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Excellent and an action-packed final 200 pages. Pacing in the series picking up. And for the first time I'm uncertain where the series goes next.

This should be required reading for every leftist.

Ein zetilich gut angesetztes Buch, das mit queerer deutscher Geschichte von der Weimar Ära biz zur Gegenwart behandeln.

After a couple months away from the series, it’s time to dive into the sixth book in the Expanse series, and I am looking forward to getting beyond the TV series.

This book tells the heartbreaking and remarkable story of Christine Ratcliffe, a cabaret dancer who came to work as a plotter in the Lascaris War Rooms, earning a British Empire Medal for her work. It’s also a story of how in the decades after the war she never really got over the trauma of Malta’s years of hell. Unexpectedly fantastic.

A little history. I picked this book up in Malta at a museum a few years back. It’s a story of the women who worked as plotters at the RAF base on the strategic island nation of Malta, which despite frequent Nazi bombardment never fell, serving as a critical Mediterranean base for the Allies.

Romania is such a beautiful country, with amazing landscapes and architecturally stunning cities. I absolutely love it there. A great little photo book.

Figure I should actually learn a bit about how terraform actually works instead just hacking my way through it like usual.

I had high hopes for this book to provide some radical new insight or at least alternative perspectives. Instead it was mostly a rote recitation of facts and trends, with a few naive takes on internet culture and politics, bothsidesism, and the pandemic. Shallow.

Absolute junk. Nothing more than shallow fan service for Eliezer Yudkowsky and the ridiculous rationalist movement, whose greatest accomplishment is getting high on their own supply. Unserious and below elementary.

I don’t know how to describe this book. It’sa Gen-X West Virginian transsexual magical realism sex work novel. It’s good, enthralling, and not a little problematic. The author has an interesting, gender-y history. I wish I knew more about her. It’s foreword is by Billy Corgan. That’s a red flag. But the story was fresh.

Jumping into this extremely Gen-X transsexual fiction

These people are so incomprehensibly stupid

In this book, Bookchin separates anarchists into two schools: the good anarchists (social anarchists) who do things like read theory and advocate for collectivism, and bad anarchists (lifestyle anarchists) who do pointless things like create zines and light garbage cans on fire. It’s got incredible vibes of “old man yells at cloud” where the cloud is any anarchist under the age of 35. Nothing has convinced me more of lifestyle anarchism than Bookchin’s grumbling.

Yet the final essay, from four years earlier than the main body, has some incisive commentary, particularly on the still-trendy insistence that imperialism can only be practiced by western capitalist nations.

Who says I don’t read theory?