[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah I assume the reason there isn't is because the general ones are US-centric by default and then everyone else has to have somewhere specific to go. But I guess if they want their own dedicated place too why not?

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

National pride ✨

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

We're paying them to produce this pollution.

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Just read reviews?

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That should definitely be illegal.

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think they'll stop until they have the whole historic area of Israel (which includes more than just Palestine.) Crazy that this is allowed.

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What books/comics/mangas etc. Did you read in June?

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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art (sciencefictionruminations.com)
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[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There's an app that does this pretty well called Ground News. For a given topic it will show the coverage across the political spectrum. However, I didn't think that this community was limited to English? Either way, I guess you could start putting one together.

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure it just doesn't suit New Zealand right now to call him a dictator, especially with a visit coming up in a week. Australia and New Zealand have to occupy a precarious position because they are European/Western in nature but obviously closest to the Asian powers. Therefore they have to try and be besties with the US whilst staying ok with China.

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[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

To be fair there was no one tracking the migrant boat because they were crossing illegally. We knew the sub went missing basically as soon as it did rather than when people started spotting bodies. In situations where migrant boats are found before/in the midst of sinking help is sent (although after that it's probably a trip to the detention centre.)

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've heard that since it's in international waters he was able to skirt most regulation on subs.

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Greek shipwreck is an unfortunately common tragedy. Whether in the Mediterranean or elsewhere migrant bodies frequently wash ashore. The Titanic story is something novel, and I think at least partially people see it as something justified for adventure tourism exclusive to the extremely wealthy to end poorly. There is nothing to really get excitement out of from the shipwreck, it's just sad.

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Currently in Egypt and they just asked us to pay in USD cash for an added activity but, not being American, we don't have USD. We have the local currency and the ability to get that out at ATMs, but no way to access foreign currency. So annoying but they accepted local in the end.

[-] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I personally would like to see posts in 4 languages and as far as I can tell it won't let me specify more than one in my profile so I just leave it on undefined. I'm having I guess the opposite issue to you in that I'm only seeing English content when I would like to see some in my other (non-native) languages for better immersion.

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How would you like to see this place differ from Reddit/TikTok/YouTube etc. as a place to talk about books?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Knoll0114@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

Beehaw has decided to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I believe it was already separated from lemmygrad. I think this makes this community the largest one accessible to the most instances whereas before Literature@beehaw.org was. I guess we'll have to make the most of it!

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Welcome to Calibre! (lemmy.world)

This community is meant for discussion about the open source ebook management software Calibre. Technical questions and feature discussions about calibre are welcome.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/80166

I'm thinking we should have a central post for all the book sublemmys so we can easily find them. The ones I'm aware of are: Lemmy:

Fediverse:

Sublemmys in other languages would be great to add here too! I'll keep adding more as I find them.

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Hostel kitty (lemmy.world)
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Knoll0114@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

I'm thinking we should have a central post for all the book sublemmys so we can easily find them. The ones I'm aware of are:

Fediverse:

Sublemmys in other languages would be great to add here too! I'll keep adding more as I find them.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42666

I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It's not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it's federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie. Volume of users.) However, your review won't get lost in the sea so much and I've found that it's been quite easy to find readers with similar interests.

Anyway, who here is using Bookwyrm? What's your account so we can all follow each other? (Mine is Unfreeze4257@books.theunseen)

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Unlike many other large subreddits r/books has not made any statements about the API changes. I did try and post something about it but it ended up getting deleted. At 22.1 million users this would be a pretty significant addition to the protest.

Does anyone know why there hasn't been anything official?

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