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<p>An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland by Bernard Sleigh, 1920</p><p>If you believe in fairies, this ancient map and guide will help you know them and find them</p><p>By Paul Sorene</p><p><a href="https://flashbak.com/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917-476957/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flashbak.com/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917-476957/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flashbak.com/an-anciente-mappe</span><span class="invisible">-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917-476957/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland-bernard-sleigh-1917</span></a></p><p>Fairyland at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/37291" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/37291"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/37291</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/maps/" rel="tag">#Maps</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

<p>Good news: I’m writing another book!</p><p>Data centers have been a big part of the discourse over the past few years. I’ll be digging into why there are so many being built right now and the broader impacts they’re having. But also: do we really need this much compute?</p><p><a href="https://www.disconnect.blog/p/im-writing-a-new-book" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.disconnect.blog/p/im-writing-a-new-book"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.disconnect.blog/p/im-writi</span><span class="invisible">ng-a-new-book</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#datacenters</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>

<p>Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism</p><p>A fateful visit to a market in Moscow entirely upended Tolstoy’s view on life and society—and changed the trajectory of his work and purpose.</p><p>By: Ben Woollard </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-chris</span><span class="invisible">tian-anarchism/</span></a></p><p>Tolstoy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/136</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Waiting for Godot Has Been Translated Afrikaans</p><p>What took so long?</p><p>By: Rick de Villiers </p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/waiting-for-godot-has-been-translated-into-afrikaans-what-took-so-long-257345" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/waiting-for-godot-has-been-translated-into-afrikaans-what-took-so-long-257345"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/waiting-fo</span><span class="invisible">r-godot-has-been-translated-into-afrikaans-what-took-so-long-257345</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#Translation</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#Theatre</a></p>

<p>This 2,200-Year-Old Chinese Medical Text May Be The Oldest Human Anatomy Chart In History</p><p>By Natasha Ishak</p><p>The discovery of the text written on silk sheds light on the significant advances in medicine that led to the development of acupuncture in ancient China.</p><p><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/china-mawangdui-medical-manuscripts?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=atinewsletter&amp;utm_email=lnatal55@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="allthatsinteresting.com/china-mawangdui-medical-manuscripts?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=atinewsletter&amp;utm_email=lnatal55@gmail.com"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">allthatsinteresting.com/china-</span><span class="invisible">mawangdui-medical-manuscripts?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=atinewsletter&amp;utm_email=lnatal55@gmail.com</span></a></p><p>Ancient Medicine at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4630" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4630"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/4630</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/oldmanuscript/" rel="tag">#Oldmanuscript</a></p>

<p>Protection. <a href="/tags/grickledoodle/" rel="tag">#grickledoodle</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/drawing/" rel="tag">#drawing</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#funny</a></p>

<p>Books for Armchair Travelers: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-for-armchair-travelers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-for-armchair-travelers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-books-for-armchair-travelers/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/toptentuesday/" rel="tag">#TopTenTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#Travel</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby</p><p>In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/sigrid-nunez-on-f-scott-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/sigrid-nunez-on-f-scott-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/sigrid-nunez-on-f-s</span><span class="invisible">cott-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/</span></a></p><p>The Great Gatsby at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Some shameless self-promo: I&#x27;ve set up a <a href="/tags/kofi/" rel="tag">#kofi</a> shop. You can buy DRM-free copies of my <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> there (your choice of epub, mobi, azw3 or pdf). You can also buy me a coffee if you&#x27;d like.</p><p><a href="https://ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop/books" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop/books"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop/bo</span><span class="invisible">oks</span></a></p>

<p>How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous</p><p>Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms</p><p>By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-four-literary-icons-chose-the-pen-names-that-made-them-famous/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01JY6TEY6W2S7C820Q39F5H0FC&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-four-literary-icons-chose-the-pen-names-that-made-them-famous/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01JY6TEY6W2S7C820Q39F5H0FC&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-four-literary-i</span><span class="invisible">cons-chose-the-pen-names-that-made-them-famous/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01JY6TEY6W2S7C820Q39F5H0FC&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#biography</a></p>

<p>The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen</p><p>On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (e.g. &quot;October 14th&quot;) in the Google Ngrams database since 2000. Via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@DProofreaders" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DProofreaders</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-1</span><span class="invisible">1th-of-the-month/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>can’t sleep again, read all of Leila Mottley’s new book in one go. I had the problem where there are three POV characters and I only really cared about one of them. <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality</p><p>By Fleur Hopkins-Loferon</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-french-merveilleux-scientifique-fiction-reframed-reality" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-french-merveilleux-scientifique-fiction-reframed-reality"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-french-merv</span><span class="invisible">eilleux-scientifique-fiction-reframed-reality</span></a></p><p>Maurice Reynard at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50553" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50553"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/50553</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

<p>📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-07-12/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-07-12/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.boisestatepublicradio.org/</span><span class="invisible">2025-07-12/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading</span></a>. </p><p>_What do you think?_</p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon </p><p><a href="/tags/image/" rel="tag">#Image</a> attribution: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudiobookLibrary.jpg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudiobookLibrary.jpg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:AudiobookLibrary.jpg</span></a>.</p>

Anyone dream of this? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://reddthat.com/post/45584699">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>The story of Nastenka: Why &#x27;White Nights&#x27; is taking the world by storm</p><p>by Aakanksha Sharma</p><p><a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/web-stories/the-story-of-nastenka-why-white-nights-is-taking-the-world-by-storm/photostory/121987234.cms" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/web-stories/the-story-of-nastenka-why-white-nights-is-taking-the-world-by-storm/photostory/121987234.cms"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">timesofindia.indiatimes.com/li</span><span class="invisible">fe-style/books/web-stories/the-story-of-nastenka-why-white-nights-is-taking-the-world-by-storm/photostory/121987234.cms</span></a></p><p>White Nights at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36034" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36034</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>New body size database for marine animals is a “library of life” </p><p>Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database fills a crucial gap in understanding ocean biodiversity.</p><p>by JENNIFER OUELLETTE</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/new-body-size-database-for-marine-animals-is-a-library-of-life/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/new-body-size-database-for-marine-animals-is-a-library-of-life/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">6/new-body-size-database-for-marine-animals-is-a-library-of-life/</span></a></p><p>Marine animals at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20803" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20803"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/20803</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/oceanography/" rel="tag">#oceanography</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1UQsvJi4rKVo3gA7r6w5Fu" rel="nofollow">The Mark</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by Frida Isberg.</p><p>An attempt to enforce empathic behaviour creates stark divisions at all levels of society. Very effectively conveys the ambiguous ethics and the entrenched positions taken by opposing sides. Strong parallels with toxic masculinity and vaccination.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

<p>What Is Serendipity?</p><p>We often credit unexpected events to serendipity. But who amongst us knows The Three Princes of Serendip, the tale from which the word derives?</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/what-is-serendipity/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/what-is-serendipity/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/what-is-serend</span><span class="invisible">ipity/</span></a></p><p>The Three Princes of Serendip:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Princes_of_Serendip" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Princes_of_Serendip"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thre</span><span class="invisible">e_Princes_of_Serendip</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/etymology/" rel="tag">#etymology</a> <a href="/tags/folklore/" rel="tag">#folklore</a></p>

<p>Why Did René Descartes Say “I Think, Therefore I Am”?</p><p>“I think, therefore I am” is not only Renê Descartes’ most quoted declaration, but one that caused a paradigm shift and profoundly influenced modern philosophy.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/rene-descartes-i-think-therefore-i-am-cogito-ergo-sum/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/rene-descartes-i-think-therefore-i-am-cogito-ergo-sum/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/rene-desc</span><span class="invisible">artes-i-think-therefore-i-am-cogito-ergo-sum/</span></a></p><p>Descartes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/44</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>