"I mean, it's fine as long as you don't care if you never get published."

This is the sky the gods smother you with when they're sick of your bullshit. #SkyPortrait

My first weathergram! On scratchy brown paper. Today's too windy for me to get a photo of it in action, but it's been installed on the porch.

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sunrise this morning. Cascade foothills. Have a beautiful day. 🧡

Fallen big maple leaves hung in the little maples.

For the first time in 60+ years, the Uncle Sam sign in Chehalis, Washington says something factual: "Native Land." www.facebook.com/thecentralia...

I quit Canvas this semester, print out readings for my students, and we're doing great!

Silent and beautifully eerie Constitutional puppets by @puppetresistance.bsky.social at yesterday's #NoKings

Relics of Ruin won the Endeavour Award?!?

Please observe my color-coordinated autumn trail buddies.

Frogtifa

Today I had my first-ever in-person #calligraphy lesson and I came prepared with all kinds of verses in my head to inscribe and instead I spent two hours making o's and e's and s's, and I cannot remember when I have felt so mentally exhausted.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

In the age of ChatGPT, I find I have come to value the sort of student paper where Odysseus comes home to Icarus.

What's your sign?

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Love these. And this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3IP...

Oh, fine, whatever, make me like fall.

The mountain Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after unanimous parliamentary vote. By treating it as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/5xnPDqm #ShareGoodNewsToo

Gift link Fantastic to see Sun Day getting so much press!! Thank you @billmckibben.bsky.social for keeping this front and urgently center! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

North Cascade Range in Washington USA www.facebook.com/100068245939...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

It's on. explore.org/fat-bear-week

So what’s the verdict? I am an ✨🍂AUTUMN🍁✨

"He saw the harpist's face go suddenly still, as if the wind had snatched in passing its expression and breath. The uncertainty ended in him like a song's ending." Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master trilogy. (Buying secondhand as and when you find them, you don't have the luxury of matching sets.)

This is what the surface of a comet looks like. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by ESA's Rosetta mission from an altitude of 16 km.

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: oh please all of them Best ice cream: lemon Best donut: maple bar Best bar: Nanaimo Best cake: chocolate Best other: pear butter shortcake

🪐💫 AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD is out now! @solarisbooks.bsky.social It's a standalone space opera set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars. I hope you'll love Page, Maelle, Dalya & the Storyteller! September 9th: 📱🎧 Ebook & audiobook 📖 US/Canada paperback September 11th: 📖 UK/Europe paperback

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

Spent my childhood wondering what a Bielsi Bubble was (some social sciencey thing, like a Kinsey Report?), and not until today after putting on the #Broadway #Camelot album for a road trip did I discover the thing Mordred does not want burst is his Beelzebubble.

A really happy outcome of writing a book about the conglomeration of publishing and the response of nonprofit and independent publishing would be if it helped even a just little bit to get any smart young people working at small presses

This is why academic fantasy where people are doing their homework on “parchment” and crumpling it up when things go badly makes me crazy.

The Roadless Rule does a huge amount to protect wild areas against wildfires, the vast majority of which begin near roads. It's super easy to leave a comment urging them to keep the Roadless Rule and protect against fires. Comments like this make a big impact! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...

China built the solar-powered equivalent of a coal plant every 8 hours in May. That’s just one of the standout solar stats @billmckibben.bsky.social highlighted in our recent webinar with @sundayofaction.bsky.social:

Between SO FAR GONE by @jesswalter.bsky.social and THE PLACE OF TIDES by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social, it appears my favorite genre this summer is "no it's not gonna work for you to run off the grid."

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Mechanic: Are you doing anything exciting this weekend? Grocery Cashier: Are you doing anything exciting this weekend? Bookstore Clerk: Are you doing anything exciting this weekend? Me: God, I hope not.

A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Bad call picking a fight with the sun.

Time for another giveaway! 🎉 @fiercereads.bsky.social has 50 print copies of A BARISTA’S GUIDE TO LOVE & LARCENY up for grabs on Goodreads. If you’re ready for autumn and want some cozy fantasy vibes in your life, enter to win an advance copy of my debut novel from now until Sept 22! Link in bio ✨

The very best part about edits is looking at a solid tip someone gives me and realizing I can square it. Yes yes yes and ALSO... #writingcommunity

anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately

So well deserved!

There are currently wildfires in every province of Canada. My cousin on Vancouver Island had to evacuate from his home late last week. It's been messing with my head, as someone who grew up in B.C., to think of that normally rainy place burning. A CURSE on petrocapitalists & their cronies.

apple news: we are in full-on fruit-drop season now.

NO, autocorrect. I am writing about actual apple news, not Apple News.

Moonrise pup.