This Week in Literary History: Malcolm X was Assassinated in New York City“Whatever hand pulled the trigger did not buy the bullet.”https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-malcolm-x-was-assassinated-in-new-york-city/#blackhistorymonth #ushistory #books
Le langage est un ensemble de citationsJorge Luis Borges (Le livre de Sable, trad. Françoise-Marie Rosset, p.106) / Dublin, Ireland, ca. 1957 – by Leonard McCombe (1923 – 2015), American#philosophy #quote #caturday #cats #photography #Ireland #books
I bought a copy of "The Book of PF" from @pitrhIt's the best and most comprehensive resource about the marvelous PF firewall that I've ever seen, and I've been using PF since the early days.Amazing work!It's available here on No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-editionI also recently wrote a practical guide on PF (https://blog.hofstede.it/pf-firewall-on-freebsd-a-practical-guide/) for anyone who wants to get started :-)#freebsd #pf #networking #firewall #books
Garden museRenaissance man and polymath Leonardo da Vinci was deeply interested in botany; many of his better-known works include signs of his careful examination of plants. Top 10 Leonardo Drawings in the Royal Collection:https://www.rct.uk/collection/stories/leonardo-in-the-royal-collection/top-10-leonardo-drawings-in-the-royal-collection?utm_source=Knowable+Magazine&utm_campaign=c402de6df9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_27_08_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_150f6a5cbe-c402de6df9-546465172Da Vinci at PG:https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629#books #botany
@CiaraNi99% of time 720p is enough. You can share it without waiting too much time for the upload.It happens to me very seldom that I need higher resolution.
@Princejvstin @bookstodon Footnote to your last comment in that review: as the New Management books start not less than 6 months after the end of The Regicide Report, Eve isn't on anyone's radar at the Laundry as yet. (This might be seen, in 20/20 hindsight, as a huge blunder …)
Open thread: Who here's a published author?
If that's you, what's the title of your book, and a brief synopsis.
I'm keen to find some interesting new books by folk on the socials.
#book #books #writing #literature #auspol #authors #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #cities
New blog post: Book review: Carrying the Fire by Michael Collinshttp://82mhz.net/posts/2026/01/book-review-carrying-the-fire-by-michael-collins/ #blogging #blog #books #bookstodon
@CathyBikesBook OK, I suspect that field should just be the actual link to your profile https://mstdn.plus/@CathyBikesBook and then there should be a way to set the link properties/attributes (maybe as Advanced options?) where you can specify "me" as the value for the rel attribute (might be called "link rel" under the Advanced menu)
