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RustyBertrand

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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Finnish/Swedish Laplander, #writer, vagabond, #science, #atheism, and #books. I escaped a cult at age 17. Running ever since. #NewOrleans #NewCastle #India #Iceland

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RustyBertrand, to random

“She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

RustyBertrand, to random

It bears repeating.

RustyBertrand, to random

"I protecc the books! Big power, big responsibility! Yes?"

dbellingradt, to histodons
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This is how a page from a medieval looks when its original text had been scraped off by someone, overwritten with a new text, and then later, a 19th-century scholar discovered the and tried to make the undertext's ink visible again by painting the page with chemical reagents.

@histodons

RustyBertrand,

@dbellingradt @histodons Egads! The book curse probably got the scholar.

RustyBertrand,

@dbellingradt @histodons

I love book curses. Were they just an English thing or did all languages do it?

A fave:
“If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.”

RustyBertrand, to random

Riot dogs

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RustyBertrand, to random

"Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life."

Simone de Beauvoir

jblue, to bookstodon
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Strongly recommend this book.

Author clearly explains how private equity firms are destroying essential industries, how they avoid legal responsibility for the disastrous consequences, who’s empowering them and how they can be stopped.

Private equity’s is to blame for much of the worst aspects of health care, housing crisis, the economy as well as the deepening wealth gap.

@bookstodon

RustyBertrand,

@jblue @bookstodon

Also this one:

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