ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Maritime folklore is awash with tall tales of monstrous waves. A new study gets closer to understanding where they come from and how to predict them.
https://theconversation.com/rogue-waves-in-the-ocean-are-much-more-common-than-anyone-suspected-says-new-study-225352?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1714988251

Llave and Wonder are the first pack to roam Arizona's Sky Islands in decades and the southernmost wolf pack in the U.S. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2024/05/04/mexican-gray-wolves-llave-wonder-released-arizona-sky-islands/73543773007/

Hi I just uploaded lots more lovely plus size items to my Vinted page, most new with tags. UK sizes 26-32. Please boost 💖

https://www.vinted.co.uk/member/190667867-smeags87

I’m on a bunch of mailing lists for literary magazines, and a while back, one sent advice for writers which pissed me off. This was directed toward BIPOC writers, and it said that writers should seek to emulate writers like Faulkner and Hemingway with their simple, straightforward language, and not to try writing like Toni Morrison with her rich, poetic style.

Write however you want, folks, but seriously, why would a magazine specifically centred on BIPOC authors elevate a couple of dead white dudes while throwing the Black woman under the bus like that? Grr.

And FWIW, I don’t try to write like anyone but myself.
#WritingAdvice #WritingCommunity

The first-ever Trans+ History Week has begun. Its founder, Marty Davies, wants everyone to know that trans people have always existed.

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/trans-history-week-trans-history-icons/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgender#page/3

sourdoughawk

we're seeing horse levels at about 57%

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@manu Except for the one and only Allie Brosh, who somehow managed to bridge this divide and produce the most sublime works of art of all the Internets
(I'm sure you've read them, but just in case someone seeing this didn't: https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html, https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html)

https://goomics.net/382/

tests are showing rock n roll levels at 25%

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If you’re thinking the protests are antisemitic, please read this opinion by a Jewish Yale student.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/opinions/yale-student-palestinian-protests-berlin/index.html

#Cornell #history professor invites suspended students to attend his classes for the rest of the semester.
#protest #FreePalestine

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/jimmy-carter-russia-investigation-trump-lost-1387634

Jimmy Carter says a full investigation would show Trump lost in 2016
By SARAH CAMMARATA
06/28/2019 11:20 AM EDT
Updated: 06/28/2019 12:40 PM EDT

“I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” the former president, who served between 1977 and 1981, said at a panel hosted by the Carter Center in Leesburg, Va.

#JustFinished The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

This was a great book! Graeber and Wengrow integrate new archeological discoveries with anthropology and turn common belief on its side. In the same way that we used to think that evolution was a progressive march to new and improved species, we also thought that human development was on an upward arc to better things, with capitalism and

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#anthropology #nonfic #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

The #Fediverse Report by @laurenshof is a great resource to keep up with how social media is changing.

What I especially like compared to more mainstream coverage is how Laurens keeps track of less "shiny" projects. Those are a fertile ground for new innovations.

https://fediversereport.com/