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<p>In 19th-century Ireland, a chance encounter between a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman begins a story of love, loyalty, and choices that will shape their lives.</p><p>Amazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/ascarletwoman</a><br>Other Retailers - <a href="https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-sc</span><span class="invisible">arlet-woman</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/thefitzgeraldsofdublinseries/" rel="tag">#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/booksbylornapeel/" rel="tag">#BooksByLornaPeel</a> <a href="/tags/familysaga/" rel="tag">#FamilySaga</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/bookseries/" rel="tag">#BookSeries</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <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>

Promotional image for the Irish historical fiction novel A Scarlet Woman by Lorna Peel, book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, an Irish family saga. The headline at the top reads, “One Family. Many Secrets.” On the left, text states: “Every family has secrets. The Fitzgeralds have generations of them. Begin The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series with A Scarlet Woman.” On the right is a 3D image of the book cover, featuring a young woman in a vintage dress looking downward, with a faded cityscape beneath her. The book title A Scarlet Woman and author name Lorna Peel appear on the cover. Along the bottom, the formats “Kindle | Kindle Unlimited | Paperback” are listed. The design uses a cream background with black and red text.

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<p>From Jessica Luther in our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/trans-athletes-inclusion-sports-culture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/trans-at</span><span class="invisible">hletes-inclusion-sports-culture/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</a> <a href="/tags/gender/" rel="tag">#gender</a> <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

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<p>Step into 19th-century Ireland!</p><p>Forbidden love, family secrets, and a sweeping saga await in A Scarlet Woman. </p><p>Start reading The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series today in Kindle Unlimited. </p><p>Amazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/ascarletwoman</a><br>Other Retailers - <a href="https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-sc</span><span class="invisible">arlet-woman</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/thefitzgeraldsofdublinseries/" rel="tag">#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/booksbylornapeel/" rel="tag">#BooksByLornaPeel</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/bookseries/" rel="tag">#BookSeries</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/historicalromance/" rel="tag">#HistoricalRomance</a> <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>

Promotional image for the Irish historical fiction novel A Scarlet Woman by Lorna Peel, book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, a 19th-century Irish family saga. The image shows a Kindle device displaying the book cover, which shows a late 19th-century woman with dark hair and a pink flower on her white dress, looking down pensively. Text on the ad reads: “Love that defies society. Secrets that shape a family.” and “Step into 19th-century Ireland and meet the Fitzgeralds of Dublin. Start the series today! Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.” The background is a faded image of Georgian townhouses on Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland.

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<p>Today is Dracula Day.</p><p>Some monsters never die 🧛‍♀️<br>Bram Stoker gave the world more than a vampire. He created a shadow that still follows us through books, films, dreams, and nightmares.</p><p><a href="/tags/draculaday/" rel="tag">#DraculaDay</a> <a href="/tags/dracula/" rel="tag">#Dracula</a> <a href="/tags/bramstoker/" rel="tag">#BramStoker</a> <a href="/tags/stoker/" rel="tag">#Stoker</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/vampire/" rel="tag">#vampire</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/today/" rel="tag">#today</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#onthisday</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <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> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/horrorbooks/" rel="tag">#horrorbooks</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a></p>

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<p>📚 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by: Mark Haddon</p><p>Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments ha...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-curiou</span><span class="invisible">s-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time</span></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><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher&s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour&s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.

Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents& marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher&s mind.

And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon and choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.

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<p>"Where do you begin to make sense of it being <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> that must deradicalise? How do you credit the viciously oppressed being told that it is they who must commit to offering no threat to <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a>, their oppressor?" </p><p><a href="/tags/fintandrury/" rel="tag">#FintanDrury</a>, author of Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine </p><p><a href="https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/how-the-west-sponsored-the-destruction-of-palestine-OQQHTLXG2BHU5GM5RTFKN4LTBI/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/how-the-west-sponsored-the-destruction-of-palestine-OQQHTLXG2BHU5GM5RTFKN4LTBI/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.irishnews.com/news/norther</span><span class="invisible">n-ireland/how-the-west-sponsored-the-destruction-of-palestine-OQQHTLXG2BHU5GM5RTFKN4LTBI/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/gazagenocide/" rel="tag">#GazaGenocide</a> <a href="/tags/imperialism/" rel="tag">#imperialism</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <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>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/JigsawCity</a></p><p>Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.</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><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

