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

100 Things Vikings Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die by Mark Craig

To my wife, Tammy; daughters, Jessica and Caleigh; and mom, Iona; thanks for helping me in so mant ways—once it finally hit me that 100 chapters is a lot of chapters. Caleigh, you no longer have to help me count them down. To my readers over the many years, thanks, and I hope you enjoy the book.

Alt...To my wife, Tammy; daughters, Jessica and Caleigh; and mom, Iona; thanks for helping me in so mant ways—once it finally hit me that 100 chapters is a lot of chapters. Caleigh, you no longer have to help me count them down. To my readers over the many years, thanks, and I hope you enjoy the book.

    [?]Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 » 🌐
    @f800gecko@mastodon.online

    A family member retires from teaching this summer.

    By chance I found the perfect gift in a local book-lend.

    First published as 'Boners' in 1931 (I had an ancient wire-haired Scottish shop teacher in grade school who still used the word that way; never failed to leave us smirking and howling it later: 'SON YOU PULLED A BONER ON THE LATHE!!'), it's as current as ever and some of the observations are rather clever.

    Cover of 'Herrings Go About the Sea in Shawls' illustrated by Dr. Seuss. The cover shows various Seuss-style creatures on a back drop of large happy orange and yellow dots on a white backdrop.

    Alt...Cover of 'Herrings Go About the Sea in Shawls' illustrated by Dr. Seuss. The cover shows various Seuss-style creatures on a back drop of large happy orange and yellow dots on a white backdrop.

    Text transcript from a random page... Let us compare the Constitution to a boat with Washington, James Madison and the several others fishing from it with the states as fishes. Some of these little suckers got hooked right off but New York and Virginia, the bass, put up a hard fight in which Patrick Henry took Virginia's part against James Madison. Patrick Henry won but the line was too strong and he along with Virginia came aboard. New York was caught easily and only Rhode Island remained. She would not be caught so they threatened to dynamite the pool, that is, to treat her as a foreign country, so she bit and the thirteen states stood a “New Nation under God.” Horace Greeley was the worst defeated candidate ever elected.

    Alt...Text transcript from a random page... Let us compare the Constitution to a boat with Washington, James Madison and the several others fishing from it with the states as fishes. Some of these little suckers got hooked right off but New York and Virginia, the bass, put up a hard fight in which Patrick Henry took Virginia's part against James Madison. Patrick Henry won but the line was too strong and he along with Virginia came aboard. New York was caught easily and only Rhode Island remained. She would not be caught so they threatened to dynamite the pool, that is, to treat her as a foreign country, so she bit and the thirteen states stood a “New Nation under God.” Horace Greeley was the worst defeated candidate ever elected.

    Another random page... An oboe is an American tramp. A mayor is a he horse. An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, a pessimist looks after your feet. Oracles was the greatest orator of his day. An oracle is something named after Oracles because he did what cannot be done. A momentum is what you give someone when they are going away. The Papal Bull was a mad bull kept by the Pope A monologue is a conversation between two people, such as husband and wife. Mussolini is a sort of material used for stockings.

    Alt...Another random page... An oboe is an American tramp. A mayor is a he horse. An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, a pessimist looks after your feet. Oracles was the greatest orator of his day. An oracle is something named after Oracles because he did what cannot be done. A momentum is what you give someone when they are going away. The Papal Bull was a mad bull kept by the Pope A monologue is a conversation between two people, such as husband and wife. Mussolini is a sort of material used for stockings.

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

      Nada explota y todo sigue igual. Mi letra se empequeñece ante tu mirada, colapsando como aquello que inevitablemente colapsa.
      fictograma.com/d/3103-los-send

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

        Ruge el otoño con garras doradas, arrastrando el fulgor de un ayer consumido. Pero en cada ceniza descansa la promesa silenciosa de un nuevo suspiro.
        fictograma.com/d/3105-ha-pleni

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

          El ocre lo sabe todo. Es el color del olvido, del horizonte desgarrado y de los instantes que las sombras convierten en eternidad.
          fictograma.com/d/3106-ha-pleni

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

            En "Don Quijote de la Mancha - 4": La justicia imaginada puede ser tan noble como insuficiente. Don Quijote libera al oprimido, pero la realidad espera...
            fictograma.com/d/3100-el-ingen

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

              En "El indio": La guerra comenzó con piedras, pero continuó con el silencio. Cuando todo podía perderse, la tribu comprendió que su mayor fuerza era no traicionarse.
              fictograma.com/d/3101-el-indio

