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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Long Winters:
🎵 Cinnamon
#TheLongWinters
https://thelongwinters.bandcamp.com/track/cinnamon
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UtqjZ1PbzEXMGFIFxd3b9

To fediverse admins:
If you see an attempt to create a copy of a Gaza Verified member’s account on your server, without having heard from me first, please suspend it and get in touch with me if you can.
I have asked the Gaza Verified members not to migrate their accounts without telling me first so I can reach out to one of our friendly server admins (…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

I wish my colleagues would stop telling students to avoid books that are older than XX years (25 seems to be common). There are many reasons why scholars may not have written on a given subject recently. In history, at least, that reason is sometimes that someone published a very good study in 1979.

#StephenMiller us telling us he's trying to redo the #Holocaust. He plagiarized #JosephGoebbels' eulogy of

'Scary as all hell': Onlookers horrified as Stephen Miller parrots Nazi speech
Stephen Miller delivered a venomous speech at right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's memorial service that bore a close resemblance to one given by a notorious Nazi leader at a similar event, according to reports.The White House deputy chief of staff and top adviser to President Donald Trump called on m...

Tell me you didn't plan on putting a Floyd on a guitar when you designed it without telling me you didn't plan on putting a Floyd on the guitar 🤣

Another building facade, another #AbstractAug -- I'll try to get you some pics of vendors at the Ithaca Farmer's Market next where I had the bad judgement of telling a lady that she only wanted to me to take pictures of her flowers that I had 15,000 photos of flowers I hadn't developed
#photo

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

My ISP is telling me to turn the SuperWifi off and on again to restore after connectivity issues.
When did everyone upgrade to SuperWifi? Did I miss the train?

Wow, how did I sleep on the catalog of neat small pen-and-paper RPGs on Itch? So many interesting concepts there. Particularly stuck on "They should have sent a poet", which self-describes as "a solo journalling game about searching alone for the impossible among the stars, and desperately, hopefully, unfathomably holding on to your mission and humanity." Seems like a really cool concept, definitely got to try this out, as story-writing and worldbuilding is catnip to me w…

They Should Have Sent a Poet by Telling Games
A solo journalling game about searching among the stars, and desperately holding on to your mission and humanity.