@franceshardinge.bsky.social Any truth to this?

@franceshardinge.bsky.social You are officially the creator of "one of the [tea] industry's most cherished sayings"

THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (Amulet/Abrams) by @franceshardinge.bsky.social‬; illus. by Emily Gravett will receive a starred review in the September/October 2025 #HornBookMagazine. Congratulations! #HBMag #HBStars www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

A lovely start to the month! Island of Whispers (my first collaboration with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) has won the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Awards! www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...

By the way, reporting it as a 'fake profile' doesn't appear to work since it demands to know what my real Facebook account is, and doesn't seem to accept other URLs any more. But reporting it as 'scam, fraud or false information' does seem to work.

Mythopoeia is a subgenre of speculative fiction where the author develops fictionalized or artificial mythology. This year, The Mythopoeic Society honors @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @amiekaufman.bsky.social, Minsoo Kang, & Stefan Ekman! hardcover.app/@liashl/list... @mythsoc.bsky.social

Ooh, a new @franceshardinge.bsky.social book is coming! www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...

From May/June #HBMag Special Issue: Perception and Reality "#HBRealityReimagined: The Paint" by @franceshardinge.bsky.social : "[T]hemes that matter to me tend to creep into my stories from the darkened corners" www.hbook.com/story/realit...

I'm utterly delighted to reveal that Island of Whispers (one of my collaborations with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) is on the shortlist for the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards! mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

@franceshardinge.bsky.social www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/06/01/o...

@franceshardinge.bsky.social This made me think of you

Another reminder that this delightful thing is apparently taking place next year: www.facebook.com/profile.php?... I am referring to it as the 'Conference of Me', and it is accepting submissions of papers! The deadline is September, and here is the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@franceshardinge.bsky.social You are now quoted in every annual International Tea Day article. Your fame shall never die. www.business-standard.com/lifestyle/in...

A starred review in Kirkus for #TheForestOfAThousandEyes, my second collaboration with the wonderful Emily Gravett! "Sumptuous worldbuilding and deft plotting make for a harrowing dystopian story that nonetheless thrums with hope." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

A lovely starred review of The Forest of a Thousand Eyes in @PublishersWkly! www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4197-7...

While out walking, spotted two different discarded lemons with string tightly wound round them and trailing ends. I'm just going to assume that the local streetfighting scene is a lot weirder than anticipated.

It's also one of the world's richest and most powerful corporations stealing from (and potentially destroying the livelihood) of thousands of solo professionals, many of whom already have trouble making a living from the work into which they pour their hearts. It's ruthless, cynical and sickening.

So it looks like most of my books (and foreign editions in seven languages) are among the millions that #Meta has stolen in order to train its AI. This is piracy and theft, and I'm not even US-based so there's nothing I can do about it. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #AI #Booktheft

A revolving bookcase with a hidden stairway behind it, so that unsuspecting guests could stumble upon my secret alchemical laboratory, full of weird equipment and tomes. Lots of tomes. Some of them chained to the wall and sporting visible teeth.

Bring back art deco trains. I had to take an Amtrak across country and was devastated to find it a glorified bus. No richly upholstered interiors, no first-class dining cars. I did not solve a single murder. How far we have fallen.

Hat tip to @alanferrier.bsky.social.

“Don’t believe the career experts who showed their work. Believe the partisan idiots with an agenda who won’t show their ‘proof’”

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Private companies that sell data that NOAA provides the public for free - as a public good/necessity - have been gunning for NOAA for decades.

Some CDC stuff is down too. The Adult Vaccine Assessment Tool produces a 404. www2.cdc.gov/nip/adultimm...

So all NIH websites appear to be down.

We weren't the only ones launching an economic blackout it seems

Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately.

49% of Troy was like "they tried to kill us yesterday" but 51 were chanting HORSE! HORSE! really loud

Personally I’d rather rich people and corporations just pay their fair share of taxes

They’re disassembling the government so that very very rich people can keep their tax cut.

The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;

Now *this* is a sense of humour in adversity.

Health interventionist thread - This is how I predict next year's flu vaccine & flu season will go, with resulting long-term fallout:

What the FDA will likely do is produce *something* - just not a vax that includes strains chosen based on the committee & WHO's reasoned input. 🔹️They'll throw darts at a board, & the vax won't be a good match (it's tough to get it right even *with* annual input), but folks will think "see,... 1/5

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

A lot of people are going to die from this

This was written about in project 2025

This is Valentino. He is a senior pup who was spotted by a photographer while on a walk in the streets of Italy, and we can see exactly why a photoshoot was necessary. 12/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

Pushback from the American people is “stressful” for poor King Musk. Let’s dial it up. #TeslaTakedown today in Knoxville, 1 PM EST, West Town Mall. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...

BREAKING: The Democratic Party is suing the Trump administration over Trump's claim to be the ultimate decider of executive branch law. They say this would prejudice them before historically indepdendent bodies like the FEC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

I'm reminded of a quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of satirical fantasy novels yet again. "When Reacher Gilt talks about freedom, he means his, not anyone else's." Going Postal, Discworld #33

“Don’t you agree, then, that it’s time for a ruler who listens to the people?” “Maybe. Which people did you have in mind?” - From “The Truth: A Discworld Novel” by Terry Pratchett #altgov #freespeech