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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-12 01:50:38

Circana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

@edintone@mastodon.green
2026-01-11 20:16:31

Paul’s Address Book app updated! edintone.com/pauls-address-boo My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts has a refresh, new content and platfom.

@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2025-11-13 01:47:37

I'm unreasonably pleased that this, the Least Desirable Book Of All, bas been sitting in the little free library near me for months now.
Nobody will touch it. Something deep in our lizard brains knows to reject this book. A totem of disdain.

A worn copy of the book "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Dummies" features a photo of a man in business attire winning a track race.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-13 07:55:35

Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more (Calder McHugh/Politico)
politico.com/news/magazine/202

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-10-13 20:02:30

After reading great things about the author and great reviews of the book, this weekend I started to read “True and False Magic” by Phil Stutz.
I am completely puzzled as I read 47% of the book and I have absolutely no idea what I read. I am honestly feeling like the book and my brain are not overlapping even a bit.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-01-11 01:36:23

Cakeberra!
All pictures in the book are from the charity’s 2017 Cake Off competition, in which the theme was ‘Canberra’. They were professionally captured, but unutilised until now.
Learning your ABCs? It's a piece of cake with this charity's Canberra-themed book | Region Canberra

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-13 09:49:26

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Miles Davis Quintet:
🎵 I Could Write a Book
#MilesDavisQuintet
themilesdavisquintet.bandcamp.
open.spotify.com/track/1MxkUkl

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-13 20:00:03

edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 1135 nodes and 2572 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
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edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010). 1135 nodes, 2572 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/edit_wikibooks#bs
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social
2025-12-13 11:56:10

My random track stream just slid into a chapter of The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood.
If you only know the physical book get the audio book as well as it includes the songs.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-09 16:05:00

Kleiner E-Book-Reader nimmt Smartphones huckepack
Der Xteink X4 ist kompakt gehalten und hält per Magnet etwa an einem iPhone. Für Handys ohne Magnet gibt es Aufkleber.
heise.de/n…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-12-13 15:49:09

Just finished "Endgames" by Ru Xu, sequel to "Newsprints." I was happy to see the characters from the first book get their endings, but Xu feels incredibly out of her depth writing about the politics of empire and the power/complicity of the press, which completely dampened my enjoyment.
As just one example, there's a ton of interesting nuance to explore behind the idea of a disabled imperial ruler and how disadvantage/persecution (from which you have been effectively shielded) does not justify harming others. This book explores none of that.
I think it does serve as a great example of how severely one limits one's own imagination when one buys into the myth of nationhood as natural/inevitable/good. It's not that Xu's politics are especially authoritarian, I think, but that she's just (been kept?) resoundingly naïve, and so her plot resolution feels childish (or perhaps that's an insult to children).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-11-11 23:33:43

Finished “The Last Murder at the End of the World” by Stuart Turton.
Their island is a sanctuary against an apocalyptic fog which has enveloped the world. The villagers and the elders have lived in relative peace for decades until a murder flings everything into chaos. Solving it may be the only chance for survival.
4/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-12-12 14:55:15

you know it's gonna be good if the book on computer graphics starts with this

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-11-12 02:46:49

On 30 April, 1993, CERN published the complete source code to the #WWW protocols developed by @…, as well as his client and server software with this statement: “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary and permission is given to anyon…

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-01-13 17:18:37

Only the most refined and sophisticated books make it to my coffee table 🧐

Cover image of a book titled Sexy Cats by J.C. Suares showing a white cat laying on some silk while wearing only a fancy hat and a pearl necklace.
@benb@osintua.eu
2025-10-13 19:19:47

Ukraine’s 'YeKnyha' program reaches more than 200,000 young readers, boosts book sales nationwide: benborges.xyz/2025/10/13/ukrai

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-11-12 15:32:03

Hey! @…, Reginé Gilbert, and @… gathered 36 authors to write about ethics in digital accessibility.
Chapters, authors (I’m one of them), pre-order:

Book cover, “Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” set in blue text above a painting featuring bright arcs of yellow, orange, blue, turquoise, pink, and purple; the lower half of these colors show abstract figures, circles, and building-like shapes and the text “Edited by Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, Chancey Fleet.”

