Nope, we've always been down east -- down as in down river! I guess maybe people are forgetting that now that everyone flies without thinking about geography! From the Maritimes, one goes up [river] to Ontario but out west to the prairies ...

Breath and Bone Amazon.com: Breath and Bone eBook : Johansen, K. V. : Kindle Store

@kvjohansen.bsky.social 's new fantasy Breath and Bone is available for preorders! (Link to Amazon, but it's up at all the usual suspects.)
www.amazon.com/Breath-Bone-...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Ugh.

Birds are now annoyed about something.

An old abandoned mill amongst the reeds on the Norfolk Broads #Scape #Stunday #Landscape #Photography #ECK

A screenshot of the app Watch Duty, which shows active wildfires across the US. The area is focused on the SE, from Virginia down to Florida and across to Texas. Fire icons are heavily focused in north Florida and southern Georgia, but spread up the east coast of both Carolinas as well.

I'm not saying the entire SE is currently on fire... but it's giving 1998 wildfire vibes

Okay, I've read the Rules! I'm in, but I probably won't get the registration done till tonight. It didn't say anything about pseudonyms: I'm assuming Kris Jamison can register separately. (The more NB the merrier...)

An interview with me about the forthcoming book BREATH AND BONE (out in May from Candlemark and Gleam!) on NOAF! I talk about new characters, a new world, Rosemary Sutcliff & Arthur Ransome, but mostly Hedge and Pony, whom I think you're going to love. #CoverReveal Cover art by Laura Galli.

Snow overnight. The song sparrow is unfazed.

Mosaic depicting a wolf with what appears to be a large grin on its face. Two children (Romulus and Remus) stand underneath the wolf.

Happy birthday Rome! According to Roman tradition, Romulus founded the city #OnThisDay in 753 BC.

Here's a mosaic of Romulus's early years being raised by a wolf (who had a great smile) #BeforeTheyWereFamous

📷 @followinghadrian.bsky.social / CC BY-SA 2.0

🏺 #Archaeology

Night Ferry
Frederick Varley
1937

Rough Music: Folk Customz, Transgression & Alternative Britian by Liz Williams

Enjoyed Liz Williams’ lively account of the transgressive aspects of British folk customs past and present. #folklore

It's normal in libraries to see a small number of book challenges by parents & patrons who have concerns about content. Today, however, 92% come from organized groups, including officials and dark money groups like Citizens for a New LA. It's time we reclaim our libraries for the people they serve.

If you don't know these books, search them out!

Yes! I am in NB. If I'm allowed my pseudonym, who writes a very different genre, I can even sign up twice. (Haven't read all the Rules yet ...)

The Stupid Cuban Missile Crisis Donald Trump is unfit for office. He might do genocide before Congress recognizes that.

Had anyone in a position of power during the Cuban Missile Crisis acted this stupidly, we’d all be dead. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-stupid...

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

Hi ... sounds interesting. I'll sign up tomorrow when I'm not trying to do dishes and stuff. (There you go, you have an NB author!)
(p.s. You want to say "Down there," not "Over there," unless you are in PEI or something.0

Hi?

See also Ontario. We need to fight this authoritarian creep into Canadian provincial politics.

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Add universities to this list.

Remember this from last week?

South Carolina's Freedom to Read Group has an outstanding response worth replicating.

Libraries don't have to buy these books. They can actively push back against publishers who are not helping libraries–bedrocks of their survival!–weather censorship.

And yet governments keep making it harder for people to get COVID vaccines. Make it make sense.

An image of a person holding a syringe and inserting the syringe into a COVID vaccine vial.

COVID vaccines are tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden.

A large study in Germany shows lower hospitalization, all-cause death rates, and health care costs in vaccinated people.

Read more: ow.ly/XG0E50YMTht

Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Stacy Mitchell has the best command of this subject. She explains how Amazon's ability to match any discount absolutely shreds competitors trying to give you a lower price. To hide these powers from nosy reporters, Amazon shuts off the magic algorithm during holiday shopping season and Prime Day.

Various chores accomplished. Onwards. This morning there was a very fluffed-up and apparently itchy male cardinal outside the window. He was so distracted by grooming that he didn't even try to attack his reflection.