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@ EntropicalVacation @midwest.social

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Central Illinois book lover, cat lover, CPA

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  • Some favorite (mostly contemporary) authors:

    Margaret Atwood A. S. Byatt Louise Erdrich Barbara Kingsolver Ann Patchett Ali Smith Jeanette Winterson Angela Carter

    Some great authors:

    George Eliot Virginia Woolf Charlotte Brontë Edith Wharton Jane Austen Toni Morrison Simone de Beauvoir Gertrude Stein Iris Murdoch Flannery O’Connor Alice Walker

  • What are you making right now (or have made recently)?

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  • I made a sweater!

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    1. They’re ugly as sin.
    2. They’re scary as shit when you happen across one in the dark and it hisses at you with its pointy teeth and glowing eyes.
    3. I left my car parked in a lot at work overnight, and in the morning it wouldn’t start. A possum had climbed up under the hood and chewed clean through a bundle of wires that apparently was most of the electrical system. It was so stupid that it wouldn’t leave even when I poked it with a stick. That car never ran again.

  • This is my kitty kat, her name is Artemis

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  • My sister had a long-haired tortie named Artemis! She was a little freak. Hope your Artemis is a little saner!

  • The Photodegradation Ball

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  • Maybe people would be more willing to fund science research if all experimental results were reported like this!

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    The worst part about finishing a book is trying to decide what to read next. It sometimes takes me DAYS to decide on something to read. Anyone else?

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  • I’m usually reading at least 3 books at any given time, so when I’ve finished one or two, I still have time to pick up the next one.

  • Recommend me some philosophical books.

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  • Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. Not a collection, but an easy-to-read overview.

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Tort exhibits magnificent indifference to the void invasion

  • Have you read Babel by R.F. Kuang? Did you like it?

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  • I didn’t loathe it, but I didn’t much care for it. It’s basically a polemic about the history and effects (racism, poverty, income inequity, classism) of colonialism and capitalism. Not that that would make a bad novel per se, but I was expecting something more fantastical. The promise of linguistic magic was a big draw for me, but I felt this book could have been written, and maybe should have been written, as straight-up historical fiction, instead of promising fantasy that it pretty much failed to deliver.

  • I don't drink, but I'd pop in for a visit

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  • Third one from the end looks a little stretched.

  • I don't drink, but I'd pop in for a visit

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  • The cats or the boxes?

  • It's her favorite book

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  • To Kill a Mockingbird, of course.

  • That explains it.

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  • Heterosexual men want to look at boobs. If she thinks this is “weird,” I feel she needs something explained to her.

  • Looking for two book recommendations (first SciFi and "48 rules of Power" with ethics)

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  • For SF, I recommend anything by Becky Chambers. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the first of her Wayfarers series.

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  • Something interesting on the ceiling

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  • Greebles. They’re often on the ceiling at our house.

  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    Cape Verde becomes fourth African country to eliminate malaria

    www.theguardian.com /global-development/2024/jan/12/cape-verde-becomes-fourth-african-country-to-eliminate-malaria

  • Went to the vet yesterday since my boy was acting weird. Turns out he was showing very mild signs of paralysis.

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  • I had a cat that was maybe 6 or 7 years old when she suddenly started having seizures. After a seizure, she’d be wobbly for a few days, then eventually back to normal… until it happened again. Vet couldn’t figure out what was going on. We decided to try to track when she had the seizures—was it when she ate something out of the ordinary, got exposed to something unusual, on a recurring schedule? That sort of thing. We quickly found out that within a day or two of giving her a dose of Frontline flea treatment (the kind you drip on the back of their neck) she’d have a seizure. We stopped giving her Frontline and she never had another seizure.

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    42 muscles to rule

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Bleptembers past

  • Can you drive a manual transmission?

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  • Yes, mid-60s, Midwest U.S.

  • Is there a reason I should donate a kidney to a stranger now, rather than just waiting till I die, at which point both kidneys will probably be donated to strangers anyway?

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  • A kidney donated from a living donor often lasts longer and performs better than a kidney from a deceased donor. Donating a kidney to a stranger can begin a paired donation chain that can result in several people getting kidneys. If you are seriously thinking about donating, I strongly encourage you to do some research with reputable sources, talk to some people who’ve donated themselves, talk it over with your loved ones, and maybe talk to some transplant coordinators at the nearest transplant center. It’s not something to be undertaken lightly, but living donors are saints.

  • Request for Nonfiction must reads

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  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan. A little dated, but a classic. Sagan’s enthusiasm for his subject is inspirational.

    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Part memoir, part reflections on how to repair humanity’s relationship with the natural world. The author is a botanist and a Potawatomi, and brings both perspectives to her work.

    The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green. Thoughtful, heartfelt observations of humanity and its effects on the planet and the other beings that live on it, from a kind, decent, engaged, and nevertheless hopeful person.

    The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery. Really more personal reflections on octopuses the author has known and loved than an objective look at consciousness, but the tales are very moving.

  • Were you ever denied a book by a librarian?

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  • Love Among The Ruins - Edward Burne-Jones (1873, watercolour)

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  • I love the Pre-Raphaelites.

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    Circe - Franz von Stuck, c. 1913