ✊🏻
I've been here a few days but haven't written an #introduction.
I'm a software dev from #Guelph #Ontario, with way too many hobbies.
#music, mostly #rock and #metal. #livemusic is the best.
#sports, mostly #soccer and #football. #LiverpoolFC #TFCLive #CanPL #NYGiants #Raptors is what I watch most.
#movies and #tv. I watch everything, but prefer #horror #scifi and am in love with #cinematography (I'll actually start a class next year).
Also #books #comics #videogames.
Hello everyone 👋
Seems that #introductions are the way to go.
Briefly: Liz. Female. Queer. Way too old. Hobby photographer and photo manipulator. Political junkie. Follows the science. Vegan. A Brit, but also a Canadian. Atheist, but believes cats are gods. Avid reader.
#photography #FollowTheScience #vegan #cats #LGBTQ2S+ #books #fiction
I've spent a lot of my life doing #StructuralBiology and playing #Music #ClassicalMusic.
I like to #read #books, mostly #fantasy but also #clifi and #scifi.
A fan of both #StarTrek and #StarWars, each has its merits. (Yes TNG is the best, but only because I grew up with it).
Currently I'm interested in #biosustainability #sustainability and work at #DTUBiosustain with #enzymology and #ProteinEngineering to try and make the world a better place.
Danish 😀
Apparently, I failed to make an #introduction post. So here we go:
I am 🇵🇱, I lived in 🏴 for 17 years and now moved to 🇫🇮, mostly because Brexit sucks.
Studied physics and astronomy in Wrocław, but graduated in Central and Eastern European studies from Glasgow University (dissertation on Polish rock in the 1980s).
Freelance journalist for nearly 20 years, a podcaster for 2 and I also drive trucks and enjoy it.
Interest: #transport, #ukpolitics #poland #trucks, #science #podcast #books
Hello! My #Introduction for #FollowFriday & #followbackfriday
Job:
#writer (mostly #food, #recipe development, products related to food, #coffee)
#author (#cookbook: featured in NYT, WaPo, EW)
#photographer (tabletop, food)
#blogger
Prefer to talk about:
#ceramics #clay #pottery
#PopCulture #TV #music #movies #books
#travel #roadtrip #hiking #nationalparks
Recovering #GraphicDesign (mostly print, identity, packaging, not UX)
#lgbt #gay #queer #lgbtqia #taiwanese #sanfrancisco #california
So, huge interest post? Huge interest post!
#music #MusicJunkie #OldMusic #NewMusic
#cats #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRescue
#nature #wildlife #birds #crows #ravens #flowers
#space #nasa #astronomy #HistoricalAstronomy
#books #words #AntiqueBooks #BooksAboutBooks
#games #OldGamer #rpgGames #BiowareGames #MassEffect #TheWitcher #KotOR2 #SupergiantGames
#mythology #folklore #tricksters
#art #sculpture #FolkArt #crafts #MexicanFolkArt #LaMachine
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Hey, it’s a #FollowBackFriday on Mastodon! I used to enjoy these on Twitter long ago before it became awful. Feel free to follow if you like and I’ll do the same. I’m a GenXer in Maryland, USA. Married with a teen son. I work in #HealthCommunication as a writer/editor and occasionally use my #art degree (#painting). I like #books, #birding, #hiking, exploring #NationalParks, #crosswords, #nytxw, #poetry, #TexMex, #USPolitics, (liberal), and of course my #cats. #introduction
Definitely didn’t do enough hashtags in my original #introduction so here’s some of my identities:
#progressivechristian #bisexual #lgbtq #musicnerd #techie #eaglescout #dogdad #midwesterner
And some interests:
#apple #podcasts #rockmusic #books #running #camping #hiking #beagle #dogs #nintendoswitch #photography #design #film
I'm also Extremely Into #ScienceFiction #SciFi #HardSciFi #HardScienceFiction #Books
During lockdown I rediscovered my love of reading - fortunately stumbling across #JohnScalzi #OldMansWar, which I loved and reminded a bit me of the #JoeHaldeman #ForeverWar series. Which led me to the #Bobiverse books by #DennisETaylor which I LOVED. I'm looking for suggestions. Currently on #TermsOfEnlistment by #MarkoKloos & enjoying so far. I like #AndyWeir, #PoulAnderson and I'll always read anything in the #Dune universe. Really liked #ChildrenOfTime, #ChildrenOfRuin & #DogsOfWar / #BearHead by #AdrianTchaikovsky. Enjoyed #TheThreeBodyProblem, but The Dark Forest has left me in the weeds a bit (will return for another go at some point). Genuinely looking for suggestions!
I’ve migrated over from mastodon.lol/@uhlissuh so I will repost my #introduction! 
Hi, the name is Alyssa, and I live in the #Midwest of the US.
I studied #linguistics in college, and I very much enjoy #words and #wordplay and #wit. I do a lot of #reading of #books. I love #animals, especially #dogs and #birds. I also love #nature and think it’s really restorative - I especially like #trees, #plants, #flowers, #water and #clouds.
My interests: #Science, #Computers, #Art, #Classics, #Archeology, #Astronomy, #Music, #Books and #FOSS. Enjoying the #Fediverse!
I love #Bikes and #Ebikes and #BikeTrailers. Living in #Seattle.
