Year of the Fire Horse 3 of 3 for my Patreon #art

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Fish populations in the Yangtze River have more than doubled in just two years following a 10-year fishing ban introduced in 2021. This is a huge sign of progress in one of the world's most degraded waterways. www.optimistdaily.com/2026/02/yang...

The capital of Colombia is bringing its first clean air zones to communities that have long borne the brunt of the city’s toxic air, poor infrastructure, and climate vulnerability. www.optimistdaily.com/2026/02/how-...

A new discovery from UC Santa Barbara researchers may offer a lightweight, recyclable alternative to conventional batteries for solar energy storage. www.optimistdaily.com/2026/02/uc-s...

Chinese scientists have built a highly sensitive blood test that can detect tiny traces of lung cancer long before a tumour shows up on a scan. The convergence of three technologies, DNA nanotechnology, CRISPR, and quantum dots made it possible to spot. buff.ly/Uignyg4? #ShareGoodNewsToo

Two space marines trapped in a doomed spaceship confront the desires that will destroy them both. "Deathcap" by @larazontally.bsky.social is available to read now at Reactor! Art by Kei-Ella Loewe Edited by Lindsey Hall

This please. I want more protagonists in their 40s, 50s, 60s. Life does not end at 25.

the shortlist from this prize is always incredible. if you read a book last year that hits these notes, you can nominate it! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-overview

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

The @carantes.bsky.social online anti-fascist Celtic Studies reading group is back back back March 20th at 4-6pm Welsh time This time we are doing a series on GENDER, starting with freely accessible work by @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com Join us here: carantes.org/contact/

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Community conservation teams in Laos are rebuilding wild populations of the critically endangered Siamese crocodile. Since 2011, villagers have protected nests, incubated eggs locally, and “head-started” hatchlings for release. WCS buff.ly/YUdreDS? #ShareGoodNewsToo

So close! With out new history of SF publication, essays on craft, genre, dystopia, and a secret section about #ChronicPain

Here's the link! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS??? FRIENDS COME BOMBARD THIS AMAZING WRITER WITH ALL THE GEEKY QUESTIONS!

Another @ij.org 1A Retaliation Victory! A mayor and police chief arrested Noah Petersen for calling them fascists in a public meeting and saying the police department is "pro domestic abuse." Today, the court denied them qualified immunity & granted Noah summary judgment. ij.org/press-releas...

I hate it. Video is not the same as written media. It doesn't do the same thing and it does serve the same purpose. Also it is so damn slow, I read so much faster than people talk, I don't have enough minutes to waste on all the ado you do after saying without further ado

Hey. This is bullshit. www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/h...?

Woot! My (debut) novella THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS (from @neonhemlock.bsky.social) is on Nerds of a Feather's list of awards recommendations! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026...

This Must-Have Monday I have ELEVEN new books to ft, incl 🪄a sentient wizard's cloak adopts a new wizard with @rr4idic.bsky.social 🚀a murder mystery in space+death monks from @thesuiway.bsky.social 🌏️ a missing artist in a post-capitalist, post-climate change world by @darusha.ca

Apply & share! @englishpen.bsky.social writing residencies for "writers currently based in England who identify as experiencing displacement – including (but not only) refugee writers, writers seeking asylum, and writers in exile." www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

Being ashamed is exactly why they harass and bully ppl who still mask. And also why so many ppl ignore that harassment and don’t bother to shut that down. Masking is a reminder of that failure.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Congratulations everyone

You dingus, none of us arbitrarily choose our gender. I won mine fair and square from a girl who lost a Yu-Gi-Oh match. Now her gender is mine. And [void pronoun] is genderless in the Shadow Realm. It’s basic biology.

me talking about the latest queer sff with my friends like

As someone commented, this is the principal equivalent of jury nullification.

Just your reminder that if you do not train an AI model, you just don't train an AI model, and if you do not feed a human, that's murder and you're evil.

“but we didn’t intend for all these kids to die” and yet still you have caused their deaths. the purpose of a system is what it does.

The whole thread, but this is evergreen

THIS. ❤️

Holy cow. Haven't seen predictions like this since a biggish storm I experienced in Manhattan in 1975. Please *note the travel ban!* www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/live...

I cannot express how much I love this series! Illegal dragon-rider racing with FEATHERED dragons, in an amazingly unique setting, featuring an epic forged-family. love love LOVE!!!

Silent Sunday 💜 #art #fantasy #scifi #wallpaper #speedpaint #krita

So they break into the Haunted Awful Asylum full of spoooky craaazy ghosts… And it takes a while to notice that all the ghosts are of staff members. The patients were just sick. They died innocent and their souls rest in peace. It’s the people who abused them who were condemned to stay.

𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖊 𝖂𝖞𝖗𝖒 from Beyond The Fields We Know: An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

Hyperfocus from the Oracle of the Divine Illmarinen, Kalevala, Finish Mythology I'm basically calling this the ADHD card. You get so caught up in making the thing, you don't think about the consequences Preorder The Oracle of the Divine now!

There are 350 Condors flying free. There were 0 when I was born. There's more humpbacks than ever before. The air quality in LA doesn't keep people inside anymore. Chesapeake Bay is clean enough to swim. The dolphins have returned to NYC. The seals have returned to the Thames. We can fix it.

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Until I read this, it did not even occur to me that priests are using ChatGPT to generate homilies, but of course they are, and my long-lapsed-Catholicism is kicking down doors in my skull yelling “HOW DARE THEY?!?”

Do you like queer art? Do you like tarot? Star Crossed: a queer tarot - now available in our store!!

Open up this incredible gilt-brass 'book' and you'll find... A clock-watch, complete with a lunar wheel-chart, sundials, and even an alarm. All this and it measures just 10cm tall! You can see this object in Gallery 55 on the 2nd floor. ⏰ WA1947.191.7

Acrylics and coloured pencil on 11.75"x16.75" cotton watercolour paper. I can't think of what to call her, so I am just going to go with "Little Huntress". #art #artcollector #acrylicpainting #mixedmediapainting #cats #catart #witchsky

'Scuse me, coming through, STARRED REVIEW: www.publishersweekly.com/9781616964566 #IgnoreThisBook

#ShareGoodNewsToo A great example of how, with our new technologies, guarding the planet is cheaper than trashing it.

World Pangolin Day 💚 #art #animals #nature #krita

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