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

                En "Hamlet": Un solo defecto basta para empañar muchas virtudes. Así juzga el mundo: no por lo que somos, sino por la sombra que nos acompaña.
                fictograma.com/d/3102-hamlet-e

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

                  "Lo que el tiempo no se llevó" es una historia sobre los sueños, las despedidas y esa extraña nostalgia de volver a encontrarse con uno mismo años después.
                  fictograma.com/d/3107-lo-que-e

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

                    Todo comenzó con un árbol sagrado en una isla oculta por la niebla y un barco mítico, El Navegante, condenado por su propia madera. Un secreto familiar que despierta con el sonido de una guitarra...
                    fictograma.com/d/3108-el-templ

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

                      Weird Tales vol 09 number 04 (April 1927) - featured story: EXPLORERS INTO INFINITY by Ray Cummings.



                      @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

                      astralcomputing.com

                      Cover art by C.J. SENF

                      Weird Tales vol 09 number 04 (April 1927) - featured story: EXPLORERS INTO INFINITY by Ray Cummings. Cover art by C.J. SENF. The tagline reads The Unique Magazine. The cover price is 25 cents. An artist signature at the bottom center reads C.J. SENF. The illustration depicts a large, humanoid creature with brown skin and thick, dark brown fur covering its back, shoulders, and a long, thick tail extending downwards and behind it. The creature stands on a green and brown grassy area, leaning its torso forward towards a woman. It has dark hair and a wide mouth. To the right of the creature, a woman with dark hair lies on a rectangular red cloth spread over the green grass. She wears a white, short-sleeved garment and brown sandals. Her arms are raised above her head. Behind the figures, several vertical brown tree trunks are visible against a background of light green and tan shapes. The ground is covered in patches of green and brown grass. The top portion of the image is a solid red rectangular area. The text for the title "EXPLORERS INTO INFINITY" and author "by Ray Cummings" is in a yellow, stylized font with black outlines, positioned in the upper portion of the image. The date "APRIL, 1927" is printed in black text at the bottom left. The words "WEIRD TALES" appear in a large, yellow, stylized font at the top. The entire scene is contained within a black border.

                      Alt...Weird Tales vol 09 number 04 (April 1927) - featured story: EXPLORERS INTO INFINITY by Ray Cummings. Cover art by C.J. SENF. The tagline reads The Unique Magazine. The cover price is 25 cents. An artist signature at the bottom center reads C.J. SENF. The illustration depicts a large, humanoid creature with brown skin and thick, dark brown fur covering its back, shoulders, and a long, thick tail extending downwards and behind it. The creature stands on a green and brown grassy area, leaning its torso forward towards a woman. It has dark hair and a wide mouth. To the right of the creature, a woman with dark hair lies on a rectangular red cloth spread over the green grass. She wears a white, short-sleeved garment and brown sandals. Her arms are raised above her head. Behind the figures, several vertical brown tree trunks are visible against a background of light green and tan shapes. The ground is covered in patches of green and brown grass. The top portion of the image is a solid red rectangular area. The text for the title "EXPLORERS INTO INFINITY" and author "by Ray Cummings" is in a yellow, stylized font with black outlines, positioned in the upper portion of the image. The date "APRIL, 1927" is printed in black text at the bottom left. The words "WEIRD TALES" appear in a large, yellow, stylized font at the top. The entire scene is contained within a black border.

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

                        Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass

                        to, for, and because of MARY PAT

                        Alt...to, for, and because of MARY PAT

                          [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                          @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                          “Our Three-Voiced Country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
                          26–28 June, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye

                          This conference will examine the shared influences & interconnections between Gaelic & other Scottish writing, from the Celtic Revival & the Scottish Renaissance to the beginnings of the new millennium

                          @litstudies

                          smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-bhli

                            [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                            @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                            "There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil."

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

                              Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly

                              To all the wounded inner children out there, looking for protection and healing. I see you.

                              Alt...To all the wounded inner children out there, looking for protection and healing. I see you.