Just joined so I suppose I should do an #introduction. I am, as my profile suggests, a Scottish fantasy writer, with stories in various anthologies including Skullgate Media's TFYB volumes 3 and 4. I have some #books and some #cats. Possibly too many of each, but who's counting?
#Introduction: Published #writer since 1978. Mostly #fiction these days, lots of it short, though new novels coming. #Mystery #Crime #SciFi #Fantasy #CrossGenre I'm a #maker, #models, #rockets, dioramas. Collector of #toys, #ActionFigures, #Americana. Love #Robots and #Rockets. Speak openly about my #anxiety issues. Neurodivergent. Like my #Democracy intact and advocate for #lgbtq rights, women, people of color. Married to #cozymystery writer #ChristyFifield, AKA #ChristinaFYork. #books #ebooks
🌊 I guess it's time for an #introduction.
My name is Aud, my pronouns are she/her, I'm married with two fur babies and a very spoiled betta fish.
I'm part of the great #TwitterMigration (formerly twitter.com/audthecodewitch). I'm interested in #ruby, #crochet, #books, #aquariums, #paganism, #witchcraft and making some new friends.
New #introduction
Hi! I'm Elaine a.k.a. Lanika, a #brazilian #designer, mother and #cat person. I talk about everything #creative and post a lot of #design content across medias, but also interact with people, talk about #comics, #books, #illustration, #packaging and I'm in love with #sustainable solutions and #circulardesign.
I'm a big nerd and a bit introverted. Always learning new things, always reading something different.
You can talk to me in Portuguese, English and French!
#introduction
I am Armand Albuquerque and I'm in Rhode Island. Since I'm retired I'm not going to bore you with a recap of my resume'. My interests are #Music , #photography , #books , #food , #craftbeer .
Ok, an introduction post seem a good idea.
I'm a #disabled (early onset #parkinsons) white cis-guy from the country side of the #Australia #BlueMountians with an anchistic, almost Nilist, approach to spelling and grammar
I'm a fan of #TerryPratchett #neilgaiman #douglasadams #JimButcher #BrandonSanderson and #RobinHobb books
Watch #MCU and #SuperHero movies, and look to #LinoleumKnife and #CriticallyAcclaimed podcasts for movie reviews
Spend my home days looking into #ConspiracyTheories, and highly recommend #KnowledgeFight #StuffTheyDontWantYouToKnow and #QAnonAnon podcasts for anyone trying to follow the weird alternate world pushing into reality
I relax by playing #DND (DMing at moment) and am hoping get #InvisibleSun (from #MonteCookGames), #shadowrun and several games from #kickstarter going though I have accused of #roleplayinggames just to have an excuse to be a #dicegoblin
Musicaly I'm into #NickCaveandtheBadSeeds #BabyAnimals #bjork #TheHu #faithnomore #FourPlayStringQuartet and #KimBoekbinder I like to hunt around #BandCamp for new music
Politically I'm a #progressive #Lefty with #Anachist leanings trying to support (and learn more about) #antifa #feminism #firstnations #transrights #sexworkers and other oppressed groups
I hope a good round of me. Say hi anytime, and I'll finish with hashtags that didn't fit into sentences
#daria #invaderzim #poisonelves #dredd #books #horror #comics #drwhofan #vasquez #food #Davidwong #jdate #dice #diceporn
#anticapitalist #entrepreneur looking for #perspectives otherwise unseen; #art that breaks the walls around its circles; #history lessons, but also profane professional #inspiration (#datavis, #C++,#CNC) - oh, and #books, always new books.
live at 59ºN and convinced that migratory birds got it right (#zugvogelneid); moreover, #cyclist #kayak #cook #neuhier
more personal stuff once i've learned the rules ...
#3DModeling #3DArt #3DPrinting #Maya #B3D #Blender
#MotionGraphics
#Animation
#StopMotion
#Writing
#Reading
#Gardening (bad at it but I try) #mosstodon
#Books
#Horror
#Fantasy #sff
#CliveBarker
#TerryPratchett
#DouglasAdams
#Literature
#ClassicLit
#Mythology
#Folklore
#Muppets
#Cats
#Animals
#Wildlife
#Coffee
#Music - my taste varies a lot but some I listen to most: #ElectronicMusic #80sMusic
#Introduction Hello! I'm Jaedia (aka Hannah). I'm an #asexual #pagan #spoonie from the #UK living in #Wales and I'm just happy to be here. Usually too out of energy to do much (disabled fatigue-haver) so I'm all about the chill vibes.
Things I love:
#DnD #TTRPG - playing and GMing, exploring rn
#gaming - #FFXIV, #ACNH, #indiegames
#books - #fantasy #horror #SciFi
#CrossStitch
The #paranormal
#cats
and love to watch good shows, #movies & #anime.
#introduction in the form of some hashtags relevant to my interests and myself:
- #art, #AIart, #paleoart
- #history, #ancientHistory, #prehistory, #archaeology, #anthropology
- #science, #astrophysics, #space
- #reading, #books, #mmromance, #sff, #tsundoku
- #writing, #amWriting
- #autism, #neurodivergent, #ActuallyAutistic
- #queer, #lgbtqi, #nonbinary, #agender, #aromantic
- #cats, #snakes, #horses, #wildlife
- #tarot
- #hockey
- #tea, #sencha, #puerh
EN #Introduction (updated)
Been in the Fediverse since 2019 (3rd instance)
#French
#Africa - living in #Benin, #WestAfrica
#Cats lover
#Marketing
#Freelance consultant (remote only!)
