Attention bookworms: What are people using to get information about good new books that are out there? I'm a huge fan of science fiction, for example, and I know there's got to be tons of good books I haven't read simply because I've never heard of them. Sometimes I'll go window shopping, basically searching Bookshare and Kindle for certain words, just to see what comes up, and doing that I do stumble across some books, but I know there's a ton I'm missing because I don't even know it exists. Boosts appreciated.
one of my big problems in life is that i'm not good at motivating myself to do things. left to my own devices, doing things—even things i enjoy—is sporadic at best.
music, drawing, learning programming—all these things i'm interested in, but struggle to follow through on, & it's very frustrating. i need externally-imposed structure to get anything done.
i always struggled with homework, but my grades were great otherwise (honors, AP, etc). eventually i started doing my homework in school, cause i just wouldn't get it done at home.
& i don't really know what to do about this, which is doubly frustrating.
Hi @neilhimself ! I'm a huge fan and an aspiring writer with a... less than satisfactory range of vocabulary. How does one learn new phrases and words and actually remember them?
What a fucking BOOK holy heck.
I’ll need to find a hard copy of it so I can devour it again and again, and inevitably lend it out and lose it forever. But it’ll be WORTH IT.
Up there with Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs for beautiful stories that split and twist like braided rivers before spilling back into the ocean.
Might have a new top five book ay
Looking to dip my toes into Linux for the first time. I have a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro with pretty solid specs collecting dust right now that I think I’m going to use. Research so far has indicated to me that the two best options for me are likely Mint or Elementary OS. Does anyone have any insight? Also open to other OS’s. I would consider myself decently tech savvy but I am not a programmer or anything. Comfortable dipping into the terminal when the need arises and all that.
Hallo! Ich bin #neuhier auf der Literatur Instanz. :MagicWand: Ich bin hauptsächlich auf der Suche nach interessanten Buchempfehlungen, weiß aber noch nicht, ob ich selbst aktiv tröten werde. Ich bin eher eine stille Userin. :blahaj: Ich freue mich hier zu sein!
@stachelspore Sascha Raubal hat da mal eine Liste an Hashtags und Gruppen zusammengestellt. Die richtet sich zwar (auch) an Autor:innen, aber für Leser:innen ist ebenfalls etwas dabei. Die Gruppe @lesekreis wurde im Kontext dieser Liste ergänzend genannt.
♲ muenchen.social/
@musenhain
Man hat nach mir gerufen? 😁
Ja, da ich natürlich hier auch Leser ansprechen (und möglichst neue finden) will, ist davon auch einiges vertreten:
Weird personal request: if there is anyone out there who studied history at University of Bristol, could you please drop me a line? pls boost for reach
On the bird site, I followed quite a few #JaneAusten and #Bronte accounts. Here, when I search for either tag, it's typically only me that comes up. Surely there are other Austen and Bronte accounts on Mastodon??
It has been so long since I've been here. But I'm looking forward to reintegrating into the platform and finding my/new people. Are we still saying #histodons ?
FINALLY finished Reclamation Algorithm: Fire Within the Sand!! \o/ Ending 1, I ain't doing other endings for now lol
During boss fight, a stupid enemy pathing hit my level II barrier and destroyed it smh, thank god I was prepared
Just 1 medal left (cook more) and then I'll be done for real
The reason for Android's Notification system being better than iOS, is solely due to the ability to turn off individual aspects of an application's notifications.
Google, the poor multi-billion dollar scrappy startup that maintains Android, made a payment app that has one notification setting, "Google Pay". So all the ads, promotions, everything.
3rd party apps like PhonePe & Paytm have a better system.
Good point (even though it sounds bad if you consider the notification channel’s purpose) but not true in that particular case: I’ve talked to a bunch of people using Viber and it still has only one active “call” channel
I would too but gotta get these “good morning” and “celebrate the day of lightly salted cucumbers” pictures/post cards from my grandparents somehow haha