Doctora Malka Older

Doctora Malka Older

@older.bsky.social

nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own

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Southwest is a never again for me. #southwestairlines #plussize #flyingwhilefat TikTok video by Meg Elison

If you're fat and you used to fly Southwest, I'd advise you to book with someone else from now on. #flyingwhilefat

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sorry about that!

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We have an exhibition about what may become important again for humanity (passive, resilient, human scale vernacular architecture without architects), you can see some (old, but does it get old?) info here (german): biwena.de/index.php/on... or at our strawhouse exhibition in Verden (Germany).

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I'm Interested in Being a Person Notes on the non-consensual implementation of artificial intelligence across every facet of space and time

I love this essay by Ella Frances Sanders. And I LOVE how this line pops up at an unexpected and unexpectedly perfect moment in it: "I sense dinosaurs would be terribly disappointed." sometimesnewsletter.substack.com/p/im-interes...

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Historical illustration from 1919 showing two pairs of woodpeckers native to eastern Canada’s woods. The top image depicts a male Downy Woodpecker with a small red patch on its black-and-white head, perched on a bare tree branch, with a female head visible below. The background shows a snowy forest landscape at sunset. The lower image shows an Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker with a striking yellow crown on the male, perched on a tree stump, and the female’s head visible below. Both species are illustrated with detailed plumage emphasizing black, white, and subtle accent colors.

🌄 Birds of eastern Canada
Ottawa, J. de L. Taché, Printer, 1919.

[Source]

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Um pássaro vibrante, com cabeça preta e íris avermelhada, ostenta um peito vermelho brilhante que contrasta com o azul iridescente do pescoço e parte superior das costas. Suas asas são predominantemente cinza-escuro, e a cauda exibe uma transição elegante do branco para o preto. Ele está empoleirado em um galho coberto de musgo e líquen, em meio a um fundo verde e desfocado de folhagem exuberante. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Surucuá-variado
🌎Trogon surrucura
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O surucuá-variado (Trogon surrucura) é uma ave trogoniforme da família Trogonidae.

📷 Rafael Fortes

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Why be inspired to make a videogame by some problematic film director or similar, when you could instead be inspired by a vanity compact that’s almost a century old!!

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To understand why they are this way you need to grasp that this is a population of people who are afforded every privilege to get ahead and very few consequences for when they slip up. The end result is they get to go very far very fast with no real guardrails. So when they fuck up its catastrophic

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View looking north from the shores of Munising overlooking South Bay and Lake Superior. // Image captured at: 2026-03-14 23:18:04 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: exploremunising.com // Current Temp in Munising: 30 F | -1 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: S at 10 mph | 17 kph // Humidity: 59%

Current* conditions near Munising, MI:

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Tiny artichoke sprouting! 🌱

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Tiny lobelia seeds. They actually put this pelleted coating on them so you can SEE them.

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This is a charcoal pencil drawing of a dragon dancing through a Calcutta monsoon sky that I did while writing THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. It can be found inside the Indian edition of the book from @westlandbooks.bsky.social:

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Orbit Decay by Bella Chacha Orbit Decay by Bella Chacha

Starting a list of MOSTLY random speculative poems from 2025, partly for Hugo Award consideration, mostly because we could all use a touch of beauty:

Bella Chacha's "Orbit Decay," a poem that might be about a relationship, or might be about a star, or both:

www.heartlines-spec.com/orbit-decay-...

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You’ve probably read them but if you want to hear them, most of Ilona Andrews’ and Martha Wells’ backlist, and Malka Older’s Mossa and Pleiti sci-fi mysteries. Also like Martin Edwards’ Rachel Savernake and Lindsay Buroker’s Death Before Dragons series

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Ann Leckie - The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie - Witch King
Elizabeth Bear - Machine
Aliya Whiteley - Skyward Inn
Malka Older - The Mimicking of Known Successes
Bethany C. Morrow - MEM
Eliabeth Bear - Ancestral Night: A White Space Novel

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Premee Mohamed - No one will come back for us: And other stories
Premee Mohamed - These Lifeless things
Premee Mohamed - And what can we offer you tonight
Cat Rambo - Devil's gun
Cat Rambo - You sexy thing
Malka Older - The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
Yume Kitasei - The Deep Sky

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Shannon Chakraborty - The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
Emily Tesh - Some desperate glory
Hannah Kaner - Sunbringer
Malka Older - State Tectonics
Malka Older - Null States
Malka Older - Infomocracy
Premee Mohamed - The Butcher in the forest

