szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I have an old #Amazon Kindle which needs replacing.

I do also like physical books and enjoy buying from bookshops, but sometimes like to read on the kindle. Great to download an extract to get a sense of a book before committing.

However, apart from books I do not use Amazon.

Any alternatives anyone can recommend?
Decent reading environment and ability to download extracts?

Have toyed with trying to download PDFs from Guttenberg but reading experience has been frustrating within #Kindle

https://openstax.org/details/books/organic-chemistry

I find it incredible that the Organic Chemistry textbook I learnt from many moons ago in University is now freely available via OpenStax! This was the first textbook I read from cover-to-cover, devouring the problem sets at the end—and was the beginning of my love affair with the central science.

What a great boon to the chemistry education community, and a wonderful way to honor John McMurry’s son. #Chemistry #Chemiverse

ME: The Earth is 71% water
SCIENTIST: Yes. True.
ME: And practically all of that water is uncarbonated
SCIENTIST: Okay, sure. Not sure where you're going with this but
ME: So the Earth is flat
SCIENTIST...
ME: ...
SCIENTIST: Listen here you little shit

When was the golden age of the internet?

My instance (spore.social) is back up at last!

The last year of socials and apps has certainly driven home the needs for redundancy and regular (manual?) backups of connections, data, etc. In some ways, I feel like we are going back to the early internet when we were all clear we couldn't trust anyone or anything.

This is very much me this week. After two days debugging I managed to find something that has an effect on the result.

If a 6-month moratorium on new development is needed to assess the impacts of Solar and Wind projects...

How long of a moratorium is needed on the impacts of new resource extraction (oil, gas, mines, etc) projects?

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/08/03/alberta-pausing-renewable-energy-projects/

It is literally happening in front of our eyes. #globalwarming #Glacier I took the photos of Mer de Glace in Chamonix in 2012 and 2023, to the day 11 years between.

It's expensive for Texas taxpayers to have racists running their state.

Ad blockers getting more and more effective 💪💪

I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!
https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Na jeziorach na #Suwalszczyzna zupełnie pusto, jakby to wrzesień, a nie początek sierpnia był

Have you ever sent a fax... while relaxing on the beach?

WELL WITH AT&T AND YOUR SHITTY HEALTH INSURANCE PROVIDER, YOU WILL

In retrospect those ads were threats

Magpie
on Deadman Coulee Rd
Wolf Creek #Montana

@Rihilism

Double toads tonight
#frogs #toads #nature #wildlife #photography