Asakiyume/Morinotsuma
@asakiyume.bsky.social
Nobody special, but I dream. Author of LAGOONFIRE, THE INCONVENIENT GOD (both from Annorlunda Books), PEN PAL, various short stories.
A sky ocean wave and a silvery life boat with a white wake (can’t see the latter unless you click on the photo). #SkyPortrait
This book is fabulous! Wonderful mountain vibes, water witchy wonderfulness: "I don’t talk to the river. The river doesn’t belong to me, and I don’t belong to it...We’re in deep enough without me making bargains with an ancient body of water that stretches clear to Ohio." 😍
Amanda J. McGee@amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 4d agoY'all!! A RIVER WIDE is out on Monday! Yes, you read that right - Monday. Not Tuesday. MONDAY! bookshop.org/p/books/a-ri...
Please enjoy another fun thread from @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17h agoDolphins are known to "pass around" pufferfish, lightly envenoming themselves with its narcotic-like tetrodotoxin Debate continues on whether this constitutes animal recreational drug use, but I want to ask a DIFFERENT question: What's up with the pufferfish's skeleton?
Their story limit is up to 10,000 words, so this is great if you have a longish short story (a novelette-ish short story), as there aren't many venues that accept them! Today's their last day, so if it's sitting there ...
Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 17h agoPLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE ARE CLOSING AT THE END OF TODAY! buff.ly/xM2cQce
Ig Nobels: "to get people interested in things that otherwise they might never ever let themselves become interested in." That includes fluid mechanics. This year's physics prize was awarded to a research group that prototyped — a splash-free urinal. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...
Kissing apes, anti-splash urinals: This year's Ig Nobels showcase surprising science
The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded this week for humorous yet thought-provoking research. This year, the ceremony came with a twist.
npr.org
Last week, I provided students with my Reasons to Hate AI mini comic, & now you can have it, too. Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for suggestions & so many for the accumulated info, esp. @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social , @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Living in an economy that is stretching poor, working, elderly, and underserved people (imagine a vent diagram here folks) is just taking it out of me. Took a second to take this shot while on the phone with my partner. It was the first time I’d felt a moment of peace all day.
In the early 1980’s, we began preparing separate spread wings to help illustrate features of birds that had never been accurately drawn. Today our collection of spread wings is the largest in the world, preserving more than 40,000 specimens.
Have finally started ANNIHILATION! Yes, quite different from the movie but yessss enjoying it.
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 2d agorereading the Truly Devious series and I love it so much. What are you all reading?
Hello from Aotearoa New Zealand no thank you we like that people forget we're here please continue to put us bottom far right of your maps and occasionally exclude us from them altogether. Thank you for your attention, please cease your attention.
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Equal Earth projection is nice. But the UN rejected an alternative proposal from the New Zealand delegation, the Middle-earth projection:
Mark your calendars! Sun, Oct 4, 3 PM-4:30, I'm hosting a WITCHY READING on my Twitch channel, featuring: @zzclaybourne.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social @christaqua.bsky.social @virginiam.bsky.social @amcgeewrites.bsky.social @asakiyume.bsky.social @emmajgibbon.bsky.social & Steven T Gibbon
Assholes doing their best to roll everything back? Yeah. Scary and bad? Definitely. Three steps forward and one step back is still two steps forward. Fight for the next three steps, we're still moving forward. The struggles of our forebears were not in vain, neither will ours be.
New blog post: enjoy postcard #17 from #FirstClassFiction nantucketlit.com/blog/2026/09... This postcard recognizes Library Card Sign-up Month. I wrote a story about the impact libraries can have on a young mind. Did you have a favorite library growing up, or maybe a current favorite?
If you'd like to receive a free copy of this postcard, sign up at nantucketlit.com/postcards I make postcards with original stories and poems on them, from writers like myself, @atgonzalez.bsky.social, and @asakiyume.bsky.social, and artists like @oponok.bsky.social. Mailed every 2 weeks.
FIRST-CLASS FICTION: POSTCARDS BY NANTUCKET LIT
First-Class Fiction is a literary magazine that comes on a postcard. Subscribe today!
nantucketlit.com
On students, primary sources, and the evident interpretive dangers LLMs pose: www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
hnn.us
Heading back across the pond just in time for the fall semester start; #grateful for a packed but successful trip. Yesterday, out for a last run along the Thames on a perfect early autumn afternoon; today, it's rather gloomy, but tbh everyone here's desperate for some rain. #AmRunning #Fall2026
"Rules for Interdimensional Refugees, by Esther Lim, in @lunastation.bsky.social no. 67 is excellent: funny, unflinching, hopeful. “Rest for at least one week after arrival in your new dimension. Overexertion after interdimensional travel may cause nausea, hives, and/or loss of corporeal integrity."