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jpaskaruk

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Neurodivergent Manitoba Interlake settler (Zone 3, Treaty One). He/Him/Goblin.
Marxist Trucker, Developer, Sysadmin, Musician.
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Weary and cringing at any given moment, probably.

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kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon In 2023 there's been a huge expansion in the number of graphic novels, graphic memoirs, and graphic nonfiction published. They deserve a 2023 "Best of" list of their own. Here's mine; add yours. I always want to hear about great graphic books!

Best Graphic Books published in 2023:

THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ, Salva Rubio, Antonio Iturbe

YAZIDI! Aurélien Ducoudray, Mini Ludvin

SUNSHINE, Jarrett J. Krosoczka (author of HEY, KIDDO)

DICTATORSHIP: IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK! Sarah Kendzior, Andrea Chalupa, Kasia Babis

THE INFINITY HEART, Wendy Xu

FUNNY THINGS: A COMIC BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES M. SCHULTZ, Luca Debus, Francesco Matteuzzi

EIGHT BILLION GENIES: DELUXE EDITION, BOOK ONE, Charles Soule, Ryan Browne

GENDER IS REALLY STRANGE, Teddy Goetz, Sophie Standing

MONICA, Daniel Clowes (author of GHOST WORLD)

COURAGE TO DREAM: TALES OF HOPE IN THE HOLOCAUST, Neal Shusterman, Andrés Vera Martínez

ARTIFICIAL: A LOVE STORY, Amy Kurzweil

WASHINGTON'S GAY GENERAL, Josh Trujillo, Levi Hastings

2023

jpaskaruk ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

Not from this year, but I'd like to offer up two important Canadian GNs from the last while:

first is Secret Path: https://secretpath.ca/

We had a poet laureate up here named Gord Downie. He led a band called The Tragically Hip from the late 80s till a while ago when he died of cancer.

In his dying days he recorded this album and made this graphic novel about a kid who died trying to walk home from a fucking Residential School. Also wrote songs about gay cops.

jpaskaruk ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Other is Louis Riel: https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/louis-riel/

Here in Manitoba we just elected our first indigenous Premier, but that's not true, cause we already had one, but the feds murdered him. In a nutshell.

Basically a bunch of Metis (French/Indigenous mix) lived here and the central gov fucked them over in favour of good British people, and Riel had something to say about that. The book explains it better.

jpaskaruk ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

Thank you for the further boosts. We are colonial af here, but it's not like we don't have some heroes among us, now and then.

jpaskaruk ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

@lakelaur and I were just talking about some of the people close to my family this morning in the context of these novels and how people rub up against history.

Jack Fainman was a family friend (delivered me, in fact) and was shot in his Winnipeg living room by an anti-abortion sniper in 1996. His wife has been leading causes with the energy of a dynamo for the last fifty years. I'm gonna drop his book too cause why not.

https://www.amazon.ca/They-Shoot-Doctors-Dont-Memoir/dp/1926531175

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon @lakelaur

I did not know this until doing these googles, but they were also part of this season of Someone Knows Something, a CBC cold case crime podcast.

https://gem.cbc.ca/someone-knows-something/s07

poloniousmonk , to actuallyautistic
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Damn, that just wrecked my mood. I've got a great joke that I tried to test out on one person. I have no idea how my private message went public, but I got reported and removed for sexism when I was mocking misogyny.

sigh I'll be kicked off mastodon unjustly soon enough.

Are all "private mentions for mentioned people only" still public knowledge?

jpaskaruk ,
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@poloniousmonk @AtheismActually @actuallyautistic

There was a joke involving prison rape that I would have preferred have a CW earlier, since you're mentioning this.

I didn't say anything cause that's not how I approach it when someone puts things I don't like in my feed; I'm here because I have control over that.

BUT, such humor is not likely to go over well in this environment, and folks tend to prioritize impact over intention these days.

So I'm mentioning it.

poloniousmonk , to bookstodon
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I'm asking non-Americans: Are your libraries full of armed thugs in bulletproof vests? A pair of thugs just strolled behind me, keeping the pressure on.

jpaskaruk ,
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@poloniousmonk @bookstodon

Winnipeg is a small Canadian prairie town. I grew up free range in the 70s, no part of the city I didn't ride around unmolested in every sense of the word.

Lately we have random stabbings everywhere and yes, the library is dangerous as hell for the staff especially.

The "give no shit about anyone but yourself" movement is really having its way with us right now.

jpaskaruk ,
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@poloniousmonk @bookstodon

Like, I was a privileged kid and I never suffered much, but I was literally running around with downtown street kids in the late 80s. Lots of violent talk happened but actual acts of violence were very rare.

The drugs sold at the known spots were cannabis, LSD, shrooms, and in the bad part of downtown you could get heroin or else people were into mixing tolluin and ritalin for a similar effect. ODs were not a big thing.

The drugs have gotten worse, thus the people.

theautisticcoach , to actuallyautistic
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How do my confront ableism in their day to day lives?

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jpaskaruk ,
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@HaelusNovak @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

Class 1 (anything) driver here - have not driven for a living in nearly a decade now, but I used to also drive buses of coworkers (mobile blood donation).

If I had this experience, I think I would remain amused as long as nobody tried to characterize the screwup as mine; you asked for the information you needed and they elected to sabotage you and all your passengers with a chain of bad/illegal decisions.

ShaulaEvans , to writing
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I have a deep love for the "Quentin Tarantino carves a turkey sketch" from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (which, incidentally, is never shown on screen).

It's an advanced class in writing comedy, writing violence, and the role of the audience's imagination in storytelling.

@writing

jpaskaruk ,
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@ShaulaEvans @writing

Is that on any platforms right now or do you have a physical copy? I watched it round when it came out and I remember absolutely loving the way that Perry and that other guy portrayed their deep abiding friendship. I went in looking for treachery and it was the opposite and it was great.

I tried to find it a while back and failed, it is a felony that 30 Rock persisted with the blackface and whatnot while this fizzled. FELONY.

Autistrain , to actuallyautistic
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I'm asking my fellow for books on Autism. If you have suggestions, I'm happy to hear about them!

@actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

jpaskaruk ,
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@Autistrain @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

Look Me In The Eye, and later Be Different, by John Elder Robison, were both very illuminating for me.

CultureDesk , to bookstodon
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Paul Crenshaw says there was a pervasive sense of fear for kids growing up in 1980s America, born of stranger danger, the murder of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh's son Adam, and the Satanic panic. He explores these ideas in this essay for Salon; he has also written a new book of essays, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils."

https://flip.it/WS7tLU

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jpaskaruk ,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon

Some of us were afraid we'd be blamed for the satanic things that never happened.

ramblingreaders , to bookstodon
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Do you know there's a alternative to Amazon-owned ? is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different instances and on . You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available @bookstodon

jpaskaruk ,
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@ramblingreaders @bookstodon

Is there an instance for SF fans specifically?

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@ramblingreaders @bookstodon Cheers!

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