Add “like Mary Oliver but weird” to the list of ways readers have described this one 🌎👇

Maro Reus fuckin rules. Now you know.

Find if you have a data center in your area robbing your community of resources and poisoning the environment.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Sure it's late but not too late for a blog update horrorsong.blog/2026/04/13/t...

Imagine getting fired via hologram

"There was a time when all our stories were about birds and stars and our grand, infinitesimal home. Eco fiction makes the deliberate choice to tell those stories again—and acknowledges that we never stopped." - Maro Reus on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

As a tech worker who has worked in a data center, they should absolutely be zoned for heavy industry and treated like gravel and concrete processing companies.

Readers are calling this one “surreal” and “enchanting”. We agree. Give it a read 👇🍃

"The swollen sphincter is the frame and the frame is part of the picture the cloaca is stretched and it would be nothing but relief if an eagle would beak in and tear for his liver ripping through his living flesh" Today on ergot.: 'Sisyphus, Bound' by David Stevens www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...

If you enjoyed "As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood", I wrote a novella in that setting, a story about families, the curses they bear, and fighting the good fight - even in the face of Death. I'm serializing it in my newsletter so consider signing up: buttondown.com/crosshatches

Kennedy is a eugenicist. His words and choices to date provide ample evidence of his deep hatred for disabled ‘weaker’ people. All his ‘policy’ is driven by one goal: make the population ‘fitter’ by ‘weeding out the unfit.’ Speak of him as the open, rank eugenicist he is.

"Singer puts two tiny hands on my cheek. She smiles at me, and I smile back, and she packs magic into my mouth. Petals. Moss. Down in my pink gums, inside my narrow lips." - Maro Reus in "Spring Equinox" www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

All of these spring flowers are cool and all until you get hit with enough pollen to transport you into a prescient spice dream like you’re Paul Atreides

ECO25 COVER REVEAL! Shortlist announcement landing this afternoon 👀🌿✨

A dream come true! Rain's an incredible narrator and I'm delighted for my book to finally be out in audio & become accessible for more readers. Pre-orders are up now. Thank you, Rain!

We don’t need better leaders. We need to become leaders ourselves. We need a thousand more leaders, a million even, and more. We need to educate, organize, and empower ourselves if we want to meaningfully challenge the hierarchical, patriarchal, capitalist society that currently dominates humanity.

My favorite part of running @rottingleafmag.bsky.social is reading all of the messed up, weird, hopeful, and horrific ecofiction people come up with. I love it. I wish we could afford to publish all of it.

My ‘I did not have a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein’ t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are already answered by the shirt

We've got a new rotting leaf dropping on Saturday, but in the meantime don't miss our previous one, "She Burrows and Invites", by @linardos.bsky.social. It's fully rotten. www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

As the U.S.-Israeli agenda of genocide and devastation marches forward, so too must working class people, to ensure their defeat. We, the working class, must organize against barbarism, for there is nothing we cannot achieve together." –Megan R. & Ashik S. DSA co-chairs

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

Should I finally update Windows on my work computer today or just wait to see if the president starts a nuclear war that ends the world?

Once again tapping the Mastodon site as people remember that Bluesky may actually kind of suck

Hey, friends who are independent journalists/bloggers... what would you be willing to pay for editorial-rights-only licensing for quality photojournalism for your articles/posts/news outlets? (I'm working on a website and considering a VERY reasonable rate for true indies - like $30 per image.)

This is really all they have left. "We have a pointless and criminal war pushing gas prices through the roof and the global economy to the brink but at least the government isn't treating trans people like they're human beings" will be the entirety of the midterm message.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Unprecedented: Amazon spent $26+ million on anti-union consultants in 2025. This expenditure marks a new record, surpassing the company’s previous high, and is believed to be the largest such amount spent by a US employer on anti-union consultants in a single year. [source: US Department of Labor]

That's enough of that

We live in an economic system that needs to expand and endlessly consume and the current space program is part of that story. spacenews.com/the-lunar-mi...

"We each sat there, anxious, mulling it over, combing through past slights and faux pas we each feared we might have committed. What was it that had come back to haunt us, exactly?" Today on ergot.: 'Notice' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...

Our latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out 🌎: 🪸 The Ugly Truth About Rigs-to-Reefs 🔉 Acoustic Indices & Biodiversity 🇨🇺 Cuban Ecosocialism 👇 And More www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

“Instead of sharing information [about the Renee Good and Alex Pretti killings], federal authorities took exclusive possession of evidence that had been collected, and they denied Minnesota investigators access to key information,” the lawsuit states.

Reporter: Who are you wearing? Leatherface: ....

Imagine being a Catholic in the military, seeing this, then coming home from the war for Israel in a wooden box lmfao.

More new book mail (and an @ivygrimes.bsky.social sighting)

For this I wrote about surveillance as an infection.

If you didn't make it to the livestream, here's your chance!

Grad students & postdocs: how is funding uncertainty affecting you right now? SSE's GSAC is collecting anonymous input to inform advocacy and conversations at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026 and pls RT!

HVDSA members volunteered with Food Gatherers last month, supporting the fight against our community’s food insecurity. As policies are enacted that make it harder for our most vulnerable neighbors to sustain themselves, it’s up to us to take care of each other while fighting for a better world.

Be evil.

MASSIVE fan of this one:

We're still a few submissions short of our monthly quota–send more weird nature!

Look man I just think if you’re going to have every single media person on the planet hyperventilating over how amazing it is what humans can accomplish when we work together, maybe save it for something like ending poverty rather than launching a big piece of metal into the sky

That rocket could be the star of a show called “rockets I don’t give a shit about”

V. excited to announce that ergot. will be rebranding as er...GOT! Moving forward we will be exclusively publishing quirky, humorous fan fiction set in George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' universe!