Miriah Hetherington
@jmiriah.bsky.social
Writer of Scifi & Fantasy, Reader, Mother, Wife, Progressive, Compulsive Recycler. Just joined Bluesky and looking for folks I know IRL and creators I love on other platforms to follow. Miriah.net
I understand the value of being able and willing to say no. There's so much power in that word and so much powerlessness when you can't say it. As writers, we spend years trying to get published and reach an audience. It's hard to say no to an opportunity. But it's important, too.
Emergency Comm for @jmiriah.bsky.social of their darling Healer Halani 😤🥰 Thank you so much for your support!! 💛💚 #ChenLDart #ChenLDComms
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Keep your messaging simple: “Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.” That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.
Taking Submissions: Women of the Weird West (April 2025 Window) via @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social horrortree.com/taking-submi... Open Window: April 1-30 2025 Pay: Stories: 10¢/word, Poems: $50, Drabbles: $50 Theme: Weird westerns that are pulpy, unexpected, character-driven stories written by women
Per @daeshik.bsky.social, people are reporting ICE visiting downtown Seattle restaurant kitchens today. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...
ICE is downtown
reddit.com
I love the block function here but I wish there was an extra special block that included a fuck off option.
To maintain a record as we enter the second Trump administration, we’ve produced an accounting of Biden’s most significant actions impacting food and farming during his tenure.
How Four Years of Biden Reshaped Food and Farming
A look back on the Biden administration’s most significant actions impacting food and farming during the president’s tenure.
buff.ly
Announcement: Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine WELCOME BACK, FANTASY! full details here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
In this first (free!) essay for 2025, @nniskanen.bsky.social celebrates the idea of found families through the work of @scalzi.com, @charliejane.bsky.social, @marthawells.com, Starhawk and Octavia Butler. Read now: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/famil...
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
Ohhhhmygod. I can’t summarize this for you — you need to read it for yoursrlf. thefederalist.com/2024/12/02/h...
Here’s How To Actually Reverse The Baby Bust
The best way to promote fertility isn’t subsidizing parenthood. It’s stopping the programs that discourage people from having babies.
thefederalist.com
In case you're a butthurt racist like Megyn Kelly, I feel the need to inform you that YES, white privilege does exist, and if you're white, congratulations. You have white privilege. #WhitePrivilege #Trump #MAGA #White #CaitlinClark
seems national publications could be putting more energy into why so many whistleblowers are dying these days www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.
mercurynews.com
Here's some good, if depressing, info on ethical chocolate companies. www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-choc... Thanks go to Mia, who shared it with me.
Ethical Chocolate Companies — Slave Free Chocolate
Below is a list of chocolate companies that only use ethically grown cocoa. Find out how you can tell if the chocolate you are eating is connected to child slavery.
slavefreechocolate.org
Why are they a type? I... don't know, honestly. I guess I have a feeling that older men fade, they strive to regain their youth or establish a legacy and we've seen that story a thousand times, but older women? They become free to become something new. I guess I see so many possibilities in that.
I feel like the election was the US Gom Jabbar test, and half of the voters failed.
Saved this interesting article from 2020. "See how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands of years will shift and what changes are in store for your county." projects.propublica.org/climate-migr...
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...
projects.propublica.org
Power came back on about 3am this morning. Went out about 7pm on Tuesday. I'm grateful, but there are still so many without power.