#Jazz & #AfricanMusic
#80sMusic
#CryptoSkeptic
ex #Microsoft (1989-1997)
#Blogging - #WordPress
#IndieWeb
Did a lot more: Intellectual Property, music producing/publishing, sound & music design, etc.
Love #Books, #TVseries, #Cooking (bread, cakes...)
Widower, 4 daughters, 5 grand-daughters
Person holding a cardboard sign: "Will write for money"
@angel_undercover @zkat Hi! I'm a Mexican writer. I toot about #books, #literature, #creativewriting, #SpeculativeFiction and more.
ME tends to publish & republish lots of #nature #art #photography #science #food #recipes #cooking #culture #archaeology #history #legal #court #crafts #sewing #embroidery #beading #clay #ceramics #metal #stained glass #sculptures #geology #books #animals #dogs #cats #birds #scifi #doctorwho #startrek #archaeology #books #jazz #blues #classical #music
Some other longer postings are on ME Peripetia Blog space here:
KahrynM.blogspot.com
Hi everyone! This is my official #introduction !
My name is Teresa. I arrived here with the great #TwitterMigration of 2022.
Been feeling a bit out of place, w/ all the amazing artwork here 😅
I mainly draw sketches using #Copic markers. Sometimes I venture into digital with #Procreate.
No idea what I’m doing.
Hobbies:
• #SciFi - #StarTrek #StarWars etc
• #F1
• #Books 📚
• Very Basic #Astronomy 😆
• Catsitter (to my spoiled #cats )
Here’s a small selection of my - hmm - #illustration s. 😄
A collage of sketches made with copic markers. Left to right, top to bottom: X-mas cookies; jam jar; mushroom house; rainbow popsicles; door; Super Nintendo; bowl of berries; Mônica Toy; Una from Bubble Guppies; cake; BB-8; succulents in a heart-shape; Pocoyo; Starbucks cup; jellyfish.
Here's my #introduction:
I live in The Netherlands. I work as a self-employed campaign and communications consultant for world-changing organisations like Fairphone, Partij voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals), ASN Bank and Consumentenbond. I have way too many interests and am childfree by choice :)
Writing about:
#humanetech #systemthinking #publicaffairs #deliberativedemocracy #animalrights #childfreechoice #books #podcasts #ethics #climatecrisis #food #music #politics and #pressfreedom
Hi everyone, I'm Esther (same handle on 
) and I'm enjoying all the intro posts but realised I never did one.
I am an accountant, and no, not an "accountant". Interested in #dance #pilates #knitting #books #fantasy #scifi #accounting #DataAnalysis #statistics #covid #health #auspol #trivia
I was on a shortlived app called #listapp and have been trying to get that same community vibe back and this 🐘 seems promising.
#introduction
Signed on a few months ago, thought I'd say hi.
I live on Dharug land in NW Sydney, Australia. I'm a corporate research #librarian of sorts. I ride #bikes: #ebike #cargobike #roadbike. I read #books. I hang out with my family and dog. I'm pretty quiet online, so don't expect much from me :)
#introductions Hi! I'm A. H. I'm a #disabled #writer who lives in #vancouver. I collect #vintage dresses and write personal essays, a #novel, #fiction, and tweets. Trying this out and hoping to connect with #disabilitytwitter on here. I also love #canlit Twitter.
I work in #tech now as a #contentmarketer but previously was an #academic #fundraiser for #climatechange and #sustainable agriculture research. I am #LGBT (bisexual). I make a lot of jokes and read too many #books. 500+ in 2020.
Okay #introduction time! I'm Jess (they/them), Rhysling Award winning writer of #SFF #shortfiction and #poetry, with pieces in Fireside, Fantasy Magazine, khōréō, ApparitionLit and others. Member of #Codex, and will one day finish my #sfwa app.
More importantly, I have a cat named Mushroom with 6 teeth and 1.5 ears and he is the best.
#writingcommunity #fantasy #horror #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #books #poetrycommunity
#introduction post 😀 📚
Hello friends, my interests are:
#books #blogging #music #art #writing #cats #films #fiction
I'm part of #booktwitter #bookstagram #writingcommunity #indieauthors
I am the author of two thrillers - We Watch You and They Lie Here - which are available from Amazon including #KindleUnlimited
Feel free to follow, say hi, or check out my 'bio link' for all my social links gathered in one place:
#Introduction time! Checking stuff out because I like exploring and also might part of the #TwitterMigration (we shall see)
I'm a #book editor, cat lover, and generally awkward human. Excited to learn a new platform!
#BookTwitter #WritingCommunity #BookPeople #KidLit #Writer #Author #AuthorLife #Publishing #AmWriting #Books #Writing #Writers
#introduction Hello all I’m Teresa.
Personal: A theatre arts major who found employment in tech. Formerly retired. Married 40 years. Bossed by cats.
