Nope, sloplords, there were just far fewer horses after they ceased to be the central transit and hauling technology.

Good Medicine ‘Nobody could have convinced me that this was therapeutic.’ Sheila Heti on ketamine, DMT, and LSD therapy.

"Often in a relationship, I feel that I want to leave. I think because I want to leave the darkness. But I’m mature enough to know that there’s always going to be darkness with anybody. It’s just – a different darkness."

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Our Monstrous Ideas • EQUATOR In these two essays, newly translated for Equator, the Italian writer articulates a powerful moral vision of what it means to belong, and to whom we owe our compassion

new today: for the first time in English, two brilliant essays by Natalia Ginzburg, "Universal Pity" and "The Jews," translated by Gini Alhadeff, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra www.equator.org/articles/our...

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time."

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The presence of Mels B and C always made me wonder what they did to Mel A

New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...

"Scientists estimate up to 2 million marine species exist, yet only 240,000 have been formally identified, meaning roughly 10% of ocean life has been cataloged."

Join us for a very important workshop on eviction resistance this Sunday at 2pm at the Quaker Meeting House. These are crucial skills for protecting people from authoritarian violence so now is the time to learn them.

Calling all the UK public library workers! 📚 Seeking participants for UCL MA Library and Information Studies research project

#LibraryScience #Libraries #LibraryLife #LIS #LibraryTwitter
#LibTech #UCL #EDI #Librarians #LibraryStaff #CulturalHeritage #PublicLibraries #Research

Festival organisers reflect a year on since loss of Baillie Gifford funding Festival organisers have reflected a year on from the “enormous blow” of losing funding from Baillie Gifford, revealing booming ticket sales and the need to attract younger audiences.

'AN ENORMOUS BLOW' screams the headline. then the article immediately concedes that ticket sales are 'booming'. and the festivals they told us Fossil Free Books was KILLING are in fact...doing fine? www.thebookseller.com/news/an-enor...

Podcast cover for Episode #8 of "Future Knowledge" titled "The Library: A Fragile History." The design features portraits of the three guests—Abby Smith Rumsey, Andrew Pettegree, and Arthur der Weduwen—arranged in a grid. Surrounding them are collage-style retro-futuristic elements including a classical statue head, a vintage computer with the word "NEW" on its screen, a modernist observation tower, and abstract architectural shapes. The title uses bold, blocky typography, giving the cover a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.

From ancient archives to today’s institutions, libraries have been built, destroyed, & reinvented. Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen tell the story in THE LIBRARY: A FRAGILE HISTORY on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

Listen & subscribe 🎧
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I'm going to sell my husband's theremin, I bought it for him four years ago and he's never touched it.

Last year Karl Ove came to visit me, and we climbed the mountain and talked about computers and other things. I don't know then exactly what he was wondering about. Now I do.

The Reenchanted World, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Translated by Olivia Lasky, Damion Searls On finding mystery in the digital age

“My current problem, what I struggle with, is that I cannot find an outside to technology. It is as if the outside had disappeared, as if it were no longer a possible place.”

Karl Ove Knausgaard on enchantment in the digital age.

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ I've just donated to @GoodLawProject to help fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

That the placards held by these presumably cis-women protesters seeking to deny trans women rights read ‘adult human female’, ‘large gametes’, and ‘biological fact’ encapsulates the biological essentialism, reductionism, and determinism at the heart of their definition of who counts as a woman.

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

Poetry!

The Beaufort scale, from 0 "Calm", 1 "Light Air", through 8 "Gale", 11 "Violent Storm", and 12 "Hurricane". The table also includes columns for Knots and Miles Per Hour, as well as Effects Observed Far From Land and Effects Observed On Land. More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale

Fibonacci numbers are over. I'm using the Beaufort scale for stories from now on. #agile #scrum

A gem of a drawing (crayon and chalk) from around 1820 by the Suffolk artist Henry Bright. It's titled 'Symphony,' and was made forty years before Whistler began to name his works with the language of music.

You: Oh my god the house is on fire!

Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

A concrete pyramid-like structure in a flat, grassy landscape, overgrown with brambles.

It's full of weird structures 👍🏼

Landguard Fort in Felixstowe!

Suffolk County Council aims to take libraries back in-house

Suffolk County Council aims to take libraries back in-house

No they're not. Don't be a fucking idiot | Ian Rennie

I have just taken a tumble and done myself a mischief but it’s not often I get to use two of my favourite expressions in one go, so not all bad.

Best bookshop!

what the fuck are we doing anymore yes this is about social media

wrote about the demons (ie how being a writer is only going to get worse and how terrified I am) open.substack.com/pub/thelater...