Speaking of Prince, this musical genius should've turned 65 years old today.
So as a treat a thread with some lesser known favorites of mine, featuring Prince as storyteller/storysinger. Enjoy!
Vertaling, volgens GoogleTranslate:
Uiteindelijk is verdriet de langzame dood van simpele dingen.
Dit liedje heb ik al een paar dagen in mijn hoofd sinds ik het indrukwekkende boek Het genootschap van onvrijwillige dromers las. Ook het verhaal zingt nog na. Aanrader.
An assortment of some very adorable hedgehogs from illuminated manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th and 15th c.
Snails and rabbits get a lot of attention, but personally I love the hedgehog. Especially the ones with stuff on their spines. #medievodons#medieval#medievalart#bestiary
29 Crook O'Lune ECR Lorac
The strength of the Lancashire books is the sense of place and the way that they treat the landscape. Gilbert Woolfall has inherited his uncle's fell land house. Then there's a fire that destroys the study and kills the housekeeper. Throw in some sheep rustling and there's a lot to try and sort out. It's not just purely picturesque, there are issues of trying to get started in farming in the fells and the fate of the elderly in a rural environment. #books@bookstodon
So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"
Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.
From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."
@ajsadauskas@technology@pluralistic Google claims a religious exemption that trumps your privacy concerns: "The data from your camera is sacred to us and our business model, and we, via our operating systems and applications, strictly forbid you from profaning that data."
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
And not sff, but these are my favorite regular sapphic romances that I listened to last year. One per author because these are all authors where I’m going to be reading everything wlw they’ve written. 🌈📚 #LesbianBooks@sapphicbooks
Paleontologists investigate whether T. rex and other predatory #dinosaurs had lips like lizards, or protruding teeth like crocodiles (though as the article notes, pop culture has latched onto the latter).
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