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[?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
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Don Quijote y Sancho buscan a Marcela en el bosque. Descansan, comen... y Rocinante se enamora de las yeguas de unos arrieros gallegos. 😏 Los yangüeses apalean al pobre Rocinante. Don Quijote, furioso, ataca...
fictograma.com/d/3352-el-ingen

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

    Madre: "Ay, ay, ay, qué dolor..."
    Yo: "Toma 20€, hazme Bizum."
    Ella: "Ay, ay..."
    Cierro la puerta → silencio. La abro → mariachis. La cierro → paz.
    Sale, se chuta Ventolín, se fuma un cigarro.
    Grito: "¡MILAGRO!"
    fictograma.com/d/3359-casi-tod

      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
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      🌠 El Regalo de FaetónA veces el universo nos recuerda que venimos de fuego y roca antigua. Como Faetón, cuya roca sigue rompiéndose cada diciembre para regalarnos las Gemínidas: lágrimas de luz...
      fictograma.com/d/3360-el-regal

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

        GINGERBREAD WORK. Gilding and carving: these terms are particularly applied by seamen on board Newcastle colliers, to the decorations of the sterns and quarters of West-Indiamen, which they have the greatest joy in defacing.

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

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        @histodons

        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): GINGERBREAD WORK. Gilding and carving: these terms are particularly applied by seamen on board Newcastle colliers, to the decorations of the sterns and quarters of West-Indiamen, which they have the greatest joy in defacing. 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): GINGERBREAD WORK. Gilding and carving: these terms are particularly applied by seamen on board Newcastle colliers, to the decorations of the sterns and quarters of West-Indiamen, which they have the greatest joy in defacing. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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

          Llegaron hombres armados y destronaron a las autoridades en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. Los naturales, liberados de la servidumbre, llevaron zacate y tortillas a la caballería… hasta que un cabecilla subió...
          fictograma.com/d/3353-el-indio

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

            Hamlet a Claudio: “Polonio ha ido a cenar… no donde come, sino donde es comido. Un rey puede acabar en las tripas de un mendigo.” Envían a Hamlet a Inglaterra (con orden secreta de matarlo). ..
            fictograma.com/d/3354-hamlet-a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              Bleeding (I Bled). Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

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

              Sangrando (sangré). Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

              [?]OhSnap!Dragon » 🌐
              @DrOinOR@mastodon.social

              📚 📖




              In the Sequel to Charles Dickens' novel, David Copperfield, the debauched, "handsy" wastrel protagonist becomes known as "David Cop-A-Feel".

              It's a character from a film adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel, but not sure if it's David Copperfield or Pip from Great Expectations, but anyhoo, it's a young man-boy from the nineteenth century, looking avaricious and greedy. The caption reads, Meets a rich person; expects to become one

              Alt...It's a character from a film adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel, but not sure if it's David Copperfield or Pip from Great Expectations, but anyhoo, it's a young man-boy from the nineteenth century, looking avaricious and greedy. The caption reads, Meets a rich person; expects to become one

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

                The World's Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy—and How to Keep It by Sally C. Pipes

                To my husband Charles Kesler and our cat Bertie Wooster who support my nonstop market-based health-care reform efforts.

                Alt...To my husband Charles Kesler and our cat Bertie Wooster who support my nonstop market-based health-care reform efforts.

                  [?]OhSnap!Dragon » 🌐
                  @DrOinOR@mastodon.social

                  📚 📖
                  Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet....

                  "The Ballad of East and West"
                  --Rudyard Kipling







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                  Early twentieth century Japanese novel by Soseki Natsume, titled I am a cat. It's a story of Japanese high noble culture from the view of a lowly cat

                  Alt...Early twentieth century Japanese novel by Soseki Natsume, titled I am a cat. It's a story of Japanese high noble culture from the view of a lowly cat

                  Screenshot of a classic meme from the Covid era. A white kitten is looking side eyed and saying I am not a cat!. The meme is from a Zoom call where a business person was trying to join the Zoom, but somehow their avatar kept coming up as a kitten, so they had to explain, by saying I am not a cat!