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<p>Naming the Universe</p><p>How the quick thinking of internationally minded astronomers avoided stamping the solar system with petty European rivalries</p><p>by Stephen Case</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-gods-beat-astronomers-in-the-solar-system-name-game?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1e79debba6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_06_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-gods-beat-astronomers-in-the-solar-system-name-game?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1e79debba6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_06_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-gods-beat-a</span><span class="invisible">stronomers-in-the-solar-system-name-game?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1e79debba6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_06_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p>Books by John Herschel at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48095" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48095"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/48095</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a></p>

Planetary System. Eclipse of the Sun. The Moon. The Zodiacal Light. Meteoric Shower. From Yaggy’s Geographical Study, 1887.

An illustrated educational diagram depicting the solar system with orbital paths around a central sun, comets, and the zodiacal light. The corners feature vignette illustrations of related astronomical phenomena: a solar eclipse, the moon, the zodiacal light, and a meteoric shower.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Levi_Walter_Yaggy_Planetary_System_1887.jpg

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<p>Librarians at War</p><p>The origins of today’s vast intelligence apparatus can be traced, in part, to the forgotten efforts of librarians and archivists to gather information during World War II</p><p>by Kathy Peiss (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.americanheritage.com/librarians-war" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.americanheritage.com/librarians-war"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.americanheritage.com/libra</span><span class="invisible">rians-war</span></a></p><p>Books in World War II at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/325" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/325"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/325</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

A typical bookplate used during the ALA Library War Service during World War I.

A WWI-era bookplate in dark tones showing a helmeted soldier carrying a rifle and an impossibly tall stack of books.A WWI-era bookplate in dark tones showing a helmeted soldier carrying a rifle and an impossibly tall stack of books. The text reads "War Service Library — Books are provided by the people of the United States through the American Library Association for the use of the soldiers and sailors."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_War_Service#/media/File:War_Service_Library_bookplate.jpg

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<p>How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes</p><p>by Colin Caprani an Scott Menegon</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-has-survived-4-500-years-of-egyptian-earthquakes-283363" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/how-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-has-survived-4-500-years-of-egyptian-earthquakes-283363"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-the-gr</span><span class="invisible">eat-pyramid-of-giza-has-survived-4-500-years-of-egyptian-earthquakes-283363</span></a></p><p>Full article (open access):<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-49962-6" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-49962-6"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nature.com/articles/s41598</span><span class="invisible">-026-49962-6</span></a></p><p>Books in Egypt at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/121" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/121"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/121</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/engineering/" rel="tag">#Engineering</a> <a href="/tags/natural_hazards/" rel="tag">#Natural_Hazards</a></p>

PYRAMIDS, EGYPT

The Mentor: Egypt, the Land of Mystery, Serial No. 42

By Dwight L. Elmendorf

A black-and-white photograph of the Giza pyramid complex seen from a distance across a flat, dark plain. Three pyramids rise against a pale, overexposed sky, with the Great Pyramid of Khufu dominant on the right. A small low structure sits in the foreground, giving a sense of the vast scale.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50384/pg50384-images.html

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<p>I'm delighted to announce that all my books are now available at Bookshop dot org in ebook as well as print format. So you can support local, independent bookstores even if you prefer ebooks.</p><p><a href="https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/books" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.lauraperryauthor.com/books</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/pagan/" rel="tag">#pagan</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/gayromance/" rel="tag">#GayRomance</a> <a href="/tags/minoan/" rel="tag">#Minoan</a></p>

A stack of Laura's books lying horizontally on a crackled-finish cream surface with bright red fabric drapery in the background. The book titles are visible on the spines. From bottom to top they are: Tales from the Labyrinth: Modern Minoan Myths; Ariadne's Thread; The Wiccan Wellness Book; The Last Priestess of Malia; Labrys & Horns; Ancient Spellcraft; Leap! A Love Story; and Pantheon: The Minoans.

