Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
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Writer editor singer songer. I'm just another part of you.
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HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!
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Me? Just headbangin to my new fave groove:
www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...
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this my mayor #mamdani #zohranmamdani #newyorkmayor #gwenstefani #hollabackgirl #edit #foryou
YouTube video by Astor Walk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4gReyNm6saU
about 4 hours ago
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Someone needs to complain to teacher that Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are playing too hard.
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Xander Odell 🍉
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We lost our SNAP benefits and are struggling to get by on just my disability, let alone with food costs. I'm selling handmade cards to help make ends meet, $4.00 each, take your pick, first come first serve. All designs in the comments. Msg me and we can make it happen. Pls share & thnx! North Pole
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Locus Magazine
2 days ago
“If NOT WHAT I INTENDED is any indication, that series is still in good hands.”
@garykwolfe
reviews new work from @nancykress
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Not What I Intended by Nancy Kress: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
Not What I Intended, Nancy Kress (PM Press 978-8-88744-120-7, $16.00, 126pp, tp) October 2025. As I’ve mentioned in these pages before, PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series has, for more than 15 yea…
https://locusmag.com/review/not-what-i-intended-by-nancy-kress-review-by-gary-k-wolfe/
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I feel like the shade on a porcelain nightlight. My ancestors shine through me.
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Who has Dinesh D'Souza on suicide watch?
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Help from UK followers?
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Mikki Kendall
2 days ago
I didn't hear the Pilgrim story until I was older (I went to a Black elementary school) and when I asked my grandmother told me that was white people's bullshit. I have never looked back
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Tiricohairline
3 days ago
Shutting the government down AND cutting off funds for food stamps, right before an election was a masturful move. Compliments to the chef.
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atomic bog
3 days ago
this day keeps getting better and better
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One more reason to keep civilization going: music by Locatelli.
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Aurelius Raines (He/Him)
4 days ago
Who here thinks this talented culture builder deserves whatever she wants?
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Celtic astrology says I was born in the Month of the Reed and my color is that of the curving wave. The whisper of riverbeds is my tongue; the whitegreygreenbluebrown changeability of water is visible to you in me. My letter is "ng" and I am in charge of bringing souls from one realm to the next.
4 days ago
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"That is how our forebears met: via transreal biofilm merge."
#amwriting
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So many old people at No Kings and to those ageists asking “Why?” I reply we have been doing this all along, right along, and you’re just now noticing I guess. One of my earliest memories is being carried alongside a sign on a picket line, protesting racist hiring practices. And ain’t I a Boomer?
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It's my birthday! Happy me!
@pmpress.bsky.social
celebrates by offering my collection Talk Like a Man for a mere 5 capitalist bucknuts:
pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
We love you, man....
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Talk like a Man
In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores the unexpected horizons (and corners) opened up by SF and fantasy’s new diversity.
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1050
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Nalo Hopkinson - Blackheart Man
6 days ago
If you can , please help my Toronto friend, writer
@spiderlilly.bsky.social
gofund.me/915a50759
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Donate to Help Tonya cover emergency expenses, organized by Tonya Liburd
Hi. This is... not how I planned to end my year. I figured I'd be okay by now. But,… Tonya Liburd needs your support for Help Tonya cover emergency expenses
https://gofund.me/915a50759
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Odera Igbokwe
8 months ago
The Breath of Life travels through dreamscapes and guides our inner voice to a place of rest. They beckon us to reconnect to our bodies through inhalation and exhalation. ↑ Meditation, Rest, Peace, Mindfulness ❂ Obatala, Agwu, Temperance ↓ Chaos, Stress, Tension, Isolation, Withdrawal
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"Become an AI ready leader," Udemy promises in the subject line of an email I have already deleted.
10 days ago
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Thomas Neville (scary season)
10 days ago
I know so many lawyers and law related people who need to read these books. Seriously. The first published book is just a bankruptcy proceeding. It’s just that the bankrupt was a God and his assets are faith energy.
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Turning 70 in a couple days. Piece of genuine East Wing rubble is what I really really really want for my birthday. Please?
10 days ago
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@nalohop.bsky.social
Congratulations and joy and love!
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Sunburst Award
about 2 months ago
✨🎉The Sunburst Award Society is delighted to announce that Blackheart Man (Simon & Schuster) by Nalo Hopkinson is the winner of the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
@nalohop.bsky.social
is now a three time winner of the award. Congratulations Nalo!
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Christopher Webb
12 days ago
Black farmers were systematically targeted by the U.S. government through racist USDA practices, denial of federal aid, and violence. The result: a 90% loss of Black-owned farmland from the early 1900s to the late 1990s.
www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/b...