Things I may post about: #baking #bees #birds #books #canning #cats #climate #gardening #voting
Topics I follow also include #astronomy #foss #history #humanrights #climatejustice #economicjustice #heathcare #privacy #cybersecurity #politics
Hi. Moving over here from the bird app. I’m a #poet, #printmaker (mostly #linocut), #collagist, publisher of a small #poetry press, and a freelance #BookDesigner. I read across all genres, and enjoy all forms of visual #art. Expect photos of #Maine scenery (we hike a lot), links to #poems, and pics of the #books and #art I’m making. I imagine it will take me a few days to get acclimated. Happy to follow you back!
My #introduction:
I am a #bicycle rider. I work in #tech. I'm a father, husband, volunteer with #NICA, getting #morekidsonbikes. I like to go on #bikepacking and #vanlife trips. I am interested in #history and old #maps, especially the history of the place I live, #Oakland, #California, and the bicycle cultures here. I love to read #books, #cook. I listen to #NPR and vote #democrat.
Cribbing this from my first mastodon account, @fnagrom
Woo-hoo first post. #introduction. Old guy trying to figure out what the heck this is. All too many interests, so little time.
In no particular order #Art #Books #BookHistory #EvolutionaryBiology #Science #Cytogenetics #Dogs #History #HistoryOfScience #Reading #DataVisualization #Genetics #Neurobiology #Comics #Videogames #SciFi #Fantasy #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #Statistics #Epidemiology #Medicine #Quaker #Humor #Astronomy
Leaving some extra # here so I don’t lose them: ############
Each day in the #fediverse is more interesting than the last. Very much enjoying the positivity and knowledge share here. I want to focus on building a community today, and apparently that’s done by hashtagging (novel!)
Here’s what I’m all about:
#books #media #massmedia #traditionalmedia #StarTrek #Streaming #AppleMusic #Digital #Tech #cats #cooking #bookstores #tea #ASD #collecting #pens #notebooks #queer #gay #adhd #wine #chocolate #space #science #voteblue #npr #bbc #wit #TXST #Learning
#introduction
#ScienceFiction #fantasy #knitting #spinning #books #reading #FountainPens #Inks #BikeTooter
I like to read, mostly science fiction and fantasy, some horror, some mystery, a bit of other stuff.
I'm a process knitter, mostly knitting to keep my hands busy and my mind quiet. I spin a little too.
One husband, two dogs, Bob and Willow.
I'm getting old. I think about death all the time. But I ate'nt ded. Yet.
#Introduction Hey! Am approaching 50 at speed with a husband (Paul), two black cats, (siblings called Vince & Nelly) & a seaside wildlife garden. Have worked in digital publishing in one form or another since the Internet was A Thing. #freelance
Into: #books #scifi #wildlife #making & #remaking things, #fibrecrafts 🧶 #knitting #spinning #weaving #crochet and #textiles 🧵 #dressmaking #sewing #quilting #embroidery
Hello! I have a newsletter now! https://tinyletter.com/Eugenia_Triantafyllou
Bellow is my WIP of a fox for the banner of my newsletter. I'll be probably making more cute foxes and whatnot in there. Hope I'll see you!🦊🌹
#writingcommunity #writer #codex #books
#introduction
I'm Paul Weimer, known across the internet as "princejvstin". I write reviews and interviews and stuff about #sff #books
I also am an amateur photographer and share my #photography incessantly.
I'm just this guy, you know?
[EN] Hello to the new comers around here.
We're developing a #free web application for sharing physical #books.
You may scan the barcode, then say whether you want to give your #book away, lend it or sell it. A shared virtual #library in short.
You can also read activities from the #fediverse (see https://mamot.fr/@inventaire/107405333892235843)
And books data comes partly from #wikidata
See more at:
https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/Framasoft_interview_translation
wiki.inventaire.io
Ok so, #introductions I'm an Irish based mum of 3, tax lawyer, neurodiversity ally: my son is #autistic and has #adhd and I want the world to be a better place for him when he's grown up (and now!). I love #books, #podcasts (not true crime), #coffee and #running. I'm also #sober . #films , #music , #theatre are my jam.
Here's my #introduction: I'm a secular homeschooler with a biotech background who loves researching pedagogy, books, and resources for teaching and learning a variety of subjects. I especially like finding old jewels that have passed out of usage, and I hope to highlight some of those on here. I'm also interested in #DigitalLiteracy, #Rhetoric, #Science, #GraphicDesign, #Books, #Gardening, #Knitting, and lots more. In the East Bay of the SF Bay Area, where I live with my husband and 3 boys.
#introduction
I am self-employed as a medical record analyst working to prepare, review, and summarize medical documents used in personal injury cases. I'm a #pansexual #polyamorous lady with an amazing wife and metamour raising our #non-binary teenager. I'm a former #bookblogger and current lurker in the #booktwitter community who still loves her #books and #reading. I am also a regular #ttrpg player currently both playing in and DM'ing #dnd5e with friends. New Twitter migrant. #lgbtqia
Things I am interested in.
#History
#GeneticGenealogy
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistoryWriting
#R1bU152FGC22501
#Photography
#Books
#Libraries
#Archives
#Nature
#Art
#Architecture
#Science
#Genetics
#Politics
#Cemetaries
#GenealogyTravel
#familyhistory
#water
#gardening
#Nature
Author of Beginner's Guide to Genetic Genealogy. Find it & Blog at WheatonWood.com
Making my #introduction as part of the #TwitterMigration. I live in rural Northern California and work in BizDev for #RenewableEnergy, formerly in #SofwareDevelopment. I have a master’s degree in #Library and #InformationScience #MLIS. I love #reading #books of all kinds and dabble in #writing. I also devote a lot of time to #gardening #baking and #baseball. I have three bossy #cats (now 4!) and one very opinionated #dog and love #wildlife and animals of all kinds.
