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[?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
@margencero@mastodon.social

🪽 «El aliento y la arena», relato por Mauricio Osorio
👉 margencero.es/margencero/alien
🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 3 min
📌

🪽 «El aliento y la arena», relato por Mauricio Osorio 👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/aliento-y-arena-mauricio-osorio/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 3 min

Alt...🪽 «El aliento y la arena», relato por Mauricio Osorio 👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/aliento-y-arena-mauricio-osorio/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 3 min

[?]Jake's Flea Market » 🌐
@jakedepeuterpoetics.com@jakedepeuterpoetics.com

those west faced

those west faced
walls of masonry and brickwork
that all wednesday were  
damp darkened by rain wash
through all the hours of sunrise
today   
               those housefronts and market
stalls were shadow tinted
but now that sunless hue recedes
down those walls like a tide
now those walls are sunlight shaded
like mortar   like mud at midday  
go to that dark monastery where i live
and i’ll pay for your daily bread
walk like one who knows
the time between the shades is short

    [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
    @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

    Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla

    For Lili, Constanza and Jorge. Integral to my infinity.

    Alt...For Lili, Constanza and Jorge. Integral to my infinity.

      [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
      @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

      Obstinate Daughters: shining a light on the women who sparked the American Revolution

      A revealing new book, eight years in the making, singles out rebellious women from US history whose stories have often been sidelined

      by Martin Pengelly

      theguardian.com/books/2026/jun

      Books about Women in the American Revolution at PG:
      gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q

      Moll Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth. Inscribed bottom margin center, "MOLL PITCHER AT THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH. / From the orginal Picture in possession of the Publishers. / Entered according to the act of Congress, AD 1856, by Martin, Johnson & Co. in the clerk's office of the district court of the southern district of New York." Inscribed lower left margin, "PAINTED BY D. M. CARTER." Inscribed lower right, "ENGRAVED BY J. ROGERS." A dynamic battle scene showing Molly Pitcher right of center standing in front of a grass cannon on wheels being manned by two soldiers. An American flag bearer is immediately behind her. A third soldier lies dead in the foreground in front of the cannon. Molly holds a ramrod, while her water bucket lies on the ground in front of her. George Washington and his officers appear in the right distance. Other American soldiers are chasing the British in the left hand section of the engraving. A second female figure has raised a hat above her head, behind a male kneeling to help a wounded soldier. Another soldier rests on a rock in the lower left foreground beside a pool of water. Smoke from cannon fire fills the sky. https://monmouthhistory.emuseum.com/objects/714/moll-pitcher-at-the-battle-of-monmouth

      Alt...Moll Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth. Inscribed bottom margin center, "MOLL PITCHER AT THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH. / From the orginal Picture in possession of the Publishers. / Entered according to the act of Congress, AD 1856, by Martin, Johnson & Co. in the clerk's office of the district court of the southern district of New York." Inscribed lower left margin, "PAINTED BY D. M. CARTER." Inscribed lower right, "ENGRAVED BY J. ROGERS." A dynamic battle scene showing Molly Pitcher right of center standing in front of a grass cannon on wheels being manned by two soldiers. An American flag bearer is immediately behind her. A third soldier lies dead in the foreground in front of the cannon. Molly holds a ramrod, while her water bucket lies on the ground in front of her. George Washington and his officers appear in the right distance. Other American soldiers are chasing the British in the left hand section of the engraving. A second female figure has raised a hat above her head, behind a male kneeling to help a wounded soldier. Another soldier rests on a rock in the lower left foreground beside a pool of water. Smoke from cannon fire fills the sky. https://monmouthhistory.emuseum.com/objects/714/moll-pitcher-at-the-battle-of-monmouth

        [?]Solar Phasing » 🌐
        @solarphasing@mastodon.social

        The Owl and the Mice, illustration by Gustave Doré (1867). The Fables of La Fontaine.

        imgur.com/gallery/owl-mice-ill

        The Owl and the Mice, illustration by Gustave Doré (1867). The Fables of La Fontaine.

        Alt...The Owl and the Mice, illustration by Gustave Doré (1867). The Fables of La Fontaine.

