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negative12dollarbill

@negative12dollarbill@techhub.social

• Coder in Sydney, Gadigal land
• Bass/Rhythm/Lead guitar
• Bouba in the streets;Kiki in the sheets
• I run a couple of bots.
• I do #WebDev, currently working with a #perl system and learning #Golang at the same time, which is giving me mental whiplash

User image and header are both from the animated series "Gravity Falls" in which a fictional President of the USA issues a bill worth -$12.

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dickrubin716 , to bookstodon group
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I would love to get your thoughts and feedback on my from my latest book, The Challenges of Being Me. Do you like it? Does it capture your attention? Without knowing anything about the book, what genre would you say this cover best fits? @bookstodon

negative12dollarbill ,
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@dickrubin716 @bookstodon Major font problems. All upper case, expanded too much, stock windows font. The image needs more contrast. Don't be afraid to have the title overlay the image rather than floating away all by itself. Zoom in on the image. It's OK if her hand goes out of frame.

If I had to guess from the title alone it would be young adult, but the image makes me think of self-help or philosophy.

negative12dollarbill ,
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@diazona @dickrubin716 @bookstodon YA novels are either called one word or they're called some long pretentious phrase.

raccoonformality , to bookstodon group
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can someone please explain to me why some books do that thing where the cover doesn't go all the way to the edge? like, the cover has a half-inch strip missing to expose the page underneath (usually the page underneath has quotes or whatever).

surely this isn't a cost cutting measure?

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negative12dollarbill ,
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@raccoonformality @bookstodon
Can you show us a pic please?

melikhovo , to bookstodon group
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Today would be the great writer Carol Emshwiller's 103rd birthday. She is too little known today, and so my message to the world is a simple one: Read Carol Emshwiller!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/read-carol-102216945

@bookstodon

negative12dollarbill ,
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@melikhovo @bookstodon Perhaos you could give a quick outline of the type of stories she wrote? Her style or subject matter? What makes her different?

ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon group
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At the risk of reigniting a debate that has been had in my timeline in the past... here's a report of a University of Valencia that looked at over 20 paper examine the differential effects of reading digitally & on paper.

The research confirms my experience (my own & in the reading of my erstwhile students) that reading digitally is less likely to lead to long-term educational (knowledge) benefits...

@bookstodon

https://www.upmpaper.com/knowledge-inspiration/blog-stories/articles/2024/makes-you-learn/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=PaperBecauseItsReal2024&utm_term=&utm_content=Image

negative12dollarbill ,
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@adritheonly @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Promise me your terabyte of precious books is backed up?

negative12dollarbill ,
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@adritheonly @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Nice. For full 100% certainty the copy should be in another location but you know your stuff.

chargrille , to movies
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I think I will start a #Feminist #Movies thread.

A #FeministDystopia movie I watched this week (by happy accident!) was Swallow.

Incredible, beautiful artistry, direction, acting, sound, color, everything, in this film. Haley Bennett was truly extraordinary as the lead. I prefer her performance to any of this year's Oscar nominees. She held me completely in suspense the whole time, bizarrely relatable.

Highly recommend watching this one, even if only for its spectacular ending!

negative12dollarbill ,
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@chargrille
Sounds wild. I will try to get hold of it.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8372298/

negative12dollarbill ,
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@chargrille

I was sure I'd seen it for a moment but I was thinking of The Starling Girl, because … birds! That is also an interesting movie and I suppose you could call it feminist.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt21156390/

hosford42 , to neurodivergence group
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Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:

  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • Strong people skills
  • Good culture fit
  • Multitasking
  • A fast-paced dynamic environment
  • Bachelor's degree or better

I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.


@actuallyautistic
@neurodivergence

negative12dollarbill ,
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@blogdiva @eric @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

If your work culture is sexist, racist "edgy" humour, implicitly yes.

willaful , to bookstodon group
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Finished my 2nd book, Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton, illustrated by Aska.

A charming graphic novel, queer, and super geeky. Maisie, (14, disabled, bi, writes fanfic) meets Ollie (15, nonbinary, draws fanart) at her first SF con and they have a wonderful day-long romance.

