introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: From the wilds of urban Amsterdam Grey heron ("look there's a pterodactyl on our neighbor's balcony") Jay (they're not blue) Great tit Rose-ringed parakeet Grebe

PIECRUST! A MANIFESTO! I once wrote someone trying to impress a new love some piecrust instructions and thought I'd share them here: The secret of good pie is: keep your heart warm but your butter cold.

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

No surprise in general but the Yeti/Bigfoot split is unexpected @colindickey.com

For the [ast few years I've been editing the short fiction for Star Ship Sofa, a venerable SF (not F/H) podcast. It's a small joint, and I've turned it primarily into a reprint market as we can afford only $50 per story. I've also turned it into a reprint market because writers need money fast. 🧵

Finally, speaking of poor: half the money from direct sales of 120 MURDERS is going to Boston-area food banks till 12/23: ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...

Saw this kettle of black vultures from my hotel room in Miami. They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason. “We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”

Y'all, It's TODAY! Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork, "Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱 Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST Online, Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica... #Lit #OctaviaEButler

Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies

Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title. Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.

Yes, all the time, and how they’re constantly expanding the boundaries of who is disposable.

Whereas the top wolves are basically just acting like parents and making sure everybody’s got food and letting the cubs crawl all over them. Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.

People who say "we're wolves not sheep" have never seen two ewes trying to murder each other over relative status in the flock before they give birth, and then all their friends and family picking sides because being friends with the winner will raise THEIR status, until there is a massive brawl

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

This year, salmon reached parts of the Klamath where they hadn't been seen in a century. Let the joy of the river peoples be a fitting monument to Dick Cheney's passing.

Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.

I do this all the time, no AI or even computer needed. It's called mind-mapping, or marginal comments, or Talmud, or Tumblr, or Post-its, or scholia, or Emily Dickinson's writing practice, or drafts, or revises, or amends, or "expand this," or highlighting, or developing an idea, or ...

The Netherlands had elections today and they want people to vote, so I got to cast my ballot in a windmill.

Book of Cats mini-review: As a Le Guin completist, I figured I’d be familiar with most of what’s in this collection. But it’s full of lovely surprises—including poems that are *not* included in the Collected Poems from LOA. The drawings alone are worth the price of admission, and ... 1/3 #BookSky

Writing the introduction to this collection was a profound exercise in memory for me, as well as the chance to reminisce with @terriwindling.bsky.social about an extraordinary writer and friend, who changed our literature in ways we're only just realizing.

Seattle folks! You might wish to stop by Elliott Bay Book Company at 7 pm on Tuesday, October 21st, when Winter Texts publisher Conner Bouchard-Roberts presents A Larger Reality, the book accompaniment to the upcoming exhibition. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...

And we're live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5h5...

On her birthday, a poem by #UrsulaKLeGuin "let’s hurry, yes, to offer everything and count on nothing, make and break no promises ... Outside trust, what air is there to breathe?" lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...

Have you visited yet? It's Le Guin's birthday tomorrow, just sayin 🌑

good news you can use!

So we launched Monster Lab! 👽 Discussion covered everything from category-breaking to imperialism to artist intuition to The Muppets. Monster-sized thanks to our inaugural speakers, historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social & sculptor Esti Reich. Next Monster Lab is in December. 👹

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Good energy at No Tyrants in Amsterdam. We had chickens and frogs (this one was passing out gummy frogs to the crowd). And we had WA governor Jay Inslee, who took a break from a climate conference to stand with us. Success today, wherever you are! #NoKings

On view now in Brooklyn, and recommended. Their show last year was great. www.mothercreatrixcollective.com/events/roote...

The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy, so be polite about kings, but there will be a protest on Saturday 1-3 pm, in front of the US consulate on the Museumplein in Amsterdam. www.watkanikdoen.nl/actie/no-tyr...

"The person from Porlock is the dog that ate the homework of literature"

It's that day again. 4columns.org/phillips-jul...

A clowder of advance readers got their paws on @ursulakleguin.com’s Book of Cats (yes, sitting on top of a book counts as reading for these little guys). Explore this full-color album of cat-centric poems, cartoons, and prose pieces, in bookstores today. loa.org/books/ursula-k-le-guins-book-of-cats/

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

Thank you to curator Sarah Shin & the designers of "Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com" for letting me stop by while they were installing the show. The original maps weren't up yet but the fabric ones are beautiful. It opens Oct 10 in London.

The War on Cars 🤝 The War on Fascists

The ARCs are here!! “Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy” coming out Tor Books in March 2026 from me and @bluejo.bsky.social

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

"Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master"

Amsterdam friends, I'm joining up with Nina Siegal (The Diary Keepers) to discuss banned books, Oct 8 at the American Book Center. Nina will talk about Orwell and the current media landscape. I'll talk about Le Guin's activism. Hope to see you there. abc.nl/events/event...

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

You can now pre-order The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, directly from our site - use the code AUTUMNPREORDER at check-out for 10% off (applies to all our forthcoming books) www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Contributors Federico Campagna, Bhanu Kapil, @unamccormack.bsky.social, Nisha Ramayya and Marilyn Strathern will join editors @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin on 10 October. Book free tix for the book launch, 4-6pm at the Architectural Association: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-word-f...

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

Le Guin stuff! The opening in London is also the book launch for "The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin," ed. @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, with contributions by @unamccormack.bsky.social and @davidnaimon.bsky.social among others.

Now with Gloria Wekker too ❤️‍🔥

Summer 2026