        [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
        @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

        Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI by Anil Ananthaswamy

        to teachers everywhere, sung and unsung Whatever we do, we have to make our life vectors. Lines with force and direction. -Liam Neeson as FBI agent Mark Felt in the 2017 movie of the same name

        Alt...to teachers everywhere, sung and unsung Whatever we do, we have to make our life vectors. Lines with force and direction. -Liam Neeson as FBI agent Mark Felt in the 2017 movie of the same name

          [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
          @fictograma@mastodon.social

          "Hamlet mata a Polonio entre la locura y el azar. El rey Claudio, temeroso, decide deshacerse de él enviándolo a Inglaterra. Pero el príncipe, incluso en su demencia, juega con las palabras: el cadáver está donde debe..." 🎭💀
          fictograma.com/d/3342-hamlet-a

            [?]TinDrum » 🌐
            @oscarjiminy@aus.social

            Interview with Anna Funder

            'The university putting me in here is a vote of confidence in the humanities in an age of technocrats, AI, the rise of the right, book burnings and bannings. It’s not just about creative writing, although that is a very pointy end of it...More broadly it says: we think universities are here in general to be a place for creative thought of all kinds, and debate – and we’re going to put this person in here to talk about that'

            theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/n

              [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
              @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

              Vestigio febril. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

              [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
              @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

              The Happy House. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

              [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
              @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

              La casa feliz. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

              [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
              @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

              Newborns of Everyday Life. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

              [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
              @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

              Neonatos de cotidianidad. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

              [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
              @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

              Feverish Trace. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

              [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
              @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

              GUMPTION, or RUM GUMPTION. Docility, comprehension, capacity.

              A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

              --
              @histodons

              Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): GUMPTION, or RUM GUMPTION. Docility, comprehension, capacity. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

              Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): GUMPTION, or RUM GUMPTION. Docility, comprehension, capacity. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                Lessons at the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan

                To librarians. Because you built me.

                Alt...To librarians. Because you built me.

                  [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                  @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                  A veces el cansancio no se cura durmiendo. El cuerpo se detiene porque ya no escuchamos sus susurros. El burnout es un cortocircuito del alma: todo tiembla por dentro mientras el mundo se...
                  fictograma.com/d/3339-cuando-e

                    [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                    @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                    "El Quijote de la Mancha": Se lee el testamento de Grisóstomo y una canción desesperada que escribió. Todos los presentes, y los pastores, culpan a...
                    fictograma.com/d/3340-el-ingen

                      [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                      @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                      "El Indio": "El río crecido, el acuáhuitl, la orden que no admite espera. El indígena vence una vez, pero la segunda el agua lo devora. Entre zopilotes y...
                      fictograma.com/d/3341-el-indio

                        [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                        @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                        "Hamlet mata a Polonio entre la locura y el azar. El rey Claudio, temeroso, decide deshacerse de él enviándolo a Inglaterra. Pero el príncipe, incluso en su demencia, juega con.." 🎭💀
                        fictograma.com/d/3342-hamlet-a

                          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                          @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                          Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

                          This book is for Peter who has been showing me for ten years (and continues showing me every day) that the idea that "love hurts" is absolute bullshit

                          Alt...This book is for Peter who has been showing me for ten years (and continues showing me every day) that the idea that "love hurts" is absolute bullshit

                            [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                            @fictograma@mastodon.social

                            A veces el cansancio no se cura durmiendo. El cuerpo se detiene porque ya no escuchamos sus susurros. El burnout es un cortocircuito del alma: todo tiembla por dentro mientras el mundo se vuelve ruido. No fuerces el motor.
                            fictograma.com/d/3339-cuando-e

                              [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                              @fictograma@mastodon.social

                              "El Quijote de la Mancha": Se lee el testamento de Grisóstomo y una canción desesperada que escribió. Todos los presentes, y los pastores, culpan a Marcela de su muerte. Don Quijote decide defenderla...
                              fictograma.com/d/3340-el-ingen

                                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                "El Indio": "El río crecido, el acuáhuitl, la orden que no admite espera. El indígena vence una vez, pero la segunda el agua lo devora. Entre zopilotes y rumores, solo queda el silencio de los suyos. La fatalidad no entiende..
                                fictograma.com/d/3341-el-indio

                                  [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                  @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                  Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin

                                  For Abigail Trillin and Sarah Stewart Trillin— precisely the granddaughters Abe Trillin would have wanted

                                  Alt...For Abigail Trillin and Sarah Stewart Trillin— precisely the granddaughters Abe Trillin would have wanted

