Jak Koke
@jakkoke.com
Author and editor of speculative fiction. Awards & Noms: Endeavor, PW Best of Year, Ippy, Ben Franklin, Foreword, Origins. Science advocate and hope peddler. See https://jakkoke.com/ .
grats to all nebula award nominees and winners
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2mo agoCongratulations to last night's winners at the Nebula Awards, which include @stephengrahamjones.com, @amalelmohtar.com, @effies.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social among others, and which formally installed @nkjemisin.bsky.social as a Grand Master! file770.com/sfwa-announc...
It's appalling that 'sufficiency' is such a radical idea. "At its core is the concept of sufficiency – the idea that people can enjoy a prosperous, healthy life without constantly striving to consume or accumulate more material possessions that degrade the natural world on which all life depends."
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
theguardian.com
Senate Democrats voted multiple times to fund TSA separately from ICE. Republicans voted it down every time. Republicans are to blame for today’s airport chaos — all because they’re happy to keep letting Trump’s thugs terrorize our communities with no consequences. Remember this.
I'm coming to the Seattle area in a few weeks. Learn more on my website or newsletter site. jakkoke.substack.com
Most news sources purposefully use fear because that draws views ... and ultimately views lead to ad revenue. To help balance out the depressing news, I often use news aggregators that are vetted to be positive or unbiased. Here's one: www.positive.news/society/what...
What went right in 2025: the top 25 good news stories of the year
Scientists treated the ‘untreatable’, species bounced back, solar surged, deforestation fell, rivers were revitalised, plus more good news
positive.news
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Great green macaw Barracuda Gila monster Toucan Orca
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 8mo agoIntroduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Goliath heron Himalayan vulture Cerulean warbler Laysan albatross Australian king parrot
My thoughts (and advice) on writers using word count as a metric to track their progress. #writing #writingcommunity
Size Matters – Word Count
Dic-tion measuring contests are bad for writers
open.substack.com
In which I talk about getting older ... 'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... " 🤣 #writingcommunity #mexico #birthday
Just another (birth)day
The good and the meh of birthdays... and a look back on the year.
jakkoke.substack.com
Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.
Seattle Worldcon Post Mortem - Two goals, one success. Plus a friend gets an award nomination, and free stuff (at the end). jakkoke.com/newsletter/
on the lighter side of the news today: Tiny Staircases for Cats
Amsterdam is building tiny staircases to help cats exit its canals
Hundreds of wooden steps will be constructed to stop small animals from drowning
independent.co.uk
@karawynn.bsky.social and I will be in Seattle for Worldcon (and to visit friends). #seattleworldcon #writingcommunity #sff
Worldcon Seattle Here We Come
Want to hang out and chat. Let's meet!
jakkoke.substack.com
Learn why attending a nonviolent protest is one of the most effective things you can do right now. #nokings #resist ninelives.karawynnlong.com/strategic-re...
Strategic Resistance: Mass Demonstration
Why organized nationwide rallies are an excellent use of your time and energy right now
ninelives.karawynnlong.com
we all feel this way sometimes... and this is a good reminder.
Lyndsey@lyndseydoob.bsky.social · last yr.I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.
@karawynn.bsky.social talks about the difficulty of picking what to write in the face of an exploding world. ninelives.karawynnlong.com/a-question-f...
News & Notes
A question for readers
ninelives.karawynnlong.com
Do you have protest photos from last weekend? Did you do any crowd-counting? Help social scientists accurately measure protest participation by scrolling to Submit a Record at the CCC. (If you don’t have the data, maybe someone you know does! Please pass it on.) ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...
Crowd Counting Consortium – Ash Center
Publicly available data on political crowds in the United States, including marches, protests, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.
ash.harvard.edu
Reading is good for your health! I've believed this for years, but recent science now confirms it! Not mentioned in the title is that reading also seems to stave off dementia! #neuroscience #sff #reading #writing-community #writing #books #fiction
Reading Fiction Boosts Empathy and Fights Loneliness - Neuroscience News
While AI companions are marketed as a fix for loneliness, research shows that reading offers far more meaningful benefits.
neurosciencenews.com
Just finished this excellent science fiction book. Really engaging, exciting, and heartfelt. Highly recommended! #booksky #sff #unreliablenarrator
Marina Lostetter@marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2y agoHello new followers! I'm Marina Lostetter, full time Sci-Fi and Fantasy author, part time clay beguiler. You can find my novels here: bookshop.org/lists/books-...
well… it’s worse than i thought… TLDR: Meta / FB - torrented a shitton of copyrighted books from known pirate sites to train their AI… knowingly and there’s an email trail to prove it
”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
arstechnica.com
Rep Landsman: "You're just picking on children. Our government is not supposed to be this intrusive. Your government has become incredibly intrusive. You're in our doctors offices banning treatments. You're in our classroom banning books. Now you're in my daughter's locker room"
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Thinking about that quote a lot lately.