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Nairm & Birrarungga, Kulin biik
https://snailhuddle.org/~wrul/
Wyrming mainly in Englishes and Frenches — on books mostly written in those, in Germans, and in Japaneses. Unreliable translator.
Most of this account is designated “followers‐only”, for the cosiness.
My user avatar is a rainbow lorikeet feeding on orange gum blossoms — photographed above a suburban nature strip, on Boon Wurrung Country.
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93% complete! wrul (they, iel, etc) has read 46 of 49 books.
RUDE, #BookWyrm discarded the hash from my tag, #⠋⠐⠑⠀⠿⠐⠑
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— Matt Formston by John Dickson, Philip Bunting (Page 22)
⠦⠛⠇⠯⠥⠇⠜⠀⠋⠐⠑⠴! G. L. and U. L. ar F. ever. I love it.
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This post is really all about the braille. But, considering that #BookWyrm (as yet?) does not recognise the blank braille character (U+2800), or indeed any braille characters, as a point at which text may carry on to a new line, here is the latin version of the quote as well:
Matt was 16 years old when he got glandular fever.
⸻ ibid.
Matt began to hear what the water had to tell him. ‘If you lie too far forward, your board will sink and throw you off. If you lie too far back, your board will slip off the wave and you will stop.’
— Matt Formston by John Dickson, Philip Bunting (Page 12)
Boogie boarding advice direct from the ocean.
And in contracted braille — which inching through this piccie book is my first and a delightful experience getting to know (if as much by sight as by feel, given the questionable printing technique and my having the range of sense options at my disposal):
⠠⠍⠁⠞⠞⠀⠆⠛⠁⠝⠀⠞⠕⠀⠓⠑⠜⠀⠱⠁⠞⠀⠮⠀⠺⠁⠞⠻⠀⠸⠓⠀⠞⠕⠀⠞⠑⠇⠇⠀⠓⠍⠲⠀⠦⠠⠊⠋⠀⠽⠀⠇⠊⠑⠀⠞⠕⠕⠀⠋⠜⠀⠿⠺⠜⠙⠂⠀⠽⠗⠀⠃⠕⠜⠙⠀⠺⠀⠎⠔⠅⠀⠯⠀⠹⠗⠪⠀⠽⠀⠷⠋⠲⠀⠠⠊⠋⠀⠽⠀⠇⠊⠑⠀⠞⠕⠕⠀⠋⠜⠀⠃⠁⠉⠅⠂⠀⠽⠗⠀⠃⠕⠜⠙⠀⠺⠀⠎⠇⠊⠏⠀⠷⠋⠀⠮⠀⠺⠁⠧⠑⠀⠯⠀⠽⠀⠺⠀⠌⠕⠏⠲⠴
⸻ ibid.
Having written the title of this book down by hand several times, recently, I can report that something in the sound of the strokes only reinforces, with every repetition, the mental resonation of this phrasing as Glimpses of #uowipoa.
@vmousseau@millefeuilles.cloud this book sounds phenomenal!
The alien tucked their tail under themselves and rolled back so that they lay rocking on the curve of their own body [..].
— A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys (Page 8)
What a rare treasure it has been to see a singular themselvesing make print. So, here is a trove for trumpeting about them in: It’s the singular they themselves!
Feel free to flaunt sightings of reflexive pronouns that sing for you in this open list any time.
A travers le voyage métaphorique de son personnage principal, un médiateur numérique prenant conscience des impacts de ses actions en ligne sur l'intégrité de ses données privées, Datamania nous sensibilise à l'utilisation qu'en font les grandes entreprises régissant la vie en ligne. Au-delà d'une simple dénonciation, cette bande dessinée prend plutôt le parti de la sensibilisation et nous donne certaines clés pour nous protéger.
