Great review of Yemoja’s Tears. Thank you @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social @penprince.bsky.social for the opportunity to share a story.

I'm about to reread. I so love how the pieces come together.

Lovely review of the Yemoja's Tears anthology by I, @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social and Joshua Ichor Yemoja's Tears is a charity anthology meant to raise awareness about water issues, and Joshua's work on that. jaylit.com/creatives-an...

This was such a labor of love by all involved. I was so moved reading this review 🥹

It actually dropped tonight!

The Virtual Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA) 4 call for proposals is out. We hope to see you there virtually! Read the VICFA 4 CfP here:

And you can now add us on Goodreads here www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Also, the paperback will be out in about a week.

Don't forget to of course purchase the book. Remember, the proceeds go to charity & to water issues round the world. Link again fiction4all.com/ebooks/b1961... And if you need a copy for reviewing, please reach out to either I or @lanovellaserena.bsky.social

You can see more about his work in this Swarovski Foundation film produced by BBC Story Works and presented as part of the ‘Climate and Us’ series www.bbc.com/storyworks/t...

He's also a Top 25 under 25 of The World Around Young Climate Prize, 1st Nigerian recipient of the British Council's #destinationzeri awards for climate adaptation in Nigeria. He founded Geotek water at 18 & has been exploring for water, constructing more than 1000 water wells

The anthology is inspired by the work of Joshua Ichor, founder of Geotek, a fellow of the 776foundation by Alexis Ohanian. Joshua is the 1st African to win the Swarovski creatives for our future award with exhibitions at the UN

Yemoja's Tears: An Anthology of Water, Bodies, & Bodies of Water is a charity anthology aiming to draw attention to water scarcity, drought, flooding, forest fires, climate change & related issues round the world. It's proceeds will go to Water Aid, Water For People & Baitulmaal

You can get the anthology Yemoja's Tears here fiction4all.com/ebooks/b1961... Thanks to our amazing editors at the JFA Presents, Cat Ashton, @lanovellaserena.bsky.social and Jude Wright. & Our amazing cover artist Cyrielle Prückner. Thanks to our amazing contributors!

So I have a new book out (yesterday). 🙂 My 8th book, 7th anthology. Happy book birthday to I and my amazing co-editors @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social & Joshua Ichor Which reminds me, I'm eligible for the Locus award, & Hugo, best editor short form with the Year's Best African SF volume 3 🙂

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

Hello social medias... You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique. The devastation is tremendous. The need is great. You can help and make a difference: www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

Matutolypea [muh-TYOO-toh-LAHY-pee-uh] (n.) - The state of being in a bad mood or annoyed when first waking in the morning. - Waking up on the wrong side of the bed. “I apologize for my display of matutolypea, but that hotel mattress is so lumpy that I ended up sleeping in the bathtub.”

It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting. Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.

On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.

This is the right emotion. We should all, ALL, be very very angry at the destruction of our country and who is responsible. NO, YOU MOVE.

If I might offer a suggestion to the victorious party across the pond: be very clear and direct about what your policy changes will and will not accomplish for the person on the street. Do not let the opposition declare you a failure for not accomplishing something impossible you never promised.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

I guarantee that if that dentist’s kid does not get into their preferred college, that dentist will still blame affirmative action. The unspoken belief is that people like them *deserve opportunity* and people who don’t look like them do not.

this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

You can see more info and make a submission here iaftfita.wildapricot.org/page-1820596

So the call for papers, for the Virtual International Conference For the Fantastic In The Arts 3 is out. The theme for this year is Pantheology in World-Building & Magic Systems. Our guests of honour are P Djeli Clark & RR Virdi. Our guest scholars A.D. Lobel & Grace Dillon

Marcellus Williams was cleared by DNA evidence and the prosecutor is trying to vacate the conviction, but the state of Missouri still scheduled an execution date for him. Please sign and share this petition innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...

Found this sick burn on Mastodon:

My field is more than 60% women. Shark Week, marine biology's biggest stage, doesn't just feature more men than women... it features more guys named Mike than women. And that's ignoring the pseudoscientific nonsense, wildlife harassment, and near complete lack of any real conservation content 🧪🦑

This, also it was much cheaper and simpler to have an actor dub on a computer voice (or literally stand off-set and read the lines in) than make a whole interface and display

A lot of people treat everything in film and TV as creative choices but you cannot divorce this stuff from the production process, so often the reason it's like that is it was cheaper, or easier, or more convenient, or something went wrong and they had to find another way

Keep thinking about how most of what we want ChatGPT to do Google used to do before they broke it to slam us with ads and then to become ChatGPT.

Back when I was a computer programmer, a coworker announced they were leaving their job to work for a local company that made cash registers. "Good choice," I responded. "I hear there's money in cash registers." 35 years later and I'm still proud.

As someone who is struggling to assemble the paperwork to apply for citizenship in the country I’ve lived in for 12 years—the country in which I locked down for over a year! in which I have raised a child from infancy! whose public service employs me!—this should be a rule everywhere.

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For International Batten Disease Awareness Day, Jenn and I created a video celebrating some of the amazing children dealing with CLN1 Batten Disease, a horrendous and fatal genetic disorder. Please give it a watch and consider sharing to spread the word! #BattenDay2024 youtu.be/EVk4RrBHTTE?...

Congrats to all the winners and finalists of the Nebula Awards!!

Congratulations to all the winners of the 59th Annual Nebula Awards!

A new animated show is coming to Fox about two guys who lose their jobs to robots but get an unconditional basic income of $3,000 a month. And there will be at least two seasons of it. It's called "Universal Basic Guys." deadline.com/2024/05/univ...

The feeling was “we don’t want them here, we don’t care where else they go” and even then people complained that kids (me) watched too much TV and played video games too much and we should go outside, but not in groups and must always keep moving.

Snowy Wings Publishing is pleased to announce that we will be publishing the FIRE HEART duology by Joyce Ch'ng, with book one coming in November of this year! In this YA fantasy series, a headstrong young woman dreams of becoming a master swordsmith. Learn more: www.snowywingspublis...

ICYMI. 🔥💖