Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 **Welcome**
Thank you for visiting this humble account. I hope the time you spend here will be informative. If a particular toot brought you here, please do view other toots from different subject areas. You never know what new topics may interest you.
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I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/
📚 🇺🇸 📻 **10 books to help you understand America as its 250th birthday approaches**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5646641/best-books-us-history-america.
#NPR #Reading #List #Nonfiction #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #USA #UnitedStates
#Image attribution: Foto por formulario PxHere, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libros_de_papel.jpg.
🇬🇷 🎓 **Greece cuts student population at universities by half after long study breaks are abolished**
"_Greek authorities have removed more than 300,000 inactive university students from public university records_"
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/greece-athens-education-ministry-greek-b2893557.html.
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This January, the map catalogue website celebrates its third anniversary. To mark the occasion, I have decided to translate it entirely into English.
So I encourage you all to enjoy and browse through it. It currently has more than 1,150 maps, with at least one more added every day.
Happy New Year, everyone!
📚 **For those who want to binge read the (Strong) Likelihood Principle in 2025**
#Maths #Mathematics #Statistics #Reading #List #Books #Bookstodon
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Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/public-domain-day-2026/ #publicdomain
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How the timber rattlesnake became a symbol of American independence
https://www.popsci.com/environment/timber-rattlesnake-american-symbol/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World Animal news @world-animal-news-PopularScience
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The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice
📚 **MIT Press: new books for January 2026**
🔗 https://mitpress.mit.edu/new-books-for-january-2026-bounce-american-bridge-robophilosophy-and-more/.
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In December 2025, Arctic sea-ice extent reached a record low - a substantial decline from the previous record low in 2024.
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Map of World Shipping Traffic Density
https://moverdb.com/shipping-traffic-density/
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As always, my last post of the year reminder...
Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by https://globalcarbonbudget.org/.
Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂
📚 🇺🇸 **Most Americans didn't read many books in 2025**
"_Besides the 40% of Americans who didn't read any books in 2025, another 27% read one to four books. And 13% read five to nine books. That leaves 19% of Americans who read 10 or more books, including 9% who read 10 to 19 books, 6% who read 20 to 49 books, and 4% who say they read 50 or more books._"
🔗 https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/53804-most-americans-didnt-read-many-books-in-2025.
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BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG
Anyone singing Auld Lang Syne? #NewYear #NewYear2026
🇮🇪 🇬🇧 **How Celtic languages spread across Britain and Ireland: why we need to reconsider the early story**
🔗 https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.ves9k7erh.
#History #Histodons #Ireland #Éire #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Romans #Celtic #Languages #Linguistics
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HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY! And Happy New Year!
Books published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain, such as:
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: This novel introduced the world to the famous detective Sam Spade.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner: A masterpiece of American literature.
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie: This was the first novel to feature the beloved character Miss Marple.
🇺🇸 💲 **The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance**
"_In 2026, the real threat to the dollar may not come from a single rival currency. Instead, it will come from alternative payment and settlement systems built to bypass dollar-based channels—especially in emerging markets that never fully enjoyed the security of dollar liquidity or reliable access to dollar networks._"
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar-is-facing-an-end-to-its-dominance/.
**‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals**
📖 **Why We Keep Reading All Quiet on the Western Front**
"_A new translation vividly renders the sadly evergreen influence of the Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel._"
🔗 https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/all-quiet-western-front-new-translation/.
#Reading #Culture #Fiction #WWI #Novel #Books #Bookstodon #Literature
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
