Namnatulco, to books
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This may be a silly question, but how does one actually read short story collections? Is it the same as if reading a novel? Do you put the book down between every story? Do you look for connections between the stories? Am I supposed to read them linearly?

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Casa Memoria Felicia e Peppino Impastato

Casa Memoria Felicia e Peppino Impastato a Cinisi è la Casa-Museo dedicata alla memoria di Peppino Impastato e di sua madre Felicia.

Peppino, attivista che ha lottato contro mafia, corruzione e oppressione, per la giustizia sociale, e il 9 maggio del 1978 fu ucciso per volontà del boss Gaetano Badalamenti.

Mamma Felicia ha rotto il muro del silenzio per raccontare la storia di Peppino e per denunciare gli assassini mafiosi del figlio, è stata la prima donna che si è ribellata alla cultura dell’omertà.

Ha aperto le porte della sua casa per raccontare la storia di Peppino e per far conoscere gli aspetti più corrotti della nostra società e dell’apparato istituzionale.

Felicia, definita “partigiana dell’antimafia” e “donna di democrazia” è scomparsa il 7 dicembre del 2004 dopo un lungo percorso per ottenere giustizia per Peppino.

La condanna di Gaetano Badalamenti, boss di Cinisi e bersaglio delle continue denunce e dell’impegno politico di Peppino, è arrivata solo nel 2002, 24 anni dopo l’assassinio.

Nel 2012 Casa Memoria Impastato viene riconosciuta come bene culturale, sono migliaia le persone che hanno varcato e continuano a varcare la soglia di questa porta ormai simbolica alla ricerca di nuove conoscenze, di informazioni non distorte e di un momento di riflessione e tutte si sono riappropriate di un piccolo pezzo di libertà.

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"Se si insegnasse la bellezza alla gente, la si fornirebbe di un'arma contro la rassegnazione, la paura e l'omertà"

Peppino Impastato
(Cinisi, 5 gennaio 1948 – Cinisi, 9 maggio 1978)

Radio Aut era la radio libera fondata nel 1977 da Peppino Impastato, la sede si trovava a Terrasini ed era trasmessa sulla frequenza di 98.800 Mhz.

La radio era gestita in regime di autofinanziamento, Peppino e i suoi compagni la utilizzavano per denunciare i potenti mafiosi di Cinisi e Terrasini e per dare voce, con la controinformazione, alle istanze che provenivano dal sociale.

Alla fine di aprile del 1977 iniziarono le prime prove di trasmissione, si costituì un primo nucleo redazionale e dal mese di Maggio si cominciò a mandare in onda “Il notiziario di Radio Aut, giornale di controinformazione radiodiffuso”.

Peppino metteva in atto “Onda Pazza a Mafiopoli”, facendosi ascoltare dalla cittadinanza dei due paesi di Terrasini e Cinisi, inondando di satira politica tutti quei personaggi che conosceva personalmente, contando su notizie freschissime e riservate, pronte per essere divulgate alla sua maniera.

Il 9 maggio del 1978 Peppino Impastato veniva assassinato per mano mafiosa.

Radio Aut, Peppino e i suoi compagni la utilizzavano per denunciare i potenti mafiosi di Cinisi

panormus, to italia Italian
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"Le meraviglie della tradizione gelataia siciliana"

Si narra che nel maggio del 1860 quando Giuseppe Garibaldi e i suoi Mille, nella battaglia contro i Borbone, conquistarono Palermo per unirla all’Italia, il condottiero cercò ristoro in un piccolo bar e lo chef servì in suo onore un gelato coi tre colori della bandiera nazionale: così nacque "Il Giardinetto" un "pezzo duro" che, con i suoi tre strati di fragola, cedro e pistacchio, arricchiti di canditi, i colori dello spongato richiamavano quelli del Tricolore.