Hi all, and so happy to find this space!
Live: Saint Paul, MN (transplant from Oklahoma)
Work: #technology #computers — I've been in the #Apple and #macadmins communities for 30 years
Life: #hiking trails, reading physical #books, #cooking and socializing with friends
Fascinated by: The intersection of #humanity and #technology, #printing and #history of the written word
Here because of the toxicity out there. Looking for a little sanity in here. Feels like I've found that.
I really have to make a proper #introduction post, and I’m putting it off because I don’t want to blow it. I have one of those hungry minds, curious about nearly everything (typical librarian profile), and I want to know what the #histodons, #scientists, #legalacademics, #writers, #educators, #journalists, #librarians, #informationliteracy, #nypolitics, #books, #psychologists and others are talking about at all times.
So I guess I should do some sort of #introduction
I’m Barbara, live in Dublin, don’t post a lot but like to fave all your nice contributions. Love #books, #travel, #walking, playing #piano badly (prefer playing well and maybe I’ll get there someday). Occasional #knitter. Proud #repealer. 3 teens, 2 #dogs, 1 #cat
My #introduction.
Canadian/American born/reared #Irish citizen (triple citizenship!). Most of adult life in #Ireland. Now retired, I was a #journalist/columnist mostly for the Irish Times writing about #technology (& more) particularly #infosec #DigitalRights #privacy #DataProtection.
Chair, www.newmusicdublin.ie. Former #RTE board member (+ others). Like #jazz #classical #opera #NewMusic most #music ! #books #dogs #cats #animals #environment #nature #science #art #history #astronomy
Expanded #introduction
Mostly also stuff in my profile:
#Sauna #サウナ
#wine
#CraftBeer #beer #brewing
#日本酒
#BBQ
#chilis
#guitar
#FrenchHorn,
#jazz,
#IrishSetter #IrishSetters #RedSetters
#vinyl #LPs
#books #reading #coffee
Also, as I go into my first summer of not working since 14 years old I intend to do a lot of #kayaking and #fishing (from the #kayak), and some #MountainBiking #MTB but more #GravelRiding
🌊 I guess it's time for an #introduction.
My name is Aud, my pronouns are she/her, I'm married with two fur babies and a very spoiled betta fish.
I'm part of the great #TwitterMigration (formerly twitter.com/audthecodewitch). I'm interested in #ruby, #crochet, #books, #aquariums, and making some new friends.
More toots will likely - who am I kidding? ;) - be on other things like #linux #GNUlinux #music #cycling #vegan #vegetarian #reading #books #comics #GraphicNovel #sustainability #ClimateChange
My #introduction:
I am a #bicycle rider. I work in #tech . I'm a father, husband, volunteer with #NICA, getting #morekidsonbikes. I am interested in #history and old #maps, especially the history of the place I live, #oakland, #california, and the bicycle cultures here. I love to read #books, #cook. I listen to #NPR and vote #democrat.
#newhere (well day 5) and time for an #introduction that goes beyond my bio 😇
I live near #Bruges in #Belgium, and simply by being born here am a fortunate (oldest) son of three.
I like words, #poems and #books. #Dogs #cats and all creatures great and small.
I'm sensitive and #neurodivergent (talent for #melancholy)
Since it's #followfriday I'm happy to follow you back!
Couple followtips
(EN) @Dave42W @davscomur @Birgitta
(NL) @repo @VastBee @SusannaMarien @apache_be @WilliamCoshett
In §108 of the Philosophical Investigations, there is a lovely marginal note: "Nur kann man sich in verschiedener Weise für ein Phänomen interessieren" (Anscombe tr.: "Only it is possible to be interested in a phenomenon in a variety of ways").
The note was inserted by #Wittgenstein into the typescript as a handwritten slip of paper. I love it so much because it fits my interest in #marginalia and multiple perspectives in #linguistics and elsewhere
Handwritten typescript by Wittgenstein of a page from the Philosophical Investigations, with a marginal note saying "Nur kann man sich in verschiedener Weise für ein Phänomen interessieren." Source: [http://www.wittgensteinsource.org/BFE/Ts-227a,82a_f](http://www.wittgensteinsource.org/BFE/Ts-227a,82a_f)
#translator lover of #people #languages #plants #books and #animals looking to connect with #language experts and anyone who plans vacations around a #library or #bookstore #introduction
Things that interest me right now… #Antiracism #Antiracist #art #ReproductiveFreedom #politics #HumanRights #plants #music #foodsecurity #astronomy #CapitalismKills #decolonization #photography #books #science #introductions #travel #climatechange #slampoetry #history #economy #informationmanagement #education
I am a #PublicLibraries #librarian who toots #LibrarianAtWork threads of #books to increase exposure for #authors who aren't getting all of the big bucks marketing attention.
I see SO many good/interesting-looking books every day that deserve a chance to be seen & read.
Sharing books is not an endorsement of the book, the #publisher, or their authors. It's literally impossible for me to read them all or be an expert in every area.
I hope you discover some #goodReads!
#NewReleases #ComingSoon
I am a climate organizer and a social impact technologist based in the Northeast United States. I lead my town's sustainability task force (local action can make a huge impact, y'all!) and work on a #nonprofit, #opensource project called #Terraso - tools for land and community management!
I operate from the understanding that rights, justice, climate change, and a happy life are all inextricably tied together.
I post about cool stuff I find at work, interesting #books (especially #scifi and #solarpunk), #crafting and #gardening projects, and the occasional call to action for U.S. users.
Posting this re- #introduction since I've been getting a bunch of new followers - perhaps because of the great #TwitterMigration of '22.
Slightly dazed and confused after 13 years on 🐦. Finnish-American journalist savoring vinyl and cold swims, concerned about democracy and the future of the 🌍
#jazz #climate #books #renewables #democracy #humanrights #journalism #radio #translation #wildlife #biodiversity #winterswimming #helsinki #finland #vinyl #electronicmusic #ambient #globalmusic #ev #sustainabletravel
A belated #introduction:
Cis ace neurotypical Pākehā with asthma living in #Ōtautahi. So far covid-free, knock on wood.
I write #scifi and #fantasy veeery slowly.
I read most genre #books but esp love mindgames, unreliable narrators, dubcon, and/or witty dialogue.
In 2021 took up #FigureSkating and am now obsessed though clumsy.
Love #languages: challenging myself to use some #TeReo in every toot.
Other hobbies come and go eg: #knitting, #sewing, #gardening, basic PHP/javascript #coding...
#Introduction - Updated Sep 2023
#TwitterExile
#TwitterMigration
#Australia
#Politics
#AusPol
#UKPol
#USPol
#Gardening
#Books
#Steam
#Crime
#Detective
Right. That takes care of the hashtags. 68, female, cis, but not obnoxious about it, talk to everyone about anything really. Retired from work but not from life. Activist but not active. I reserve my physical labour for my garden, love reading my detective books and playing Steam casual gaming. Relearning how to engage in a relaxed and not a confrontational manner. She/her. Living on stolen Awabakal country in Lake Macquarie/Newcastle, Australia.
#introduction #twittermigration I am remote. I am Scottish. Getting old/feeling it. I am Glasgow adjacent. For those who know, I am #WGB and #GSFWC.
#music taste: #industrial #tech #noise #ambient #concrete #quiet to some degree or other. See what that means #bandcamp bandcamp.com/remotecore
I #read all the time, especially in these isolation years. #ScienceFiction #Weird #comics #ShortStories. And I #write #GSFWC
Hi everyone!
Joined back to Fediverse, have been here on and off since the beginning, so familiar with everything.
I'm a software developer. At work, I only use functional programming languages, but in my freetime I tend to write #Rust.
I love popular culture, reading books, watching movies and occasionally playing some video games. I also do #photography but rarely share the pictures online.
I have two cats.
Nice to meet you!
Adding hashtags for my interests for discoverability
Professional:
#uxDesign (+ #ux + #design)
#productManagement and #softwaredevelopment
#serviceDesign and #cx
#usability
#hci
Personal:
#hiking
#biking & #brompton
#cooking
#sourdough
#scienceFiction & #sff #books
Hallo zusammen!
Wollte mal gucken, wie es hier so aussieht.
#introduction #introductions #neuhier
I'll be 52 in 23 days. Mom (78) has been a #biology teacher and I inherited a lot of her interests for #nature #physics #science #photography #books etc.
I LOVE #cats (we had a #cat during my school days) #astronomy #music #doctorwho #scifi
#notjustsad since <2008
My younger brother (network administrator) is happily married. He found her on a bikers trip. They have two Maine Coons. 😻 😍 🐈
Hi all,
When not writing, I love to talk about #books, #movies, and #television. I am particularly fond of #scifi #fantasy, #dystopia, and #mystery, but I enjoy most any #fiction. I'm fascinated by #space and #technology and thoroughly enjoy a good pun or dad joke.
#Introduction post! I live and work in Denmark. I have previously lived in the Netherlands, Italy, the US and France (that last one is also what my passport says I'm from).
I have a small plot of land where with my partner we are trying to restore a #woodland. I sew a lot and am passionate about #SustainableFashion.
I enjoy #cycling to work and for fun, but never for speed or winning races.
Finally, I read a lot of #books, fiction and non-fiction, and do often judge a book by its cover.
Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name subjects and topics that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#introduction
Here are some of my pet #hashtags:
#coffee
#mysteries
#geocaching
#linux
#cooking
#wfmu
#books
#mindhacks
#silentfilms / #silentmovies
#snailmail / #letterwriting
#learningPython
#gopher
#dataprivacy
#ADHD
#fountainpens
#LCHF
Not really new but new on this instance, so I'm making an intro post 
#reintroduction
My topics and interests are: #books, #neurodiversity, #languages and #languagelearning, #maths, #physics, #politics, intersectional #feminism, the #climatecrisis, #mentalhealth, #depression and #adhd, but I mostly toot about random stuff in the end 😅
I always try to use CWs for sensitive topics and politics posts, please let me know if I forget or miss a topic that should be CWed in your opinion.