In 1920, Charles Garland,
the wealthy heir to a banking fortune, made newspaper headlines for doing the unthinkable:
he declined to accept an inheritance of more than a million dollars from his late father’s estate. 
Garland was disillusioned by the era’s gross #inequality
— the top 10 percent of American income earners took in half the country’s annual national income.
Garl…

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 09:53:10

LibraryLens: An Interactive Tool for Exploring and Arranging Digital Bookshelves
Trevor DePodesta, Johanna Beyer
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09502 a…

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-10-13 14:39:28

I'm thinking of (1) recording my #PIM lecture as a larger set of 5-30min video snippets (1 for each sub-topic) and/or
(2) writing a book with even more background information on the same subject including further links.
What would you consider more important to you personally?
Please do limit yourself to not more than 2 choices even if they are hard to do.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-12 02:17:43

"Listen, you won’t find this conversation in any parenting book. Debt is social control."
How to Tell Your Kids the Government Is Turning Their Generation Into Economic Slaves
drstaceypatton1865.substack.co

@andycarolan@social.lol
2026-01-12 15:50:02

Anyone have any thoughts on why Apple Books is only downloading pages of a book AS I reach them? It's leading to a frustrating 7 second delay on the page appearing as it downloads individually!
#AppleBooks #Apple

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-01-12 15:10:21

Great news.
Akenfield is wonderful book, as was the BBC film based on it (possibly available at BFI).
British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe | Books | The Guardian
theguardian.com/books/2026/jan

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-12-13 21:05:40

Just finished The Way of Kings.
while the writing was good and the characters were good it's such a poorly plotted book that it becomes unenjoyable.
Very little happens over 800 pages and while I love character development it's no excuse for how slow this moves. I would have enjoyed this at 500 pages. At 1000 I don't even want to read more.
#books

Way of Kings Cover
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-12 20:56:16

🐓🥚🐣✨️

In the Book of the Elixir (15) it is said: The hen can hatch her eggs because her heart is always listening. That is an important magic spell. The reason the hen can hatch the eggs is because of the power to heat. But the power of the heat can only warm the shells; it cannot penetrate into the interior. Therefore with her heart she conducts this power inward. This she does with her hearing. In this way she concentrates her whole heart. When the heart penetrates, the power penetrates, and the ch…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-13 18:00:04

edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 5267 nodes and 12212 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps

edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010). 5267 nodes, 12212 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/edit_wikibooks#ka
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2025-11-09 08:03:09

Sechs Wochen ohne Auto – und? Kein Drama. In Eberstadt fährt die Tram, Book-n-drive steht um die Ecke, und selbst der Weg nach Frankfurt klappt (meistens). Nur die Bahn bleibt das bekannte Glücksspiel. Jetzt ist der ID.3 da – mal sehen, wie alltagstauglich er wirklich ist.
#EAuto #ÖPNV

@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-11-12 10:15:47

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The It's My Book They'll Walk If I Tell Them Too (ANIMATED) - Tom Cardy
youtu.be/I3g6mFI4Fug?si=lknsvt

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2025-11-10 22:42:43

Excited to see Publishers Weekly feature YDS professor Yii-Jan Lin and her book "Immigration and Apocalypse"! publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-11 19:50:49

John Fetterman makes a case for himself. It's not very convincing. (Karen Heller/Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/books/2025/
memeorandum.com/251111/p74#a25

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2025-11-09 22:27:12

SciFi writer Ken Macleod to appear at local book festival
greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2

Colour photo of Ken Macleod by the seaside. He is wearing a Barbour jacket and he is smiling at the camera. Behind him you can see white-painted buildings.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-12 20:09:52

When you cite a thinker to legitimize fascism and then discover his intellectual crush ended up being Lenin instead.
#Fascism #Syndicalism #Meme

Four-panel political meme contrasting ideologies: in the top row, a cartoon fascist soldier enthusiastically praises an elderly bearded political theorist for inspiring national syndicalism and fascism while the theorist responds skeptically; a cropped book excerpt notes his later admiration for revolutionary figures; in the bottom row, the same soldier is shown crying as the theorist appears alongside a revolutionary leader, with captions implying the theorist ultimately preferred revolutionar…
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 23:47:58

🏀 Andrew Wiggins: how a shy NBA player negotiated growing up a star in the social media era
theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov

@hakona@im.alstadheim.no
2025-12-12 17:36:20

This piece (gift) theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 21:27:39

Really excited to see that my #book on the #MsMarvel is on sale for $26, for the hardcover and softcover each.

@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2025-12-11 21:29:00
Content warning:

Tomaso Padoa-Schioppa quoted in Values by Mark Carney

Photo of a book page I will transcribe later
Photo of a book page I will transcribe later
@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-12-13 16:05:37

Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
ift.tt/JMzopvA
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP

@skaverat@skaverat.net
2025-11-12 13:24:11

This is a great opening quote in @… Enshittification

Opening quote of Doctorows Enshittification book:

"I will never forgive them for what they did to the computer" by Ed Zitron
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-11-13 01:11:55

No too late to back this fascinating book, but only a few hours left! kickstarter.com/projects/bzott

@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange
2026-01-12 15:47:59

Wrote a chapter for the first time in a while. Work on the next book is slow, but I'm glad I took the time. Whatever you do that fulfills you, I hope everyone reading this is finding a little time for joy in between the chaos. #amwriting #bookstodon

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-12 08:26:57

Claim your cats as dependents for extra tax savings!
(Note: not a licensed CPA)

Photo of two small kittens that are on an open book which makes it look like they're reading the chapter titled Tax Evasion.
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-13 21:29:56

There has been no let up in government #censorship, which has just hit another park, Yosemite, where apparently it is now unacceptable to reveal the historic and current stresses on our water resources:

@gilest@mastodon.me.uk
2026-01-05 20:07:50

A good list of good book covers from 2025
casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/1

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-05 18:42:03

from my link log —
Pipelined Relational Query Language, PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement.
prql-lang.org/book/
saved 2025-11-05

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-12-06 21:59:34

truly amazing: the sprawling serial novel by the late rick harris, aka thoughts on the dead, set in little aleppo, somewhere between springfield & macondo. literary fiction as text cartoon. wise & dark & so, so funny. sadly, only available from amazon print on demand: amazon.com/Book-No-…

a book titled "A Book With No Title: A Little Aleppo Novel" with illustration of movie palace called the Tahitian
@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-11-29 17:30:05

Book Review – Just Use #Postgres!
vladmihalcea.com/book-review-j

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-11-12 03:13:32

#replyGuys Handbook

The Big Book of Online Unsolicited Bullshit
Exploring a world where others have a surprisingly negative reaction to your uninvited input and unpleasant personality.

For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.
He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19
and claimed, without evidence, that athletes are “dropping dead on the field” after getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
Now the Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments:
chlorine dioxide, a chem…

@laura@social.coop
2026-01-06 19:57:14

#CommonplaceNotes: mental models, autonomy, a poem.
lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/01/com HT

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-11 14:36:21

Now that I'm almost 40 pages in, I've started to accept that I am, in fact, in the process of writing a book and not a zine.

@vrandecic@mas.to
2026-01-11 17:03:21

Erich von Däniken died today at the age of 90. I know, I know what most of you are going to say, but in my teenage years, his books had a profound influence on me (amusingly, I encountered it first in their Serbo-Croatian translation, maybe my first "real" book I read in Croatian). More than the ancient alien hypothesis, his books took me to many fascinating corners of the world, be it in the Americas, in India, Sub-Saharan Africa, or the English countryside. 1/3

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-12 07:10:52

Amid US public media funding cuts, a look at how the model of private donations can lead to an audience that's older, whiter, and richer than average Americans (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
niemanlab.org/2025/11/funding-

@laimis@mstdn.social
2025-11-03 15:50:56

Speaking of crypto books, just finished goodreads.com/book/show/320730 and it might be the most idiotic book I've read that I actually finished. I usually toss those to the side pretty quickly into the book but it was hilarious to read …

@yaya@jorts.horse
2025-11-09 20:27:14

I need to finish my tactics book bc the book I was real excited about got here

me smiling with a copy of We Lose Every Week: The History of Football Chanting by Andrew Lawn
@lukasweidinger@gruene.social
2026-01-06 14:41:10

Dear @… ,
I’ve just finished your latest #book “Moral Ambition” with that intimidating back cover text as my first one this year. I found the table of contents populistically appalling and the actual content really

Book Spine of the book “Moral Ambition” in German from Rutger Bregman.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2026-01-13 02:23:52

#agile #scrum #tech #softwaredevelopment

A library. A poster calls out "enter a new world, read a book". Children pull down a book marked "Scrum" from the library shelf, and get pulled into Snake Hell.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-01-13 01:12:35

Just finished "Dream On" written by Shannon Hale and illustrated by Marcela Cespedes with colors by Lark Pien. It's a wonderful book about grade-school friendships and dealing with unhealthy social pressures.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
2025-12-10 16:19:34

"Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU". -Glyn Moody @…
This seems to opens the door to work on important problems, for instance building a solid climateGPT in Europe.

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2025-10-13 20:04:50

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 20: Eleanor Catton
I was fortunate to hear Catton do a reading at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2013, and just a couple of months later she became the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Luminaries - one of the strangest books I've ever read.
So, yay! I made it to 20 posts. Not hard actually, as there are so many fantastic

Catton in 2011. She has straight, medium-length light brown hair with a side part, and is looking intensely into the camera.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-01-10 16:16:34

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-12 08:00:05

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances. 107 nodes, 352 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/game_thrones
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-12 15:51:44

OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content 404media.co/openai-cant-fix-so

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-12-10 17:14:52

This is a really really nice interview with Canadian Children's Book author Robert Munsch. It's his "last hurrah”. He's living with dementia and parkinson’s.
He's going to be leaving (MAID) at some point (not soon) but there are 50 more books that will be released after he has passed.
He just seems like a wonderful guy…
#Books #Munsch #CBC
cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.700

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2026-01-09 19:10:59

Copyright / trademark question:
Why is it that an author can refer to a trademarked product in a book at their whim, but when that book gets adapted into a film or television show the product cannot be included without approval of the trademark owner?
Tagging #bookstodon because that might catch the attention of a writer or editor who knows the answer.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 07:32:16

Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-06 18:17:46

Some inspiration to help keep you going, thanks to Authors Against Book Bans: prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/1

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-08 16:56:37

Supreme Court Turns Away Appeal of Texas Library Book Ban | Thomson/Reuters
newsmax.com/newsfront/supreme-

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-12-11 21:59:08

Just read "Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest" by Phoebe Wahl (to my kids but also for myself). It's a delightfully cozy and whimsical book, full of magical forest creatures and gentle community. What an excellent book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-01-05 05:33:47

Book Trivia Podcast
Delivers literary trivia, book facts, and author secrets in fun, bite-sized episodes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/book-t

Book Trivia Podcast
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2025-10-13 00:26:33

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 19: Alice Thompson
Another of Edinburgh's fine authors. She has written 9 novels of which I have read three.
Definitely do read BURNT ISLAND, it is just amazing. If you are faint-hearted however, you may want to avoid The Book Collector which was utterly terrifying.
#FemmeÉcrivain

Colour photo of the author. She has medium length brown hair. she is smiling in the photo, which is by Colin McPherson.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-11 14:20:55

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor's Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer (Megan O'Matz/ProPublica)
propublica.org/article/ron-joh
memeorandum.com/251211/p24#a25

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-12-10 14:07:36

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
foamboy:
🎵 BOOK AND A COLD
#foamboy
foamboy.bandcamp.com/track/boo
open.spotify.com/track/2Uquh2q

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-10 23:47:10

A glimpse at the Republican Party’s all‑time favorite reading material.
Considering that they idolized Hitler in private group chats.
#Facism #USA #US

An open, worn copy of the German book Mein Kampf, showing a black-and-white portrait of the author on the left page and the title page with publication details dated 1940 on the right.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-08 18:00:12

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005). 445801 nodes, 1149739 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/bookcrossing
@yaya@jorts.horse
2025-11-09 20:48:01

me: wow my new football book got here. I should take some time today to keep reading my current football book. but first I gotta finish watching this danish football match cuz I got distracted watching football chant YT shorts on my phone. and I kinda wanted to keep playing football manager...
also me: sometimes I wonder if im really autistic or if im just making it up

@laimis@mstdn.social
2025-11-03 15:53:09

Earlier this month I also finished this book on F1:
goodreads.com/book/show/208432
It reads a bit like an infomercial for Mercedes F1 book but it did have some cool insights on the inner workings of the teams. The simulator …

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-01 11:45:39

The US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/b

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-03 10:30:34

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-11-12 01:35:46

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-07 02:09:17

New Book Publication: Evangelicals in a Dictatorship Protestants, social capital and civil society in Belarus by Paula Borowska-Kryvoi networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-13 06:57:46

Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

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2025-12-11 01:30:48

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2026-01-06 04:25:31

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2025-11-08 16:05:38

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2025-12-03 13:00:13

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
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bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005). 445801 nodes, 1149739 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/bookcrossing
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2025-12-08 02:41:56

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2026-01-03 10:00:13

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005). 445801 nodes, 1149739 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/bookcrossing
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2025-12-11 16:05:44

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2026-01-11 16:10:12

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2025-10-13 06:10:34

2026 Midwest AAR Conference
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2025-10-13 06:10:36

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2025-10-13 06:10:32

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2025-10-13 06:10:37

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2025-10-13 06:10:35

Coming Soon: History of Judaism collection on Theology & Religion Online
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2025-10-13 06:10:36

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2025-10-13 06:10:33

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2025-10-13 06:10:35

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2025-10-13 06:10:34

LECTURE> Bernard Faure, "Awakening a no-brainer?" at Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
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2025-10-13 06:10:33

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