                  Alt...Screenshot of a classic meme from the Covid era. A white kitten is looking side eyed and saying I am not a cat!. The meme is from a Zoom call where a business person was trying to join the Zoom, but somehow their avatar kept coming up as a kitten, so they had to explain, by saying I am not a cat!

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

                    Don Quijote y Sancho buscan a Marcela en el bosque. Descansan, comen... y Rocinante se enamora de las yeguas de unos arrieros gallegos. 😏 Los yangüeses...
                    fictograma.com/d/3352-el-ingen

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

                      Llegaron hombres armados y destronaron a las autoridades en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. Los naturales, liberados de la servidumbre, llevaron zacate y tortillas...
                      fictograma.com/d/3353-el-indio

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

                        Hamlet a Claudio: “Polonio ha ido a cenar… no donde come, sino donde es comido. Un rey puede acabar en las tripas de un mendigo.” Envían a Hamlet a Inglaterra (con orden secreta). ..
                        fictograma.com/d/3354-hamlet-a

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

                          🧚‍♂️ El Ratón Pérez: Aquella noche, el Sr. Pérez llevó a su hijo Manu por primera vez a recoger el diente de Matías. —Los dientes de leche tienen energía de estrella —le explicó.
                          fictograma.com/d/3355-el-sr-pe

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

                            "Eventos anómalos 2": Un Porsche 911 de 1975, dos versiones de la misma persona y una mujer de granito que fuma como chimenea industrial. 🚬🏎️

                            Alma consiguió su joya como pago por...
                            fictograma.com/d/3356-eventos-

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

                              El silencio en una perrera municipal es antinatural. Cien perros evaporados, ni un pelo. Mi detector marcó 0.7 y una grieta en el aire. Luego, caída en un valle idílico,..
                              fictograma.com/d/3357-eventos-

                                [?](Older) RJT » 🌐
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                                storehouse where redoubtable singers are elevated

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                                  [?]Nate Shivar » 🌐
                                  @nshivar@www.nateshivar.com

                                  Notes On The Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa

                                  I pulled Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa off a library shelf somewhat serendipitously after reading Dubord's The Society of the Spectacle. It had also been sitting on my reading list for a long time, so it felt like a good topic cluster read. The timing felt right for another reason. There's been no shortage of highbrow hand-wringing lately about the state of culture. Music isn't as good as it was in the 60s. Literature peaked in the 20s. Everything is dumbed down, […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                  I pulled Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa off a library shelf somewhat serendipitously after reading Dubord’s The Society of the Spectacle. It had also been sitting on my reading list for a long time, so it felt like a good topic cluster read.

                                  The timing felt right for another reason. There’s been no shortage of highbrow hand-wringing lately about the state of culture. Music isn’t as good as it was in the 60s. Literature peaked in the 20s. Everything is dumbed down, flattened out, optimized for clicks. You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. It gets exhausting.

                                  Vargas Llosa — a Nobel laureate with a classically liberal outlook that is, to put it mildly, not especially fashionable at the moment — basically pushes back on the doom. His argument isn’t that the critics are wrong exactly. It’s that they’re misreading what’s actually happening.

                                  The Argument

                                  Culture isn’t dying. It’s transitioning.

                                  The technology we use to create and distribute art is shifting dramatically, and we haven’t figured out the new forms yet. We’re somewhere in the messy middle of that process — which looks a lot like collapse from the inside, but probably isn’t.

                                  On top of the technology shift, money has taken over institutions that were never supposed to be primarily about money. Universities. Sports. Art markets. Even the definition of what counts as “culture.” Marx’s concept of exchange value — what something is worth in a transaction versus what it’s actually worth to a human being — is drowning out everything else. Netflix will greenlight a prestige film here and there to earn some cultural credibility, but its core job is to make the culture that makes money. That’s a different thing than making culture.

