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Funktious

@Funktious@mastodon.scot

Former Midlander, Londoner, East Anglian; currently Glaswegian. Librarian, feminist, knitter, beginner potter-er and Remainer / Rejoiner. Member of the Guardian reading, tofu eating, wokerati. Unbalanced duck fanatic.

Mostly post about books, birds, cats, #Glasgow and Scotland.

Love boosting the many beautiful photos I see here, but only those with alt text.

Just my toots: https://justmytoots.com/@funktious@mastodon.scot

#Knitting #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Glasgow #Cats #Gaming #Pottery

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Funktious , to random
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whispers don't look too excited in case you scare it off, but I think spring might be here. But shhhhhhh! Don't startle it!

charlesroper , to bookstodon group
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I am fascinated by short novels at the moment. I intend to savour this list from Emily Temple writing for lithub.com

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-50-best-contemporary-novels-under-200-pages

Any recommendations from the folk? Any thoughts on the novels presented in this list or from elsewhere?

@bookstodon

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@charlesroper @bookstodon Ooh, thanks for sharing this, more to add to the reading list!

So glad to see Visitation there, which I think is a masterpiece. Max Porter and Jenny Offil too - I haven’t read the ones on the list, but others of theirs, which I really enjoyed. I’d add Claire Foster as well

If you like SF, To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers is a small and beautiful love letter to science and learning for the sake of learning.

boab , to bookstodon group
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Well @bookstodon, I thoroughly enjoyed reading those...

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@boab @bookstodon Me too! Although I see you've also suffered from mismatching editions 😝 Looking foward to Translation State coming out in paperback too.

leapingwoman , to bookstodon group
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@bookstodon 22 of the Funniest Novels Since ‘Catch-22’ Because we could all use a laugh. Gift link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/books/funny-novels-humor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck0.KmuI.eh8Ym-bSCOp6&smid=url-share

Funktious ,
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@leapingwoman @bookstodon Thanks so much for sharing this - more titles added to the TBR list! Glad to see Adrian Mole on there, he's ripe for a resurgence. I think people tend to think it's a kids book, but it's absolutely not. Sue Townsend was so sharp and funny.

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Look. Birbs. The reason I put all sorts of yummy birb seed in the window-mounted box outside my study is because I like seeing birbs while I work.

If you're going to skitter away every time you notice I'm looking in your direction, then you're not upholding your end of the deal.

YOU MUST PAY FOR THE FOOD BY DISPLAYING YOUR BODIES, BIRBS! I don't see what's so hard about this arrangement.

My buddy the bullfinch gets it. Be like Bullfinch.

Funktious ,
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@ergative This! And also; birbs! Do not chase other birbs away from the feeders! Mine finally got visited by a couple of long tailed tits, who were promptly chased away by some bullying blue tits, grrrrr.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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@bookstodon What's your favorite book title, whether you've read it or not?

Mine is EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL, by Julian K. Jarboe, which I have not yet read, followed closely by THEY DON'T MAKE PLUS SIZE SPACESUITS, by Ali Thompson, which I have read.

Funktious ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Oooh, I love this. Some of mine are

Look to Windward
To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman
If On a Winters Night A Traveller
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Night in the Lonesome October
The Left Hand of Darkness

And all the Tiffany Aching books especially Wintersmith, A Hat Full of Sky and I Shall Wear Midnight.

me , to random
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I'm trying to convince the last friends I have left on Facebook, X, Threads, or BlueSky to join the Fediverse. Some have tried but felt a sense of loneliness. Nowadays, many people are so used to doing what algorithms suggest that they can no longer make independent choices.
My timeline here, on the other hand, is beautiful.
I see what I want, I follow people who post what I like, and no one tells me what I should do. Freedom may come with a "cost," but whatever it is, it's worth the effort. Always.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialNetworks

Funktious ,
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@me Yeah, lots of the people I knew from Twitter who joined Mastodon fell away from it quickly, saying they just didn't 'get it'. I think they're now all on BlueSky. I blame the latter years of Twitter where everyone just passively absorbed everything.

It took me a while to find my feet here but I did it by actively boosting, liking and replying to posts, finding and following hashtags, then people. And now I have a really nice feed and lots of interesting people and photos and conversations!

Funktious ,
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@patrickhadfield @me I think a lot of people really loved the lively feed, the 'main character' of the day, the dunking, the news cycle comedy and I get that - I remember some really fun days when major political stuff happened (D Cameron and the pig for example…)

But I’m also happy to get away from that, tbh, it was exhausting yet oddly passive and bad for the blood pressure. Now I have book reccs and beautiful landscape photos and just daily life from across the world. Better for me mentally.

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@ravenbait @patrickhadfield @me good to know - this is the impression I got of it and I chose not to go there so as not to split my attention and focus on one place (I don’t need this for work, it’s purely social for me!) Just sounds like lots of people fighting to get clout and clicks and attention.

Funktious ,
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@ravenbait @patrickhadfield @me it sounds like the passivity of Twitter just moved there - my last couple of years on Twitter I got so little engagement, even from people I knew IRL, that it was refreshing to come here and actually get replies and likes from friendly strangers! It feels like a proper community is slowly growing here and I love that.

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@gvenema @me exactly this - people would say ‘it’s so quiet here' and they’d only be following 20 people. It took work to build what I have now but I’m glad I did. I do miss the people who didn’t stay though. I’m still angry at Musk for fracturing our communities like this.

Funktious ,
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@Marie_Ranquet @miblo @me It's really interesting, and I'm looking forward to someone writing a social history of all this! I've been online since the late 90s, but I was a teen then, and a shy, nervous one at that so I was very much a lurker and still tend to be. As social media grew I grew more confident posting, but I still tend to hold back more than I post. And a lot of my friends from twitter were from the same generation as me.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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@bookstodon I am on a graphic novel kick, continuing from last year. What are you reading this month, to kick off 2024?

Funktious ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I'm six books down already, because January is cold and wet and dark and what else is there to do but read?

All fiction so far, so just started The Hare With Amber Eyes for a change. I think I'm going to love it.

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