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An indie audiobook company that offers both publishing & production services. We've added print services, too. Check out our eclectic catalogue of fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, & more. Looking for audiobook services, get in touch. www.posthypnoticpress.com
And then they throw in some Celtic languages and yoink bits of languages from around the world along the way. The result: a language where there are usually about 10 different ways to say something, but when it comes to writing, you sit at your desk for 20 minutes trying to think of one 🤣 #amwriting
Man finds a young seal tangled in a vegetable sack and frees it before the plastic could turn deadly.
It’s now official: June–July 2026 was the most anomalously warm two-month period ever recorded in France by a staggering margin. France is now virtually certain to record its warmest summer on record.
Hugo Awards Countdown 2026 Hugo Awards on Aug. 30th "None So Blind" included in this audiobook: www.infinivoxsf.com/mini-masterp...
Hello friends. We're in the process of quitting the toxic landscape of tweets and Xs. Please follow us here so we can rebuild in a better social community. Much love, Kevin & Emma and the Future Tense family (which includes Susan, our very popular office manager, pictured below).
Why have I never heard of Seneca Village before? Have you heard of Seneca Village? This is like the Tulsa race massacre, which I didn't know about until I was well into my adult years! #blackhistory #racism youtu.be/HdsWYOZ8iqM?...
The lost neighborhood under New York's Central Park
YouTube video by Vox
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Could ‘Godzilla’ El Niño bring the hottest year on record? – video explainer
Could ‘Godzilla’ El Niño bring the hottest year on record? – video explainer
Environment correspondent Damien Gayle spoke to climate scientists to understand how El Niño and the climate crisis pose a huge threat to the planet
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This unattributed 2020 viral video of a sea lion chilling half-underwater is the timeline cleanse you *need*. But it's also a great intro to a discussion of how pinnipeds (walruses, seals, sea lions) SLEEP, especially when they're too far away from a safe "haul out" location. Let's talk about it.
Future generations, if there are any, will ask WHY? Why did we let the world burn? Shawn Otto answers that question in "The War on Science." Published pre-COVID & AI, it remains relevant as a diagnosis of the relationship between science, politics, money, & media. www.audible.com/pd/B01MSW5FN...
The War on Science
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? In eve...
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · last wk.Hell on Earth. www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath...
Hell on Earth. www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath...
Europe's Heat Dome Furnace Returns: Brutal 40+ °C Record Heatwave Builds Into August
The Heat Dome is forecast to bring a historic 4th heatwave across Europe, as the peak holiday season emerges over the Mediterranean. Heat Furnace delivers 40+ °C.
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Looking for an audiobook that can transport you to another place and time? M. Wylie Blanchet's "The Curve of Time" is a BC classic with wide appeal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjN... Get 15% off all of our audiobooks using this coupon: Hypnotic. posthypnoticpress.com/product/the-...
The Curve of Time, by M. Wylie Blanchet, read by Heather Henderson
YouTube video by Carlyn Craig (POST HYPNOTIC PRESS)
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Future generations, if there are any, will look back and ask WHY? 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣? Shawn Otto's "The War On Science" answers this question. For those who care about attacks on climate science, the rise of authoritarianism, biased media coverage... www.audible.com/pd/B01MSW5FN...
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · last wk.EXTRAORDINARY EVENT 40c IN WINTER WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Insane mind blowing winter heat in SOUTH AFRICA 40C in Namibia,36.1C in South Africa coast at Alexander Baai (MINIMUMS 22/23C !). Records pulverized Temperatures are 10C ABOVE MID SUMMER AVERAGES More summer heat next days.
EXTRAORDINARY EVENT 40c IN WINTER WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Insane mind blowing winter heat in SOUTH AFRICA 40C in Namibia,36.1C in South Africa coast at Alexander Baai (MINIMUMS 22/23C !). Records pulverized Temperatures are 10C ABOVE MID SUMMER AVERAGES More summer heat next days.
#OTD in 2024, I spoke with Howard White, author of The Sunshine Coast: From Gibsons to Powell River, Third Edition. #Bookshelf @harbourpublishing.bsky.social johnackermann.substack.com/p/not-just-a...
Not just another pretty face: a new book explores the hidden history of BC’s Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast: From Gibsons to Powell River, Third Edition is available from Harbour Publishing
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"I spent my 80th birthday thinking about the schoolhouse where I was born." Roy Henry Vickers joins Peter McCully at the Pulse Community Podcast to reflect on his memories and his new book, The Best of Roy Henry Vickers, a stunning 50-year retrospective featuring more than 400 works in full colour.
Roy Henry Vickers on 50 Years of Art & BC Wildfire Crew Leader Kyle Gilson
Artist Roy Henry Vickers marks 80 with a new retrospective. Plus BC Wildfire Service crew leader Kyle Gilson on fighting fire on Vancouver Island - on the Pulse Podcast.
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A follow-up to the article: “The End of Reading Is Here,” by Rose Horowitch. As a person who has been passionate about reading (& now audiobooks) since I was very young, I find the idea that we are entering a post-literate world terrifying! Read to your kids! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Is the Age of Reading Over?
Rose Horowitch on her cover story and what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”
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Greetings from Kyiv. I am in a bookstore, looking at a shelf full of survivors. These are books from Ukrainian publishers whose warehouses and offices were hit in the russian attack overnight on July 18–19. We need to support each other.
I was reading in public — always risky — and writing notes in the margin, as I do. Some guy intervened to tell me that he could never write in a book. Seemed like a personal problem that has nothing to do with me? Anyway, once again daydreaming of walking into the ocean.
”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation
Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice
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The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons. Some male blue whales weigh as much as 200 tons. A blue whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs. The largest animal that ever lived. Original post
Bees exhaust themselves trying to drink from fountains and other open water.They slip on smooth surfaces,can't get a grip, and drown.A gardener in France noticed this happening and started floating cork pieces across public fountains—simple islands where bees could land safely and drink without risk
Close-Up Bee on Finger
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