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<p>Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) as a child, lost the use of one eye, but later became one of the sharpest observers of human nature.</p><p><a href="/tags/sartre/" rel="tag">#Sartre</a> believed that people are not born with a fixed “essence”: we become ourselves through choices.</p><p>By the end of his life he was almost blind, but he kept working. Around 50,000 people reportedly came to his funeral procession in Paris.</p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <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> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/bookish/" rel="tag">#bookish</a></p>

Jean-Paul Sartre

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<p>Book Promotion: First <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> in a series on <a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#Kindle</a> Unlimited</p><p>A collection of 107 <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> for you. My book is DRM-free.</p><p><a href="/tags/ku/" rel="tag">#ku</a> <a href="/tags/spaceship/" rel="tag">#spaceship</a> <a href="/tags/magic/" rel="tag">#magic</a> <a href="/tags/aliens/" rel="tag">#aliens</a> <a href="/tags/legendary/" rel="tag">#legendary</a> <a href="/tags/fedibookfair/" rel="tag">#fedibookfair</a> <a href="/tags/boost/" rel="tag">#boost</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/dwarfs/" rel="tag">#dwarfs</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/rogue/" rel="tag">#rogue</a> <a href="/tags/heroes/" rel="tag">#heroes</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/goodbooks/" rel="tag">#goodbooks</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/time/" rel="tag">#time</a> <a href="/tags/dwarves/" rel="tag">#dwarves</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/sorcery/" rel="tag">#sorcery</a> <a href="/tags/monsters/" rel="tag">#monsters</a> <a href="/tags/futurism/" rel="tag">#futurism</a> <a href="/tags/planets/" rel="tag">#planets</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/young/" rel="tag">#young</a> <a href="/tags/newadults/" rel="tag">#newadults</a> <a href="/tags/teen/" rel="tag">#teen</a> <a href="/tags/teens/" rel="tag">#teens</a> <a href="/tags/ya/" rel="tag">#ya</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booktoot/" rel="tag">#booktoot</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookfunnel/" rel="tag">#bookfunnel</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <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><a href="https://books.bookfunnel.com/kureads-may/wcwas7u14r" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books.bookfunnel.com/kureads-may/wcwas7u14r"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.bookfunnel.com/kureads-m</span><span class="invisible">ay/wcwas7u14r</span></a></p>

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of <a href="/tags/charlesdarwin/" rel="tag">#CharlesDarwin</a>, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.<br>- <a href="/tags/warhammer/" rel="tag">#Warhammer</a>: The Art of <a href="/tags/gamesworkshop/" rel="tag">#GamesWorkshop</a>, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.<br>- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in <a href="/tags/naturalhistory/" rel="tag">#NaturalHistory</a>, the final of the essay bundles from <a href="/tags/stephenjaygould/" rel="tag">#StephenJayGould</a>, published by Harmony Books.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/evolutionarybiology/" rel="tag">#EvolutionaryBiology</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <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>

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, standing up, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 26: 1878, showing a thick moss-green hardback with black and white lettering.

In the middle, lying down, Warhammer: The Art of Games Workshop, showing a slim paperback volume with a parchment-coloured cover showing a man in a large blue metal armoured exo-suit with an oversized red-and-gold metal glove and a gun in the other hand (or in the lingo of Games Workshop, a Space Marine with a power fist). Several parchment seals hang from the suit. The figure is walking towards the viewer. The piece is by Karl Kopinski and is called "Commander Cantor"

On the right, standing up, I Have Landed, showing a white hardback with a large blue rectangle on the cover. Along the bottom, several cartoonesque human figures trot and cavort across the cover from right to left. They are drawn in green, orange, blue, and yellow outlines.

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I’ve listed mutual aid requests from this week’s checkpoint that need urgent support: rent, food, medicine, utilities, and everything else that enables people to live with dignity. Please read through, support directly, share requests that still need movement, or boost this post far and wide so they can move beyond one feed and reach people who can help.

