Oh, there's something like #portfolioDay ! Okay, so, I'm an #author, #podcast host and data privacy expert with a strong focus on #ITsecurity awareness. I write #nonfiction, crime and #scifi in German and English. The last two years I mainly spent with making #books and podcasts for others, like the lovely Eltville #WeinSchreibereien anthology and podcast.
Hi guys!
I’m new to mastodon and the fediverse. I’m still trying to figure things out but so far this seems pretty cool!
Here is a list of my interests:
#kpop
#kdrama
#anime
#manga
#genshinimpact
#books
#nonfiction
I am also a part of the #lgbtq community and came here because of #tiktok
I hope to find lots of friends so if you follow me i’ll follow you back!
Here is my #introduction because I’m #newhere.
Like so many others, I’m a refugee from Meta/X. Mastodon is giving me some hope that I might find a #community in social media. Happily married. Resident of Florida but currently on slow travel in Costa Rica. My passions are: #writing – my web site (link in profile) has info on my novels and occasional #popculture essays - #movies , #reading #fiction and #nonfiction , and #photography
I look forward to connecting with the Mastodon community!
Kerry Ferrand is a New Zealander making book review videos, covering both fiction and non-fiction. You can follow at:
There are already seven videos uploaded, you can browse them all at https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/videos
The videos have subtitles in English, click CC to see them.
#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Fiction #NonFiction #NewZealand #PeerTube #PeerTubers
Updated my PodRoll to include some favorite nonfiction podcasts and Let’s Play’s in audio only formats. https://sightlessscribbles.com/podroll/ #LetsPlay #Gaming #Podcast #Podcasts #Audio #Nonfiction #IndieWeb #Podroll #PodRoll
Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time: https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/
#Books #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #ScienceFiction #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge
Four stars:
Mummy Brown: The Complete Color Profile by Ryan Demaree (2019) is a short account of one man's quest to recreate a discontinued color. The color was a dark brown that had poor drying qualities and was used for tinting of flesh tones. It was also made out of mummified human or cat flesh.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/mummy_brown.html
A new #Introduction for my 1-year anniversary on Mastodon. I find Mastodon much more welcoming than those corporate owned social media platforms. Currently living in beautiful #France with my lovely wife. I mostly share my love of #Movies and #Photography . I also love #Reading #Fiction (one of my 2026 projects is a slow re-read of Les Miserables) and #NonFiction and I do some #Writing on #Creativity and pop culture. Basically if you’re a decent person, I’m happy to connect here.
📚 Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It by: Ellen Jones
An eye-opening and essential look at the discrimination still faced by LGBTQIA+ people today, woven throughout with moving and jaw-dropping personal accounts, plus practical steps anyone can take to help change things...
https://bookblabla.com/book/Outrage-why-the-fight-for-LGBT
#books #reading #libraries #nonfiction #lgbtq #socialscience #discrimination
#AynRand’s original introduction to _The Virtue of Selfishness_ is now online—and it *directly contradicts* most of the claims people make about her #ethics.
If your picture of Rand comes from social media threads, YouTube rants, or second-hand “hot takes,” this is the text that breaks the spell: https://courses.aynrand.org/works/introduction-to-virtue-of-selfishness/
Let’s clear out the biggest straw men right away:
❌ “Rand said selfishness means hurting people.”
No. She argues that rational self‑interest forbids coercion, exploitation, and parasitism. Predators aren’t “selfish”—they’re short‑range, self‑destructive, and irrational.
❌ “It’s just an excuse to do whatever you want.”
She draws a hard boundary between whim and #reason. Her ethics demands long‑range thinking, integrity, and principled action — the opposite of impulse.
❌ “#Objectivism celebrates cruelty.”
The introduction explicitly rejects cruelty as irrational. Benevolence is not only compatible with #egoism—it’s a natural expression of a rational, confident person.
❌ “Rand denies moral principles.”
She denies sacrifice as a moral ideal. She does not deny #morality. She argues for a code rooted in reality, reason, and the requirements of human life.
If you want to understand the argument instead of the mythology, read the primary source—it’s short, sharp, and surprisingly accessible.
For context on the full book, editions, and themes: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-virtue-of-selfishness/
#philosophy #individualism #reading #nonfiction #ideas #bookstodon
finished reading Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Ed Conway.
A high-octane tour through the materials that underlie our civilisation: sand, salt, steel, copper, oil & lithium. So many intriguing side notes that sent me off down rabbit holes (African ghost miners!). Really brings home the mammoth scale, complexity & interconnectedness of these critical industries that we take for granted. But also highlights their fragility, the environmental damage they cause, and the immense difficulty of reforming them to be sustainable.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #NonFiction #MaterialsScience
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
I’ve just finished reading a fascinating book about 3 women who rose to the top of the fashion retail business in the U.S., my favourite being Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel’s who brought the store back to life as a place for exclusive fashion in the 1960s #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #audiobook #NonFiction @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/51547c6d-601e-4d56-af35-7f9e9c567326
📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**
“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-human/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons @bookstodon @histodons
The Dogs of Mariupol: Russia’s Invasion and the Forging of Ukraine’s Iron Generation by Tom Mutch, 2025
It painstakingly documents the immense human catastrophe wrought on Ukrainian society and the divisions between those who fought and those who fled.
@bookstodon
@ukraine
#books
#nonfiction
#Ukraine
#Mariupol
Picked up this book from the used bin of my local bookstore yesterday: You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier. Written in 2010 but very prescient and relevant to our current techno cultural world. It examines the ways in which software and technology shape thought and society.
#BookStodon #nonfiction #technology
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finished reading Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Tim Harford.
The importance of randomness & spontaneity in creativity & problem-solving. Plans, order & rationality are often counter-productive! So don't beat yourself up about meeting simplistic measures of performance. The tech discussion is a bit dated, but the principles are extremely relevant to AI. Ginormous gender blind-spot.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #Productivity #Creativity
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
#MustRead #book #BookReview #NonFiction #Privatized #outsourcing #ProfitsOverPeople #Britain https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-state-for-sale-how-britain-privatised-itself-into-failure/
🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**
"_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/.
#Economy #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @economics @bookstodon
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the School of English, University of St Andrews are offering a Joseph Bell Writer’s residency. The residency is open to writers or researchers in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, screenplay, literary and/or historical scholarship, life-writing and medical humanities.
Closing date: 12 noon, 6 March 2026
#Scottish #literature #writers #medicalhumanities #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #drama #screenplay #screenwriting
