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Through the Eyes of Animals 🐦⬛🐾🐢
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Oh to see the world how animals see it! These books feature one or more animal main characters and show us the world through their eyes.
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The Sea Was Never Meant For Us: Ocean Horror 🌊⚓️🛳️
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From ancient monsters to doomed voyages and the crushing silence of the deep, these are stories soaked in saltwater, isolation, and fear. Some horrors surface. Others pull you under.
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Meow-moirs: A Cat’s Purrspective 🐈🐱🐾
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Man's best friend has nothing on felines, with nine lives of purrspectives and tails! Curl up in a sun spot and enjoy these books told through kitty eyes. Meow!
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Hey guys! After last weekend’s insane heatwave, the weather seems to have cooled down significantly starting from today (at around 20-22C or 68-72F), so I also wanted to read something that’s better suited for this kind of weather :D I am, however, very indecisive, so I thought I’d ask this lovely community for help✨💞 Here are the books I can’t choose from:
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The fact that 74% of deepfake pornography consumers say they don't feel guilty about viewing the content is devastating. I can't comprehend how people can have so little empathy and be so self centered. Is that because the Internet made us feel detached from seeing it's content as real? Or the phenomenon of feeling anonymous behind their screen? I really wonder how people come to the conclusion that this is ok. If anyone has ideas, feel free to share.
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Right now the topic of child abuse images created by AI out of photographes of real children came up in the book. To me it's shocking that so many influencers keep on posting their children on social media KNOWING that this is something people can and will do. So many of them have so often been told that it is always dangerous to post your children online, but they only react defensively and push away their responsibilities.
Yes it is disgusting and wrong that people creat these kind of pictures and videos of children and that shouldn't be so easily done and instead be easier to punish. Still it is the responsibilitie of the adults to make sure your child can't be a victim of this and influencers that still post their children should be held accountable!
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Scorpion Deep
C.G. Drews
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The Dead of Summer
Ryan La Sala
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Nooo die armen Rikschadämonen. What do you mean keiner kommt zu ihnen, nur weil sie hässlich sind? Sie haben sogar Partyhüte 🥺
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(🇬🇧⬇️) Das Buch ist perfekt, um dich aus der gedanklichen Gleichgültigkeit und Verdrossenheit angesichts der vielen schlechten Nachrichten zu reißen und dir die Ernsthaftigkeit der Thematik nochmal vor Augen zu führen. Es kann wahrscheinlich auch gut als Einstieg in die Literatur der Klimakrise herhalten. Neubauer nimmt naturwissenschaftliche und historische Fakten als Anlass, um über Hoffnung, Mut und dem Gegenteil, anhand von philosophischen Gedanken, zu reflektieren.
Es ist jedoch kein Buch, um auf den neuesten stand der Klimaforschung zu kommen. Vielmehr gibt Neubauer Denkanstöße und bringt dazu sich selbst und die Gesellschaft zu reflektieren. Sie hinterfragt, ob es wirklich mehr Informationen braucht. Es scheitere schließlich nicht daran, Wissen zu vermitteln, sondern an der Fossilität (fossile Übermacht).
Neubauer schafft es bekannte Themen auf intelligente Art mit etwas Witz und anschaulichen Sätzen anders einzuordnen und auch ein bisschen Hoffnung zu geben. Mitgenommen habe ich vor allem Folgendes:
Es gibt zwei Arten von Hoffnung. Die bequeme und die erstrebenswerte, unbequeme Hoffnung.
Gleichgültigkeit und Abgestumpftsein heißt Passivität. Und die führt dazu, dass der Ist-Zustand bleibt oder schlimmer wird. Wir sollten stattdessen zur Menschlichkeit finden und genau hinschauen. Dafür dürfen wir das Unbequeme nicht vermeiden.
Was allerdings tatsächlich passiert: Verrätselung. Wir biegen uns unsere Realität so, dass sie uns nicht irritiert. Das Leben besteht aber aus Widersprüchen, die es auszuhalten gilt.
🇬🇧 This is perfect if you feel like you've given up on hope or you're indifferent given the negativity in the news. The book shows why that's not the way to go and how it is very serious. It's also probably great as an intro to similar literature. Neubauer takes scientific and historical facts and philosophical ideas to reflect on hope, courage, and the opposite.
This is not for you if you want to learn more about the topics in a scientific sense. Neubauer rather presents a different approach that will get you to reflect on yourself and society. She questions whether we need more information. We don't, because we didn't fail at communicating knowledge, we fail at something Neubauer calls "Fossilität", meaning fossil superiority.
She contextualises the already familiar topics and gives a bit of hope while being intelligent, funny and clear. This is what stayed in mind:
There is a comfortable hope and an uncomfortable one. We should want to achieve the latter.
If we're indifferent and jaded, it means we're passive. And that does not lead to change. We should instead find our way back to humanity and look closely. Therefore we cannot avoid being uncomfortable.
But what actually happens is we straighten out our reality to not be irritated by it. Life is full of dissonance though. We need to be able to endure it.
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Was wäre, wenn wir mutig sind?
Luisa Neubauer