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Anna Orridge@anna-orridge.bsky.social |
1511 followers 1476 following 5431 posts
Climate crisis, horror, writing, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. Shabby without the chic. she/her
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
@sheencr.bsky.social
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This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪
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nonbinary papa iv
@aardvarkwizard.bsky.social
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If you see this, post a bird I hope this counts (drawn from the raven skeleton at NMNH)
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Babe&Oak
@babeandoak.bsky.social
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If you see this - post a bird 🎨 • Corvus&Crater •
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Read this great thread below. We can build a climate community on Bluesky. Here’s a starter pack for folks to follow some people who work on climate. go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ
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Jessica Kant
@jessdkant.bsky.social
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I removed the previous post with the link to the GFM for Pauly because I can't justify linking to something which also misgenders her. Here is the one news source out of two dozen I read that genders her correctly. www.pghlesbian.com/2024/07/paul...
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Jessica Kant
@jessdkant.bsky.social
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The world feels extra crushing right now, and it's hard not to turn that inward when we've been conditioned to do so for generations. I don't know who else needs to hear this, but to the whole trans community and everyone in it: this is not your fault. You deserve so, so much better than this.
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Wole Talabi
@wtalabi.bsky.social
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Hey y'all. Join me, @suyidavies.com, Tlotlo and Ivana for a discussion on Afrocentric futurisms. We'll talk African speculative fiction, thematic resonances in our recent books, class, climate and African philosophies in SF, plus more!
Register here: macmillan-publishers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Chise
@sailorrooscout.bsky.social
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Chemistree ⚛️🧪
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Sonia Sulaiman
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
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Hey, specfic friends. Can you think of any podcasts that would be interested in featuring Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction?
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
@farhana.bsky.social
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🚨My book is online!🚨 "Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice" This was a journey & labor of love to clarify what climate coloniality is & how to decolonize climate justice. Thanks to many for their support! Details below.🧵
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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It happened then that I looked back to the anchored Floriana. Despite rowing for so long that our muscles stung with the intensity of a burning thirst, we were close enough to see the limber holes. I swear they gleamed - a row of wicked, vulpine eyes in fog, caught in lantern light.
#vssGhostShip
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Luna Press Publishing
@lunapress.bsky.social
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Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! @rainewilson.bsky.social
www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/lorrain...
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Null convention
@nullconvention.bsky.social
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Trans women will often drift into militancy out of a kind of necessity. We don't really choose to be hardasses about shit and honestly a lot of us are pretty nice but many people's first encounter with us is when they decide to say some dumb shit we've heard about a thousand times and won't drop it.
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David Bowman
@dlbowman76.com
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If you see this, post a bird! 🖤
#SciArt #birds #drawing #art
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D is bad at names
@dvosk.bsky.social
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.“ - Rebecca Solnit (1/)
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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💔❤️🩹
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🌱 Mossy (Princess Hellcat)
@hellcatprincess.bsky.social
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What am I so scared of? Oh you do not want to hear the answer to that If I tell you you will have a tiny hatred of me a tiny creeping hatred (Don’t feel bad it happens to everyone) 1/
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luke the myoclonic jerk
@coolhand.bsky.social
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It’s beautiful to watch the flow of an idea as it diverges over centuries of cultural exchange and interaction
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Lee Ann Kostempski, debut author :)
@leeannwrites.bsky.social
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#HorrorWritersChat
Her disability is my own: endometriosis. Though the story is set in a medieval dark fantasy version of England, & there was no word yet for endo (or surgery to treat it), there is plenty of writing from ancient Greek records that cite endo-like symptoms thousands of yrs ago.
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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Thanks, it's appreciated:)
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Byron C Clark
@byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes
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J. Lily Corbie
@jlilycorbie.bsky.social
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#HorrorWritersChat Over and over, I found stories about Deaf people going out to eat and servers attempting to be helpful by presenting them with Braille menus. I don't know what to make of that broader pattern except that it seems emblematic of how often 'help' isn't actually helpful.
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Will Yeates
@wyeates.bsky.social
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Jamie McKelvie
@mckelvie.bsky.social
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So all the political media will give the Greens as much attention as Reform now, yeah. *Sideways look to camera two*
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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Back in the early to mid 2010s there was this view that you should gently convince right wingers to believe in climate science and my response was always: "a right wing that believes the science is scarier than one that denies it"
WELP HERE WE ARE
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Stan Stewart (muz4now)
@muz4now.bsky.social
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Researchers make startling connection between US lakes and wildfires: 'Surprising, even to us' #ClimateActionNow
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Gabino Iglesias
@gabino.bsky.social
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Write that thing. Make it weird. Make it sad. Make it funny or kinky or scary or whatever you want. Write what makes you happy.
