#meru — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #meru, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Futanari Female Demon Character Art
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TNB Electron turns on 120kW DC Charger at Hotel Casuarina Meru in Perak #cars #ev #evcharger #featured #hotelcasuarinameru #meru #news #perak #tnbelectron #transport
https://soyacincau.com/2026/05/05/tnb-electron-120kw-dc-charger-hotel-casuarina-meru-perak/
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TNB Electron turns on 120kW DC Charger at Hotel Casuarina Meru in Perak #cars #ev #evcharger #featured #hotelcasuarinameru #meru #news #perak #tnbelectron #transport
https://soyacincau.com/2026/05/05/tnb-electron-120kw-dc-charger-hotel-casuarina-meru-perak/
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The Waiting Room: At the very top of those stairs—which the maintenance team is currently restoring—there would have been a small shrine. This wasn't a place for public worship, but a "waiting room" where the deity (in Ur's case, the moon god Nanna) was believed to dwell when visiting the city.
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The Waiting Room: At the very top of those stairs—which the maintenance team is currently restoring—there would have been a small shrine. This wasn't a place for public worship, but a "waiting room" where the deity (in Ur's case, the moon god Nanna) was believed to dwell when visiting the city.
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In the cosmology of ancient #Mesopotamia, a ziggurat like the one in Ur temple, wasn't just a building; it was a meru, a cosmic mountain that served as a physical bridge between the earthly realm and the divine.
The term "Ziggurat" itself comes from the Akkadian ziqqurratu, meaning "built on a high area" or "to rise high," signifying its role as a literal staircase for the gods to descend to earth and for priests to ascend toward the heavens.
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In the cosmology of ancient #Mesopotamia, a ziggurat like the one in Ur temple, wasn't just a building; it was a meru, a cosmic mountain that served as a physical bridge between the earthly realm and the divine.
The term "Ziggurat" itself comes from the Akkadian ziqqurratu, meaning "built on a high area" or "to rise high," signifying its role as a literal staircase for the gods to descend to earth and for priests to ascend toward the heavens.
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Domaine de Sandricourt (également sur commune d'Amblainville) à #Méru (#Oise) Allée dite de la Marquise ; grand parterre, dit parterre de Diane ; cascade de fleurs ; clairière ronde (cad. ZP 13, 15, 16, 18, 24 ...
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00114991/meru-domaine-de-sandricourt-egalement-sur-commune-damblainville
#Patrimoine #MonumentHistorique
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@cavyherd I really liked [Loka](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/96cb102d-6158-4b55-ac23-156decd273ad) (and it's prequel #Meru, but I found #Loka to be the stronger story)
It takes a bit of a "what if we learned not to do a colonialism but we leaned too far into the liberal 'anticolonialism' that is essentially isolationism"
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@cavyherd I really liked [Loka](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/96cb102d-6158-4b55-ac23-156decd273ad) (and it's prequel #Meru, but I found #Loka to be the stronger story)
It takes a bit of a "what if we learned not to do a colonialism but we leaned too far into the liberal 'anticolonialism' that is essentially isolationism"
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Mount #Meru and the Ocean of Milk are central motifs in Buddhist cosmology, symbolizing the universe's moral structure and spiritual hierarchy. Unlike literal geography, these images serve as #ethical and #contemplative tools, shaping Buddhist thought across cultures and eras. In this post, we briefly explore the conceptual significance of these cosmological features:
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Mount #Meru and the Ocean of Milk are central motifs in Buddhist cosmology, symbolizing the universe's moral structure and spiritual hierarchy. Unlike literal geography, these images serve as #ethical and #contemplative tools, shaping Buddhist thought across cultures and eras. In this post, we briefly explore the conceptual significance of these cosmological features:
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (#IMLS) just terminated the grant for the Next Generation Library Publishing (#NGLP) project.
https://educopia.org/blog/imls-terminates-next-generation-library-publishing-pilot-to-production-grant/"The central aim for this grant project was to expand digital #infrastructure options for #LibraryPublishing programs that are #OpenSource, community-led, and grounded in academic values. The Big Ten Academic Alliance [#BTAA] remains engaged in supporting the continued exploration and development of #Meru — the open publishing platform emerging from the NGLP initiative."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (#IMLS) just terminated the grant for the Next Generation Library Publishing (#NGLP) project.
https://educopia.org/blog/imls-terminates-next-generation-library-publishing-pilot-to-production-grant/"The central aim for this grant project was to expand digital #infrastructure options for #LibraryPublishing programs that are #OpenSource, community-led, and grounded in academic values. The Big Ten Academic Alliance [#BTAA] remains engaged in supporting the continued exploration and development of #Meru — the open publishing platform emerging from the NGLP initiative."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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CW: 18+
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#rule34 #Meru #meruthesuccubus #nsfw -
#meruthesuccubus hashtag turns out empty with zero results. So you telling me NO ONE in entire #Fediverse ever interested in that amazing character? And no post related to her ever shared? #Mastodon kinda weird man. I understand why some people simply can not ditch #Xitter. Fun stuff is simply not here.
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Ngare Ndare, a village on the edge of the Ngare Ndare Forest, in Buuri, Meru County in 2007. Like so many rural villages, it has now spread and grown in to a busy centre. #NgareNdare #Meru #Kenya #Travel
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The developer of the #LightRailTransit 3 (#LRT3) project has been instructed to study the cause & submit proposals to overcome the #flashflood that occur in several locations
This includes in front of #Meru Wholesale Market & Sekolah Tinggi #Klang
They need to clean the outflowing drain along Jalan Meru up to Sungai Klang and check the construction & modification of sewers in the Kota roundabout area
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Me, rereading #Meru: why is the book telling me what sickle cell disease is like?
A moment later: of course, not everyone is a medical doctor 🤦♂️😅
(or have lived experience etc)
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The County Government of #Meru decided to make this marshy area a dam, it has made things more worse downstream..
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The County Government of #Meru decided to make this marshy area a dam, it has made things more worse downstream..
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Archaeoethnologica: Generations, Initiation & Territory among the Meru - Book / Gerações, Iniciação e Território entro os Meru - Livros
+INFO em: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2023/10/geracoes-iniciacao-e-territorio-entro.html
#ageclass #institutions #anthropology #politicalanthropology #Meru #Books #openaccess #initiation
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Archaeoethnologica: Generations, Initiation & Territory among the Meru - Book / Gerações, Iniciação e Território entro os Meru - Livros
+INFO em: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2023/10/geracoes-iniciacao-e-territorio-entro.html
#ageclass #institutions #anthropology #politicalanthropology #Meru #Books #openaccess #initiation
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Nairobi, Nakuru and Kiambu counties in #Kenya lead in cancer cases, according to a new report, in #Meru County, cancer is the leading cause of death. The report on cancer in Kenya, which was compiled after analysising the National Cancer Registry Data for 2021/2022, showed that a total of 42,116 new cancer cases are recorded every year, the report also shows that 2 in every 3 patient succumb to the disease.
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Nairobi, Nakuru and Kiambu counties in #Kenya lead in cancer cases, according to a new report, in #Meru County, cancer is the leading cause of death. The report on cancer in Kenya, which was compiled after analysising the National Cancer Registry Data for 2021/2022, showed that a total of 42,116 new cancer cases are recorded every year, the report also shows that 2 in every 3 patient succumb to the disease.
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Still thinking about "A #PrayerForTheCrownShy" and its comfortable human society which has done so well for itself. It makes me think about how the humans in @sbdivya's #Meru get treated for "Ambition and Avarice Disorder" if they want beyond their comfortable lives, and how the Utopians in @adapalmer's #TerraIgnota whine about "complacency".
Here, we really might have a happy, complacent society. And even though I make so much fun of the Utopians, it somehow irks me.
Huh.
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Still thinking about "A #PrayerForTheCrownShy" and its comfortable human society which has done so well for itself. It makes me think about how the humans in @sbdivya's #Meru get treated for "Ambition and Avarice Disorder" if they want beyond their comfortable lives, and how the Utopians in @adapalmer's #TerraIgnota whine about "complacency".
Here, we really might have a happy, complacent society. And even though I make so much fun of the Utopians, it somehow irks me.
Huh.
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Ontem terminei de ler #Meru, o primeiro #livro que leio de @sbdivya. A história se passa num futuro pós escassez, pós desperdício, com a humanidade restrita à Terra e uma raça pós-humana (os "alloy", em inglês) ocupando o espaço sideral. Agora isso pode mudar, porque o monte, digo, planeta Meru é potencialmente habitável por humanos. Uma humana e uma alloy muito especiais, mas deslocadas dos seus respectivos povos, recebem a missão de conferir se a humanidade pode sobreviver no planeta.
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Interesting reading coincidence: as in #Meru, we have people being designed instead of letting chance put them together. The alloy do it somewhat playfully, but (at least sometimes) also with a clear path for the offspring in mind. Here, it's just done to make better slaves.
That's certainly evil, but I think the designing to a goal /always/ buts a burden on the child. It's hard enough to live up to expectations; I can't imagine having to live up to specifications.
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Interesting reading coincidence: as in #Meru, we have people being designed instead of letting chance put them together. The alloy do it somewhat playfully, but (at least sometimes) also with a clear path for the offspring in mind. Here, it's just done to make better slaves.
That's certainly evil, but I think the designing to a goal /always/ buts a burden on the child. It's hard enough to live up to expectations; I can't imagine having to live up to specifications.
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I'd have liked to have the unique structure of the universe with everything being somewhat conscious explored in more detail, but apparently there is to be a sequel, so maybe it will happen there!
That being said, I really liked "Meru" - to my surprise not in spite of a love story being very important, but because of that. These two are just so young and cute and insecure, and it's written in a way that's sweet instead of cringe-y - no small feat!
(4/n, n=4)
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I'd have liked to have the unique structure of the universe with everything being somewhat conscious explored in more detail, but apparently there is to be a sequel, so maybe it will happen there!
That being said, I really liked "Meru" - to my surprise not in spite of a love story being very important, but because of that. These two are just so young and cute and insecure, and it's written in a way that's sweet instead of cringe-y - no small feat!
(4/n, n=4)
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"Meru" has a strong theme of good and bad parenting and mentoring, as both protagonists struggle with fulfilling their potential and ambitions - but also as they fall in love and become parents in a very tender love story.
Both human and alloy culture are complex with a lot of depth, the political system is interesting (it's not an empire!), and I liked the handling of Jayanthi's chronic illness (it has uses, but also drawbacks) very much. Same for the Sanskrit names!
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"Meru" has a strong theme of good and bad parenting and mentoring, as both protagonists struggle with fulfilling their potential and ambitions - but also as they fall in love and become parents in a very tender love story.
Both human and alloy culture are complex with a lot of depth, the political system is interesting (it's not an empire!), and I liked the handling of Jayanthi's chronic illness (it has uses, but also drawbacks) very much. Same for the Sanskrit names!
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The universe of "Meru" is special: all matter has some degree of consciousness. This makes conservation efforts especially important; even introducing new bacteria can be seen an assault.
The universe's structure allows specialized pilot alloys FTL travel, and we follow a human, Jayanthi, and her pilot, Vaha, to the Exoplanet Meru, where Jayanthi conducts controversial research projects: officially about human habitation, unofficially about genetical engineering.
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The universe of "Meru" is special: all matter has some degree of consciousness. This makes conservation efforts especially important; even introducing new bacteria can be seen an assault.
The universe's structure allows specialized pilot alloys FTL travel, and we follow a human, Jayanthi, and her pilot, Vaha, to the Exoplanet Meru, where Jayanthi conducts controversial research projects: officially about human habitation, unofficially about genetical engineering.
(2/n)
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So, @sbdivya's "Meru", which I really liked!
