Not sure what are reddit friends for anyway. And in general the point of a new account is to see fresh communities/person. I don’t think you can import reddit to lemmy anyway
“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick flowers in other people’s gardens And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
Check out the FBI's files on the mathematician Paul Erdős! You may know him as the author of 500 math papers, endlessly traveling and collaborating. But to the FBI he seemed suspicious, because he came from behind the Iron Curtain, got caught poking around a secret radio tower in 1941, worked with a mathematician from China, and refused to take a loyalty oath.
In 1954 he was barred from re-entering US after going to Amsterdam to address the International Congress of Mathematics. But 5 years later he was granted a visa after Hubert Humphrey intervened on his behalf.
The FBI eventually decided he was ”purely a mathematician with typical atmospheric mind as related to factual things.... a genius type who lives within his own mental scope".
The FBI eventually decided he was ”purely a mathematician with typical atmospheric mind as related to factual things.... a genius type who lives within his own mental scope".
That’s just a 1950s way of saying he was @actuallyautistic isn’t it?
In 2008 kwam ik op Twitter. Francisco van Jole had het aangeraden. Ik snapte de lol niet meteen, maar toen ik het doorhad vond ik het leuk. Zo leuk dat ik er in 2010 de stekker uittrok omdat ik er voor mijn gevoel teveel mee bezig was. Daarna nog een keer een account gehad en dáárna de derde begonnen, in '13. Maar nu anders: ik ben vanaf het begin mensen gaan blokken die ik stom vond. Dat hielp nog steeds niet veel. Toen heb ik besloten om op Twitter de automatische plaatsing van onze cartoons >
@Esssie31 ja dat soort dingen mis ik nog wel op Mastodon. Op Twitter hadden we elke twee weken op woensdag een taalspelletje, Twidioom. En een leesclub, Leestweeps. Echt leuk. @JeanMarcvanTol
@josgeluk@Esssie31@JeanMarcvanTol Leestweeps was leuk! Misschien zijn er mensen die @boeken volgen die dat willen? Ik ben zelf bij twee leesclubs via Whatsapp en ook eentje irl, dus dat is wel genoeg…
@_tillwe_ Ich weiss, kenne dich ja nicht nur über deinen Vater (und meine Partei) sondern auch über dein Blog. ;-) Atrix Wolfe von ihr sollte dir auch gefallen. Meine befreundete SF/Fantasy Autorin Verena Themsen würde übrigens sagen dass du als SF-Fan unbedingt "Fools Run" von ihr lesen müsstest, das sei vielleicht ihr bestes Buch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_Run#ScienceFiction#Fantasy@buchstodon
Time for #RomanceReviews 22, which shall be Caged Wolf by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. I picked this based on the very exacting process of seeing it in the similar books section of Crazed Candy by Leigh Kelsey (which was absolutely unhinged and hilarious, make no mistake).
I think this is going to be a mildly dark romance where a young werewolf gets herself sent to prison to follow her Maybe True Love and then things rapidly devolve into a reverse harem situation.
So it obviously checks out on paper, let's give it a go!
TL;DR
I am invested, they can't sit with us but the author can!
OK, so usually these dark romantasy series where you're meant to get hooked and read the entire series piss me off (because they aren't fulfilling enough on their own: it just feels like a tease). However, I hate two of our male leads and I still want to know what happens next. 😂
This turned out to be a mildly dark reverse harem romance with lots of heist-type action in a prison setting.
I loved:
here we have a female character who is a badass, has sex with men, and remains a badass. Suzanne Wright, take note.
the male love interests are distinct characters and their relationships with Rosalie are also distinct, which takes some chops in a RH romance.
Rosalie arrives at tortured but not defeated, which again is a fine line to walk.
The authors did a great job of portraying the complex power dynamics between guards and prisoners and between the prisoners.
There were so many violent smartasses in one place, and they reminded me of real people I know who've been incarcerated.
The authors handled the rollercoaster of Cain and Rosalie's relationship really well, I love that they weren't afraid to commit to making a guard a real bastard. This book didn't seem like it was trying to make any particular point about the prison system, but it was definitely not a Pollyanna take. Abolition now!
I can't wait to read the next one.
most notable content warnings: attempted rape, prison sexual harassment is rife including from guards, nonconsensual touching and kissing between main characters, medical experimentation, abuse between main characters.
Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks
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Analysis of the opportunities and limits of decentralized networks as a resource to overcome the problems of traditional social networks and the resilience of these networks as a tool to fight disinformation and censorship