Larisa LaBrant
She/Her/Hers
Immune Deficient Cat Lady Crone
3rd Gen Coloradoan
I block anyone who supports anti-vaxxers.
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- The specificity would send me on a rabbit trail search in the internet/thru the local library. Love when fiction contains those Easter Eggs for readers.
- Stress Break, the art edition :
- Tomato frog! Ever since I saw a photo of one, I thought I should draw one, as a tomato on the vine. #Art
- Stress Break - the baby meerkats (SQUEE) edition :
- Nobody. Wants. This. Audiobooks are an art form. AI narrators are not even remotely qualified to replace the talented human narrators. And I think Audible is kidding themselves if they think people are going to use a $12 credit on something read by a machine.
- Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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View full threadIt's hard to recommend one! It kind of depends on what you want to know about. This one isn't really about the politics of why, it's about the experience of surviving the collapse of the government for non-citizen journalists and diplomats documenting what they saw.
- Hhhmm. I'll have to think about that. If I want to know how/what caused it or how it happened or how the majority of people survived it. Or all of it...because history is fascinating...and libraries make being insatiable possible.
- It's a pretty heavy book, and I think it's probably hard going if you don't already have a general idea of who the major players are, I wish it had a slightly more surfaced framing that wasn't just "these people from the US/UK/Western Europe wrote about watching it"
- Is there a different book on the topic you prefer?
- Horrific, but useful. Listen, then scroll for Stress Breaks.
- If you’re too busy or distracted to research why Peter Thiel and Palantir—and by association Elon Musk—are such a threat to our democracy and even our survival, this TikTok video is a quick primer. By: @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
- I didn't love the book but it's really interesting and none of my issues are with the reading! (Sorry for an Amazon link) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N...
- Thank you, will see if the local library had this. Always more history to learn. And Russian Revolution seems timely, alas.
- (I know that sounds a little dramatic, but 3 AM and can't sleep can lead to all kinds of bad thoughts. Audiobooks are great at pushing those thoughts out, and a badly narrated one wouldn't have had the needed effect of encouraged me to listen to more.)
- MRK talent combined with McGuire's writing? Totally invested in those fictional folks making it thru all the trials and tribulations vs insomnia spiraling about twisted versions of real life.
- My first was a Seanan McGuire book narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal. I am very grateful that she was the first narrator I tried, because it was right after I stopped drinking and had to learn how to sleep like a normal person again, and audiobooks genuinely might have saves my life.
- Good audiobooks are life saving friends during insomnia - like with menopause, chronic illness, or getting sober. *vigorous nods*
- I have not! I just finished her reading of a book about the Russian Revolution.
- Title Please?!
