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Krista Posch

Späten guten Morgen, Fediversis! Sonnenschein zu Euch, oder Regen, wie es grade nötig ist.
Habt einen freundlichen Karsamstag …

Und nicht vergessen:

"Sei weich. Lass die Welt dich nicht hart machen. Lass Schmerz dich nicht hassen. Lass nicht Verbitterung deine Süße stehlen."
K. Vonnegut

Der Wendelstein unter blauem Himmel, darunter Wald.
#zitat#vonnegut#samstag
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Chuck Darwin

#Kurt #Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:

"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?

And so I pretend not to hear her.

And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people.
And see some great looking babies.

And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up.

And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is.

And, and I don't know.

The moral of the story is
— we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that.

And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is
we're dancing animals.

You know, we love to move around.

And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

Anti-empathy = death cult: the #DOJ's disgusting delay of #Abrego Garcia's return; the kidnapping of the #RumeysaOzturk #KhalilMahmoud's imprisonment; cuts to #Medicaid, #SocialSecurity, #Alzheimer's research & "So it Goes" to quote #Vonnegut.

"Trump's sociopathy now outranks the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. But there's another angle to this, as well: This is about the MAGA right's unhinged obsession w/gender & escalating hatred of women."

salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-

#USPol
#Misogyny

Salon.com · MAGA demonizes empathy as the "pathological feminine" — and it's why women shouldn't be Supreme Court justices
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

Anti-empathy = death cult: the #DOJ's disgusting delay of #Abrego Garcia's return; the kidnapping of the #RumeysaOzturk #KhalilMahmoud's imprisonment; cuts to #Medicaid, #SocialSecurity, #Alzheimer's research & "So it Goes" to quote #Vonnegut.

"Trump's sociopathy now outranks the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. But there's another angle to this, as well: This is about the MAGA right's unhinged obsession w/gender & escalating hatred of women."

salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-

#USPol
#Misogyny

Salon.com · MAGA demonizes empathy as the "pathological feminine" — and it's why women shouldn't be Supreme Court justices
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Jake in the desert

Finally watching Breakfast of Champions (1999) today (and in high quality!) thanks to this drive @wendigo sent me. About time I did, too, it's my favorite Vonnegut book. Dark. Weird. Fantastic. Didn't even know there was a movie til recently. Has Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte. Wild. 😂

letterboxd.com/film/breakfast-

letterboxd.comBreakfast of Champions (1999)A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that his life is a total mess! But between the headaches posed by his pill-popping wife, a mistress who won't leave him alone, and a cross-dressing sales manager, Dwayne has picked a bad week for a midlife crisis.
#Vonnegut#90sMovies#90s
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DoomsdaysCW

Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes

Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.

By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025

"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'

"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.

"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.

"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.

"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York.

"But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.

"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine.

"They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.

"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"

Read more:
nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/l

Archived version:
archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine

The New York Times · Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your LikesBy Alex Vadukul
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Jake in the desert

Got into Vonnegut as a teen after reading Slaughterhouse-Five, my dad had a copy from college (and I later dug Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, my favorite of his). But I'd never seen the movie adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five from 1972, so I'm watching it now. So far, so good- captures what I remember of the book pretty well.

Here's to the weirdness of becoming unstuck in time 🕒⏳

letterboxd.com/film/slaughterh

letterboxd.comSlaughterhouse-Five (1972)Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
#movies#Vonnegut#70s
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JdeB

#LettersLive #Vonnegut #Cumberbatch

What does the SF writer Kurt Vonnegut wants the future to read ?

"Benedict Cumberbatch reads Kurt Vonnegut's letter to the future" [6:54 min]
by Letters Live

youtube.com/watch?v=KhhTr8wH2P

Quote by LL:
"Dec 22, 2024
In 1988, the great American novelist Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to the people of the future.
Benedict Cumberbatch read this remarkably precient letter at Letters Live at London's Royal Albert Hall on 12th December 2024."

YouTubeBenedict Cumberbatch reads Kurt Vonnegut's letter to the futureBy Letters Live
#TakeCareForLife#TakeCareForEarth
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இது இப்போ

I’ve said that to open a novel is to arrive in a music hall and be handed a viola. You have to perform. [Laughs.] To stare at horizontal lines of phonetic symbols and Arabic numbers and to be able to put a show on in your head, it requires the reader to perform. If you can do it, you can go whaling in the South Pacific with Herman Melville, or you can watch Madame Bovary make a mess of her life in Paris. With pictures and movies, all you have to do is sit there and look at them and it happens to you. – Kurt Vonnegut

Via Tim Ferris

https://thisisnow5.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/the-reader-has-to-perform/

The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss · Lack of Seriousness - The Last Interview with Vonnegut - The Blog of Author Tim FerrissKurt Vonnegut is one of my few idols, an elegantly simple poet-philosopher of the first class. I grew up near where he lived in Sag Harbor, and I’ve enjoyed his writing since I was in junior high, where I silently hoped to one day have the courage to visit him. Alas, I am too late. … Continue reading "Lack of Seriousness – The Last Interview with Vonnegut"
#literature#novels#quotes
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swisslet

Who are your 5 favourite authors, and your favourite book by each. I need a reading list to help me escape this endless doomscrolling.

I’ll start.

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

John Irving - A prayer for Owen Meany

Paul Auster - The Music of Chance

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5

(Yes, that’s 6)

You?

#books#bookstodon#TerryPratchett
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mvu

I listed to the Ethan Hawke narration of Slaughterhouse Five and it wasn't what I expected at all, but it was a really good read.

The dark humor held up, the dark not-humor held up, and the narrator's voice matched the tone of the book perfectly.

I made a pixel art cover, but I don't have much else to say that hasn't already been covered to death. So it goes.

CW: depiction of bombing(pixel art). Original source image from ww2online.org/image/view-insid

#pixelart#vonnegut#books
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