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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 3d

#BookSky #Voltaire #Zadig [...] self-love is a balloon inflated with wind, whence tempests emerge when it has been pricked.

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Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social · 4d

“The change follows years of quiet tension over the obligations of judges in a state where local officials and clerks have occasionally resisted same-sex marriage rulings.” A saddening development. #Texas #LoveIsLove www.advocate.com/news/texas-j...

Texas Supreme Court rules that judges can refuse to marry same-sex couples

“It is not a violation of these canons for a judge to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief,” the Texas Supreme Court ruled.

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 4d

It can lead to a pleasure in violence and in the infliction of pain [...] It should and could lead to a desire for a new world. It should lead also toward a love of all human beings, and of good will toward them. But those who have once learned to love violence for its own sake [...] 2/2

Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 4d

#AgathaChristie #PassengertoFrankfurt #BookSky The natural idealism of youth is fed more and more by a desire to destroy those two phases of modern life, injustice and crass materialism. That desire to destroy what is evil sometimes leads to a love of destruction for its own sake. 1/2

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 8d

The one in my town is called Scuppernong's. I was there yesterday, bought the Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor. New books, used books, coffee, wine, special events like author readings or book clubs.

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 8d

The more I process my time with the exes, the more I am grateful for the man I'm with now. He's not a perfect human, but he's the perfect human for me. #gaylove

Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 10d

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 11d

A really fun fact.

If you go to the cartoonmuseum.org in Central London to see incredible collections & shows of the best cartoon artwork
& you pay for admission once, that ticket acts as an annual membership so you can go back as many times as you like in 1 year.
@cartoonmuseum.bsky.social

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall

media.tenor.com

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 11d

My friends have been asking/answering this question for over a decade. We always agree, they are not okay.

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Dr. Jamila Perritt MD MPH FACOG @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social · 12d

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it.

I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work.

Our liberation is bound together.
Are you coming along?

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 12d

#BookSky #SigridUndset #KristinLavransdatter
You and I, Ragnfrid, we have observed all the fast days and have tried to live by God's commandments in all things. And now it almost seems to me . . . that we might have been happier if we had had more to regret.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 14d

Maga is damaging America’s reputation trib.al/kZ8cVht

Maga is damaging America’s reputation | The Observer

By embracing self interest, the US is betraying its responsibilities and alienating allies

trib.al

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 14d

Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset. But I was at an antiques market this weekend and didn't have it with me, so now I'm also reading Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie.

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 14d

#BookSky #AgathaChristie #HalloweenParty I know there's a proverb which says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 17d

I'm reading fewer this year, but I'm doing a reading challenge. RCs always slow me down because I respond poorly to goal-oriented motivation.

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 21d

I think The Time Traveler's Wife would be a good book if it ended at the half-way point. I preferred Her Fearful Symmetry.

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 21d

To err is human; to correct gently is humane. #IsaacAsimov

Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 21d

Share a cartoon you will always love

Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 22d

After the Funeral, by Agatha Christie.

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 24d

As an autistic man, I have often gifted friends and partners with an imaginary personality that is much nicer than the one they have in real life.

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 25d

The thing that we need in the world today is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and to be opposed to wrong, wherever it is.” - MLk Jr.

#RadioFreeAmerica

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Junkyard Fool @junkyardfool.bsky.social · Oct 3

Seen a few mourn about Patricia’s Routledges passing, just seen this on our forums RIP in 25 thread.

It’s brilliant @googlyeyecat.bsky.social @stabiloffc.bsky.social

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Jeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · Oct 2

If you’re talking about, much less promoting, books by Mormon authors like Stephenie Meyer and Brandon Sanderson to please acknowledge that these authors are contributing financially to a church spearheading an attacks on trans people.

#Romancelandia #Booksky

HAPPENING NOW
MORMON CHURCH FILES BRIEF:
TRANS RIGHTS MAKE RELIGION LESS FREE
The Mormon Church urges the Supreme Court to reject transgender status as a protected class, arguing it would limit their religious freedom to discriminate; asks the Court to prioritize religious policy over transgender individuals' rights.
LATTER GAY
STORIE

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Mark, Rick, or Steve @rickyreads.bsky.social · 29d

Just finished Playback by Raymond Chandler. Haven't chosen the next one yet.

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