Excited for this book, and excited for you, @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social!

Need help with a federal agency?

Team Amo is on the Rhode and ready to help!

Drop by the Pawtucket Farmers Market this Friday for help with IRS issues, passports, Social Security, veterans’ benefits & more!

📍 545 Pawtucket Ave, Pawtucket
⏰ 4:30-7:30 PM Friday, April 24

It's funny how the obvious solution is that we need to stop eating red meat and driving gas-powered cars like yesterday but you sound like a tinfoil-hat crank if you say that

(Also burn down some data centers but you didn't hear that from me)

Anyway happy Earth Day

AMAZING

A Dürer-drawn celestial chart on a broadside with text and image parts. The image part looks like long lines travelling.

You see a Dürer-drawn celestial chart: an analog computer from the early sixteenth century. Have a seat, and enjoy this short paper instrument's 🧵 for #skystorians and more:

Thanks!

Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

If you read one thing today: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o... (gift link)

Me too.

Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

This gutted me.

“That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

THREE STORIES OF FORGETTING by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, tr Alison Entrekin (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/thre...

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

Hurrah! this is the way to sail now. Every keel a sunbeam!

"The Recession" by Danielle Cadena Deulen details the acute helplessness of struggling financially. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Join us via Zoom at 8 pm EST next Tuesday (4/21) and Wednesday (4/22) for back-to-back readings celebrating Issue Fifty-Seven and our 2026 Scholars! RSVP at the link in our bio.

The first thing we have to do, after we get rid of these corrupt people, is to take back our money that they stole.

IYKYK

If you’re looking for your next epic read, check out our reviews of new fiction from small and indie presses: necessaryfiction.com/category/rev...

When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.

🙏

A conversation with our fiction editor, this time wearing her novelist hat.

Diane Josefowicz on GUARDIANS AND SAINTS Diane and Mille join the show!

I had a wonderful time talking about Guardians & Saints: Stories with Dan and Millie from @lespritlit.bsky.social. Tune in: open.substack.com/pub/1882lite...

One down, three to go.

As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII

welcome home, Integrity 💖

It's groove armada weather

striving to get a still better seaward peep

Soon after massive honeybee deaths, Trump moves to close the nation's premier bee lab When beekeepers saw widespread honeybee die-offs last year, researchers at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center stepped in to help. The Trump administration now plans to close the facility...

What the hell—Despite suddenly losing 1.6 million bee colonies to a mass die off in the U.S. in a year, Trump WH is instead planning to close the USDA’s premier bee 🐝laboratory, worrying beekeepers, scientists and farmers. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Mr. Art of the Deal fell for the old switcheroo.

Reading is fundamental. But let’s keep cutting those humanities programs, sure.

H/t @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social