Roy Kesey
@roykesey.bsky.social
Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.
Hell of a list!
Amber Sparks@ambersparks.bsky.social · 4d agoIncredibly excited (and shocked) to be in this anthology! Also positive this is the only time I’ll share pages w/ Shirley Jackson, HP Lovecraft, Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, @benloory.bsky.social, Amy Hempel, Joyce Carol Oates, Joy Williams, Danielle Dutton, and @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social
The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.
Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 5d agoHappy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
I've been informed that cover reveals & pre-order requests are still a thing, & so I give you LORE. Huge thanks to everyone at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for building the beautiful cover, & to everyone who pre-orders (w/ discount via www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...) - you are beloved by me.
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It's inevitable and everyone's using it, also I need 4 billion million trillion dollars to remain solvent for the next 4 months.
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
Humans are pattern-seeking and pattern-building creatures. We tend to anthropomorphize the things we deal with regularly, both as a way to vocalize the qualities of a thing we subconsciously intuit, and to have a sense of control. I think that's part of why coders are weird about AI.
Woke from a dream where SpaceAI hacked & emptied all US bank accounts & put all the $ in their own. & because EM had funded the president's re-election, he had the support of the DoJ & Supreme Court, so. & anyone who complained was sent to a data center gulag. I'm sure everything's fine tho.
The Rock and Roll Reading kicks off at 6 p.m. September 11, 2026, at Chicago's Rainbo Club. About a dozen readers will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its offshoots or precursors) for three minutes or less each (the length of a song). Super fun times. No cover.
Readers include @tarabetts.bsky.social @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social @roykesey.bsky.social @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social. Thanks to @suecifer69420.bsky.social for the dope flyer!
"Curiosity has a way of making obedience conditional. A girl who is encouraged to ask questions about the world may eventually ask questions about the rules governing her own life: Who made them? Why do they exist? Who benefits from them? What happens if I disagree?" www.salon.com/2026/08/28/w...
Why the right is so afraid of the Girl Scouts
Behind the cookies and badges is a quietly radical idea: Girls should be curious about the world
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Truly crazy how many people mocked the idea that students outsourcing their work to LLMs would degrade their capabilities. Imagine arguing that about a student who paid a friend to do all their homework. Why would it be any different with a computer program?
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last mo.Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
"All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake." —Jean Rhys
Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.
On the blog this week, WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION - some book recommendations for #WITMonth. Featuring books by Alba de Céspedes (tr. Ann Goldstein), Magda Szabó (tr. Len Rix), Vigdis Hjorth (tr. Charlotte Barslund) & more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...
Women Writers in Translation – some book recommendations for #WITMonth
As many of you know, August is #WITMonth (Women in Translation), a celebration of books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English (and then translated for English-speaking…
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York Minster Cathedral as seen from the Lord Mayor’s Walk. 📷📸🧭🏴⛪ #england #york #citywall #photography
A carved head on the door canopy of Jacob’s Well, a 15th-C building in York. 📷📸🧭🏴🏰 #england #york #jacobswell #photography
Okay fine ONE MORE picture of the sky above Lake Windermere but only because of the gull photobomb. 📷📸🧭🏴🪶☁️ #england #lakedistrict #bowness #windermere #sky #photography
There is green and there is *green*. Near River Rothay, below Rydal Cave. 📷📸🧭🌿🏴 #england #lakedistrict #ambleside #tree #photography
Writing assignment #2: the ontology of memory as mapped to that which we collect. Setting: the stone bluffs at the top of Brandt Fell. 📷📸🧭⛰️🖋️🏴 #england #lakedistrict #windermere #photography