Da allora sono passati 164 anni, ma la storica gelateria Ilardo è ancora lì, che fa il suo gelato giardinetto

panormus, to story Italian
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Il 7 maggio del 1624 arriva a Palermo, proveniente da Tunisi, il vascello della redenzione dei cattivi (riscatto dei cristiani prigionieri degli infedeli). Il Vicerè Emanuele Filiberto, contro il parere del Senato che sospettava che a bordo covasse la peste, ne permette l’attracco, “carico come era di mercanzie e ricchi doni a lui inviati dal Re di Tunisi”, la peste si diffonde in città.

https://www.panormus.blog/articolo.php?id=1914571367

KatM, to story
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A fictional story idea hit me while I was soaking my sore muscles in a hot, Epsom salt bath yesterday (I refinished all the cupboards) and now I’m seeing pointers to this idea everywhere.

Guess I’m it.

Susan_Larson_TN, to longboarding
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anubis2814, to history
ssharadmohhan, to story
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'The Magical Doe'

An illustration to the 'Mirigavati' of Qutban Suhravardi manuscript (1603-04 CE) which tells the of Prince Raj who falls in love with Mirigavati, a woman who can magically transform into a 'Doe'

c1600 CE from or to be auctioned by Christie's Inc. on April 25

SteveHendersonFineArt, to books
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She had heard of people who would not read fiction because they didn't want to waste time on "stuff that wasn't true."

But fiction, to her, told the stories of humanity's experience -- people's hopes, joys, fears, irritations, desires, questions, doubts -- in a way that non-fiction prose simply could not do.

A Novel Landscape framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/a-novel-landscape-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

fell, to linux
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Today was a bad day for Linux Gaming, at least for me.

  1. I wanted to play DCS: World with head teacking like always
  2. My system stopped recognising my Oculus Rift CV1 sensors, throwing all sorts of USB errors in dmesg
  3. I switched to the linux-lts kernel, which caused even more problems with the GPU. The graphical environment never showed up.
  4. Back on the regular linux kernel, I settled for a phone strapped to my head for head tracking.
  5. After two hours of gameplay, KWin crashed and failed to restore my open applications including the game.

I'm done for tonight. 😩

fell,
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OMFG. You won't believe this.

So, I was diagnosing a weird webcam issue for days and days. I've been using a Oculus Rift Sensor for head tracking for a while now and it suddenly stopped working. It's basically just a USB webcam. I tried several different kernel versions and even some from last year with no luck. I dug into the code of the uvcvideo driver, I tried setting quirks, nothing helped. I was obsessed with this issue.

Long story short: I disconnected my computer's front panel and everything worked.

The front panel must be faulty which must've tripped the USB controller in such a particular way that it kept working fine but was unable to recognise newly plugged devices and sent garbage to the kernel.

What the actual heck. USB is so weird. Do you have any USB stories like this?

iamgerardthomas, to art
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I know the clickthrough rate from SM to websites is horridly low, BUT!.... My collection of very brief world building words and equally brief PostIt Notes doodles is growing.

If you're at all interested in what the flavour of Sub Orbital Machine is all about, you can check out the collection here:

https://suborbitalmachine.com/sketches-from-the-silent

DemDifference, to random
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Biden direct-to-camera ad:

"Because of Donald Trump, millions of women lost the fundamental freedom to control their own bodies.

"If Donald Trump gets back in power, what freedom will you lose next?

"Your body and your decisions belong to you, not the government not Donald Trump.

"I will fight like hell to get your freedom back." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZIdq7ZJyc&t=10s

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myhauger, to Writers
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myhauger,
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This is a that is based on the Dreyken by M.Y. Hauger. You play as Aileen Benson, and you have to make choices to determine the outcome of the
https://gamejolt.com/games/Dreyken/852196
https://my-hauger.itch.io/dreyken

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panormus, to story Italian
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il “Timballo di maccheroni“, passato alla storia come “Timballo del Gattopardo“, che Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa descrive così:
“L’oro brunito dell’involucro, la fragranza di zucchero e di cannella che ne emanava, non era che il preludio della sensazione di delizia che si sprigionava dall’interno quando il coltello squarciava la crosta: ne erompeva dapprima un fumo carico di aromi e si scorgevano poi i fegatini di pollo, le ovette dure, le sfilettature di prosciutto, di pollo e di tartufi nella massa untuosa, caldissima dei maccheroni corti, cui l’estratto di carne conferiva un prezioso color camoscio.”

