I'm tempted to write a standalone novella with the prepper aspects of the story focused on first aid and hygiene needs.

There are many things to consider when preparing for the worst, but what's the point of having stocks of food, ammo, etc. if you promptly die from an infection because you didn't manage hygiene and have proper first aid?

#shtf #prepper #disasters #teotwawki #prepping #survival #survivalist #books #ebooks

This moment from near the beginning of Gas Giant Gambit--Bernadette sizing Gus up in an instant and calling her out--is easily one of my top five favorite moments.

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Quote from Gas Giant Gambit: “You’re right—we can’t pay you. Not to fix your mount. Not even to fuel her. But whatever it is you’re running from? Maybe we can help you come to terms with it.” Gus snorted, but Bernadette continued. “These are good people here. Hardworking folk. They don’t deserve the lot they’ve drawn. I’ve seen your kind before, aye. I’ve seen ‘em run, and I’ve seen ‘em stand. And even them that fall, they fall knowing they’ve done what’s right. When you fall—and make no mistake, eventually your kind always does—will it be the past coming to claim you, or a fight of your own choosing?"

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Cover of Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale From Beyond the Cygnus Rift

Today in Labor History May 20, 1776: The Mohawks, under the leadership Joseph Brandt (Thayendanegea), defeated the American Revolutionaries at the Battle of the Cedars (on the St. Lawrence River). A day earlier, Benedict Arnold, commanding the American military garrison at Montreal, surrendered to a combined force of British and Indigenous troops. Brant was born into the Wolf Clan of the matrilineal society, where power was divided between male chiefs and clan mothers, with decisions made by consensus between them. Much of this history is portrayed in the novel Manituana, by Wu Ming (2007), an Italian writing collective formerly associated with the Luther Blissett Project.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #indigenous #mohawk #josephbrandt #Revolution #canada #wuming #lutherblissett #author #writer #fiction #historicalfiction #novel #books @bookstadon

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Book cover for Manituana, by Wu Ming, with a U.S. flag at the top and silhouettes of Mohawks at the bottom

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…

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(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme. The black silhouette of a man and woman embracing. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background is the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heart shape that surrounds the couple. Everything is in shades of blue. (Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text: “You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…” “No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!” (Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

measured correspondence from a balustrade made of baubles

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I’ve got a couple of odd jobs here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Which I won’t make any money in the end because you know I spend it while I’m up here. But I enjoy the day.
I scored these 2 from McKays used bookstore

I’m looking forward to digging into these.
#HamRadio #Tennessee #Chattanooga #Books

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Two ham radio books. Shrink wrapped and hardback edition of the ARRL antenna book for radio communications, 23rd edition. The latest edition is the 25th edition, but this one is nine dollars versus about $70 for that one. On the right we have volume two of the more antenna wire classics a collection of the “best“ ARRL publication articles This one is five dollars. New I don’t really know.

Today in Labor History May 20, 1911: Anarchist Magonistas published a proclamation calling for the peasants to take collective possession of the land in Baja California. They had already defeated government forces there. Members of the IWW traveled south to help them. During their short revolution, they encouraged the people to take collective possession of the lands. They also supported the creation of cooperatives and opposed the establishment of any new government. Ricardo Flores Magon organized the rebellion from Los Angeles, where he lived. In addition to Tijuana, they also took the cities of Ensenada and Mexicali. However, in the end, the forces of Madero suppressed the uprising. LAPD arrested Magon and his brother Enrique. As a result, both spend nearly two years in prison. Many of the IWW members who fought in the rebellion, later participated in the San Diego free speech fight. Lowell Blaisdell writes about it in his now hard to find book, “The Desert Revolution,” (1962). Read my article on the San Diego Free Speech fight here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/02/01/today-in-labor-history-february-1/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #anarchism #magon #mexico #revolution #bajacalifornia #freespeech #sandiego #tijuana #books #author #writer #nonfiction #police #rebellion @bookstadon

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Photo of Ricardo Flores Magon, with wire-rimmed glasses and a handlebar mustache, and the following quote: We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. — Ricardo Flores Magon

It's here! For once I have an answer to "what are your plans for the weekend?" 😂

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Hardback copy of Platform Decay by Martha Wells.

The 'Southern Charm' star's kids' book hits shelves in October

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Craig Conover Reminds Kids That Their Differences Are 'What Make Them Special' in New Children's Book, “Patch Work ”— See the Cover! (Exclusive)

“I want the book to remind people that there was a way to live before colonization, and there still is, and it still works.”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #teachings

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STATISTICAL VERIFICATION. GENERAL HISTORICAL REVIEW
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SINCE both the level of prices and the quantity of money in circulation cannot in practice be perfectly measured, and since the level of prices depends upon other factors besides the quantity of money,—viz.

