Morning fedi 
today's my stop on the blog tour for The Great Deception. Read my review of this fascinating, exciting, and eerie novel:
https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-the-great-deception #bookstodon #BookMastodon
Are there any book clubs on Mastodon? The in-person ones around me keep petering out or are hard to get to, and the ones I’ve seen online are toooo big for my tastes. I have a slight preference for fantasy/sci-fi, but any genre is good. I just want to talk about books! #bookstodon #books #reading
#bookstodon #bookReview #knowledgeRepresentation actually a chapter review.
My notes after Chapter 1: Classical Logic of The Handbook of Knowledge Representation.
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/books/handbook-of-kr-ch1-logic/
Change Calibre's Default Theme to a Light or Dark Mode
Learn how to change Calibre’s default colour palette, theme or mode when the system default theme doesn’t cause it to change automatically.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/calibre-theme-light-dark-mode/
#blog #books #bookstodon #ebook #technology #100DaysToOffload
#AynRand is quoted, misquoted, praised, and vilified — often by people who haven’t read her.
_The Ayn Rand Reader_ offers excerpts from her #fiction and #nonfiction: her ideas, her voice, her terms.
If you’re serious about understanding her — whether to agree or disagree — start here: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/
#philosophy #books #bookstodon #literature #AynRand #Objectivism
"The Gift & The Legacy: African American Philanthropy as Power, Purpose and Promise, Taroue W. Brooks reframes the conversation, reminding us that philanthropy is not confined to financial contributions but encompasses time, talent, ties, testimony, treasure, and trust." By Staff Heart &Soul Magazine 9.16.25
https://www.heartandsoul.com/culture/the-heart-of-philanthropy/
#bookstodon #books #Blackmastodon #BlackFedi
started reading 修羅場のワンサイドラブ
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On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a valuable thing to have by your side in these times of increasing fascism.
Each chapter begins with a short bit of advice as it's title, followed by a sentence or two on it's potential importance. The rest of the chapter provides concrete historical examples.
Each chapter is short, and the book is only 126 pages. Possibly the most valuable thing that you could ever read.
I'm going to be posting the first page of each chapter, because of how important I think it is to share these ideas. Please boost if you feel them useful.
Hola grumetes! ¡Tenéis capítulo nuevo del #podcastnave 🥰! Presentado por Laura Moran, @fonteya y Dik os hablan de los distintos premios de este verano, los Kelvin, #PremiosIgnotus y el Domingo Santos, y de los libros y series de los que hemos disfrutado en estos meses https://www.ivoox.com/03x01-el-ignotus-lecturas-audios-mp3_rf_159309738_1.html #literaverso #bookstodon #podcasts
Out now!!
Buy direct from Evernight Publishing and save $1.25!
https://www.evernightpublishing.com/an-artist-s-kiss-by-suzy-shearer/
Isabella Coburn, 50, used to be the most in-demand nude artist’s model, now she’s a successful sculptor.
Artist, Gabriel ‘Archangel’ Milford, 53, needs Isabella to model for him and sparks fly when they meet. Though she refuses him, Gabriel is determined Issie will pose for him. She’s equally determined she won’t.
Amazon: bit.ly/3WjyEY4
Evernight: bit.ly/4nZIN8h
Apple: bit.ly/3KtcwrF
Kobo Plus: bit.ly/4nPJm4q
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/46wLJ6s
#read #readromance #romance #romanceAuthor #romanceNovel #romanceNovels #bookstadon #writersofMastodon #WritersCoffeeClub #ScribesAndMakers #writingCommunity #wordweaver #creativity @bookstadon #romanceBooks #bookstodon #BDSM #oldercouple #maturecouple #contemporary
Book number 3 on my #StephenKing re-read journey.
This was a lot of fun to revisit. Another one I read decades ago. This has so many of my favorite short SK stories in it. Many many classics.
This book turned out a remarkable ELEVEN movie + tv adaptations. Absolutely insane. Talk about legendary.
Really hard to pick a favorite but Battleground is so much fun.
My personal experience as the sometime operator of a 1980s Xerox photocopier
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/wicked-problems/
Notes about #usability #design from Winograd and Adler's Usability ( #bookstodon ) relevant to my #NicCLIM #commonLisp #gamedev .
Introduces design's wicked problems and the implications for what design even is, conveyed by the book via a series of c. 80s case studies.
