Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel)
@lindanagata.bsky.social
Grandmother, gardener, hiker, Nebula & Locus Award-winning science fiction author. @home on Maui. Website: https://mythicisland.com/ #NoKings
This is the one kind of questioning that Trump has literally never faced: just basic questions about facts & how the world works. He was able to become president while never understanding the first fucking thing about anything, in part because he was *never asked*.
If I were emperor for a day, one change I'd make: In every political race, at every level, at least the *first* debate would be replaced by a simple test of knowledge. How do taxes work? What agency is responsible for what? Is your area growing or shrinking in population? Just basic stuff.
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.
orithyia blue.@javeauriel.blacksky.app · 2d agoOMG did yall know that man in the White House is changing East Potomac Park (including Hains Point) into a “championship golf course”?! They’ve already started cutting down the trees. And some of the cherry blossom trees that are only found one place on earth, DC.
If you see The Green Man's Debt will be published on 10th September and realise you planned on catching up with The Green Man's Holiday? Good news! The ebook is a UK Kindle 99p deal throughout September and price-matched on other websites. www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-H...
The ebook edition of Kim Stanley Robinson's early novel, The Memory of Whiteness, is on sale at Amazon US for $1.99. I remember how I loved this story when it first came out. I haven't read it since, but I'm going to pick up a copy so I can re-read it soon.
The overriding motivation of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of the American people.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d agoThe culture of fear and intimidation instilled at the Department of Defense all stemming from Pete Hegseth’s incompetence and insecurities. A never ending quest to hide the truth from the American people and hunt down anyone who lets the truth leak out.
The culture of fear and intimidation instilled at the Department of Defense all stemming from Pete Hegseth’s incompetence and insecurities. A never ending quest to hide the truth from the American people and hunt down anyone who lets the truth leak out.
Hurricane Lowell is forecast to move close to Kauaʻi County Monday night as a category 2 to 3 hurricane. #Lowell
Lowell is forecast to move close to Kauaʻi County Monday night as a category 2 to 3 hurricane
Hurricane Lowell is forecast to move close to Kauaʻi County Monday night as a category 2 to 3 hurricane.
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My post from earlier today about the craziness around Anthropic claim notices, updated with both of the notices writers are receiving, and a list of literary agents who are trying to claim a share of payouts writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...
Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware
This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like these: The one on the right invites authors to review and confirm their claims: jus...
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I get on the metro and there’s federal police parked and posted outside the station, I get off the metro and there’s 15 FBI agents standing around.
THEN it will list your disputed works. You can look and see who else is claiming a share in your work. The thing I did was: * set allocation to 100% me and say there were no other rights holders * upload my reversion letter
In case you are involved in the Anthropic copyright settlement. @courtneymilan.com has extremely helpful information.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 7d agoSomeone asked how you would know if this happens. This is how I found out: they sent me an email that says that someone is disputing what percentage of rights I should have for a specific work. If you go to the site in question, it will list all your undisputed works first.
From the article: ' “You have a responsibility to the land that you’re on,” he said, “to the people, to the air that you breathe, to the water that you drink” — a shared kuleana (responsibility) that doesn’t discriminate by how long someone’s family has been here.'
Maui Now@mauinow.com · last wk.Maui County’s two-year-old Department of ʻŌiwi Resources is working on the Lahaina Royal Complex Master Plan, incorporating ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi back into government and putting to use the knowledge encoded in the mother tongue. #DepartmentofOiwiResources #MauiCounty #OleloHawaii #HJI
I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.
106 years ago, the 19th Amendment was certified, giving women the right to vote after decades of organizing, protest, and sacrifice. Voting is one of our most basic rights, and we can’t take it for granted. Every generation has to show up and protect it.
For today's alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #ReflectionsAndShadows here's a monochrome study of overlapping shadows, rings and ripples, made by two ʻalae keʻokeʻo (Hawaiian coot) making their serene way... #birds 📷🌿🦉
Huge California win for plug in solar, so many thanks to all who fought for it, including my Third Act Cali colleagues. Oh, and sponsor Scott Wiener! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
California Becomes Latest State to Approve Plug-in Solar
States across the country are letting residents install small solar systems without utility permission.
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This week I'm out on the rooooooad with THE CALAMITIES, starting tomorrow in Harrisburg. Here are some thoughts on the first week of the book's life and also some Vital Rules for regarding my corporeal form in meatspace:
If I Am To Be Regarded In Corporeal Form (The Calamities, Week Two!)
I know! I know. I’m being very annoying with all this “book promo” stuff, but hey, I got a book out, and if I don’t promo it, they pull a lever and I fall into a glass tube …
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That was a weird Internet outage. Amazon and NYT were fine, Walmart sort of okay, CNN slooow, DownDetector down (LOL) along with BlueSky, Facebook, etc. All seems fine now.
I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism
We're now on day 83 of record breaking daily global sea-surface temperatures. There's still an outside chance that this year could break the all-time daily record set back on April 24, 2024. The Climate Casino is taking the Over.
Greg Bear sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bear_g... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: John Harris, Trevor Newman, Ron Walotsky and John Harris):
Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic
CNN@cnn.com · 3w agoThe US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Trump, sources say. https://cnn.it/4hFq6a6
What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.
Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
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Random book promo post...(ok, not entirely random): THE RED: FIRST LIGHT is a near-future military thriller in which a cynical young army lieutenant finds he must reckon w/the true meaning of his oath to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. mythicisland.com/the_red_firs...
