Literature/policy/politics. Never caffeinated enough. Jill of many trades. Often document wild adventures in reading + binge-watching. (Posts๐๐ฝ purposefully useless & stream of consciousness.)
News-gatherers on Mastodon
Mastodon has become a great source for news and opinion. And for this we can thank a few wonderful news-gatherers who tirelessly roam the internet grazing on current events.
Short list of some top Mastodon news-gatherers for you to follow:
Laffy @GottaLaff - the amazing Laffy
Nonilex @Nonilex - great summaries
Sue Stone @knittingknots2 - an indefatigable gatherer
William Lindsey @wdlindsy - brilliant threads
Kriszta Satori @fulelo - international stories
Bertrand Russellโs Message to People Living in the Year 2959: โLove is Wise, Hatred is Foolishโ
https://www.openculture.com/2025/01/bertrand-russells-message-to-people-living-in-the-year-2959.html
Hmmm
โToday, Lehman says he still agrees with that diagnosis. โThe most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window,โ he said. โThat is absolutely false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is, and then moving to be in accordance with it.โ โ
From: @sarahf
https://mastodon.social/@sarahf/114720208413750278
Neither you, nor your views have shifted.
That damn Overton window has.
For gods sakes it's EE-RAHN, not AI-RAN
What would Kant say about not letting your cat eat a second dinner ๐ค #kant #philosophy #cats
Bottoms up
A bundle of Egyptian goslings having a rest in Dagnam Park, #London
Photograph: Ursula Armstrong
I try all things; I achieve what I can.
The world needs a short summer vacation.
โElect a Clown Expect a Circusโ
โLiterature, if one were to reduce it to anything so tawdry as a formula, was history multiplied by philosophy multiplied by life. I regarded my peers who had chosen to study mere facts at university rather than to be inducted into the glamorous mysteries of the human heart with some pity (an attitude I have still not entirely shaken off).โ
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One of the many reasons why I love getting second hand books.
Joseph Stalin is making a comeback in Russia.
https://tcnv.link/7rtIcpW
๐ blog! โBook Review: Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincentโ
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This is a charming travelogue through the confusing and contradictory world of measurement. It has a similar thesis to Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott and is infinitely easier to read than Inventing Temperature by Hasokโฆ
๐ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/book-review-beyond-measure-the-hidden-history-of-measurement-by-james-vincent/
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#BookReview #history
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https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face
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#privacy #anonymity #internet #infosec #cybersecurity #government #News #freedom
Beautiful rainy weather outside making him so productive and determined to do things that he is now fast asleep on an office chair!
#CatsOfMastodon #cats #sleepingcat #motivatedmonday #catstodon #whitey
When people talk about "survival of the fittest" or "the crime of empathy," I want clips like this to be pressed into the sides of those people's self-serving dumbfuck heads until they cave in.
The storied city: #Oxford in fiction. #Bookstodon https://wp.me/pezD85-q4
I'm going to request having all books featruing humans banned, on the grounds that humans are boring ๐๐
@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon
@scifi @bookbubble @humour
#Human #Ban #ToBeFair
#Book #Books #BookMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour
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#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
