Rachel Ann @Salixj@wandering.shop
Orthodox Jewish Israeli mom of five, grandma of 3.
I'm sort of reading exhausted? Does that ever happen to anyone else? I book binged and now I'm finding it hard to get into anything.
@cassolotl you will be missed.
Last week was great but I feel that this week has been so short.
In the 90s, MIT's Athena system devised a system to handle online harrassment. One feature of the system was that the notice of reported abusive behaviour sent to the accused user began with the phrase "Someone using your account…". Users were advised to re-password their accounts, as they may have been hacked. Password resets by UYA recipients were taken in good faith by staff, but the most astonishing thing was that the offending behaviour nearly always stopped there.
https://www.metafilter.com/173881/UYA-notices-and-face-saving-in-moderation-systems#inline-7389802
I need to remember this technique in the event of anyone doing stuff that merits a warning.
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful listing of free books. And nicely laid out! https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
#onlinebooks #books
Would anyone here be interested in a weekly short story discussion group here?
Back when I blogged, I had a weekly review on a #sf #fantasy or #horror short story. It was great at finding new authors without taking too much time from my other reading, and there really is a huge amount of material available for free online. I think it'd be fun to try with a group of others on Mastodon.
If anyone is interested, let me know! We could start with something like this year's Hugo or Locus nominees.
So, because I'm ridiculous, I started another book challenge via reading women. I won't be able to get all challenge items done, however, in the course of looking at what my options were I've been investigating Independent press. Wish there were a complete list somewhere.
Online book club: @Satsu and whoever might be interested. I've got a few books in my stack. Would you, @Satsu be able to get the books & want to read along? Anyone else? Here's what I have in my pile: When We Were Orphans, Island of Departed Cats, Chalk Man, Rights of Man, Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry. Or suggest a book and I'll see if I can find it?
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So my #readathon wasn't that great. I completed reading a few books, but only read two books to completion during this time, and one of those was a graphic novel. I've also am now up to page 200 in a book called Salt, which is about Salt. I guess it isn't about finishing? But there I am.
Japanese Fairy tales - Audiobook. Listened while doing laundry. Off to listen to the Raven!!!! #readathon
For the #readathon so far I've read Dublin 4 by Maeve Binchy, read two stories in Kurt Vonnegut's "While Mortal's Sleep" 30 or so pages in "Irish Rural Interiors in Art", 5 chapters in Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence, and began a philosophy book.
Happy #WorldTapirDay wooly people
https://wandering.shop/media/iwkl34AvydvfXT9QHLU
Here are my books for the #readathon http://www.24hourreadathon.com/
I won't be reading for the full 24hrs. And I also will probably listen to an audiobook or two.
A collection of things I made for people new to #Mastodon, based on questions I commonly see in the public timelines during influxes of new folks. :)
Privacy settings: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99766026886377926
Local vs. federated timelines: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99766033723472311
A two-way 🐘🐦 @crossposter: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/
How to find and interact with toots that haven't reached your instance yet: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99766038792455458
Trending topics: https://mastodon-tags-explorer.hcxp.co/ @tagsexplorer
I've started watching The Alienist and now I know what is next on my list. #TheAlienist
Whoa, but that letter!
So since this is more book oriented: I read books on openlibrary, because I don't have a lot of money. Besides kindle etc, are there any other free online libraries? Where you can "borrow" the books, read them online. (And I know about guttenberg, I download from them as well)
We had our Yom Ha'atmaut bbq, and this dog showed up to entertain us! He laid down and let my grandkids play with him, didn't beg for food or anything. Just stayed with us as we ate.
Delightful doggie.
BTW, I'm on goodreads, and following several 2018 reading challenges there. Same name, Salixj.
Just books in general. I was looking for a site which discussed books. I'm fantasy and horror mostly.
