Britt Kaufmann
@brittwriter.bsky.social
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playwright, poet, educator, avid reader (esp sci-fi) brittkaufmann.com
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Introducing myself as an Indiana writer who is looking for a Northern Indiana writing community. While I've published primarily poetry, I read copious amounts of science fiction and am shifting gears to writing in that genre. & I've just made a website page tracking my adventure into a homemade MFA!
8 months ago
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Robert Reich
6 days ago
Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?
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the engine(idling lit
13 days ago
"Despite its name, e(i is anything but idle. the engine(idling is the Big Bang; itās 10,000,000 Scovilles, the plumpest fruit, itās stars and ichor. Itās Artemis, itās mother, itās your lipsticked-Demeter."
meibackof.substack.com/p/magbog-4-t...
Had the best gift today. Contributor Mei Backof ..
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MagBog #4: the engine(idling
Intimate, passionate, ferocious, and undeniably gorgeous, the engine(idling is home to some of the best anthologies of poetry I've ever read. I am so grateful to have been included in their selection!
https://meibackof.substack.com/p/magbog-4-the-engineidling
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Strange Horizons
about 1 month ago
And the winner of the Strange Horizons giveaway is š„
@brittwriter.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who participated! We always love hearing about your love for what we publish!
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Would love to have some of yāall pop in out of the clear blue sky to one of these IRL events.
about 2 months ago
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Had to update the graphic because Midlife Calculus has also won āget thisāthe McMath Award for Poetry! I will laugh every time at how perfect that is.
3 months ago
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
3 months ago
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction!! ššæš³š¬šŗšøš¤ Sighā¦wow. š„¹
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No joke. I imagined tiny armor-clad people scribbling in their journals at a tavern table.
#weeknightwriters
3 months ago
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Despite the absolute dumpster fire that is this Januaryā¦ this also happened!
4 months ago
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Indiana beating Alabama is so dumbfounding, Bluesky algorithms have concluded it must be basketball.
5 months ago
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
6 months ago
This line š->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks."
brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
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Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Named TIME Must-Read Book of 2025
Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel Death of the Author has been selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, adding another major recognition to Okorafor's growing list of honors. The me...
https://brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nnedi-okorafors-death-of-the-author-named-time-must-read-book-of-2025/
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The Public Domain Review
7 months ago
Happy
#JellyfishDay
! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp...
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckels-jellyfish
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Purple first on a 5/5 difficulty day! Iāll take it.
7 months ago
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They didn't just call them iBabbleFish?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...
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The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/technology/personaltech/new-airpods-language-translation-feature.html
8 months ago
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Just finished this book by
@yarntheory.bsky.social
and highly recommend it. You will be transported and better equipped to live in these times.
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Introducing myself as an Indiana writer who is looking for a Northern Indiana writing community. While I've published primarily poetry, I read copious amounts of science fiction and am shifting gears to writing in that genre. & I've just made a website page tracking my adventure into a homemade MFA!
8 months ago
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deep breath. rest. then get back at it.
9 months ago
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The New Yorker
10 months ago
āSmall children from poor or middle-class families who watch āSesame Streetā do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,ā Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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The Invention of āSesame Streetā
Renata Adlerās 1972 review of the program that revolutionized childrenās television.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1972/06/03/cookie-oscar-grover-herry-ernie-and-company?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Rae Radford
10 months ago
#BookSky
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The Dangling Participles
12 months ago
The āOrigin Storyā for Austinās song āWhere It Gets Excitingā involves David Bowie, John Lewis, andā¦ JJ Redick? Yes, really!
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Where It Gets Exciting
An Origin Story
https://open.substack.com/pub/austinkaufmann/p/where-it-gets-exciting?r=4bnm74&utm_medium=ios
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Leia BlueSkywalker
about 1 year ago
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Fiber optic internet finally restored post-Helene!
about 1 year ago
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Kirsten Eve Beachy
about 1 year ago
Share the names of your chickens!
