Leslie Caron reading between dances in An American in Paris (1951).

#photography #reading #books #movie

Fritz the Writer

#photo #photography #book #books #buch #writer #author #reading #photographer #photographers #photograph #photos #LumixS9 #photoadventure

Hey everyone I've uploaded a new Elder Scrolls book reading audio to the members archives, this time for the book [Fire and Darkness]. I've included a sample of the voice-only audio in this post~

The story details the disagreements between two groups of assassins in Tamriel, meandering through the history of the groups and why they came to blows

The video for this will go up on Youtube in the coming week, but if you'd like access sooner, consider becoming a monthly supporter (all tiers get access to the files).

ko-fi.com/octaviaconamore
patreon.com/c/octaviaconamore

Nini, and sweet dreams~❤

#Vtuber #ElderScrolls #Morrowind #Oblivion #OblivionRemastered #Skyrim #Bookstodon #Reading

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Of possible interest for some.

> Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2025. Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein’s socialism
climateandcapitalism.com/2025/… by Ian Angus.

#books #reading #list #environment #climate #ecosocialist #capitalism #nature #bookstodon

@bookstodon

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2025 | Climate & Capitalism

Recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon, and Einstein’s socialism…

^{Ian Angus (Climate & Capitalism)}

Recently found this copy of The Histories by Herodotus at Goodwill. I love thrift stores and buying secondhand. 😃📚 I should start reading it...

#thrifting #books #bookstodon #history #herodotus #reading #Photography

Heyy everyone, I’m (technically) not #newhere -- but let’s pretend it’s my grand re- entrance ;P ;P
So here goes...

My interests include #science, #climate, #earth, #environment, #sustainability, #cleanliness (yes, I love a tidy ecosystem and a tidy desk), #art, #history, #naturalhistory, #music, and #reading --just to name a few. Honestly, I have a lot of interests, and these are just the ones that come up most often.

But wait --there’s more: #psychology, #facts #cats, #catmemes, #funnymemes, #classicalartmemes, #film, #tv, #technology, #spirituality, #selfimprovement, #lifehacks, #helping, #charity, and #peace.

In the New Normal™, the human ability to read closely and intentionally is a finite and scarce resource.

#reading #writing #SyntheticMachines #PatternSynthesisMachines

Yes, but... This is... But I am ... No, no, because... Damn. I feel attacked.

#adhdmeme #adhd #meme #reading #selfcare

Multitasking is a lie.
Singletasking is a lie.
Tasking is a lie.

#adhd #meme #adhdmeme #adhs #reading

Tonight 9:30 PM Eastern/US = 2nd mtg of #solarpunk #book club hosted by Christopher Muscato. DM me for zoom--Chris isn't on mastodon.

Tonight's discussion: 3 stories from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology edited by @susankayequinn .

“What Kind of Bat is This” by @sarenaulibarri , “A Merger in Corn Country” by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social and “The Park of the Beast” by @tkrex

#reading #hopepunk #climate #fiction brightgreenfutures.substack.co…

Anthology

The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world.

^{Susan Kaye Quinn (Bright Green Futures)}

The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery & the Creation of Anne

[Shared]The manuscript is housed in the collections of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Both sides of each page (recto and verso) were scanned at the Robertson Library's Digitization Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/25…

#book #history #anneofgreengables #greengables #montgomery #princeedwardisland #canada #books #writing #Reading #manuscript #handwriting

@altbot

I picked up an Afro-Futurism Story Bundle the other say so diving into some of those books. So far enjoying Space Funk! Some interesting shorts.

I need to find non-fiction that doesn't impact my blood pressure. 'Generation of Sociopaths' is super interesting and offers (so far) some great insights into what the fuck happened to Boomers and how they can't die off soon enough (Sorry good boomers, your pals are evil).

I really wish Boomers would read it. Maybe a fraction would reflect.
#reading

I love reading Books. I love reading physical books you know the ones that you hold in your hand. I love Foliate which I have encountered on one of my Open Source operating system distributions.

