N.A. Chapman 🍄

When we create something & lose track of time doing so, the levels of 3 brain biochemicals shift significantly,alleviating anxiety,lifting mood & conferring a natural high.
I filmed myself painting these before the pandemic👇🏼. Haven’t painted in years due to mental illness but my brain needs this…

I realize that pub crawls are all the rage, but I truly feel as though there could be an immense market for library crawls, bakery crawls, museum crawls, bookstore crawls, and greenhouse crawls.

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who help turtles cross the road.

We Will Rise Again From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...

From editors Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord, and Malka Older: WE WILL RISE AGAIN, Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope. It's never been more relevant. @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social Preorder now!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

New platform idea:
A site where each of your posts and replies must be written, signed, and physically mailed to a clerk who transcribes your words to the site.
You get like four a week. Max.
Also, every day they post one new pic of a very handsome owl.
That's it.
Slow by design. Don't waste words.

Y’know who wants to take a “gender and women’s studies” class? Young women. Know who makes up more than half of all undergrads?

Monarch butterfly that just hatched

Another monarch butterfly that just hatched

Third monarch butterfly that just hatched

if you need something beautiful in your life today three monarch butterflies just hatched at our house

This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.

This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won.

Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.

grist.org/energy/this-...

#Climate #Energy #DataCenter #AI

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

"Don't apologize for art, for sharing it, for expressing it. We should all mind our own safety, but when we can sing? We sing brightly." - @edebell.com @atthisarts.com

🤩💞🌈💖🎉
#art #ArtBook #IndiePress #SupportArtists #SupportIndie

Faraway Dreaming by Ulla Thynell An art book and story of forest, peace, and a calming night journey. Dragons, hills, and magic to soothe your soul.

Last chance!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

The big 50 looms! Saturday.

And the book of my writing path... is released into the wild.

Look at those two spiral galaxies. Two Milky Ways. Two hundreds of billions of stars and planets. Two homes.

*slams fists onto table* DAMMIT the universe is SO COOL.

FWIW I use Ghost for my newsletter. Not free but pretty cheap and far less 🐂 💩

I see people saying stuff like "why criticize Substack but give other problematic platforms (like, say, YouTube) a pass?

Which is a fair point.

Thing is, YouTube is a quasi-monopoly for sharable video. Substack wants to have a newsletter monopoly but *isn't there yet*. And it should never happen.

"If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after." Photo and quotation - Sahar Delijani, author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree, was born in Evin Prison, Tehran.

"If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after."

Sahar Delijani, author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree, was born in Evin Prison, Tehran.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahar_D...

Illustration of a demi goddess playing a fiddle. She has hair made of leaves that are flowering. She is wearing multiple layers of muse-like clothing with stripey patterns. There are sprouts of hyssop at her feet. Drawn by gdbeeart/prinnay, paint tool sai June 2025

Nature + Fiddle

This Song Called Resistance On community advocacy in a Sacrifice Zone

Spring starts as a song you barely know the words to.

A refrain here. A half remembered harmony there. Then the melodies begin to converge. Each wildling finds itself singing a little less alone.

Maybe resistance is like that too.

#EnvironmentalJustice #NatureWriting #Appalachia #Solarpunk

At least the previous tech tent revivals promised you survival. If you coded or streamed or LinkedIn you would be SECURE.

AI doesn’t even promise that! It just promises you…productivity. By making other people less secure. And you’re supposed to believe you’re in the first camp and not the second

YouTube video by WeRateDogs Top 10 Protest Dogs

Here are my top 10 protest dogs!

youtu.be/lgOtg-BeV6E

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime

WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

While one author can create an entirely new world unassisted, Meta requires 7 million worlds to create a pale facsimile of one human's creativity. It's clear to us which is more valuable.

We are extremely proud to stand behind Jason's words. Keep tech overlords in fiction where they belong.

Climate non-profits anticipate fight with Trump over tax status

Climate non-profits anticipate fight with Trump over tax status reut.rs/4jMUQ6Z

RFK Jr. is wrong about autism His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.

"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."

About a dozen white flowers with yellow centers coming up from between distinctively upright, deeply lobed leaves

By the bike path today: more black bloodroot than I’ve ever seen so close together anywhere in Michigan, blooming where once there were only weeds. Nature resurgent! But not nature alone: humans did this. Human volunteers, with a state budget, ripping out garlic mustard etc and planting native seeds

The ONE THING people with large audiences refuse to do to fight fascism is stop publishing on Substack. People are starting to publish on Substack—this month—because Substack keeps paying people to ignore their own moral center.

You can’t fight fascism in a Nazi bar.

You. Just. Fucking. Can’t.

But bravery is contagious.

There are people who think "maybe I should do something" who will look left and will look right, and if they don't see people doing things, they'll sit back down.

Make sure that they see people doing things.

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River - Inside Climate News “We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, everything in nature has...

Brilliant breaking news: this year’s Goldman Prize—the Nobel of environmentalism—is won by activist Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari for her work defending the rights & life of Peru’s Marañon River.
“For us, the river isn’t just a body of water. It’s fundamental.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

The words 'Fuck all your binaries, lichen doesn't care' written in colourful lichens across an old tree stump, covered in moss, fungi and invertebrates/ The lichens have a range of different shapes and textures, from frilly, leafy foliose lichens, to lumpy and spotty crustose lichens, to fruiticose lichens with matchstick shaped protrusions. The whole thing is drawn in ink and watercolour paint.

Today's mood:

Fuck all your binaries! Lichen doesn't care.

Be more lichen.