If you don’t know what happens next, either have someone fall in a pit or have ninjas attack.

This would put Trump clearly in Hitler territory, beyond Pol Pot, but not yet in Mao or Stalin territory. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

For authors, librarians, booksellers, publicists, & anyone else working on or hosting author events, @penamerica.bsky.social has compiled a downloadable safety checklist. While you're downloading it, think about why we need one & what you can do to help make it obsolete in the future

We'd like to reopen in a brick and mortar format and adopt a shop cat, so we're running a sale on our website. Get 20% off your order with promo code Baltimore at checkout. Pictured is one of two spaces we like a lot for the bookstore. carpelibrumbaltimore.com

Writer J.C. Mastro passed away this week. He was a wonderful friend, writer, and editor. He was brave, joyful, and kind in every part of his life. Below are images of some of the projects I got to be directly or indirectly a part of with him. I admired him so much and will deeply miss him.

This thread is absolutely fantastic and I couldn’t agree with it more.

Here's a cut paper design I made a few years back, celebrating the earth and the seasons. Happy Earth Day! 🌏🍃

Turning and turning in the widening gyre/ The falcon cannot hear the falconer/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…

Gold speckled flatworm: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Arctic seals have regained one of their most important legal protections. A federal appeals court in the US has reinstated nearly 160 million acres of critical habitat for bearded and ringed seals off Alaska’s Arctic coast, reversing a 2024 lower-court ruling. buff.ly/kB0iIYe #ShareGoodNewsToo

It is almost impossible to keep up with the number of things being destroyed in the U.S.

Disgusting: "In a thriving online economy, thousands of people are discussing how to profit from war. They are betting on Ukraine. They were betting on the US-Iran ceasefire – $280m in play. They are betting on whether the US will invade Iran – $7.5m wagered." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I just backed Thyme Travellers 2 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

via @craigtimes.bsky.social ‘God Squad’ exempts entire Gulf of Mexico oil industry from endangered species rules floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/02/g... What GOD are they working for???

NEW: The Water Defenders, the award-winning book on the historic 2017 metals mining ban in El Salvador, is now available as a beautiful graphic novel. “If you’re in need of some inspiration... look no further than this crucial and absorbing account." Preorder now: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Every year I return to this @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social poem on Good Friday, and every year it gets me just the same

Yesterday, as part of National Poetry Month, I introduced my third grade students to Emily Dickinson. Now they want to read poetry. We don't have a lot of poetry in our classroom library. If you would like to help: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

I missed all the children's book discourse today, but here's my advice road-tested across two kids: Just take them to the library and let them choose piles of whatever the hell they want, take them all home, and let them read them. Next week do the same thing. Over and over, pile after pile.

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

My god. Have you ever seen close-ups of sea star skin? 🧪🌊🌿

Sparrowhawk chasing the birds based on an experience in our garden

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Help us raise funds for Sulala Animal Rescue chuffed.org/project/1377...

It’s @tkingfisher.com doing a By the Book! Yay. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Tatyana Thompson said when she became pregnant with her son, her pain from sickle cell intensified. She was repeatedly in the hospital with a sharp pain, which she compared to being cut by a knife. After experimental treatment requiring bone marrow from her brother, she is pain-free. #BlackSky 🌱🙏🏾

Ok. I wrote about the Afroman trial, including this incredible image of him being sworn in on the witness stand.

River otters have staged a remarkable comeback across North America’s Great Lakes after disappearing from many waterways by the 1970s. As apex predators, their return signals cleaner water and healthier ecosystems. Rewilding Magazine buff.ly/E3nOAiq #ShareGoodNewsToo

Scientists just discovered bull sharks have friends

The US just denied a visa to a Tanzanian man coming to visit to remains of his grandfather in the American Museum of Natural History where they're - bafflingly - still held. You can still support him by coming to a free screening of this gorgeous doc about his quest in Manhattan on 3/26!

Philippe Chancel's photos of the Nazi hunting Rockabilly street gangs of 80s Paris.

Scarves! With fairy-tale, Gothic, and fairy-tale Gothic illustrations. These are vast but very very light scarves — they twist up quite small. And there are many available here: www.redbubble.com/people/tanau...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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.”

Good stuff

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!