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philip_cardella

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GenXer graduate student at FIU studying American history with a focus on de jure racism in housing, policing and punishment.

Married to an Engineering prof.

Parent of two great teens who are both perfect and in the LGBTQIA community.

#BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter

He/Him

I hate Trump and every other fascist. I'm voting for Biden.

#SacramentoKings fan way before it was cool.

Warning: If you follow me without interacting I'll likely block you.

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passenger, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon

I need to buy a gift for a family-of-friend. I am informed that they really like mystery stories, especially in historical settings, but are not fond of SFF.

I assume this means they have already read the obvious candidates, the Cadfaels and the like, or if they haven't then that's a conscious choice on their part which means I shouldn't buy them one of those.

What's a non-SFF mystery story you've enjoyed recently? Recommend me a book please!

philip_cardella,
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@SCampbell @passenger @bookstodon has the creepy merit of being non fiction! That's a really good book.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Every article I've read about that Cybertruck has been really amusing.

philip_cardella,
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@StillIRise1963 can you imagine being the engineer Musk stumbled to with a doodle of that thing on a napkin?

Musk: isn't it amazing?
Engineer: ha ha, oh you're serious, yeah boss, it's amazing.
Musk: you're going to make it.
Engineer: um me? Make it? What do you mean?
Musk: and it's going to be exactly like this drawing if you want your children to have food on the table.
Engineer: ok boss. Sure boss. Right away boss.
Musk: and make sure it has bullet proof windows.
Engineer: sure sure

philip_cardella,
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@StillIRise1963 and super untaxed and unregulated. You can't make that piece of shit if you didn't have money to set on fire.

appassionato, to bookstodon
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Revolt
The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalisation

Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism.

@bookstodon




philip_cardella,
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@appassionato @bookstodon fighting globalization because of frustration with the current liberal world order (read capitalism with human rights) with populism and nationalism is exactly what Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo agreed on to form the Axis.

What could possibly go wrong?

GottaLaff, to random
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Via MacFarlane: 1/...

On House floor, debate on expulsion resolution of Rep George

3 of his fellow NY GOPers are here & supporting measure. Santos is here too (in bright red sweater beneath his coat)

Rep Dan Goldman said Santos is here”bc of lies”

Rep Lawler (R-NY): “Based on the conviction of his (campaign) treasurer & admission of the fraud that was perpetrated on donors… that is more than sufficient evidence & info to expel Mr Santos”

philip_cardella,
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@GottaLaff just saying to whoever cares: a pet peeve of mine is politicians facing consequences prescribed by the constitution for political misconduct screaming that they are being denied a legal right to due process in CRIMINAL proceedings.

He's being fired. He's getting way more due process than most people do when getting fired. We tried to fire Trump.

If he's expelled and the people in his district want him back or disagree with Congress he should just run again.

TheConversationUS, to histodons
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On Nov. 27, 1978, the late Dianne Feinstein, then the 45-year-old president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and two-time failed mayoral candidate called a press conference to announce her retirement.

That afternoon, a supervisor shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey White.

Feinstein handled the moment with poise, and went on to serve 9 years as mayor and 3 decades in the U.S. Senate.

A SF historian has more: https://theconversation.com/sen-dianne-feinstein-a-trailblazer-from-san-franciscos-city-hall-to-capitol-hill-199948
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philip_cardella,
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@TheConversationUS @histodons Harvey MILK are you kidding me? Harvey MILK was assassinated. What the actual ****?

How do you not KNOW this? Forget making a mistake. You should know that one of the first openly gay politicians was assassinated. Say his name!

hawksquill, to bookstodon
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Just started Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin. Apparently the later books of the cycle are disliked by fans. I am bewildered by that assessment. I can already tell this is an all-time favorite.

Everything from the prose to the characters feels more mature and meditative. Gender is also examined in a much more holistic and painful way. Several passages have already spoken to my soul in such a deep way that I know will remain with me for a long time

@bookstodon

philip_cardella,
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@wordstitcher @hawksquill @bookstodon my wife's aunt lived in her mother in law for years. So I've been in her house!

