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Most of what I read is science fiction and fantasy.

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20% complete! ghost with books πŸ‘»πŸ“š has read 2 of 10 books.

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The car in front of me had a bumper sticker on it. It read: "Pray for Trump Psalm 109:8."

When I got home I opened my bible to the scripture and read it and started laughing.

Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few and brief; And let others step forward to replace him."

At last I can voice a Biblical prayer for our president!"

Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War (Hardcover, 2024, Transworld Publishers Limited) 5 stars

Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen uses nuclear weapons knowledge gleaned from declassified documents and expert …

A book the world should read 😳

5 stars

If you think you already know that nuclear weapons are a nightmare, you don't. I promise you.

Read this book. Then tell everyone you know about it. Call and write your representatives in government, ask them to read it.

Then ask them to work to rid the world of this nightmare before it ends us all.

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If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:

You need to vote *defensively*.

Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.

Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.

The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.

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Right-wing Australian billionaire and money-bag climate change denier Gina Reinhart apparently doesn't want people to see her portrait by the Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery.

So it would be *just awful* if people share this article and her portrait.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait.

Personally, I think it's great - and might make a very attractive t-shirt?

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The town of Catacocha, located in the south of Ecuador, is in a province known for being almost a desert: dry forest, barren soil and rains that only appear two months in the year.

A historian discovered the water collection system long ago used by Palta Indigenous people and persuaded locals in Catacocha to apply it.

by Alexis Serrano Carmona
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/an-ancient-indigenous-lagoon-system-brings-water-back-to-a-dry-town-in-ecuador/

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