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The BEST. I've been doing manuscript/screenplay evaluations for 20 years (freelance) and it's so gratifying to support writers, especially when they have unique, potent stories to tell.

A line graph of world newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming from 2004 to 2025 in continents around the world.

Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events.

Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...

Narrator: It was BOTH.

Have you heard of Getting Word? It’s a collective of literary organizations dedicated to the cultivation and preservation of Black literature.

This Juneteenth, you can support their mission to #fundblackliterature and shop their curated list on our site:

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Thank you, Rep. Hortman. Your life mattered.

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The thing about human rights is that they belong to every single human being unconditionally

Along Came The Spiders If I write this, maybe they'll stop haunting me.

I have written my first Substack post under duress. 🕷️ On screenwriting, sorcery, and spiders.

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Controversial from the POV of should-these-places-be-preserved, I mean.

Disgraceful! We have similar place in Rhode Island (though not a plantation) but they educate people abt slave trade through tours, exhibits, visiting lecturers, creative writers residency, annual Frederick Douglass event, Juneteenth healing ceremony & celebration. Still controversial but not hidden

Someone's tweet: "Finally watching the last episode of Adolescence. Got to say, it's a bold choice for a drama to go with the idea that the real consequence of a girl being murdered is that the killer's dad might feel a bit sad about it."

I knew someone - probably plenty of someones - would have this take. A zillion crime shows portray the impact on a victim's family. Part of the point of Adolescence is showing the impact on the killer's family. Stunning that this goes over people's heads. Anyway, episode 4 absolutely gutted me.

Bright Green Futures | Susan Kaye Quinn | Substack We lift up stories about a more sustainable and just world and talk about the struggle to get there. To build better futures, we need to imagine them first. Click to read Bright Green Futures, by Susa...

Hey, storytellers! Some of us must dismantle, as others must envision and build. If you're the latter, check out @susankayequinn.bsky.social's work. Her Substack is chock full of galvanizing info to help us SEE our way to a better future. brightgreenfutures.substack.com

@bsky.app Since the Govt has now said it's using social media to identify folks with dissenting views, will you change your functionality to allow people to delete past comments? Otherwise their safety is at risk.

Also, if you didn't know, there was also a virtual protest for anyone who couldn't be there in person. I hope that continues to happen!

No kidding! Neither Mark or I had heard of it before the doc! I love that for you.

I really loved it too. I think the (understandable) media spectacle of the hidden apartment didn't uncover what the film's messaging was - that art and life can be inextricable, that artists are not frivolous but intentional as evidenced by the tape art projects the installation seemed to support.

Slime molds have things to teach us. That a being can change but at the same time remain itselves—to use Octavia Butler’s phrase. That there is life and beauty in rot, in decay, in decomposition, in the ashes. That a hallmark of life is evanescence and ephemerality. That our limited, Romantic understanding of the world—“ew, slime”—is outdated. That nonhierarchical, nonbinary being is part of the reality of the world.

apropos of absolutely nothing today, this article by Lucy Jones on the nonbinary nature of slime is an excellent and beautiful read

emergencemagazine.org/essay/creatu...

This quote from @mapcenter.com really resonates thepublicsradio.org/artscape/the...

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My new #solarpunk anthology (releases Earth Day!) is up on Goodreads. In case you want to add to your TBR! 🌻📚🌞

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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

A meme of a meme; like the dog with coffee in burning house, it’s a plague doctor with chalice in burning castle saying ‘tis fine’ (medieval style) link to creator provided

Tis fine.

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Makes sense. Thanks, Nicole.

I just love this figure from @jksteinberger.bsky.social in their paper on "Discourses of Climate Delay".

You can find all the arguments of your colleagues and influencers taking the world in the wrong direction.

Perhaps we need another paper rebutting each?

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm so sorry. Absolutely horrific and unfair.

I agree about the cruelty. And you're probably right about the rest. Still baffled why countries of origin wouldn't take their own citizens back. Gather there's also some kind of money making scheme involved in the detention centers. Just UGH. Sick.

Horrific. Why would they want to keep people detained vs. releasing them in other countries? I would say it's to scare future migrants away with particularly cruel punishment, but this is so far out of sight. So...?

Assuming it's some kind of a service, but also makes me weary of human-seeming bots.