Never met her though. ☹️

philip_cardella,
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@derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @hawksquill @bookstodon do you know what a mother in law is?

philip_cardella,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @hawksquill @bookstodon I mean, context? But I guess in some places it's called an efficiency, maybe. Though that's not exactly what this was as it had a full living room, dining room, bedroom and bath.

philip_cardella,
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@CandaceRobbAuthor @wordstitcher @hawksquill @bookstodon I'm not sure jargon is quite right but it works. Yes, it's an apartment inside a house. Perhaps it's a west coast term though if you know Canon Beach you must be in Oregon.

I heard she was delightful unless you tried to take away someone's rights.

philip_cardella,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @hawksquill @bookstodon Some one asked me if my house had an efficiency in Miami and I hadn't a clue what she meant. But it's functionally the same, I gathered, though I feel like an efficiency is more of a studio apartment where a mother in law can be a separate house (in that case synonymous with a guest house)

philip_cardella,
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@ukaunz @bookstodon @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @Grizzlysgrowls @hawksquill interesting! Is a granny flat a self sufficient apartment within a larger house? (So has at least a kitchen and bathroom and a place for a bed)

philip_cardella,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @ukaunz @bookstodon @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @hawksquill interesting. California required those for a while during World War II in some places. Then they suddenly outlawed apartments in some cities (because the workers who moved in were often Black). I guess they finally realized how self harming racsim is after nearly 80 years. 🤦‍♂️

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@ukaunz @bookstodon @derpoltergeist @wordstitcher @Grizzlysgrowls @hawksquill yeah that's it. I think we'd call it a lot here in the States but yes.

philip_cardella,
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@ukaunz @bookstodon @derpoltergeist @Grizzlysgrowls @wordstitcher @hawksquill it can be those things or a converted section of a house. Or, as was the case in WWII in parts of California, purpose built.

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@derpoltergeist @Grizzlysgrowls @ukaunz @bookstodon @wordstitcher @hawksquill same. Lots of phrases to learn. Always amazes me how different language can be.

Living in Miami where they speak Caribean Spanish (and I'm used to Mexican Spanish) I'm learning new phrases in Spanish too.

rabbit_fighter, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I'm looking for book recommendations for an 11yo who reads at a much more advanced level. He likes sci-fi. He has read the Hitchhiker's Guide series and loved them. I think he would enjoy some more 'hard' sci-fi as well. He needs something challenging but without subject matter that is too mature. Thanks for any help!

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@rabbit_fighter @bookstodon hmmm. My recollection of 2001 is that it's not super mature in content. Dystopian stuff might work if that's not a form of too mature. Starship Troopers, (NOT the movie which is too mature for me), 1984 and Animal Farm, perhaps.

The Broken Earth trilogy (hat tricked the highest honor in Scifi with three straight Hugo awards) is great and I don't recall much sex (it is alluded to).

This list looks good imo.

https://bookriot.com/young-adult-science-fiction-books/

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@rabbit_fighter @bookstodon https://fivebooks.com/best-books/best-science-fiction-books-for-8-12-year-olds-dan-smith/

Another good list.

Honestly, I think 10-12 and YA books are actually the hardest to write and some of the best any genre can offer BECAUSE they can't get lazy with shock imagery and they can't get bloated with superfluous wording.

Don't be afraid to recommend those imo.

philip_cardella,
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@CuriousMagpie @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon Verne is a good one but he often is pretty racist (I read around the world in 80 days this year and it has a few YIKES moments with regards to racism) It's something to keep in mind for readers.

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@CuriousMagpie @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon may depend on the book. His work absolutely inspired so many. I love the Around The World in 80 Days TV series, which absolutely inverts the racism (and sexism) in the book. There's a potential great conversation there.

philip_cardella,
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@CuriousMagpie @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon the TV show is great. One of my favorite shows of the last few years.

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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Now that it's September, what great books did you read in August that you'd really recommend?

