“If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.” 100% with you, Herr Bach. & I'm sure @kateristau.bsky.social is more a seven bowls a day type. ☕☕☕☕☕☕☕ Fun fact: Bach wrote a Coffee Cantata: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweig...

Sometimes, I back out of my spot the old timey way, by looking over my shoulder. Or I take side streets w/o the aid of a map app. Or do hard math sans calculator. Or to try recall a thing I could easily search online for. Anyone else have tips and tricks to resist total cognitive offloading?

Oh hey, @escapepod.org! It was super nice to open up bluesky and find this!

Escape Pod@escapepod.org · 2w ago

Hello, sophonts! This week we've got a flashback for you on this Flashback Friday: "Impossibility Crow" by @remymura.bsky.social. It's got violence and swears, so you know it's not one of those stories that doesn't have those!

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

I baked rolls this morning and if I could share this divine aroma with you I would

omg, I want to talk Odyssey. I feel like I'm ten again, checking out every book the school library has on Greek myths, scrawling my name repeatedly on those cards in the back of the books

Matt Damon is majorly lost in a Hollywood blockbuster again and I'm so here for it. #odyssey

So, I SCIENCED THE HECK out of my "let's check on friends" 'gram sesh. Images: The "data" I threw together in a 20 min whiteboard session . My inner data viz is cringing, but hey, I mostly want to raise questions & poke at your gray matter. i.e. message > detailed accuracy and presentation

Our storytellers got it right. This is Camazotz. We are prey for vampires, batteries for the machines.

I interneted like it is 2006 and wrote a blog! On my commitment to social media FEAST for the next two weeks! mindonfire.com/2026/07/14/s...

I don't smoke, but I just read the prologue for Heated Rivalry, and I may need one! 🥵🌡

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And the people we want to share space with us -- to settle into our own personal gravity -- shoot us texts and like our posts (reminders on tiny screens instead of sinking into couch cushions and shar...

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Whew. Finally recovering from this weekend at the Nebulas. Big congrats to the Nebula finalists and winners! Our future Grand Masters. The ceremony was lovely and the whole con was a tight-run ship; big thanks to the staff!

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association@sfwa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This Nebula Ceremony, in Chicago & online, is a time to reveal our latest winners & also celebrate our special award recipients. It is OUR honor at #SFWA to thank N. K. Jemisin for her tremendous contributions to genre. Our 42nd Grand Master is a powerhouse whose work is not yet done! #61stNebulas

In Jemisin's speech, she said "There is value in tradition until it becomes a chain wrapped around a child. To people who feel there is a threat to tradition, anything is better than growth, even death." Listen to the entire speech here. 2/ youtu.be/nmAxXj7-xxA?...

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I also loved Ryka Aoki's speech introducing the Nebula Award for Best Poetry, where Aoki noted trans and queer people have always been here. "And you know what, so has poetry." Watch the speech by @rykaaoki.bsky.social here. 3/ youtu.be/nmAxXj7-xxA?...

The 61st Annual Nebula Awards Ceremony

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From @nkjemisin.bsky.social's SFWA Grandmaster speech: Spec fic "has always been home to the literary avant garde & to rejectors of the status quo & to progressive activists. WEB Du Bois was one of us. Mary Shelley, a feminist raised by an anarchist, is our progenitor. We've been woke since day 1"

So many kudos to @marneechua.bsky.social and @common-area.bsky.social and all who are making this happen! Clarion West's mission of making spec fic learning more accessible & inclusive is why I'm proud to work for Clarion West. I'm excited for the opportunities this will open up for our community!

Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My new Genre Grapevine covers the partnership between Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social and Common AREA Maintenance in Seattle to establish a long-term, affordable space for artist residencies, classes, and other events. Includes interview with @marneechua.bsky.social on what this means for CW.

Saw a "masculinity expert" on Twitter describe the typical male marathon runner's body as "low T" and thus should be avoided. But this was exactly the physique of a 28-year-old Gary Cooper in the 1929 film "Wolf Song." Like Brando, Cooper also represented a form of ideal 20th century masculinity.

Interesting to see this 1947 test screen with Marlon Brando for the film "Rebel Without a Cause." Brando, of course, would later epitomize mid-century American masculinity. He was 23-years-old here.

Last night, I fought burnout by making a lemon-themed meal: - lemon-garlic linguini - grilled broccoli & lemon w/chili & garlic - a simple lemon-parmesan green salad - lemon pudding cake When life gives you lemons, make a 4-course dinner? inspo source link: cooking.nytimes.com/article/lemo...

100% this. Honor and celebrate movements, not men.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

"Your bread will sing to you as it cools": I dunno but I expected some kind of angelic GBBO choir, not this giant alien insect mandible clacking

Charshanbeh Suri has begun in Iran — also known as Scarlet Wednesday, it’s an ancient festival of Zoroastrian origins, taking place on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year. Iranians dance around bonfires, singing, asking the fire to replace their sickness and sorrow with warm vitality.

Anyhow, I've got an artisanal loaf proofing in a banneton basket. And this scene is going through its second or third strengthening and folding session. It's a long way to beautiful, delicious doneness, but I'm (reasonably) confident that it will get there, because I have a process now.

I realized that my pomodoro writing sprints line up nicely with bread proofing. Thinking a lot about how I avoided baking bread for years because it intimidated me. I rose out of this fear by turning baking into a practice. I think I'm trying to do something similar with my writing.

Passing this on for Portland friends at home or away. If you’ve the resources to donate or can make a call. Thanks @remymura.bsky.social ! pircoregon.org

So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning. A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 6mo ago

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Hey hey you can see me and @remymura.bsky.social doing our best and having a good time live on AM Northwest this morning whenever you want now! katu.com/amnw/am-nort...

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