weirder.earth/@sunstone | he/him | tech worker | USA | 30s | Reading interests: speculative fic, pop-science & history, tech-related & software, social justice, and Buddhism & Hinduism.
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We are artist and sailors, and have been living, and working from our sailboat since …
It honestly reads like an adventure novella. I even enjoyed reading the recipes at the end. Highly recommend.
We are artist and sailors, and have been living, and working from our sailboat since 2016.
In 2020, we completed …
Started reading it as a lark and now I’m reading it for real. Gender swapped Twilight…
The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes …
We are artist and sailors, and have been living, and working from our sailboat since …
@rek@merveilles.town is a good writer. They make a captain’s log interesting to read without skimping on the details. The doodles are delightful too.
I don’t have enough seafaring vocabulary to understand 100% what’s going on but I’m getting the general feel of things. And maybe picking up a concept or two. Especially because the book stops to explain the more complicated things.
Overall, a breezy fun read so far!
We are artist and sailors, and have been living, and working from our sailboat since 2016.
In 2020, we completed …
This book takes an interesting approach to defining fascism by dissecting its historical manifestations and then finding what they all have in common. He makes a distinction between fascism and authoritarianism that I hadn’t thought about before. He argues that fascism isn’t simply a subset of authoritarianism because of some key factors like counterrevolutionary tactics and relationships to other institutions.
I’m not a scholar in this field but my main criticism would be that if we define fascism to be so narrow, then it becomes a little unwieldy to fight against. It’s impractical but maybe for the interests of researchers and historians, this is the right move.
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Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid …
'Wit you well,' said Sir Launcelot, 'I may not ride with you, for I have many deeds to do in other places, that this time I may not abide with you.'
A master class in declining friends who want to hang out
The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of …
Content warning Review of the ending
The ending left a lot to be desired but I suppose there’s no way to end a plot that has such high aims.
The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is …
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings--beings of flesh, …
