Reading The Social Construction of Reality:
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/17/the-social-construction-of-reality-a-treatise-in-the-sociology-of-knowledge/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #knowledge #sociology #audiobook #Audible #reading

Honestly, I think we are both emerging from our own personal Château d'Ifs.

#literature #reading #classiclit #countofmontecristo #bookish
#bookclub #ebook #publicdomain

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A public domain image of the James brothers posing for a Kodak in matching coats and hats in hand. Meme text reads,"When bro and you are reading the same old book."

It's easy to have both of these things in your garden. Laziness and illogical emotional moves drives us to buy them

Fresh ginger is much much better for you. Lemons you've been growing yourself are much better than this

You can make this tea simply by reading a good book about it.

Ginger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger

#Books #reading #tea #lemon #ginger #gardening #chemistry

Q: Where do you do your best thinking?

A: On the EGYPTAIR flight home. . . . There is no better place to think than somewhere over the Atlantic after Egypt has scrambled your brain.

This week's Longreads Questionnaire, with BECOMING BABA author Aymann Ismail: https://longreads.com/2026/07/15/questionnaire-aymann-ismail/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Books #Egyptian #Egypt #Writers #Journalists #Reporting #Reading #Interviews

River Kennet, near Avebury.
This is a 'winterbourne' - a river which is only visible in winter. In summer, it disappears underground, still flowing, if slowly. Further down its course, after gathering more water from tributaries, it becomes a fully-fledged river, all the way to Reading.
#photography #RiverKennet #winterbourne #Reading

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A watercourse, without water.

Together we can protect and fund the libraries our communities need.

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

#read #reading #book #books #audiobook #audiobooks

COMING SOON: The Nerd Reich by Gil Durán (@gilduran)

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-606a-5416-9e63-b78152956776

#technology #bookstagram #SiliconValley #reading #PeteThiel #DarkEnlightenment #NeoReactionary #NRx #cameralism #CurtisYarvin #NetworkState #NeoFascism #TechnoFeudalism #book

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SCREENSHOT: Post by Gil Durán Sunday, July 12, 2026 a 3:23 PM PHOTO: A cardboard box with muliple copies of a hardcover book, one of which is being held. The cover is red with a circuit board tracing faintly laid over it. "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fasscism and the War on Democracy" by Gil Durán TEXT: Yesterday two mysterious boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life's work: "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fasscism and the War on Democracy". It tells the story of how a cult of billionaires became radicalized against democracy. And it exposes their plan to use AI and crypto to wipe the United States off the face of the earth. Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat -- pre-order today! (See links below.)

Are we living through the end of reading?

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5886268/are-we-living-through-the-end-of-reading

#books #reading

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In Federico Zandomeneghi's painting "Girl reading a book," a young girl with bright red hair is shown in profile, looking to the left. She is holding an open book and wears a light blue dress with a ruffled collar. The background is filled with warm shades of orange, red, and soft yellow.

I am sad this morning. Woke up to see some of my favorite #Fanfiction has been removed from the internet. Not because of pull to publish, but just because they have to now fight because LLM folks are now using LLMs to write, and publish, fanfiction. Even though this may be the case now, keep this in mind. https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/ #ReadingCommunity #Reading #Fiction #WritingCommunity

Our Top 5 this week:

ㆍConcrete memories, Places Journal
ㆍGrief science, The New Yorker
ㆍCaptive cats, The Narwhal
ㆍRelentless pain, The Common
ㆍMyth meets reality, The Atlantic

https://longreads.com/2026/07/10/top-5-616/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=email

#Longreads #Reading #Storytelling #Essay #Journalism

🤗☁️🌈☁️📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗*(The plans of the heart belong to man!*but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD!)*[All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes!*but the LORD👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

🤗☁️🌈☁️📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗(IN THE “BIBLE” YOU CAN FIND THE WRITINGS OF “Proverbs” TO HELP GAIN WISDOM!*& WHEN I GET A CHANCE TO READ SOME OF THEM I THINK THEY MAKE GREAT ADVICE!*& PERFECT SENSE!*AMEN!†*& HERE ARE A FEW I SHARE WITH YOU ALL!)👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #Pray #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love

🤗☁️🌈☁️📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗(DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS ON THIS ENTIRE REALM OF EARTH IN THE “BIBLE” YOU CAN FIND THE WRITINGS OF “Proverbs” TO HELP GAIN WISDOM!*& WHEN I GET A CHANCE👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

🤗☁️🌈☁️📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗THE “BIBLE Proverbs” TO HELP GAIN WISDOM!*& GREAT ADVICE!*& PERFECT SENSE!*AMEN!]†🤗📖📜✝️👑🕊️💦🏩💒❤️‍🔥🛐🫂💛💜💗🩵🩷🧡☁️🌈☁️🤔🧐🥸😎🤓🧠🤗👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

☁️🌈☁️💒🛐💦🏩❤️‍🔥😎👓📚🫂🕊️📖✝️👑❤️‍🔥💦🌐🌏🩷💁🏿‍♀️*[DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS ACROSS THE WORLD IN THE “BIBLE” YOU CAN FIND THE WRITINGS OF “Proverbs” TO HELP GAIN WISDOM!*& WHEN I GET A CHANCE TO READ SOME OF THEM I THINK THEY MAKE GREAT ADVICE!*& PERFECT SENSE!*AMEN!]†👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Understanding #Unity #Love

