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"I don't think I've read a novel that uses the white space on the page so well."

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604157/booker-prize-winner-2025-david-szalay-flesh

This thread makes me so sad:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

The goal of open source should be to empower people, not to make them feel like they have no agency and their work doesn't matter.

Hey, times is tough.

I run a bookstore.

If you've got kids in your life who are likely to have a sparse christmas, and who might be interested in (rather than disappointed by) books, shoot me a DM.

Hello, It's me NeoComment.

#NeoComment #NeoDB

"We were told two things at that time. No. 1, there isn't a Canadian identity, and No. 2, your book is too Canadian."

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/02/nx-s1-5293140/in-her-memoir-margaret-atwood-reveals-how-she-found-source-material-and-love

Forgot book photos so here's a Tuesday Two-Fur (+1 because I missed Caturday).

11/4/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

Calico is in Samson's chair. He's letting her know about it as Traveler investigates the goings on.

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I've been #writing a #book for about 25 years. It's "the" book in that it's scooped up several of my other story ideas and merged it into a single behemoth. It's a speculative #fiction story with an alternate world, some things that characters would call #magic, and an epic story at the heart.

This year I decided that while I won't likely finish until I retire and have time to focus on writing, I can at least bring the process and world-building forward into the public eye.

The Hierophant

You can learn all about my story, follow along, and maybe even give some input along the way.

I've been reading presidential bios for a while (including Hamilton, before it was a musical) but lately it seems I've been reading a lot about Lincoln and Washington. The ones on Washington tend to focus on the Revolution, while in contrast the Lincoln assortment I've read focus on different time spans - the Civil War, his election, and in the case of this book, his early life up until his election, so there's some overlap but different emphasis and detail. The author is a bit unsparing when it comes to describing appearances (Lincoln is not exempt, in fact he probably gets the worst of it with a lot of men and women on the record describing him as homely, ungainly, etc. and this was before social media), but he does paint a picture, and this is probably the best bio I can remember that gives you a feeling of his personality (if he were here today he'd probably be taking antidepressants).

The book also makes starkly clear what I hope is not a spoiler, what led to the Civil War was slavery, not states rights (contrary to the Iowa high school essay that I'm embarrassed I wrote back in the day based on whatever resource I found in the school library - see this is where it would've been nice if a teacher said nice writing but you got it all wrong), but with a lot of additional context, Lincoln's anti-slavery arguments, the range from politicians who just didn't mind slavery, whatever keeps the union together, and those who really wanted any excuse to split and were trying to assassinate Lincoln even before he took office. And with movement names like the Know Nothings and the Wide Awakes, current times just seem like a remake.

Do you know of Open Source projects that need help with being translated into german?

I've been using some of my free time to translate whatever projects I find online that lack translation and am eager to do some more translating...

#translation #opensource