Set 1000 years into the future, we explore a world where genetically engineered posthumans (the alloys), who come in a variety of shapes and sizes, explore space. Unmodified humans also exist; they are confined to Earth - after catastrophic climate change and a failed terraforming trial on Mars they are deemed unfit for other planets and, if necessary, medicated for "Aspirational and Avarice Disorder".
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So, @sbdivya's "Meru", which I really liked!
Set 1000 years into the future, we explore a world where genetically engineered posthumans (the alloys), who come in a variety of shapes and sizes, explore space. Unmodified humans also exist; they are confined to Earth - after catastrophic climate change and a failed terraforming trial on Mars they are deemed unfit for other planets and, if necessary, medicated for "Aspirational and Avarice Disorder".
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Great theme of parenthood and mentoring. We have Vaha's borderline abusive maker and zir somewhat fraught friendship with another pilot, but also the very positive mentoring model of Rithu.
Jayanthi's parents and mentor seem more supportive, but treat her ambitions as one indulges a small child and not as an adult's dreams.
And there are Jayanthi and Vaha becoming parents, thinking hard about what characteristics a child should have, but also wanting to do better.
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I really like how a main character's pregnancy is handled. It's neither the hardest thing ever (I'm looking a you, "A Memory Called Empire") nor is the character able to do all sorts of physical feats unchanged (I'm looking at you, "Red Moon"). It's hard, especially intersecting with chronic illness, but it's not debilitating. Growing a child inside you is lovely, but also really weird.
Plus that early pregnancy feeling of "what on earth have I /done/?"? That's totally real...
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Something I noticed in #Machinehood as well: we've got characters have strong disagreements, betray each other, and separate; but that's not the end. Lots of them reconcile, change their mind about things, grow and learn. And that's not just true for lovers, but for friends as well.
It feels... mature, I guess? Being able to see scales of grey, apologize and return. And very hopeful: people /can/ change their minds!
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"Meru"'s universe is of the "Age of Sail" type: FTL travel, but no FTL communication except by courier. There are long travel times and news are not always easy to come by. But it's /not/ one with an empire and all its trappings, which is very unusual.
The only thing reminiscent of that era is the fact that Earth is treated like a colony: exploited for raw materials, humans with their limited rights are second-class citizens.
Interesting.
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"Meru"'s universe is of the "Age of Sail" type: FTL travel, but no FTL communication except by courier. There are long travel times and news are not always easy to come by. But it's /not/ one with an empire and all its trappings, which is very unusual.
The only thing reminiscent of that era is the fact that Earth is treated like a colony: exploited for raw materials, humans with their limited rights are second-class citizens.
Interesting.
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So, that name "alloy" for the posthumans. Lots of associations there! Explained in text as referring to their metal-infused skin, but also points to the Ages of Man (golden, silver, iron - the bronze one would also be an alloy 😉) and their continuation into a new era. Also reminds me of the Amalgam in Greg Egan's "Incandescence".
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So, that name "alloy" for the posthumans. Lots of associations there! Explained in text as referring to their metal-infused skin, but also points to the Ages of Man (golden, silver, iron - the bronze one would also be an alloy 😉) and their continuation into a new era. Also reminds me of the Amalgam in Greg Egan's "Incandescence".
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"Sometimes, it takes losing a dream to figure out what you really want to do with your life."
That hits really close to home right now. I've recently lost a dream, a possible future. Still figuring out the alternative.
I'd argue that both main characters thinking this way /archieved/ their dream, briefly, and then it was taken away from them.
Which hits even closer to home.
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So... That theme of love between humans and sentinent spaceships... That's a thing, apparently. Might be worth thinking about both the how and why.
(Here, it just starts so super sweet. They're both so young! It's cute.)
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Pilot alloy landing on a planet for the first time: "As zie drank, zie picked up a rock from the surface, lifted, and released. It fell, just like in the movies."
I love stuff like that. A short phrase hammering home we're with a being with very different experiences and upbringing that our own. A reminder of the alienness of this. Just a little detail but so very effective.
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Awww tea and literature as valuable things humans produce 💙
