Giagia @Giagia@writing.exchange

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

Why do I feel like this dog is about to send me on a quest?

@Sunspot

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.

@TonyStark

Self-care is ongoing. It's not a one and done fix for everything. Take care of yourself today, and tomorrow, and the next day.

Feelin' cute. Might delete later. IDK.

#caturday

I can see .... eternity!

#caturday

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

Optimism isn't the belief, when things are going poorly, that everything will be ok

It's simply the belief that it's possible to make things better, even though they're bad right now

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/

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 ... @

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/texas-republican-party-enshrines-anti-lgbtq-hate-in-extreme-right-wing-party-platform

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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