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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

From an old hike when we found this weird ornament in the middle of the forest, no roads or houses nearby :artaww: @outdoor @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture of the top of a glass bottle sticking up out of some green moss looking like it's been buried.

Second picture with the bottle top lifted revealing an old ceramic figurine of a ballet dancer in a pink skirt on a white cermaic pedestal hidden under the bottle.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

First lunchspot without dog, then suddenly... DOG 😂 @dogsofmastodon @outdoor @photography @aww @dogs@a.gup.pe @hiking@a.gup.pe @humor@lemmy.world @humor@fedigroups.social @aiop #Dog #Dogs #Walk #Hike #Hiking #DogsOfMastodon #FridayFrolic #Friday #Frolic #OC […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Photo of a small bay with trees on both sides, sun and ski refelcting in the clear shallow water.

Same picture except with a dog tossing a toy which is in midair as the Zelda tries to catch it.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

You know you want to read the POV scene of a black hole... 😉😁 @galacticwriters @writers @writingcommunity @writingbooks @keepwriting @writing@a.gup.pe @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #WIPWednesday #Short #Excerpt #SpecualtiveFiction […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Richard, long for Dick

The Darkness of nothing was creeping into the first universe, a lot like the nothing always creeping under a child’s bed, except on a somewhat larger and less terrifying scale. Darkness with a capital D.

But at least one being awaited the coming Dark. In an isolated corner, a displaced black hole was orbiting the edge of an odd galaxy. For a long time it’d been spinning out of control from the force of its own outrage. Because Richard, long for Dick, was furious at the goings-on in what the all-consuming Afreet considered to be its galaxy.

Beings like this black hole shouldn’t be possible. Even so, in the senile dimensions of the multiverse, every oddity that can occur had already occurred. And the race of demi-gods was here to prove that fact.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

From an old hike where ice had frozen to the reeds 😁 @outdoor @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social #TuesdayTrek #Tuesday #Trek #OC #NaturePhotography […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture of reeds with little clumps of ice frozen to them a little way above the water line.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

"I read, therefore I am," I'm pretty sure that's what he actually meant... 😁 @reading @bookstodon @books @philosophy@lemmy.ml @philosophy@lemmy.world @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

After a data loss/recovery situation I'm going through my old pictures, so now you have to see them too! 😜 @outdoor @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Absolutely not me in real life 😜 😂 @galacticwriters @writers @writingcommunity @writingbooks @keepwriting @writing@a.gup.pe @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #WritingMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour #Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Writer: I desperately want to finish my book. More than anything. More than I
want coffee, or sleep, or love and affection.
Person: shouldn't you be working on it then?
Writer, pausing while reorganizing their refrigerator: how dare you!

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Stefan @stefan.gardenstate.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

Trump’s 2 Forbidden N-Words! Hegseth’s Military Fat-Shame! Russell Vought’s Odd Dream?! | HIGNFYUS www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Da3ZmE1dU #uspol #comedy

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Balcony visit 😊 @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag

Picture of a deer having a look if I left anything edible on my bottomfloor balcony garden.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow is a lot cooler, but it's missing ÅÄÖ the black metal letters... 😂 @linguistics @linguisticsmemes@a.gup.pe @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #LinguisticMemes #Memes #Linguistics #Language #Words #Humor #Humour

Post by Keep Calm and Carrion

How did "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" become the typical
sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet and not "sphinx of black
quartz, judge my vow" which is objectively a million times cooler.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Archipelago coastline 😁 @outdoor @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social #PhotoMonday #Photo #Monday #OC #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture from a hike with a stony shore line and grass with two cliffs streching out into the sea in the distance, with one somewhat obscured by fog. A blue sky with one single white cloud, and clam sunny water.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

I feel like this can often be applied to people's reactions to cultural and sociological phenomena as well 🤔 @galacticwriters @writers @writingcommunity @writingbooks @keepwriting @writing@a.gup.pe @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Douglas Adams
(author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
I've come up with a set of rules that describes our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is formal and or ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Mmmn, mushrooms 😁 @outdoor @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social #SilentSunday #Silent #Sunday #OC #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography #October […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture from a recent hike of two spooky looking mushrooms. They have inky black goo running down from the top of them.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

The problem is that whatever dumbass thing I think of to do some more creative dumbass has already ruined it by forcing someone to make a rule against it 🤔😂 @libraries @library @books @bookstodon @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #Library […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Post by Tara Wine-Queen
"Once again, my plans have been foiled"

Picture of a library ladder with picture on it from Beauty and the Beast where Belle is singing and dancing on a library ladder. With a large Forbbiden mark over it.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Did you know that misunderstanding books is a fun and easy activity you can do at home 😜😂 But don't worry metaphors are hard for everyone 😊 @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Four panel meme of Ron from Parks and Rec in a hardware store talking about Moby Dick.