                                  Vargas Llosa is clear that the tension between artistic freedom and patronage has always existed. Artists have always had to deal with the people holding the purse strings. But he argues that the tilt toward pure commercial value has never been this extreme or this total.

                                  The hopeful part — and there is one — is that we’ve made it through transitions like this before. The printing press. Radio and television. Each time, the existing cultural forms looked threatened, and eventually new ones emerged. The most important variable, he argues, is whether enough individuals continue to value things other than money. If they do, the balance shifts back.

                                  What I Liked

                                  It’s a short, readable book — more of an extended essay than a dense academic text. Vargas Llosa writes with the clarity of someone who has spent a lifetime thinking carefully about ideas and also knows how to tell a story. The argument is structured without being rigid.

                                  I also appreciated that he resists pure doomerism. There’s a version of this book that just marinated in despair — and given the material, that would have been easy to write and probably more popular. Instead, he lands on something more honest: things are bad, the forces distorting culture are real and powerful, and also humans have navigated this kind of disruption before.

                                  What I Didn’t Like

                                  The historical grounding felt thin in places. When he argues that we’ve survived cultural transitions before, I wanted more specifics. Which transitions? What did the messy middle actually look like then versus now? A few more concrete examples would have made that argument much more persuasive.

                                  I also wanted a sharper take on what “enough people valuing something other than money” actually looks like in practice. It’s a hopeful note to end on, but it’s vague enough to feel like a shrug.

                                  What I Learned

                                  Mostly, it gave me a useful frame for something I had been feeling but couldn’t articulate. The frustration with modern culture isn’t necessarily that things are worse — it’s that the incentives structuring what gets made and what gets rewarded are more distorted than they’ve been in a long time. That’s a solvable problem, in theory, but only if individuals push against it deliberately.

                                  It’s a good book. I don’t know that I’d re-read it, but I’m glad I grabbed it off the shelf.

                                  Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

                                  $14.52

                                  Mario Vargas Llosa's Notes on the Death of Culture is a short, readable pushback against cultural doomerism. His argument: culture isn't dying, it's transitioning — and the real problem is that commercial incentives have never been more dominant over artistic ones. Hopeful without being naive, it's a useful frame for anyone frustrated with modern culture. Worth reading once, probably not twice.

                                  Pros:

                                  • Short, readable, and clearly argued — more extended essay than dense academic text
                                  • Resists pure doomerism and lands on a genuinely hopeful (if vague) conclusion
                                  • Puts a useful framework around a frustration that's hard to articulate

                                  Cons:

                                  • Historical examples of past cultural transitions feel thin and underdeveloped
                                  • The call to action — individuals valuing things other than money — is too vague to be satisfying
                                  • Readers unsympathetic to his classically liberal outlook may find the framing grating

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                                  Quotes

                                  It would be wrong to attribute identical functions to science and to the arts. It is the very fact that we have forgotten how to distinguish between them that has added to the current confusion in the field of culture. The sciences progress, like technology, wiping out whatever is old, antiquated or obsolete; for them the past is a cemetery, a world of dead things that have been surpassed by new dis-coveries and inventions. Literature and the arts are revital. ized but they do not progress, they do not obliterate their past, but rather build on it, they draw sustenance from the past and sustain it, so that despite being so distinct and distant, Velázquez is as alive as Picasso and Cervantes is as contemporary as Borges or Faulkner.

                                  Ideas of specialization and progress, which are insepa-rable from science, are inappropriate to the arts, which does not mean, of course, that literature, painting and music do not change and evolve. But one cannot say of them, as one can say of chemistry and alchemy, that the latter replaces and supersedes the former. A literary and artistic work that achieves a certain level of excellence does not die with the passing of time; it continues living and enriching new generations and evolving with them. That is why, until recently, literature and the arts were the common denominator of culture, the space where com-munication between human beings was possible despite differences in language, traditions, beliefs and eras, because people who today are moved by Shakespeare, who laugh with Molière and are dazzled by Rembrandt and Mozart, maintain a dialogue with those who read them, listened to them and admired them in the past.

