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又知道了一些我不太想知道的冷知识呢 
Last Chance to See
When we read that Napoleon wrote to Josephine on one occasion, “Don’t wash—I’m coming home,” we are simply bemused and almost think of it as a deviant behaviour.
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不敢想象没有微信读书读这本书会有多艰难，当时看到图三那儿，我淡淡一搜，搜出来三个词都是猩猩………
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Last Chance to See
@bookstodon This is my kind of protagonist: “I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?” -- The Secret, Book & Scone Society, by Ellery Adams. #bookstodon #reading
读过 秦制两千年 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
这种短平快博客文章集合式纵向横跨各朝点评政治制度的通俗历史还蛮好读的，不爱读政治如我也看得津津有味。虽然能感觉一些部分作者主观叙事导向较强但整体这么看历史上的制度演化确实比在看通史大部头记叙事件中零散拼凑容易理解多了。好多段都不禁恍然大悟你们现代这些小伎俩原来是跟老祖宗学的。当然由于众所周知原因只写到清朝灭亡些许遗憾，以及每章都是单刀直入有代表性的切片，没有串联碰上不熟悉的朝代被直接点到可能会有点 out of context。 #reading
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Do you like to read? Have I told you about The StoryGraph?
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References:
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最近在读 Die With Zero，书里废话超多且非常口语化会看得有些不耐烦，但是我终于理解了啥是 annuities 以及这种看上去好不划算的产品为啥会存在，其实本质上就是跟 life insurance 抵御 mortality risk （早死风险）相反的抵御 longevity risk （死太晚了人还活着钱没了风险）的一种保险手段而已。按理来说我这种信奉生不带来死不带去我死之后洪水滔天的人应该偏向 annuities 多于 life insurance 才对，但还是觉得非常反直觉（也可能是因为毕竟工作都标配 life insurance 不要白不要，whereas annuities 一是可能年龄还没到二是一下要自己掏一大笔钱障碍太大）。
感觉读完也可以写个读书笔记帮助大家/自己回顾时候跳过作者的一堆废话。
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Omgggg!! I just discovered that Project Gutenberg has an automated feed on #Mastodon where they post new books they add!
Go follow them: @gutenberg_new
Hey guys, I'm new to mastodon! I want to make friends on #bookstodon, but I don't know where to start. So can you please introduce me on here? #booktok #books #reading #introduction
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Haymarket Books has made 10 key antifascist ebooks #free to download.
“Wherever each of us live, work, and are in community: the time is now to build power and fight back, together.”
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free
Those looking for a Goodreads alternative, check out #BookWrym, it's a federated book tracking site.
Coming July 2025
It's been fifty years since magery returned to the north. The citizens of the Sharren Accord have enjoyed decades of peace and prosperity.
Giadella Marteen didn't mean to ruin that.
For more info on this book & the Tales of Ardonna series please visit my website: https://crcollins.org/
#Fantasy #FantasyBooks #HopePunk #Booksodon #Bookstodon #FantasyBook #BooksOfMastodon #SFF #Reading #Booktoot #Polyamory #Magic #Adventure
被名字耽误了的并非玄学养生科普综述——读「超越百岁」 https://blog.douchi.space/book-outlive/?utm_source=douchi.space
作为一个养生博主（？），尤其是这两年年纪越大越注重养生，就摘抄一些读书笔记哪怕能多唤醒一个人更注重自己的身心健康也是极好的。
本书原文名就起得一般了双关没被强调，中文翻译名真是雪上加霜，跟书里开篇就讲“不是要延长低质量寿命，而是要做好预防增加高质量生命的时间”根本就完全是两个意思。翻译质量也堪忧，也就比流传甚广的 AI 机翻版强那么一丁点，依然是词不达意需要去猜一下原文是什么帮助自己理解。书确实是被标题耽误了，内容其实还可以，不是什么养生玄学，甚至从分子生物学和生物化学角度的科普讲得篇幅都有些略多略枯燥了。话虽如此绝大多数内容还是“道理你都懂”的东西，但没一本书来系系统统来跟你整理逻辑据理说教可能真还容易忽略很多事情的重要性，就冲着万一看完能让自己重视健康付出点行动了的可能性也值得一看。
话说我最近在看一本讲互联网泡沫的书 Dot.Con: How American Lost Their Mind and Money in the Internet Era https://amzn.to/4rpCBc8 。书是 2003 年出的，铺垫是从计算机发明开始讲的，还铺垫了 1980s - 2000s 超长大牛市的市场前提，有了知道后来发生了什么的 context 在看当时的视角和历史的螺旋还挺有意思的。写得也很简单好读。
讲到各类如今已经习以为常的退休账户我才知道原来是这么近的事情，就当年政府怕大家储蓄率太低 social security 爆掉所以先开了 IRA，后来 401k 也是一开始只能投 cash bonus，但规定比较模糊还是基金经理创新出了 contribute part of paycheck 的方法后一年被 IRS recognize 才成了现在的样子，才有了后来的 mutual fund （过度）繁荣（一度市场上的 mutual fund 数量比实际股票数量多）和股票市场走入寻常百姓家成为理财手段（之前的一百年里股市被看作是少部分人的投机渠道），与一整代人眼中一直上涨的大牛市互相成就了。这些都是 80 年代才开始的事儿。
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#introductions
