Mark, Rick, or Steve

When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales by WB Yeats.

In the United States, your 99-cent Kobo book is The Magnificent Sons, so I bought that one instead.

#WaltWhitman #Booksky
I hear and behold God in every object, [...]
Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;

@tkingfisher.com #Thornhedge #BookSky The greenteeth had never told her that she was human, but [...] They had not cared. It was of no more import than Fadeweed's paleness or Reedbones's speed. She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated.

Everyone was of my opinion, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming imbecilic in order to become content. From this I concluded that if we set store by happiness, we set even greater store by reason. (2/2) #Voltaire

#Voltaire #BookSky For after all, what is at issue? Being happy. What matters being witty or stupid? What is more, those who are content with their being are quite sure of being content; those who reason are not sure of reasoning well. [...] (1/2)

Voltaire: Candide, Zadig, and selected stories. Finished Candide this morning, so it's time for the selected stories.

Moby Dick is one of my favorites. The first time I read it I had just broken my arm and so required a lot of rest, so I'd read a bit and sleep a bit. I love a book with short chapters.

#BookSky #Voltaire #Zadig [...] self-love is a balloon inflated with wind, whence tempests emerge when it has been pricked.

Texas Supreme Court rules that judges can refuse to marry same-sex couples “It is not a violation of these canons for a judge to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief,” the Texas Supreme Court ruled.

“The change follows years of quiet tension over the obligations of judges in a state where local officials and clerks have occasionally resisted same-sex marriage rulings.” A saddening development. #Texas #LoveIsLove www.advocate.com/news/texas-j...

It can lead to a pleasure in violence and in the infliction of pain [...] It should and could lead to a desire for a new world. It should lead also toward a love of all human beings, and of good will toward them. But those who have once learned to love violence for its own sake [...] 2/2

#AgathaChristie #PassengertoFrankfurt #BookSky The natural idealism of youth is fed more and more by a desire to destroy those two phases of modern life, injustice and crass materialism. That desire to destroy what is evil sometimes leads to a love of destruction for its own sake. 1/2

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

The one in my town is called Scuppernong's. I was there yesterday, bought the Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor. New books, used books, coffee, wine, special events like author readings or book clubs.

The more I process my time with the exes, the more I am grateful for the man I'm with now. He's not a perfect human, but he's the perfect human for me. #gaylove

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future

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A really fun fact.

If you go to the cartoonmuseum.org in Central London to see incredible collections & shows of the best cartoon artwork
& you pay for admission once, that ticket acts as an annual membership so you can go back as many times as you like in 1 year.
@cartoonmuseum.bsky.social

My friends have been asking/answering this question for over a decade. We always agree, they are not okay.

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it.

I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work.

Our liberation is bound together.
Are you coming along?

#BookSky #SigridUndset #KristinLavransdatter
You and I, Ragnfrid, we have observed all the fast days and have tried to live by God's commandments in all things. And now it almost seems to me . . . that we might have been happier if we had had more to regret.

Maga is damaging America’s reputation | The Observer By embracing self interest, the US is betraying its responsibilities and alienating allies

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Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset. But I was at an antiques market this weekend and didn't have it with me, so now I'm also reading Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie.

#BookSky #AgathaChristie #HalloweenParty I know there's a proverb which says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

I'm reading fewer this year, but I'm doing a reading challenge. RCs always slow me down because I respond poorly to goal-oriented motivation.

I think The Time Traveler's Wife would be a good book if it ended at the half-way point. I preferred Her Fearful Symmetry.

To err is human; to correct gently is humane. #IsaacAsimov

Share a cartoon you will always love

After the Funeral, by Agatha Christie.

As an autistic man, I have often gifted friends and partners with an imaginary personality that is much nicer than the one they have in real life.

The thing that we need in the world today is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and to be opposed to wrong, wherever it is.” - MLk Jr.

#RadioFreeAmerica