So true!

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

10/10 would assist this creature on their journey with a mug of tea or a valuable artifact, whichever it needs most. 😁

I feel a lot closer to peeps I kinda know here on Bluski than to the kids whose posts I see on Tumlr, but I swear, they post SO many forgs over there, and I feel like y'all have let me down a bit in the forg department, okay? We could use more forgs here. Other than that, y'all are doing great!

Daily bunny no.3280 has yet to be found

it also has this one

I also loved this Beowulf translation! @mariadahvana.bsky.social

5 books that I still think about 🤔: 1. Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe 2. "Solitude" - Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com 3. Stations of the Tide - Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social 4. The Broken Earth series - NK Jemison @nkjemisin.bsky.social 5. Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Terrifying. Would run screaming from it if encountered in a shadowy woodland.

It has gotten me *so* much mileage. Check out the full review, it's a work of art!

I was at Armageddon in Wellington and met some SpecFicNZ authors! Ghosts of the Catacombs by Janna Ruth @janna-ruth.com Tarquin the Honest by Gareth Ward And bonus The Sons Of Echidna by Athena M. Bliss @specficnz.bsky.social #pukapuka 📚🌈

"Communist gay wish fulfillment" 😂 The perfect review. 📚🌈

I'm all ready to celebrate.

I don’t need Bluesky to grow to be good. I need the same couple ten thousand people to post way too much, share things to read with me, sometimes read the things I share. But I do need a thousand of you to maybe buy my book.

♥️🧡♥️

Thys ys a respite. Thys ys a quiet shore. Thys ys a forest full of lost songs. Thys ys a hope machine. Thys ys a treasurye of languages. Thys ys a beacon for wanderers. Thys ys a workshop for the broken heart. Thys ys wher we meet across tyme and space. Thys ys wher dreames begin. Thys ys a library.

Look what the underground trans Mafia got me!!

I really wish in the southern hemisphere they would let us switch Halloween and Easter. I don't really mind about Xmas, but doing an "as the year dies" holiday in spring and a "new life begins" holiday in fall is very weird.

Haywain - Closed

I had a writing retreat with my OG poetry gang where the cottage we borrowed from another friend looked out over salt marshes and we spent SO much time staring into them dramatically and occasionally weeping.

SO WEIRD!!

It's a beautiful Wednesday afternoon and these ebook deals are no joke! All links to Amazon and Bookshop are affiliate links, other links are not. Affiliate links = I get a small cut of the retailers' profits. Bookshop is my favorite where it's an option! They may be on sale other places!

The way her face falls whenever she beholds Mary. Just crushing.

Just starting this and I hope I enjoy it! 🤞🤞

California kingsnake with miniature lupine & silvery blues 🦋🌿

It’s never too late to start supporting independent bookstores instead of, you know, other places. 😌

he knew he was wrong but he tried to give me the “information wants to be free” bs and then the “but it’s free exposure!” routine after that. accepted his apology after he paid up. but i never fully trusted him after that. and that was a friend. i will dance on the grave of ai companies. fuck them

Omg just poking her little head out of her burrow and looking around with her beady little eyes... 😍😍

Lol! Well, I have Wonderbook and it's my favorite book on writing craft. SO I would probably buy this 😅

David Boot can’t buy enough electric cars to satisfy the growing demand.

Phew! Truth.

WRITE IT IN THE FUCKING STARS. THIS LIFE WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOU. DO LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE.

There's only 3 days left to get We've Always Been Here on Kickstarter (now fully funded)!! The book is filled with gorgeous queer historical art, and remember that the merch pack is limited edition for the Kickstarter campaign! Get it now if you want it! 🏳️‍🌈 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

well, it's not quite dogman but apparently hello sunshine sold 6.5k-ish copies in its first 3 months which is pretty good I FEEL like for a niche horror graphic novel about a gay kid with schizophrenia

📚🌈 #pukapuka

Visibility isn’t enough. Information is a tool for liberation - and a way to fight back. This Trans Day of Visibility, we’ll be sharing some articles that celebrate Trans+ lives, honour our history and push back on anti-trans narratives. Because we’ve always been here and always will be 🏳️‍⚧️ #TDoV

Tuna are such fascinating creatures and I love their slippery vibe. 10/10 Aotearoa denizen!!

“You know … morons”

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

Every day I wake up and wonder if it's April yet.

I can’t recommend @tommysiegel.bsky.social ‘s precise bird drawings strongly enough!

Best 🧵!! 😍😍

EXACTLY this. We are in the regrettable position where public transport CANNOT fully be the solution to an energy crisis because we haven't invested in it enough. It needs better funding.

There are plenty of people who would crawl over broken glass for just the chance to write book reviews for the NY-f*cking-T and this dude phones it in with AI?!?! My god. Give this job to someone who cares enough about books to do the work - there are SO MANY.

Huzzah! This is my book! Two separate stories, only a moment in time apart. Two pivotal episodes in one person's life. And two ENTIRELY DIFFERENT vibes. 🌱Nurture🌏 vs. 💥DESTROY🛰️ 📚🌈 #pukapuka (buy link below)

Oh hey, I missed this! Hooray for Marani and Nuria, and all my dragon smut-loving readers!

Between Seymour talking about the need to cut "red tape" that's getting in the way of fuel supply and Willis talking about the need to avoid the "communism" of rationing and leave it all to price mechanisms (i.e. everyone who can't afford fuel can get fucked) it's abundantly clear that the govt are

Well said. And also, for some workers, especially those doing shift work, it's extremely hard to spend (waste) so much time waiting on public transport when your schedule doesn't align. If you get off work at 10 pm, you'd rather not spend 1.5 hrs navigating buses and trains before you get home.

WOW omg when she gives that first answer. That guy had to take a second to recover from that truth bomb she dropped. 🧡🧡 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