Since I love reading physical books it was normal and natural for me that Foliate had a regular light theme because paper is white to light yellow.

The light theme was chosen even though my desktop had a dark team, also logical.

Now I was fortunate enough to get a free set of fantastic books which are accessible through a DRM walled system by Amazon. Their closed Source clients did the following infuriating thing.

When I started it up it gave a brief warning that it was going to change something which turned out to be the theme which it brought to dark, and I have not found the easily accessible option to change it back to the light theme.

#Books #reading #eBooks #ClosedSource #OpenSource #Amazon #Kindle #Foliate

A summer reading list published by the #Chicago Sun-Times included #fake #books generated by #AI.

source: yahoo.com/news/chicago-sun-tim…

"We know that there is work to be done to provide more #answers and #transparency around the #production and #publication of this section, and will share additional updates in the coming days."

We will probably have to be prepared for accidents like this more often in the future, because it is almost impossible that they will learn something from the #failure and do better.

#press #journalism #fail #problem #technology #future #news #newspaper #mistake #warning #danger #book #reading #article #trust #truth #hallucination

...speaking of #Climate #Resilience , my story in the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology is free to download this week. And the pod where editor @susankayequinn and I discussed the story impetus released yesterday.

Have a listen!

pod: lnk.to/BGFPodEp33

story: lnk.to/BGF24S5website

#solarpunk #justice #WritingCommunity #SFF #SpecLit #books #bookstodon #reading #hope #hopepunk

#MayDay is red and green!

newgreenhorizons.us/may-day-is…

#GreenSocialist #GreenParty #EcoSocialist #EcoSocialism #Socialist #Socialism #Marxist #Marxism #Communist #Communism #GreenSocialism #Revolution #Peace #Ecology #SocialJustice #Democracy #Education #DualPower #Election #Elections #Vote #Voting #Politics #Electoral #ElectoralReforms #Organizing #Organize #Reading #Discussion #Learning #Worker #Workers #Labor #Union #Unions #WorkersRights #LaborRights #UnionsRights #HumanRights

My #solarpunk story is FREE for the coming week! It lifts #climate #resilience & #hope

I'm thrilled to be among great authors in BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology, edited by @susankayequinn .

@sarenaulibarri @tkrex @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @ana & Renan Bernardo.

susankayequinn.com/books/ances…

Sign up for the neat giveaways selected by each author aligned with their story.

#hope #hopepunk #CliFi #SFF #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #books #reading #bookstodon #ClimateEmergency #justice

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

I waste too much time scrolling through social media. It's bad for my health, so why do I keep doing it?
Because once in a while, I'll find a post so good that it teaches me something I never knew before, and all the scrolling feels worth it. But I've stumbled upon an old piece of free and open source tech, relatively unknown today, which is THE solution of solving the problems with modern media without sacrificing accessible, good content: RSS.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/02…

#rss #feed #socialmedia #algorithm #Reading #blog #blogging #shared

March and into this month I branched out a little. I wanted to see what the Reacher books were like. Not sure I'll read more but it was fun.

I picked up Terry Brooks' latest (and his last) entry in the Shannara universe. It was a bit slow and lacked what I loved in the early books.

A non-fiction book on the decade that made me. It's an interesting look at the 90s from now and comparing to my lived experience.

What're you reading?

#bookstodon @bookstodon #amreading #reading #writersread

How New Ideas Arise via The MIT Press Reader

[Shared]While discussing the problem of how ideas arise in his “Science of Logic,” Hegel stated that “the beginning must be an absolute, or what is synonymous here, an abstract beginning.” Therefore, a new beginning “may not suppose anything, must not be mediated by anything,” but “must be purely and simply an immediacy, or rather merely immediacy itself.” In other words, Hegel declares the utter necessity of intuition, renouncing the control of the rational mind in favor of unconscious foresight. This is perhaps motivated by the fact that self-censoring doesn’t exist in the unconscious or in ideas, which are free to combine in improbable and ever-mixing associations.

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welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/24…

#idea #Thinking #thought #mit #creativity #Reading #shared