                                    [?]Diary of a Wanderer » 🌐
                                    @greatbenji.business.blog@greatbenji.business.blog

                                    The road to Damascus -page 9

                                    I now understand why rich people live in quiet neighborhoods and the masses live in noisy environments. To be rich, one has to think. And a noisy environment isn't conducive to quality critical thinking that brings progress. A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end where everything ties up neatly together. But how often in life do mysteries get unraveled ? And if stories must reflect life, shouldn't they sometimes drift, digress and appear lost without a beginning and a sensible […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                    I now understand why rich people live in quiet neighborhoods and the masses live in noisy environments. To be rich, one has to think. And a noisy environment isn’t conducive to quality critical thinking that brings progress.

                                    A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end where everything ties up neatly together. But how often in life do mysteries get unraveled ? And if stories must reflect life, shouldn’t they sometimes drift, digress and appear lost without a beginning and a sensible end in view?

                                    That’s why the story I am living and writing seems to have no formula, and I the writer know not where we are headed.

                                    All that I have come to put down on paper today is that I am a hypocrite.

                                    Initially, it sounded humble admitting that. But now I see no humility in that. Just honest truth. At first, it looked like a mirage. Now I see myself for what I am.

                                    Many things I have done and said, and thought, were motivated by some secret desire to be liked by friends, neighbors, acquaintances, listeners, readers or whatever name is invented to take their place. But now, I don’t care. Just wanna be me and let my customer decide if I’m worth buying.

                                    I have reached this point in my tale where the challenge to kill the desire of self validation is set before me. And it seems killing is not the sole task. My victim is beckoning me to eat of him and truly live.

                                    Like the sinner who cast old tools of sin hurriedly at the feet of the cross and suddenly bumps into circumstances that require those same tools to fix, I am in a dilemma. I am wondering if I can live up to the new me stuck in my mind, yearning to be curved into reality when our world has reached that point where to make a living and survive, appearances must be faked, where selfless living is the new name of talents headed to the guillotine.

                                    [?]brosnung » 🌐
                                    @Brosnung@mastodon.world

                                    => good points about the "AI detection genre"

                                    open.substack.com/pub/jvaelori

                                      [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                                      @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                                      CROCUS, or CROCUS METALLORUM. A nick name for a surgeon of the army and navy.

                                      A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                      --
                                      @histodons

                                      Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): CROCUS, or CROCUS METALLORUM. A nick name for a surgeon of the army and navy. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                      Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): CROCUS, or CROCUS METALLORUM. A nick name for a surgeon of the army and navy. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                        [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                        @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                        Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties by Tariq Ali

                                        For Ernest Mandel who has always believed that the real meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history.

                                        Alt...For Ernest Mandel who has always believed that the real meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history.

                                          [?]Walt » 🌐
                                          @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

                                          Prices Reduced!
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                                          @books @scifi @sciencefiction

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                                            [?]Walt » 🌐
                                            @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

                                            Weird Tales vol 12 number 03 (September 1928) - featured story: The Devil-Plant by John Murray Reynolds.




                                            @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

                                            astralcomputing.com

                                            Cover art by C. C. Serf.

                                            Weird Tales vol 12 number 03 (September 1928) - featured story: The Devil-Plant by John Murray Reynolds. Cover art by C. C. Serf. A woman with long, flowing dark hair and a thin, bright red headband is trapped in the mouth of what looks like a giant Venus fly trap. She is looking toward the right with her arms raised toward the encroaching plant matter, her fingers splayed near the twisting, tubular stalks that curve in heavy, rhythmic loops. A man wearing a grey short-sleeved shirt, tan trousers, and a rounded pith helmet stands with his back to the viewer, holding a large silver knife aloft by its hilt, the blade catching a sharp white glint. The plant tentacles feature irregular, bumpy patches of fleshy pink skin and wrap tightly around the woman's torso, waist, and limbs. These appendages transition from a deep forest green to a lighter lime hue where they meet the organic, textured areas of the pulsating loops. Dense leafy textures and jagged, pointed foliage cluster at the base of the figures, obscuring their lower legs with overlapping layers of vegetation consisting of broad, dark leaves and sharp, serrated edges. The metal of the knife reflects a bright white light, and blood can be seen on the tip of the knife, and dripping from one of the plant's "hands", reaching toward the man's shirt and the edge of his pith helmet.

