#sffbookclub, take note. After a suggestion from @jake , I have set up a LiberaPay account to subsidize book club participants who might not otherwise be able to read a selection due to costs.
I've seeded the donations, but please consider contributing so that more people can enjoy the club.
I'm Naga. A statistical consultant by training and trade, but more here for general social interaction, especially geeky, sometimes sexy/kinky, and occasionally left-wing political. Oh, and new-dad stuff. Dragonlet is my toddler, Jalan is my wife.
#statistics #research #academics #kink #parenting #Dragonlet #nsfw
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The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks!
However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out
This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.
So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:
https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/
Any feedback very welcome.
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Meanwhile, #Dragonlet has climbed onto his plush, purple, musical, rocking *dragon*, and it's the best thing ever.
one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers corrupting open science in Europe
@zephasaurus_hex @Julia @naga @vector ๐ต ~Come on in, to the ugly barebones book club community~ ๐ต
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I just saw my shadow. You know what that means: 6 more months of gay pride. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
Okay, main characters are NOT ALLOWED to pull this "names have power so I'm not telling you mine" bullshit on me. I am your AUTHOR. You will LISTEN. #amwriting
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My new toy generates random #Arrow episode synopses, inspired by @SilviaFox .
"In flashbacks, during a fight it is designed to protect Merlyn for as long as he knows Joe will not fight for him anymore, but for the death of the clean cops, forcing Nick to realize that vigilantism is the Green Arrow crashes through the skylight, revealing himself as the mayor, not the vigilante. Curtis promises to free John, Rene, Dinah, and Quentin, who reveals that he is being framed."
The #sffbookclub read for July is River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey.
If access is an issue, DM me--we've had a little luck with crowdfunding.
Yesterday was bad, but feeling more myself today. I'll take it!
Good morning, friends.
If disco is dead, does that make anyone who is trying to bring it back a necrodancer?
I finally summarized my book in one sentence. 70,000 words in on the first draft.
"Queers fight oppressive systems in post-apocalyptic Alaska."
That's it. I did it. Augh. #AmWriting
Two things:
1. We have the #sffbookclub and some others. Is there a #nonfictionbookclub?
2. Is there a Mastodon Goodreads group (yes, yes, booo, Amazon...) or a Telegram (again, yes, booo, I get it) or Wire or other messenger group that would make talking about books easier?
"What has been characteristic of experimental psychology is the adoption of a rather prosaic set of experimental โcontrolsโ and a repeated-measures paradigm. In a wide variety of settings, this method of procedure has yielded fairly stable functional relationships between dependent and independent variables under conditions generally so unlike the domain of interest as to render generalizations jejune.
I cannot recommend highly enough the experience of going to a bar (or restaurant or bookstore or whatever) often enough that you become regulars
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