this is a great essay, worth a read.

writers

publishing is full of
disappointments

heartbreak, feeling overlooked, misunderstood

seeing those things that someone else
did or got or experienced.

feel your feelings! wallow a beat.
it hurts to not feel seen.

just don't stay in that negativity.

find your way back to actually writing.

For the first time in our 9-year history:

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We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!

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On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk.

If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"

Woahhh lucky!!

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Repair Is a Survival Skill Under Fascism Too much urgency to resolve conflict can close us off from what repair really requires, says Kelly Hayes.

Part two of my conversation with @tanuja.bsky.social is now live. We talk about conflict resolution, why some common approaches leave people feeling let down, how to make better apologies, how to receive feedback, and the relational skills our communities need to survive these times.

Want some inspiration? I'm gonna thread some awesome stories I love that are "found media"!

Productive procrastination is the way

I know it's not the most important thing here but Quentin Tarantino didn't even write the fake Bible verse. He stole it from an old Sonny Chiba movie. And something about that last extra layer of bullshit really adds something to this whole thing, to me

Update: Bluesky has identified the problem

Every generation needs its Galaxy Quest: a movie that, despite every individual element screaming that it can't be good, is actually good

Sure did, before they shut down. Got the last sip of some imported lavender mead I've never been able to find again.

If you've ever encountered a child who sounds exactly like the shows they watch, you're familiar with this pattern.

Gimme like 7-12 gorgeous tiny plates and true facts about how these techniques happened to these ingredients and I'm in

I'd fund locavore restaurants where you get the historical and ecological companion narrative to what you're eating, particularly if the business supports sustainability and indigenous foodways.

One response to this so far, folks. Your chances are good.

Me: I would like to buy a piano. Yamaha: Ok. Me: I'd also like to buy a motorcycle lol do u know where I can find a good one Yamaha: ur not gonna believe this

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Years ago, a writer friend was passing through on tour. I didn't know him that well, but I liked what I knew of him - and when he suggested that I join him (and the other writer touring with them) to hang and sign stock, I said "Sure, let's do it." So the three of us spent a day doing that. (1)

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A cruelty of history that the kids are rediscovering large pants just as the mass-market paperback disappears.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor Jiteh remembers when Gurteh, father of the spring's tithe, broke down sobbing and refused to drink. The sloths skinned him as they had the tithe and added his flesh to the broth. Each villager was the...

Archives "The Sweetness of Honey and Rot" @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social (has a new story in BCS #454). "The sloths skinned him as they had the tithe and added his flesh to the broth. Each villager was made to drink two spoonfuls. No one has refused since." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

a woman in a video game stands in front of a tree with a ufo in the background ALT: a woman in a video game stands in front of a tree with a ufo in the background

I still think Coyote & Crow would make an amazing open world video game. I'm thinking something like Horizon Zero Dawn or Mass Effect, but all Indigenous Futurism.

So, so, many cool stories to tell and so many ways to get a ton of incredible representation.

If you're a designer, HMU ;-)

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

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Good.

Tried to what?

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