Ecco la ricetta:
https://ilsicilia.it/il-timballo-del-gattopardo-una-pietanza-dal-gusto-letterario/

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dgar, to random
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Every now and then someone will toot a comment comparing with a famous artist or band, and those comparisons are drawn across a wide spectrum of different genres. It’s always nice to be likened to someone who has made a name for themselves in music. I usually read such a comment, quietly beam to myself for the compliment, toot a “thank you” to let them know I appreciate the sentiment, and then continue on in a much better mood. It’s always nice to hear from people who have listened to my songs, to know what they think about the music, or how they interpret lyrics, or just their favourite bit. It’s humbling, because I didn’t make them for anyone but myself, just playing with music. Making the songs that I want to hear. Well, there’s a couple I made for other people, but they were specific people, not like, everyone. And the rest I wrote for my own amusement. So it’s really cool that so many people, like you, like . And while I do draw inspiration from some of the great musicians that I have been compared to…(Dgar continues to ramble incoherently for a further half an hour. You pick out bits here and there but conclude that they’re basically just repeating themselves. You feign interest and nod as their eyes glass over and they stare into the middle space.
Suddenly you jolt awake. Morning light streams into the room through the window where the curtains were abruptly drawn, causing your eyes to hurt. You look away, raising your hand. You become aware of a blanket around your shoulders as you begin to focus. Dgar is holding a warm beverage out towards you. You take a breath through your nose.)
Morning, sleepy head!
(You take a sip. Mmm. Exactly what you need)
Hey! Can you believe someone compared me to Ween? People compare me to people all the time. It doesn’t bother me. I thank em. I move on. But for some reason, I can’t stop thinking about Ween! Y’know what I know about Ween? Nothing!! Abso-fucking-lutely nothing. There was a song about Pushin Daisies Up that was huge in Australia in the 90’s. That’s it!! I can’t name another single Ween song!!
(The blanket and warm beverage is good right now, Dgar seems to be a little bit crazy)
You wanna know what I’ve been doing? I’ve been listening to Ween! I go and find their first album and I play it! I PLAY IT!!!! GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, song one “You F****d Up”. Yes! Song two “Tick”. I stop the album there so I can pick my jaw off the floor. Where the fuck have Gene and Dean Ween been all my life? Right. Listen I’m one album in. I’m gonna binge this shit. You gotta go.
(Dgar takes the empty, still warm mug from your fingers, crouches in front of you, momentarily making eye contact, smiles, and snaps their fingers)

dgar,
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NumbersCanBeFun, to ethelcain
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This week I decided to change it up and checked out a small called "To Whom the Bouquet Falls" by . A surprisingly delightful story about , and star crossed lovers. Join me as we take a look at the first part of this and see how the adventure begins to unfold!

To Whom the Bouquet Falls:
https://youtu.be/tLhLKJOfH18

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My banner picture has been up for quite a while but I should maybe tell the behind it.

It was Christmas 2004. Newly arrived to live in Got our tent and a couple of and set off exploring the penninsula. On the night/day of the southeast Asia Boxing Day tsunami we were camped in a tiny cove with no other access but by sea. Vertical rock cliffs behind us.

It is very fortunate this was on the opposite side of Australia, we were unaware and unaffected. Only later we learned what had happened that weekend and how many people had lost their lives or livlihoods 😢

panormus, to photography Italian
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La Biblioteca della Fondazione Sicilia, che si trova a Palermo all'interno di Palazzo Branciforte, possiede circa 50 mila volumi e svolge una funzione culturale di grandissimo rilievo.

Una ricca sezione è quella sulla storia della Sicilia, sulla Storia dell’arte, sulla Numismatica e sull’Archeologia.

Il Fondo librario antico della biblioteca è costituito da molte pubblicazioni stampate dal 1501 al 1830.

Sul soffitto della sala di lettura spicca un meraviglioso affresco di Ignazio Moncada di Paternò.

@LaVi

L'interno della Biblioteca della Fondazione Sicilia, che si trova a Palermo all'interno di Palazzo Branciforte

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