Yomizaru
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Monkey-mind is restless and confused, then monkey starts to read.
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We can all help boycott the US, starting now.
American browsers, mail and vpn services, cloud storage and office software can all be replaced with better European alternatives.
Think Vivaldi, Proton, and LibreOffice, for example.
european-alternatives.eu
American browsers, mail and vpn services, cloud storage and office software can all be replaced with better European alternatives.
Think Vivaldi, Proton, and LibreOffice, for example.
european-alternatives.eu
European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
January 21, 2026 at 5:47 PM
We can all help boycott the US, starting now.
American browsers, mail and vpn services, cloud storage and office software can all be replaced with better European alternatives.
Think Vivaldi, Proton, and LibreOffice, for example.
european-alternatives.eu
American browsers, mail and vpn services, cloud storage and office software can all be replaced with better European alternatives.
Think Vivaldi, Proton, and LibreOffice, for example.
european-alternatives.eu
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If you are an artist, please know that your work is needed now more than ever. It is a galvanising tool of hope to fight fascism. Revolutions need their artists.
January 19, 2026 at 11:54 AM
If you are an artist, please know that your work is needed now more than ever. It is a galvanising tool of hope to fight fascism. Revolutions need their artists.
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Today I learned that Amazons actually existed, and one of their names was "Hot Flanks"
I share this knowledge with you.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
I share this knowledge with you.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Amazon Warriors' Names Revealed Amid "Gibberish" on Ancient Greek Vases
Meet Worthy of Armor, Don't Fail, and Hot Flanks, ancient Scythian names for woman Amazon warriors, now revealed on Greek vases.
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Today I learned that Amazons actually existed, and one of their names was "Hot Flanks"
I share this knowledge with you.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
I share this knowledge with you.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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The Weight of Words
For HKers, language is our identity. We speak Cantonese. We write in traditional Chinese. And during the pro-democracy protests when it seemed like no one would hear us, we just made up some new words that speak our truth.
Source: Telegram/ Ah-To (Dec 2019)
For HKers, language is our identity. We speak Cantonese. We write in traditional Chinese. And during the pro-democracy protests when it seemed like no one would hear us, we just made up some new words that speak our truth.
Source: Telegram/ Ah-To (Dec 2019)
January 10, 2026 at 3:15 AM
The Weight of Words
For HKers, language is our identity. We speak Cantonese. We write in traditional Chinese. And during the pro-democracy protests when it seemed like no one would hear us, we just made up some new words that speak our truth.
Source: Telegram/ Ah-To (Dec 2019)
For HKers, language is our identity. We speak Cantonese. We write in traditional Chinese. And during the pro-democracy protests when it seemed like no one would hear us, we just made up some new words that speak our truth.
Source: Telegram/ Ah-To (Dec 2019)
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🌙 Relatos que nos enfrentan a la tragedia y la fatalidad que arrastran las no muertas, marcadas por su penosa condición. Estas historias nos proponen diferentes interpretaciones del vampirismo 🧛🏻♀️
🦇 "Nocturnas. Historias vampíricas", de Pilar Pedraza con @valdemar.com 👇🏻
gigamesh.com/nocturnas/
🦇 "Nocturnas. Historias vampíricas", de Pilar Pedraza con @valdemar.com 👇🏻
gigamesh.com/nocturnas/
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🌙 Relatos que nos enfrentan a la tragedia y la fatalidad que arrastran las no muertas, marcadas por su penosa condición. Estas historias nos proponen diferentes interpretaciones del vampirismo 🧛🏻♀️
🦇 "Nocturnas. Historias vampíricas", de Pilar Pedraza con @valdemar.com 👇🏻
gigamesh.com/nocturnas/
🦇 "Nocturnas. Historias vampíricas", de Pilar Pedraza con @valdemar.com 👇🏻
gigamesh.com/nocturnas/
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Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...
Your Security Plan
Trying to protect all your data from everything all the time is impractical and exhausting. But, have no fear! Security is a process, and through thoughtful planning, you can put together a plan that’...
ssd.eff.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...
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This is a fascinating place, and a bigger art-world connection in the story than it reveals…
‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of
Todolí foundation produces varieties from Buddha’s hands to sudachi and hopes to help citrus survive climate change
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
This is a fascinating place, and a bigger art-world connection in the story than it reveals…
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BHL holds 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge. Among them are all kinds of marvels, including "Marvels of the Universe", a lavishly illustrated early 20th-century celebration of astronomy, plants, animals, and the oceans. Explore it on BHL:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
BHL holds 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge. Among them are all kinds of marvels, including "Marvels of the Universe", a lavishly illustrated early 20th-century celebration of astronomy, plants, animals, and the oceans. Explore it on BHL:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
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Trying to persuade your institution, employer, news source, school, etc., to quit X? Looking for a list of organizations & individuals who've already done exactly that to help with the persuasion? Well, here you go! Excellent and useful initiative from @eloquence.bsky.social 🙏
Spread it around:
Spread it around:
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Trying to persuade your institution, employer, news source, school, etc., to quit X? Looking for a list of organizations & individuals who've already done exactly that to help with the persuasion? Well, here you go! Excellent and useful initiative from @eloquence.bsky.social 🙏
Spread it around:
Spread it around:
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This is a good read. Cory Doctorow on how Trump Tariffs are actually an opportunity for the rest of the world to break the grip of US tech companies.