Thought i'd give the #fediverse another go. I'm an #occupationaltherapist living in #cornwall. I work in #mentalhealth and also do #autism assessments. I'm a keen amateur photographer mostly taking photos with my phone at the moment. I'd love to connect with people on here. My interests are #photography #music #reading #books #walking #countryside #nature #mentalhealth #autism #adhd #neurodivergence #scandinavia #dogs #animals #antifascist #environment
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"“苻宏这个人吧，确实没多大的野心；但有些仇如何报，他还是很清楚的。于是，当他发兵的时候，他人还未到洛阳，已让人给姚兴送去了一份礼物。这份礼物成功让姚兴掀了桌子，因为……它是一条铁制裤衩。意思很明显：你爹为了驱我爹的好鬼魂，被兵器扎中了下半身，创伤感染去世了，我先送你一条铁裤衩，你总不会这麽稀里糊涂地死了？”"
— 千里江风: 天幕剧透我谋朝篡位, p. 41
此事在星露谷物语中亦有记载（并没有）
因为没有很喜欢读叙事的书所以没读下去，但”Why be happy, when you could be normal“这个书名真的很有启发。这句话是（queer）作者的母亲对作者说的，说出来听起来离谱对不对？但放到现实生活中很多人的实际选择其实就是这位母亲的思路。所以觉得有时候做选择的时候这句话拿出来警醒自己再好不过了。
（相比起来中文这本书翻译成正向的“我要快乐，不必正常”感觉力量就比反问弱太多了）
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Summer was coming to a close but it hadn't walked completely away yet. On one of the last warm and glorious days at the beach, they found a spot in the grass to read a book together: they traveled to a magical imaginary story world at the same time that they immersed themselves the real, magical world that surrounded them.
Seaside Story canvas print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #fedigiftshop #buyintoart #ayearforart #reading #books #family #beach #summer
Quite a relaxing Saturday, though still productive. Early morning work on a private cloud architecture for Gentoo VM hosts with Rocky 8/9 VMs, then a very pleasant nap, followed by two hours at the pool for the first time in years, real D3 from the sun!
Afternoon resumed a legacy effort to process RAW slide scans of old "Scala 200" and "Provia 400" photos from the 90s (always shot at 100 ISO, with exposure coefficient adjustment to get deeper contrast). So, yeah, here's late teenage me.
#saturday #poolside #reading #photography #oldphotos #happiness
最近在看象上有人推荐的「被入侵的天堂」（拉美环境史）。昨天读到作者提到其实欧洲人眼中的“新世界”准确来说不应该是从 1492 年开始的，毕竟当时拉美文明昌盛人口密集，跟后来人们印象中的密林自然人烟稀少的“新世界”完全是两幅景象。欧洲人带来的病菌战乱导致美洲原住民人口骤降 90% 之后自然重新占领大片以前的人类聚居区形成的世界才是欧洲人之后大规模移民 17、8 世纪之后熟知的“新世界”模样。
Do you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #goodreads ? #Bookwyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #Bookwyrm instances and on #mastodon . You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon
#Auspol #USpol #History #ItalianHistory #Fascism #DodgyAndGreatLeaders
#Reading or more like dipping into
B. A. SANTAMARIA
ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:
THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM
MA THESIS
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
1934
and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.
i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre.
the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.
in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.
I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.
On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck.
(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)
Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”
The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?
Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them?
1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.
Both the first and second book of the Desolation saga will be available on my new Kickstarter, at a discount. Jump on in to the series critics are calling: "exciting and multifaceted", "Fun, thrilling and sharp" & "imaginative and fast-paced".
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharrigon/desolation-keep-your-imaginary-friends-close
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听疲惫娇娃提到于是借来听之前想去搜下 Apple in China 这书的评分结果发现豆瓣没有，开听了序章一分钟就立刻明白了为啥（上来就讲习近平点名（不实）批评苹果歧视中国顾客的退货政策那事 lol