Volkskrant en NRC waren wat lauw over de nieuwe roman van Tommy Wieringa. Ik begrijp dat niet. Het si een prachtig boek en het komt ongetwijfeld (terecht) vandaag hoog binnen in de CPNB Top 60. In Vlaanderen alleen lovende recensies en het publiek staat voor Nirwana in de rij.
@JeanMarcvanTol ah, dank! Ik las die recensies ook en was heel verbaasd. Niet dat ik het boek al gelezen heb, maar ik heb van Wieringa gewoon nog nooit een slecht boek gezien. Dank voor de heads up dus (en misschien even nog @ boeken @ a.gup.pe gaan volgen en taggen :)
“Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries.”
This is a must read from the always informative Judd Legum.
Start each #haiku with the same first lines below:
MORNING SUN…
or
SEASHELLS….
Post haiku in comments, as ever enjoy mulling over the first line & considering your options at different points during the evening or day depending on your time zone.
Probably because Rebel News is well known right-wing propaganda outlet run by a racist fuckface with a tenuous grip on reality, when they aren’t just outright lying.
I'd say stay on here and follow #actuallyautistic and perhaps @actuallyautistic
Whether you participate or just lurk, you can see if what people are saying resonates.
Ditto. I'm a couple of months into my journey of self-discovery and, by and large, the most helpful resource has been following and interacting with people here on #ActuallyAutistic.
Books are great. Self-assessment tests are great. But joining communities and connecting and relating with other autistics is really what helped me understand myself better.
It could be encouraged by those interested in slowing things down but I think that is from deeper in our societal and collective minds. I heard a podcast once from NPR's Throughline arguing modern Western thought can be broken down into whether you follow Hobbes or Rousseau's view of human nature: are humans naturally selfish and need strict authority or are we naturally cooperative and need complete freedom?
Odd thought - is there a book review site that focuses on the simple yet not so simple question of which edition of a book is likely the best? Ie comparing physical print to ebook to audiobook and coming up with an opinion as to which edition is the best (and why) relative to the others.
Perhaps with nuance like some ebook editions might be recommended only if you use a color screen / tablet for graphics heavy works but not if you use a B&W ebook reader
I haven't seen any interviews with her, but #media / #journalists should really be speaking with Kassandra Luciuk about the SS veteran invited to Parliament. Luciuk is a historian (Dalhousie) of the Ukrainian community in 20th-century #Canada. She demonstrates that some Cold-War Canadian officials were quite happy for right-wing Ukrainian migrants to use violence against communist labour leaders, also from Ukraine, already in the country. #CdnPoli#CdnHist#histodons
2/ This week I've read/heard many discussions in the media of SS veterans' migration to #Canada, but none with historians. What I've seen are conversations with politicians. Fine, this is a contemporary political debate. Still, all of these conversations claim that "we don't know enough" about the history. But scholars know more than politicians! If I were a journalist, I'd start with Luciuk, but other #histodons (of migration, anti-communism, intelligence, politics) could help too. @histodons
This study became very famous and we got a lot of comments, especially anthropologists, economists, philosophers. They didn't like this at all. Because they had decided in their minds, I believe, that fairness is a very complex issue, and that animals cannot have it.
Self-promotion time! What links, pieces of writing, art, and so forth would you like people to see in this chat? Post as many as you like within the character limit! #Writephant
@antiquidons Hipparchos concluded that the star Spica, part of the constellation #Virgo, had moved 2° relative to the #AutumnalEquinox.
When he compared the time it took the Sun to return to an #equinox with the time it took the Sun to return to a fixed star, he found a slight discrepancy. The equinoxes were moving ("precessing") through the zodiac, and that the rate of precession was at least 1° in a century. In other words: a full cycle through the zodiac is completed every 36,000 years.
@antiquidons#Astronomy and calendars are the domain of #Hermes. His grandfather Atlas turns the heavenly constellations and his mother Maia is one of the starry Pleiades.
Atlas instructed him in astronomy and the Greek mythographer Euhemeros says that #Aphrodite first established the constellations and taught Hermes. The planet #Mercury is attributed to Hermes because he first established the months and perceived the courses of the constellations.
@neilhimself Honestly, this is how I expected it to go. The worst thing that could happen to 90% of the actors is that they can just temporary find another job for the same amount of money. Or they could just work with studios who give them a better contract. The business executives don't have any other option.
@neilhimself Once again …… I am sooooo tired of TRYING to read articles that either want you to sign up for membership or ask 20 questions before you can read. ggggrrrrrrrrr