I really enjoyed the vicarious con experience, Maisie's relationship with her mum, and the sweetness of that instant connection. Hope we get a happy sequel someday.

@bookstodon

negative12dollarbill ,
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@willaful @bookstodon https://fremantlepress.com.au/books/stars-in-their-eyes/

stephenwhq , to bookstodon group
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254 — How do you use social media as an author?

Frequent "buy my book" - is annoying and I am good at not spending time looking at that

Ridiculous hype, unhelpful quotes "eighth book in the VoidLords series", bad covers don't help.

I value people who subscribe to my free newsletter and offer discounts/special offers to them.

https://linktr.ee/stephencoxauthor

@bookstodon

negative12dollarbill ,
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@stephenwhq @twoowls73 @bookstodon

Just in case it's not clear what TwoOwls was saying:

• your linktree has "Buy The Books! " which takes us to
• https://stephencox.co.uk/?page_id=84 where we find a link "Buy from my* independent shop All Good Bookshop" which takes us to
• https://allgoodbookshop.co.uk/order-books-1/ols/products/our-child-of-two-worlds

which gives us a 404 error.

amberage , to histodons group
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and fediverse, help me out here, please.

A while ago, I saw a comment somewhere (not necessarily fedi) that boiled down roughly to this:

"The British aristocracy made their (edit: male) servants recognisable as such by dressing them in formal clothes, but in mismatched combinations (i.e. tailcoat with a black bowtie, long tie with a wing collar)."

This was (roughly speaking and to the best of my knowledge) about the Victorian through Edwardian and early Modern periods, i.e. when formalwear as we know it (morning coat, tailcoat, etc.) already existed in roughly the form we know it.

I can't find that comment anymore, and I don't expect I ever will, but it would be fascinating to read more about this subject, very specific and niche as it is. I've tried googling around for it (i.e. "historical british servant dress codes"), but found very little.

If anyone has some reading material on that (preferably online or books buyable online, if not I'll have to see if my library can get foreign (english) literature), I would be super grateful for any links or the likes.

@histodons

negative12dollarbill ,
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@amberage @histodons

Guesses for accounts which might know:

• @hilarydoda
• @BHO
• @natania

negative12dollarbill , to bookstodon group
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See if you can spot the teeny tiny mistake in Google's result for "Robert Jordan" …

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Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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Bit tired and bored, so I'll probably just carry on with Islands in the Stream, then have an early night. I can see why Hemingway ditched this one, but at least the first part must've been good practice for The Old Man and the Sea. @bookstodon 📖

negative12dollarbill ,
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@Schnuckster @bookstodon Did he "ditch" it?

negative12dollarbill , to art group
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This is great stuff. It kind of requires a bit of pop-culture triangulation to ‘get it’, but just go for it and enjoy the art.

[In an alternate universe in which the New Yorker was a Tokyo-based magazine called the Tokyoiter, this is what the magazine's covers would look like.]

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@art @illustration

https://www.thetokyoiter.com/

georgetakei , to Random
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I sang it, I admit.

negative12dollarbill ,
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@georgetakei
This is driving me crazy. The joke would be better if the graffiti was just “of the prophets”, thereby giving us the sentence:

‘the words ”of the prophets” ARE written on the Subway wall”

instead of what we've got which is implicitly:

‘“The words of the prophets” IS written on the Subway wall‘.

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Gonna share some truths that are taboo to talk about, and everyone is gonna angrily at me about (I’m going to drink this mead then have a nap, don’t bother):glasses frames are a monopoly, but you can buy pretty nice glasses from China if you have a prescription for like $20, I have like 11 - look at Vooglam ~ nobody actually gives a shit if you go to the glamorous restaurant alone, as long as you tip well and are polite - in fact you’ll get better drinks at the bar~ the secret to doing a lot of stuff as an adult, like hobbies or going places, is just asking. Nobody gives a shit if you tip well and you’re polite. You can go almost wherever. You can finger paint. Whatevs.~ life is too short for shit beer & liquor~ life is too short for shit men, love~ there will be other loves even though it seems giant ~ trans rights are human rights and I’ll officiate your wedding ~ local elections matter ~ you should be seeing a therapist~ if you haven’t worn it in two years, donate it, darling~ people at bars want to tell you about their jobs and hobbies, and they’re all interesting~ video games and D&D are real life skills~ find the fitness that you can do long term~ no fad diets~ you don’t have to know how to code or watch Star Wars to be a great IT person~ if you ever have or think you have a serious health problem in America, understand our healthcare is shit and you need to research it yourself and then get like 3 opinions minimum. Nobody will look out for you like you do.~ you should probably wear the mask~ if you have ovaries that work you can just take birth control forever and never have a period, there are some health caveats but it’s mostly sorta kinda just a stigma not to. The military does this.~ if you have ovaries that work find an gynecologist who is generally not an asshole, life is too short for checking with your nonexistent husband ~ if your doctor harps on your bmi and nothing else, then get a new doctor, before you die. Literally.~ it’s a good night if you get home safe, brush your teeth, and take an aleve~ life is too short to penny pinch instead of living, because soon we’ll be gone~ you look perfect in that outfit to everyone except you ~ life is too short for shit jobs ~ ask how other people are doing, and listen~ genuinely care about what happens to other people because it will happen to you

negative12dollarbill ,
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@hacks4pancakes

> "if you have ovaries that work you can just take birth control forever and never have a period, there are some health caveats but it’s mostly sorta kinda just a stigma not to"

This is a fascinating one. There's all this history about the invention of the contraceptive pill and how the decision to interrupt the pills and for women to [appear to] menstruate was more a political/moral/religious/marketing decision than a medical decision.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/07/decades-women-pill-suffered-they-didnt-have/
https://archive.md/DPMSZ

georgetakei , to Random
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Typos are my worst enema!

negative12dollarbill ,
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@georgetakei
I mean, you're ASSUMING it's a typo …

Da_Gut , to bookstodon group
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Dracula Daily?
While browsing my local library's online items, I stumbled on this. I had never heard of Dracula daily - did anyone participate? What did you think? I expect it will take place this year..

@bookstodon

Let's read Dracula together! We'll start on May 3rd and each day, read only what happens to the characters on that day. Sound good? Let’s go. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel—it’s made up of letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper clippings—and every part of it has a date. The whole story happens between May 3rd and November 6th. Dracula Daily, however, is a lightly remixed adaptation. I've rearranged Dracula to be strictly chronological, divided into days, so we can get all the characters experiences as the story happens. It was originally started in 2021 as an email newsletter. You sign up at draculadaily.com and get an email each day that something happens to the characters in the same timeline that it happens to them. Some days theres a lot of activity, some days just a few sentences, and many days nothing at all. You only get an email when there’s action taking place in Dracula. But this book is a handy way to get the same experience on paper. You can read along with Jonathan and Mina and Jack and the crew in ‘real time; using the innovative technology of a ribbon bookmark. Start on May 3rd. Stop when you get to the end of that day. Place your bookmark there, and pick up the book again on May 4th. Voila! The stretched-out reading cadence of Dracula Daily—some days with only a few paragraphs, some days a whole <...> You'll feel the distances and durations the characters traverse. Fair warning: you'll need to set aside a lot of time for October 3rd.

Screenshot of library checkout for Dracula Daily, a hardback book that brings together the missives of an interesting sounding email newsletter. The wildly popular email newsletter that has been described as an \"internet sensation\" (The New York Times) and \"the coolest book club on the internet\" (Fast Company) is breathing new life into Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. Now, the internet phenomenon can be experienced in this deluxe hardcover book that includes hilarious commentary and artwork from Dracula Daily readers. Thanks to Dracula Daily, the email newsletter that delivers the classic vampire novel in bite- sized chunks, \"an old story about the undead is aettina a new life\" (NPR). (Screenshot ends)
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    • negative12dollarbill ,
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    @Da_Gut @bookstodon
    I signed up for the emails, but to be honest after a while I stopped reading them. I think the community/commentary thing will be interesting.

    But in the end, what does it matter that the dates in the original novel get matched to dates in 2024? It's a nice gimmick, that's all.

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @Da_Gut @bookstodon
    There will be gaps in the reading because there are gaps in the book, then tons of stuff to read in one day?

