Tashan Mehta's THE MAD SISTERS OF ESI (Calvino-esque (reductive) meta galactic fantasy), Ursula Whitcher's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON (exoplanetary sf mosaic novel, rich in political/cultural verisimilitude), Deena Helm's OUR CUT OF SALT (heartbreaking Palestinian haunted house story, not out yet).

Agus tá an ponc damanta úd ar an 'i' arís! Le heisceacht an 'l', tá na litreacha eile an-chosúil le 'Ceanannas', cló a dhear @evertype.bsky.social.

"Same sex sexual behaviour in primates may be a survival strategy and part of the evolutionary fabric." www.livescience.com/animals/land...

If Canada joins the EU it will force a great many businesses in the US to improve their food standards.

🎄 En esta versión del himno navideño sobre el aguinaldo - Ya viene la vieja - Maribel «Elenya» mantiene el espíritu de ésta arraigada costumbre con nuevos protagonistas: hobbits y menciones a los árboles del legendarium. 🎼 #Tolkiencicos #Navidad2025

Bele wishes you a Glad Solstice ☀️

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

In a letter to the editor, a reader warns that proposals to deny welfare to EU citizens with Settled Status are not only morally wrong – they’re legally indefensible. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Westminster politicians with nae clue about Scotland lecturing me on how to integrate, when this place is home to me and alien to them, when they come to Scotland twice a year to do a photo ops with a can of Irn Bru somewhere in frame. Piss off, I'm right where I should be.

"Farage doesn't like Britain" is a far cry from the desperately needed rebuttal to Farage's poisonous racism. By engaging in the far right's ultranationalist rhetoric of blind love of country, Starmer is kicking the door wide open to Reform Government without meaningful opposition.

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time. Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th. Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.

Oh please let Miss Piggy be a Tellarite, oh please oh please 🐷🚀

Absolute scenes

I attended a talk by @evertype.bsky.social last weekend at the annual @soctolkien.bsky.social convention, and from the images alone I just knew the text in that screenshot would mention him somewhere 😄

#Gaelic #Hobbit #Ghàidhlig EEEEEEEEEE! www.gaelicbooks.org/explore-the-...

@evertype.bsky.social some excitement...

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

#starmer confirms he is a moron, trapped by his own stupid rhetoric

I hope my friends in Poland have no illusions about this administration. No matter how much you praise them or speak kindly, they will still attack you the moment you have even the slightest disagreement.

“Zelenskyy found himself ambushed by Trump and his serpentine vice-president, JD Vance. He was expected to sit back and take a beating from Nurse Ratched and Miss Trunchbull. He refused”. Superb piece by David Smith. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Resist!

Píosa staire @evertype.bsky.social

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

Look at this. Look at the swathes of Scotland to be run by English registered and funded political parties. With #ScottishIndependence, we won't have any. Instead, every politician in Holyrood will represent Scots and Scotland.

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

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Holy shit this cartoon.

I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky "EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Gift link: ‘This Is a Dangerous Virus’ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

I'm going to piggyback on this and say: My book about first and last words, coming out soon, is resonant with these myths. So at the surface, the book's about intimate things, small things. Language seems soft, I get it. But the book's also about existence and time--exactly what Alex calls for.

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Executive orders 🧵

A sad farewell to the great artist David Lynch. 🦉

It's very obvious now that the only capital investments Westminster will make in Scotland are those which boost the extraction of Scottish resources. It's almost as though they expect us to become independent & are trying to squeeze as much out of us as they can before we leave.

Predictably on frucking time. Westminster. #YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Tangut character meaning 'person' 𘓐 is written with 11 strokes, compared with just 2 strokes for the corresponding Chinese character (人), but in cursive Tangut script it is much simpler and quicker to write, as in this example showing the cursive forms of the two characters 𘈩𘓐 'one person'

Yep.

Reports coming in from New York that the Statue of Liberty has just put down her torch and is walking back to France.

Canadians are already in California to help: water bomber planes & firefighters. Canada still not 51st state, though (and never will be). www.24heures.ca/2025/01/08/d...

Richard Painter: "We now bury the most ethical president of the 20th Century, Jimmy Carter. Let us not also bury our democracy in the 21st Century."