#GranolaMennonite
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If you need some cheer as much as I doā¦ here ya go!
about 1 year ago
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The Volatile Mermaid
about 1 year ago
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
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Here is me, absolutely giddy and fangirling over
@sarah-hart.bsky.social
signing a copy of her book for me! Iām so fortunate to have gotten to hear her speak at UNCA tonight!
about 1 year ago
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Anyone else feel like Adam Driverās character in The Dead Donāt Dieā¦ you just keep saying, āThis isnāt going to end well.ā
about 1 year ago
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Sure Iāve made soup beans with ham before, but today, for the first time, I used honest-to-pig fatback.
over 1 year ago
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In early celebration of International Day of Women & Girls in Science (Feb 11), Iāll be reading poetry in Sylva, North Carolina with an astrophysics professor!
over 1 year ago
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Rebecca Solnit
over 1 year ago
āYou have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.ā -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis
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A poem from my collection especially for today.
over 1 year ago
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Iām not sure thereās a more beautiful place Iāve had a reading than Bagatelle Books / flora in Asheville. Beautiful people there, too. Iām grateful!
over 1 year ago
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Reading MATH THERAPY by
@themathguru.bsky.social
and got smacked in the face by this quote: āOnce upon a time, you wanted what you have now.ā
over 1 year ago
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Come to Ashevilleāsupport a bookstoreāeat out at a fantastic restaurant afterā¦ win-win+poetry
over 1 year ago
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I highly recommend these workshops Nickole Brown is leading.
over 1 year ago
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First poetry acceptance of 2025!!! Woohoo!
over 1 year ago
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Charlotte Lit
over 1 year ago
Writers: How often should you post on social? Do you really need a newsletter? If one of your 2025 resolutions is to figure out what you can do in the virtual world to support your writing, let
@paulreali.bsky.social
help you sort it out! Register:
charlottelit.configio.com/pd/497/livin...
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Start the new year with some poetry.
#2025goals
over 1 year ago
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Grateful, as I reflect back in 2024, for all the folks who hosted readings on my behalfā¦ and Iāve got a few lined up for 2025 already. Always happy to add more, too.
over 1 year ago
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Bri š
over 1 year ago
Donāt miss
@sciam.bsky.social
ās daily newsletter, today featuring our list of 78 books we read and recommend š
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Midlife Calculus made a 2024 Recommendation List!!!
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over 1 year ago
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Jessy Randall
over 1 year ago
Iām guest-editing a speculative poems issue of Snakeskin,
snakeskinpoetry.co.uk
. Send up to five unpublished poems to
[email protected]
by Jan 1, 2025.
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Charlotte Lit
over 1 year ago
Hi writers, poets, readers, artists, thinking people! Charlotte Litās mission is to celebrate the literary arts by educating and engaging writers and readers through classes, conversations, and community. Join us! We have a full schedule of programs at our website:
www.charlottelit.org
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Charlotte Lit offers craft classes for writers ā in-person in Charlotte and online ā and a variety of free literary arts events for everyone.
https://www.charlottelit.org/
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Can someone tell me an alternative to āskeetā? I just canāt.
over 1 year ago
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Sign up for that workshop youāre thinking about, go to that open mic, pick up the penā¦ write your way out of it.
over 1 year ago
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Sooo do you pronounce
#booksky
as book-sky or book-ski ā¦ personally leaning toward the latter.
over 1 year ago
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Clara š
over 1 year ago
Welcome to the SciFi/Fantasy/SpecFit Book feed! š¦š®ššŖ 1ļøā£ save/pin/heart the feed if you're enjoying it 2ļøā£ repost to help us find more nerds 3ļøā£ use šŖš or ššŖ to post to feed 4ļøā£ add a š to post to the main BookSky feed too 5ļøā£ more niche feeds on my profile (some are NSFW)
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Ellie Johnston
over 1 year ago
In a clear illustration of the insufficiency of the current global climate finance goal of $100 billion dollars per year, the price tag for disasters in the US this year exceeds that amount (and we're just 4% of global pop)
#COP29
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Rebecca Makkai
over 1 year ago
Love fantasy? Join writers Julia Vee, Sofia Samatar, Hemant Nayak, and Meredith Lyons at
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social
ās FREE January genre panel on Jan. 6. Join on Zoomā¦RSVP to save your spot today!
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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Genre Series: Fantasy Edition Panel - StoryStudio Chicago
We're delighted to host a free and open to the public panel of fantasy writers.
https://www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/classes/genre-series-fantasy-edition-panel/
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October was a Helene-fever-dream, so I was started today to discover I had an Amazon/Goodreads review or two for *Midlife Calculus* (Yay!!!)
over 1 year ago
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