— Irving Fisher
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A Taiwanese novel translated into English has won the International Booker Prize! Taiwan Travelogue was written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King. It is described as "both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel"

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/may/19/international-booker-prize-goes-to-novel-originally-written-in-mandarin-chinese-for-the-first-time

#Taiwan #books #literature #translation #台灣

Did the First Robot Come from Oz?

Long before chatbots, fiction grappled with rule-bound intelligence, exploring what it means to build and rely on thinking machines.

By: Livia Gershon

https://daily.jstor.org/did-the-first-robot-come-from-oz/

Wizard of OZ at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=wizard+of+oz

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"The Soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets." Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Author: L. Frank Baum Illustrator: W. W. Denslow W.W. Denslow's original illustration from The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow enter a grand hall, with Toto at their feet and observers watching from a balcony above. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/43936/pg43936-images.html

How teaching the history of science can help equip students to face polarized times

For decades, science educators have been encouraged to “stick to the science” and leave politics at the classroom door. But as disinformation spreads online and public trust in science seems to erode in some contexts, this advice is no longer realistic.

By Cristiano Barbosa de Moura

History of Science at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/688

#Books #Literature #Science

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Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant. Engraving from the book: Tycho Brahe (1598), Astronomiae instauratae mechanica, Wandsbeck. Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant in Uranienborg (Uraniborg). The quadrant (radius c. 194cm) was made from brass and was affixed to a wall that was oriented precisely north-south. The observer (right) views a star through the opposite opening (upper left) to determine the star's altitude as it passes through the meridian. An assistant (lower right) reads the time off a clock and another one (lower left) records the measurements. The area above the quadrant is filled with a mural painting showing several other of Brahe's instruments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mural_instrument#/media/File:Tycho-Brahe-Mural-Quadrant.jpg

branded and staked time

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Proposition VII. Theorem VII.
That there is a power of gravity tending to all bodies, proportional to the several quantities of matter which they contain.
That all the Planets mutually gravitate one towards another, we have prov'd before; as well as that the force of gravity towards every one of them, consider'd apart, is reciprocally as the square of the distance of…

— Isaac Newton
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So I guess I should be glad I didn’t pursue reading any Olga Tokarcuk books!

If all modern, living authors and writers used AI in writing one day, I will be only reading “classic works”.

Like until the 2010s

#books #AI

A library with few books

I took Alex to Kirrawee Library+ this evening to listen to a talk about Modern History in the HSC, the big exams at the end of the final year of school. That gives me two hours to kill. I do not mind. I have been thinking about libraries a lot lately, modern ones like this where you can lose yourself for a while.

This “Library+” has recording studios, a lecture theatre, workshops and quiet rooms. It is clean and modern, though lacking in nooks with comfortable armchairs or beanbags to snuggle into. What it doesn’t have is many books. Not the aisles and aisles of other libraries, mysteries waiting to be discovered as you wander the maze. There are books, but it feels empty, limited.

I find one book to read while I wait. Oblivion, by Patrick Holland. I was given his first book, Riding the Trains in Japan, and his prose is sparse and visual, though perhaps his characters, an their behaviour, is less than relatable. Still, this one’s cover blurb begins with “Before nightfall I rode a taxi through Narita…“

Narita is where we used to fly into Japan, but in a few weeks I shall be landing at even-closer Haneda. In the story, the protagonist passes through several airports. As I read this, there is a familiar, unwelcome feeling growing in my chest of anxiety about the flights. I wish that it would leave me alone so I could instead feel the excitement and anticipation of the adventure, the one I dream of when a real flight is not actually approaching and I am just staring up into the sky at a passing plane.

A crescent moon sets in the west, so clear despite the street lights and high rise around the library. I have missed my chance to take dinner at one of the eateries, busy despite this being the middle of the week.

The lecture finishes and we drive home. I feel a sense of melancholy, an exhaustion of a busy day. We had yet another session on psychosocial safety at work today and I recognise the signs and do not see how to change them. That would require energy and effort which are already overcommitted to the jobs at hand.

I look in the mirror and see a library. It has few books on its many shelves, because they are all out on loan. I await their return.

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#PhantastikPrompts

Have you ever killed off one of your main characters or otherwise written them out? If so, why?

I have ended short stories with the death of a significant character. I have contemplated deaths of main characters in the novels, although people return to my novels for the characters so I'd need an overwhelming artistic need to do that. Death is a serious business, and although my murder mysteries have wit and charm, that shows. #books #amwriting #writingcommunity

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'help' #BookQW

Ryshad's an experienced and capable warrior. He knows he can't solve every problem on his own. Recently he has learned that a wizard's assistance can be invaluable. It can also be highly problematic, as he and young aristocrat Temar will soon discover.

