Doctora Malka Older

PRECIOUS HOURS MORE LIKE AMIRITE

need to know if there was a gift shop

I just learned about the chapel and now you're telling me they have EVENTS too???

I seriously thought my tias with the display cases were already on the deep end of this phenomenon but I guess not!!!

fully imagining shepherd boy gargoyles etc

I did not know about the chapel until another response in this thread and i am perturbed

HUH

❤️💖❤️

THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES by @older.bsky.social was a terrific way to end #NovellaNovember. I love how Mossa and Pleiti are progressing and I can’t wait to read more!

Next audiobook, for a change of pace: LEGENDS & LATTES by @travisbaldree.bsky.social!

yikes

I'm from Boston (which is probably why I only got one) but the relevant half of my family is Cuban, based in Miami for a couple of decades mostly by the late 80s-early 90s when I was noticing this

Thanks for everyone who's bid on the #Creatives4Sudan auction so far. In amazing news, we're at 12k. We have TWO DAYS LEFT though. If everyone places lots of little bids, I think we could get to 15k easy. The money is going to Sudanese-run Emergency Response Rooms. 💗🇸🇩 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Yet another bullshit bookscam email but in this one the sign-off photo is of Kamala Harris. And not just any photo, but her inauguration photo as VP of the USA.

Guys I've hit the big time. You'll never believe who wants to promote the French edition of my book!

Your reminder that political spending isn't regulated or recorded outside an election year

So public will probably have no idea how the biggest donation in British political history is spent

Why we urgently need political finance reform - sign petition here
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD FINALLY, I CANNOT WAIT

Death in the Spires Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby died. Was killed. Murdered. 1905. A decade after the grisl...

If you feel the need to retreat into the past, can't think why, Death in the Spires is currently discounted to $7.99 on Audible US!

I can imagine a too-literal translation being an issue here for sure, especially with a phrase like "it's the latter" which sounds super-clunky here esp in an action sequence but could be a lot more both colloquial and elegant in Japanese

Photo of a magic 8 ball with a 'goatse' version of the OpenAI logo and the words ChatGPT on it, next to a white box that says "ChatGPT offline version". Inset are photos of the 8-ball responses such as "That's a great question", "You're 1000% right" and "Too many requests try again later" and then another photo from the back of the box of a holographic authenticity sticker that says FAKE.

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.

Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

you can look it up later, but you can't un-know it once you do.

*follow follow follow follow follow follow*

Now THAT is going down in a blaze of glory... just watch the last few minutes/seconds of this stream as the eruption gets closer and closer until eventually it kills the camera.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

5 captivating images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year ‘Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder.’

5 captivating images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year www.popsci.com/environment/...

I think I only ever received one (13th birthday, iirc, or maybe 11th), but there were entire display cases full of them at multiple extended family homes

I wasn't sure if Precious Moments™️ was a Thing outside the latinx community, where it is a THING, but it's so clear how the same tías who were giving those as gifts/collecting the shit out of them are the ones posting endless, excessively cursí (tacky) AI animations in the family whatsapp

it's the Precious Moments™️ substitute for sentimental labor of this generation

Saturday Sweetness

Some shelters do something I love. They let the dog choose.

You sit in a quiet room. One dog walks in. No pressure. No scripts. The dog decides who feels safe.

A tiny reminder that sometimes the best connections happen when we let ourselves be chosen 🥹🫶🏻

The pot has a drainage hole so she can get out in the spring. But anyway if you haven't raked your leaves yet, this is your sign to just leave them where they are. At this point they are habitat for overwintering critters.

(don’t be shy! people who dislike or completely misunderstand a book are NEVER shy with their low-star ratings and bad reviews!)

{2025 New Release} We Will Rise Again : Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope by: Malka Older, Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transformative visions of the future, fantastical alternate worlds, and inspiration for the social justice movements of tomorrow. In this collection, editors Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older champion realistic, progressive social change using the speculative stories of writers across the world.

Out Now 'We Will Rise Again' #newrelease #WeWillRiseAgain #MalkaOlder #KarenLord #SimonandSchuster