I mostly toot in German and English, although I might toot in Spanish or French from time to time, so feel free to respond to me in any of those languages. I'm always happy to provide a translation 😊
Because I’m running into the pinned posts limits:
French intro toot is below in the thread
Spanish intro toot: https://eldritch.cafe/@luce/113861949541235763
eldritch.cafe
Content warning: (Re)-introducción
¿Qué podréis encontrar aquí?
🌒 Mucho gato, bichitos varios y naturaleza
🌒 Videojueguitos
🌒 Arte y artesanías
🌒 Animación en cualquiera de sus formas
🌒 Un poquito de activismo queer y feminista
🌒 Musicote (metalhead y cosasrarashead)
🌒 Mi trabajo de foto, muy de vez en cuando
🌒 ¿Rol? Quizá, tal vez
🌒 Nacionalismo y regionalismo (nacións culturais si, gracias ✌🏻)
🌒 Puede que arte NSFW, censurado y en su justa medida
Y por último pero no menos importante, mis catastróficas desdichas 
Y los tags de intereses 
#art #arte #illustration #ilustracion
#GraphicDesign #DiseñoGrafico
#videogames #vieojuegos
#TabletopGames #JuegosDeMesa
#roleplay #rol #rpg #larp #DnD
#books #libros #literature #literatura
#cats #gatos
#music #musica #musicians #musicos
#lgbt #lgtb #lgbtqia #queerpeople
#fantasy #fantasia
#scifi #cienciaficcion
#nature #natureza
#photography #fotografia
Hi. I'm Saket from the Netherlands.
He/him.
I believe #kindness is key to our survival.
Fascists, racists, TERFs, misogynists, etc., give me a wide berth (ideally so wide you fall off the edge of your platform into open-mindedness)
I'm interested in conversations with thoughtful conversationalists on topics such as: #books, #writing, #climate, #politics, #philosophy, #banter, #scripting, #apps, #fediverse, #softwaredesign, #martialarts, #ttrpg, #videogames, #design, #devops
Hi!
I'm Jude / 
Either is fine.
I've published fiction (and am still trying to) under the name Rae A. Shell, but I will probably get confused if you call me that lol.
I live in Nebraska.
According to
https://native-land.ca/
I live on unsurrendered
Očhéthi Šakówiŋ
and
Pâri (Pawnee) land.
Currently unemployed, but hey, if you know of some ArcGIS or XML work where I live @ me.
If you are considering College / University in Nebraska: DM me so I can give you some details you won't get on tours.
I got my BA in Anthropology and came to the conclusion Anthropology is a colonialist pile of shit (You could totally decolonize Anthropology, but my classes never talked about that. It was just the white cishet allosexual abled patriarchy in the classes I took)
Fan of
#Earthbound or #Suikoden a lot of #AtelierSeries and #StoryOfSeasons games, not to mention #RuneFactory! Big 
fan too. #HadesGame is one of my special interests. I'm a big fan of #TWEWY / #NEOTWEWY but we know that will never get a sequel 
Very much looking forward to #EiyudenChronicle so when rising (or the main game) comes out I probably won't shut up about it! That's what timed mutes are for lol.
I like getting sad listening to PS2 music 
If you see me mutter about Hymmnos / Ar Tonelico or Shadow Hearts, you know why!
I also like #Crochet #Fiberarts and I'm getting into #Knitting and #CrossStitch lately! I like reading #Books and #Webcomics
(especially #YoungAdult )
I'm a big #Podcast fan, but I usually talk about that elsewhere!
Me defiendo bastante bien.
I have like 4-5 fediverse accounts, but lately don't have the energy for all of them, so I'm mainly on here, #BookWyrm, and Booktoot.
I Boost a lot of pictures of Cats (and sometimes dogs) so if you don't like that, either turn off my ability to boost or mute those keywords.
I'm really shy so please interact (by posting/replying) before following!
native-land.ca
Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.
A bit more on #books:
I don't do ranked favorites on anything, but different favorites for different reasons and eras of my life.
#TheExpanse #scifi series & Wayward Children #fantasy series are recent favorites.
My #sff origin story started in #StarWars (the original trilogy) & #StarTrek as a kid.
Some fav #authors: Nnedi Okorafor, Mary Robinette Kowal, Octavia Butler, Naomi Novik, & Robin Hobb.
Loved Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf translation. This is How You Lose the Time War is 💜.
Hello!
I'm new to Mastodon and looking for a friendlier place than Twitter to hang out. Looking to connect with fellow #neurodivergent, #ChronicIllness, #NEISvoid, and #disabled peeps, as well as lovers of #scifi and nerdiness.
#books and #writing are longtime passions, and I enjoy listening to epic instrumental #music.
#introduction
Hello! I'm Jeannette from #Hamburg, Germany. I'm an ex-American, having traded in my US passport for a German one several years ago. Together with two others I run an independent record label and mailorder. Some of my interests are:
#music
#reading #books #literature
#cats
#cooking #food
#gardening
#knitting
#politics
I have two cat overlords and I work too much, but at least I can do that from home. I'm a vegetarian, very liberal and at times quite grumpy.
Hey #fediverse, here's my #introduction!
I'm Chris. I'm into all things to do with #music, listening to it, making #electronicmusic and talking about it if you're interested. I've got a few #synthesizers and recently started to record some stuff which you can check out at https://www.soundcloud.com/snailtoe I'm learning how to get Ableton to work and succeeding about half the time
I like loads of other stuff too, #art #nature #photography #books #scifi #fantasy #gaming #cats
Say hi, I also like to #chat
soundcloud.com
Listen to snailtoe | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.
