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Years ago, I lent out my copy of Goblet of Fire to my mom's friend, who later apologized profusely because she couldn't find it anywhere. A year later, she cleaned out her enormous purse and found the 4-lb tome at the bottom!

Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Trace Elements, a collection of essays about the Project of Science Fiction, by me and @adapalmer.bsky.social coming out March 24th 2026, available now for pre-order from all good bookstores www.amazon.com/Trace-Elemen...

Brazil records 65 percent drop in Amazon area burned by fire The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas monitoring platform said Wednesday, boosting the government as it prepares to host…

In Brazil, Amazon fires drop by nearly two-thirds. Area burned fell 65% in July 2025 vs July 2024 - the smallest monthly area burned since satellite mapping of fire damage began in 2019. buff.ly/TLMEIFQ
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Some excellent advice and resources, thank you! (And this is meant kindly and helpfully: remember to use these same resources when pronouncing Arabic names in your Lady Astronaut series, which was my one nit about your excellent narration)

Those are fireworks I’m hearing from my home in Alexandria at 10:20 pm, right? Right?

Chuck Schumer is a call to action not a name

Extra Wizard of Oz vibes

"pay no attention to the ides of March"?

I'd love to read it!

F--- you, Schumer, you f-in DINO

Congratulations to anyone who got literally anything done in the last week.

Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity

Trump: Trade war!

Colombia: OK

Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights

Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?

Trump: They gave in!

Navajo Citizens Facing Identity Challenges During ICE Deportation Raids The Trump administration’s intensified deportation efforts have created unexpected challenges for Navajo citizens living in urban areas like Phoenix. As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement b...

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“Despite possessing Certificates of Indian Blood (CIBs) and state-issued IDs, several individuals have been detained or questioned by ICE agents who do not recognize these documents as valid proof of citizenship.”

nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

Starting the Butlerian Jihad because an AI tried to tell me how much spice was enough

(In related news, the Justice Department is threatening to prosecute anyone who doesn't enforce such policies too)

Protect birthright citizenship President Trump is seeking to deny citizenship to countless children born in the U.S. Take action with the ACLU to fight back.

Potentially denying birthright citizenship in the U.S. is one further step toward Republicans being able to silence anyone who speaks or acts against them. Let's make sure this gets nipped in the bud: action.aclu.org/send-message...

So may be the most important lesson here is that, if you want to have a chance at avoiding future fascism or other forms of totalitarianism, is that when it comes to certain populists tactics, of identifying minority groups to dump on and to energise your supporters with, 31/

this is one of my favorite custom feeds, Quiet Posters

it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I witnessed one "clean out" of an underpass WHILE IT WAS SNOWING and people lost their warm sleeping bags, among other things!

Or the 3 sets of silver I ended up with 💀

It is worth noting that the woman who wrote the latest "Bluesky is an echo chamber" piece is a TERF. And the way I know that is she is on a popular block list that focuses on British TERFs and I recommend you all use it because it upsets bigots like her so much they write articles about free speech:

Close up of a red towel on a blue-and-gray tile floor. There are two small paw prints on the edge where a cat stepped on it, then said "Nope!" and ran away

I got out a clean fluffy towel for her to sit on while she dries, but apparently that's Too Scary™️

She was extremely upset by this development but managed to climb out even before I was able to grab her a stepstool.
After running, dripping wet, all over the apartment, she's currently attempting to lick herself dry and glaring at me like it's my fault 😾

White cat standing in half a foot of water in an oval-shaped white bathtub. Her eyes are very round and her mouth is slightly open in the tail end of a complaining yowl

The water in my building had to be shut down today for pipe repairs, so I filled the bathtub partway with water for flushing the toilet. Peach loves to drink out of the faucet & apparently didn't realize there was water in there. She jumped straight in!

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.

Literally just happened to me today. ARGH

If I can’t shitpost, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.