When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

My beloved novelette Phantom View is a Locus finalist! Wonderful news, especially since it's sharing a ballot with @acwise.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @marthawells.com @nassos.bsky.social @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @hildur.bsky.social & @aimeeogdenwrites.com! Yay all!

TW: medical gaslighting, bloody images As someone who has experienced gaslighting from medical professionals (among others), I found this video cathartic. And the creativity and talent of the artist, Ren, is off the charts. #MECFS #disability #LongCovid #Chronic #pots #Lyme #mentalhealth

Buying direct from authors -or small presses- is a great way to support us. But there isn't a store with everyone's direct links on it so... Direct Sales Thread! Indie Authors, Describe your books, drop a graphic & a link to your direct store/ small press! (eg. Payhip/ Kofi/ Itchio etc) 🌈📚🪐💙🏳️‍⚧️🧠

Please consider helping Anna, who is going through some pretty horrific stuff. She's provided details of how to help in her post, below. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

We post people are who are struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions/groceries in the Black Community. It’s cleared the goals of 240+ people so far. We’re trying to get faster to help more people per day, so please follow & repost.

Please consider helping Anna, who is going through some pretty horrific stuff. She's provided details of how to help in her post, below. Reposting because I forgot the hashtags. #ME #MECFS #LongCovid #disability #abuse www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Please consider helping Anna, who is going through some pretty horrific stuff. She's provided details of how to help in her post, below. Reposting because I forgot the hashtags. #ME #MECFS #LongCovid #disability #abuse www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Please consider helping Anna, who is going through some pretty horrific stuff. She's provided details of how to help in her post, below. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Sorry to everyone who was following me for the art I was posting each day. I've been away from social media for personal reasons for several weeks now & pop back rarely. Not yet ready to get back to posting art daily because it draws me in & I get too stressed. But maybe you'll like my chilled cat?

I LOVED your book, The Tea Master and the Detective, @aliettedebodard.com & A Sorceress Comes to Call, @tkingfisher.com & The List of Suspicious Things, @jenniegauthor.bsky.social & Someone You Can Build a Nest in, @wiswell.bsky.social & Uprooted, @naominovik.bsky.social Thank you all!

Our 7-month-old kitten saw a bug above the doorframe and just HAD to get it.

Having several very bad days, so posting 'Today's art' has been hit and miss, and likely to be for some time. Sorry, everyone.

Today’s art: the song ‘My Silver Lining’ by the Swedish indie folk duo First Aid Kit. ‘I hear a voice calling Calling out for me These shackles I’ve made in an attempt to be free Be it be reason, be it for love I won’t take the easy road’

Today’s art: 2 very long, exhausting days (but learned a huge amount!), so a re-post.

Today’s art: this photo taken by my partner, with a gorgeous, luscious, vibrant moss green. I love his artistic creativity!

Today's art: The Jelling stones in Denmark. The larger has a stylised image of Christ using a ribbon-like design motif. Raised by Harald Blátönn (Bluetooth) in memory of his parents, King Gorm & Thyra, it celebrates Harald converting the Danes to Christianity. The smaller is carved with runestones.

Today's art: final day of a month of Black, LGBTQ+, early career, etc., authors - 'The Dragonfly Sea', by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Described as a lyrical story of love & loss, with a travel & adventure story that is much more, this book seems to be a work of introspective character development.

Today's art: The trans memoir 'She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders', by Jennifer Finney Boylan.

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

Today's art: The graphic novel 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me', by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, about an on-again, off-again teen lesbian relationship.

Today's art: The memoir 'Black Boy', published in 1945 and about racism, by Richard Wright. The book describes Wright's life growing up in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee because he moved to Chicago.

Today's art: The award winning sci-fi novella 'The Tea Master and the Detective', by Aliette de Bodard, described to me as a Sherlockian, Asian space opera. Got this for my birthday, and I can't wait to finish the current books I'm reading to begin this one!

Today's art: The 2019 graphic memoir 'Gender Queer: A Memoir', exploring gender identity and sexuality, by Maia Kobabe.

I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me. It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion. It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care. Listen to disabled people.

Today's art: The dystopian novel 'The Marrow Thieves', by Cherie Dimaline. A novel with Indigenous Canadian protagonists, about global warming, dreaming and madness.

Today's art: The coming-of-age novel 'Man o'War', about an Arab American trans swimmer growing up in a small town in Ohio, by Cory McCarthy.

Today's art: The award-winning novel 'Darius the great Is Not OK', by Adib Khorram, about an Iranian-American teenage boy who travels to Iran when his maternal grandfather gets very ill.

Today's art: The Memoir 'Being Jazz: My Life As a (Transgender) Teen', by Jazz Jennings. She wrote the book when she was 15, and it's seems to be a good resource for other trans children and teens, reminding them they're not alone.

Today's art: The graphic novel 'Flamer', by Mike Curato, which deals with toxic masculinity, homophobia, suicide ideation and struggles of identity.

Today's art: The award-winning sci-fi novel 'The Fifth Season', by N.K. Jemisin. My son has recommended this post-apocalyptic tale, the first novel in the Broken Earth series, about catastrophic climate change and much, much more.

Today's art: The historical YA novel 'Out of Darkness', by Ashley Hope Perez. Set in 1937 Texas, the novels tells the story of a Mexican girl attracted to a Black boy. It deals with racism, classism, segregation, love, family and those living on the margins of society.

Today's art: 'There Are Rivers in the Sky', by Elif Shafak. Got this book for my birthday, and very much looking forward to reading it!

In these busiest shopping weeks of the year, with everyone under horrible pressure over money, job security etc, try to be nice to retail staff (who likely have unreasonable sales targets from HQ to make up for a lousy retail year). Far too many stressed customers will behave appallingly right now.

I’m reading ‘Maus: A Survivor’s Tale’, by Art Spiegelman. In it, a man interviews his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew during WWII. I’ve just come to the part where the father is taken to Auschwitz & his expensive gold watch is confiscated. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you should read it.

Today's art: The dystopian novel 'Coldwire' by Chloe Gong.

Today's art: the graphic novel 'Bingo Love', by Tee Franklin, and Joy San and Jenn St-Onge (illustrators). A story of forbidden love between two girls / young women, spanning generations, with their story as older protagonists told. Good to see these demographics represented.

Today's art: 'Ocean's Blood', by the lovely Thelma Mantey. Very excited about this novel!

People need to be aware of Farage's own words about Kent's council and Reforms failure there AND remember when the election comes.

Today's art: 'Parable of the Sower', by Octavia Butler. Still so relevant.

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

As an author who understands who the Luddites were, this book looks promising.

Today's art: the horror novel 'Hazelthorn', by CG Drews. This sounds like such a good read!

Today's art: 'Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters and Remembrances', by Kwame Alexander. I have high hopes for this look at navigating relationships through the author's personal experiences.

For #Caturday (just), Indy's chilling in the hallway, without a care in the world.

Today's art: the middle-grade novel 'Ghost Boys', by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Jerome, a young Black boy from Chicago, is shot & killed by a police officer who thinks Jerome's toy gun is real. It includes the character of Emmett Till as a ghost, & deals with themes of racism & socio-economic injustice.

Today's art: The sci-fi comic 'Monarch', by Rodney Barnes and drawn by Alex Lins, about orphaned city children who find a foster family and have to fight to save it.

Today's art: 'The Poet X', by Elizabeth Acevedo. I remember hearing about this book some time ago, and I'm looking forward to reading it.

Today's art: 'Gabi, a Girl in Pieces', by Isabel Quintero.

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.