1: Metaphores? I hate metaphors!
2: That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick!
3: No froo-froo symbolism
4: just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

That's why I write #SpeculativeFiction things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂 Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the #Multiverse? At least that's what I've been told... 😅 @bookstodon […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Why researching before writing is so, so important.

Screenshot from book MADERING MILLER: His skin was the color of just-pressed olive.

Picture of just pressed olive that is an alien looking lime green.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

Went snorkling yesterday, and being on and under the water is still surprisingly nice 😊 @paddleboarding @outdoor @nature@fedigroups.social @photography@fedigroups.social @Nature@lemmy.world @photography@lemmy.world #PhotoMonday #Monday #OC #NaturePhotography […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture showing the tops of two paddleboards sitting side by side on the water with cliffs and forest to the left, more forest and a few houses on the horizon and clear blue skies.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

As september is almost over it feels like we've had a restart of summer 🤔😁 @outdoor @nature @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @geography@a.gup.pe @ecology@a.gup.pe @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social #SilentSunday #Silent #Sunday […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture of a shallow bay with clear water where you can see the sand bottom and a nice blue sky with a few clouds.

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Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #DasCDMX

A look inside the Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City. There are columns of bookshelves seeming suspended at various levels from the ceiling with walkways connecting and that keep going into the far distance. Light from glass skylights many stories up and interior lighting are throughout. On the bottom floor, slightly lower than the camera vantage is the skeleton of a whale

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

I can't say I've done this personally, but I understand the sentiment 😁 @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Drawn image of two old ladies in a cosy room, one climbing a ladder with a stack of books to put in a shelf, the other sitting in a chair built of books reading a book.

Caption: I won't buy any more books until I've read all the ones I've got. I said. Then I laughed and laughed.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

Is this where librarians keep the existential dread? 😂 @philosophy@lemmy.ml @philosophy@lemmy.world @psychology @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @libraries @library #Library #LibraryMemes #Memes #Thinking #Memes #Libraries #Librarians […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

One panel comic by Bill Whitehead from FreeRangeComics.

Drawn image of a bunch of library bookshelves with a sign on top saying, "Caution: Extremly DEEP subject matter".
Infront of the shelves on a high stool sits a greyhaired lady in glasses, the stool has a sign saying: "Lifeguard on duty".

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

There are still some sunny autumn days left but they're getting fewer... 😁 @outdoor @nature @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social #ThursdayTrek #Thursday #Trek #OC #NaturePhotography #Nature […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A typical archipelago picture, sunny, blue skies, rocks and cliff in red granite sticking up out of the water and more islands in the distance.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

I hate both of these things, who knew I'd have so much in common with #JaneAusten 😂 @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Text above what I assume is a painted picture of Jane Austen..

Jane Austen's works are timeless classics because she knew the real
horrors in life are having to listen to men who think they're better than
you and receiving unannounced visitors.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

I found this photo in a book I bought at a thriftstore a while back, I still sometimes wonder who these people are/were 🤔😊 @bookstodon @books @aiop @reading #Photography #PhotoMonday #Book #Books #Vintage #Old #School #Cool #Novel #Novels #Bookshelf […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A photo of a photo on top of the book "The games people play", the photo on the book has three people, two women and a man on a sailboat with all water in the background except for some of the rigging.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Paddleboarding with a dog is all fun and games until the dog decides it's had enough and swims ashore 😂 So, bring treats 😁 @outdoor @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @dogsofmastodon @dogs @aww #Dog #Dogs #Walk #Hike #Hiking […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture of Zelda the dog on a paddleboard in her lifejacket and sticking her nose right up against the camera looking for treats.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

If I could improve upon the alphabet, I would like to increase the visual distinction between I and l.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

First you have to force feed them some propaganda like "the strong should prey on the weak." And then you can have instant replay of #LordOfTheFlies 🤔😒 @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #ReadingMemes #Memes […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Four panel comic of a classroom with ENGLISH LIT written on a blackboard.

