Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Hey, Haida Gwaii, we’re back! Bookshop hibernation has ended 🐻✨and the shop re-opens tonight at 6. Moving forward we return to our regularly scheduled programming: Fri 6-9 Sat 12-5 web shop always open pet parking available as depicted #haidagwaii #gohaidagwaii

Earlier today we passed 5 million user signups! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who’s tried the product so far and tells their friends to do the same! ❤️ We’re improving StoryGraph every single day, based on all of your wonderful feedback. We have huge plans for 2026. Stay tuned!

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

Fascinating interview in @thesicktimes.org with musician Dave Ruder on his “Long Covid album.” I love this notion of absurdity as a chronic illness modality: “Absurdity is a great tool in the face of diminished ability, diminished capacity, diminished horizons.” thesicktimes.org/2026/01/12/c...

Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)

everyone should indeed get basic income but a specific reason artists should get basic income instead of relying on grants is we get better art when people can pursue their specific things vs when they have to outline projects that will seduce grant committees

‘Bubble batteries’ move from prototype to global rollout. Italy-based Energy Dome has begun operating a 20MW CO₂ “battery” that stores surplus solar and wind power by compressing and expanding carbon dioxide inside a giant dome. buff.ly/kTfEFwh #ShareGoodNewsToo

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

From our Winter issue CRYPTIDS, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's takedown of Bigfoot and love letter to bears, birds, and other (real) wonders of the natural world. orionmagazine.org/article/bigf...

Saving this for a listening tour later

Here’s a great resource if you’d like to help MN with your $ www.standwithminnesota.com

A little progress: +266 words today after six days of 0 words. #amwriting #fiction

walking light house

Extraordinary drum design by Yahl 'Aadas Cori Savard 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

A good read

Kitimat assaulted by noise & toxins from defective LNG facility #cancer #pollution #ClimateCrisis #cdnpoli #bcpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/22/n...

Since so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading. This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment. 1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.

“Nostalgia is not a strategy” is the line sticking with me today, feeling unexpectedly inspired by Carney. Can we put that on Olympic jerseys? 🇨🇦

I don't know if this is Peak Winnipeg necessarily but related: I just got an email from the local symphony that they're partnering with the local professional wrestling outfit for a night of wrestling set to Beethoven and Shostakovich ("classical music's fiestiest works") next month

Wild times. “It is believed to be the first time in a century that the Canadian Armed Forces have created a model of an American assault on this country, a founding member of NATO and a partner with the U.S. in continental air defence.” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Mark Carney takes the sign out of the window. A brave and powerful speech, calling for middle powers to stop appeasing and pretending this is business as usual - and start building new alliances. I think this is the speech - and the PM - that a lot of Canadians have been waiting for. #cdnpoli #Davos

Bus thread has united us all together once again, thank you bus thread

Duck reports live from bus kidnapping

"Joining with others to shape a future is the holiest act." This relentlessly hope-filled and smart conversation brought me joy today. By @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @adapalmer.bsky.social @andreahairston.bsky.social @isisasare.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

current listen: erikadohi.bandcamp.com/album/i-cast... sorta ambient piano/synth with plucking and processing and dreamscapes and much else by pianist/composer Erika Dohi

So far so good with Starfleet Academy. Loled at Paul Giamatti’s villain line about time being folded in on itself like an origami chicken 🐔 #startrek

Lichen and sunshine in Daajing Giids.

Waking up in the middle of the night rarely affords such pleasure as seeing so thoughtful & generous a review! A little speechless, & so grateful to Katie for the very kind interview!

+242 words written today after 3 days of brain fog break #fiction

Here’s a great resource if you’d like to help MN with your $ www.standwithminnesota.com

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

How did I miss an new Ann Leckie book coming out in May? Radiant Star is set in her Imperial Radch world and is available on Edelweiss to download now! Which I did of course :)

Having some thoughts about the nature of my fears as a Canadian that I want to try to express in deep solidarity with everyone in Minnesota and elsewhere fighting our common enemy. This thread will not be in the "Canadian asshole" genre. (The opposite, I hope). Still, mute if you want.

You probably know about some of the biggest trends in genre fiction, like romantasy and cozy fiction. But the trend that surprised me most was stories about people storing and sharing their memories. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign

Found this guide to DIY wind power among some used books that came into the shop. Pub. 1977. Not sure how legit the advice is, but I love the cover style. Evokes forbidden knowledge. #booksky

"There’s much to enjoy in this collection: a panoply of voices, styles and ideas, with stories tackling different aspects of similar issues... A sobering but heartening theme [of] We Will Rise Again is that there’s no final battle, no completed revolution—only the work to build a better tomorrow."

A chaotic day, but managed to find some pockets of flow leading to +1,014 words written on my fiction project. 🙀

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Are you curious about Palestinians, but you don’t know any, and have never engaged with them before? I have a recommendation. Read this book. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction brings together fantasy and science fiction stories. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Serious situation on Haida Gwaii - the north end of the island is completely cut off from the south end. The hwy is washed out at jungle beach, sections of pavement gone. The Yakoun River is flooded + the back road is impassable at several points. No way to get to ferry, no freight delivery

Hwy 16 on Haida Gwaii has been closed due to a washout from extensive flooding at Jungle Beach. They are waiting until first light tomorrow to assess the damage.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.