    Also I'm in Australia so it's not like the weather will match up, like the characters will be huddled over a fire in the cold in January but I'll be on the beach.

    negative12dollarbill , to Random
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    I just remembered that I created an EPUB of one of my favourite short stories, “The Tower” by Marghanita Laski, a while back, just to practice making e-books (with Calibre).

    It's not exactly horror, but I think fans of horror will like it. The story seems to have been forgotten now, but to me it's a classic.

    Link here if you're interested—material shared for educational purposes only.

    https://negative12dollarbill.com/files/The%20Tower.epub

    @bookstodon

    bloodravenlib , to bookstodon group
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    >Why Gen Z fell back in love with the library
    https://www.fastcompany.com/91011107/why-gen-z-fell-back-in-love-with-the-library

    @bookstodon
    @librarians

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @fernby @bloodravenlib @bookstodon @librarians

    1. Heating/Aircon
    KitMuse , to bookstodon group
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    I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

    Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

    @bookstodon

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @KitMuse @bookstodon Bit late but this book set in India has some interesting religious themes:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_Gods

    TheCozyCat , to bookstodon group
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    Halfway through by and I am pleasantly surprised how much I enjoy it! Haven't even gotten to the romance yet and the story alone has completely pulled me in and the characters are so endearing 🥰. I think I'm slowly starting to expand on the genres I enjoy. I'm excited to have found another author I think I'll easily return to again and again.

    Has anyone else read Legends & Lattes? 🥰

    @bookstodon

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @TheCozyCat @bookstodon
    I really enjoyed it too.

    I'd stayed away because I thought it would be a) too cute and b) a Pratchett pastiche but it was neither. I really liked the … I want to say "competence porn" of it all. A story about good people who were good at their jobs.

    negative12dollarbill , to bookstodon group
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    I'm sorry, but this still makes me laugh every damn time:

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    @bookstodon

    negative12dollarbill , to bookstodon group
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    I want everyone to be very, very quiet and not make any sudden movements.

    My teenage son is VOLUNTARILY reading a book not assigned to him by school.

    <tiptoes out of the room>

    @bookstodon

    herhandsmyhands , to Romancelandia group
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    @romancelandia
    Brit friends, help? Would someone from a good family--not aristocracy, but perhaps landed gentry--refer to themselves as "a posh" when talking to someone else. As in, "I may be a posh from (place), but..."

    (please share for reach)

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @herhandsmyhands @romancelandia @bookstodon

    No, not a British expression. Source, British, lived next county to Devon for many years. It's literary, I guess.

    negative12dollarbill , to bookstodon group
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    This came to me last night in a dream.

    Not a good dream.

    @bookstodon

    georgetakei , to Random
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    Stand up against censorship everywhere. https://www.comicsands.com/texas-commission-removes-slavery-books-2666537892.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @georgetakei
    Too many of the books about Auschwitz focus on the Jews and not the Nazis, take them off the shelves.

    georgetakei , to Random
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    As if he'd have a chance. https://www.comicsands.com/nick-adams-date-dua-lipa-2666465636.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @georgetakei
    He picked this image of her, probably thinking it made her look cold, or angry or mean.

    She looks fierce. She looks AMAZING.

    georgetakei , to Random
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    This picture speaks volumes of who the Bidens are.

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @georgetakei
    Trump wouldn't get up on that stepladder for a million dollars. He'd be terrified.

    ronsboy67 , to bookstodon group
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    A question prompted by "Crime Wave at Blandings", the first story in "Lord Emsworth and Others, which I currently . PGW has Lord Emsworth saying "dooce" a lot. In my quasi-literate ignorance, that seems like an Americanism, the sort of thing PGW might have picked from living there. Would a very English Earl of the era have said "deuce" as "dooce" , or would he have been more like to say /djuːs/ ? @bookstodon

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @ronsboy67 @bookstodon
    Are you reading an American edition perhaps? Maybe someone has a U.K. edition and can compare?

    ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon group
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    Meanwhile in ..... having been subjected to a infestation & a problem in the , now the organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside 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

    @bookstodon

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    @riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
    Last I checked, Montreal still had a tax on the books which they added in 1976 for their Olympics.

    Bibliothecarmen , to bookstodon group German
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    Somehow I missed this trend: When did trivial medical romance become trivial romance?

