I learned so much about the fiber arts at the Garden State Sheep Breeders' 30th Annual Sheep & Fiber Festival! Read my article for @communitysentinel.bsky.social to decide if these underappreciated art forms are for you. communitysentinel.media/2025/09/27/f...

If you needed some good news today: Delaware officially enacted House Bill 119, the Freedom to Read Act, yesterday. www.everylibrary.org/win_delaware... via ‪@everylibrary.bsky.social‬

en*gendered reopens SEPTEMBER 1st!

#NBPD officer fatally shot a 68-year-old woman on August 8. Our #NewJersey correspondent attended yesterday's council meeting. #NewBrunswick #PoliceReform #MentalHealth

Last night, New Jersey residents packed the New Brunswick City Council Meeting to demand justice for the recent death of Deborah Terrell, who was fatally shot by police on Aug. 8. Read about it through my article for @communitysentinel.bsky.social here: communitysentinel.media/2025/08/21/d...

What do YOU know about eels?! @wowthanks.bsky.social asked some Indy Hall members and also our buddy Clear, who works next door. One thing's for certain: You need more eel facts. Get 'em at EelFacts.Net #EelReels

I finally posted the piece I wrote for the Polar Lights Zine this year. You can read it on tumblr or my website. If you haven't gotten the zine yet, I recommend checking it out. It's full of beautiful art and short stories, and supports the ASOC. nlg743.tumblr.com/791451068280... asoc.org

I wrote for @communitysentinel.bsky.social about the AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors Program! Read about the important work that goes into protecting New Jersey's watersheds here: communitysentinel.media/2025/07/10/u...

My latest blog post for the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership emphasizes how every waterway clean-up matters. Check it out here: lowerraritanwatershed.org/green-brook-...

Happy Glorious 25th of May! GNU Sir Terry Pratchett. How do they rise up? #Glorious25th #Discworld #TruthJusticeFreedomReasonablyPricedLove #Speakhisname

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Indie Bites 18: Bards & Bargains is OUT NOW! This issue is absolutely stacked with stories that explore the musical, the magical, and more - grab your copy for free from www.silversunbooks.com/post/bards-b... (paperbacks also available, and this baby is thick!) 🥰

$30K of taxpayers' money, 220 hours were spent on single book ban

this is shaping up beautifully so please keep them coming

The Friends of the New Brunswick Free Public Library held their annual book sale in April and raised about $1,500 for the library. Read all about it in my article for the New Brunswick Today: newbrunswicktoday.com/2025/05/annu...

The Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership's 5K "Run Off" used athletics and art for environmental education. Get all the details here: lowerraritanwatershed.org/inaugural-5k...

"i abandon the bruises." - How To Remember The Painful Parts five poems from Paxton Grey engenderedlitmag.com/paxtongrey

Happy Birthday #TerryPratchett ~ 28th Apr, 1948. “It reached the boat. Long clammy fingers grabbed the side, and a lugubrious face rose level with Nanny Ogg’s. ‘’ullo,’ it said. ‘It’sss my birthday.” (WA) Released today: 🔗 discworld.com/products/new... #TerryPratchettDay #TerryPratchett #Discworld

A poem for Easter Sunday: "Mary Magdalene and the Gardener" from "The Backwater Sermons" by Jay Hulme (@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social). canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978178...

very on theme repost #Art

grey long-eared bat Happy #BatAppreciationDay! #art #sciart 🎨🐾🦊

we want your musings, your tensions, your joys, & your rants the topic is gender & the inbox is greedy

Take action to support Federal Funding for libraries at SaveIMLS.org!

Submit! I still feel honored to have been published here and I highly recommend it.

A new report reveals the vast majority of those demanding book bans are organizations or officials — not individual parents. It’s NOT a parent’s rights movement at all. It’s an astroturf campaign that these orgs are using to gain power over Americans. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The second Trump administration would have us believe that we'll be just as well without. We won't.

#conservation and #ecosystemrestoration depend on volunteers. I had the opportunity to highlight the wonderful work of the Highland Park Native Plant Sanctuary, read about them here (and check out the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership as well): lowerraritanwatershed.org/highland-par...

We open 420, here's the call tacobellquarterly.org/tbq8-call-br...

A legendary librarian, Augusta Baker championed positive Black representation in children’s books, mentored creatives, consulted for Sesame Street, and made history at NYPL and @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social. Thanks to @sc.edu, her legacy lives on. Explore the Augusta Baker Papers: bit.ly/4lbEkyF

POLAR LIGHTS 3 now live! POLAR LIGHTS 3: MIDNIGHT is a digital charity anthology featuring original art and writing from 56 creators. All proceeds benefit the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition. Grab the zine for as little as $2 here: polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-3

Where you can find some of my writing: www.engenderedlitmag.com/daniellebong... www.silversunbooks.com/post/pirates... polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-3 www.ramaponews.com/author/dbong...

Celebration time! Please check out my poem about the northern carrion beetle as well as every other poem, story, and piece of art celebrating Arctic and Antarctic life!

Hey Hey!!! I’ve got a new Weird seaside Cosmic Horror flash piece out today from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!Check out Drown-Haunted if you have a minute :) www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...

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Post your favorite Pokémon, wrong answers only.

Something from last winters road trip to the Sonoran Desert. Cholla Cactus flowers for all the world look like roses.

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

Haven Spec Magazine's Kickstarter is now live! Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

The Trump administration is firing thousands of workers at the National Weather Service and NOAA. The National Weather Service — which provides life-saving forecasts — costs taxpayers just $4/year per person and generates $100B in economic value. This is chaos and destruction for the sake of it.

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

In spite of all the chaos, it's still Wolf Wednesday

The Coop by Danielle Bongiovanni @honeysound.bsky.social is available to download FREE in the latest issue of Indie Bites (Pirates & Prophecies)! www.silversunbooks.com/post/pirates...

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The featured author in our latest issue, Pirates & Prophecies, is Trudie Skies. @trudieskies.bsky.social Read the interview on our website! www.silversunbooks.com/post/pirates...

A lino print I did in early 2021, hoping for a future that still has not come yet. 💀 #BlueSkyArtShow #Art #Abandoned

transition is the most honest thing i ever did for myself

🤐GIVEAWAY!!🤐 I've got an ARC of I Am Made of Death by Kelly Andrew that needs a good home! Repost or quote to enter and I'll pick a random winner on 2/21/25. US only pls! #giveaway #yalit

Today my new Clarkfowler Short "The Kraken King" is live in the latest edition of Indie Bites! Check it out along with seven other amazing short stories and a fantastic interview with Trudie!

Did you read fantasy and dissociate a lot as a child? Do you struggle to make decisions and maintain healthy personal boundaries? If yes, then you might like Pigeon, the main character of my short story "The Coop." Meet him here: www.silversunbooks.com/post/pirates... #writingsky #fantasysky