Lina Persson

That is SO COOL!

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

What a loss to the world. One of my great heroes in life. ❤️

So the UK recognises the state of Palestine but still designates Palestine Action a terrorist group. Because that makes sense.

I quit Duolingo when they fired people and replaced them with AI. I don’t stand for that. And I made the radical decision to go back to uber-basics and borrow textbooks from the library. It’s been great! I’ve learnt more in a few months than I did in two years on the apps.

Was just think that. 😢

Damn it.

My pleasure! Also highly recommend reading Dorothy L. Sayers’ books with Peter Wimsey. I love them all, but Strong Poison and Gaudy Night in particular are amazing (SP really needs to be read before GN, though).

Of course. Not all of them (working on it) but most.

The Murder on the Orient Express is absolutely a great start. I’d also recommend And Then There Were None, The Murder at the Vicarage and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to get a good idea of her writing (and meeting both Marple and Poirot).

I’m sorry, what? And where exactly are the land-walking sharks? (It’s Australia, isn’t it? It’s always Australia.)

Is that why the zombies are always so slow?🧟

Oooh, I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on one of those Classics club totes (because it’s not like I have enough tote bags to last me three lifetimes).

I have tried. I will try again. Some day.

As the article you’ve screenshot says, workout is the noun (“I had a great work out”) and work out is the verb (“ I really like to work out”).

Can confirm I spent three years at the gymnasium (fully clothed) before heading to university.

I knew that there would come a day when Melvyn Bragg wouldn’t host #InOurTime any more but I’m still very sad the day is here now (though happy for him that he got to make the decision for himself). I hope they find a replacement with as much gravitas and genuine interest as Bragg has had.

The current discussion/glee about “is he dead?” is making me want to re-watch The Death of Stalin SO BAD but I can’t because I have books that need to be read and also family visiting.

That book seems like it would have a pretty small (no pun intended) audience. How many “little children were literate in the 15th century? Most adults weren’t!

❤️ You might well become my new place to visit when trying to wake my brain up in the morning by doing quizzes and puzzles.

Just as the pampered and weak PR man David Cameron gave in to Farage and the racists , so has the knight of the realm who once let refugees sleep on his settee - I would rather an “island of strangers” than a landscape of bigots

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In Swedish it’s “sladdbarn” (literally cable-child, meaning someone trailing being the older siblings).

Those are great drawings!

officialjackwhite "Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear" that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults. How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being.

officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and "ample time on at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot. No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves. And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Such a great film - I need to rewatch it soon.

“The problem in the U. S. isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading … You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Ray Bradbury; a world where no one reads books is no different from a world without books

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

Putin looking afraid of Obama as they shake hands.

Trump looking like an oaf shaking Putin's hand; Putin with an evil grin.

I bet he'd hate if this side-by-side went viral.

I’m both an early bird and a night owl. Which means I’m chronically sleep deprived. 😴