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There’s an historic home downtown from the 1800’s that had a ginormous old cottonwood tree growing in front of it. Unfortunately, the tree got badly damaged in a storm a few years ago and had to be cut down. But they left the huge stump in place and recently turned it into a free library with a full-sized door, plus the same style cupola and slate roof tiles as the house. It’s pretty cool. 📚🌳
#streetphotography #books #library #Colorado
Top story: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way. texasobserver.org/trans-athlet…
#transgender #gender #sports #politics #USpol #books #bookstodon #culture #LGBTQIA
Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All
Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.Jessica Luther (The Texas Observer)
Ooooooh! Becky Chambers has a new book coming out - the first in a duology! 🥳
As You Wake, Break the Shell is scheduled for release on October 13, 2026.
Months after putting it on hold (it's popular!), I finally get to borrow Cory Doctorow's ( @pluralistic@mamot.fr ) Enshittification from Parramatta Library.
#book #books #enshittification #Parramatta #NSW #Australia
Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove…Matt Hollingsworth (WATE 6 On Your Side)
I pre-ordered The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI from my local bookstore. I *love* having a vibrant local bookstore: Morgenstern's Books in Bloomington, IN.
#books #bookstore #ai #indiana #bloomington
backing another incredible audiobook by the amazing @pluralistic (cory doctorow)
a reverse center’s guide to life after AI!
"Enshittification.
Wie Tech-Konzerne uns ausbeuten und was wir dagegen tun können."
Steht ganz oben auf unserer privaten Leseliste. Und im Laden steht es natürlich auch :)
Mit #enshittification zeigt @pluralistic nicht nur auf, wie Online-Services immer schlechter werden, sondern erklärt auch die epidemische Dynamik, mit der diese Verschlechterung geschieht. Außerdem Anleitung zum Widerstand. :)
#politics #politik #bucher #books #livres #essay #chemnitz #sachsen
Our local independent bookshop has a monthly ‘mystery book’ subscription. The staff have hand-crafted teeny tiny editions of each title they’ve included so far. Each book cover is a faithful rendition of the real one. Amazon could never. AI could never.
Kerry Ferrand makes book review videos about a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. You can follow their review account at:
➡️ @kerry_ferrand
They've already published over 60 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/…
#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Fiction #NonFiction #Literature #Bookstodon #PeerTube
Kerry Ferrand
Another loathsome Gen-Xer in New Zealand. Buys lots of books and reads a few of them.Spectra Video
Today in Labor History May 10, 1933: The Nazis staged massive public book burnings, beginning in Berlin, with students from Humboldt University, destroying thousands of titles. German poet, Heinrich Heine, said back in the early 1800s, "Where one burns books, one will soon burn people." They burned books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, lgbtq and sexologist authors. The first books burned were those of Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky. Many of the books that were burned were seized from the library of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, director of the Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft), which the Nazis raided in Berlin on May 6, 1933.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #censorship #BookBurning #HeinrichHeine #poetry #literature #fiction #books #students #homophobia #transphobia #lgbtq #magnushirschfeld #karlmarx #anarchism #socialism #antisemitism @bookstadon
#newreleases #books #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity
#garden #gardening #gardeningbooks #book #books #thriftstore #charityshop #kringloop #kringloopwinkel #kringloopgeluk #kringloopvondst #secondhand #tweedehands #boek #boeken #tuinboeken #tuin #tuinieren
One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…
I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.
Something had to be done.
I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.
Jailbroke my #Kindle, installed #KOreader and #SimpleUI. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊
(Unrelated but #Technofeudalism is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).
#books #reading #habits #KindleJailbreak
Daniel Kraus Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Angel Down as a “breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.”
#books #Pulitzer #PulitzerPrize #literature #book #bookstodon @bookstodon #Kraus #author #DanielKraus #AngelDown #reading #readingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #writers #booktok
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 📚
edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/eur…
The book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah Tatar (Digital Press, 1987), along with the errata, is now online with permission from the author.
archive.org/details/a-programm…
My review of the book:
journal.paoloamoroso.com/readi…
#CommonLisp #lisp #books #retrocomputing
A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP : Tatar, Deborah G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The book A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by Deborah G Tatar, uploaded with the kind permission of the author. Includes 7 pages of handwritten corrections.Internet Archive
John Hollander’s poem Kitty and Bug is self-explanatory in its simplicity. The cat’s unpunctuated, almost stream-of-consciousness thoughts fit into a physical ‘cat’ shape, while the bug – in sharp contrast – is but a 3-letter word near the edge of the page.
Happy #Caturday !
#poetry #poem #cat #cats #kitty #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon
New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome
An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin.
phys.org/news/2026-04-earliest…
"Caedmon's Hymn" at PG:
Happy birthday Sir Terry Pratchett. The more the world gets more cruel and unfair, the more I miss him.
Plus the Vimes boots theory remains the greatest piece of economics ever written.
Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.
Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.
Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
#writers #HarperLee #reading #literature #bookstodon #booksky
@bookstodon
Hi friends, I’m hoping someone here may be able to help…
I have just one copy of my 2011 book, The Science of Kissing, published in Japanese. I would like to buy another to share with a friend in Japan, and do not know how to find it.
Mastodon has proven a very smart community, and I’d appreciate any guidance to point me in the right direction? Thank you. #books