                                            Alt...Weird Tales vol 12 number 03 (September 1928) - featured story: The Devil-Plant by John Murray Reynolds. Cover art by C. C. Serf. A woman with long, flowing dark hair and a thin, bright red headband is trapped in the mouth of what looks like a giant Venus fly trap. She is looking toward the right with her arms raised toward the encroaching plant matter, her fingers splayed near the twisting, tubular stalks that curve in heavy, rhythmic loops. A man wearing a grey short-sleeved shirt, tan trousers, and a rounded pith helmet stands with his back to the viewer, holding a large silver knife aloft by its hilt, the blade catching a sharp white glint. The plant tentacles feature irregular, bumpy patches of fleshy pink skin and wrap tightly around the woman's torso, waist, and limbs. These appendages transition from a deep forest green to a lighter lime hue where they meet the organic, textured areas of the pulsating loops. Dense leafy textures and jagged, pointed foliage cluster at the base of the figures, obscuring their lower legs with overlapping layers of vegetation consisting of broad, dark leaves and sharp, serrated edges. The metal of the knife reflects a bright white light, and blood can be seen on the tip of the knife, and dripping from one of the plant's "hands", reaching toward the man's shirt and the edge of his pith helmet.

                                              [?]ACT OUT TEES » 🌐
                                              @actouttees@mastodon.social

                                              My Bookshelf Is My Sanctuary
                                              Act Out Tees ~ www.ActOutTees.com

                                                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill

                                                For those who died in Spain, or left their hearts there; and for Tom.

                                                Alt...For those who died in Spain, or left their hearts there; and for Tom.

                                                  [?]Hussein Al-alak » 🌐
                                                  @husseinalalak@mastodon.social

                                                  “The road is life” and as today marks Armed Forces Day across the UK, this picture shows Caroline Kerouac and her brother Jack Kerouac, wearing his US Naval Air Force uniform.

                                                  This picture was taken in March 1943 and while Jack Kerouac found fame with titles such as 'On The Road', his other books included 'Maggie Cassidy', 'The Town and the City' and 'Vanity of Duluoz'.

                                                  “The road is life” and as today marks Armed Forces Day across the UK, this picture shows Caroline Kerouac and her brother Jack Kerouac, wearing his US Naval Air Force uniform. This picture was taken in March 1943 and while Jack Kerouac found fame with titles such as 'On The Road', his other books included 'Maggie Cassidy', 'The Town and the City' and 'Vanity of Duluoz'.

                                                  Alt...“The road is life” and as today marks Armed Forces Day across the UK, this picture shows Caroline Kerouac and her brother Jack Kerouac, wearing his US Naval Air Force uniform. This picture was taken in March 1943 and while Jack Kerouac found fame with titles such as 'On The Road', his other books included 'Maggie Cassidy', 'The Town and the City' and 'Vanity of Duluoz'.

                                                    [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                    @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                    48kg by Batool Abu Akleen

                                                    To the tips of my fingers, to Milad.

                                                    Alt...To the tips of my fingers, to Milad.

                                                      [?]RJT » 🌐
                                                      @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                                                      Chapbook uploaded: The Diaspora of Moonlight Interposed

                                                      subspacewagon.systems/chapbook

                                                      archive.org/details/the-diaspo

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                                                        If the oceans die, we die.... boosted

                                                        [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                                        @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                                        We read an entire scroll — without ever opening it

                                                        PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end.

                                                        scrollprize.org/firstscroll

                                                        More information about the Herculaneum Papyrus Scrolls project:
                                                        www2.cs.uky.edu/dri/herculaneu

                                                        Part of Herculaneum Papyrus 1005 (P.Herc. 1005), col. 5. Contains Epicurean tetrapharmakos from Philodemus' Adversus sapientes ex libris. Original from 1st century(?). Handwritten copy by Giuseppe (?) Casanova 1803-1806. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri#/media/File:Tetrapharmakos_PHerc_1005_col_5.png

                                                        Alt...Part of Herculaneum Papyrus 1005 (P.Herc. 1005), col. 5. Contains Epicurean tetrapharmakos from Philodemus' Adversus sapientes ex libris. Original from 1st century(?). Handwritten copy by Giuseppe (?) Casanova 1803-1806. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri#/media/File:Tetrapharmakos_PHerc_1005_col_5.png

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