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  • Phi@feddit.detoBooks@lemmy.mlFiction!
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    8 months ago

    My goto brain vent book series are the Alex Verus books by Benedict Jacka. It’s y/a urban fantasy in London without being too childish or over sexualised. The ~400 pages each book are easy to read.

    On the other hand I currently read “Slow Horses”, the book series the AppleTV show is based on. These are stories focused on the worst of MI5 and how they stumble across and solve a case, or prevent something.











  • That’s interesting! A few friends of mine and I tried to get a hold of it during the last school year. But we were greatly annoyed that there was no good free/open source resource in our language. Everything that could be good material was basically “Pay for the course” or just buy the book for 50€. That demotivated us quite a bit. I get why you would like to make a buck for your work and yes learning languages in groups is more fun but besides badly formatted vocab sheets there was no resource that was a proper introduction to the language.






  • I know it’s a clichee but guns. I regularly watch some youtubers from a lot of backgrounds. Science, engineering, music, you name it. And the casual way they talk about guns, even carry them, is deeply disturbing to me.

    Yeah I guess it happens that you shoot a gun once or twice in your life. From military service to the plain old “Schützenverein” in Germany. But having them in everyday life is… just… dangerous.

    They in-part have open carry in malls. And plazas. I don’t get why everyone carrying in a public space isn’t classified as a danger.