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[?]Weird Socks » 🌐
@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us

Did you read the Douglas Copeland book that gave our generation it's name?

Boost please.

Yes:23
No:32
Whut?:18

    [?]Robin Ince » 🌐
    @robinince@mastodon.social

    Should you allow your daughters to go to a holiday camp!!!!!
    Find out here

    patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/mo

      [?]David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) » 🌐
      @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

      While tidying out a cupboard, I discovered that I still have thee boxes of author copies of books: the first and second edition of the Objective-C Phrasebook and the Cocoa Programming Developers Handbook.

      The first edition of the ObjC book and the Cocoa book cover pre-ARC Objective-C, but most of the examples still work (and now a lot will work with GNUstep or other open-source implementations of OpenStep / Cocoa).

      Does anyone have a sensible suggestion about what to do with them? Any schools or computer clubs have a need for a load of programming books? I assume charity shops don't especially want around 20 copies each of three books. Otherwise, I'll probably end up slowly distributing them among little free libraries.

      (Any friends of the Milton Road library: I see they have a book sale tomorrow, do they want to try selling some of them?)

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        [?]Ciara » 🌐
        @CiaraNi@mastodon.green

        "Look, I don't mind summoning some demon and asking it," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. 'That's normal. But building some mechanical contrivance to do your thinking for you, that's ... against nature."



        Short version: Audiobook Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett. Fuller description: Screenshot of Penguin Random House 2002 English-language audiobook performance of Interesting Times, read by Colin Morgan. E-Reolen Danish library loan via Libby library app. Cover: yellow butterflies flying through hellfire-ish flame-like red and orange tones. Author name in grey, slightly larger than book title in deep purple. A single young figure in a pointy wizard hat and a cape sits in the middle of it all, looking bored or possibly disconsolate or possibly just not arsed. Am on chapter 9, 31 minutes in, over 10 hours to go. I've read the print book several times, but never the Talking Book. This edition is wonderful. New to the library yesterday and - thank Odin for library notifications - I nabbed it immediately and first.

        Alt...Short version: Audiobook Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett. Fuller description: Screenshot of Penguin Random House 2002 English-language audiobook performance of Interesting Times, read by Colin Morgan. E-Reolen Danish library loan via Libby library app. Cover: yellow butterflies flying through hellfire-ish flame-like red and orange tones. Author name in grey, slightly larger than book title in deep purple. A single young figure in a pointy wizard hat and a cape sits in the middle of it all, looking bored or possibly disconsolate or possibly just not arsed. Am on chapter 9, 31 minutes in, over 10 hours to go. I've read the print book several times, but never the Talking Book. This edition is wonderful. New to the library yesterday and - thank Odin for library notifications - I nabbed it immediately and first.

          [?]Joachim Boaz » 🌐
          @SFRuminations@wandering.shop

          New history of science fiction purchase!

          Cover for Lavigne's Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction. Cover is a woman's face with visual hints at the cybernetic.

          Alt...Cover for Lavigne's Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction. Cover is a woman's face with visual hints at the cybernetic.

            [?]Robin Ince » 🌐
            @robinince@mastodon.social

            A delightful book of railway architecture found in Eastbourne Library shop. Enjoy your browse.

            patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/ra

              [?]Roger BW 😷 » 🌐
              @RogerBW@discordian.social

              The Cafe at the End of the World, Helen Comerford blog.firedrake.org/archive/202

                [?]John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻 » 🌐
                @jwilker@wandering.shop

                geni.us/VkWalA
                "I enjoyed reading this book. The writing is reminiscent of Clive Cussler - a combination of tech/action/suspense that kept me interested up to the end."

                I mean, come on.

                @reading @bookstodon

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                  [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                  @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                  "I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk."

                  Dead Man's Folly (1956)

                  ~Dame Agatha Christie in 1890.

                  Books by Agatha Christie at PG:
                  gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451

                  Do you have a favorite book by Agatha Christie? Which one stood out to you the most? Let us know its name here.

                  Illustration from The American Magazine March 1933 printing of 13 For Dinner, a novel by Agatha Christie; this is the first of six issues that serialized the novel Lord Edgware Dies under this alternate title. The illustration presents a notable early depiction of Hercule Poirot, in the only Agatha Christie novel first printed in serialized form in The American Magazine. Magazine page from The American Magazine, March 1933, featuring "13 for Dinner" (a.k.a. Lord Edgware Dies) by Agatha Christie, a Hercule Poirot mystery. Illustrations show a mustached Poirot, a woman in an orange gown, and a man in evening dress—colorful period illustrations by "W·T."

                  Alt...Illustration from The American Magazine March 1933 printing of 13 For Dinner, a novel by Agatha Christie; this is the first of six issues that serialized the novel Lord Edgware Dies under this alternate title. The illustration presents a notable early depiction of Hercule Poirot, in the only Agatha Christie novel first printed in serialized form in The American Magazine. Magazine page from The American Magazine, March 1933, featuring "13 for Dinner" (a.k.a. Lord Edgware Dies) by Agatha Christie, a Hercule Poirot mystery. Illustrations show a mustached Poirot, a woman in an orange gown, and a man in evening dress—colorful period illustrations by "W·T."

                    [?]Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! [he/they] » 🌐
                    @brennan@social.lol

                    Proper English is a Myth: There's No 'Correct' Way to Write

                    brennan.day/proper-english-is-

                      [?]Roger BW 😷 » 🌐
                      @RogerBW@discordian.social

                      Sentinel, Anthony J. Melchiorri blog.firedrake.org/archive/202

                        [?]Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian: » 🌐
                        @hyde@lazybear.social

                        083 with @irgndsondepp
                        He shares his thoughts on , , , and .

                        He replied to @etp's question

                        And, of course, we got recommendation.

                        lazybea.rs/ovr-083

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                          [?]FediFollows » 🌐
                          @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services

                          📚️ to follow:

                          @canongatebooks - Award-winning independent publisher, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Irvine Welsh etc
                          @bwjewishhistory - Small indie Jewish history press
                          @ArachnidPress - Indie publishers based in Scotland, thriller & mystery fiction
                          @WTPress - Indie sci-fi & fantasy press in Wales
                          @ododopress - Speculative fiction press based in Uganda
                          @StelliformPress - Indie literary press, sci-fi, fantasy, horror on environmental crisis

                            [?]Dave Fischer » 🌐
                            @davefischer@hachyderm.io

                            The introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900.

                            Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900.

                            Alt...Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900.

                              [?]Joachim Boaz » 🌐
                              @SFRuminations@wandering.shop

                              Two new history of labor purchases!

                              Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of Revolutionary Black Workers by Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman. Photo shows a group of black protestors with signs.

                              Alt...Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of Revolutionary Black Workers by Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman. Photo shows a group of black protestors with signs.

                              Cover for Cedric de Leon's Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity. Cover is a modified photograph of a protest with signs connected to jobs, labor, and ending segregation in schools.

                              Alt...Cover for Cedric de Leon's Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity. Cover is a modified photograph of a protest with signs connected to jobs, labor, and ending segregation in schools.

                                [?]Roger BW 😷 » 🌐
                                @RogerBW@discordian.social

                                Midlife in Gretna Green, Linzi Day blog.firedrake.org/archive/202

                                  [?]John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻 » 🌐
                                  @jwilker@wandering.shop

                                  And... FIN!

                                  Beta feedback incorporated into 'All Bad Options' and now it's off to the editor!

                                  Cover artist sent over her first sketch yesterday and w00y! Can't wait to reveal this bad boy!

                                    [?]Ciara » 🌐
                                    @CiaraNi@mastodon.green

                                    “You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”



                                    Short version: slim hardback edition of A Psalm for The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, on a brown table, spine of a notebook nearby. Fuller description: Title and author name in pale yellow block letters, artistic font with letters different sizes and widths. Background: a pretty illustration in autumnal colours of a brown dirt road winding through a stylised forest of yellow and brown and red and green leaves. Bottom right: a figure of a young person with a cup of steaming tea (I know it’s tea because it’s relevant in the book) perced on the edge of a wagon. Above left, a humanoid-shaped robot, gesturing as if inviting you to join it or showing you the way. Other text: A Monk And Robot Book. Hugo Award Winner. Praise quote from Martha Wells: ‘An optimistic vision of a lush, beautiful world.’

                                    Alt...Short version: slim hardback edition of A Psalm for The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, on a brown table, spine of a notebook nearby. Fuller description: Title and author name in pale yellow block letters, artistic font with letters different sizes and widths. Background: a pretty illustration in autumnal colours of a brown dirt road winding through a stylised forest of yellow and brown and red and green leaves. Bottom right: a figure of a young person with a cup of steaming tea (I know it’s tea because it’s relevant in the book) perced on the edge of a wagon. Above left, a humanoid-shaped robot, gesturing as if inviting you to join it or showing you the way. Other text: A Monk And Robot Book. Hugo Award Winner. Praise quote from Martha Wells: ‘An optimistic vision of a lush, beautiful world.’

                                      [?]Ciara » 🌐
                                      @CiaraNi@mastodon.green

                                      'Nobody should be barred from necessities or comforts just because they don’t have the right number next to their name.'



                                      Short version: slim hardback library edition of A Prayer For The Crown-shy by Becky Chambers. Fuller description: Title in dark blue, author name in white block letters, artistic font with letters different sizes and widths. Background: a pretty illustration in pale vernal colours of a white road winding through a stylised landscape of flowers and grass and low hills. Above, pale sky woth what look like glittery baubles hanging down. Bottom right: a figure of a young person driving a picturesque old wagon.

                                      Alt...Short version: slim hardback library edition of A Prayer For The Crown-shy by Becky Chambers. Fuller description: Title in dark blue, author name in white block letters, artistic font with letters different sizes and widths. Background: a pretty illustration in pale vernal colours of a white road winding through a stylised landscape of flowers and grass and low hills. Above, pale sky woth what look like glittery baubles hanging down. Bottom right: a figure of a young person driving a picturesque old wagon.

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                                        [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                        @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                        The best books on Entomology
                                        recommended by Dino Martins

                                        Many people are leery of creepy crawlies—but insects are critical to the functioning of the planet, says Dino Martins, the entomologist, evolutionary biologist and author of Hidden Creatures. We asked him to recommend five entomology books that seek wonder in unexpected places, including bee colonies and termite mounds.

                                        fivebooks.com/best-books/entom

                                        "The Life of the Bee" at PG:

                                        gutenberg.org/ebooks/4511

                                        A close-up of a red ant on a bright yellow dandelion.

                                        Alt...A close-up of a red ant on a bright yellow dandelion.

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