Post AoS7ObkMMmJqmSTAZ6 by tkinias@historians.social
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(DIR) Post #AoS4JwgkmIbSQ6rsHI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T00:48:06Z
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"This is the only butterfly I have ever seen that uses its leg for running."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoS4Ul66DKynejsZns by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T00:50:03Z
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I DID NOT try to pick a cool book it was either this or one of six books about ants and ... I just couldn't have everyone going "oh of course" yet again. Anyway I bought this copy of Voyage of the Beagle for one of my students as a graduation gift for this spring. They are really into the "classic" explorers and 19th century stuff so I think they will love it.
(DIR) Post #AoS4iCn8YjMNJRQD2G by Wharrrrrrgarbl@an.errant.cloud
2024-11-27T00:52:27Z
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@futurebird another good one is free on project gutenberg!https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2055/2055-h/2055-h.htm
(DIR) Post #AoS4pDctqydlveyfyK by CStamp@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T00:53:42Z
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@futurebird "...of Portugues from the Azores. With them came a still more curious..."Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoS50GNfx8Tfeo7gqO by mmphosis@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T00:55:44Z
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@futurebird “The wings were what I really longed for but we weren’t allowed to put them on until the day itself, for fear of breakage.”
(DIR) Post #AoS5Wf03xGInHLWhSS by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-11-27T01:01:34Z
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@futurebird "The new group also agreed that physical confrontation can be used as a tactic against racist presence, but that we needed to build an understanding of how men use violence to dominate and control"#page42 I am reading "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action", published in 2023.
(DIR) Post #AoS60WSmG86RUQCGhM by CuriousMagpie@beige.party
2024-11-27T01:06:58Z
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@futurebird He remembered Giliead being gone then and everyone refusing to tell him why.#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoS6FrvijDK2Pa3JLM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T01:09:46Z
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one of the books is literally "Phase IV"So just for giggles:"He has a sterile, aseptic environment, a young male associate who he regards only as furniture, his comforting computers, printouts, readouts, binary codes and speculations, and all the empty space any man could ever need."#page42 Sounds amazing! I hope ants don't eat him!
(DIR) Post #AoS6QExNyBiIiwmDi4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T01:11:38Z
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ants totally eat him
(DIR) Post #AoS6WZIXFrYDY3ge6C by kurtn@toot.bldrweb.org
2024-11-27T01:12:46Z
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@futurebird "On the contrary, the silhouettes appeared with great intensity."#page42
(DIR) Post #AoS6bDAgwqOwN8ERrE by louisffourie@c.im
2024-11-27T01:13:36Z
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@futurebird Two compasses, one for horizontal guidance, the other to ascertain dip.- A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Jules Verne.#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoS70OGKqhR00fsUsK by YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world
2024-11-27T01:18:09Z
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"The Mandinka people from the West African Mali kingdom were not the same as the Kongo people, although both had civilizations and empires that made Europe's empires look like ghettos."#Page42
(DIR) Post #AoS7Gg9A7hoy6uI1uy by tkinias@historians.social
2024-11-27T01:21:06Z
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@futurebird ‘The scheme was laid before Mr. Gladstone, who had succeeded Lord Salisbury as prime minister, by a deputation of the League on April 13, 1893 but was rejected by the Premier on the ground that its proposals did not constitute the “definite scheme” for which Lord Salisbury had asked.’Seymour Ching-Yuan Cheng, _Schemes for the Federation of the British Empire_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), 42.
(DIR) Post #AoS7ObkMMmJqmSTAZ6 by tkinias@historians.social
2024-11-27T01:22:32Z
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@futurebird ‘The scheme was laid before Mr. Gladstone, who had succeeded Lord Salisbury as prime minister, by a deputation of the League on April 13, 1893 but was rejected by the Premier on the ground that its proposals did not constitute the “definite scheme” for which Lord Salisbury had asked.’Seymour Ching-Yuan Cheng, _Schemes for the Federation of the British Empire_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), 42.
