Last year, a group of poets did a reading to support World Central Kitchen. This year, we're doing another reading, this time to encourage people to donate to Amnesty International. Read more about it on my blog: csecooney.com/2026/06/07/p... Or my newsletter: csecooney.substack.com/p/poets-for-...

Bluesky, can you recommend more Black NSFW artists who draw Black characters?

who's going to publish my weird short poem about 7th c. Anglisc garnet jewelry challenge.

44. Tim Pratt, The Wrong Stars. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Got groceries. Put groceries away. Cooked office lunches for this week. Peeled and cut up a cantaloupe.

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal here 👉 zurl.co/Q8eBE #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #Science

Today's activity was accosting strangers with flyers about Citizens Bank, who are involved in funding ICE detention centers. Exhausting but useful.

a poem for ice agents by sappho everyone will remember what you did I say even if you go to another place even in another time everyone will remember what you did

(Relatedly, every time someone has a book coming out--or a short story or an album or a concert or a theatrical production or, IDK, a breakfast cereal--one of their friends says, "WHAT? THAT'S AMAZING, I DIDN'T KNOW!" So keep telling us! The noise of the world is large, keep producing signal!)

To get a better world, build good systems in the cracks, fight back as needed. #zentao

16 very queer and DRM-free books for just $30? Don't mind if I do. Check out the 2026 Pride StoryBundle, featuring Chaz Brenchley, Geoff Ryman, Melissa Scott, JB Lemberg and many others: storybundle.com/pride

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy RAI: I value our friendship a great deal. SERVALAN: [Smiles] Yes. Well? RAI: Senior echelon officers all know that Travis is coming. SERVALAN: But I've made no secret of it. https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/204

my nam is trol and wen i see a skete that dos not tend to me i rant and ror i run amok i am a bor i get the blok

#Booksky Fan of fairytale retellings? Looking for aromantic MCs? Check out Heather Rose Jones’s THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES! Heather @heatherrosejones.bsky.social also has a great podcast on sapphic history and fiction and a sapphic fantasy series, Alpennia! queenofswordspress.com/product/the-...

Thread with links. 🧵 😭

Let the Sunshine In! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIwP...

Short, snappy, and scorchingly hot #lesbian stories that leave nothing to the imagination! Includes "Free Falling"; "Camera," "Wire," and "Toy;" "The Princess on the Rock"; "Place, Park, Scene, Dark"; and "Mo'o and the Woman." #sciencefiction #fantasy #sapphic #wlw amzn.to/3S8yzI1

Day 5 of #PrideBookFair. There are two of our bundles that have hit double digit sales, which means there are still two that need a few more sales to get there. Go pick up one of these two bundles to help them hit that! Bundle 1 - itch.io/b/3675/pride... Bundle 4 - itch.io/b/3678/pride...

A reminder that the animal shelters are really struggling right now. Many of them have wishlists on chewy, Amazon, walmart, your local farm store, etc. Even if you just put a few extra cans of food in your basket or donate old towels & blankets. Donate your time to socialize pets.

Connections will be forged, and queer history will be celebrated during Philly Pride Weekend.

Nicobar Pigeon The Nicobar Pigeon is one of the world's most beautiful pigeons, admired for its shimmering metallic green and blue plumage, long neck hackles, and distinctive appearance. Found on islands from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the western Pacific, related to the DoDo. 📷 R.Sharma

I ate some yummy spring rolls, ran into some folks from the local sf community, and am now watching a martial arts demonstration.

A snowy story for hot days.

Happy Pride Month! Now is a great time to check out my book about a 22yo sapphic noblewoman (who happens to be an incarnate fragment of the goddess of death) who runs away from home with a butch pirate captain! Read SKULLRUNNER here! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSC7MMN8

Hi. Today is my birthday. In lieu of wrapped gifts, I'm asking you to have a look at Mario 101, my project about weird Mario history. And if you have already looked and think it does not suck, please share this link somewhere.

In words still true today, Coretta Scott King repeatedly challenged presidents, Congress & fellow Americans with the moral & economic costs of war: “What kind of country can send billions of dollars on an unjust & immoral war in Vietnam but can only spend a pittance to fight a war against poverty?”

No morning walk because I did many trips up and down stairs for laundry instead. But heading out this evening into the heat for a local Dollar Stroll!

Former telepath Talia struggles with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission on an icy planet ruled by a fascist empire, while working to trust her new compatriots. Nonstop adventure! Also available on itch. #specfic #sf #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky books2read.com/b/rattri

Called the senator who's still wavering [he says] on handing even more of my tax dollars to ICE and Border Patrol. I would like healthcare and housing instead, thank you. And not the kind of "housing" provided by ICE.

It is that time of year again. The 2026 Pride Storybundle contains 16 DRM-free books which can be yours for just $30. And it contains a wonderful book by our very own Chaz Brenchley. Full details at: storybundle.com/pride. The offer runs from June 3 to July 2

The newbie's going to have to learn fast and not die. Former telepath Talia struggles with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission on an icy planet, and working to trust her new compatriots. Breathless adventure! #specfic #sf #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky books2read.com/b/rattri

#Philly has lost an icon. #philadelphia billypenn.com/2026/06/02/m...

#Philly Live Free Philly's Interfaith Vigil at Moshannon Valley Detention Center on June 18: www.eventbrite.com/e/live-free-...

Getting my #covid booster today!

June 14, 2026: Rise Up, Sing Out! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Morning walk.

#Philly has lost an icon. #philadelphia billypenn.com/2026/06/02/m...

‪🧪 I've posted a comment to tinyurl.com/yu625nt4 to explain why Russell Vought's proposal (OMB-2026-0034) for the Office of Management & Budget to #destroy #scientific #research SHOULD NOT be approved. Plz add a comment there too. Info: tinyurl.com/3f54y392 tinyurl.com/ymvvasjz tinyurl.com/392ynecp

Book industry friends: HELP it seems that I’m unfortunately in the position of having to go out and find a goddamn agent. Anyone have any suggestions for someone who specializes in weird not-obviously-commercial horror-type stuff? I have no idea what the landscape is anymore

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal VILA: No planets? Then what's that, a cosmic conjuring trick? AVON: [Turns to look at screen] Zen, is that a planet? https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/165

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

If you're looking for a place to share your writing updates, post character art, ask questions about publishing, join itchio bundles, or simply dazzle us with pictures of animals - then join my community Discord! 1200+ members and gen AI is NOT permitted. 🥰 Invite link in my profile! [ #booksky ]

Morning walk.

The newbie's going to have to learn fast and not die. Former telepath Talia struggles with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission on an icy planet, and working to trust her new compatriots. Breathless adventure! #specfic #sf #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky books2read.com/b/rattri

General anesthesia is a product of the mid-19thC. Ancient Roman surgeons used powdered opium or powdered mandrake in wine, w/Memphitic stone & henbane seeds for a local anesthetic. But a new article looks at use of aconitine (=wolfsbane🪻) in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Residue analysis + histmed.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

On this first day of Pride Month, we share the lesson "Teaching the Fight for Queer Liberation" by Nick Palazzolo, a Philadelphia high school teacher and Zinn Ed Project Prentiss Charney Fellow. Art by Caroline Paquita-Kern via @justseeds.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/materials/te...

Morning jog.

Morning walk.

New study on the evolution of primate cognition, brain size, sensory and motor functions, prompted by "recent work showing fishes perform as well as primates on various cognitive tests." 🐟🦍🧪 Great to see such broad comparative perspectives driving research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...