oceaniceternity@sakurajima.moe · 6 months agoI just finished The Thousand Earths by S. Baxter. It was very, very good. It explored a breadth of settings that was stitched together by brief interludes of a 22nd century traveler. While I enjoyedplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareI just finished The Thousand Earths by S. Baxter. It was very, very good. It explored a breadth of settings that was stitched together by brief interludes of a 22nd century traveler. While I enjoyedplus-squareoceaniceternity@sakurajima.moe · 6 months agomessage-square3fedilink
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 6 months agoToday in Labor History January 12, 1876: Working class novelist Jack London was born. As a kid, he was an oyster pirate in Oakland, along the shores of the San Francisco Bay. As a young man, he becameplus-squarekolektiva.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageToday in Labor History January 12, 1876: Working class novelist Jack London was born. As a kid, he was an oyster pirate in Oakland, along the shores of the San Francisco Bay. As a young man, he becameplus-squarekolektiva.socialMikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 6 months agomessage-square0fedilink
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · edit-26 months agoToday in Labor History December 25, 1927: B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burned copies of the Manusmriti to protest its treatment of Dalit people (formerly known as untouchables). Bhimrao Ramjiplus-squarekolektiva.socialimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageToday in Labor History December 25, 1927: B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burned copies of the Manusmriti to protest its treatment of Dalit people (formerly known as untouchables). Bhimrao Ramjiplus-squarekolektiva.socialMikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · edit-26 months agomessage-square2fedilink
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · edit-26 months agoToday in Labor History December 25, 1968: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) were burnt to death in the Kilvenmani massacre in Tamil Nadu. The Dalits had been striking for higher wages. The incidentplus-squarekolektiva.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageToday in Labor History December 25, 1968: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) were burnt to death in the Kilvenmani massacre in Tamil Nadu. The Dalits had been striking for higher wages. The incidentplus-squarekolektiva.socialMikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · edit-26 months agomessage-square0fedilink
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 7 months agoToday in Labor History December 3, 1984: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed over 3,800 people and injured up to 600,000 more. Up to 16,000 people died, in totplus-squarekolektiva.socialimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageToday in Labor History December 3, 1984: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed over 3,800 people and injured up to 600,000 more. Up to 16,000 people died, in totplus-squarekolektiva.socialMikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 7 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Anthony Harold@indieauthors.social · 8 months agoCyprus Dance Film Festival, supported by my [#publisher](https://indieauthors.social/tags/publisher) Deep Immersion.plus-squarestorage.googleapis.comimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageCyprus Dance Film Festival, supported by my [#publisher](https://indieauthors.social/tags/publisher) Deep Immersion.plus-squarestorage.googleapis.comAnthony Harold@indieauthors.social · 8 months agomessage-square0fedilink
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · edit-210 months agoToday in Writing History September 25, 1930: Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter was born (d. 1999). He is perhaps most remembered today for his amusing children’s poeplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareToday in Writing History September 25, 1930: Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter was born (d. 1999). He is perhaps most remembered today for his amusing children’s poeplus-squareMikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · edit-210 months agomessage-square0fedilink