#Introduction Hi everyone!
My name is Sylvia. I'm a Belgian philosopher of science 🦉 🔬. I like thinking about infinitesimal probabilities & paradoxes.
I'm married to a computational physicist and we have a 9yo son. Our house is stocked with #books 📚 & #chocolate 🍫. There lives a squirrel 🐿️ in our garden.
I enjoy #drawing, #geocaching, and #writing ✍️ , including a monthly science column (in Dutch) & occasionally #sciencefiction 👾🤖 🌌 .
Moved here from specimen@mastodon.social.
Okay, I guess it's time to get on with the #introductions!
I'm Badri, based in #India (or should I say, #SouthIndia!). I #read a lot, both #books and articles, which I sync to my #ereader to avoid bright screens.
I edit a mostly science and culture magazine called #Snipette (more on that in a bit).
For my income, though, I'm working as a #programmer. I've been tooting at Fosstodon for a while as @badrihippo@fosstodon.org, but I decided to create an account here for the other side of me!
Hi, I'm Aurynn. I run cloudisland.nz, an instance entirely hosted in Aotearoa New Zealand, on the Catalyst Cloud OpenStack cloud!
Cloud Island is a general-purpose instance, with a lot of really cool folks doing really cool things.
I toot mostly about cloud technology as I work on the Cloud Island infrastructure, general life, and sometimes #sociology.
I also do #photo #books sometimes!
I am transgender. Trans rights are human rights.
Welcome!
Some other little facts:
🌸 I love #baking and #cooking
🌸 I play #DnD and SW:EotE/AoE
🌸 I love chill #games like Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing and NitW
🌸 I have a pet #cockatiel, I love #animals!
🌸 I'm a #vegetarian omw to #vegan
🌸 Getting back into #running
🌸 I love #books but often don't have the focus. Thats when I turn to #comics #series and #animation
Hi, I'm Lone and I'm #autistic. Like many other autistic people I'm dealing with severe #burnout, #depression and #anxiety
When I have the #spoons for it, I'm interested in a wide range of subjects like #languages #linguistics #feminism #books #history #archaeology #programming #csharp #linux #cybersecurity #infosec #privacy #music #piano #guitar #flute #knitting #embroidery #crochet #bobbinlace
I'm very #leftist, leaning towards #anarchism
For various reasons I'm very private on various #SocialMedia and a lot of my toots will probably be limited to followers
However, I do see new possibilities for being a bit more public here on Mastodon but I'm still in the process of figuring out how so if I don't let you follow me assume it's about me and not you
To help some of the newcomers make connections: name things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost/repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#tech
#edm #DanceMusic #HouseMusic #Soul #AcidJazz
#aviation
#photography
#CatPix
#Art
#Liberal #LeftOfCentre #nzpol
#clouds #sunsets
#pubs
#puns (the last one should say puns but it works) #DadJokes
#travel
#Books & #Reading & #Writing
#Astronomy
#NotAstrology
#exPom
#Marketing
#SciFi
To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#Crafting
#CrossStitch
#Photography
#Stationery
#Books & #Reading
#CuteAnimals
Don't forget to boost good posts with hashtags so that searchable posts make it out to more instances!
(Re) #introductions time!
I'm kind of a mess -- but a friendly one!
I'm an author, a #narrator, and a #witch in training.
I talk a lot about my familiar, Merlin the cat.
I sometimes post #writing and #microfiction!
I stream relaxing games every week!
I toot awkward true stories in #VicorvaStorytime
I love #reading #books #gaming #TTRPG #boardgames
I'm the eldest of seven siblings in a very queer family.
I'm very awkward but do say hello!
A new book review is up on my website! Oli Mould's "Against Creativity"
https://johnpierremaeli.com/review-against-creativity-oli-mould/ #bookreview #books
A white hand with blue painted nails holding up Oli Mould's book "Against Creativity" with greenery in the background.
Name: Monty
Sona Species: Black Cat
Age: 27
Gender: 
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Pronouns: They/Them
Sexuality: 
It felt appropriate to redo this post given recent revelations I have had. I am a nonbinary ace person, trying hard to understand my new self.
I'm into #Dnd, #ttrpgs, #writing and #books (especially #horror and #fantasy).
Icon by @PurrPurin.
Belated #introductions!
I dig #marvel #linux #raspberrypi #music #rock #technology #startrek #books #fiction #videogames #masseffect #thewitcher #science #sciencefiction #mountains #offroading #pizza #indie
I am a #musician #audioengineer #webdeveloper and I play #guitar #drums and #synths.
I was born in #Texas and grew up there, but I’ve lived in #westvirginia #maryland and currently reside in #colorado.
What else you wanna know?
Time for a new #introduction as my old one's a bit out-of-date.
I'm a 37 year-old cis #gay man living in western PA, USA. I work as a #Unix and (unfortunately) backup #sysadmin. I'm primarily a #NetBSD user.
I'm also into #hamradio, my username's my callsign.
I started #gliding back in July and am now a student glider/#sailplane pilot.
My other interests include #videogames, #books, #hiking, #media (which I used to work in) and #cats, especially my own named Freyja.
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