1st: "Morning, class! Today we're going to start our Lord of the Flies unit!"
2nd: Teacher walks out.
3d: *Lock* sound from the door.
4th: Incorrect expectation of mayhem.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Goigm through my photos and was reminded of that time in 2021 when I got locked in the sauna of my apartment building and the fire department had to come and get me out 😂 @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @thinkingaboutthinking@a.gup.pe @aiop […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture from the window of the sauna of the fire department bringing up the crane to get me out for the third floor.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

Lunchspot 😁 @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social #TuesdayTrek #Tuesday #Trek #PhotoMonday #Photo #Monday #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography #September #Southern #Finland #Archipelago #Åland […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture of my latest hiking lunchspot, sitting on a cliff, picture out over calm water reflecting the other side of trees, reeds, a few buildings, and a blue sky with a few clouds.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

I thought the great council of scifi nerds that I just made up agreed #MaryShelly inventend the #SciFi #Genre 🤔😁 @galacticwriters @books @writers @writingbooks @keepwriting @writing@a.gup.pe @aiop #WritingMemes #Memes #Author #Authors #Writers #Writer #Writing […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

(Incorrect) Post by New York Times Books
With Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback, H.G. Wells invented the genre of science fiction.

(Correct) Post by Mame-Fatou Niang
When Mary Shelley wrote #Frankenstein in 1818 (aged 19), neither Jules Verne, nor Welles were born yet (Allan Poe was 9).
A teenage girl wrote what is still considered today the 1st science fiction novel. This article continues the long tradition of erasing her.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

I call this work: "Throw the ball old man or there will be trouble!" 😂 @dogsofmastodon @photography @aww @dogs@a.gup.pe @hiking@a.gup.pe @humor@lemmy.world @humor@fedigroups.social @lemmyworld #Dogs #Walk #Hike #Hiking #DogsOfMastodon #SilentSunday #Silent […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture of Zelda the dog, sitting infront of me looking aggrieved.

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Linux Is Best @linux.mastodon.cr.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Proton Mail Falls Under U.S. Jurisdiction If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S […]

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

That's why I like old books and classics, it's interesting to see how people thought, even if I don't agree... It also give a window into how the future will judge us for what we think is "normal" now 🤔😅 @reading @bookstodon @books @aiop #ReadingMemes #Memes […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Picture of James Earl Jones on the right with the text overlayed on the left.

“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Okay Semptember, good enough, I forgive you for not technically being a summer month 😁 @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social #FridayFrolic #Friday #Frolic #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Photo from a hike taken from a small bridge over a tiny channel, low cliffs and some trees on both sides, and the sun shiningin in the blue sky and reflecting in the channel.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

What do you do when the first picture is both sides? 😜😁 @galacticwriters @books @writers @writingbooks @keepwriting @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #WritingMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour #Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Post by Cat Bakewell
Two pictures side by side of the messy back and the pretty front of a work of embroidery.
Caption: How the author sees the book vs. How the reader sees the book

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

On a recent hike I found a "human trap" it even had a can of beer inside for bait, but did I fall for it? Yes...yes, I did 😂 @photography @humor #WednesdayWalk #Wednesday #Walk #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography #September #Southern #Finland #Archipelago […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A few logs leaned up against a tree making a shelter that looks like they might fall on someone who sits on the rock inside.
Trap baited with a fireplace infront and firewood on the side and a beercan lying deep inside the shelter.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

So, that's how you get a Halo, you stab someone in the defence of reading. Makes perfect sense 😂 @bookstodon #Halo #Saint #ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity #Book #Books #Novel #Novels […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Historical painting of a bearded man holding an open book and a knife with a halo surrounding his balding head.
Caption: When you're reading and you don’t want any interruptions.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) @nickeast-indiewriter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

With the upcoming White House cage fight maybe the US should consider making Dolly Parton president? 🤔😁 @reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @humour #ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour #Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity #Book […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Post by Owl! at the Library

Dolly Parton has never been in a cage fight, but she *has* gifted over 200 million books to children through her Imagination Library. In a world full of Zuckerbergs and Musks, be a Dolly.

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