With fewer than 700 residents, Kingsbury, Texas, is a little utopia. It’s largely thanks to advocacy led by the arts organization Habitable Spaces, which has worked for years to create “a nexus between artists and farmers.”

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cool local merch alert www.instagram.com/p/DVrp4Qhj34...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Godspeed, Bernard LaFayette

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

1) In one of the most personal (and, IMO, one of the most important) essays I have ever published, I wrote in @literaryhub.bsky.social on Jesse Jackson's LGBTQ legacy and what he meant to me regarding Black manhood, being born "illegitjmate," and practing love in America lithub.com/jesse-jackso...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's family has a GFM to cover burial costs and help stabilize family finances following his death

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title! WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS Yes, *all* And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think... I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

'Shangri-La' When the blizzard leans hard against the windows and the world turns white and wild, I think of hidden valleys, quiet skies and a better world. If we can’t leave, we can imagine. If we’re snowed in, we travel inward and dream. Paradise isn’t found. We make it. Stay warm/safe!

My next read. Why Sharks Matter by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...

We need more movies like Labyrinth where it’s initially unclear why it was made and who it was made for

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973. During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

Science + Art appreciators, we need your help! We're working with the E. Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood! We need your help to fund this project givebutter.com/KenzoMural Here's why this is important ⬇️

last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.

I could not agree more.

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

With one now-deleted video, Virginia Johnson, CEO of Anytime Author Events, appears to have set off a furious reaction among romance readers and authors - which is almost impressive considering the number of events that are potentially involved.

“Terminated USAID funding has also resulted in more than 164,000 additional child deaths from pneumonia, 125,000 additional child deaths from diarrhea, 70,000 additional adult and child deaths from malaria, and 48,000 additional adult and child deaths from tuberculosis.”

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I'm getting out of the hospital today and I could use some help, if you're able. Even taking the time to check it out or share means more than I can say. gofund.me/1c96e422c

message from MN

Georgia O’Keeffe, Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt

Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*. And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology. Don't submit to this one, folks.

When I saw pictures of Liam Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to support Liam and groups helping other immigrants like him. ❤️💪🐇

Oh I've been looking for this. 32 songs about what's happening in Minnesota. From @minnpost.bsky.social. Get beyond The Boss. www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...

Honestly, hard to watch the video for "Streets of Minneapolis." Seeing the last weeks all together here, the video clips and photos ... is a lot. It's really well done, but also awful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

My neighbor, a single mother of two in South Minneapolis, was abducted today and everything about it is heartbreaking. There is an immediate (and steep) financial need for lawyer costs. I know there are so, so many of these right now, but please consider this dear family: gofund.me/9516b14f7

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

If you’re from the U.S., please call your reps to oppose.

Imigongo, Rwandan art form traditionally made by women, with red, black and white geometric designs painted on walls, pottery, tiles and canvas #WomensArt .

This guy is the patron saint of everyone with anxiety.

This book is so good. Funny. Furious. Awesome characters. I don’t know how to say what I loved the most without spoilers, so please just read it so you can feel as satisfied as I do right now.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

The WHO just released new data showing the number of people exposed to trachoma worldwide has fallen below 100 million, down from over 1.5 billion in 2002, signalling an extraordinary reduction in the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. buff.ly/oIz8Mc9 #ShareGoodNewsToo

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

It was inevitable.

Humble brag moment. 😊 Both Enchanted Tales & Twisted Lore (#13) and Once Upon A Twisted Time (#15) made the Top 25 Fiction Books of the Year! Congrats to the all of the authors and editors! @katharinedow.bsky.social @jeremiahdylancook.bsky.social @marisawolf.bsky.social @melissaolthoff.bsky.social

strongly recommend involving witness. their work is invaluable. check out/share this training. cc @samgregory.bsky.social

I’m picking these valentines up from the printer tomorrow and will be shipping them all week! Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines. As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social Get em at SquidFacts.net

The way I've started modelling it is competing "moral-epistemic systems", where the creation of knowledge through VDA processes are bound to moral judgements. I use a model called moral-epistemic stacks to show how each layer is dependent on the next:

I was today-years-old when I learned that bloodworms are the only animals that make their teeth out of copper: www.livescience.com/bloodworms-f...

"Ike Muringai, a Black Deaf man who's beloved in the Minnesota Deaf community, was snatched by ICE and is currently being held at the El Paso Immigration Detention Center, far from home and with little or no access to ASL interpreters." gofund.me/b45791acd

Conservationists in the Seychelles have achieved the first successful artificial incubation of Aldabra giant tortoises, hatching 52 young on Silhouette Island. The breakthrough offers new tools to boost wild populations of one of Earth’s oldest species. buff.ly/hK9ps7r #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is one hell of an obit. > After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession... he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities.