@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-24 08:25:30
@usul@piaille.fr2025-10-24 04:52:09
« Les bijoux volés au Louvre, qui ne valent que pour leurs métaux précieux, sont surtout des objets désuets et encombrants »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-23 21:21:14
Mussolini had his “years of humiliation,”
Hitler his fabricated Jewish conspiracies,
and Trump has his “phony crime stats.”
Reality is always bent into whatever shape makes the leader look like a savior.
https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115078774526591227#
@frankel@mastodon.top2025-08-24 08:24:01
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-24 19:04:05
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-24 13:52:52
Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.social2025-08-24 07:19:16
Kanadas Ministerpräsident Carney zu Besuch in Kiew
Der kanadische Ministerpräsident Mark Carney ist zu einem Besuch in der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew eingetroffen. Dies teilte der Stabschef des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj, Andrij Jermak, mit. Der Besuch fällt auf den Unabhängigkeitstag der Ukraine. "An diesem besonderen Tag - dem Unabhängigkeitstag der Ukraine - ist es für uns besonders wichtig, die Unterst…
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-24 05:10:07
Elon Musk is having a very bad week.
The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.
Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.
Musk’s response?
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
“why are you gay”
—th…
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.social2025-10-24 05:09:43
Reiche zu Besuch in Kiew eingetroffen
Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche ist zu einem Besuch in der Ukraine eingetroffen. Ein Sprecher sagte, im Zentrum ihrer mehrtägigen Reise stünden der Erhalt und der Wiederaufbau der Energieinfrastruktur sowie der Ausbau der deutsch-ukrainischen Rüstungskooperation.
Russland habe vor dem vierten Kriegswinter gerade seine Angriffe auf die ukrainische E…
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-24 02:05:48
The Intel deal is a mistake
Like the agreement to allow Nvidia and AMD to export certain chips to China in exchange for 15 percent of sales,
this kind of presidential dealmaking is a bad precedent:
We should do things because they’re good policy, not because the government gets a cut.
This particular policy also risks distorting the free-market system that has delivered better results for America, and the world,
than any state-managed competitor has ever achi…