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:20 AM
This is a good read. Cory Doctorow on how Trump Tariffs are actually an opportunity for the rest of the world to break the grip of US tech companies.
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i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
buttondown.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.”
— Louise Glück
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
— Louise Glück
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.”
— Louise Glück
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
— Louise Glück
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
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-Mi perro es muy listo. Rechaza los principios religiosos y morales y hasta reniega de dios.
-¿Y de qué color es?
-Es blanco de pelo rizado
-¡Ah, entonces es un canietzsche!
-¿Y de qué color es?
-Es blanco de pelo rizado
-¡Ah, entonces es un canietzsche!
September 22, 2023 at 7:03 AM
-Mi perro es muy listo. Rechaza los principios religiosos y morales y hasta reniega de dios.
-¿Y de qué color es?
-Es blanco de pelo rizado
-¡Ah, entonces es un canietzsche!
-¿Y de qué color es?
-Es blanco de pelo rizado
-¡Ah, entonces es un canietzsche!
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Shigeru Mizuki's THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE is coming to English this April!
The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.
amzn.to/4jmUDIG
@dandq.bsky.social
The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.
amzn.to/4jmUDIG
@dandq.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Shigeru Mizuki's THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE is coming to English this April!
The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.
amzn.to/4jmUDIG
@dandq.bsky.social
The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.
amzn.to/4jmUDIG
@dandq.bsky.social
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Good piece on how countries will run rings round Trump’s tariffs.
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
www.wired.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Good piece on how countries will run rings round Trump’s tariffs.
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Some of the most gorgeous and interesting nonfiction books I’ve read this year.
First — Bonnie Lander Johnson’s Vanishing Lancscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them
I’ve never enjoyed a nonfiction book this much. I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived in. The world feels different now
First — Bonnie Lander Johnson’s Vanishing Lancscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them
I’ve never enjoyed a nonfiction book this much. I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived in. The world feels different now
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Some of the most gorgeous and interesting nonfiction books I’ve read this year.
First — Bonnie Lander Johnson’s Vanishing Lancscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them
I’ve never enjoyed a nonfiction book this much. I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived in. The world feels different now
First — Bonnie Lander Johnson’s Vanishing Lancscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them
I’ve never enjoyed a nonfiction book this much. I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived in. The world feels different now
This is very cool
If you want some insights into whether or not an account is likely a bot, or if someone (or you) might be Too Online, this experimental labeling feature is cool. Shows things like this and when one posts 50 or 100+ times a day. Just subscribe & adjust the settings!: @stechlab-labels.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This is very cool
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Book Christmas
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Book Christmas
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
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I am asking for your help. For a future talk, I‘ll need a movie scene where books are being burned to condemn the content and judge the author. Medieval and early modern, even 19c would be fine. What movies would you recommend or remember? Thanks so much. #skystorians #BookBurning #bookhistory
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I am asking for your help. For a future talk, I‘ll need a movie scene where books are being burned to condemn the content and judge the author. Medieval and early modern, even 19c would be fine. What movies would you recommend or remember? Thanks so much. #skystorians #BookBurning #bookhistory
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„My students needed to have good faith when they approach a text’s language. But they also needed to assume that they themselves had rational beliefs & could make meaning—that they are capable, that they can do it. . .They have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.“
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
„My students needed to have good faith when they approach a text’s language. But they also needed to assume that they themselves had rational beliefs & could make meaning—that they are capable, that they can do it. . .They have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.“
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If you've seen the latest season of "Stranger Things," you might have noticed the iconic cover of "A Wrinkle in Time" that Holly was reading. For a long time, nobody knew who had illustrated that cover -- until an enterprising Redditor got Endless Thread on the case:
Artist: Known — Illustrator for 'A Wrinkle in Time' gets long-overdue credit
The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" — featuring a winged centaur and a glowering, red-eyed face — is iconic. And yet, f...
www.wbur.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you've seen the latest season of "Stranger Things," you might have noticed the iconic cover of "A Wrinkle in Time" that Holly was reading. For a long time, nobody knew who had illustrated that cover -- until an enterprising Redditor got Endless Thread on the case: