Sarah Pyke

Florida censors ‘racism’ references out of college textbook | Column A gutting of a collegiate sociology textbook that discusses racism and gender inequality.

"When the erasure enthusiasts were done, they had deleted more than 400 pages from a textbook that originally had 667, a slew of examples about how women have experienced gender discrimination and almost all references to racism."

www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

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Not just William: Richmal Crompton's adult fiction republished Reissues aim to restore her darker stories of village intrigue for grownups to the popularity they once enjoyed

yes! She wrote for adults too:

“The darkest of Crompton’s books to be republished is Leadon Hill. Set in a quiet English village that is ruled by Miss Mitcham, who brutally tears apart the lives of those who cross her.”

www.theguardian.com/books/2017/a...

if you accidentally buy tahini with honey in and have some old black bananas in the freezer and some cold espresso left in the pot you can make

tahini-honey-banana-chocolate-espresso-olive oil-walnut loaf

it’s delicious

giving the books in the shop a good squeeze to find out which ones are raw and urgent

He’s a wrong ‘un

no!

Mavis: Stay there love. I’ll come to the window

Me: It’s ok, I’ve not got anything for you

Mavis: Right-o love, I’ll come to the window

Me: DON’T WORRY, I’VE NOTHING FOR YOU
Passing Neighbour: MAVIS! HE’S NOTHING FOR YOU!
Mavis: Hiya love

Me: I’ve nothing for you

Mavis: You should have said

oh no, the man who routinely reposts *and likes* his own posts is posting again

fine by me!

unless you’re my partner who, as a kid, reading her first book in the first person, apparently announced to her mum that she ‘didn’t want any more of those “I” books’

and it’s not the first person that makes the genre

time-machine to the early eighteenth century

What I find interesting is how hard I’ve found it to defamiliarise the concept of fiction, even in the context of the emergence of the new technology of the novel, until seeing it play out in some people‘s relationships with AI…

New report calls for return of human remains – but UK museums lack the resources to act Even with the best of intentions, restitution is not a fast process.

Wrote this on human remains in British museums this time last year and stand by it: it’s a slow process that many collections have been trying to deal with for a while and—above all else—one that needs time and resourcing: theconversation.com/new-report-c...

True but I think I was being pointed to the earlier examples when fiction was emerging as an epistemological category in print

thank you for this ref

yes! there is and it’s so interesting

In fairness, people were really confused about fictional characters in early novels! It does seem like there’s a parallel there.

An expert, balanced & realistic thread on the Guardian human remains article

or, rather, without *textual* fictional representation

oh yes, perfect 🔮

Mystic Mog

Such a good going upstairs drawing!

Moving house last year I Freecycled so much stuff that we *made friends* who helped us shift a sofa, pack the van, etc.

imagine experiencing the illusion of encountering another consciousness so rarely that you‘re taken in by it, I can only think this is what it’s like to live without fictional representation

shelves full of books jam-packed with tiny beings

can’t wait for the people who think there’s someone ‘truly there’ when they talk to an AI to hear about novels, fiction’s going to blow their minds

This is the Vittorio Scarpati drawing, by the way — isn’t it good

Truly