<h4 class="article-title"> <a href="https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-roundup-urgent-requests-to-support/">Mutual Aid Checkpoint Roundup 27/05/2026</a> </h4> <figure class="article-cover"> <img src="https://wrzky.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Building-International-Coalitions-Starts-Online--724x1024.png" alt="" loading="lazy"> </figure> <div class="article-body"> <p>Eid Mubarak, everyone!</p><p>Today’s Eid al-Adha. In Islam, its significance, in practice, carries the language of sacrifice, provision, obligation, and redistribution. The sacrifice here does not mean abandoning ourselves. One way to interpret it is to materially align ourselves with what Islam teaches us: that God is Al-Wahhab, The Supreme Bestower; Ar-Razzaq, The Provider; and Al-Fattah, The Opener of provision doors. Our dignity is not earned through productivity, respectability, or survival performance. It is inherent because Allah created us with worth before capitalism ever demanded utility from us<a href="https://quran.com/38/71-73" rel="nofollow">(1</a><a href="https://quran.com/38/71-73" rel="nofollow">)</a>.</p><p>When life itself is provision, then everything we hold in this dunya (world) must be understood with humility. Wealth is not proof of superior worth, harder work, or greater deservingness. It exists because Allah allows it to exist under divine decree. To hoard that provision while others are forced to compete for food, shelter, medicine, and safety is not success. It is moral corruption and spiritual bankruptcy.</p><p>This means nobody should be in a constant battle between solidarity and survival, or in a competition for basic necessities to earn a proper and dignified living. Nobody should go to sleep hungry, without a roof, or in pain from lack of medication, because nobody should hoard God’s provision.</p><p>With that being said, below are the requests from people asking for help with survival needs, rent, food, medicine, utilities, and everything else that enables us to live with dignity, all the things capitalism makes us compete with each other for while slowly eroding our humanity in the process.</p><p>Please read through the requests, support directly where possible, and share the requests that still need movement. The rest of the requests can be found under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116618586143459558" rel="nofollow">last week’s mutual aid checkpoint.</a></p><p>✨Mutual Aid Roundup✨</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@broodcoffee/116454754564011275" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@broodcoffee/116454754564011275"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@broodcoffee/1</span><span class="invisible">16454754564011275</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/116625917265753298" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/116625917265753298"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/</span><span class="invisible">116625917265753298</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blahaj.zone/notes/amn1yu4gg5mh0599" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blahaj.zone/notes/amn1yu4gg5mh0599"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blahaj.zone/notes/amn1yu4gg5mh</span><span class="invisible">0599</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blackqueer.life/@moo/116624589497182017" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blackqueer.life/@moo/116624589497182017"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blackqueer.life/@moo/116624589</span><span class="invisible">497182017</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116625506092353743" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116625506092353743"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/11</span><span class="invisible">6625506092353743</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116625456332856822" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/116625456332856822"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@ellespeaks/11</span><span class="invisible">6625456332856822</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/@kshernandez/116618871069837116" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="me.dm/@kshernandez/116618871069837116"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">me.dm/@kshernandez/11661887106</span><span class="invisible">9837116</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/@MaskedRyder/116619913296676282" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cyberpunk.lol/@MaskedRyder/116619913296676282"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cyberpunk.lol/@MaskedRyder/116</span><span class="invisible">619913296676282</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/@Bislick/116641442538377453" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mas.to/@Bislick/116641442538377453"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@Bislick/11664144253837</span><span class="invisible">7453</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dobrochna/116643130124280241" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@dobrochna/116643130124280241"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@dobrochna/116</span><span class="invisible">643130124280241</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@broodcoffee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>broodcoffee</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Toadlyturtle</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://blahaj.zone/@technocrow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>technocrow</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://blackqueer.life/@moo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>moo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ellespeaks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ellespeaks</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/@MaskedRyder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MaskedRyder</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://me.dm/@kshernandez" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kshernandez</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@Bislick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Bislick</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dobrochna" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dobrochna</span></a></span></p><p>✨Palestinian Campaign Spotlight✨</p><p>From Rubble to Hope: A Family’s Daring Survival</p><p>Layan’s mother needs post-operative care after a miscarriage and D&C, with no other income. Donate via Chuffed and boost her request. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Layan2002/116642064325363886" rel="nofollow">[View original post]</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Layan2002" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Layan2002</span></a></span></p><a href="https://chuffed.org/project/177144-from-rubble-to-hope-a-familys-daring-survival" rel="nofollow">Donate</a><p>I need your support to help my family get food and to continue my university studies</p><p>Help move Haya’s stalled campaign after a month without support; her family needs food and she needs to continue her studies. Donate via Chuffed. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@haya200/116635562051611292" rel="nofollow">[View original post]</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@haya200" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>haya200</span></a></span></p><a href="https://www.chuffed.org/project/178434-i-need-your-support-to-help-my-family-get-food-and-to-continue-my-university-studies" rel="nofollow">Donate</a><p>Gaza Verified Campaigns</p><p>The Gaza Verified team tracked 184 Palestinian campaigns that raised less than $200 in the past seven days. Please look through the thread and contribute within your capacity..<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gaza_verified_campaigns/116644997361560700" rel="nofollow">[View original post]</a></p><a href="https://gaza.onl" rel="nofollow">Gaza Verified Archive</a><p>Want the weekly roundup, plus occasional updates from yours truly, in your inbox? Subscribe to <a href="https://wrzky.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow">WRZKY Weekly Dispatch.</a></p><p>A Note Before You Go</p><p>Every week, I collect mutual aid requests that show up under my Friday mutual aid checkpoint on the fediverse. This is a small attempt on my part, and a continuation of my weekly checkpoint on my previous main platform, which should not be named. This is just another node in the vast digital mutual aid community, to make solidarity as borderless as possible and mutual aid requests easier to follow, share, and return to.</p><p>I know I don’t have to do this, but please allow me to apologise for being late to publish this week’s checkpoint roundup article and newsletter. We’re in the second week of the mutual aid amplification project on the fediverse, yet I’m already late publishing the weekly article. I don’t have any excuse other than I really forgot to set this up before focusing on my ibadah, on top of stabilising the ActivityPub relay for the past week, while also catching up with my <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116644537967202130" rel="nofollow">anime rewatch</a>. Unforgivable.</p><p>If last week’s roundup seemed rushed, that’s because it was. It genuinely was. Please bear with me while I’m slowly getting used to the rhythm of work and quality that I set up for myself within my own project framework. Yes, I can hear my AuDHD brain battling against emotional regulation and integrity while typing that.</p><p>Eventually, I will form a team to sustain this project together with me, and this whole project will finally be where it belongs: <a href="https://mutualaidspace.org" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mutualaidspace.org</a> (formerly <a href="https://mutualaid.wrzky.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mutualaid.wrzky.com</a>). My personal website here will return to functioning as my digital identity, portfolio, and virtual homebase on Bisan’s internet.</p><p>Thank you for reading this far. Feel free to drop me<a href="https://wrzky.com/contact" rel="nofollow">an emai</a>l with your thoughts or advice, if any. And <a href="https://threads.net/intent/post?text=https%3A%2F%2Fwrzky.com%2Fmutual-aid-checkpoint-roundup-27-05-2026%2F" rel="nofollow">don’t forget to share this article where my presence is unwanted and where mutual aid requests get labeled as e-begging</a>.</p><p>See you around. </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ovo.st/club/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disability</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> <span 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<p>Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org</p><p>PLUS!! If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror, there is a special <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Locusmag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Locusmag</span></a></span> festival for the Locus Awards on Friday and Saturday during BABF, so be sure to check that out too! <a href="https://locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards-weekend/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards-weekend/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards</span><span class="invisible">-weekend/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sfba/" rel="tag">#sfba</a></p>