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Eleonor Piteira
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
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Happy to share the poster illustration I did for Gerald McMorrow's new short film EMBERS! ✨ It's an incredible short based on a story by Douglas Adams (that is in turn a retelling of the Sibylline Books), a fable about climate change, greed, and the consequences of our actions.
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Pestilence
@pestilence4all.bsky.social
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He’s got a valid point. If they want to play this game then teachers who are disgusted by it play dirty.
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Hexagon SF Magazine
@hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
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Hexagon submissions are open until July 7th! 🧡 We are specifically on the hunt for: 🦑 Eldritch Horror 🪳 New Weird 🏚️ Haunted or cursed places 🚫 Anti-corporation 👨🚀 Speculative employment 🧛🏻 Vampires on alternative diets
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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Thanks :) It was a long time ago, but this stuff does stick with you.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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-40,000+ killed -15,000+ children killed -20,000 children missing -70% of Gaza's buildings destroyed -60% of Gaza's farms destroyed -2,200,000 displaced
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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But there weren’t other friends and yeah, you know exactly where this is going. It’s all so fucking tedious, isn’t it? I suppose I can count myself lucky he let me out of the house to order a taxi. The horrible thing is I genuinely believe he liked my boyfriend. But that wasn’t enough.
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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I remember this one guy, a mature student in his 60s (oddly enough) who made friends with my boyfriend and me (early 20s). He’d often invite us and a few others over to watch films at his house. Anyway, one night my boyfriend couldn’t make it but he told me there were other friends coming.
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Helen Day
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
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“A branch of flowering lime hangs above the roof” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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Fading bluebells kiss
the warming air. Petal lips
whisper out their blue.
#whistpr
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Gabe
@gabewastaken.bsky.social
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i gave my bare feet to the ground and gave thanks there was ground to stand on i complained inwardly at the dirt and uncomfortable textures and gave thanks i could still feel them under my feet i gave my bare feet to the ground hoping roots might tether me to this life probing for water and truth
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K.C. Mead-Brewer
@kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social
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hey it’s me! I’ve got a tiny, fresh spooky story for you up with the marvelous @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 🦇🦇🦇🦇
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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“Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis, when talking to children. They tell us, we’re waiting for our legs to grow again. Sometimes, it’s difficult to explain that that’s not going to happen.”
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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
@climatena.bsky.social
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There is the profound trauma from ever more dangerous Hurricanes like Beryl and then the slow more subtle degradation of our mental health from climate change: www.webmd.com/mental-healt...
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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Seriously, it’s one of the things that continues to astonish me, even after 44 years of not very sheltered life. Friendships, marriages, respect and even jobs. A very non- zero number of men will risk it all for a very outside chance of sex, even when they know the power dynamics are very dodgy.
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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Unfortunately, I have met a non-zero number of cis men who can recite their progressive lines exquisitely and with real conviction. And they seem to be living their values. But then they find themselves in a position of power over a young woman they find attractive. And yes, well.
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Sasha Danielle
@sasha-danielle.bsky.social
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I'm trans. This was also my little tribute to Lorca.
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Beyond Fossil Fuels
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social
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💡 Generating 1,000 AI images produces the same carbon emissions as driving a gas-powered car for 6.5 km...that's a lot of energy.
This surge in AI energy demand is threatening the climate goals of Google and other big tech companies.
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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Je Hyeon Sim 심제현 grampy radish
@naptime.theolive.garden
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can we get a thread of sci-fi writers going? BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled authors to the front! we all need new reading material!! please alt text images and add links so we can buy from you
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Hillary Monahan
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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10000% this. Adding gray areas to when sex assault is good, actually, makes you a major, major problem. Sex assault is NEVER. OKAY.
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Jeff VanderMeer
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
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anemones
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J. Mijin Cha
@jmijin.bsky.social
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Ahead of my book release, I wrote a piece for the newly launched Break/ Down, which focuses on capitalism and the climate crisis. In it, I preview one of my main arguments on what a just transition does- and doesn’t- entail
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