What travails they suffer in these mean Portland streets.

Finding what joy we can. 1. Hudson River, seen through a massive tulip-tree. 2. Chicken-of-the-woods mushroom. 3. Orange jewelweed flowers and Solomon’s plume berries. 4. Aster from the rock.

As it turns out, being like "the US is a Nazi state ruled by rich clowns and they're gonna end up throwing anybody who isn't rich in concentration camps" every day since I was like 14 didn't make it any easier to deal with when it happened.

Got a $192 bill for my heart monitor study so now's a good time to remind I take pay what you can design services and art commissions, or you can buy my books directly from my Kofi! ko-fi.com/amarajlynn #writesky #booksky #artsky #commissions

I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV

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Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

There's never been a time in my lifetime when the question "what causes [autism/transness/homosexuality/other scapegoated identity du jour]?" has been asked by a politician in good faith It's always, always about finding ways to justify getting rid of us

Calling antifa and trans people terrorists and ramping up anti-autistic eugenics feels like a personal attack designed to make me go "well, at least I'm white" and cling to that for safety & survival – and I ain't falling for it. Neither should you. "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity."

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

1. Hudson River, with the Catskills beyond. 2. Garter snake. 3. Puffball mushrooms. 4. Hudson River again.

Went to the Yale Peabody Museum today with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. 1. Ediacaran fauna. 2. Deinonychus. 3. Old recipe card. 4. Malachite.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I see people talking about short story collections. There is lots to say on this topic but I will shut my mouth and just say, I have a short story collection! I also love short stories as a art form. bookshop.org/p/books/skin...

Other sights in the woods yesterday. 1. Cardinal flowers. 2. Orange jewelweed. 3. Bluestem goldenrod. 4. Early leaf in the last pool of water left by the drought.

New design available in my threadless shop! Thought I'd get this trans angel in while we are still allowed to say trans. Warrior angel for our times whistberry.threadless.com/designs/tran... If this isn't your vibe, you can browse other designs here: whistberry.threadless.com

Watching Jurassic World Rebirth for the first time. Absolutely hate the retcon that “dinosaurs can’t survive in modern climates,” which gets rid of the most interesting aspect of the World era (dinosaurs roaming freely everywhere). Also, did anyone do any kind of dino research before this movie?

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

Mushrooms, despite the drought. 1. Chicken-of-the-woods. 2. Pear-shaped puffball. 3. LBMs (little brown mushrooms, don’t know what they are). 4. Possibly ochre-banded conk.

Tempted to give up on print and distro sites altogether and just email my poetry book to people.

I hate how ISBNs are so prohibitively expensive in this country that they steer you into the clutches of KDP for lack of any other options.

I hope I can live long enough to see Stephen Miller prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced for his numerous crimes against humanity. I hope we can all see him sniveling and crying as he's taken to prison.

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

It is *obscene* that every single institution is demanding public mourning and praise of a guy who in a previous generation would have been sentenced to death in Nuremburg for that work.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Exciting poetry acceptance! Details in (hopefully) a month or so.

The WSJ should pay every trans person $2,000 just for the shit they pulled yesterday.

Fascists kill normal people: Nothing to see here. Media buries it immediately. Fascists kill each other: The Left will pay for this! Media cracks down on anyone to the left of Nick Fuentes.

I keep seeing people saying the shooter had no coherent political ideology. I agree! See also: the Nazi party and MAGA. When the son of a MAGA cop scribbles epic gamer memes on his gear and shoots someone who had a recent dust-up with Trump, we shouldn't need to see "coherence" to understand it

As much as I would (someday) love to be sci-fi’s preeminent writer of dinosaur literature, for now (and probably for always) that title belongs to Jennifer Lee Rossman. So excited for this book!

The “clash of civilizations” has been orchestrated by MBAs and corporations just as it was by kings before them. Empire loves constructing binaries of threat to distract us from class struggle. All billionaires must vanish. Tax them back into citizens.

Managed to get outside today. 1. Field oak. 2. New York aster. 3. Grassy fields. 4. New England aster.

....thinking of how Melissa and Mark Hortman were cheated out of this kind of outpouring of sorrow, while watching as folks on the right capered & giggled about it like demons.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Those reading this as approval of Kirk’s killing are reading words that aren’t there. I don’t want to live in a world of normalized violence. Charlie Kirk spent his life ensuring we all have to live in such a world. We do everything a disservice to elide the reality of that.

I will add to this: is the violence being done by ICE and the troops sent into Democratic cities not political? Is the violence of immigration detention and deportation not political violence? If this was your Rubicon, it's not political violence you detest, it's a white man being shot on TV.

"they are going to use this against us." where you been, they are murdering black people in the streets for selling CDs, they are rounding up hispanic people for being at a home depot, they are sending people to foreign torture prisons for tweeting about Palestine. The terrain is SHIFTED

One way to avoid people making fun of your death is to not make a career of gleefully proclaiming other people’s deaths are necessary for your enjoyment of life

Happy birthday to a powerful, wonderful book!

brb outlining a novelus.

Catgirl? No. Meow Mx.

Mild day on the Saratoga Pine Plains. 1. Looking up. 2. Looking up. 3. Goldenrod. 4. Jack-in-the-pulpit berries.

It’s my birthday! Everyone who preorders Tell Me Yours from Stillhouse Press today (9/9 till 11:59pm ET) will get a signed—and, if you want, respectfully doodled in—copy! And one lucky duck will also snag this sexy, sparkly “cool S” pin. iykyk!

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!! It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food. Check it out: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

I did it. I added the new POV. I really like it.

Finished the third of the four “stuck” chapters today! Current wordcount: 52585.

Drought leads to an early autumn in the Catskills yesterday. 1. @craftyrowan.bsky.social hikes under a ledge. 2. A view east over the Hudson Valley. 3. A view south to North-South Lake. 4. Color on an outcropping.