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Cover art by Geoff Taylor shows two swordsmen standing back to back as enemies approach. Extract: I focused on the second boat, a round-bellied coastal craft with triangular sails plump and complacent when it should have been fighting for its life in those surging seas. Heedless of raging swells fighting to ram it on to the rocks, it was sweeping serenely towards the harbour. ‘Oh.’ Casuel’s tone was heavy with displeasure. ‘Magic?’ I hardly needed mystical communion with the elements to realise that, when I could see the ship defying all sense and logic. ‘An advanced practitioner,’ Casuel confirmed with glum envy. I looked for some telltale of magic, a crackle of blue light or a ball of unearthly radiance clinging to the masthead. Deep-water sailors talk of such things, calling it the Eye of Dastennin. There was nothing to see; perhaps this unknown wizard considered it enough to set the ship riding high in the water, untouched by the storm. I looked back to the first vessel, now heeling dangerously. It had moved a full length or more closer to the seething rocks, its plight ever more perilous. As we watched, helpless, a great wave plunged over the deck, the waist of the ship vanishing completely, deck castles alone resisting the insatiable seas. We held ourselves motionless until the ship struggled up to ride the surface once more. But now it had a dangerous list; cargo must have shifted in the hold, and that had been the death of many a crew. ‘They’re going to help.’

Honoré de #Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) wanted to do with the pen what Napoleon had done with the sword.

And in a way, he did. His influence reached #Dostoevsky, Zola, Flaubert, Proust, Dickens, Wilde, and Baldwin. Dostoevsky’s first published book was even a Russian translation of Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet.

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#PhantastikPrompts

Have you ever killed off one of your main characters or otherwise written them out? If so, why?

Writing them out - I can think of retiring characters but my first two books were a duology and writing a third doesn't appeal.

Of course the victim in a murder mystery should be a main character.

#books #writing #writingcommunity

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Neu im Comenius-Antiquariat 20.5.2026.
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Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winifred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly #books #literature #dedication

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To Mama, who held out her hands and took me

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LEAD — INTERNATIONAL

Middle East crisis live: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warn of war ‘beyond the region’ if US resumes attacks
-- The Guardian

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▸ Russian threats against Baltics ‘unacceptable’ and danger to ‘our entire union’, EU’s von der Leyen says - Europe live
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▸ Totó la Momposina, vocalist and Colombian music legend, dies aged 85
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Marissa Nadler Mid-Sentence

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#writersCoffeeClub 20 May: If not your current genre, what genre would you write?

I write fantasy, science fiction and murder mysteries at novella and novel length.

What I have been struggling to land are worlds that are not basically the earth. I have a stalled project with two first drafts (don't ask.) and several good starts.

I largely consider them the same 'me' genre.

#books #writing

54: You Only Live Twice where a dejected and disgraced Bond goes to Japan on an impossible mission to gain access to Japan’s intelligence services for the Crown, which leads him to face a “Disneyland of Death,” to prove his intentions for both governments. Solid read with unexpected end. #books #jamesbond

More recommendations: what our members suggested for younger readers & books mentioned in the speculative crime panel – Åcon 14

#books #ScienceFiction #fantasy #CrimeFiction

https://aconfourteen.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/recommendations-for-younger-readers-speculative-crime-panel/

Book Review: https://73pctgeek.com/tess-of-the-durbervilles-by-thomas-hardy/

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

16-year-old Tess Durbeyfield tries to seek her fortune, and meets with mixed results.

I didn’t care for this. I found it a slog to get through, and kept avoiding it. I’ve enjoyed other Victorian literature, so disliking this so viscerally was a surprise.

While Tess starts out as someone with character, by the end of the first part she has dissolved into a wet mush. I should have taken a hint from the full title of the novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, and realised that I would end up despairing.

I found it a slow, dreary read, and practically every character in the novel is horrible. Convenient changes of heart happen whenever the plot needs it to, which doesn’t make it less tedious to read. It’s put me right off reading any more Hardy. ★★☆☆☆

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon

TOUTING. (From TUERI, to look about) Publicans fore-stalling guests, or meeting them on the road, and begging their custom; also thieves or smugglers looking out to see that the coast is clear. Touting ken; the bar of a public house.

