Willow gentians 💙📷🪻🌱🏔️

My new book Designing Imaginative Environments is coming soon on Kickstarter! Jump to the Kickstarter page to be notified at launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...

"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. ... But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, ... —they would all go Nazi in a crisis." A good read. 👇

A good primer on the shifts facing the future of coffee: ☕️🌱 www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Discovered this faerie gate in the woods awhile back. What causes two mature trees to be uprooted and fall in opposite directions? I closed my eyes as I passed through, but alas… I must be too old for the magic.

That day I found an undocumented population of wild lady’s slipper orchids. That was a good day.

Here’s a nice little reishi #mushroom #fungi 📷🍄

Spaghettified Eldritch citrus

Only 4 hours left on this Spooky Bundle! Get 25 books for just $13—a steal if you ask me (of course you did). 👻🎃🩸🍂 Get it while you can: itch.io/b/3260/spook... 📦📚 #BookSky

Authors, one more time: 📣 ANY use of genai will get you onto my "do not read" list. Cover art, interior art, character pages, extras, bookmarks, ads, marketing material, website, all of it. Using it AT ALL means you do not respect or understand the damage that genai has done and actively does.

ONE DAY LEFT

A world without poverty was the clarion call of the last Labour Government. It can be of this one too. As chair of @labourcid.bsky.social I am proud to have co-written the foreword with Joe Dromey @thefabians.bsky.social for our essay collection collaboration exploring the future of development.

Bought two coffee sapling pots for about 10€. Divided up the multiple stems, now I have fifteen baby coffee trees! 🌱☕️

AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN is on Kickstarter now! The book contains examples from other authors, who talk about their own worldbuilding and maps. These are just a few of the folks you might recognize. 🪐📚💙 #Worldbuilding #Maps #Kickstarter 🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

Rayna Clay hunts monsters. But it has never really been that simple, has it? Anthropomorphic: a hardboiled detective/urban fantasy novel about ace people and the secret incubi/succubi crimes they investigate. And the betrayal that could shatter a delicate peace forever. #BluePit 📖 #LGBT #F #C

The Fox is free! Today my debut, Audition For The Fox, is officially out in the world. Magic. Fables. Time travel. And the many ways even a goofball can resist oppression & fight tyranny. Thank you to everyone who had a paw in bringing this into the world & supporting it. Forever grateful, I am 🦊💜

@zoeschlanger.bsky.social writes about how some plants do this in “The light Eaters”

“Cooperation is everywhere in nature, and now we have a clearer picture of the many ways evolution can produce it.” phys.org/news/2025-09...

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

UK tropical sea slug find a 'sign of warming seas.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds Liink to Full Report in text. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

business as usual is over. A new era of climate accountability is upon us. progressive.international/wire/2025-07...

My birthday present :) a wall of bookshelves! 📚📚📚📚📚📚

Applying for US citizenship for my daughters seems like trying to become a Roman citizen just before the fall.

Post rain sunset over the Ardeal highlands. 🌅

Happy birthday to me…

These beauties are currently available on my website and they are ready to be shipped. Each one of them was handmade, theyvare all original and unique textile artworks. Oh, and they are all a bit strange and perfectly imperfect littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com #art #bsnm #originalart #dog #wolf

Pai, noh

My birthday is in three days! If you’re looking for something to buy me ;) I’d appreciate if you bought yourself one of my books! All are listed on my website at conradaltmann.com 📚💙🪐 🎂

Our local library #clujnapoca #bjc Octavian Goga 🇷🇴📚💙

Do you love epic fantasy? Then you'll love this bundle. Everything is epic, including the price! Grab it before it's gone! 💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #readers #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky itch.io/b/3251/an-ep...

When a sadistic cabal carries out a devastating attack on the first Martian city, Capt James Fowler and co are thrust into a battle of wits to bring down its enigmatic leader. THE SHADOW OF ARCADIA books2read.com/shado... alankdell.itch.io/tsoa 📢📚🪐 #SFF ⚡📚

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this is going to result in more holocaust denial as people start denouncing actual evidence as faked by a.i.

Something perhaps between #worldbuilding and #shortfiction. May I introduce you to the ISM: conradaltmann.com/ism/ 📚🤏 📚💙🪐 📚💙🤖👍

Queen-of-the-alps (Eryngium alpinum) 🌼📷

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Here are some nice puffballs 🍄📷

Here's a new #BookReview on the blog! Today I'm talking hard-hitting, poignant sci-fi short stories with Moral Laundry by @conradaltmann.com www.alankdell.co.uk/...#BookReview💙📚🪐 #SFF 🤏📚

please please please just use your own brain. You need to use your own brain, more than ever. You need to think, you need to try, and fail if need be.

✨ NEW RELEASE ✨ 🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Some wildflowers from around the hills today.

It’s the last day of the Narratess Indie August sale! Death’s Disciple is discounted on all retailers, including my author website. Plus there are 300+ other titles on sale! indiebook.sale

So yeah like a total dingbat I forgot to sign up to the big Itch-io bundles for the #NarratessIndieSale. But you can still get From the Grave of the Gods for 80% off on Itch-io! I get a much bigger cut (all of it) and you get a DRM-free ebook that's yours to own. alankdell.itch.io/ftgotg 💙📚🪐

#booksky I have a great deal for you! I'm hosting a big indie sale with 320+ fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books. All of them are less than $2, some even free! Will you come check it out? indiebook.sale

Definitely worthy of your money and weekend.

The @narratess.com biannual sale is on! 300+ books by indie authors for $1.99 or less. This year there are various @itch.io bundles as well! Grab a story for the day, a week or a bundle that’ll last you months! 📚💙 indiebook.sale Moral Laundry is available for only $1.99.

Special kind of windy weather tonight above Transilvania.

Newest bloom in the #poisongarden. #aconitumvariegatum #toxinomica 💚🌱☠️

Some fun-gis! 🍄📷