Merkaba @merkaba@wandering.shop

Looking for interesting books in languages indigenous to Africa, the greater Caribbean, the South Pacific, & the Indian Ocean. Boosts & tags with the intent of reaching someone who has suggestions very much welcome!

So, #fountainpen enthusiasts, which (affordable) pens are your favorites? And which inks are worth trying?

OK, so internet trends this year so far
- Sea Shanties
- Bernie Sanders And His Mittens

Is there something really big (and non-depressing) that I missed?

Hands up if you want a BIBLIOBURRO

(Source: https://bookporn.tumblr.com/post/49370741741)

Not only does LeGuin get a US Postage Stamp, the background celebrates one of the first and most notable #nonbinary characters in #sff.

I'm gonna be offering free advice and support for questions related to linux, FLOSS and online privacy from now on.
Are you considering switching to a linux OS? Are you looking for alternatives to your proprietary software and hardware? Do you need to know how to do X thing in your new OS/software? Do you want to know if Y thing is even possible with linux? Hit me up. Public or DM, either is fine

No notebook is too fancy for you! Scribble all over them! Enjoy the feel of your pen on fancy paper!

Your thoughts do not have to be grand or ordered or even coherent to deserve being written down somewhere that gives you pleasure.

#WriterEncouragements

SimCity 2000 + SimCopter + Streets of SimCity was such a glorious trifecta from Maxis. Like... the fact that you could import your cities into the other two games and either fly around them doing rescue missions or drive around them blowing stuff up... incredible

hey so this year i want to read more authors that arent white because it seems like white authors just get the traction and therefore i see them and read them, so if anyone has any fiction writers of color preferably newer stuff that they wanna recc, i'm all ears :3

I still hate sleep.

If we could just, as a species, optionally replace sleep with lying in bed reading, I would really appreciate that.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen

xkcd: Steepen the Curve https://xkcd.com/2409/

'If the aliens lay eggs, how does that affect architecture?': sci-fi writers on how they build their worlds | Science fiction books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/05/if-the-aliens-lay-eggs-how-does-that-affect-architecture-sci-fi-writers-on-how-they-build-their-worlds

L'approche du World-Building de différents auteurs de SFF : Alastair Reynolds, Nnedi Okorafor, Ann Leckie, Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, M John Harrison..

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