#reading — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reading, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Politics, kinda depressing anecdote about the literacy crisis
#politics #uspol #USPolitics #literacy #Reading
A 17-year-old MAGA supporter told me that it's cruel to let disabled people live. She also asked me what internship, contraceptive, and contraindication meant while arguing against abortion being legal. She did not understand what prefixes and suffixes are and what they do. She also thinks the moon landing and climate change is fake.I'm having a really hard time out here.
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The Beautiful Words online program is live!
Go to www.beautifulwords.net or go to the link in our bio.
11 pay-what-you-can practical talks for writers and creatives about marketing, networking, social media, building long friendships and more.
All talks will be available for 2 weeks after the date of recording if you can't make it on the day.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice prefigures the perils of Modernity.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/sourcery-of-modernity
#philosophy #modernity #history #literature #writing #reading #blog #podcast #magic #disney #fantasia #competence -
„In der Literatur fasziniert uns das Wilde; «zahm» ist gleichbedeutend mit «langweilig». (...) Die wilde Ente ist flinker und anmutiger als die zahme, und das nämliche gilt für den wilden Gedanken, welcher der Stockente gleich im sinkenden Tau dahineilt übers Gemoor.“
Henry David Thoreau
https://birgit-boellinger.com/2017/12/09/henry-david-thoreau/
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Mr. Neill, duck bills were not one of your specialties.
Currently reading Pirates in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson (1931)
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Who do you think was the better read, Napoleon or the Duke of Wellington?
We all know the answer!
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Sitting in that odd and yet exciting place picking out a book having just finished one. #books #reading #bookstodon #grateful #bliss
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Considering DNF-ing the book I'm reading, Heather by Caitlin Mullen. Way too much teen pregnancy for me. Might switch to The Wreck of the Mentor by Eric Jay Dolin.
Actually, I think I'm going to start reading it, and if I don't like that either, I'll go back to Heather.
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Fan Expo Chicago 2026 Photos, Part 4 of 5: Comics!
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: It’s that time again! This weekend my wife Anne and I attended the fifth edition of Fan Expo Chicago at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in the suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. In 2022 they arose from the ashes of the late Wizard World Chicago, which we attended eleven times, and have expended tremendous efforts to maintain the previous showrunners’ geek-marketed traditions to keep luring in longtime fans and newcomers alike... ...and for this longtime comics collector, that means keeping an eye out for favorite creators and/or new reading material. Pictured above are the graphic novels I picked up in this year's Artists Alley, plus a sketch of a character from my childhood. As for the creators who sold me those items... […]https://midlifecrisiscrossover.com/2026/08/17/fan-expo-chicago-2026-photos-part-4-of-5-comics/
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Just finished @naomikritzer's excellent book Obstetrix; you must read it!
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where the antlers drop
there is a heaven hunting
#daily #DailyPoem #dailyPoetry #dailyWriting #Poem #poems #poetry #read #reading #Writing
us a heaven at our
door, in the night, a heaven
peering through our windows tapping
blade against the glass;
there is a heaven before the blast;
a music played in fear alone,
there is a place where antlers drop
when disarming in the home; there
is a heaven hunting us in
the streets, in the light, a heaven
leering at itself as it stalks
through quiet wheat; there
is a heaven hunting us with
aim taken at the heart;
there is a finger twitching,
tapping a vital part; there
is a heaven hunting us and
weighing with many eyes;
for a heaven stalks the earth
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I generally try not to link to other platforms, but these are author friends and they own a bookstore in Lancaster, PA (Amish country). They’re mennonites themselves, with six kids. It’s an adorable bookstore. You want to live there. I buy all my books from them.
#Books #Bookstore #Reading #Writing #Indie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcBaeN-OFtC/?igsh=bGs3Yjk2MmdxaTN1&igsi=bGs3Yjk2MmdxaTN1 -
“If we are to fight against those with untold financial wealth, we will need untold intellectual wealth. We will need tough-minded people; people with stamina, a huge range of knowledge, and an ability to see wide and far enough to understand in real time what is being done to us. Reading for pleasure and delight are vital – but alongside that and even more urgently: reading for power.”
