I've been using PB for almost two months now, and the number of books on my shelves have gotten to the point where my feed has become overwhelming. I'm thinking I'm going to need to mute some books in order to limit the number of new posts I see every day, but it feels weird to just decide to stop seeing posts for books I've read or want to read (even if I really hated the book). So I thought I'd ask the community. Do you mute books from your feed, and if so, how do you decide which to mute?

“The universe is still out there. We choose whether we remember it or not. I bid you: Choose to remember, because the universe is where we are from, and it is our home. The cosmos is for freedom dreamers. It is where our ancestors tried to make sense of their consciousness. Where the Muslim African ancestors looked closely at the stars in order to carefully calculate prayer times, a practice that helped them become early leaders in systematic data collection about astronomy and cosmology. The cosmos is the first site of my enslaved Black ancestors' freedom dreams. As Robert Jones Jr.'s Prophets tell a man as he self-liberates in the remarkable novel The Prophets, "The cosmos is on your side." The cosmos was a freedom palette for the enslaved people who carved the sun and moon into their hair when they stepped off a slave ship in South America. Having survived the horrors of the Middle Passage and unsure of what terrors they would meet next, the men chose to carry the sky on their bodies.”

“Regardless of any other aspirations they claim to have, Musk, Bezos, and Branson should be remembered for the environmental destruction wrought by the corporations they have helmed. They should also be remembered for hanging on to their riches rather than making this potentially transformative money available to public trusts that are tasked with responding to the climate disaster. They should be remembered for the way they partnered with white supremacists in order to get their way. Instead of saving Earth, these menespecially Bezos and Musk dream of exploiting it while on a mission to exploit else-where, and they hope that other space geeks like me will join them in the delusion. But Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz was right when he said in his 2019 Nobel Prize lecture that rather than trying to resettle elsewhere in space, we should endeavor to find a way to live in equilibrium with our home planet. Queloz might seem like the best person to comment on this, since he won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the discovery of the first of what are now nearly five thousand confirmed exoplanets, 51 Pegasi b.”

🔥🔥🔥 I love this author.

And now she just referenced Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH.

I’m really enjoying the amount of fiction the author is referencing.

As my mom told me… “Without joy, what the fuck is the point?”

100% this.