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Nina AKA Nivair

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Writer, editor, aerospace engineer, dragon-lover 🇦🇲🇮🇪💖

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Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · last wk.

"Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated

“E.C. Horror” Myers@ecmyers.com · last wk.

Last chance to get free Anti-Prime Day shipping at @bookshop.org! Here's just one of your many options, if you'd care to pre-order my next book, QUANTUM CREEP, from @chooseadventure.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/quan...

Quantum Creep

Save humanity from AI gone rogue in this interactive science fiction book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 20 possible endings! Choose Your Own Adventure books—the 4th bestselling child...

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s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last wk.

Especially in the long covid era, having all your friends slowly fade away because you are having a terrible time and not feeling your best self is systemic. It's both isolating and radicalizing, and sending solidarity to people in this position! Along with suggestions from my personal experience.

The Flytrap@theflytrapmedia.com · last wk.

In this week's advice column, @sesmith.lol answers a letter about chronic illness, friendship, and starting over with new people as an adult.

Sirens@sirensconference.org · 3w ago

October is looming, everyone, and that means coziness and pumpkin everything and all the witches your heart can hold -- and a new #Sirens27 book society assignment. Have you finished your September book? Just another couple days...

A graphic with the words: Sirens Book Club: September Read any work of speculative fiction -- novel, collection, graphic -- created primarily by Latine nonbinary, trans, or female creators Here are some recommendations to get you started: And the covers of the following books: BUT NOT TOO BOLD, IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND, NEON STEEL, THE SLEEPING SISTERS, THIS IS THE YEAR, and WE COULD BE ANYONE
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Veronica Schanoes@schanoes.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is literally every academic. Just swap out “sharks” for “fairy tales” or “Shakespeare” or whatever. I love it, and as a society we need more people who study what they love.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Me at 5 years old: I love sharks and I can’t want to spend my whole life looking at sharks and reading about sharks and talking about sharks Me at 42 years old doing that: Hell yeah this rules

Me on an inflatable shark at 5 years old
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Saving local Newspapers is one of the most important projects of guarding democracy. They do more than anything to enable community action, & they help hold corporations & landlords to account and expose and correct the small local exploitations that cause so much suffering and drain so many lives.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4w ago

CNN can’t stop complaining this morning about the ban on White House access for 3 news organizations, and while it’s bad, maybe it is not *quite* as bad as the fact that 3,500 local newspapers have folded in the last 20 years. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

The Flytrap@theflytrapmedia.com · 4w ago

The Flytrap launched in 2024 with one goal: publish one piece of original, thought-provoking feminist cultural criticism every Tuesday. Here are some of our greatest Flytrap Tuesdays hits from the last year:

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last mo.

If you go to the homepage of a local TV news station it's a great sign of how normalized traffic violence has become. The news is an endless scroll of destruction wrought by cars and drivers. And we, as a society, largely accept it.

juice demon (◕ᴗ◕✿) 🚲⚾️@gatodejazz.bsky.social · last mo.

🗣️WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING SUV driver crashed into a Metro bus on Nordhoff Street and De Soto Avenue I know people are probably tired of hearing me bitch about traffic safety and cars but....????? I see a car crash site almost EVERY DAY something needs to change

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last mo.

The days are growing shorter as we creep towards the equinox and that means MORE TIME FOR READING (right?). If you want something thoughtful and also maybe a little challenging that you might also resonate with to add to the TBR, ALL MY DEAD CATS reframes grief and mourning as collective projects.

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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Katherine Locke@katherinelocke.bsky.social · last mo.

One day, this publisher's name will be a distant memory that no longer brings me intense frustration. That day is not today. If you're an Albert Whitman author who has a book in the Anthropic case, you should go check your email in case they're trying to claim 100% of the $$ for your books too.