I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚
«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain e-books that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.»
Oh my God! Oh fck! I wake up to this big news and all I can say is fck! I went to bed having read something about Philip K Dick Awards (I can't even remember what I read about it!) and I wake up to learn that my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, has been nominated for this and its a big deal to me and all I can day is f*ck! What a way to start the year!
"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of #science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a #dream, why do we have #toes, why is the #moon round, what is the birthday of the #world, why is #grass#green?"These are profound, important #questions. They just #bubble right out of them.You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become #incurious.Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade." #CarlSagan
Hello! As the bird app has become an absolute dumpster fire, I've decided to try out Mastodon. I'm hoping I'll like it, but I'm still trying to find my way around so I thought I'd try an #introduction. I'm an Artist and Illustrator in the Niagara Region (Ontario, Canada). I work in coloured pencil, watercolour, ink, and acrylic. I'm currently working on illustrations for my own tarot deck! As well as my love for #art and #tarot, I'm also a lifelong #geek, a #book worm, a #horror fan, a lover of #myth & #magic, a #quote collector, a #cat enthusiast, and a list maker. I would love to connect with other creatives and people with similar interests so please say hi if any or all of these apply to you!
How is it possible that poems were written in the Auschwitz camp? Who wrote them? How did they survive? – these and other questions are answered by our new English-Polish-Swedish publication:
“The Notebook with the Poems from Auschwitz”
The 32-page notebook contains 17 camp poems written in various hand writings.
You wanna know how we help this platform become more diversified and fun? #BOOST Y'all can't say you want more inclusivity and different conversations+content if y'all only like people shit. You know that doesn't move anything here. So when you see people posting #movie reviews, #book reviews, #comedy, #tarot, #astrology, #gamer talk, #handmade items-- BOOST IT. Even if it's not YOUR particular cup of tea. It may be someone elses.
Meanwhile in #Paris..... having been subjected to a #bedbug infestation & a #sewage problem in the #Seine, now the #Olympics organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside #book stalls that they want to absent themselves from the banks while the opening ceremony as their stock boxes are apparently a security risk...
How this will play out for the Paris mayor & Olympics management remains to be seen
I'm always looking for new and innovative wasy to excuse my book hoarding.
I hadn't realised I could use the 'I'll die someday so nothing matters' angle...😜😂
My book Philosophy of Cybersecurity tackles a broad domain from systems cybersecurity, user's aspects, healthcare, critical infrastructure security, to policy and politics matters, international law, and cyberwarfare.