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<p>New <a href="/tags/intro/" rel="tag">#intro</a>!</p><p>I’m a hyperjack musician, writer &amp; video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia. </p><p>My website <a href="https://meljoann.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>meljoann.com</a> includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast &amp; leaving mainstream social media. </p><p>Some stuff I love: </p><p><a href="/tags/musicproduction/" rel="tag">#musicProduction</a> <a href="/tags/videoproduction/" rel="tag">#videoProduction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/experimentalmusic/" rel="tag">#experimentalMusic</a> <a href="/tags/electronicmusic/" rel="tag">#electronicMusic</a> <a href="/tags/randb/" rel="tag">#RandB</a> <a href="/tags/earlymusic/" rel="tag">#earlyMusic</a> <a href="/tags/improvisedmusic/" rel="tag">#improvisedMusic</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/knitting/" rel="tag">#knitting</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#scienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/alternativecomedy/" rel="tag">#alternativeComedy</a> <a href="/tags/anarchism/" rel="tag">#anarchism</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>

<p>In September, I put in a purchase request for Enshittification at the library. In October, I was notified that Aarhus library now has it in stock. I reserved the audiobook. I just got a notification that it&#x27;s ready for me to borrow. In one click, I have borrowed it. The library&#x27;s simple, free, reader-oriented process is like the opposite of enshittification.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#Libraries</a> <br><a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#Enshittification</a></p>

<p>AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality.</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/its-getting-harder-to-spot-ai-in-contemporary-publishing-and-thats-very-very-bad/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/its-getting-harder-to-spot-ai-in-contemporary-publishing-and-thats-very-very-bad/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/its-getting-harder-</span><span class="invisible">to-spot-ai-in-contemporary-publishing-and-thats-very-very-bad/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/edition/" rel="tag">#edition</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/lithub/" rel="tag">#lithub</a> <a href="/tags/litterature/" rel="tag">#litterature</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve never read any Richard K. Morgan, but watching the brilliant Netflix show Alerted Carbon and reading about him and the books definitely want to read the series.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Morgan" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Morgan"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richar</span><span class="invisible">d_K._Morgan</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

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<p>Just in case, like me, you&#x27;re in need of something wholesome to start a new week: Betty&#x27;s Reading Room by the dock in Tingwall, Orkney.</p><p>Apparently set up by a couple in memory of their late friend Betty Prictor - a place for folk to hang out while waiting for the Rousay ferry and really just the loveliest memorial I can imagine.</p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> Virginia Woolf&#x27;s Mrs. Dalloway was published.</p><p>What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025</p><p>by Mia Manzulli</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/what-a-plunge-teaching-mrs-dalloway-to-high-schoolers-in-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/what-a-plunge-teaching-mrs-dalloway-to-high-schoolers-in-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/what-a-plunge-teach</span><span class="invisible">ing-mrs-dalloway-to-high-schoolers-in-2025/</span></a></p><p>Mrs. Dalloway at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71865" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71865</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Skirting Danger by: Kay Keppler</p><p>Suspended for a hunch gone wrong, CIA language analyst Phoebe Renfrew is desperate to get her job back. But when she uncovers a terrorist plot at a Las Vegas start-up car company owned by famed ex-quarterback Chase Bonaventure, no one listens to her. </p><p>The CIA doesn&#x27;t care, the FBI is too busy, and th...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/skirting-danger" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/skirting-danger"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/skirting-d</span><span class="invisible">anger</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/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/romanticcomedy/" rel="tag">#romanticcomedy</a></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library:<br>- I expanded my collection of <a href="/tags/tolkien/" rel="tag">#Tolkien</a> books with The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien&#x27;s Creation from W.W. Norton<br>- I used my employer&#x27;s Christmas voucher to buy a copy of Simon Parkin&#x27;s The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege from Sceptre (look out for a review in due course).<br>- I also found a second-hand copy of What Is Regeneration? from the University of Chicago Press. </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/tolkien/" rel="tag">#Tolkien</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/developmentalbiology/" rel="tag">#DevelopmentalBiology</a> <a href="/tags/seedbank/" rel="tag">#SeedBank</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#Botany</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>&quot;Then she opens the book like she’s raising the lid of a treasure chest. Each illuminated psalm is vibrant as a sunrise. She pictures the monk who copied the verse and decorated the margins, but instead of ink, she imagines him dipping his quill in the colors of bluebirds and holly berries and bright spring moss.&quot; ~~ from &#x27;Canticle&#x27; by Janet Rich Edwards</p><p><a href="/tags/bookquote/" rel="tag">#BookQuote</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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>📚 The Road to Roswell: A Novel by: Connie Willis</p><p>When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate&#x27;s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one.</p><p>Odder still, he...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-road-to-roswell-a-novel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-road-to-roswell-a-novel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-road-t</span><span class="invisible">o-roswell-a-novel</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></p>

