Michelle Ruiz Keil

It's so beautiful!!!!

My #worldcon2025 panels were the best! And thank you for this quote because I always leave with almost no recollection of what I said!

Picture of MAD SISTERS OF ESI cover on a yellow background: featuring a pink whale coming out of a cosmic coral forest

Five days left until Mad Sisters of Esi is out, and here’s a collection of the nice things that have happened to the sisters: 🧵

Majestic.

It has become impossible to distinguish between Israel’s decidedly non-surgical operation against Hamas militants in Gaza and the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians. When so-called humanitarian pauses in the bombardment and ground operations are too brief to realistically permit innocents to flee, or when there is no place for non-combatants to go that is not also in the line of fire, such pauses are so deficient as to be meaningless.

Remaining mindful of America’s mistakes, it is incumbent upon the Biden administration now to avoid complicity with Israel’s. We are past the time to excuse the horror in Gaza. Biden has to press Netanyahu hard to stop the mass, indiscriminate killing. That starts with a call for a cease-fire.

So far the LA Times stands alone in their call for a ceasefire. May others follow suit.

Granddoodle on pink velvet

So glad to hear it! I loved Spear!

I love their ears--they look especially pointy here. Very editorial.

Can't wait to read it!

Side yard visitor.

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Series 5 - Homer: The Iliad - BBC Sounds Natalie Haynes stands up for Homer's Iliad.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Omg. Heading over to get it right now.

Beauties

Wow, you captured the anger that little eyeball. Hummingbirds don't play.

I'm so excited for it! Trying to figure out who in my family will let me fully nerd out and read it to them aloud...

Congratulations

How did you know?

Yeah...at a book event the other day, an innocent reader's book question got somehow turned into me gossiping about my neighborhood birds. I write fiction. With birds but, you know, not directly.

From my notes: Zadie Smith, in a 2016 interview in Slate, talking about Ursula Le Guin.

I also feel the richness of Ursula's life in her work, but I don't know about "overwhelming." She explored her experience through male and nonbinary characters, too, and I love the balance that creates.

If I just lol'd am I a bird nerd?

The occupation is an intolerable crime, and resistance to it is a fundamental right, and murdering civilians is wrong, and collective punishment of an entrapped population is immoral. We live in a world of ands, not ors.

She's stressed because each day she looks more and more human. What's happening????

It's really hard if you are any size larger than a US 14.

Yeah I'll fight them for that. Don't show me your cute clothes if you won't let me wear them...it's just RUDE.

Two small kittens playing. Action shot.

What this terrible no good very bad weekend needs is more foster kitten content, and I’m here to do my part.

All cats and rabbits, as consumate shade-throwers, can. Some dogs can but most are innocents.

Or, you know, maybe a wildlife camera? We just got one. So excited to see who visits our yard!

What a gorgeous picture!