(DIR) Post #AoS7bYp4Y6DXTbqltY by msbellows@c.im
2024-11-27T01:24:52Z
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"It also has negative effects on brain, lung, heart, and reproductive functions."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.^@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AoS7tUo8DSCCEhxioS by Rhodepvd@romancelandia.club
2024-11-27T01:28:03Z
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@futurebird “Paying for the accommodation of himself and his servants while making up his books and reporting to Cromwell’s office, he explained, took up a great part of his salary. (21)” #page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoS805729Fk4ZTwZv6 by rysiek@mstdn.social
2024-11-27T01:29:18Z
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@futurebird nearest book is less than 42 pages long, wat do.
(DIR) Post #AoS89wks4lebXyHWLI by tyx@lor.sh
2024-11-27T01:31:05Z
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"Mainly migratory hardy, returning early to breeding sites."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.I wonder how many people will post exactly the same as I did. Quite possible that it will be more than 0.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AoS8wYkk6UPvINOyae by jannem@fosstodon.org
2024-11-27T01:39:51Z
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"「第１段番差」の改善については、平成１１年２月の科学研究費会報告は、上に述べた改善の方向に添って、次のような方策を提言した。"(About the "first step difference" improvement, the 1999 conference on research funding suggested the following policy in their report.) #page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoS9iBR06WFKsHsPIW by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-11-27T01:48:21Z
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@futurebird After a minute, she excavated a human thigh in a blue jumpsuit, then a shoulder, then an arm.
(DIR) Post #AoSAWE6OSaVjcx6GTw by moirearty@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T01:57:31Z
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@futurebird “It achieved this with no encoded knowledge of human play and no human intervention.”#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSAaEsVW6M3BzWBuK by marcfranz8@mstdn.social
2024-11-27T01:58:15Z
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@futurebird "The blast would be similar to that of a medium-sized nuclear detonation, but the radioactive fallout would be much, much worse--a veritable salad of everything on the periodic table turning into everything else as fast as possible."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSBtLpXzb8AD7oKzg by realtegan@wandering.shop
2024-11-27T02:10:32Z
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@futurebird "Trees native to the state and prevalent in western forested lands include the Douglas-fir, Sitka spruce, western red-cedar and western hemlock."#page42Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSCSKtRT81nRJJZhI by ryanprior@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T02:19:13Z
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@futurebirdThe group has come upon a tribe of goblins preparing the ritual sacrifice of a rare and valuable albino crocodile (highly regarded as pets among the wealthy of the city). #page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSD4WDTolUDYttV3I by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T02:26:04Z
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@apLundell Phase IV isn't based on Empire of the Ants is it?It's its own crazy story. I think the "inspired" is even a little stretch... although the theme of the ants inheriting the earth is still there.
(DIR) Post #AoSD6eBx8WhGsOC8zw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T02:26:28Z
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@apLundell Oh the novel is OK. The movie is better IMO.
(DIR) Post #AoSDN2cg4PlPHUVpi4 by Infoseepage@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T02:29:28Z
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@futurebird @apLundell I really want Phase IV to be on the weekly list for voting for #monsterdon This film looks awesome!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcs3_b3VXSU#monsterdon
(DIR) Post #AoSEBpZMMXBrZ6B9EG by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2024-11-27T02:38:37Z
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@futurebird @apLundell “A novelization of the script, written by Barry N. Malzberg, was published as Phase IV in November 1973.”I had this novelization, read if long before seeing the filmJust flashed on The Hellstrom Chronicles oringinally planned to be a film of Frank Herbert’s Hellstrom’s Hive which is a disturbing film about humans living like termites in the millions under a few farms. They didn’t have the budget to do the film proper so it became an “Educational Film” in the style of Dr. Hellstrom.It’s rare! In saw it on cable 10 years ago.Not streaming anywhere
(DIR) Post #AoSEKkVaY1kyTXfRcu by dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-11-27T02:40:15Z
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@futurebird "Serving sizes, based on the amount of food people typically eat, are given in familiar units, such as cups or pieces."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSFJq62O257TEqWhs by alcootatooter@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T02:51:19Z
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@futurebird yeah, I played it straight and the book right next to me wasa dry scientific tome. So then I went for the next book and got this "Awerr atherr alherlaperretyam."(it is an Anmatyerr to English dictionary)😆
(DIR) Post #AoSFUINq4RLq669tQ0 by jannem@fosstodon.org
2024-11-27T02:52:53Z
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@apLundell @futurebird Literally next room over to us is an ant research unit, and they have that movie poster set up in front for all to see, together with some cool microscope photos blown up large.
