As #IndependentBookshopWeek draws to a close we want to shout out some of our UK favourites:
Gays The Word
The Common Press
Housmans Radical Bookshop
Brick Lane Books
October Books
The Bookish Type
Queer Lit UK
You are all AMAZING.
Here's to queer indie book shops!
This is your semi weekly reminder that #AudiobooksCountAsReading
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Readers, use the library instead of returning purchased books at Amazon. There are libraries in the US where you can buy a non resident digital library card, even outside the US. Libraries have Kindle books, eBooks, and audiobooks. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/amazon-kindle-e-book-returns-tiktok/ #AmazonIsNotALibrary
Joe Biden signs into law landmark gun control bill https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61938109
Also, not one of them had yet explained how it’s anyone else’s business who we have sex with or marry. Against other people’s morals so the state should regulate it? Fuck off with that.
I watched a YouTube video reeling off dozens of trailers of the "best releases" in 2022 (They failed to include Good luck to you Leo Grande, so shows what they know). My gosh, the amount of utter and total crap in there is astounding (Prey, Bullet Train, The Menu). I'll be picking my cinema visits very carefully this year. I really can't be doing with mindless horribleness and adding injury to insult pay good money for it.
More practically, don’t mistake being outraged for taking action. They can both drain your energy, but the former is a destructive emotion, and the internet has been shaped to amplify it. Flip the script. Do some shit.
Mastodon statt Facebook?
Hessischer Datenschutzbeauftragter fordert Behörden auf, ihre Facebook-Seiten zu löschen
https://faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/wirtschaft/datenschutz-behoerden-sollen-facebook-verlassen-18113531.html
File under: hell no. Amazon has been working on an update to Alexa that would analyze short audio clips to synthesize and mimic a person's speech. https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/22/alexa-will-soon-be-able-to-read-stories-as-your-dead-grandma/
RT @beachblond52@twitter.com
After hearing the testimonies of Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss today, I loathe 45 more than ever. This evil individual must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. #DOJ do your job! #IndictTrump #BlueVoices #TrueBlue #DemVoice1 #Rabbithole https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/georgia-ruby-freeman-election-worker-b2106314.html?amp
Texas Republican Party Enshrines Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Extreme Right-Wing Party Platform
The party has reached a new low.
@ the kkkristian superstion cult coup in amerikkka is ongoing ... @
What I'd like is a web app, as lightweight and static as possible, that lets me drop markdown notes into a folder, which it then compiles into a single page at scheduled intervals.
I'll make it if I have to, but if something like that is already available, then I'd be grateful if someone were to point me to it.
I’m in the National Poetry Library, and there was no fine for my books which were 2 years and 4 months overdue. I checked them out the week before the first lockdown in March 2020. The librarian said “Ah, its lovely to have them back!” Which has really made my day. I think that’s my personal bookend to the pandemic. They were a Stevie Smith collection and an Alice Walker collection, if you were wondering.
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I love language, movies, crafts, photography, history, reading and quirky things. I only just rediscovered going to the cinema, I think I have some catching up to do! Luckily I live in London so the cinema theatre world is my oyster. I might have taken out more than one membership...