                                [?]Hacker News » 🤖 🌐
                                @h4ckernews@mastodon.social

                                French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

                                france24.com/en/culture/202606

                                  [?]Blair » 🌐
                                  @EnglishTeacher@pixelfed.social

                                  For this week’s #ThursdayBooksandBeer I’m reading the new poetry collection by my old friend Helen Lehndorf, The Bruise Palette. I preordered it from Bruce McKenzie Booksellers in Palmerston North and it arrived yesterday, beautifully gift wrapped. To match the bruise palette of the beautifully designed cover (image by Kirsty Porter), I’ve gone with a Cali Black Pale Ale from the Mill as I escaped from the rain at the Bendigo Hotel. “What I am looking for / and what you are looking for / are not the same thing. Everyone / has a personal definition of treasure. / What’s precious is a choice.” #reading #literature #poetry #oldfriends #craftbeer

                                    [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                    @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                    Marco Fazzini & Alan Riach: For the Poetry of Norman MacCaig
                                    8 June, University of Glasgow. Free.

                                    Marco Fazzini in conversation with Alan Riach about a new bilingual selected edition of Norman MacCaig.

                                    eventbrite.co.uk/e/marco-fazzi

                                      [?]Dead Poets Daily » 🌐
                                      @deadpoetsdaily@mastodon.social

                                      ‘Shapes and Signs’ by James Clarence Mangan

                                      deadpoetsdaily.com/p/james-cla

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

                                        COMMODITY. A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute.

                                        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): COMMODITY. A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute. 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): COMMODITY. A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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

                                          Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

                                          To: Beyoncé Knowles Carter, lover of black people, genius and greatest living entertainer, feminist and global humanitarian. Solange Knowles, lover of black people, amazing artist, fearless advocate for the vulnerable. Tina Knowles-Lawson, lover of black people, gifted fashion dsigner and philanthropist, loving matriarch.

                                          Alt...To: Beyoncé Knowles Carter, lover of black people, genius and greatest living entertainer, feminist and global humanitarian. Solange Knowles, lover of black people, amazing artist, fearless advocate for the vulnerable. Tina Knowles-Lawson, lover of black people, gifted fashion dsigner and philanthropist, loving matriarch.

                                            [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                            @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                            CFP: NTS at 20 – Culture, Democracy, & the Stateless Nation: an Unconference
                                            23 Oct 2026, Edinburgh

                                            This one-day Unconference invites participants from across academia, theatre, literature, politics, activism, & cultural & community organisations to explore the role of theatre, literature, & cultural institutions in shaping democratic life in Scotland as a stateless nation

                                            iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-partic

                                              [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                                              @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                                              "It seems to be almost an invariable rule that as real power declines, the symbols of power multiply and intensify in compensation."

                                                [?]Izaskun Gracia Quintana » 🌐
                                                @IzaskunGraciaQuintana@mastodon.world

                                                Pilo bat gustatu zait hau 🖤 🖤 🖤

                                                Fotografía en color del libro «Zerua hemen», de Oihana Arana

                                                Alt...Fotografía en color del libro «Zerua hemen», de Oihana Arana

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

                                                  Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding

                                                  by Henry Oliver

                                                  commonreader.co.uk/p/zena-hitz

                                                  Gulliver's Travels at PG:
                                                  gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q

                                                  "I LAY ALL THIS WHILE IN GREAT UNEASINESS" Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift and edited by Thomas M. Balliet Tiny soldiers swarm over and around the giant prone figure, planting flags and climbing him with ladders, while armies mass across the vast landscape beyond. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html

                                                  Alt..."I LAY ALL THIS WHILE IN GREAT UNEASINESS" Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift and edited by Thomas M. Balliet Tiny soldiers swarm over and around the giant prone figure, planting flags and climbing him with ladders, while armies mass across the vast landscape beyond. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html

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

                                                    This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published - A Classic is Born

                                                    On June 4, 1940, the day her debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published, 23-year-old Carson McCullers was alone in New York City.

                                                    lithub.com/this-week-in-litera

                                                    First edition of the book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940). Bold, hand-lettered typography in cream and red on an olive/brown ribbed background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Is_a_Lonely_Hunter#/media/File:HeartIsALonelyHunter.jpg

                                                    Alt...First edition of the book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940). Bold, hand-lettered typography in cream and red on an olive/brown ribbed background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Is_a_Lonely_Hunter#/media/File:HeartIsALonelyHunter.jpg

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

                                                      Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen

                                                      For my wonderful Tamara, who juggles golden balls and carries heavy burdens with equal grace and style

                                                      Alt...For my wonderful Tamara, who juggles golden balls and carries heavy burdens with equal grace and style

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

                                                        Obscure and Abnormal. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

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

                                                        Abstruso y anormal. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

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

                                                        Little Women. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

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

                                                        Las mujercitas. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

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

                                                        Little Human. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

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

                                                        Pequeño humano. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

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