Rebound copies of Too Like The Lightning and Seven Surrenders next to each other on a shelf. The spines have navy book cloth, white text, and decorative horizontal borders.

Quarter bound cover of book with navy cloth spine and paste paper. Paper is abstract color smears with lightning-like patterns in medium and dark blue, dusty pink, and violet. Mimics the color scheme of the US trade paperback cover illustration.

Book lying open. Left-hand page is a replaced page typeset by me. Right-hand page is an original page from the book.

Just in time for WorldCon, I finished my Seven Surrenders rebind! Three leaves were replaced to fit in a paragraph that @adapalmer.bsky.social added for the translated editions. More details in alt text! 📚💙

(Spoiler warning for text picture: Seven Surrenders Chapter 2)

Overestimation of Knowledge About Word Meanings: The “Misplaced Meaning” Effect Children and adults may not realize how much they depend on external sources in understanding word meanings. Four experiments investigated the existence and developmental course of a “Misplaced Meani...

How do I know? I tested that myself. Because testing how much people rely on experts is part of *my* expertise. (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

The point being, relying on knowledge you personally have acquired even for *talking* isn't feasible. You *have* to trust experts.

The body of human knowledge is too vast for anyone to hold more than a tiny fraction of it. We rely on a "division of cognitive labor" for almost everything.

You might know things like "ferrets and weasels are different", but most people can name at most one actual difference without looking it up

@hestenet.bsky.social Nisqually Vista trail view. Amazing alpine meadows along the way. At my limited walking ability this was a good hike.

Myrtle Falls in Mt. Rainier National Park which has had rain and fog the past few days.

Tove Jansson also exuded cool on a megawatt scale.

The Medical Consequences of Starvation The effects can persist long after people regain access to food, experts say.

time.com/7306325/medi...

They interviewed my mother for this article, because she is one of the top experts on treating infant and child malnutrition. She pulls no punches.

"The idea that you can parachute boxes of food on the babies' heads and then expect them to grow—it doesn’t work like that.”

Writing of J. Artemis Hiya, I'm J. Artemis (they/them).

I'd like to announce that my creative nonfiction piece, "To Terese" in Alchemy magazine is now online! you can read it on my website as an embed. www.jartemis.ink

My email inbox is under 150. Now if I hold very very very still, maybe no one will ever email me again.

Hell yes!

My doctor recommended taking my anxiety meds preventatively, rather than reactively, for about a week for similar reasons.

A little place of beauty waiting to be discovered. Beautiful work from Theo Haggaï.

#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #engraving #streetart #artturbain #engraving #engrave #art

Sovereign Tech Agency’s delegation of experts

Three weeks ago, we kicked off the first-ever #Maintainathon at the United Nations, and memories are beginning to settle in. Together with this group of highly experienced open source maintainers, we created a special moment at #UNOpenSourceWeek.

We cannot afford a corn dog gap!

A somewhat lumpy golden fried object

This, beloved friends, was sold to me as a corn dog. It consists of a frankfurter cut in two pieces, separated by about two inches of a mild cheese, breaded in panko and deep fried.

God help me, it was delicious.

I fear that Poland is light years ahead of us in corn dog technology.

An eastern eagle owl with bright yellow eyes.

Owl #birb

Okay, I take it back, the mushroom ID thing WASN’T the worst use of AI.

Oh, huh, look at that, we really are in the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money.

Nature is so vast and profound. I love the way this beautiful sculpture embodies it's essence.
LOÂ by M İ S E L Y U M ART

#beautifulbizarre #sculpture #onewithnature #mysticalspirit #ancientart #spiritual #artreels #natureinspired #sculptureart #art

Here's a timestamped link to the video of Tiffany's remarks about #Drupal and #OpenSource at the #UN

50 million people in modern slavery: UN report | United Nations Forced labour and marriage have increased significantly over the last five years.

As many as 50 million people live in modern slavery, with that number *growing* by 10 million in the last 10 years, many of them children.

www.un.org/en/delegate/...

#slavery #modernslavery

...and yet the political party in power continues to pursue the erasure of the struggle for freedom of black Americans before and after the end of American slavery. (Not to mention Native Americans!)

A triangular portion of a marble monument depicting the globe and the words, "Acknowledge the tragedy"

A portion of a marble monument depicting a robed, dark-skinned person lying on their back in a niche, reminiscent of the way enslaved people were chained on transatlantic slave ships, with the words, "Consider the legacy"

A portion of a marble monument resembling the prow of a ship, with the words, "Lest we forget"

The Permanent Memorial was unveiled on 25 March 2015, which marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The memorial, located on the United Nations Visitors Plaza in New York, will invite people everywhere to contemplate the legacy of the slave trade and to fight against racism and prejudice today. Visitors can pass through the Ark of Return to intimately experience three primary elements. The first element, Acknowledge the Tragedy, is a three-dimensional map that depicts the global scale of the triangular slave trade. The second element, Consider the Legacy, is a full scale human figure lying in front of a wall inscribed with images of the interior of a slave ship. This element illustrates the extreme conditions under which millions of African people were transported during the Middle Passage. The third element, Lest We Forget, is a triangular reflecting pool where visitors can honour the memory of the millions of souls who were lost. In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly agreed to establish a Permanent Memorial in the grounds of the United Nations in New York City to honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In 2011, together with UNESCO the Permanent Memorial Committee launched a design competition. The Ark of Return by Haitian-American architect Rodney Leon was chosen among 310 entries from 83 countries. The project is funded through generous voluntary contributions from Member States, complemented by funding from foundations and private individuals.

In a country that claims its founding principle is freedom, there should be no more sacred a holiday than #Juneteenth.

"Acknowledge the tragedy. Consider the legacy. Lest we forget."

#Juneteenth #Freedom #Antifascism #America #USA

#UnitedNations #UNOpenSourceWeek

Pleased to announce my new open access paper out in Developmental Psychology:
The Development of the “First Thing That Comes to Mind”

with @xphilosopher.bsky.social and @ebonawitz.bsky.social

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-25569-001.html

#CogSci #PsychSciSki #DevSci

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I got to wear one of the iconic ear pieces! Surreal!

Grateful for the chance to represent #Drupal at #UNOpenSourceWeek. Happy to connect with folks!

At #UNOpenSourceWeek with @hestenet.bsky.social and hundreds of other #FreeSoftware advocates.

#opensource #FreeSoftware #OpenSourceWeek #UN

This decade can be salvaged yet.

I need to be completely clear: If every single officer in this video is not fired immediately and Noem impeached, then the GOP has embraced police violence against the opposition party for existing. You are looking at a fascist one-party military state.

I get that you are trying to argue for judging people by what they do instead of who they are, and what I am telling you is that by accruing that much wealth while the world gets poorer and poorer is an inherently evil act, not something inherent about who Mark is.