Cover of Amanda Phillips' Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture

#SundayReading #BookSky In academic reading this week, I'm nearly finished Amanda Philips' Gamer Trouble. She has some very strong critiques of games I remember moderately fondly (mostly Portal and the Mass Effect), and I'm grateful for the ways it's making me revisit and rethink them.

This is Rat Week! A look back a curious campaign which started 100 years ago.

In this week's #SundayReading we look back at a campaign that started back in 1922 in an attempt to ease a particular problem with troublesome rodents.

credo che il libro più brutto che ho letto negli ultimi anni sia l'invenzione del colore di christian raimo. ora mi sono ricordata perché leggo pochissima letteratura italiana e va bene così.

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Still life with old-fashioned bank note, drawings and engraving tools.

🎨🏭🌾 Allegories, industry, agriculture and the dignity of labour.
All on the 1935 Bank of Canada note series. Read about its development on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/43baRLp

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#SundayReading #BookSky In academic reading this week, I'm a few more chapters into Amanda Phillips' Gamer Trouble. It's great; I loved the chapter on interfaces and facial depiction in games in relation to race and gender.

Bank note showing a petroleum plant overlaying a photograph of same plant.

Industry at full throttle. A roaring economy. The demands of total war . A lot of smoke on the money.
Read “The Last Smokestack” on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/3qIjxen

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#SundayReading I didn't do a ton of reading this week, but I did finish some works I've been plodding through quite a while.

Too many tabs open. Time to switch to paper.
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Collage, old bank notes, documents, black and white photographs and a magnifying glass.

🕵️‍♂️He was the greatest counterfeiter of his day, pursued relentlessly by Ontario’s first full-time police detective.🔎
He was Edwin Johnson—read about his unusual family business on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/3OzS47A

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About to get stuck into this gorgeousness from @labrinizafeir.bsky.social 🖤

I'd give her a follow if you like the paranormal fantasy reads!!!

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#SundayReading I've got a lot to cover here, as I was ill last week, and read a lot of comics while recovering.

Illustration, blue sky, a penny with angel wings and a halo flies through the air.

🪙154 years of the Canadian cent, plus a thousand years of the penny’s roots.
🧠A penny’s worth of thoughts, on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/3VaLh7g
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The Dagger in the Garden A short story written by Matt Gardner with PlotWeaver: Cards of Creation, a storytelling game made by Mod Hob Cooperative.

Sunday rerelease: The Dagger in the Garden.

A psychological mystery about grief and what the mind refuses to see.

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Photo-collage, blue sky, clouds, coins and assorted novelty coin banks.

Coin banks have been around for as long as coins.
But where does the term “piggy bank” come from?
Discover surprising facts, myths and mysteries about the origins of the piggy bank—on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/3SLZ1UT

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Sunday reading. Finished Hunter Davies and onto The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry

Would of loved Davies' writing career, may be a bit late now.

#books #SundayReading #readingcommunity #nowreading #HunterDavies #journalism #AmbroseParry

#SundayReading This week, I re-read Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez-Walta's The Vision, for my sci fi class. I've tried other comic combinations of the years for the sci fi class, but I keep coming back to this one; it really gets students talking.

A row of six narrowly cropped bank note images of the Queen aging left to right.

👑✨ It’s a sweeping history spanning 3 generations…
A life unfolding on a nation’s currency. 💵📜
Dignity, elegance, and some very fine engraving. Read “Queen of the Bank Notes” on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/3w9UT5O
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The Carnegie Libraries Dundee, like main towns and cities in the UK, and across the world, was the beneficiary of Andrew Carnegie’s scheme to build libraries. Read more about the 5 built here.

In today's #SundayReading post we look back at an article from 2022. Here you can read all about the origins of Dundee's 5 Carnegie Libraries. Can you name all five without looking at the article?

HYPERPOLITICS, Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences by
Anton Jäger (Verso, 2026) Sunday reading! #hyperpolitics #antonjäger @versobooks.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de #sundayreading #booksky

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A Morning at a Slow Café

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My blog post this week is a gentle look at life: A Morning at a Slow Café

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Photo collage, a jagged graph and a grocery cart with a painting, car, llama and a house it in it.

💸🎶 If they had a million dollars, would the Barenaked Ladies still be rich? 🤑
See how inflation has taken a bite out of their 1990s dreams on the blog, “If I Had a Million dollars…I’d be Reasonably Well Off”.
👉 https://bit.ly/40Itt7N
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Sundays are usually for catching up on college work, but with next week off, I’m left wondering… do I spend the day reading The Idiot and overthinking humanity, or The Prince and overthinking politics? Either way, it’s about to be a very dramatic Sunday… 😂 #Dostoyevsky #Machiavelli #SundayReading

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#SundayReading I tried this once today, and Chrome crashed when I was a good ways into the thread. So let's try the short version again.

Photocollage, a bank note and a coin each with a sailing ship on it.

💡 A little history on #Newfoundland, a lot of history on its money.
😲 Yes, Newfoundland issued its own money for over 80 years before joining Canada.
Read about its rich currency history on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/4a7JHcp
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