shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

269
active users

#ThomasPynchon

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
taco, bird/cat :verified420:orwell, 1984, uspol, quote from a book
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Writing History May 8, 1937: Thomas Pynchon, American novelist was born.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/historicalfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historicalfiction</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p><p>Book covers for 3 of Pynchon's novels: The Crying of Lot 49, V, and Slow Learner</p>
Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈<p>Gravity’s Rainbow Skittles</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/CandyTreatABookOrPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CandyTreatABookOrPlay</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HashtagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HashtagGames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen (has moved) :xfce:<p>New Pynchon novel, Shadow Ticket, due out Oct. 7, 2025.</p><p><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/shadow-ticket-by-thomas-pynchon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">penguinrandomhouse.com/books/3</span><span class="invisible">16427/shadow-ticket-by-thomas-pynchon/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a></p>
Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈<p>Brevity’s Rainbow</p><p>(“Boy was that a misleading name!”)</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/EggCornABookOrPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EggCornABookOrPlay</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HashtagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HashtagGames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a></p>
Luke: grue fodder<p>2025 book nineteen: Thomas Pynchon: Vineland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bookstagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstagram</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/2025books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/vineland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vineland</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/paperback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paperback</span></a></p>
don't call me cookie :vbike:<p>„Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning."<br>Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548<br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GravitysRainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GravitysRainbow</span></a></p>
Fahrradverkehr<p>„Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning."<br>Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GravitysRainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GravitysRainbow</span></a></p>
Laura SSM<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoArte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artwork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurrealistPainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurrealistPainting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HappyBirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HappyBirthday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Painters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Painters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenArtists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RemediosVaro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RemediosVaro</span></a></p><p>🎨 Remedios Varo (Anglès, España, 1908 🎂 - Ciudad de México, 1963)</p><p>1. Bordando el manto terrestre<br>2. Dolor Reumático II<br>3. Alegoría del invierno<br>4. El labrador</p><p>“Bordando el manto terrestre” aparece en el comienzo de la novela La subasta del lote 49 (1965) de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/es/2021/10/01/espanol/remedios-varo-vida-obra.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/es/2021/10/01/espa</span><span class="invisible">nol/remedios-varo-vida-obra.html</span></a></p>
Andrew Shields<p>“I should like to study mathematics – to know about the stars”: From Katherine HIlbery in Virginia Woolf’s “Night and Day” (1919) to Jakob Bernoulli and Thomas Pynchon. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>111Words</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VirginiaWoolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VirginiaWoolf</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NightAndDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NightAndDay</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JakobBernoulli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JakobBernoulli</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ArsConjectandi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArsConjectandi</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mason</span></a>&amp;Dixon <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Novels</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/i-should-like-to-study-mathematics-to.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">24/11/i-should-like-to-study-mathematics-to.html</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 <p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@lolennui" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lolennui</span></a></span> <br>🥥 Following you, Amy, based on you name-dropping <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MargeSimpson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MargeSimpson</span></a> in your header image.<br>Mad propz! 🥥</p>