Avec un graphisme clair et coloré, une intrigue ludique et un vocabulaire adapté, il m'a semblé, à la lecture, que Datamania était parfait pour aborder le sujet avec les ados qui se sont incrustés sous mon toit. Ce fut donc une lecture partagée avec mes deux garçons de 13 et 15 ans, tous deux férus de jeux vidéos, consommateurs de contenus en ligne (surtout vidéos) et globalement assez peu sensibles mais tout de même curieux de la question. Après leur retour de lecture, je dois dire …
A travers le voyage métaphorique de son personnage principal, un médiateur numérique prenant conscience des impacts de ses actions en ligne sur l'intégrité de ses données privées, Datamania nous sensibilise à l'utilisation qu'en font les grandes entreprises régissant la vie en ligne. Au-delà d'une simple dénonciation, cette bande dessinée prend plutôt le parti de la sensibilisation et nous donne certaines clés pour nous protéger.
Avec un graphisme clair et coloré, une intrigue ludique et un vocabulaire adapté, il m'a semblé, à la lecture, que Datamania était parfait pour aborder le sujet avec les ados qui se sont incrustés sous mon toit. Ce fut donc une lecture partagée avec mes deux garçons de 13 et 15 ans, tous deux férus de jeux vidéos, consommateurs de contenus en ligne (surtout vidéos) et globalement assez peu sensibles mais tout de même curieux de la question. Après leur retour de lecture, je dois dire que Datamania est, pour l'instant du moins, le support qui m'a été le plus utile pour aborder avec eux les sujets autour de la vie privée numérique, des GAFAM et assimilés, des logiciels libres et toutes ces choses qui me semblent importantes et pour lesquelles je trouve qu'ils manquent dramatiquement d'informations. Ils ont tous les deux pris du plaisir à le lire et en sont sortis avec des clés de compréhension et avec des questionnements qui m'ont fait penser qu'ils avaient eu un réel début de prise de conscience sur le sujet. Ils ont également spontanément adopté quelques bons réflexes conseillés dans le livre et ils abordent à présent tout ce qui leur est familier avec un œil beaucoup plus critique qu'avant.
J'ai pour ma part trouvé la BD particulièrement bien conçue. On y fait un véritable tour d'horizon du sujet de manière très didactique. Beaucoup de concepts qui peuvent paraître rébarbatifs deviennent soudainement limpides et, loin d'être catastrophiste ou culpabilisant, l'auteur met plutôt l'accent sur les leviers qui sont à notre portée pour reprendre le contrôle.
C'est un ouvrage que je conseille à tous ceux qui sont sensibles au sujet sans y connaître grand-chose, parfait donc pour les jeunes !
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Aha, obviously I wasn't paying the closest attention to #BookWyrm development discussions mid last year, because much of the underlying cause of these problems is already to be resolved in a big refactor of the underlying reading -status and -activity logic[1].
There's something to be flagged here about editions versus works, but I'm much too tired to keep track of my own thoughts on it. Broadly speaking, though: hopefully these two critically distinct technical roles will not get muddled up in all the talk of books because in some cases "book" really ought to be either "edition" or "work" and to assume the wrong meaning would cause hassle down the line! [2]
In the meantime, I am going to wean myself off the buzz of keeping absolutely complete records through status-shelving[3]; learn to love the annual Reading Goal page as a clue to the state of each edition's …
Aha, obviously I wasn't paying the closest attention to #BookWyrm development discussions mid last year, because much of the underlying cause of these problems is already to be resolved in a big refactor of the underlying reading -status and -activity logic[1].
There's something to be flagged here about editions versus works, but I'm much too tired to keep track of my own thoughts on it. Broadly speaking, though: hopefully these two critically distinct technical roles will not get muddled up in all the talk of books because in some cases "book" really ought to be either "edition" or "work" and to assume the wrong meaning would cause hassle down the line! [2]
In the meantime, I am going to wean myself off the buzz of keeping absolutely complete records through status-shelving[3]; learn to love the annual Reading Goal page as a clue to the state of each edition's respective "Your reading activity"; and be more attentive as to how the reading date data fall. [5]
Looking forward to that refactor --- settling into a groove should become more intuitive afterwards, especially for newcomers. (And I find the idea of independent privacy settings for reading activity exciting! I worry, lightly, sometimes about doxxing my mates or embarrassing author acquaintances if my reading history veers someday toooo niche, you know? What other uses will people come up with from such powerful new affordances? Super cool!)
[1] That would be BookWyrm pull request #2170: 'Refactors reading status Shelf and ReadThrough logic' [2] I get the impression not many other wyrmsters are juggling multiple editions in their reading activity yet. [3] I will still exploit whatever loophole lets me shelve multiple editions of a work at once under "Currently Reading" (and thus enjoy all the associated mod cons on the homepage); but nominate only one of them for the "Read"/"Stopped Reading" shelves[4]. [4] This could be a problem if one edition proves worth finishing while another definitively does not. And by could I mean without a doubt will be. Sooo fingers crossed I (and anyone else in this sort of position) finish everything or get even more over status-shelving before that problem arises. That is, until #2170 is implemented and hopefully editions' actions can fly around properly independently of each other...? [5] While continuing to keep my own records off-wyrm.
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(oh, i forgot you can at people on the web these decades!)
@mouse@bookwyrm.social re: the trouble described in the above status --- would that be a known issue already? (Sorry to bug you across the wyrms themselves and apologies for my wishywashy weary wording!)
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Oh no, #BookWyrm currently[1] prevents a user from shelving a work as "Read" in more than one edition.
It also obstructs the making of progress updates relating to that work once you've "finished reading" any edition of the book. (Which is a less significant but likely connected barrier I'd run into already with a completely different book, as I continued to work through one version after finishing another version).
In attempting to find some sort of cumbersome workaround, I've accidentally wound up with this Wohlleben work counted on my 2023 books page once as the German text but twice for the English... (instead of once for each).[2]
Yet the German copy still will not budge from my "Currently Reading" shelf. Can't even seem to relegate it to "Stopped Reading" as a compromise.
An alternative might be to catalogue each edition (that anyone wants to distinguish from another they ever read) as a separate work... but doing so would clutter up the author pages, search results, and databases. Badly.
If any kind souls with GitHub access could please file an Issue about this problem, that would be much appreciated!
[1] We Loved Your Book So Much We Ate It is running on BookWyrm 0.6.3, the latest stable release as at the time of gripe.
EDIT: [2] Okay, fixed the tally-mistake by deleting some of the "reading activity" associated with that edition.
Is it too much to hope that the rejuvenation of Māori language course Te Whanake in actual print(!) may portend a new physical edition of decently deep yet dabbler-friendly dictionary Te Aka, with which these textbooks shared an editor and lexicon…?
Un cahier de Français tendre, pour te tenir par la main dans ce patriarcat cis-hétéro-suprémaciste-blanc-capitaliste, …
Pssst! There’s no shame in looking at the answers (p. 37) ! If you’re blaming yourself, remember that you are not the problem, it’s French <3
— Grammaire rebelle by Collectif Queerasse (Page 35)
I’m giving the P.D.F. a skim, and have laughed heartily, as well as been deeply moved.
The territory of data centres includes not just the geography of cables, servers and clients that spans their operations; it might also be understood in a more diagrammatic sense as consisting of institutional and commercial elements or entities and their capacities brought into relation. Such a notion of territory suggests a more flexible comprehension of time and space that can be termed territoriality.
From the essay LAND AND WATER by Brett Neilson & Ned Rossiter (pp5-11)
So @ramblingkid told (exclamation marksed) me about this zine, the other day! It is indeed ghostillustrated by snails…
I wish that we would not fight for landscapes that remind us of who we think we are. I wish we would fight, instead, for landscapes buzzing and glowing with life in all its variousness.