(DIR) Post #AoSGbr6FUizRkW6FIO by CapriciousGhost@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T03:05:46Z
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@futurebird "'Worked through school?'"#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSJRXbjPY0cGIbBYW by Permacultureandpolitics@ohai.social
2024-11-27T03:37:31Z
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@futurebird “But while rousing this admiration in such woefully undignified circumstances, it dawned on Adams that the $80,000 that Congress had granted for the “tribute” was far from enough.”
(DIR) Post #AoSKC1R4qJv85pmN4S by superball@norcal.social
2024-11-27T03:45:56Z
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@futurebird Okay, but what butterfly is that??
(DIR) Post #AoSKQKcQJl2JdsuSP2 by jemmesedi@c.im
2024-11-27T03:48:31Z
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@futurebird "In the distance, she saw someone walking towards the cart."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSOryeRz7EjR9IOFU by Grumpygrannyquilts@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T04:38:18Z
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@futurebird “He then gave him strict orders to report any blood in his urine.”#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSWbkVZcolT6MAyjQ by clumpytree@c.im
2024-11-27T06:05:02Z
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@futurebird "Der Umzug nach Middletown führte zu weiteren Problemen."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoSXB3cgY67QWJL4E4 by CWilbur@sfba.social
2024-11-27T06:11:24Z
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She nodded. “It’s the pizza man.” #page42Select a random book, turn to page 42 and print the second sentence.
(DIR) Post #AoSaX0mO6Lftw02MqW by goesselgold@norden.social
2024-11-27T06:48:59Z
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@futurebird Also for the giggles: The book I grabbed had a too long sentence and a too long title to include them both and the rules within the allowed letter count of one toot. #rule42
(DIR) Post #AoSdzdMyW98LafUTD6 by cfcfc11@mastodon.world
2024-11-27T07:27:46Z
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@futurebird Black Friday Offer: 50% OFF – Stop Tinnitus Fast with This 30-Second Breakfast Trick!https://tinyurl.com/y3wbawfc
(DIR) Post #AoSfzuGJuWzDtGdS3k by Divorytaur@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T07:50:14Z
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@futurebird 🤣
(DIR) Post #AoSt1RcQfybh2P2Z3w by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-11-27T10:16:12Z
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@futurebird #page42"A couple such finds, mentioned in Chapter 1, seem to indicate that humans had penetrated beyond the Arctic circle to the valley of the Yana river and across Beringia to reach northwestern North America as early as 25,000 to 30,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age."_The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World_ by Robert McGheeyeah, I picked the coolest book. Take that, rules.
(DIR) Post #AoTG1kZWVTR2lWnPKi by Red_Shirt_no2@c.im
2024-11-27T14:33:57Z
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@futurebird “One headline that fascinated me read: TIBETAN STOMACH STOVE DECLARED CANCER CAUSE.”#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoVHFHMwMra4WDqSp6 by Whirl_up_sea@zirk.us
2024-11-28T13:57:01Z
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“A green-grey smudge on slate.”#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AoWPWNHgcbq4Zx0hSy by cshlan@dawdling.net
2024-11-29T03:04:25Z
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@futurebird"In the end the spy had given herself up peaceably enough, because the Parthenon was playing a civilized game for now, but next time it could just as easily be a shipload of Myrmidons with accelerator cannons and the whole peace would be in ruins."#page42 Rules of the game:
(DIR) Post #AoWPWeLVBfzZUhvUH2 by cshlan@dawdling.net
2024-11-29T03:04:25Z
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Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #AprZ7l9EvfVhU7PDF2 by kristinHenry@vis.social
2025-01-08T05:53:02Z
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@futurebird "ATM constinutively binds to the SH3 domain of the tyrosine kinase c-Alb in normal but not AT cells and ATM seems to activate DNA damage-induced activation of c-Abl (which is deficient in AT cells)."#page42 Rules of the game: - Grab the nearest book.- Turn to page 42- Find the 2nd sentence- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
(DIR) Post #Apraa0mMVUFu1fjxVA by becha@social.v.st
2025-01-08T06:09:22Z
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. @futurebird “I’m not sure that this can be framed as a gift — more like a stealthy game of self-preservation.”
#page42
Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.