"Niki Colemont has photographed red squirrels in the most unusual circumstances – driving cars, shopping for groceries, or even battling dinosaurs. "In carefully orchestrated scenes from forests in Belgium, Colemont frames these ubiquitous wild animals in a whimsical light."

this is the best story I've ever read on what it's like working (as a PRC citizen) in state media in China, and also extremely good on Mongolian ethnic tensions. www.equator.org/articles/the...

The newspaper's 98-year-old co-publisher, Joan Meyer, told the deputies raiding her home (and office) that their conduct was "illegal as hell." She died the next day from cardiac arrest. Frankly, $3 million is not nearly enough #pressfreedom

'Abundance' folks and data wonks won't like this analysis, but, that's the point—this is excellent from Adom Getachew. The knee-jerk 'tack right, tack left' style of commentary misses how broader structures of material power & human complexity shapes political life. www.equator.org/articles/he-...

"Industrial fishing can extract in a day what a small boat might take in a year" Coastal fishing now involves very few fish and very few young people. If this is to change we need to say goodbye to industrial fishing. theconversation.com/governments-...

New Routledge edited book: Public Deliberation in the Digital Age: Platforms, Participation and Legitimacy, ed. Emilien Paulis, Raphaël Kies and Alina Östling www.routledge.com/Public-Delib...

Campaigners commissioned research on low pay with @unitetheunion.bsky.social & held a conference at @qmul.bsky.social. In 2001, the #LivingWage movement was born at a powerful & historic East London Citizens assembly with 1,000 people, MPs & business leaders at York Hall, Bethnal Green.

The #LivingWage movement has grown tremendously over 24 years. Today, it’s responsible for over 475,000 pay rises. How did it begin? In Nov 2000, East London Citizens leaders found that one issue kept coming up again and again: low pay.

Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt

Mamdani's speech was just a banger. Proud, unapologetic, fearless and humble. It finally feels like we are climbing out of the deepest, darkest hole.

Portland, you can rent out the Clinton Street Theater!

The cabin Kerouac lived in with Gary Snyder in The Dharma Bums is maybe a 1/2 mile away. I dragged my carry-on luggage through small, winding streets filled with purring BMWs and Mercedes to get there. I was the only person walking. The shack they lived in was on top of this hill but was torn down.

Good writeup here.

Good night to Ken’s brother, one of the earliest Merry Pranksters.

📻 Ready for Emotional Internet Party with Kevin Sampsell (S1E51) Feels like scribbling a zine while half-watching Portlandia. Collage, small press lore, and soft collapse of internet-era intimacy. open.spotify.com/episode/1UDI...

So grateful to indie lit OG Kevin Sampsell for making SHIT LIST a staff pick in the indie section of @powells.bsky.social

Super excited to announce that we're publishing this super dazzling collab novel by Nate Lippens and @matthewkinlin.bsky.social next year. While you're waiting, you can check out Matthew's new book, fresh from the hands of @filthyloot.bsky.social

To celebrate the birthday of Portland literary legend @monicadrake33.bsky.social, her classic book of short stories is on sale for the rest of the week. futuretensebooks.com/product/the-...

Thanks, Hope! Today is the 2-year birthday of this amazing book by @parkeryoung.bsky.social, btw. 💫💛💛💫

Today, a masterwork is born. Evan Nicholls’s full color book of odd poems and lil’ collages, Easy Tiger, is uncaged! futuretensebooks.com/product/easy...

We love seeing reviews and ratings of our books on Goodreads. For small presses, this is hugely important. Hint hint. 😉

i have a story up at Cleveland Review of Books. it's the title story of my forthcoming collection with @futuretensebooks.bsky.social. the story is about a baby.

We can't wait to publish the new Shane Kowalski {@dieddisappointed.bsky.social} collection, Are People Out There. You can claim your October copy now! futuretensebooks.com/product/peop...

Hello friends. We're in the process of quitting the toxic landscape of tweets and Xs. Please follow us here so we can rebuild in a better social community. Much love, Kevin & Emma and the Future Tense family (which includes Susan, our very popular office manager, pictured below).

According to former mayor Greg Nickels, if Katie Wilson maintains her Friday percentage with the remaining ballots, she will win the Seattle mayoral race by 65 votes. Sixty-five. Out of more than 200,000 cast. @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social mynorthwest.com/seattles-mor...

Thanks for the interest folks ;_; I went ahead and added it to my ko-fi shop for those who want one but can't make it to Portland! ko-fi.com/s/9eb52c0841 #artshop

Folks, I'm teaching Political Behavior and Public Opinion in the Spring and I am looking for 5-6 new(ish) books that would be appropriate for upper level undergrads. Books on race/gender particularly welcome, as are self recommendations. Suggestions?

Animal Conservation is now on Bluesky!! We publish peer-reviewed, quantitative #conservation #science that relates to #animals and their #habitats. Follow us to see what we've published recently, and find out more at zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1469... Photo: (c) Olivier Kaisin

The Blessed Ranieri Frees the Poor from a Prison in Florence, 1437-1444 by Stefano di Giovanni

Aron Wiesenfeld @aronwiesenfeld www.instagram.com/aronwiesenfeld

Guardroom Interior with a Company of Pikemen, card players, and a woman with a child, c.1650-1660 by Anthonie Palamedesz

Représentation de Bellérophon de Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) à l'Académie royale de musique de Paris by école Française du début du XVIIIe siècle

Cinco juguetes, 1920 by Joaquín Torres-García

The Artist's Studio, 1889 by Basile Lemeunier

Mon Atelier by Lucie Attinger (1859-1928)

Two Students in the Life Room of the Heatherley School of Fine Art, 1902 by Nellie Joshua

Isidore Dagnan at his Easel in the Open Air, 1819 by Edme-Adolphe Fontaine

The street Munkegata in Trondheim, Norway, 1861 by Christian Martin Tegner

Low Church Devotion, 1848 by Adolph Tidemand

Woman at the Loom, Gulsvik, 1874 by Adolph Tidemand

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Directed by Peter Weir

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Directed by Peter Weir

Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess, 1555 by Sofonisba Anguissola

Título desconhecido (Coty), c.1917 by Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Título desconhecido (Máquina registadora), c.1917 by Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

The Young Mother, 1658 by Gerrit Dou

Old woman eating porridge near a spinning wheel in an interior, c.1637 by Gerrit Dou

Girl Chopping Onions, 1646 by Gerrit Dou

Santa Catalina de Alejandría, c.1598-1599 by Caravaggio

Flowing memories, 2016 by Radu Belcin www.instagram.com/radubelcin/