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Pamela Dean
@pameladean.bsky.social
Has-been fantasy writer trying to finish that one book. Fond of gardens, birds, dragonflies, very amateur astronomy, books, and cats. She/her
Latest interview was a rejection and I ONCE AGAIN had to find out from the listing closing on Indeed and not the company I actually applied and spoke with. I am really trying to stay positive but everything bad ngl bike's gone. Still no job leads now even with constant applications. please share
"Not a Spittoon" Ella Tailor@garaktailor.com · 5d agoBack half of August Bills are still on the way some in a week. And I need roughly $500 for half of rent by the first. So yhe boosting continues as i look for work. A mox tax for every tip. Here is a current one even. V:@/JKNotSoBad C:$/JKNotsobad PP:@/comfortingmoo
Republican Gubernatorial nominee Lisa Demuth is the person who brought Metro Surge down on us. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Demuth: GOP caucus directed YouTuber to Minnesota. A professor explains why it went viral
University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley says the new viral video is flashy but absent of facts to back up its claims.
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There are too many spineless senators in Washington who refuse to stand up to Donald Trump. Minnesota, we are not going to send him another one.
Since Royce White is currently making news outside of Minnesota because he's pretending he "identifies as a woman" and wants to be considered for the WNBA, let me just give a rundown on why he is a horrific piece of shit to all the non-locals who might not be familiar with his bullshit.
I was thinking we'd never have to see Angie Craig ads again after Tuesday but if she wins I suppose we'd see some for the actual senate race so seriously please vote for Peggy Flanagan.
And here’s the reason they’re all gathered together in the sand dunes: BABIES!!! There are 2 little ones in this photo, one all the way to the left with just its head showing 🥹 #birds 🌿
Get To Know Nature@gettoknownature.bsky.social · last wk.They party quite loudly at times (Black Skimmers at the Jersey shore) #birds 🌿
LFG . . . vote for Peggy (and doorknock for her and do whatever you can to help).
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · last wk.Will Minnesota’s next senator be a real Democratic fighter or a Schumer-backed moderate who voted to thank ICE? It all comes down to the work we do over the next 3 days — and you can help get out the vote for Peggy Flanagan’s people-powered campaign from anywhere: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Seconded. Also, if you can give blood, especially if you're O+, need is dire right now.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last wk.World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...
Gray catbirds are yelling MIAAOW in the twilight. Chimney swifts are crisscrossing the sky, chittering. The cardinals will utter their last What Cheer of the day soon.
A new chapter has begun in Winnipeg’s literary landscape with the opening of science fiction and fantasy bookstore Other Places Books.
Out of this world
New sci-fi/fantasy bookstore a welcome addition
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![Comic. [Two people with tiny star floating above display on table.] PERSON 1 with ponytail: Now, your grandmother said this was a relic low-mass population III star, from the first generation of stars. Unfortunately, the high iron content shows that it formed much later, after several rounds of supernovas. I’m afraid it’s a population I star. PERSON 2: Aw, darn. Well, it still has sentimental value. [banner for Antiques Roadshow]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid2vzxc6ftisazc66p275gofrnkpbotbksmz7prz26wkuej7653we)
Yesterday: a Blue Dasher dragonfly watches over the marsh from his perch on a bent cattail leaf.
Help get the good folks at Smitten Kitten to Germany! They have not stopped doing mutual aid and rent relief since Metro Surge.
Mara Abolish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · 2w agoMembers of Unidos and the staff of Smitten Kitten are traveling to Germany to accept their peace prize. Unidos folks are much more buttoned up this is gonna be awesome. Anyway shop at Smitten Kitten to help those amazing staffers afford their trip! smittenkittenonline.com
i will need to wait a few days to get results of zelda's ultrasound, but in the meantime: the bill was very high and while it has been put on credit, it's very much a hardship for me right now. if you'd like to help: ko-fi.com/afiregender/...
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Become a supporter of Aleta Perez today!
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Boosting. Reed is our long distance neighbor and we should see if we can get this covered soon!
reed eliot 🤌 🤌@reedeliot.bsky.social · 2w agoFuck it We need a fence. We got quoted $1000 for something secure and solid to keep folks out of our yard at 3am. We are a household of mostly disabled trans organizers. We need help. My venmo is @ reedeliot Please help us out. It's getting fuckin wild.
If you've never met the wonderful, irrepressible Wren, hero of the Wren's World series, now's your chance! WREN'S QUEST by @sherwood.bsky.social is available in #ebook from Book View Cafe & other fine venues. Epic adventure for all fantasy lovers! #WrensWorldSeries bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announce...
BVC Announces Wren's Quest by Sherwood Smith
Wren's Quest by Sherwood Smith Wren thought she was an orphan. After discovering that she might have family, she wants to spend her first vacation from C
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It's 65 F and raining. All the windows are open to cool down the house from yesterday's 89 degrees. I'm freezing and I love it. I refuse to put on a sweater. I have said Fuck You aloud to Wonderground's sedate announcement that tomorrow will be MUCH WARMER than today.
YES! It is my author copies of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR! Dreadfully hot humid day but WHO CARES I HAVE MY BOOK
This is a great hilarious thread, and I would not be possessed of one-tenth of the equanimity it displays under the same circumstances.
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 3w agoOvernight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
Okay here's my Disability Pride Month Story Recommendation Thread! I'll update it across the month with books and short stories that I love. (It won't be daily because I am quite disabled and life is about to avalanche on me.) So! Here are things that ruled and that you should read.
HELLO I better see everybody AND THEIR RICH FRIENDS supporting Neon Hemlock because WHOMST ELSE IS OUT THERE publishing such fine novellas? novellae? NOVELLOSITIES. NOBODY, THAT'S WHOMST
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 3w agoPre-order now in Vol. 7 of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
meanwhile, AI CANNOT: do math write alt text cite information do research organize information be a therapist or advisor take notes respect privacy this is by design and by priority. AI is being shoved into these tasks that it cannot do to justify the above functions. do not buy in.
so much light. yet another woman whose voice we refused to hear. An homage to her prophetic voice through a feminist theological lens:
never get old
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Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3w agoRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
But of course, read the whole thread. Grateful for Cory Doctorow, and grateful he writes about Silicon Valley with a flamethrower....
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3w agoAs an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/
I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila
