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Now THIS is the Pitt analysis I've been waiting for this season!

This is such a good podcast! Embrace your inner history nerd and tune in!

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨ satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened. So here’s a quick thread to help.

Once wiped out in the wild, China’s milu (Pere David’s deer) has staged one of the world’s great wildlife recoveries. From just 39 animals reintroduced from British zoos in 1986, the herd at Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve is now 8,500. buff.ly/6JL2X2c #ShareGoodNewsToo

All right, how about a science fiction micro-reading-challenge for 2026? Read one (1) science fiction (not fantasy!) novel by a woman with an original publication date in the 90s (1990-1999) and for hard mode, it must be a new-to-you read, not a reread! (Even harder mode, try a new-to-you author!)

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

HELLO I made a 2025 best-of list that only features books that came out in October through December. enjoy!

🚨🌕moon alert, go look at the moon 🌕🚨

Only just learned these existed, and I have a mighty need!!

pls watch this and share it with everyone you know

*violently taps the sign*

Jenny strikes again...with yet another EXCELLENT rec list! My library holds list is about to go wild.

For Halloween season, I've put together a Letterboxd list of EVERY HORROR MOVIE we've reviewed on Overinvested! Click through for links to episodes and show notes. letterboxd.com/hellotailor/...

The most extreme crank shit possible. The scare over MMR vax was started by Andrew Wakefield who has been stripped of his medical license and is literally an example of how not to do science in science education texts because his study had like 18 different kinds of fraud/misconduct.

This is SO true, speaking from professional experience.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Such a good deal - and a great read!

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

I've learned more about movies (& discovered more movies) from Overinvested than any other critic podcast or newsletter hands down. Check out the below mentioned back catalog here: www.overinvestedpodcast.com Start listening anywhere, tho I particularly enjoyed the recent ep on Cruising (1980)!

The tomatoes are starting to come up in the garden!! 🍅

What a tiny, colorful lil toad!

reading a memoir is so crazy to me. you remember stuff you did?

"'Libraries' were housed any in facility that would step up, from churches to post offices. Librarians manned these outposts, giving books to carriers who then climbed aboard their mules or horses, panniers loaded with books...They took their job as seriously as mail carriers."

Hawkgirl

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10 days to go! Back Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black Women by @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Please check out this bundle! The goal is low ($1000USD) and there are a lot of games, books, and other resources I haven't seen in other bundles, you can also pick up a copy of my little printable worldbuilding research tracker/reading challenge! itch.io/b/3125/canad...

"Everything in the world is trying to keep us from getting lost in thought lately." My latest newsletter is about why art and culture are more important than ever, and why the world's most powerful people are trying to wreck them. This is a huge theme in my new book! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

I like seeing the different ways people define/talk about cozy fantasy! here, @forestofglory.bsky.social has put together a rec list of (cozy) books that highlight community-building and domestic labor.

Such a tiny friend! 🤩

“dont rake your leaves until nights are above 50 so pollinators can hatch” is good advice that combines 3 great loves: having the moral high ground, not doing chores, and bugs

The Lone King Crab #MerMay

Really want to do a tribute piece of this. In 1982 Hungarian artist Agnes Denes planted a 2-acre wheatfield on the Battery Park landfill in Manhattan. Two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Centre. The crop was harvested on August 16 and yielded over 1000 pounds of healthy wheat.

I have, potentially to the woe of everyone exhausted by "cozy" anything (including myself), created another fiction category. It's called Soft Apocalypse and it's full of Hope(TM) and Soft Feelings for Others(TM). Please give me your recs. 👀 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2025/04/14/l...

This is what happens when organizations have the money to fight back: Without warning, New Hampshire lawmakers tried to defund the NH library completely; within 90 minutes, Every Library was able to deploy defense. The amendment got killed 24 hours later. www.everylibrary.org/nhdefundingr...

A great thread by Kory Bing on species we've pulled back from the brink.

The Dropped Stitch

Fantastic resource on countering disinformation here.

can you IMAGINE a pinball machine with this vibe??!

The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far. Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Some advice on activism and feeling less helpless: You probably cannot make a big change by yourself. That's okay. Find a thing you can do--either joining an existing thing or starting something small that you can sustain with resources you have--and start there.

Kicking off 31 queer SFF books, 31 years, 31 days tomorrow! Some classics, some hidden gems, some is flawed/dated stuff I still think is worth reading. All I'd give at least a high B. Will post a comment, a blurb, publication info, SFF award noms, original & recent covers, & link to buy if in print.