My list of August read rec's:

The Never-ending end of the World, Ann Christy

The Best We Could Do (GN) Thi Bui

Two Tribes (GN) Emily Bowen Cohen

Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (short stories)

Our Voice of Fire, Brandi Morin

Blue Hour, Tiffany Clarke Harrison

Strange Planet (GN) Nathan W. Pyle

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philip_cardella,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Birchers by Matthew Dallek

philip_cardella,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I haven't. Sounds interesting.

philip_cardella, to bookstodon
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to get to know me. I guess 🤷‍♂️

Non fiction
Field of Blood - Freeman
Thunder at the Gates - Egerton
America on Fire - Hinton
Silencing the Past - Trouillot
How the South Won the Civil War - Cox Richardson
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Freire
The Second Founding - Foner
Barrio America - Sandoval-Strausz
The Broken Heart of America - Johnson

Fiction
Rama Revealed - Clarke and Lee
The Fifth Season - Jemisin
Thrawn - Zahn
Ahsoka - Johnston

@bookstodon

philip_cardella,
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@bookstodon very hard to choose.

I could probably do 13 books to know me in fiction, general history/American 19th century history and another for American 20th century history 🤣

philip_cardella,
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@tffmh @bookstodon Zahn keeps coming back to him. I haven't seen today's Ahsoka episode yet but I suspect by the end the Thrawn in the books (who is trying to thwart a threat from beyond the Republic/Chiss space) and the guy in Rebels will be more fully aligned.

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@tffmh @bookstodon I'm not entirely sure I know thread beyond but I do know the very first thing Filoni did after Disney nuked canon was start bringing "legends" into canon beginning with Thrawn in Rebels season 3. The Ahsoka show has a bunch of "Legends" stuff he's making canon and/or live actioning into more canon (like the Night Sisters)

philip_cardella,
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@willelm @bookstodon honestly, I've read all of Zahn's Star Wars books (10?), Johnston's Ahsoka (which is so good, the Tales of the Jedi episode where she destroys the inquisitor is based on it--except she destroys the inquisitor even meaner in the book) and a Star Wars horror book from twenty years ago.

And that's it. There's hundreds more. Never got into them though.

philip_cardella,
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@willelm @bookstodon have you seen much of Clone Wars and Rebels?

I started watching The Clone Wars movie (that's before the show) and didn't finish it. Then when the Dark Saber showed up in The Mandolorian I started watching and watched much of it the show including all of Seasons 5-7, which are fantastic.

Basically, Ahsoka is now my favorite SW character.

philip_cardella,
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@willelm @bookstodon there are guides for watching just the key ones. And there's breakdowns of who she is that are pretty good.

I like this one.

https://youtu.be/p43h8f3iLPA?si=UFIalJoc5NVm7L68

Still, though, seasons 5-7 of The Clone Wars are amazing and the last four episodes of S7 follow Ahsoka through the events of Revenge of the Sith. But as good as it is the emotional impact of the final episode is difficult without a good understanding of her relationship with the Clones. This video has some of that.

philip_cardella,
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@willelm @bookstodon but this clip from the short from Tales of the Jedi captures her pretty well. Lol. https://youtu.be/9Ehs9rv0s4A?si=psJZLN1jCYUUireB

philip_cardella,
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@willelm @bookstodon I hear that. But there are a LOT of episodes of The Clone Wars and Rebels, lol.

dbsalk, to bookstodon
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Did just make itself worse? I used to be able to find "reading activity" for a given book that would show a complete history: when I added it to a shelf, when I started reading it, when I finished, and the same if I read it again, and so on. GR never made it obvious where to find this information -- it was always in an obscure location that made no sense -- but now that history seems to be gone or at least inaccessible. Am I the only one missing it? @bookstodon

philip_cardella,
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@dbsalk @bookstodon did Amazon enshittify it's product? Does today end in y?

schizanon, to random
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Here's the real

philip_cardella,
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@schizanon how is that so obviously Trump? I mean, it is, and it's amazing.

GottaLaff, to random
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Meanwhile, via Politico:

BREAKING: Illinois Supreme Court upholds Illinois law banning the sale of assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and rapid-fire modifications.

philip_cardella,
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@GottaLaff the real issue with that state is it's law free neighbor, Indiana.

I don't have the receipts in front of me but I'm pretty sure most illegal guns in Chicago are from Indiana, which borders the city. Gary, Indiana, is a suburb of Chicago.

That's the best part of Republicans pointing to violent crime in Chicago and saying gun laws don't work: it's Indiana's loose or lack of gun laws driving violent crime in Chicago. Not Illinois.

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