A (small) win ... We decided to stop using Facebook at my job! Still on Instagram and TikTok (as a lot of youth is present there) but a win's a win and progress is progress.
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Images from the 1665 edition of Fortunio Licetiβs De Monstris, originally published, without the illustrations, in 1616. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collectβ¦
Fortunio Licetiβs Monsters (1665)
Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable.The Public Domain Review
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Review of "When I Sing, Mountains Dance" (4 stars): When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Lots of emotions flowing through the story. Beautifully written, draws you in and won't let you go. Didn't expect to finish this one so quickly. Wonderful all around!
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Not a cat, but hear me out
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This is the gold standard for about-the-author photos
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How much nicer those Persians look compared to the modern onesβ¦
I'd always thought it was Georges Perec's, but this is indeed superb
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@Paperposts there's an incredibly sexy full-bleed one of tom stoppard on the back of my copy of travesties but i can't find it
I feel like an 'authors with their cats' thread/hashtag would be very appreciated across the fediverse
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@Paperposts Ray Bradbury with his cat Tigger
You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. If you try to approach a cat and pick it up, hell, it won't let you do it. You've got to say, "Well, to hell with you." And the cat says, "Wait a minute.β
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@Paperposts Also, not an author, but this picture of Vincent Price with an armload of big fluffy cats goes fucking hard
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may I submit Yuri Knorozov?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knoβ¦
He repeatedly tried to name his cat as co-author of his papers.
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He repeatedly tried to name his cat as co-author of his papers.
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@unlofl @Paperposts Kropotkin might deserve an honorary mention too π
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Attached: 2 images this is my favorite type of stuff to find a) Kropotkin didn't want his portrait in a publication, he wanted an oil sketch of his cat instead, per his last letter give him back the sketch of his cat and b)he rode a penny farβ¦noBonzo (kolektiva.social)
@temptoetiam @unlofl Chekhov had dachshunds but also a mongoose which I think also deserves an honorary
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I long to meet Chekhovβs mongoose in the third act
Hello all, let me introduce you to Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov and the photo that Ernst Stavro Blofeld would've killed for: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knoβ¦
P.S.: OH, I see somebody else also posted about him. I guess something is absolutely true: authors with cats will share the photo.
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@Illuminatus @unlofl that's some next level stuff
@unlofl @Paperposts Vincent Price once made cookies for me at 1:00 AM when I was 18 years old. He was wearing a smoking jacket and scarf (he had been unexpectedly awakened) and was a simply wonderfully polite and amusing person.
My aunt's partner (I boarded with them my first semester of college) was a Hollywood realtor, and we had stopped by his house to pick up paperwork, not realizing that we would be waking him up.
I was blessed to see Ray Bradbury lecture in person at Monterey Peninsula College when I was a kid. Wonderful to see a reminder of him!
@Paperposts I feel like Czech author Bohumil Hrabal shouldn't be missing here. There are lots of photos of him with cats but this is the only one I can find for now. For years he would commute to his cottage outside of Prague, buying chicken from a buffet at Florenc bus station to feed his cats. In fact they weren't his for the most part but he wrote about them plenty and even dedicated books to one of them.
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>> I feel like an 'authors with their cats' thread/hashtag would be very appreciated across the fediverse
annoyingly so! (i mean this in the nicest possible way)
@Paperposts here's Sterling North, author of Rascal (as in Rascal the Raccoon)
if that picture was taken in the 19th century he would have had to hold those cats like that for a long time
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Assuming the photo was taken around the time the book was published it would be early 1900s (the cats are described as "kittens" at the start of the voyage but look like young adult cats in the photo) - film was fast enough by then to reduce the exposure time to a few seconds or even a fraction of a second, same as with modern cameras.
They are already trained well enough to walk on a leash and sit on the chaps shoulder, and if food motivated could be persuaded with treats to hang around for a photo or two πΈ
another entry in this canon
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My personal fav is Knorozov. He listed the cat as a coauthor on his papers!
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@attoparsec it's giving volcanic lair
@attoparsec you beat me to it
@attoparsec that picture is just⦠perfection! If I ever have a cat, I want to look like that holding it, haha
@attoparsec Oh my god. Thank you. Nice read, too. The spanish version lacks that picture, btw:
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@attoparsec that is EXACTLY the right cat for that dude
@aleen And just like that, Iβm interested in a new writerβ¦
That's also an impressive name.
Edward Gorey was very good at this:
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@paparatti i had always assumed he was born in like a scottish castle so it was kinda wild to find out he grew up like a mile from where i live in chicago
I always thought he was from the 19th century! The man was not of this time!
@paparatti The picture of Gorey in the black sweater is on the wall in my hallway. And yes, I will include the cats in my author photo.
This thread is π₯, but where are all the women authors?? I now feel I've let my gender down by not having a freakazoid author severe author photo featuring my cats.
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@vmbrasseur Let's start with Colette, of course: gatosyrespeto.org/2018/12/13/lβ¦
(link in spanish, but lots of cats)
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Los gatos de Colette
Se dice que los gatos tienen siete vidas, y Colette, que tanto amaba a los animales, sobre todo a los gatos y mΓ‘s aΓΊn a las gatas, quizΓ‘ tambiΓ©n las tuviera. Escritora, bailarina, crΓtica literariaβ¦admin2gatosyrespeto (Gatos y Respeto Β©)
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Patricia Highsmith with cat
Patricia Highsmith with cat
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@vmbrasseur Caresse Crosby, publisher, ghost writer of erotica, first patent holder for a modern bra. Photographed in 1914 with her whippet, Clytoris.
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Not a James Bond villain but French historian and demographer Emmanuel Todd and his cat.
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It took ages but I *FINALLY* managed to get my US publisher to use this one as my back-flap author photo β¦
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@cstross It's perfect.
@cstross are you the one on the left or right of the photo?
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Paging @Sardonicus
to the white courtesy phone please
to the white courtesy phone please
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i hope this is seen in me
Since noone's posted the Gutenberg link
Do linguists count?
also, to be a real author, you need 4 names
found another - Joseph Brodsky
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Did you ever realize that lots of animals resemble their humans? Pay attention next time when you watch e.g. people walking outside with their dogs. It's really astonishing and so funny. ππ
@deathkitten my fav part is the story behind that pic, apparently he wanted to put the cat as a coauthor on his book, and the publisher wouldn't let him, so he took that as the author photo π
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Sorry, but not an author and not cats.
The famous official NASA photo of astronaut Leland D. Melvin, taken with his dogs Jake and Scout. He smuggled his dogs into the photo shoot.
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Ernest Hemingway has some good cat pics as well.
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Damn it, missed the ultimate chance to post King Gizz's masterpiece Perihelion! #KGATLW #kinggizard #perihelion
Vandaag (zaterdag 3 januari 2026) bevindt de aarde zich in het perihelium, het dichtste punt in zijn baan rond de zon, op een afstand van ongeveer 147.099.000 kilometer.
Vreemd? Meer info op frankdeboosere.be/vragen/vraagβ¦
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As many embark boldly (and perhaps temporarily) on brand new gym memberships, here's a look at where it all started: the workout machines of the 19th century: publicdomainreview.org/collectβ¦
Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym
Modern fitness culture finds its origins in 19th-century Stockholm, where Dr. Zander invented precursors to today's gym equipment.The Public Domain Review
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Didn't the genesis of workout machines come from prisons & workhouses?
Don't get me wrong, going to the gym, especially in winter, is a net good.
Just wish that effort had a more common good, like charging up batteries to keep the lights & heat on at a homeless shelter.
Exercise was intended as punishment.
The pointlessness of expended effort as psychological torture in the carceral system.
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In the 19th Century, You Wouldnβt Want to Be Put on the Treadmill
This grueling nineteenth-century punishment was supposed to provide a torturous lesson about hard workKat Eschner (Smithsonian Magazine)
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I love the lamp-post esthetic and the simplicity of most of them. One of the gyms should bring those back. (Minus the exposed gears, I guess...)
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Review of "Last Wish" (5 stars): Last Wish
First time reading The Witcher after playing the game for some years. This is amazing! Series off to a great start.
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A new year
Been some time since I checked out Friendica. Still not sure how/in what way I'll use the platform. Figuring some things out as well. This new year I'd like to delve deeper into the social web and the fediverse, so expect some more activity here as well!
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Hi everyone!
I'm new here, so it's time for a little #introduction, right?
My name is Arno, I'm from #Bruges (Belgium) and trying to learn as much as I can about the Fediverse. I have a job in social media and online communications - as that's a huge interest of mine - but I want to get rid of as much big tech as possible. Currently, I'm not able to leave everything behind. The Meta platforms and TikTok are - sadly - still way too important for my job. I'm sort of waiting for their collapse. In the meantime I'm doing as much research as I can, which I can do during working hours (win), and move my personal life to the Fediverse. You can also find me on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy & Loops (I have a slight addiction to social media, it seems).
I absolutely love #cycling, enjoy #music (listening and playing) and am interested in #tech. I also love being #creative! I'm a #drummer and like to experiment with #photography, mainly #analog.
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