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<p>A Review of Afterglow - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-afterglow-climate-fiction-for-future-ancestors/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-afterglow-climate-fiction-for-future-ancestors/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-af</span><span class="invisible">terglow-climate-fiction-for-future-ancestors/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="/tags/hopepunk/" rel="tag">#HopePunk</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</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>

Book cover for Afterglow - Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors by Grist. Image on cover is a drawing of an alien with a small, curled snout who is holding a shovel and standing on a pink, blue, and yellow surface that seems to have vegetation of those colours, too.

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<p>Love Language</p><p>The undying dream of Esperanto</p><p>by Katie Thornton</p><p><a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2026/06/love-language-katie-thornton-esperanto/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KSQ7JVHVABAKFRY3CGXJYDZ0&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="harpers.org/archive/2026/06/love-language-katie-thornton-esperanto/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KSQ7JVHVABAKFRY3CGXJYDZ0&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">harpers.org/archive/2026/06/lo</span><span class="invisible">ve-language-katie-thornton-esperanto/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KSQ7JVHVABAKFRY3CGXJYDZ0&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Books in Esperanto at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/34" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/34"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/34</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

The Esperantist, Complete

Editor: H. Bolingbroke Mudie

The cover of The Esperantist, Vol. I (Nov. 1903 – Dec. 1904), published at Norfolk Street, Strand, London. The ornate black-and-white design features a central star — the symbol of the Esperanto movement — surrounded by circular medallions depicting the continents of the world. A small portrait, likely of L.L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, appears at the centre bottom.