wants to watch Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
¡Buenos días grumetes! Como ya empieza el #LeoAutorasOct os vamos a dejar un par de antiguas entradas. Una de las primeritas en la que entrevistamos a quienes iniciaron el proyecto https://lanaveinvisible.com/2016/11/05/que-ha-supuesto-leoautorasoct/
Y otra con recomendaciones de autoras de #Terror, muy apropiadas para leer también en estas fechas: https://lanaveinvisible.com/2019/10/22/terrores-clasicos-para-un-octubre-de-miedo/
¡Seguid la etiqueta y compartid vuestras lecturas con ella! #naveartículos #literaverso #bookstodon
October 5-11, 2025 is Banned Books Week. During that week, a generous donor will match the value of book donations made via any of our 4 independent bookstore wishlists. Here are links to the wish lists:
Politics and Prose: https://politics-prose.com/wishlist/rocliswawresp
Mahogany Books: https://www.mahoganybooks.com/wishlist.php?publicwishlist=e754d358-5fe3-4edb-b808-e5247e500bb1
Solid State Books: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/1f8be267c141a55e8d1196724c2e7ef145bdaa9f
People's Book: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/fcb53997a15127c7c1d79194b14defaea888057b
🚨VOY A CERRAR LA CUENTA DE MASTODON Y VUELVO A TWITTER🚨
Bien, ahora que tengo vuestra atención (😆), os cuento: he reunido varios relatos que he escrito a lo largo de los últimos años en un libro, que he tenido a bien llamar Trece. Y vosotres diréis, «oh, Carlos, ¿por qué has escogido ese título tan curioso?». Me alegra que me hagáis esa pregunta. Pues, además de por las connotaciones que tiene ese número, porque son trece relatos (me he quedado calvo, lo sé). Alguno de ellos es de terror, tanto sobrenatural como psicológico. Otros son sencillamente inquietantes, y otros son apenas microrrelatos que se me ocurrían sobre la marcha. Pero todos llevan un poquito de mí. En el siguiente toot os dejo la portada y la sinopsis para que tengáis más info.
Como siempre, este libro es completamente gratuito, y lo podéis descargar en epub a través del enlace a mi nube de Disroot. Junto a él encontraréis otras historias. Si alguna de ellas os llama la atención, dadle caña sin miedo. O con él.
Y si compartís esta publicación para ayudar a que mi trabajo llegue a más personas me haréis el hombre más feliz del fediverso 😊
https://cloud.disroot.org/s/YdbStYSNMHAjkWd
#booktodon #bookstodon #LibrosGratis #libros #books #literatura #literaverso
My favorite books published in 2025:
Gliff - Ali Smith
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Audition - Pip Adam
Dusk - Robbie Arnott
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
Sour Cherry - Natalia Theodoridou
The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley
Eternal Summer - Franziska Gansler (tr. Imogen Taylor)
The Silver Book - Olivia Laing
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh - Colwill Brown
Woodworking - Emily St. James
2025 in #books, a thread, inspired by (but not limited to) https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2025/ :
Two books I loved, part 1:
Gliff - Ali Smith
A fable about survival in a totalitarian surveillance state. A reflection on childhood, siblinghood, and the cost and worth of kindness. A dance with language and memory. I was torn between the impulse to read it all in one sitting and the urge to savor every single sentence.
Travelling soon, please give me your #fiction recommendations! I normally read military flavoured hard SciFi, but I'm open to all suggestions. Normally I don't get much of a response to such requests, so PLEASE recommend me something to read, especially if you've written something yourself #bookstodon
#gamedev #devlog #itchio #commonLisp #McCLIM #NicCLIM #programming Map editor programming alpha note part 3/3: Picking up and using host lisp lambdas inside the map editor (also, player-based ephemeral storage).
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros/
I left this one as *just* picking up and using lambda forms around the map so as not to clutter up the example, a finished game of life game will be separate.
Also includes my thoughts after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookstodon .
Before Book One.
Between Harmony and Fire is now available.
A collection of mythic fragments from the world of Akidir.
https://books2read.com/u/bzlOXZ
#fantasy #books #readers #news #bookstodon #indieauthor
a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.
i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour
it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.
and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.
so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.
so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.
we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.
it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.
enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️
paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf
DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb
#AynRand’s original introduction to The Virtue of Selfishness is now online--and it directly contradicts most of the claims people make about her #ethics.
If your picture of Rand comes from social media threads, YouTube rants, or second-hand “hot takes,” this is the text that breaks the spell.
Let’s clear out the biggest straw men right away:
❌ “Rand said selfishness means hurting people.”
No. She argues that rational self‑interest forbids coercion, exploitation, and parasitism. Predators aren’t “selfish”—they’re short‑range, self‑destructive, and irrational.
❌ “It’s just an excuse to do whatever you want.”
She draws a hard boundary between whim and #reason. Her ethics demands long‑range thinking, integrity, and principled action — the opposite of impulse.
❌ “#Objectivism celebrates cruelty.”
The introduction explicitly rejects cruelty as irrational. Benevolence is not only compatible with #egoism—it’s a natural expression of a rational, confident person.
❌ “Rand denies moral principles.”
She denies sacrifice as a moral ideal. She does not deny #morality. She argues for a code rooted in reality, reason, and the requirements of human life.
If you want to understand the argument instead of the mythology, read the primary source--it’s short, sharp, and surprisingly accessible.
Read more for context on the full book, editions, and themes.
#philosophy #individualism #reading #nonfiction #ideas #bookstodon
A los buenos días grumetes!! Tenemos una buena noticia y es que volvemos a publicar en la web!! 🥰
Una colaboración de Marta Isabel Rodríguez que nos reseña La sombra del laberinto, de Montse Paz, un retelling del mito de Teseo y el Minotauro.
Esperamos que os guste!
https://lanaveinvisible.com/2025/10/20/resena-la-sombra-del-laberinto-de-montse-de-paz/
![The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division](/proxy/post_attachment/201680/4c3f9d6273.png "The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division")