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The Index of Forbidden Books – The Original Banned Book List

The Icarian Posted on August 8, 2024 by adminAugust 8, 2024

Index Librorum Prohibitorum: The Index of Forbidden Books — The Original Banned Book List Banning books is almost as old as moveable type. Centuries before anti-freedom of reading groups like Mom’s For Liberty or the states of Florida and Utah … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, culture | Tagged banned books, books, Catholic church, Luther, Martin Luther, Protestants, Reformation, Roman Catholic, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, The Index of Forbidden Books

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Previously

  • 50 Books I Read After Watching “The American Revolution” Documentary June 30, 2026
  • Harry Partch – The Outsider Who Refused To Come In June 23, 2026
  • America Getting Screwed By The Screwworm June 18, 2026
  • THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU – FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME June 7, 2026
  • THAT NDE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE & ME June 7, 2026
  • Diné Culture YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH, PEOPLE June 6, 2026
  • CHAPTER THREE. MEDICAL CRASH AND BURN June 6, 2026
  • Emotional Support Chickens, Theft! Cluck Yeah, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MATT & ANTHONY A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MARIA & WHY, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • STILL HERE! A NURSING HOME TALE June 5, 2026
  • Dying… Or Not. How People Die. Better Days June 5, 2026
  • Made It Through Long Covid-19! A Bed In Roswell June 5, 2026
  • Death On The Covid-19 Quarantine Ward, El Paso – 2020-08-25 June 4, 2026
  • COVID-19 In El Paso The Plague 08/02/20 June 4, 2026
  • Karen Strickholm: A Will To Live When Health Issues Take Everything June 4, 2026
  • Martin Robison Delany: An Extraordinary, Sometimes Contradictory, Figure May 24, 2026
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors May 24, 2026
  • The Dog: Childhood Trauma And Our Nation’s Government Sponsored Cruelty May 11, 2026
  • The Dubious Triumph Of Perception As Reality April 27, 2026
  • Honoré de Balzac On Coffee – A Terrible And Cruel Method February 19, 2026
  • Miller And Goebbels: A One-Sided Love Story October 29, 2025
  • The Coming Subprime Car Loan Collapse October 17, 2025
  • Martial Law Would End America As We Know It October 16, 2025

The Icarian On Mastodon

As an adult if I was running around shooting my mouth off about how tough or American or whatever I was, and my opponent said the equivalent to “okay, let’s fight then,” that would be the end of whatever I was doing. I’m all set. 🫡 Bye now!

12 August 2026 @ 4:48 pm

Early indications from FRTracker data are that commenter identity has little to no bearing on the likelihood of an agency making changes between a proposed and final rule. Variation between agencies outstrips any between commenter type.
https://frtracker.app/blog/who-comments-on-rules-that-change

11 August 2026 @ 9:48 pm

Like it or loathe it, your tax dollars are subsidizing an AI boom that probably doesn’t need subsidizing.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/tax-law-is-funding-the-ai-infrastructure-boom-not-creating-it

11 August 2026 @ 11:55 am

A lot to unpack vis a vis paper choice.

11 August 2026 @ 2:55 am

Taking this Anthropic announcement on watermarking text as read, I still won’t be comfortable accusing a anyone of using AI when 1) simple editing may remove it and 2) written material passed through a model may be flagged.

11 August 2026 @ 2:43 am

Looks like my Fight Club-esque split personality spending every night on X replying “why don’t you come to Mastodon and/or Bluesky and say that?!” is paying off.
That or the Nazis are getting tired of bickering with themselves about which way the eagle’s head is supposed to point or whatever.

10 August 2026 @ 6:09 pm

I weighed in to The Guardian, reiterating my position on the NYC pied-à-terre tax: good policy, flawed rollout, caused by bad data. Fixable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/08/mamdani-new-york-pied-a-terre-tax

10 August 2026 @ 12:03 pm

The IRS is cutting support for a bunch of languages it was never really supporting anyway.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/week-in-insights-irs-language-support-cuts-are-mostly-symbolic

9 August 2026 @ 2:09 pm

Garcia.

8 August 2026 @ 4:05 am

What role do tech CEOs think they’ll have post-apocalypse? So you ride it out and survive, okay cool. As society is rebuilt do you seriously think the survivors are going to be like “well obviously you are all still trillionaires.”
https://archive.is/u9PmA

7 August 2026 @ 6:27 pm

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