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Book Launch & Panel Conversation WE WILL RISE AGAIN Cultivating Just Futures with/through Speculative Imagination with Steven Gonzalez Monserrate Federico Cuatlacuatl Karma Abudagga Annalee Newitz Malka Older Karen Lord SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE WE WILL RISE AGAIN EDITED BY KAREN LORD, ANNALEE NEWITZ, AND MALKA OLDER Sunday 12.04. - 2 pm MGGU - Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität This event is part of the exhibition Multispecies Members Club: New alliances between living and artificial systems at Museum Giersch. www.mggu.de www.fixingfutures.eu FIXING FUTURES Gefördert durch DFG Deutsche KÄTE HAMBURGER CENTRE Forschungsgemeinschaft CAPAS FOR APOCALYP IIC AND POST-APOCALYPTIC STUDIES GOETHE UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT AM MAIN MG • Museum Giersch der GU Goethe-Universität

not sure where you are, but just in case: we're doing two events in Frankfurt next month! buechergilde-frankfurt.buchhandlung.de/shop/magazin...

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Das ist SEHR SciFi/Fantasy-lastig, manche sind auch von they/thems. Alles was ich nach dem 14.03.2023 fertig gelesen habe, neustes zuerst (das wird ein bisserl länger):

Annalee Newitz/Karen Lord/Malka Older - We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essys on Protest, Resistance and Hope

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17. The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, by Malka Older

(Novella)

#BooksReadIn2026

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THE HEX At the turn of the 21st century, a trans scientist invents a new Hormone Replacement Therapy that enables humans to shapeshift, which leads to a catalytic event that births a new world of magic, resilience, and chaos. Can the community contend with evolving prejudice, dangerous demons, and choosing love in dire times? THE HEX contains 9 genre-expansive short stories featuring protagonists that: create a universe, become vigilantes, fall in love with an underwater prince, uncover a corporation's true intentions, meet a goddess of death, and more. Luna Merbruja is the author of Trauma Queen and Heal Your Love. They are a Lambda Literary Finalist, playwright, and artist living in the Pacific Northwest. You can follow them online @LunaMerbruja. Cover art: Brianna Yeatts ISBN 9798278398646 POMEGRANATE BOOKS WWW.POMEGRANATEBOOKS.COM "A wide assortment of riches." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) "An enduring collection straddling time, language, and genre." - KIRKUS REVIEWS "A map of survival and becoming, drawn by Indigenous hands that remember the stars." -SHANE HAWK, co-editor, Never Whistle at Night "Beyond the Glittering World is medicine." -HILLARY SMITH, Black Walnut Books "A healthy dose of gender-bending, genre-challenging, future-hoping might. -DEBORAH JACKSON TAFFA, Whiskey Tender Rooted in visions of Indigenous futurisms, Beyond the Glittering World proclaims and celebrates a rising generation of storytellers. The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established women, two-spirit people, and people of marginalized genders who immerse readers in poems, stories, and worlds that challenge and delight. From a museum heist 177 years in the making, to lyrical explorations of love and loss, to a tale where language itself becomes the force that saves the land, this boundary-breaking, genre-bending anthology illuminates the power of Indigenous voices. STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE (Diné) is the author of The Missing Design: Kathleen Metcall Morningstar. She currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat. KINSALE DRAKE (Diné) is the author of The Sky was Once a Dark Blanket and director of NDN Girls Book Club. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. DARCIE LITTLE BADGER (Lipan Apache) is the author of Elatsoe, A Snake Falls to Earth, and Sheine Lende. Moniquill Blackgoose Stacie Shannon Denetsosie Ayling Zulema Dominguez Kinsale Drake Danielle Shandiin Emerson Heid E. Erdrich Maritza N. Estrada A.J. Eversole Samah Serour Fadil Chelsea T. Hicks Dominique Daye Hunter Pte San Win Little Whiteman Conley Lyons Amber McCrary Trisha Moquino Shaina A. Nez Andrea L. Rogers Haani Lucia Falo San Nicolas jaye simpson Arielle Twist Amelia Vigil Cheyenne Dakota Williams Cover Art: Lynne Hardy ISBN 979-8-39092-030-0 The courage of the Lee fomily (and, of course, Superman!) might inspire readers of all ages to do the same -10 be outspoken, and to stand up, whether you can fly or not." -Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All American Boys "It's stories like Superman Smashes the Kion that truly snowcase why Superman is a universally relatable character." —Newsweek "Yang's sensitivity to the social and political dynamics of difference and assimilation injects the story line with new life and resonance." —New York Times The year is 1946. Teenagers Roberta and Tommy Lee just moved with their parents from Chinatown to the center of Metropolis, home to the famous hero Superman. Tommy makes friends quickly, while Roberta pines for home. Then one night, the family awakens to find their house surrounded by the Klan of the Fiery Kross! Superman leaps into action, but his exposure to a mysterious green rock has left him weak. Can Roberta and Tommy help him smash the Klan? Inspired by the 1940s Superman radio serial "Clan of the Fiery Cross," New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints, The Terrifics, New Super-Man) and artists Gurihiru (Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Unstoppable Wasp) bring us a timely personal story of immigration, battling adversity, and finding home. DH GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR YOUNG ADULTS dc.com 978-1-77950-421-0 "An incredibly important book, one that should be read by anyone who cares about the world around them." -CHRISTINA ORLANDO, REACTOR FROM GENRE LUMINARIES, ESTEEMED ORGANIZERS, AND EXCITING NEW VOICES IN FICTION COMES AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES, ESSAYS, AND INTERVIEWS THAT OFFER INSPIRATION FOR THE SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS OF TOMORROW. CONTRIBUTORS Charlie Jane Anders Samit Basu adrienne maree brown Tobias S. Buckell• Andrea Dehlendorf Rose Eveleth Jaymee Goh Nicola Griffith Alejandro Heredia Walidah Imarisha Vida James N. K. Jemisin • L. A. Kauffman • Scott Gabriel Knowles R. B. Lemberg Karen Lord Sam J. Miller • Abdulla Moaswes Annalee Newitz Laia Asieo Odo Malka Older Kendra Pierre-Louis Kelly Robson Nisi Shawl • Ursula Vernon Sabrina Vourvoulias Izzy Wasserstein EXPLORING TOPICS RASING FROM DISABILITY JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM TO COMMUNITY CARE AND ANTICOLONIAL RESISTANCE, WE WILL RISE AGAIN IS A GUIDE FOR IMAGINING A BETTER FUTURE. SagaPress.com SimonandSchuster.com @SagaPressBooks COVER DESIGN TY ELLA LAYTHAM COVER ART BY TATEVRIKA/GETTY IMAGES; MAVY LINES BY SERGEYBITOS/SHUTTERSTOCK ISBN S78-1-6630-S685-9

& a little commotion the back of the rest 📚

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A couple shelves of books. The bottom shelf has the line of new books + an art print set up so the covers are fully visible. They include: • We Will Rise Again • Beyond the Glittering World an Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms &Futurisms • The Hex • Superman Smashes the Klan & an art print featuring 2 monarch butterflies & the phrase, "Abolition means believing in the possibility of transformation." For the curious, the top shelf contains: Book cover art EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 M.E. O'Brien 8 Eman Abdelhadi By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism-New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse. Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world. "Charts dizzying, delightful new futures." -Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of Blackfish City M. E. O' Brien writes on gender freedom and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines: Pinko. on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project. She works as a therapist. She is on Twitter as @genderhorizon. Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist, and artist who writes and thinks at the intersection of identity. politics, sexuality, and gender. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago and is on Twitter as @emanabdelhadi. ISEN-13: 978-1942373-58-8 PILSEN COMMUNITY BOOKS ＝ Description By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism-New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse. Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.

We’re stocked up with provisions ahead of the #mnwx storm. 😉 📚

We had ordered The Hex online before, ordered Everything for Everyone from @bookshop.org today, picked up Beyond the Glittering World from Tropes & Trifles, & got Superman Smashes the Klan & We Will Rise Again from Dream Haven #mpls

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Free Estefany Rodriguez from ICE Defending press freedom for the next generation

Use our action center to tell Congress to speak out against ICE's detention of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez and any effort to deport her.

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could be!

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Americans are about to learn one of the things I was yelling about during the campaign: the US cannot produce enough oil to keep us from feeling the global shocks of oil prices, because oil is produced by companies who will just charge us more money if the supply goes down elsewhere.

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My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“

I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.

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if the tech bros were a little less delusional, they would be making so much money right now by offering to let us pay for the AI-free version of their programs

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It's wild to see members of the Trump administration tell the press what to print, what headlines to choose, and who should run the newsrooms. Absolutely wild.

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Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.

You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

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"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill."

What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.

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