www.usatoday.com/story/entert... let’s have a watch party! 🍕🍺

Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a neutron star. ~ Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Read by Saundarya. #PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry

A greylag goose for #BirdOfTheDay theme #Grassland #nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #Nikon

(I don't agree this was worth the ethical cost personally, but I don't need people to agree with me! I just need them to be secure enough that they've thought this through that they're okay with other people hating how it has wrecked their lives.)

Like if you honestly think this was necessary to advance, you just need to stick to your guns and acknowledge that everyone whose work was exploited to replace them has every right to hate it, and in fact are being reasonable about it. The eggs you crack to make your omelette don't have to like you.

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

Dog tax

Another great short story, this one features a cameo by the local public library, which clearly elevates it, imho.

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

A bird's eyeview The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. Research finally explains how this is possible. How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme🧪 www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird...

Red lip. Green eyes. Ginger hair. Oh yeah, it's all coming together.

What is it in a cat's brain that when they see you cleaning the litter box they immediately need to hop in and get busy? 😽 📥

Happy International Tea Day

India holds around 100,000 sacred groves, but in Odisha state, these vital patches of biodiversity are shrinking due to roads, development, and human settlement. Researchers urge a formal conservation framework to protect these community-conserved forests.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

"I had only one ambition: to become a true seafaring adventurer. So much so that nothing else mattered to me. I never reasonably considered leading a settled life." 'Gypsy Afloat' (1942), Ella Maillart #Photography #Books #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, protecting the planet's most biodiverse forests is a life-threatening job. For former Virunga ranger Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo, this reality is deeply personal. "Rangers should be recognized while they are still living." Read our full interview.

Pack your saris, prepare for ghosts, we're heading to Bollywood! Meraj Ahmed Mubarki's "The Horror in Hindi Cinema" examines decades of Indian myth and monsters onscreen, now out in paperback. #Routledge www.routledge.com/The-Horror-i...

I agree. Building an underwater watercolor. At a sensitive stage but also early in the process. I haven’t done watercolor in a year.

Very difficult to trust the process when the process looks like THIS #art #watercolor

Tax billionaires till they are millionaires and tax them again

End billionaires

Oh, you don’t pay your taxes because the nurse does. Greedy f*cking bastard.

He also said if he paid his fair share of taxes it wouldn’t help a teacher in Queens. The teacher is paying 1k in taxes because billionaires don’t pay their fair share & rely on subsidies taxpayers are forced to fund. Head a leach

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Modern conservation treats #biodiversity as a concept but the truth is that for much of our history, it was not an abstraction but was immediate, sacred & embedded in life As an admirer of ancient rock art since living in New Mexico, I enjoyed editing and publishing this new @mongabay.com analysis:

In Malaysia’s Penang state, urban development has forced endangered dusky langurs into residential areas. To reduce human-wildlife conflict, conservationists and residents have built a canopy bridge and are leading community education efforts to coexist safely with these primates.

This is beautiful!

Apparently, someone is using my name again in scam e-mails to authors. If you receive an out-of-the-blue contact purporting to be from an agent, editor, publisher, or prod company soliciting your material, it’s almost guaranteed to be a scam. Check all details carefully.

Plus it's my birthday week, you should find ways to support my work :D #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #ReadSky #Crowdfunding #BookSky

Early in the morning I got 2 mails one was a clear acceptance the second was a reply for two submissions where 1 was rejected and other accepted... Turns out the second instance was something I dreamed of o_O there's no second mail!

I'm 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 to share that one of my stories got accepted for this anthology & if you like weird stories, you'll love it! This is another good reason to check the crowdfunding campaign and help it reach the goal! There's also some really cool merch available (that you need, yes!) #BookSky

soo pretty! congratulations comrade! :D

🐍 Cover Reveal 🐍 THE POISON PALACE retells the story of Alexander the Great's invasion of India from the point of view of a courtesan sent to assassinate him. Out with Dutton Books in Jan 2027, will link to pre-orders below. #booksky #amwriting #debutnovel #books

US pre-orders here: bit.ly/PoisonPalace

Brain activity increases if you write by hand. If you are like me, your hand writing has suffered over the years because of typing. Time to start cursive writing again! #health www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience...

Link to buy The Rajwada Poisonings on Amazon India. Avble on Amazon US too: Story abt a fledgling detective who heads to a remote religious town to find a killer, but she's really there on a treasure hunt to solve a historical mystery. Read the free chaps and decide! #books 📚 💙 shorturl.at/d2anW

Submissions are open for short stories, flash, poetry, and essays. Check the website for full guidelines. ❤️

I know everyone loves ‘skeets’ but hear me out: “bleets” 🐏

Good morning, Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has said that “ Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsWideOpen, any bird with its wings open wide, the Alt Theme is #Laridae, any of the species.” Here’s a Starling. #birds #photography #ECK

This is my opinion, too. There is already a widening gap between the hopes authors have regarding the reception of their work and the willingness of the public to engage with this work. If authors now use LLMs for their work I won't engage with it at all as it's a waste of my ressources.

the fuck it will

We're excited to share that 'Pretty Ugly' the ILFORD Photo 2026/27 student photographic competition is now open for entries. Beauty isn’t always obvious. We're asking you to explore the idea that “ugly” is often just a matter of perspective. Learn more www.ilfordphoto.com/studentcomp2026

Now on @netgalley.bsky.social and Edelweiss

Idly #stilllife #food #photography

The slush readers and I are working our way through the SIDE HUSTLE submissions and we have a problem. Too many great stories already, and we've only been open for three days. This book is going to be so good. You can get it early by backing the Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

Time flies, dying quickly at the bottom of a glass of bourbon. Fruit flies, dying quickly at the bottom of a glass of bourbon.

Known for its vibrant plumage, the Timor green pigeon faces extinction due to intense hunting. With the species now nearly extinct in Indonesia, experts say strengthening Indigenous protections and halting hunting in Timor-Leste are vital to saving the bird.

With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...