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1dalm

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Texas Licensed Professional Environmental Engineer. Advocates for joining things.

Interests:
#CubScouting
#Civil & #Environmental Engineering
#Episcopal

Dislikes:
Leaf Blowers
Minimum Parking Requirements
Autoplay Videos on websites

Views my own.

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NickEast, to bookbubble
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I'd make a great hobbit, what fictional characters do you identify with? 😁

@reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @books @humour



1dalm,
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@BackFromTheDud

That comment is a little too sharky for me.

1dalm,
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@BackFromTheDud

@bookstodon @books

The_BookishWolf, to bookstodon
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hey @bookstodon lets try something fun. Give me a quote from the book you're currently reading. Here's mine.
""We're going to eat and flirt, and you know what?" "What?" "We're even going to order dessert. Dammit." - Lucky in Lace, By Mellisa Brayden. #bookstodon

1dalm,
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@The_BookishWolf @bookstodon

"Ten thousand years ago, wheat was just another form of wild grass, of no special significance; but within the space of a few millennia it was growing over large parts of the planet. How did it happen? The answer, according to Harari, is that wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. ‘This ape’, he writes, ‘had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat.’ If wheat didn’t like stones, humans had to clear them from their fields; if wheat didn’t want to share its space with other plants, people were obliged to labour under the hot sun weeding them out; if wheat craved water, people had to lug it from one place to another, and so on."

"The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber.

Start reading it for free: https://a.co/6bt8X2j

superheroine, to religion
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@religion

the fact that i am a #christian now is absolutely hilarious to me and i get giggles from it all the time. (Sarah girl, I feel you)

never would have guessed that i'd be so enthusiastic about God, the scriptures, and church.

talking to God and getting loving, helpful, and even some direct advice is lit. I love spending time with Them.

i study my scriptures almost every day, and faithfully not just academically, and me 3 years ago would be shocked.

and worried. so very worried.

1dalm,
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@superheroine @religion

I hope you have found a loving and supportive Christian community!

1dalm, to bookstodon
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"The Upswing" by Robert Putnam should be required reading for every American.

https://www.amazon.com/Upswing-America-Together-Century-Again/dp/198212914X

@bookstodon

1dalm, to bookstodon
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Been reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It was very highly recommended online and I'm about half way through.

Does anything interesting actually happen in this book?

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1dalm, to bookstodon
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Need a good new character driven mystery book recommendation for a road trip.

@bookstodon

temporal_spider, to random
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Wow, Frisco ISD is just swingin that ban hammer like a drunken monkey, and they appear to hate fantasy with a special kind of hate. Gotta admire young Cameron Samuels. This is what courage looks like. #books #BookBurning #texas #censorship

More Than 430 Books Banned in Texas Schools. | Dallas Observer

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/list-of-texas-banned-books-shows-state-has-most-in-us-17480532

> Texas led the nation, followed by Florida, in banned titles in a list created by PEN America, a literary nonprofit. Many surprising titles are included in this list.

1dalm,
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@temporal_spider Frisco banned the Hobbit?!

@bookstodon

lonelyboy1977, to bookstodon
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If an subscription service sounds like it might be for you, please consider supporting one that isn't owned by , that exploits its dominant position to force authors into exclusivity deals preventing their work from being available elsewhere. There are alternatives to , including (but not limited to) . @bookstodon

Try it for a month (https://www.kobo.com/plus)

1dalm,
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@lonelyboy1977 @bookstodon

I wish there was an audiobook subscription service like Audible. Amazon has really monopolized that industry. To give Amazon credit, they have made audiobooks MUCH MUCH more accessible.

1dalm, to bookstodon
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OOOOH!!!

https://www.amazon.com/Church-Secular-Mysticisms-Ministry-Spiritualities-ebook/dp/B0BW112FWP/

@bookstodon

lunalein, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon folks, do you listen to audiobooks? If so:

  • Do you have favorite narrators? Or the opposite? Ever started or quit listening to something because of the voice?
  • if you’re talking about a book, do you say you’ve read it?

1dalm,
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@dbsalk @lunalein @bookstodon

Jim Dale's Harry Potter narration was fantastic except for his Hermione. He butchered that poor girl.

mastodonmigration, to random
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Subject: What's going on with Meta?

To: @Gargron, @ruud, @jerry, @supernovae, @stux, @trumpet, @kev and other large instance admins

Rumors are tearing this place apart out here about secret deals with . The latest is that Meta has held meetings with some of you and they will federate with large instances under contracts providing financial support (1) (2).

This is a time for leadership, not silence. Please, what's going on?

(1) https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110598855375585873
(2) https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110596207691212890

1dalm,
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@mastodonmigration

“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends” (Proverbs 16:28).

This is exactly why gossip is bad. The gossips don't know what they are talking about, are making things up, and intentionally stirring up trouble based on their own assumptions about what is going on (if anything at all). And they are making this place pretty toxic as a result.

The gossips need to stop. Hold your criticism and finger wagging until you have some facts.

1dalm,
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@mastodonmigration

You, with your post above, are also giving the rumors oxygen.

1dalm,
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@mastodonmigration

It's very possible that, when the sun comes out and shines light on everything, we all learn there was nothing there at all and all the anger and shouting and hurt feelings was all foolishness.

1dalm,
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@mastodonmigration

That shouldn't be the hope. That should be the default working assumption among friends.

1dalm,
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@mastodonmigration

I agree that the rumors have plenty of oxygen, which is why I'm asking you to discontinue giving them more

Laking86, to random
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1 of 2023

The Penultimate Truth
Philip K. Dick

Part of the SF Masterworks Collection. Despite being nearly 60 years old the narrative around the manipulation of the truth feels incredibly prescient. Wondering whether David Whitaker had read it before he came up with story The Enemy of the World.

1dalm,
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@Laking86 @bookstodon

I finally read the series last year. The first one was really fun and original and I understand why people have liked it so much for so long. I also understand why no one ever talks about the other books.

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