Friday the 13th #SkyPortrait with blurry airplane. Retouched to try to get the shade of the sky right, but no joy. It was paler, like a cloth faded in the sun.

In English, it's a bobolink! But this is the female one, not the more recognizable male.

I ran a gofundme recently. It reached its goal! This is NOT that gofundme: this is for a refugee family in Providence RI who lost everything in a housefire AND suffered serious injuries jumping from the burning building. Pls donate/spread the word as you are able! gofund.me/fb253a42d

2/12/26 #SkyPortrait @asakiyume.bsky.social

Real art by real artists

This afternoon’s #SkyPortrait

I was going to @ you with this @tinyantennas.bsky.social , then saw you were the one who reposted it into my timeline!

Uplifting, creepy, cute, brooding - life comes in so many types and flavors. Biome wants stories of every mood! biomespec.wordpress.com #writingCommunity #writeSky #amWriting #scifi #fantasy #fiction #amwriting #biology

Sounds very cool!

@cottonmanifesto.bsky.social And okay, this one had pretty good lighting! (but was shot through my windshield and is kind of tiny, so...)

Here's a portentous #SkyPortrait from yesterday @cottonmanifesto.bsky.social

Yet asst. U.S. attorneys—AUSA used to be an esteemed title—continue to make this frivolous argument over and over in bald-faced arguments in case after case. They’ve been told no many thousands of times. They admit (remarkably) in their filings that they know their arguments are meritless. 15/

And the canon that instructs us to draw understanding of a statute’s meaning from its title. The list goes on. The government’s argument for why it is entitled to strip residents of their due process rights and lock them away indefinitely is easily the most frivolous argument I’ve ever seen. 14/

2/11/26 #SkyPortrait @asakiyume.bsky.social

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

I just love Brazilian names of birds. A bird called fried fish? Why-how-huh? "Surucuá-de-murici" is pretty much pure Tupi: Surucuá comes from the Tupi word "Surukuá," the name for this bird, and Murici, a type of tree, means "small tree" in Tupi. (I have no idea which bird makes this call)

Glacier the skunk is chowing down on an apple in her home at the Cincinnati Zoo. Until 1993, Glacier would have been in Family Mustelidae with weasels & badgers. But molecular evidence showed that her ancestors diverged 60 MYA, so she gets her own family: Mephitidae which means, roughly, "stinky."

Honorable mention 2/10/26 #SkyPortrait @asakiyume.bsky.social

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

Today’s #SkyPortrait : gray. Snow started to fall shortly after I took it. @cottonmanifesto.bsky.social

Here is the Columbia Heights GFM!!! If you would like to do something today, this goes to rent assistance for folks who have been hiding in their homes or, worse, had a breadwinner kidnapped. 💔 www.gofundme.com/f/support-lo...

Gray saucer clouds in a sunset sky yesterday #SkyPortrait @cottonmanifesto.bsky.social

⛰️ art vs artist, but it's all mountains on fantasy maps. 🗺️ #art #ttrpg #cartography #ArtvsArtist #fantasyart

My poem “Haunted,” about the continual displacement of Latinx people, appears in the Amorphaville anthology, available now through Hinchas Press. www.hinchaspress.com/amorphaville

New quote from @zzclaybourne.bsky.social 'sBREATH, WARMTH, AND DREAM: Khumalo to the kids: "Resume explorations. And put nothing in your mouths. Including frogs, no matter what they say."

For reviewers/librarians/booksellers, ARCs of THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES are available for review from Edelweiss: www.edelweiss.plus#sku=19565220... We also have hardcopy ARCs available: feast your eyes on these beauties. If you have an interest in having one, give me a shout. (Photos by Anita Allen)

COVER REVEAL! Mythic Delirium Books is thrilled to share Diana Naneva's stunning cover art 🎨 for THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES: STORIES, the debut collection by Haralambi Markov, w/ intro by @annvandermeer.bsky.social 🎉 Release date July 7; pre-orders are live now! bit.ly/LOKcoverreveal bit.ly/LOKpreorder

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news. theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

Hola y bienvenidos to all my new followers! Thanks for choosing @pedroiniguez.bsky.social’s Latinx spec fic writers starter pack! Here’s my latest fiction, about a bipolar artist with a special power for helping immigrants. Can you spot Tom Homan in there? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...

The picture of that radiating web of surveillance. I HATE it that I can't walk down my street w/out my neighbor's Ring cameras noting it.

Mysterious organisms from the dark - whether in troll caves, on the moons of Jupiter or in the depths of Earth's seas are all welcome at Biome! biomespec.wordpress.com #writingCommunity #writeSky #amWriting #scifi #fantasy #fiction #amwriting #biology

Because those doing the detaining just up and doubt your documents, or they demand ridiculous corroborating documents ("oh, you have a Real ID? How about your birth certificate?") or they don't give you a chance to show them. --When the gov't decides to act illegally, to whom do you appeal?

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Ah, had incomplete link before so re-posting. Absolutely thrilled and honored to see my debut collection, The House of Illusionists, on this list alongside so many amazing books and stories. Congratulations, everyone!! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Ooh... to read!

Belatedly, but it's such a Superb Owl

Oh I didn’t think of that while watching clips. Yeah you wouldn’t see anything with those like 7 foot plants up and he’s walking through them. You’d see the production not the actual show lol

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

he also released a documentary to go alongside the song

¡¡ESO!! ¡¡¡*THIS* is America!!! (And if you're watching this with the sound off, PUT THE SOUND ON!!!)

A #SkyPortrait for 8 Feb @cottonmanifesto.bsky.social

2/8/26 #SkyPortrait @asakiyume.bsky.social

A super bowl featuring a superb owl. CH Brannam Pottery, Barnstaple, North Devon, for Liberty & Co. circa 1900.

"I have to use AI to make art or no one will take me seriously" Punk this is HP Lovecraft's original drawing of Cthulhu

A perfect summary of our moment from armond(dot)needs(dot)rest on IG and Tiktok www.instagram.com/reel/DUU20Vg...

I’m such a sucker for pop art crochet patterns www.etsy.com/listing/4369...

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