                                  Notes On The Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa

                                  Alt...Notes On The Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa

                                  [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
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                                  Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh

                                  To the one in four

                                  Alt...To the one in four

                                    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
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                                    🧚‍♂️ El Ratón Pérez: Aquella noche, el Sr. Pérez llevó a su hijo Manu por primera vez a recoger el diente de Matías. —Los dientes de leche tienen energía de estrella —le explicó—. Los cambiamos por regalos y los enviamos...
                                    fictograma.com/d/3355-el-sr-pe

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

                                      "Eventos anómalos 2": Un Porsche 911 de 1975, dos versiones de la misma persona y una mujer de granito que fuma como chimenea industrial. 🚬🏎️

                                      Alma consiguió su joya como pago por exorcizar cuadros nazis. El auto no tenía...
                                      fictograma.com/d/3356-eventos-

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

                                        El silencio en una perrera municipal es antinatural. Cien perros evaporados, ni un pelo. Mi detector marcó 0.7 y una grieta en el aire. Luego, caída en un valle idílico, derribada por una marea de lenguas y colas.
                                        fictograma.com/d/3357-eventos-

                                          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
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                                          The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley

                                          This book is dedicated to our ancestors and all indigenous people who have suffered through centuries of colonialism. We, the First Nation descendants, are living proof of courage and resilience. We offer our work to the next generation so that they may carry the flame of knowledge and keep alive our traditions, our foods, and our medicines for generations to come. We devote these pages to the earth, Turtle Island, our home, our everything, in hopes that we indigenous people will always stand strong to protect her.

                                          Alt...This book is dedicated to our ancestors and all indigenous people who have suffered through centuries of colonialism. We, the First Nation descendants, are living proof of courage and resilience. We offer our work to the next generation so that they may carry the flame of knowledge and keep alive our traditions, our foods, and our medicines for generations to come. We devote these pages to the earth, Turtle Island, our home, our everything, in hopes that we indigenous people will always stand strong to protect her.

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                                            [?]kat donegan (she/her) 🇵🇸✊ » 🌐
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                                            we could have taken heed of 'friends of the earth' back in 1977 when they placed this advert in 'vole' magazine. we've failed.

                                            on a black background, a white image of planet earth sits at the top of the page. underneath, in white typewriter font, are the words, 'here is the earth'. at the bottom of the page, in the same typeface, are the words, 'don't spend it all at once' &, underneath that, in a different whit typeface, it reads, 'support friends of the earth in the fight to conserve, restore & rationally use our environment'. beneath that, a few lines down, are contact details for friends of the earth.

                                            Alt...on a black background, a white image of planet earth sits at the top of the page. underneath, in white typewriter font, are the words, 'here is the earth'. at the bottom of the page, in the same typeface, are the words, 'don't spend it all at once' &, underneath that, in a different whit typeface, it reads, 'support friends of the earth in the fight to conserve, restore & rationally use our environment'. beneath that, a few lines down, are contact details for friends of the earth.

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

                                              In this episode of the “Just Get a Real Job” podcast, Jamie Mackinlay talks to Margaret McDonald, who in 2025 became the youngest-ever winner of the Carnegie Medal for Writing for her debut novel GLASGOW BOYS.

                                              Margaret shares the journey behind GLASGOW BOYS, from writing fanfiction as a teenager in East Kilbride to becoming one of Scotland's most exciting literary voices.

                                              @bookstodon

                                              youtube.com/watch?v=yBPjm1fpDEI

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

                                                MADAM. A kept madam; a kept mistress.

