Eleri Denham

White crocuses in the foreground with more white and purple crocuses in the background.

Today in the park: a hundred tiny reminders of hope for brighter days ahead.

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over An incomplete breakdown of Jeff Bezos' financial priorities, weighing one piece of propaganda (Melania) against 300 jour

Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

https://www.avclub.com/melania-budget-paid-every-fired-washington-post-journalist-salary-three-times

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

The whistles are the entry point. But the long game is the community that is being formed every time someone who has never really been engaged before decides to do This One Thing that gives them a reason to talk to their neighbors.

Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.

Late to the party, I know, but I finally canceled Spotify after years and years. Feels good. 💪🏻

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Dramatically lit clouds at sunset as seen from the Indianola Dock.

A sunset photo of Mt Rainier.

A horned grebe, Port Madison.

Spent my time as a visiting artist-in-residence reading & writing & drinking in the Salish Sea views. On Sunday I led a workshop on place-based writing, and I can't imagine a better setting to talk about the impact a place can have. So thankful to Rambler Arts for this beautiful week.

The Indianola Dock with exposed pilings at low tide.

A red building with a sign identifying it as the Indianola Country Store, with water in the background.

A set of seven books and notebooks on a wooden kitchen table.

A selfie of a person in a yellow beanie, with open water and Mt Rainier in the background.

Scenes from Indianola.

!! Thank you so much for sharing this lovely write-up, Megan. It was so nice to meet you. Wishing you all the best with your writing! (And yes, the rest of the residency was really wonderful!)

This makes me so happy to hear! Wishing you all the best with your writing!

San Juan Islands, what a dream you are.

Whew, online engagement is really tough right now. I know it because I see Uncanny Magazine still has stretch goals that need to be unlocked! 51 hours to go: www.kickstarter.com/...

“Rumor has it that by the time he died, the better-days-past vine had overtaken his house so completely that the funeral director had to come equipped with gardening shears to remove the body from the premises.“

Oh I just know this plant would be the end of me. ✨🌱 🍵

Thanks for reading and sharing!! ☺️

Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine—Eleri Denham The anamnesis plant can be difficult to identify at first glance. With its deep green leaves and eye-catching silver splotches, it is frequently mistaken for one of the more unusual varieties of sa…

Hope yall enjoy this weird little flash of mine. 🖤🪴 @crowkeys.bsky.social

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A houseplant (satin pothos) with silvery patterns on green leaves.

Fun fact: This is the actual plant that lives in my house (a Scindapsus pictus Silver Splash, for the botanically inclined) that inspired "Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine." Let me know if you see any faces in it.

Congrats on 500 posts!! Honored to have this piece among them🖤

A muted greyscale banner for flash fiction, Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine by Eleri Denham published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a close up of a leaf with silver markings.

We are in a celebratory mood, here at the tower. Today's post is very special, not only because it is in a fun format (we love a fun format), but because it is our 500th post! Please enjoy...

"Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine" by @eleridenham.bsky.social

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Adding to the chorus of other voices in these comments: Please, please do not do this. We desperately need the kind of conservation-focused community that iNat has fostered. You will fundamentally betray that community if you move ahead with this plan.

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Poster for the Earth Shorts for Earth Day screening, happening on April 24 at the PAM CUT Tomorrow Theater

Portland friends! On April 24, come see some Earth themed short films, including mine!

@makingearthcool.bsky.social

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Thanks for the shout-out, Matt!

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

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Really pleased to have this little piece in the latest issue of Bending Genres, out today. It's quite different from what I usually write & I'm so glad it found such an awesome home. Thank you, thank you to @bendinggenres.bsky.social. Can't wait to read the whole issue!
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