<p>On the Calculation of Volume, III. By Solvege Balle (trans by S Smith and J Russell) </p><p>part 3 of 7 - spoilers if you haven’t read prior ones!</p><p>You are still trapped repeating the same day in November, now for three plus years, and you can’t bear to interact with your unaware loved ones and friends; when suddenly you meet another entrapped person, you are joyful, but then it gets complicated.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 </p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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/time/" rel="tag">#time</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a></p>

<p>English mathematician Henry Briggs died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1630.</p><p>He is notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD. Historically&#x27;, the &quot;common logarithm&quot; was known by its Latin name logarithmus decimalis or logarithmus decadis.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Briggs_(mathematician)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Briggs_(mathematician)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Br</span><span class="invisible">iggs_(mathematician)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

<p>Today is Nabokov’s birthday.</p><p>A serious butterfly specialist and a brilliant <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> professor in the US, famous for his lectures.</p><p>Speaking of Lolita: he did not write a <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a>. He wrote a chilling masterclass in manipulation and self-justification.</p><p>Predators like <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#Epstein</a> crave beautiful alibis. <a href="/tags/nabokov/" rel="tag">#Nabokov</a> offers none. He gives us a liar so eloquent that the <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#readers</a> has to struggle not to be deceived.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/today/" rel="tag">#today</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#writer</a> <br><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/birthday/" rel="tag">#birthday</a></p>

<p>“Multitudes” is a <a href="/tags/haiku/" rel="tag">#haiku</a> from Library on Fire, my 3rd volume of <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> available at <a href="https://www.nihtgengapress.com/product/library-on-fire" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nihtgengapress.com/product/library-on-fire"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nihtgengapress.com/product</span><span class="invisible">/library-on-fire</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/indie/" rel="tag">#indie</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a></p>

<p>Thank you, Dolly Parton! ❤️</p><p>&quot;Dolly Parton-led program has mailed 4 million free books to Oregon children&quot;</p><p>gift link = <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2026/03/dolly-parton-led-program-has-mailed-4-million-free-books-to-oregon-children.html?gift=af5b6381-5b86-4f84-a193-dd6771784d45" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.oregonlive.com/education/2026/03/dolly-parton-led-program-has-mailed-4-million-free-books-to-oregon-children.html?gift=af5b6381-5b86-4f84-a193-dd6771784d45"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.oregonlive.com/education/2</span><span class="invisible">026/03/dolly-parton-led-program-has-mailed-4-million-free-books-to-oregon-children.html?gift=af5b6381-5b86-4f84-a193-dd6771784d45</span></a></p><p>&quot;Oregon’s version of Imagination Library, an initiative launched by superstar Dolly Parton to send a free book each month to babies and preschoolers, recently mailed its 4 millionth book to an Oregon child.&quot;</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/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/freebooks/" rel="tag">#FreeBooks</a> <a href="/tags/preschool/" rel="tag">#Preschool</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/giftlink/" rel="tag">#GiftLink</a></p>

<p>Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster<br>A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic<br>My review of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@charliejane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>charliejane</span></a></span> &#x27;s book at the NOAF blog:</p><p><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>Updated my books page! <a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/fav-books/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sightlessscribbles.com/fav-books/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sightlessscribbles.com/fav-boo</span><span class="invisible">ks/</span></a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</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>Reading Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. I really have loved this book, I have a little over 100 pages left. The stories are amazing. </p><p>However, I do suggest not reading before going to sleep at night. I woke up this morning saying &quot;what the motherfucking hell&quot; after the dreams I had. </p><p>@bookstodon<br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/33895757">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times</p><p>Is there any past work of fiction that can help us make sense of today’s troubling trends? </p><p>By Laura Hood</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/nineteen-eighty-four-and-brave-new-world-should-be-read-in-tandem-to-understand-todays-troubled-times-253872" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/nineteen-eighty-four-and-brave-new-world-should-be-read-in-tandem-to-understand-todays-troubled-times-253872"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/nineteen-e</span><span class="invisible">ighty-four-and-brave-new-world-should-be-read-in-tandem-to-understand-todays-troubled-times-253872</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Are we reading Machiavelli wrong?</p><p>What we’re missing in Machiavelli’s The Prince, explained by an expert.</p><p>by Sean Illing</p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/414753/machiavelli-prince-authoritarian-critique-political-philosophy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.vox.com/the-gray-area/414753/machiavelli-prince-authoritarian-critique-political-philosophy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.vox.com/the-gray-area/4147</span><span class="invisible">53/machiavelli-prince-authoritarian-critique-political-philosophy</span></a></p><p>Machiavelli at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/2pC5GVbwxIekluxnnd9PVg" rel="nofollow">Every Secret Thing</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 <br>by Marie Munkara.</p><p>Mission mob vs bush mob in the Top End. Crude &amp; cutting humour, with occasional glimpses of the raw, traumatic truth of dispossession &amp; cultural genocide.</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> <a href="/tags/indigenousliterature/" rel="tag">#IndigenousLiterature</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>