                                                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): MADAM. A kept madam; a kept mistress. 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): MADAM. A kept madam; a kept mistress. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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

                                                  Died this day: 06/29/2017 (b. 04/28/1942) William Sanders was a Native American Sci-Fi writer & Editor, primarily noted for his alternate history short fiction. His Award-winning “The Undiscovered” is a sad and funny story about Shakespeare living among the Cherokee. (Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1997)

                                                  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_


                                                  @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

                                                  astralcomputing.com

                                                  Asimov's Science Fiction (March 1997) - featured story: After Kerry by Ian McDonald. Cover art by Kim Poor. A large, spherical orange and brown ringed planet is positioned in the lower half of the frame, its surface marked by swirling bands of ochre, deep sienna, and burnt umber. The rings of the planet descend from the top of the frame toward the center of the celestial body, casting a concentrated glow across the upper hemisphere. This luminous column transitions from a brilliant, nearly colorless white core to a soft, buttery yellow before fading into the dark, shadowed edges of the descending light. The rings create a bright, vertical highlight on the surface of the orange planet, illuminating a strip of the planet's curvature and revealing subtle, cratered depressions and raised topographical features. Small, white points of light representing distant stars are scattered across the black background of space, interspersed with faint, nebulous patches of dusty grey. In the foreground, there is a dark, textured landscape of craggy, brown, and grey rock formations, characterized by sharp, angular ridges and deep, shadowed crevices. These jagged stones exhibit patches of slate grey and charcoal, with rough, uneven surfaces that catch the peripheral light. The interplay between the brightly lit spherical surface and the dark, silhouetted rocky terrain in the foreground creates a sense of depth within the vast, black expanse of the cosmic void.

                                                  Alt...Asimov's Science Fiction (March 1997) - featured story: After Kerry by Ian McDonald. Cover art by Kim Poor. A large, spherical orange and brown ringed planet is positioned in the lower half of the frame, its surface marked by swirling bands of ochre, deep sienna, and burnt umber. The rings of the planet descend from the top of the frame toward the center of the celestial body, casting a concentrated glow across the upper hemisphere. This luminous column transitions from a brilliant, nearly colorless white core to a soft, buttery yellow before fading into the dark, shadowed edges of the descending light. The rings create a bright, vertical highlight on the surface of the orange planet, illuminating a strip of the planet's curvature and revealing subtle, cratered depressions and raised topographical features. Small, white points of light representing distant stars are scattered across the black background of space, interspersed with faint, nebulous patches of dusty grey. In the foreground, there is a dark, textured landscape of craggy, brown, and grey rock formations, characterized by sharp, angular ridges and deep, shadowed crevices. These jagged stones exhibit patches of slate grey and charcoal, with rough, uneven surfaces that catch the peripheral light. The interplay between the brightly lit spherical surface and the dark, silhouetted rocky terrain in the foreground creates a sense of depth within the vast, black expanse of the cosmic void.

                                                    Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 boosted

                                                    [?]MediaFaro Magazine » 🌐
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                                                    Dua Lipa opens a library for banned and censored books in Portugal.

                                                    The Manifesto Library is located inside Livraria Lello in Porto, and is dedicated to books “that challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives”.

                                                    mediafaro.org/article/20260629

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

                                                      ‘Birth of the Heart’ by Albert E. Johnson

                                                      deadpoetsdaily.com/p/albert-e-

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

                                                        The Glenriddell Manuscripts preserve Robert Burns’s own chosen poems & letters, illuminating his creative process. After his death, they went on an extraordinary journey before returning to Scotland. Ralph McLean, manuscripts curator for long 18th century collections at the National Library of Scotland, tells us more

                                                        nls.uk/collections/stories/lit

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

                                                          => “AI will democratize creative tools, so more people try out their ideas, relatively quickly and easily,”

                                                          from the CEO of Google DeepMind

                                                          business.google.com/us/think/a

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

                                                            People Like Us by Jason Mott

                                                            To the Ones Like You: You sing. You dance. You bleed like the sunrise sky.

                                                            Alt...To the Ones Like You: You sing. You dance. You bleed like the sunrise sky.

                                                              [?]Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ » 🌐
                                                              @LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie

                                                              @evan @riverpunk @alice @blogpost If you curated your tool by allowing it to act on solely generic or impersonal hashtags that you select using discretion ( eg ) and made it opt-in by default for other hashtags until you have made a careful judgement on them then no-one would be upset by this. The fact that so many are upset is not nothing, and should give you pause to consider why it's upsetting, and how you can fix that.

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

                                                                Poets are Liars

                                                                “if poetry genuinely is a truth-telling and poets truth-tellers, it seems important to demonstrate that what we do is falsifiable. What on earth would it mean to ‘lie’ in a poem?”

                                                                —Don Paterson on poetry, philosophy, & lies

                                                                northseapoets.substack.com/p/p

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

                                                                  Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food by Michelle T. King

                                                                  To Ma and Ba, for all the meals of my childhood. To Ian, Penelope, and Hamish, for all the meals yet to come.

                                                                  Alt...To Ma and Ba, for all the meals of my childhood. To Ian, Penelope, and Hamish, for all the meals yet to come.

                                                                    [?]Michael Martinez » 🌐
                                                                    @michael@middle-earth.xenite.org

                                                                    Q: Was The Old Forest Road Reopened Before The War Of The Ring?

                                                                    ANSWER: I received the following question in June 2025:

                                                                    Was anything done to reopen the Old Forest Road between the Battle of the Five Armies/end of The Hobbit and Frodo leaving The Shire. We know that over the course of The Hobbit the road was disused other than by goblins and the eastern end was lost in marsh and swamp, yet for […]

                                                                    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/was-the-old-forest-road-reopened-before-the-war-of-the-ring/

                                                                    An old road leading through a dark forest under the words 'Was The Old Forest Road Reopened Before The War Of The Ring?'

                                                                    Alt...An old road leading through a dark forest under the words 'Was The Old Forest Road Reopened Before The War Of The Ring?'

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                                                                    This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque.
                                                                    A frozen moment, not a memory.
                                                                    The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake
                                                                    Of taking it…

                                                                    —Liz Lochhead, “Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class, 1966”
                                                                    from FUGITIVE COLOURS (Birlinn, 2016)

                                                                    29 June is National Camera Day 📷

                                                                    birlinn.co.uk/product/fugitive

                                                                    Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class Liz Lochhead Her hair is cut into that perfect slant – An innovation circa ‘64 by Vidal Sassoon. She’s wearing C&A’s best effort at Quant Ending just below the knicker-line, daisy-strewn. Keeping herself in tights could blow her grant Entirely, so each precious pair is soon Spattered with nail varnish dots that stop each run. She’s a girl, eighteen – just wants to have fun. She’s not ‘a chick’. Not yet. Besides, by then She’ll find the term ‘offensive’. ‘Dollybird’ to quote Her favourite mags, is what she aspires to when Her head’s still full of Honey and Petticoat. It’s almost the last year that, quite this blithely, men Up ladders or on building sites wolf-whistle to note The approval they’re sure she will appreciate. Why not? She did it for their benefit, looks great. Nor does she object. Wouldn’t think she has the right. Though when that lech of a lecturer comments on her tits To a male classmate, openly, she might Feel – quick as a run in nylon – that it’s Not what ought to happen, is not polite, She’ll burn, but smile, have no word that fits The insult, can’t subject it to language’s prism. In sixty-six there’s plenty sex, but not ‘sexism’.