#AI #Learning #Books #Reading
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“It risks becoming an iron curtain that comes down between a young person and their potential for thinking, for experiment and conquering frustration, for stamina and for invention –and thereby, between the young people and their freedom”
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Lots to love here.
#AI #Reading #Learning
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom -
Me gusta leer el libro en formato físico, pero debo decir que en digital no me incómoda para nada, más usando la aplicación "OpenComic" con la que organizar mi colección en Pdf y Epub es un deleite. Libro en lectura física actual... "La luna en los almendros" de Gerardo Meneses Claros. Una historia juvenil en tiempos difíciles pero con esa nostalgia inolvidable de los años de infancia en el campo.
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Stressed? (Who isn't?) Head back to the early 1990s for a laugh out loud #romcom based on one of the best movies, by the scriptwriter & his sister. Full of banter and humor!
“Laugh out loud funny with high school hijinx and beauty pageant drama—and hijinx there too.”
https://storyoriginapp.com/collections/9042b025-c6fb-48af-8d94-13973554f942
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Big news! HYPERSCALE made the longlist for the FT/Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award.
They call it a “a polemical on-the-ground investigation into the rapid spread of data centres and their impact on the environment and the communities where Big Tech is building them.”
#tech #datacenters #ai #generativeai #artificialintelligence #reading #books
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Book Review of Daughters of the Sun and Moon by Lisa See
The stories of Moon, Petal, Dove, and other women in the book show what it was like to be a Chinese woman and immigrant in 19th-century Los Angeles.https://mylittlehawk.com/2026/08/18/book-review-of-daughters-of-the-sun-and-moon-by-lisa-see/
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I just finished reading The Ballad of Falling Dragons by Sarah A. Parker, second book in the series.
It took me ages to remember the big cast of characters, but I eventually remembered. A great second book. The trigger warnings were numerous, and they placed it on the very last page of the book...
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Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue @higginbothampublications.wordpress.com@higginbothampublications.wordpress.com ·Beyond the Lights
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Lights-Nicole-Higginbotham-Hogue-ebook/dp/B08BK75QDL/ref=sr_1_10?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uRvXEzR4mldbCtnMcX_B1s5UXWjyQBy5K-EKkdPIcv4k8ELFEdfVIFB31TNksZ8XQ4UHM3kCRbdls5-fNFyNO_n79ou3vYx1XEozmOxd7h70IzcakJPBGsIysbt4wSPd3IKMpNDSGNjUba74Bze8sOoHu1szsyP7nZ3SZHN79oqzNRTjWGZf7qjk-LLIpMZpLlMw3PBWWezyjg7P7NjToAuaNR9KyCGmenFrcsGHHow.UKQi-7M0bYfB4uho2Zy52KSSAD_CT47Epbf7sMgvoFku0026amp;dib_tag=seu0026amp;qid=1741802691u0026amp;refinements=p_27%3ANicole+Higginbotham-Hogueu0026amp;s=booksu0026amp;sr=1-10 […]https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/beyond-the-lights-33/
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A reader recently described The Four Seasons of Rascal: The Dog from Harbin better than I ever have:
"Cultural insights wrapped in a touching story about a man and his dog."
Gary went on to write: "The author lived in China for two decades and pays extraordinary attention to details of his environment and conveys that detail to the reader... Focuses on the subtle and not so subtle differences between Chinese and American cultural differences, particularly as they relate to ownership of a dog at that time."
It's a memoir told through twenty years with a rescue dog in Harbin — part travel writing, part cultural memoir, part story of an unlikely bond that outlasted a decade of change on both sides.
📚 Kindle, paperback, and full-color Collector's Edition — all on Amazon.
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https://www.wacoca.com/videos/3355575/voice-actress/ #早見沙織 READING HIGH noir メイキング映像到着！#ヒプナゴギア #High #Noir #Reading #Vlog #VoiceActress #メイキング映像到着ヒプナゴギア #声優 #女性声優 #早見沙織