Steph Chaptal

@outrelivres.fr

Freelance jack of all trades with words / Travailleuse des mots - Scifi, books, coffee and cats lover / aime la SF, les livres, le café et les chats https://www.outrelivres.fr/

Gabriel Attal est un fasciste et il doit être traité comme tel. Je vous rappelle que le racisme que subissent les gens du voyage importe à peu de monde. Les aires d'accueil pour les gens du voyage n'existent pas partout et, lorsqu'il y en a, leur localisation, souvent est une insulte pour les GdV.

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

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in which @annaleen.bsky.social asks us to dream big: “What if we gave public transportation the same amount of money that investors have given to AI? With billions of dollars, what could transit do? And how might it transform our cities and lives?” www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI

In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?

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Spokane is really suffering under a combination of terrible wildfires. My house was near the epicenter of the autumn lane fire, and against all odds, survived, but many of my neighbors were not so lucky. It’s bad, folks. Time to help your neighbors!

Il y a 82 ans, dans la nuit du 2 au 3 août 1944, 4 300 Roms Sinti, Gitans, Manouches, Yéniches et Voyageurs, étaient exterminés au centre de mise à mort nazi d'Auschwitz-Birkenau. En cette journée européenne de commémoration du génocide des Roms et des Voyageurs·ses, rendons hommage aux victimes.

Photographie d'un convoi de déportés Roms. Source : Conseil de l'Europe https://www.coe.int/fr/web/roma-genocide/chronology-of-the-roma-genocide

Happy birthday to one of my horror heroes, Wes Craven! I’m already prepping for a fun series I’m doing to celebrate his work for the Halloween season on my site: Westober I have some fun exclusives I get to share and lots of retrospectives too. Yay!

A portrait of Wes Craven.

Three people have asked me about the Blood and Bone drama (maybe because of the Yoruba origins). 1. I don't know the YA space. 2. I haven't read the books, largely because I don't read YA. Nothing wrong with it, just not for me. 3. I don't know Tomi Adeyemi. 4. Her video suggests she's in pain. 1/2

Yes, this is 100% about censorship in general, and the current anti-sexual weirdness that’s going on. But a paragraph near the end of the article is especially telling… ASMR is primarily created by women. Women doing anything will always be perceived by some as inherently sexual (excerpt in comms)

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Mychal sits & shares that Ms. Rachel posted, “Black boys deserve to grow up.” This is not controversial, it is hope. Black library kids deserve to grow up to become Black library grown-ups. Black boys deserve to live in a world where that has not always felt true. Black boys deserve joy ✨

Relire l’Odyssee et se dire que Homère se foutait royalement des règles de narrations classique : entre les sidequests, les généalogies à rallonge, les ellipses et les scènes de bouffe, faut suivre… Mais 3000 ans après ça marche !!!

Ce 27 juillet, à la station La Défense, des agents de la sûreté de la RATP ont violemment interpellé un homme. Les images montrent un plaquage ventral, avec plusieurs agents maintenant le jeune homme au sol, genoux sur le dos et le cou