Toots for stancarey@mastodon.ie account

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-23 at 11:23

What does it mean to live without handwriting? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/21/signature-moves-are-we-losing-the-ability-to-write-by-hand

[#]writing #handwriting #technology #WritingCommunity

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Stan Carey on 2025-01-23 at 10:56 (original by Stan Carey)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Stan Carey on 2025-01-23 at 10:47 (original by Julia Bausenhardt)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-23 at 10:34

"A book is a machine to think with." —I.A. Richards

[#]books #bookstodon #literature

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-22 at 17:52

The Strunk cost fallacy:

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/the-strunk-cost-fallacy/

[#]language #books #EnglishUsage #writing #WritingCommunity #blog #neologisms #grammar #prescriptivism

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-22 at 11:32

"Most of us, most of the time, are unaware of how language does its work." —Neil Postman, Technopoly

[#]language #NeilPostman #books

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Stan Carey on 2025-01-21 at 13:48 (original by Stan Carey)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-21 at 12:33

How likely is an Amoc collapse? Good article laying out the research and the risks:

https://www.ft.com/content/7711109e-0338-43ad-aada-853f058a24f1

Archived copy: https://archive.ph/sMKsz

[#]climate #Amoc #meteorology #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateEmergency

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Stan Carey on 2025-01-21 at 07:46 (original by Legendgerry)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Stan Carey on 2025-01-21 at 07:34 (original by Bohemian Peasant)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-20 at 19:03

"We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first."

—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)

[#]books #writing #SFF #ScienceFiction #UrsulaKLeGuin #quote

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-20 at 18:31

"We forgot that the will to dominance is as central in human beings as the impulse to mutual aid is....We don't educate for freedom."

—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

[#]books #writing #SFF #ScienceFiction #politics #UrsulaKLeGuin #quote

=> View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-20 at 17:56

The plot sickens

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Stan Carey on 2025-01-20 at 17:54 (original by Ted)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-19 at 11:19

Climbed Nephin yesterday, Ireland's tallest standalone mountain. Terrain is mixed: forest path, famine road, bog and heather, rough scree, etc.

The main route up is from the north, so we were in shadow the whole way and ascended into a cloud. Very cold and wild at the peak, so we didn't linger there.

Had a lovely big bowl of soup in the Old Post Office in Crossmolina after. A good day out.

[#]Nephin #mountain #Ireland mountains #CountyMayo #climbing #hiking #outdoors #LandscapePhotography

=> View attached media | View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-17 at 15:52

Today in: It's Usually Older Than You Think

Horace Walpole's "With all sorts of queer feels about me" (correspondence, c.1746) is the oldest recorded use of "feels" as a noun, per OED

[#]words #language #feels #OED

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Shared by Stan Carey on 2025-01-17 at 15:35 (original by Erin Kissane)

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-17 at 13:13

By Grabthar's hammer, today I'm prefacing random statements with the phrase "By Grabthar's hammer"

[#]GalaxyQuest #AlanRickman #SFF #film #movies

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-16 at 19:47

What a brilliant artist, what a beautiful person he was

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/

[#]DavidLynch

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-12 at 08:20

I haven't read many novelizations of films but heard good things about this one. Mann is a pseudonym for Leslie Waller. (The film won its only Oscar for best original screenplay, based on a Life magazine article.)

[#]books #CrimeFiction #reading #DogDayAfternoon #FilmBooks #BookCovers

=> View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | View the thread

=> This profile without reblog | Go to stancarey@mastodon.ie account