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Black Farmers FAQ: Addressing Systemic Discrimination
Black farmers face systemic discrimination and racism by public and private institutions like the USDA and barriers to economic mobility. Learn about the history of Black farmers in the U.S. and curre...
https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/black-farmers-faq/
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We could be proceeding calmly into heterotopia but some one has alas chosen chaos instead.
12 days ago
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Per the Atlantic article, the site where actual rubble (as opposed to dirt) from East Wing demolition is a SECRET! I'm not the only one looking for this stuff. And it is VALUABLE because people want it. I mean, let's make an offer? How much did pieces of the Berlin Wall go for? Fundraiser, anyone?
12 days ago
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Any of you have Atlantic subscriptions? In my quest for East Wing rubble I came across this paywalled story:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
May I please get a gift read?
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My Quest to Find the East Wing Rubble
An entire part of the White House can’t just disappear.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/east-wing-rubble/684703/
12 days ago
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Minnie's so funny! Gave her a toy I made with a twist of parchment paper and she tore it up and scattered catnip all in her drinking water and food and sleep area. Good to see her playing again.
12 days ago
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I heard East Wing rubble's being moved to a public DC golf course to be used in landscaping. Why isn't it being offered for sale, though? You'd think trump would seize on the opportunity. So maybe that rubble is too powerful in others' hands for them to do that? 1/2
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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) will be at WFC in Brighton
13 days ago
All of which is to say, we just crossed the 1000 copies sold mark with Storyteller!!!!! It's available
@bookshop.org
@weightlessbooks.bsky.social
and many other online retailers. Plus directly from Essential Dreams Press at
tanithleestoryteller.com
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I had many many books come out over the last couple years and just decided that's not a bug it's a feature. ICYMTHEM, here are titles: Making Amends, Kinning, The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox, Speculation. All good, all different.
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Waitwaitwait! Indigenous science is just so advanced that it *looks* like magic, that's
[email protected]
and Alan Boyle and I talk about Daniel's new book
#HoleintheSky
in front of all YouTube:
youtu.be/zz6Zy8Gfg6A?...
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Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl
YouTube video by Clarion West
https://youtu.be/zz6Zy8Gfg6A?si=_VPUXxT0mknRd1fm
14 days ago
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I'll always remember you calling on the phone while you were drunk to say you love me.
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Tonya Liburd is querying Postcolonial Horror & Fantasy
15 days ago
BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH! HALLOWEEN! If you like Caribbean-centered dark fantasy, this eBook's for you!
@nisishawl.bsky.social
,
@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social
,
@gemmafiles.bsky.social
,
@ranylt.bsky.social
, &
@kurellian.bsky.social
say wonderful things about it!
www.books2read.com/TheAceOfKnives
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Sarah Carter
16 days ago
Certainly not stealing a Magic Pudding that’s for sure …
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Gockomo
16 days ago
I demand a wombat!
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It's World Wombat Day! Do you know where your wombat is right now?
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FIYAH Literary Magazine
17 days ago
We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈
18 days ago
Oh hell yeah!
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Pointed out the rainbow to my downstairs neighbor, who is glad. That's what I'm good for.
19 days ago
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Link from my dear buddy
@danmarcus.bsky.social
:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-R...
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Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Official Video)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR-qO4Y
19 days ago
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@elvincraft.bsky.social
The other crofter with ponies I recommend you follow is
@thordale.bsky.social
Lots of island shots and wandering animal news.
19 days ago
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Xerø
20 days ago
Posting a picture covered in text without taking the time to include alt-text means that I probably will not reskeet it. Please do better.
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Kerri
20 days ago
To everyone adding alt-text to your posts so
#NoKings
signs and pics can be
#Accessible
to all, thanks on behalf of the
#Blind
community. Even a little thing like that is an act of love and resistance. And I'm personally loving all the descriptions of random costumed protesters. Bravo!
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Comfortably Numb
20 days ago
We did it, people.
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Reality Ausetkmt
20 days ago
Guess that means that this shopping mall should not be getting any shopping anymore. if they don't support no Kings then they don't need American dollars. This is the type of thing that is very telling in a community. Everybody in this community needs to boycott this mall forever shut it down
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eva (^_^)/
21 days ago
white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Heritage Foundation helpfully sent me this interview with a congressman explaining why conservatives are winning the battle of the "Schumer Shutdown":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0yt...
Who's got half an hour to waste watching it?
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Teletown Hall: Schumer Shutdown
YouTube video by The Heritage Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ytH_40h_M
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Effie Seiberg
24 days ago
Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link:
us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84677417426?pwd=BMSb6Np7kWNI4yBgX9BH8dXzTbj1a5.1&mc_cid=73e0883024&mc_eid=ce8e5c6506#success
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Re: Gen"AI" and the claim that if we just took the time to learn how it works we'd love love love it:
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