💜🩷🩵💦🌞😎🩴🩴👙🐚🏖️🌊⛱️⛲🍉🏄🏼‍♀️🤽🏼‍♀️🍋⛵🪂🐦🐈🐕🐠🐟🎣🦦🚣🏼‍♀️🍥🌴🤸🏼‍♀️🌏🌐💛💁🏼‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED BLESSED!*& ESPECIALLY GIFTED!*& BRIGHT!*& LOVING SPIRITED FRIENDS GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!🌞*& I AM SHARING WITH YOU ALL MY👉

(Proverbs 16:1-3*& 8-9)
#Wisdom #Proverbs #Beloved #Friends #Bible #Interesting #Reading #Friday #Devotional #Lord #GOD #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Unity #Love #One #Another

@standardebooks The Horned Helmet by Henry Treece

I loved it so much my grade 4 teacher let me keep one of the books from the class set (they were all falling apart anyway)

This is that same copy she gave me, i've had this book almost 50 years

#bookstodon #literature #books #reading #culture

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Foliate is a free, open-source eBook reader for Linux with support for EPUB, MOBI, PDF, CBZ, FB2, and more.

It includes dark mode, annotations, dictionary lookup, text-to-speech, bookmarks, and reading progress, all without requiring an account or sending your reading data to the cloud.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=foliate

#OpenSource #Linux #eBooks #Privacy #FOSS #Reading

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Screenshot of the Foliate project page showing the app logo, the tagline "Read books in style," and a preview of its clean eBook reading interface with a table of contents and an open book.

"Yehor stepped and knelt and spun and raised his arms into the emptiness where Masha should have been. In the footage playing behind him, she was still the star." —Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prom.html/?src=longreads

#longreads #prom #ukraine #russia #war #reading #writing

Together we can protect and fund the libraries our communities need.

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media

https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/?src=longreads

#longreads #hustle #scam #socialmedia #reading #writing

Like, follow, and share if you love libraries, literacy, and books!

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

Libraries change lives.

Follow us to stay informed, take action, and help defend the freedom to read across America.

Together we can protect and fund the libraries our communities need.

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116860757849700230

A great site for many of your #reading needs!

#books #literature #poetry

muddle 🥣 boosted

Project Gutenberg » 🌐 2026-07-04
@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

Happy 55th Birthday, Project Gutenberg! Let's celebrate!🎉

Project Gutenberg was founded on July 4, 1971, when Michael Hart typed the U.S. Declaration of Independence into an early internet-connected computer and shared it with friends, making it the first digital text — though its official posting date is recorded as December 1, 1971. (And happy 250th, USA.)

The Declaration of Independence at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1

#ebooks #publicdomain

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Title: The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America Author: Thomas Jefferson Credits: This etext was produced by Michael S. Hart. A poster-style image of the United States Declaration of Independence document centered against a patriotic red, white, and blue striped background, with the title "The Declaration of Independence" displayed in bold text at the top. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1/pg1-images.html

@kirschner, president of @fsfe, is coming to DWeb Camp to read “Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream”

https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/83EYB7/

🍦 We will be serving organic ice cream for free after the reading 😋

➡️ Full schedule here: https://dwebcamp.org/schedule

#DWeb #DWebCamp #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FSFE #Berlin #camp #reading

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In deference to US Independence Day, I was thinking about books with a counterfactual historical take – speculative history. I wrote about it.

👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/03/un-discovering-america/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #books #blog #podcast #spotify #video #youtube #short #history #reading #america #europe

I'm thrilled to share that my new book #HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. You can preorder it now!

It's an account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and of the incredible efforts of people and movements pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech.

Get your copy and learn more: https://hyperscalebook.com/

#techindustry #techbook #newbook #reading #datacenter #datacenters #generativeai #politics #artificialintelligence

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Hyperscale by Paris Marx. Coming October 20, 2026. An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point

"What set of circumstances favored an animal that weighs up to 600 pounds, moves at four miles a day, and takes a quarter of a century to reach sexual maturity?" —Helen Lewis for The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/?src=longreads

#longreads #darwin #evolution #originofspecies #reading #writing

"Tully Gets Hooked on #Books is a delightful new #picturebook for #frum families. #Written and #illustrated by #GoldieGolding, the #story follows Tully the worm as he travels through the forest and encounters several animal friends: Ollie Owl, Shimmy Sloth, Faigy Flamingo, and Talia Turtle.

Remarkably, each of these new friends is #reading a #book when Tully meets them, which in turn inspires him to want to #learn to #read, too."

https://jewishpress.com/a-tale-for-reluctant-readers/

"To call it a speck is generous. At first, I mistake it for a particle of dust. But then, it catches the sun and sparkles undeniably." —Eve Livingston for Dispatch

https://dispatch-media.com/the-brits-panning-for-gold/?src=longreads

#longreads #gold #hobbies #subculture #reading #writing

When someone asks, "What is it?" and someone else answers, "It's a mystery!" I sincerly hope this is what they're talking about 😂

@reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#BookMemes #Meme #Memes #Mystery #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf #BookStore #Books #Bookstodon

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Judeo-Christian

"Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

https://forward.com/news/834539/texas-bible-curriculum/