ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

New chaise longe accepted. #CatsOfMastodon

@coreyf The last three books I read were memoirs, and they couldn’t have been more different. First, Frances Haugen’s The Power of One, then Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died, finally, Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper. Each was eminently readable. I highly recommend all three! #Bookstodon

‘Keir Starmer is an egregious liar. He barefaced lied to the Labour Party membership that he was a democratic socialist, with a democratic socialist agenda. As soon as he won the leadership election he began ripping up his 10 pledges, and revealing his true agenda as the exact same kind of technocratic, economically illiterate, liberal capitalist rubbish that got this country into such a mess in the first place’ https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/keir-starmer-is-the-new-david-cameron?r=25ey8h&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

funk rock levels are 66% and rising

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Sometimes you have to stop, catch your breath, and just take it all in.

#NoMansSky #NMS #gaming #games #gamers #SciFi #spacegames #screenshot #procgen #virtualphotography #gametography #virtuasuns #HelloGames

Woke up today to an alert that LIBRIOMANCER is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon and elsewhere.

(Just in case you or someone you know still hasn't picked up a copy!)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007P7HPWC?ie=UTF8&tag=jchines-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B007P7HPWC

scariest chocolate chip encounters

real footage of chocolate chip sightings

chocolate chips found in Argentina

top 10 unexplained chocolate chip events

proof of chocolate chips

No, your body cannot build tolerance to endless extreme heat. Unless you’re a soulless capitalist right-wing fascists ghoul. The shite these ghouls try to peddle in late-stage capitalism to the masses just beggars belief.

I assume you get why it's not a nice thing to say that "slavery helped black people in some ways" but I think some people miss why this particular idea is *exceptionally* racist.

One of the main arguments to justify slavery was that it "civilized" black people by making us Christian & teaching us obedience to our "betters." Black people were "lucky" or "better off" as slaves.

It assumes that when people were enslaved they had no skills, nothing to offer, that they were basically animals.

From the British Medical Association:
““Infection control guidelines are fundamentally flawed: SARS-CoV-2 is airborne. It is outrageous that three-and-a-half years into this pandemic, staff and patients are still, knowingly and repeatedly, being exposed to a level-3 biohazard – a virus known to cause brain damage and significantly increased risk of life-threatening blood complications even in those recovered.””

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

https://ko-fi.com/Post/UK-doctors-demand-the-re-introduction-of-infectiou-U7U0MY54T?fbclid=IwAR3uW_U9GZ9XiWmIJGC8Fbv4cY_DSF-Lx90xYg04kp8ku27fvCQJFOFafAY_aem_AcTJSItShiE4QunW9mJVXTqcdmctsNWxCLl9qSmJrbvpHuXqtMPo1a50rL7R2Her_ZA&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

@orionkidder @mekkaokereke Here’s the AAWIP database of Black women with PhDs in physics: https://aawip.com/aawip-members/
There are 212 members, including current grad students and a few pioneers in physics who did not receive PhDs. That’s it. There are probably more physics PhDs who are white guys named Mike

When you consider that, 20 Black women physicists with tenure almost seems high. They have had to be freaking exceptional to persist. I grieve for those pushed out

Neat movement!

#midjourney #aiart

@joehanks1181 @Radical_EgoCom

"Do you know how awful it is to restore a state ID for a person who has no address and no money and needs help now, not in three months?"

I was at a very low point in my life in 2020, ended up homeless for about six months, something as little as getting an ID, so many hoops to jump thru. It is absolutely unhealthy and absurd and how hard it is to pull out of that kind of scenario.

@jkottke

When will the British follow ?
Their museums are full of plundered objects from slave nations and the RF even wears plundered jewels
@humanrightswatch @humanrights @PIL@mastodon.lawprofs.org @pil@a.gup.pe

Ancient Knowledge Networks:
A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/125022 #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Ebook #Ebooks #Reading #Ancient #Cuneiform #Assyria #Babylonia #History #Histodon #Histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

If this tea of +5 determined frown

These pajamas of +2 charisma

This banana of +4 adverb smite

This cat of +20 fluffiness

Doesn't get words written this morning, the world shall ring with my mighty author's roar.

Today, words shall bleed onto the page through the smiting of my striking fingers!

#books #bookstodon #author #writing #writingcommunity

All Truth Is Profound

"I'm reading Moby Dick. It's fun! But I'm sure I'm missing a lot. This is where you come in ..." wooh is looking for good explanations and analyses for our favorite great white whale.

https://ask.metafilter.com/374166/Looking-for-good-explanations-analysis-of-Moby-Dick

#MobyDick #analyses #explanations #context #fiction #Melville #books #literature #reading

I hear a LOT of the US-based #library discussion focused on #books.

Y'all, #librarians are the most radical enablers of a free, civic society you have ever met.

They provide a free, safe, welcoming place for all people, all the hours they are open.

They create third spaces for marginalized communities to gather and organize for change.

They help people navigate the labyrinth of social service applications.

They teach kids it's good to ask adults questions.

This isn't about the books.