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Likewise, 6 months ago to bookstodon

What’s a book you’d like to read next year, either a newly published book in 2024 or a book that you didn’t get to this year?

I’ll start:

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (2024 pub. date) & A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (not new 😉).
#2024 #booktoot #photography #read @bookstodon

MarjoleinRotsteeg, 6 months ago to poetry Dutch

A pleasant surprise! I just found out that one of the haiku I submitted for the annual contest of the Haiku International Association has received an 'honorable mention'. 😃

https://www.haiku-hia.com/contest_en/nyusen/25.html

#haiku #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

@poetry

lebelge, 6 months ago to classicalmusic

@classicalmusic

"Noël à la cathédrale de Chartres"
[1 Veni Domini
2 D'où vient qu'en cette nuitée
3 Ô dieu de clémence
4 Il est un petit ange
5 La légende de Saint-Nicolas
6 Noël nouvelet
7 Trois rois virent paraître
8 Or nous dites Marie
9 Il est né le divin enfant
10 Que j'aime ce divin enfant
11 Puer Natus In Bethlehem
12 Les anges dans nos campagnes
13 Puer Natus In Bethlehem
14 La vièrge à la crèche
15 Stille Nacht / Douce nuit
16 Allein Gott in der höh sei ehr]
Maitrise De l'Ecole Nationale De Musique De Chartres/Philippe Frémont
Grandes Orgues de la Cathédrale de Chartres/Patrick Delabre
(Coda Musique 2018)
https://songwhip.com/maitrisedelecolenationaledemusiquedechartres/noel-a-la-cathedrale-de-chartres

#NowListening #ClassicalMusic #music #musique #ChoralMusic #ChristmasMusic
#ChristmasCarols #MusiquesDeNoël #ChantsDeNoël
#MaitriseDelEcoleNationaleDeMusiqueDeChartres

duanetoops, 6 months ago to bookstodon

It’s obsession that “binds us to the things we make”, Savage says. It’s the draw, the pull, the force, the gravity.

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/obsession

#reading #writing #art #poetry #artwork #collage #collageart #mixedmedia #type #typography #graphicdesign #blog #blogging #books @bookstodon

CultureDesk, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Barbra Streisand's memoir, "My Name Is Barbra," is out now. She spoke to the BBC about growing up in poverty, getting her start in a Manhattan gay bar, and phoning Apple CEO Tim Cook to complain that the iPhone couldn't pronounce her name. "I guess that's one perk of fame."

https://flip.it/aO-jwK

#Music #Celebrity #Culture #BarbraStreisand #Books @bookstodon

danwentzel, 9 months ago to random

Speaker-in-name-only McCarthy could cut a deal with Democrats to keep the government open. Five breakaway Republicans in swing districts could work with Democrats to keep the government.

Don't let ANY Republican off the hook because they won't stand up to the extremists in their own party.

#politics #USpol #USpolitics

futurebird, 9 months ago to random

I'm starting to really like Jamelle Bouie's writing on politics. While He still essentially has a liberal perspective (as opposed to a radical or left perspective) he's really good at identifying and criticizing liberal process, technicality and hypocrisy-based criticisms of the right.

These are criticisms that don't address the gulf in values, morality, or outcomes, but focus instead on things like finding hypocrisies, or showing how the right is failing to live up to the constitution. 1/

obrerx, 9 months ago to actuallyautistic

"Greta Thunberg Could Face Jail Term After Second Blockade of Swedish Oil Port"

"The Swedish climate activist has been charged for a second time for failing to obey police orders."

(See the linked article at the bottom.)

Something I posted somewhere else:

Greta’s perceptive way of seeing the world in very literal, stark terms allows her to clearly see the climate crisis as an emergency, while so many others view climate change as an abstraction. To her it’s not an abstract threat, it’s an evident reality. That’s why she said this:

"Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."

"I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire. Because it is."

And she’s right. She began her activism all alone, sitting in front of the Swedish Parliament building holding a sign, while refusing to go to school. She thought school was impossible to attend while the planet was burning. She needed to voice this massive threat to young people. She began the school strike that grew to include other young people.

Yes, she is a hero.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/greta-thunberg-could-face-jail

@actuallyautistic
#actuallyautistic
#AllAutistics
#ClimateChange
#climate

georgetakei, 9 months ago to random

As Jim Jordan tries to inserts his committee improperly into state prosecutions once again, a reminder of why he is even in Congress in the first place. This is his district in Ohio. One of the most gerrymandered in the nation.

sharonecathcart, 10 months ago to bookstodon

In other news, my medal for winning the #firebirdbookawards Short Fiction division arrived today.

Want your own copy of this #friendstolovers #contemporaryromance #novella? Grab the link!

@bookstodon
https://books2read.com/b/3RzNBn

HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …