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I would really like to write the story I've been solicited to write for this collection. (Space opera! Fashion! Politics!)

But it needs to get funded for that to happen.

OUCH

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Internet randos blundering onto the feeds of experts and being blithely idiotic is one of my favorite genres of post.

My god. You don't come for @dieworkwear.bsky.social or school @courtneymilan.com or lecture @bcdreyer.social . When will they learn??

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An excellent take.

Gorgeous!! 😍

What an excellent argument for cancelling your KU subscription!

Her model is essentially that of spam (or, before it, bulk mail) — put enough garbage out there and a few people will respond; even the tiniest return on investment will yield a profit. This is dehumanizing, cynical, gross, and shameful.

Yeah shame on NYT for not publishing her pen names. "We interviewed a brazen thief who runs a massive criminal enterprise training other thieves, here's anonymity"

I feel your pain. 😢

Wow, this looks cool!

I swear more than half the ads I see on websites and in apps are for a single company: Temu.

And I have never ONCE bought anything from there nor even browsed their site.

Why are they so RELENTLESS when I have expressed exactly zero interest?!?

I will keep this in mind as a last resort. But for now just digging it all out and knowing I'll have to do it again for all the stuff that regrows.

It just sounded like cacophonous honking to me. I did not detect a tune. 😅

Haha! A ubiquitous nuisance. However, if they are antifa I will have a higher opinion of them... 🤔

(there's a small harakeke plant at the end of the bed that I adore, but I wish I could transfer it somewhere where it would have more room. Not sure if that's possible)

A small garden strip on top of a wall. All the green parts of the agapanthus plants have been removed, so it's just a tangled mass of pale, fleshy roots looking like a million grubs swarming the ground.

The same view of the wall as before, but also showing the stairs below absolutely covered with roots that have been pulled out by the handfuls.

Today I started my eradication campaign against agapanthus in the yard. It will probably take years. #nzgardens

Cover of The Subtle Art of Folding Space, along with the Publishers Weekly review: In Hugo and Nebula award winner Chu’s smart, funny, and intricate debut, a Gaia-like presence lies comatose, and it’s up to her daughter Ellie to rescue her. Complicating this quest are physics student Ellie’s fears that saving her mom will mean tampering with the “skunkworks,” the liminal plane that underpins the multiverse, and her vicious older sister, Chris, who, since childhood, has been staging daily attacks against Ellie with the pretext of honing her survival skills. Meanwhile, their cousin Daniel serves as a fact-checker for the skunkworks. Whenever a glitch in the laws of physics is reported—such as a beach ball going through a wall instead of bouncing off it—he manifests repair plans. When Daniel and Ellie are summoned to a meeting with the multiverse’s chief architect, Mary, the cleverly unfolding plot gets a new crease. To save their universe and many others, Daniel and Ellie must wrangle with a renegade posse of physicists who are warping the laws of nature to keep Ellie’s mom alive. Chu loads his tale with wordplay and cultural and scientific references that read like inside jokes for an audience of engineers. It’s as rollicking as it is thought-provoking. (Apr.) Correction: An earlier version of this review misidentified the location where Ellie’s mom lies comatose and misdescribed Mary as Taiwanese. The review has been further updated for clarity.

Publishers Weekly calls The Subtle Art of Folding Space a "smart, funny, and intricate debut" and says "It’s as rollicking as it is thought-provoking."
Release date is 4/7. Available to pre-order now!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Science can do amazing things when it's properly funded and not serving someone's twisted agenda.

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A hard-working kākāpō!!

Good luck!! 🤞🤞

If I see you post about it, I'll repost!! (not that I have clout or anything...)

I guess there isn't a sample chapter somewhere we could read? Or you would have already said something...

This sounds like a really fun book!! I would love to read it. Let's give this author some support!

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Avocados. Never ready when you need them...

SO CURIOUS to see how this works out! It's a great idea but I'm just not sure how they will set it up.

Omg these are beautiful 😍

Hear, Hear!

Ouch.