Good advice from Book Moon. Use the tools you have to hand.

Your book in a shop window in Easthampton, MA, @older.bsky.social !

They're going on an adventure, as @aptshadow.bsky.social can attest to...

Hakka mooncake.

The first episode is out now, with @boriscrito.bsky.social talking about data centers and Taínofuturism; the next one, with @thinink.bsky.social about food systems and climate, drops a week from Tuesday! issues.org/category/the...

Reminder that I'm hosting a new podcast at @issuesinst.bsky.social where I basically invited a bunch of my friends who work in really interesting areas and we talk about what they do with a lens of disaster studies and speculative fiction. The conversations have been amazing!

Every. Time.

Now is the time to contact your employers and rally to protect vulnerable colleagues. The administration is demanding that any valid H1-B visa holders outside the U.S. (or their employers) pay $100,000 for them to reenter the country, as of Sunday. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The captain with the golden forehead O Captain, my captain! (... I didn't know what that line came from, but it turns out to be a Walt Whitman poem honoring Abraham Lincoln. Which: good enough! But I like my little captain with the golden forehead)

I've been enjoying rainbows lately myself. bsky.app/profile/jond...

🇧🇷Andorinha-grande 🌎Progne chalybea Conservação:Pouco Preocupante A andorinha-grande é uma ave passeriforme da família Hirundinidae 📷 Adriano Campos

For my citizenship tutee, I'm researching the broadening of the franchise, & it's v. sobering how many backward steps states took & how many holdouts there were., e.g., many states let women vote, then took the right away; some states barred Native Americans from voting until 1957.

"When I was twenty, I married a water buffalo" --first sentence of my flash story, "The Moon in His Eyes." Curious about that marriage? Want to hear the rest? I made a video of me reading it (length: 8 min) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfW...

Come for the wacky promotional video for one of the greatest graphic novels of 2025. Stay for the celebrity picture book cameo at the very end. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/19/c...

I used to follow message-in-bottle stories avidly, and even now they make me happy when I see them.

New issue of NOT ONE OF US is out, w/work by me, @jeannellewrites.bsky.social, Sonya Taaffe, @zaryfekete.bsky.social, Gretchen Tessmer, @bethcato.bsky.social, @rhondaparrish.bsky.social, Aaron Long, Susan Shea, Patricia Russo, & @devanbarlow.bsky.social. Taster: asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/1068497.html

Via @jenwithwords.bsky.social, "Come Alive Again," by @saipradhan.bsky.social "My movement is that of a rising and depressing wave ... If I am an augur, so be it, but need it always be something you fear? I call to you: come alive again." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Reminder for the Wednesday folk: check out our deals on paperback/ebook editions of debuts by @csecooney.bsky.social, @barb.bsky.social & @fluoritewitch.bsky.social — and they also count as preorders of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection, THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES! bit.ly/BoneSwans10th

"Caneleiro" means cinnamon stick! This little guy is the yellow-faced cinnamon stick <3 (In English he's the yellow-cheeked becard .... so what's a becard? Well, the word comes from French, "bec," and is bird term referencing the beak. For New World birds, it's used for flycatchers.)

Something I've been thinking about a lot, lately. You can pick it up here, if you want. I would love it if you did! ghoulish.rip/product/issu...

Yesterday was pub day for my novella collection, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY. I never know how to convince people to buy things so I figured I'd just talk a bit about the three included stories and where they come from, to mark the occasion.

So...guess what I've been doing? It's the story of an ex-harpy, her harpy ex-girlfriend, and some extremely opinionated weaponry. Pastries! Operettas! Complicated friendships! Coming soon to a page or e-reader near you!

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Sabiá pimenta, guardei-as nos meus olhos.

We got a grant from Accelerate Resilience LA for 2026!!! We'll have news about what we'll do with it in the new year, but for now: Reckoning's payrate increases as of today to 15c/wd, $75/page for poetry and art! Reckoning X closes Sept 22nd, get your subs in now! reckoning.press/arla-grant-2...

SFWA members and Nebula attendees, save the date! September 27th at 11 am Pacific, @csecooney.bsky.social will be the guest poet at the SFWA Quarterly Poetry Open Mic! Read a poem or just listen! @sfwa.bsky.social

Shadow spy. #art

Undead Warrior⚔️ #worldofwarcraft

this is crazy how did they come up with this i am amazed at modern medicine www.today.com/health/men-s...

Sharing for #Caturday 😸 🖼️: www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydh... #cat #art #PleinAir #landscape #artists #SupportArtists #KidLitArt #illustration

Went to see Bread and Puppet Theatre perform last night. The show was "The Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress." At one point some of the performers were costumed as sheep. "Doggies!" said a little kid near me. "Moo! Moo!"

He doesn't sound particularly melancholy. More like insistent. I wonder how he got his scientific name (Tyrannus melancholicus)

A melancholy tyrant.

The end of the linked post links to another Tamra Maew in the Library of Congress, which contains this excellent cat:

This article is just happymaking. And I know a lot of people could use a moment's respite today. I think eyes "lit like fireflies, applied liquid gold" applies pretty well to my cat. publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after Supreme Court panel convicts him of attempting coup.

good whistle!

I came for the frog saunas, and stayed for the dick-punch to capitalism:

You guys. It’s… it’s the Mary Todd Lincoln

Wonderful story of finding your way to freedom in spite of immense constraints. Kind of like murderbot if instead of hacking your governor module, you found loopholes in it. Really delightful.

“Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site Tuesday in the Park Avenue neighborhood after being confronted by more than 100 protesters.” www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

fixed it for you, Google

excellent. MORE OF THIS.

And of course it's not just hobbies, walk the floor of any science fiction or wander around any ren faire and see how many small businesses are getting absolutely fucked by this nonsense

Rainbow Starfall