    Dieser Trend ist irgendwie an mir vorbeigegangen: Wann wurde aus dem trivialen Arztroman der triviale :in-Roman?

    @bookstodon

    Titel-Collage: Bliss, Karina: What the Librarian Did; Fox, Liz: Curvy Librarians of Sugar Hill; Gerard, Cindy: The Librarian's Passionate Knight; Grace, Carol: The Librarian's Secret Wish; Heskin, Anna: The Billionaire's Curvy Librarian; James, Elsie: Checking Out the Librarian; Jones, Linda Winstead: Bigfoot and the Librarian; Louve, E. A.: Seduction in the Library; Love, Frankie: Talk wordy to me; Swan, Pepper: 3 Cowboys for the Librarian; Tucker, Les: Nympho Librarian; West, Harper: The Billionaires and the Librarian.
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    @SemAntiKast @Bibliothecarmen @bookstodon
    https://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/Vintage-cover-of-Nympho-Librarian-painted-by-Paul-Rader.html

    evanpeterjones , to bookstodon group
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    Dan Brown only sucks if you're more pretentious about his books than his books are, lol. They're just corny and fun little adventures and I'm convinced it's just jealous authors who drive the Dan Brown hate.

    Not every book has to drive you into an existential crisis to be enjoyable.

    @bookstodon

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @CommonMugwort @evanpeterjones @bookstodon

    If you haven't read this, check it out—Brown's writing is bad at the sentence level … and the subclause level and the word level.

    http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html

    tchambers , to Random
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    Just created this blog, to track new #Fediblogs - and to kick the tires on the new WordPress #ActivityPub plugin.

    @fediblogs.wordpress.com@fediblogs.wordpress.com

    https://fediblogs.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/just-added-this-site-to-the-fediverse/

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @Pattyagray @tchambers @fediblogs.wordpress.com@fediblogs.wordpress.com

    The place to ask would be here, I guess, I've tried searching for "profile" but nothing very useful came up.

    As best I understand it, you don't have a separate mastodon profile you can log into and edit. You have a new outlet from Wordpress to the fediverse which inherits everything from Wordpress.

    Your mastodon profile is your Wordpress profile, and it will stay cached for a while even if you update Wordpress.

    https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/activitypub/

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @mastodonmigration @Pattyagray @pfefferle
    I'm not your customer here, Patty's not replied yet but yes please explain in more detail.

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @mastodonmigration @Pattyagray @pfefferle

    I'm absolutely sure there are still questions and any light you can shed on it would be great.

    The question, possibly an FAQ, is "the Wordpress plugin has effectively created me a mastodon account. How do I edit the profile for this account?"

    Montaagge , to bookstodon group
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    @DocCarms @bookstodon "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @Montaagge @bookstodon
    I read an article once which said research showed that Harry Potter books had kids reading LESS. They would read one, then wait a year for the next one.

    negative12dollarbill ,
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    @shaedrich @Montaagge @bookstodon I think you're missing the point a little? If you want kids to eat fruit and they love only one type — they will only eat mangoes when they're in season — your kids eat less fruit overall.

    negative12dollarbill , to Random
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    I have a pretty big Mastodon question/problem.

    I'm trying to link someone who doesn't have an account to this thread:

    https://techhub.social/@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com/110753630156713990

    which contains an image for each country in the world.

    I can see it at that URL.

    But when I go to that thread in Incognito/a browser where I'm not logged in, I get redirected to this URL:

    https://universeodon.com/@LadyDragonfly/110753630154110925

    which cuts off after Brunei.

    What's happening, how can I stop it, and how can I share that full thread with someone not on Mastodon?

    This is kind of a blow to my evangelism.

    negative12dollarbill OP ,
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    @feditips perhaps you have some insight?

    negative12dollarbill OP ,
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    @feditips
    Maybe it’s intentional — to start showing some replies after 20-odd posts in a thread? To show replies after 10% of the thread? To show replies as soon as they start showing up?

    But the fact that there is

    • a radically different view for the logged in and the non-logged-in user, and
    • no obvious affordance to let the non-logged in user see the rest of the thread

    is a major bug, I feel.

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