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

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): TOUTING. (From TUERI, to look about) Publicans fore-stalling guests, or meeting them on the road, and begging their custom; also thieves or smugglers looking out to see that the coast is clear. Touting ken; the bar of a public house. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

En los 80, en Curuzú, salía de la secundaria y de repente cruzaba la calle una voz:—¡Raúúúll! ¡Te amo, Raúl!Siempre desde lejos. Flaco, rápido, imposible de alcanzar.
Nunca se acercó. Solo gritaba y desaparecía.
https://fictograma.com/d/2941-desde-la-otra-vereda

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Querida Elisabeth: si las estrellas pudieran oírme, sabrían que tu nombre reemplazó al silencio del universo. Desde que llegaste, el mundo dejó de ser mundo. Si existe otra vida, te elegiré también allí. —William
https://fictograma.com/d/2943-carta-del-enamorado

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Del recreo a la salida, todo parece cotidiano: charlas, abrazos, planes. Pero entre lo ordinario se cuela el peligro disfrazado. No es un cuento: es una advertencia sobre la vulnerabilidad de la infancia.
https://fictograma.com/d/2944-las-cuatro-corderitas-y-el-lobo

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The Wedding by Dorothy West #books #literature #dedication

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To the memory of my editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Though there was never such a mismatched pair in appearance, we were perfect partners.

April 9, 1816.
Chap.XLI.—An Act to repeal the act, entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on household furniture and on gold and silver watches[”]

— United States Statutes at Large
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The Ontology of a Hummingbird

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BookMooch: free, used-book swapping

http://www.bookmooch.com/

BookMooch.com is a huge (as in: 100,000’s of books), free, book swapping site. Why buy a new book when you can save one from the landfill?

It’s free to join and create your account. You start out by posting up some books which you are willing to give away. If someone would like one of your books, they request to “mooch” it from you. If you accept the mooch, you simply ship it to them paying the postage. In return you get a bookmooch “point”.

If you see a book you want, you can request to mooch it. (If the owner accepts, they ship it to you and they pay the postage.) Each mooch costs you one point. You earn points when someone mooches a book from you; you get 1 point for within-the-U.S. mooches, and 3 points if you’re willing to ship internationally. You also get 1/10 of a point for each book you list in your moochable inventory.

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#WordWeavers 20/5: Does your MC enjoy haircuts or hair styling?
I can’t say Jerya, or any other MC, enjoys it. However, hair/lack of hair has considerable significance.
In the Sung Lands, a bald head denotes a Dawnsinger; in the Five Principalities, a slave. For others, long/short hair has been a traditional gender-marker, but this is being increasingly challenged/flouted. Of course, not everyone is happy about such ‘degeneracy’.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon

#WritersCoffeeClub 20/5: If not your current genre, what genre would you write?
See yesterday’s answer. I don’t go along with the all-too-common prescriptive view of ‘genre’, where what could be a useful signpost for readers becomes a straitjacket for writers.
I write what I write, and only later try to figure out what genre label(s) might apply.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon

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McDonald’s x Nike Book 2 “Sedona”が6月2日より発売予定 ［IR6443-100］

Common Robins and Feasant Dusting Mires
https://subspacewagon.systems/common-robins-and-feasant-dusting-mires/

A compass to England in wasted plaster weddings
https://subspacewagon.systems/a-compass-to-england-in-wasted-plaster-weddings/

“ther as the nyght”
https://subspacewagon.systems/ther-as-the-nyght/

@poetry
@writingcommunity

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Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library, public library in Washington, D.C., USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamond-Riggs/Lillian_J._Huff_Neighborhood_Library

#libraries #books #map

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A photo of or from a library from the linked website, overlaid on a cropped world map where it's located.

「Pages | Fukuoka Art Book Fair 2026」、太宰府天満宮で国内外約100組が集うアートブックフェアを開催 │ QUI

第三回となる今回は、本という存在そのものを見つめ直す多彩な企画を展開。なかでも注目は、シンガポールのデザインユニット Atelier HOKO による展示「BOOK?」だ。本のサイズや紙の質感、装丁の違いによって読書体験 [...]
#MAGMOE #JP #JAPAN #Celebrity #Book書籍 #book #books #書籍
https://www.magmoe.com/2981933/book/2026-05-20/

呆れるほど「説明がヘタクソな人」の特徴・ワースト1 | 言語化だけじゃ伝わんない | ダイヤモンド・オンライン

「言語化にモヤモヤする」
「即答よりじっくり考えるほうが大事」
「口下手のままでもいいじゃない」…
など、まったく新しいコミュ力を説いた書籍『言語化だけじゃ伝わんない』が発売された。著者でイ [...]
#MAGMOE #JP #JAPAN #Celebrity #Book書籍 #book #books #書籍 #言語化
https://www.magmoe.com/2981935/book/2026-05-20/