Hey, you! Do you know any teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, or other k-12 educators? Please send them this picture & link www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html For what Skype a Scientist lacks in advertising budget we make up for in program value. We're GLOBAL so this applies to all 😘

It is the season of leaves floating in the river, submerged and turning, floating under water and light instead of being sustained by them. Changes on changes. The wilder surface of the river over rocks.

Behold a lovely stamp sheet by Chris Ware ... ... where each stamp shows a moment in the day of a postwoman apparently it's the first time anyone has tried to tell a story with a stamp sheet item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

I have to Zoom into a class & be a head on a screen on a wall, which always reminds me of this excellent ad for prunes starring Ray Bradbury (written & narrated by Stan Freberg). www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Hello! I am teaching a course for the splendid American Short Fiction MFA for All, on physicality in fiction. I have a lot of thoughts on the subject. Kevin Wlson & Tommy Orange are also teaching! Deadline to sign up for my class is 10/5. americanshortfiction.org/mfa-for-all/

Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.

BREAKING: Today in #Portland, on barely any notice, a massive crowd gathered downtown & heard from Oregon Governor Tina Kotek. After the rally, the crowd marched through Portland, Kotek and Mayor Wilson at the front, chanting “Show Trump what Portland looks like! This is what Portland looks like!”

A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon. The marchers held flowers. 💐

📢 Reposting this thread can help someone get the abortion care they need 🧡 It’s been 25 years since the FDA first approved mifepristone. Help us spread the word about this safe, effective option—for every repost, we’ll donate $1 to @abortionfunds.bsky.social. Some fast facts about mifepristone ⬇️

my cat when i explain that my retirement plan consists solely of the expectation that i will be transported and reborn into a medieval fantasy game setting like in an isekai anime, with a generous magic system that makes healthcare coverage obsolete

Month-long research fellowships for creative and performing artists at @amantiquarian.bsky.social in Worcester, MA. Application deadline: October 5. I did this. They have an extraordinary collection of work on paper. I'll never forget it. www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships/...

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

You want to help Chicago[land]? REPOST REPOST REPOST REPOST REPOST They're doing quick hits, in the burbs, bc they figured out that the big raids in LA drew a lot of attention. BE A MEGAPHONE start with: @unraveledpress.com @djbyrnes1.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

🧵*9/16/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions. * IL State Sen Villa, in heels, yelling for people to stay in their houses, yelling at ICE "THIS IS MY CITY." Not even a megaphone.

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

oh hooray!!!!!

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

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Venus and Leah as portrayed at Historic Northampton. In my novel Spider in a Tree, they are one woman. Some historians believe that to be true, but no one knows for sure. They were enslaved in the household of theologian and preacher Jonathan Edwards.

Historic Northampton.

Good Morning 🌎 It’s almost time to come out of the hangar & go wheels up 🦋

Double apologies- Looks like BlueSky still is not showing my alt text on videos- ALT TEXT: Monarch butteryfly emerging from chrysalis. Surprised how quickly the process occurs (few seconds). Chrysalis is transparent with black abdomen and unfurling orange wings.

I can’t believe I caught this 🦋 Just before noon, I figured I better check again… the hangar bay was opening! Little out of focus for a few seconds, but I got the focus back- apologies- I was so excited & shooting w/ the sun on my viewer.

Home from sidewalk in front of Historic Northampton watching imagined silhouettes and real names of people who were enslaved in Northampton projected on one of the houses. Venus. Leah. Bathsheba. Rose Binney. Moving. 6:30 to 8 pm tomorrow, too. They would have walked there. Later/darker is best.

Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.

If you live in Massachusetts, pretty much everyone can get the updated Covid-19 vaccine. I can't because I got last year's booster not long ago, but if that's not your situation, you probably can! More info at the link: www.mass.gov/info-details...

This extremely western Mass hippie shit is something someone made a video about, it’s how we get our garbage collected, you can even pay in barter, and I love every ounce of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahX...

Yes, please.

Whole thread. We’re in an up-in-the-air moment now: one hand, Trump threatening civil war; other, ICE being turned back by civil disobedience. Moral: fascists don’t know yet how far they’re willing to go. My belief: more moments like this now will prevent the war that’s been threatened.

If like me you saw this post and said that’s great but didn’t listen, I recommend listening. It’s a good sound.

Thrilling! I loved The Naming Song so much!

Congrats to all the winners!

First time I've sobbed at the end of a video essay

This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”

The Slavery North fellowship program welcomes national & international students, artists, scholars, providing them with space, funding, time, community to produce transformative research outcomes. 3 positions slaverynorth.com/job/fellowsh... UMass Amherst #slavery

I was on my landing looking at stars in the cool night air. A big, white-backed skunk came out from under the car parked at the bottom of the stairs, then hurried back under. When the skunk came out again, it was tail up, rear to the stairs. I quietly came inside. Skunk is still out there calling.

Building this city on rock and roll was a huge engineering blunder.

Just finished The Great Believers. God, that's a novel. I almost skipped church to finish it, but instead sat in the back telling the Buddhists and other queers about it. It's full of art, death, love, and war stories. You probably know. Ways to mourn. Survive. Succor. Act Up. Powerful preaching.

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

I am in the middle of The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai right now. It is brilliant. Many of you know that. Oh, it is so good.

Great Barrington, MA 22 August 1781 Jury Decides in Favor of Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman www.massmoments.org/... "Listening to her master's friends discuss the newly ratified Massachusetts Constitution, she concluded that if all people were born free and equal, so was she" 1/5

Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent by the US government to an El Salvador torture prison, is my hero. It’s critical to note that he wasn’t abused by his fellow prisoners, the so-called “worst of the worst,” but only by his captors. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

I know that man and his family must be so tired.

oh boy holy shit

🚨🚨🚨NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS HAS CANCELED ALL FY26 LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS PLEASE HOLLER AT ME IF YOU ARE A WRITER WHO GOT THE EMAIL TODAY🚨🚨🚨

how I want my tax money spent.

What a book: edited by Matt Cheney, published by the excellent people at Third Man (check their list, it's strong), foreword by Kelly. Carol wrote weird great stories for 50 years —— you never know what's coming next. Any day a new Emshwiller book comes out is a celebration so thanks all for this.

Stepped out on the landing, ran my palm over the thyme on the railing. Clear night. Scent of thyme came up in the coolness. Saw my beloved Casssiopeia and a stray meteor or two.

🚨 PLEASE SHARE 🚨 If you’re in Austin, there is a current call to show up at the Capitol building 1100 Congress Ave. - tonight 08/17 at 7:00pm. The Texas GOP is holding Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier hostage. She refused to sign a “permission slip” that would require a police escort!

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