                                                                    Alt...Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class Liz Lochhead Her hair is cut into that perfect slant – An innovation circa ‘64 by Vidal Sassoon. She’s wearing C&A’s best effort at Quant Ending just below the knicker-line, daisy-strewn. Keeping herself in tights could blow her grant Entirely, so each precious pair is soon Spattered with nail varnish dots that stop each run. She’s a girl, eighteen – just wants to have fun. She’s not ‘a chick’. Not yet. Besides, by then She’ll find the term ‘offensive’. ‘Dollybird’ to quote Her favourite mags, is what she aspires to when Her head’s still full of Honey and Petticoat. It’s almost the last year that, quite this blithely, men Up ladders or on building sites wolf-whistle to note The approval they’re sure she will appreciate. Why not? She did it for their benefit, looks great. Nor does she object. Wouldn’t think she has the right. Though when that lech of a lecturer comments on her tits To a male classmate, openly, she might Feel – quick as a run in nylon – that it’s Not what ought to happen, is not polite, She’ll burn, but smile, have no word that fits The insult, can’t subject it to language’s prism. In sixty-six there’s plenty sex, but not ‘sexism’.

                                                                    Soon: The Female Eunuch and enough Will be enough. Thanks to newfound feminism and Greer, Women’ll have the words for all this stuff, What already rankles, but confuses her, will seem clear And she’ll (consciously) be no one’s ‘bit of fluff’ Or ‘skirt’ or ‘crumpet’. She’ll know the rule is ‘gay’ not ‘queer’, ‘Ms’ not ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs’ – she’ll happily obey it And, sure as the Pill in her pocket, that’s how she’ll say it. This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque. A frozen moment, not a memory. The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake Of taking it, a shot among many others, randomly, To see how it would develop. Didn’t imagine it’d make An image so typical it’d capture time so perfectly. How does she feel? Hey, girl, did it feel strange To be waiting for the a-changing times to change?

                                                                    Alt...Soon: The Female Eunuch and enough Will be enough. Thanks to newfound feminism and Greer, Women’ll have the words for all this stuff, What already rankles, but confuses her, will seem clear And she’ll (consciously) be no one’s ‘bit of fluff’ Or ‘skirt’ or ‘crumpet’. She’ll know the rule is ‘gay’ not ‘queer’, ‘Ms’ not ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs’ – she’ll happily obey it And, sure as the Pill in her pocket, that’s how she’ll say it. This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque. A frozen moment, not a memory. The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake Of taking it, a shot among many others, randomly, To see how it would develop. Didn’t imagine it’d make An image so typical it’d capture time so perfectly. How does she feel? Hey, girl, did it feel strange To be waiting for the a-changing times to change?

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                                                                      @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                                                      Islay Book Festival 2026
                                                                      27–30 August

                                                                      Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 Islay Book Festival

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                                                                      Poster: a white lighthouse sits on top of a blue-green hill, sweeping pale-pink beams across the page. The poster reads: ISLAY BOOK FESTIVAL ’26 Fèis Leabhraichean Ìle 27th - 30th August @IslayBookFest IslayBookFestival.co.uk Featured authors: Douglas Stuart Jenni Fagan Louise Welsh C.J. Cooke Dougie Donnelly Clare Jackson Julie Lin Mya-Rose Craig lan Buxton Eiliah Muldoon Stuart Graham Hannah Lavery Moray Watson Polly Pullar Linda Macleod Peter Roberts Sandra Ireland Justin Davies

                                                                      Alt...Poster: a white lighthouse sits on top of a blue-green hill, sweeping pale-pink beams across the page. The poster reads: ISLAY BOOK FESTIVAL ’26 Fèis Leabhraichean Ìle 27th - 30th August @IslayBookFest IslayBookFestival.co.uk Featured authors: Douglas Stuart Jenni Fagan Louise Welsh C.J. Cooke Dougie Donnelly Clare Jackson Julie Lin Mya-Rose Craig lan Buxton Eiliah Muldoon Stuart Graham Hannah Lavery Moray Watson Polly Pullar Linda Macleod Peter Roberts Sandra Ireland Justin Davies

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