books

<p>Still reading <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/11269424" rel="nofollow">Cold Days</a> by Jim Butcher, the 14th book in Dresden Files series.</p><p>Had a busy week so couldn’t get much reading done, about halfway through though.</p><p>What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?</p><p>For details on the c/Books bingo challenge that just restarted for the year, you can checkout the initial <a href="https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.world/post/28953205" rel="nofollow">Book Bingo</a>, and its <a href="https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.world/post/28953205" rel="nofollow">Recommendation Post</a>. Links are also present in our community sidebar.</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://discuss.online/post/30715697">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>Welcome to year’s first weekly thread! How are you all doing? And what are you book / reading related resolutions for this year?</p><p>I started <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/30205807/" rel="nofollow">Ultra-processed Food</a> by Chris van Tulleken</p><p>Just started it, but looks like an interesting read. It’s about the ultra-processed food we eat these days.</p><p>Also skimming through Ryder Caroll’s <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/22205950/" rel="nofollow">The Bullet Journal Method</a>. Read this last year (or was that year before that?) and wanted to check something but decided to skim through most of it.</p><p>Still reading <a href="https://www.librarything.com/work/15782979/" rel="nofollow">The Bands of Mourning</a> by Brandon Sanderson, 3rd book in the 2nd era of Mistborn. It was going great but didn’t get to read much last week or so, should be getting back to it now.</p><p>What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?</p><p>For details on the c/Books bingo challenge that just restarted for the year, you can checkout the initial <a href="https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.world/post/28953205" rel="nofollow">Book Bingo</a>, and its <a href="https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.world/post/28953205" rel="nofollow">Recommendation Post</a>. Links are also present in our community sidebar.</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://discuss.online/post/33394126">See Original Page</a> </small>

<div class="article-body"> <p>Reblogged via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116500711108481075" rel="nofollow">Wanda</a></p><p><p>hmmmm I think I can finally hold another mutual aid checkpoint again, and this time, insha’Allah, I can also make a weekly roundup on my website, delivered via <a href="https://wrzky.com" rel="nofollow">@posts</a> to the fediverse.</p><p>Entries will be listed on a first-reply, first-listed basis, capped at the first 10 replies. The rest of the requests can still be viewed on the original checkpoint post.</p><p>That way, requests from the week can reach more people and stay visible longer in people’s feeds.</p><p>As long as your reply/post visibility is set to Public, I can embed it in the website roundup.</p><p>Also, I remembered that I already had a newsletter set up, actually lol. Got some subscribers even. So I can send the weekly update to your inbox as well uwu 😽</p><p>All in all, your girl is now somewhat levelling up in her self-taught techie thingy ahahahah. I’m proud of myself. I can’t believe I was so emo about being permanently banned from a bigoted platform that hates the dispossessed community a few weeks ago. Yuck. I’m so sorry I forgot I was a baddie.</p><p>And if one of my posts ever shows up on Threads someday, that’d be fediverse plumbing, not me being on that platform. Yuck 🤢</p></p><p> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116500711108481075" rel="nofollow">Post by @wrzky@kolektiva.social View on Mastodon</a> </p> <p>Wait a minute! Who are you?</p><p>I’m an independent political writer based in the Global South. Otherwise known as a multitalented disabled cryptid gal™, professionally hating on Western imperialism with finesse nobody else possesses—except that’s a lie.</p><p>There are others just as good, even better than me. But just like me, they are not the priority for Big Tech platforms’ algorithms, which centre empire inhabitants.</p><p>Nobody is naïve enough to believe in meritocracy in a world where history was written by those who, by the 16th century, had abandoned basic hygiene while declaring themselves the height of civilisation and gearing up for another go at Muslim empires and sultanates for delusional and abhorrent civilising purposes in search of spice and half a brain, just to paint the Ottoman Empire as a single brutal entity across the entire 600+ years of its era. Yet here we are. Anything to launder the violent legacy of European imperialism, really. Pathetic. But I digress. You’ll see this kind of contempt from me often though. It will not die down anytime soon.</p><p>There are many who claim an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-fascist political stance, but only a few who don’t impose a Western lens onto every corner of the world, to the point that it becomes hilariously devastating every time I have to put them in their proper place: the sole of imperial boots. </p><p>There are people who are more knowledgeable and expert than me in every way imaginable. I won’t argue about that; I know my own limitations. But I know for a fact that only a few share the same level of insights as me and the people from my demographic: an abused, disabled Muslim woman in the Global South with class consciousness and a propensity to commit misandry unrepentantly—until men admit their complicity in their own oppression under male supremacy and capitalism, and will do it with bismillah.</p><p>There are others who are better equipped and well supported than me. But only a few have the willingness, clarity, and vision to realise what I have in mind.</p><p>There are many who long for a community, but only a few who understand how to be in community. There are many who long for a revolution, but only a few who are willing to make peace with discomfort, instability, and uncertainty.</p><p>All this tangential talk is basically to give you a glimpse of my politics, moral language, and worldview, which are purely hostile to Western imperialism and men. So I suggest you don’t try me.</p><p>• • •</p><p>The somewhat formal introduction is on my <a href="https://wrzky.com/about" rel="nofollow">About</a>page, and the more unseriously serious version is in my featured post:</p><p> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116362344939423095" rel="nofollow">Post by @wrzky@kolektiva.social View on Mastodon</a> </p> <p>(<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116328226398095352" rel="nofollow">Also, that damn emo post.</a>)</p><p>Speaking of being disabled, that is the reason I focus all my energy on organising and building an alternative network of care intentionally and internationally. I used to work in tech—just admin and customer service work, basically fancy tech support—but it was disabling nonetheless. Not the role; it’s just what capitalism does. My autism, ADHD, and the string of comorbid mental illnesses from abusive and traumatic days throughout my first three decades weren’t made for capitalism.</p><p>However, my brain was made for something greater than the cancer that is capitalism. So when I said I’m multitalented, I meant that sh*t. Not based on fancy academic or professional experience and whatnot. I’m just constantly upskilling myself out of necessity. Which kind of explains why I can do what I can do.</p><p>That said, I made these for my weekly checkpoint, btw. Nothing fancy. Just enough to send out a bat signal for Meta to ban me from all realms permanently lol. </p>Regular mutual aid checkpoint cover image Mutual aid checkpoint cover image Ramadhan version<p>I also made these just because. </p>Mutual aid is solidarity, not charity.Digital spaces can help connect liberation struggles across borders.A critique of how privilege distorts views on solidarity.Collective care becomes power when organised.Not everyone gives the same way, every contribution counts.<p>Feel free to use them with credit, and don’t use them for commercial purposes.</p><p>So, anyways, this was supposed to be a short announcement post, but I guess I just wanted to yap in the hope that our community can grow and we can establish a massive and robust global network of care slowly but surely.</p><p>Ambitious or delusional? I call it vision.</p><p>Aight then, see you around. 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