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<p>43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language<br>From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian</p><p>by Emily Temple</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/43-of-the-most-iconic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KVN7055WWMVWMPK8VZ5RACV2&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/43-of-the-most-iconic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KVN7055WWMVWMPK8VZ5RACV2&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/43-of-the-most-icon</span><span class="invisible">ic-short-stories-in-the-english-language/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KVN7055WWMVWMPK8VZ5RACV2&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Some Iconic Short Stories at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60976" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60976</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/375" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/375</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1952" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1952</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27411" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27411</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12122" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12122</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7256" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7256</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

Cover image of the book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and translated by David Wyllie.

It features an illustration of a distressed man covering his face near an open door, evoking the story's themes of horror and alienation.

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<p>Just finished this one.</p><p>A couple of factual inaccuracies (no, 'G' in physics does not mean 100 times your weight - it is earth's gravitational constant 'g' in this context, and yes, chimps do actually teach one another), plus some idiocy no fault of the author (chimps don't understand 'zero' dear researchers, true, but neither did humans until a millennium or so ago)...</p><p>But overall, a well-researched informative read - highly recommend. </p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/chimpanzee/" rel="tag">#chimpanzee</a></p>

The cover of Jon Cohen's 'Almost Chimpanzee' subtitled 'Redrawing the Lines that Separate Us from Them'.

The title and subtitle are cream and red respectively, displayed over the image of a chimp seen from behind, his dark fur shimmering in silhouette against a black background, the formidable compact musculature of his neck and shoulders as striking as the pale tips of his ears.

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<p>Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years ago</p><p>The Blazing World is a testament to how far the written novel has travelled in the past 400 years. A literary time capsule, it holds within it the origins of a genre we now call speculative fiction.</p><p>by Donna Mazza</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-margaret-cavendishs-the-blazing-world-pioneered-speculative-fiction-400-years-ago-263329" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-margaret-cavendishs-the-blazing-world-pioneered-speculative-fiction-400-years-ago-263329"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/guide-to-t</span><span class="invisible">he-classics-margaret-cavendishs-the-blazing-world-pioneered-speculative-fiction-400-years-ago-263329</span></a></p><p>Books by Margaret Cavendish at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46554" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46554"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/46554</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womeninart/" rel="tag">#WomenInArt</a></p>

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
by Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle

An open 17th-century book showing a engraved frontispiece opposite a title page.An open 17th-century book showing a engraved frontispiece opposite a title page. The title page reads "The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, the Duchesse of Newcastle. London, Printed by A. Maxwell, in the Year M.DC.LX.VIII" (1668). The engraving depicts a crowned central female figure flanked by armoured attendants beneath an ornate arch — likely representing the Empress of the Blazing World.

Transcription:
Here on this Figure Cast a Glance.
But so as if it were by Chance,
Your eyes not fixt, they must not Stay,
Since this like Shadowes to the Day
It only represent's; for Still,
Her Beauty's found beyond the Skill
Of the best Paynter, to Imbrace
These lovely Lines within her face.
View her Soul's Picture, Judgment, witt,
Then read those Lines which Shee hath writt,
By Phancy's Pencill drawne alone
Which Peces but Shee, can justly owne.

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<p>Would any writer or aspiring want to collaborate on a sort of coffee table book? A us political satire maybe 50 years in the future a picture book for highschool kids (by that time Idiocrasy will have completely made itself at home)</p><p>Working title 'let's not do that again' pictoral snapshots starting@ the escalator.</p><p>More details in alt boost if you like this idea to help me find a writer. I sent the idea to trump; I heard he was very enthusiastic.</p><p>Boosts 🙏 <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>

the oval office from a high fish eye angle showing a distorted fathead sitting at OUR resolute desk ruining our country. The room is completely spattered with ketchup but looks like a murder scene as well.

What I am looking for writing is just a few sentences to set the situation that is depicted, a brief explanation of why the image is relevant what was going on I just do not have the emotional bandwidth to stick myself back there go thru it again. Not that is if I can find someone else why wants to take the trip down memory lane in Morder for me. Still with me? Keep reading the alts.

This is my imagining of the remodel of the Reflecting Pond in dc. a huge trashy over done yet cheap combination street fair swap meet exhibition where platform divers off the Washington Monument and synchronized swimmers cavort in the water with orcas dolphins a couple of frogmen no doubt spying on the synch swimmers and a couple of submarines. Fireworks spell out his name as vendors hawk games cheap food and the Lincoln Memorial is reduced to a changing towel room.

what I am looking for is just a few lines what was happening how we felt about it told to a stupid person who has no idea with as much fun and sarcasm you want to throw at it. What started me thinking this was the ads running for using ai (we will NOT BE USING AI) to print shit books on Amazon kindle. Well what if we publish an actual book on kindle? we can start with just a few pages see if we get any response positive feedback from here what do you think?

This is the Arch he wants so bad reimagined as his actual Triumph; the mountain of paperwork his crimes marriages frauds bankruptcies have created.

2016 escalator ride was I think the first one of these I made for the anti trump pages in facebook. I continued on this tack but I had a great job a401K and a future. A demanding bf house yard animals my days were full. 12 hour overnights building these massive multimillion $$$$ machines for Intel and the other chip makers. I had savings no debt 401k kicking car. All all gone.

the photoshop became my only outlet during covid which caused me to lose all of the above. The photoshops were a way to keep connection to humanity so exploded, plus all that time suddenly on my hands. And then stopped for 4 years pretty much.

Then it started up again for some reason now I do this pretty much full time.

So far all the ideas are pretty much mine, but this was a special request by @staringatclouds so she will need credit when we are winning our pulitzer. I had already done two pages of art poking at his ridiculous godchristdoctor bullshit ai he posted but someone said what if he was instead of healing, smothering and picking his pocket. I went with a smothering the statue of liberty the model of which was a guy dressed as the statue from a gay pride parade I found. He will need credit as well. Hope to hear from at least one person that thinks this may be a fun project. I am almost always here, esp for hashtaggames. im in oregon if that makes any difference though I am perfectly happy with someone outside us wanting to make a fool of our pres.

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<p>RE: <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/116610861214203983"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mendeddrum.org/@Pratchat/11661</span><span class="invisible">0861214203983</span></a></p><p>Pratchat has a whole back catalogue of excellent discussions about <a href="/tags/terrypratchett/" rel="tag">#TerryPratchett</a> and <a href="/tags/discworld/" rel="tag">#Discworld</a>, but they don't understand the importance of overusing <a href="/tags/hashtags/" rel="tag">#hashtags</a> in the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a>, so you might have missed them.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#satire</a></p>

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<p>Shel Silverstein is famous for his children’s poetry and illustrations. </p><p>In poem Lazy Jane the word "rain" hovers just above Jane’s open mouth, as the string of words above it seems to represent the trickle of water she longs for.</p><p><a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#Love</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poet/" rel="tag">#poet</a> <a href="/tags/silverstein/" rel="tag">#Silverstein</a> <a href="/tags/graficpoem/" rel="tag">#graficpoem</a> <a href="/tags/poems/" rel="tag">#poems</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/poemaday/" rel="tag">#poemaday</a> <a href="/tags/poetrycommunity/" rel="tag">#poetrycommunity</a> <a href="/tags/pictures/" rel="tag">#pictures</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#readersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookish/" rel="tag">#bookish</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/bookclub/" rel="tag">#bookclub</a> <a href="/tags/readit/" rel="tag">#readit</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/rain/" rel="tag">#rain</a> <a href="/tags/booklovers/" rel="tag">#booklovers</a> <a href="/tags/lazyjane/" rel="tag">#LazyJane</a></p>

Lazy Jane

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<p>Manga folk: If you are a big fan of Naoki Urasawa, best known for his "Monster" series (Incredible!) you will be glad to know that his collaborative work with Takashi Nagasaki: the "Billy Bat" series, is finally being released in English. </p><p>Vol 1 is out. Other volumes are available for pre-order. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/comics/" rel="tag">#comics</a> <a href="/tags/manga/" rel="tag">#Manga</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <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><a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-kana-release-naoki-urasawa-takashi-nagasaki-billy-bat-english/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-kana-release-naoki-urasawa-takashi-nagasaki-billy-bat-english/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-k</span><span class="invisible">ana-release-naoki-urasawa-takashi-nagasaki-billy-bat-english/</span></a></p>

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