For June, the library Zoom book discussion group I lead will read an award-winning Vietnam War non-fiction centering two women reporters and one photojournalist, circa 1961 - 1975, published 2021. Some of them went on their own dimes to tell the stories others weren't telling. "You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War", by Elizabeth Becker. Join us!
June 15, 6:30 pm EDT. Meeting info: https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/8352170
Then at 10 the amazing, long-awaited FINALE - with dragons and promises of 🔥flaming arrows🔥 of Community D&D: Dragon of Icespire Peak. This is a very fun group, #DnD at it's very best - with friends, fun, and silliness. #TTRPG #RPG
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I enjoyed @JulietEMcKenna 's subversive *Turns and Chances* novella, with quiet little rebellions against nobles' ambitions for war and kingdom. FYI @HugoBookClub
https://www.julietemckenna.com/?page_id=193 talks about this and the larger series, which I have not read.
#Caturday Cameron (Cammie, Cameo, Camalam, etc.) hasn’t been able to see for several months now but he still demands food, petting, the good things in life. Here he comes!
Here’s why politicians around the world should be watching Paris:
When she first started challenging car dominance, Mayor Anne Hidalgo was ridiculed, threatened and sued.
But these measures are working, and proving incredibly popular, as she was comfortably re-elected in 2020.
I love clever uses of incentives and tech: Cities are using traffic lights near schools that start red and turn green if an approaching car isn't speeding.
If you're good, you get to keep driving. If you're bad, you have to stop and wait for the light to turn green.
The average speed on the road almost immediately dropped to the speed limit as people learned the rules.
Instead of punishing people with tickets after the fact, it creates the behavior the city wants.
Nation's largest publisher files lawsuit challenging Florida county's book bans - UPI.com https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/05/17/penguin-random-house-pen-america-florida-book-bans/8841684348620/
Free-speech group PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court, challenging book bans...
...lawsuit alleges that...Florida's Escambia County School District have violated the First and 14th amendments...say the books that are being banned are "disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ+ authors."
I updated my blog to list some recent activities: A discussion of Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October; S&F Clacks #2, discussing topical genre issues; a discussion of the movie Timeline; and the resumption of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign on Twitch: https://whatsthewordnow.blogspot.com/2023/04/audiovideogaming-roundup.html
Noyb win: € 1.2B fine against Meta over EU-US data transfers
Link: https://noyb.eu/en/edpb-decision-facebooks-eu-us-data-transfers-stop-transfers-fine-and-repatriation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029050
A Parliament of Owls: linocut for #printdayinmay2023!
I love the whimsical terms of venery for groups of animals and have an ongoing series of #linocut #termsOfVenery prints. For my parliament of owls I made two columns of local owls - you can decide for yourself which are the government an which the loyal opposition in this parliament! Specifically chose some gothic #lettering and Owl with 👁 and 🪶
@lilithsaintcrow @Princejvstin Saw this #Mosstodon on the edge of a retaining wall while walking through #Manayunk back in 2018 - looked so much like a tiny little hillside that I had to grab a photo.
For #InternationalBiodiversityDay I'll look beyond the soil, and showcase the amazing water-living springtail Podura aquatica.
Their adaptations for a life on the water surface include a flattened jumping organ, hydrophobic cuticle, and depositing their spermatophores and eggs on water!
#Collembola #Springtail #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Biodiversity #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilEcology
Wow, I didn't know vaping was so dangerous -- more dangerous than smoking cigarettes, except for the risk of fire for falling asleep while smoking. Apparently, many vape-users are inhaling aerosolized metals without realizing it. DOJ National Institutes of Justice podcast, transcript, and research links: https://nij.ojp.gov/library/podcast/vaping-its-not-what-you-think
I sing, I dance, I DevOps, I make liquid nitrogen ice cream, I'm in a variety of virtual book clubs. Masking, vaxxed, boosted. she/her, #IDIC