Elaine Burnes 🏳️‍🌈

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Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that’s strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally written by an Israeli professor of law named Orit Kamir. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the

Own your main character energy. Dove Promises foil wrapper copy.

I'm trying!

#amwriting #writingsky

Haha 😂

Thread from March 2021 on how if Dems do not hold Trump and his cohort accountable and address structural problems, then all the Biden admin wil be is an interlude between autocracies. Someone with better eyesight is welcome to retype it all by hand but I'm not doing that; thus alleged altvtexr system with a tiny box of type is not designed for people who are vision impaired like me

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Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.

This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

If it was wagging its tail, eastern phoebe. Also lack of wingbars, which my Sibley says pewees have. I hear those more than see them. Phoebes are seen more.

Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw* This has been quite the year, hasn’t it? If you need a break, stick around, though I can’t promise it won’t make you squeamish. I believe in letting nature do its thing. And by that I mean on some …

I don’t blog often, but when I do…
#blog #amwriting #nature

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Black holes are scary…. 😂

The Martian Contingency Discussion at the 2025 Gaithersburg Book Festival Earlier this year, I had a lovely time at the 2025 Gaithersburg Book Festival. The entirety of my talk (mostly on The Martian Contingency, sci-fi, and storytelling) and conversation with Mariko Hew…

If you missed The Gaithersburg Book Festival, they've made my talk available on YouTube. I discuss The Martian Contingency, sci-fi, and storytelling with Mariko Hewer: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/the-...

39 times, so I'll go with the first one:

Anyone with any sense was inside. She leaned against the railing. Spotlight beams shattered against sheets of rain, barely reaching the waves surging below. The ocean was a dark mass rising as if to swallow her.

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I do love sapphic sci fi adventures! ;) 🪐📚🏳️‍🌈

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

Yes! My first job out of college was at a pet store. I learned more in six months than in four years of college. Everything from how to work with a team, balancing a checkbook, and catching a bird inside a large department store. All useful. I swear! Unlike, say, calculus...

Thank you, BInk and GCLS. It’s quite the honor (and, frankly, surprise). If you like sapphic space adventures, check it out—Endurance (also a Goldie winner) is Book 1. This is Book 2. The saga will continue…

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She’d learned the true nature of the company after she nearly died in a failed mission to Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

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#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips

Yes, but books are so easy to pack compared to, say, dishes. It's all about priorities. 😁

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So apparently, if I don't keep encouraging people to subscribe to Clarkesworld, they don't.

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All new subscriptions go towards increasing staff pay. They deserve it, so I can't be silent.

Blame Nancy Drew. 😉 She got knocked out in every book I read as a kid. No problem.

Lincoln did not want to punish the traitorous Confederacy after the Civil War but a Confederate sympathizer shot him dead anyway. I think about that a lot these days.

Post on black background overlaid on picture of book-laden shelves. Post: ORTH LITTLE + nlrlibraries 4h Amazon is doing 4 days of deals. Walmart is doing 6. Target said let's make it a week. The library? We've been serving 100% off every single day. No promo codes. No shipping delays. No buyer's remorse. Just books, movies, internet, events, and air conditioning. Totally free. All year long. 15.9K 87 1.4K 262

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YouTube video by De Balie Anne Applebaum x Volodymyr Yermolenko

At @debalie.bsky.social in Amsterdam, talking to the brilliant Volodymyr Yermonlenko. About Ukraine, but not only
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Exclusive: Top Trump Adviser Sergio Gor Was Born in the Soviet Union The birthplace of U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation — fuelled by his refusal to answer the question.

seems to me that someone who lies about where they were born shouldn't be working in the White House

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Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you.

Endurance Amazon.com: Endurance: 9781949290851: Burnes, Elaine: Books

Honestly not a fan of Amazon, but if you're curious, Book 1 is on sale, 24% off. My WIPSnips have been coming from #3, which is in progress. Space, lesbians, adventure! 🪐📚🏳️‍🌈🚀
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This is a new Murderbot short story, coming out later this week on Reactor Magazine. It’s about ART and its crew, set before Network Effect, and how ART finally decided to tell them about meeting a rogue SecUnit.

Ten Bizarre Things Hidden in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill With the president asleep at the switch, all kinds of nutty provisions got snuck into the bill.

With the president asleep at the switch, all kinds of nutty provisions got snuck into the bill.

UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar funding

Meanwhile in other news…

US payments for PEPFAR from 2003-2025: $120 billion

Pharma payments to shareholders from 2001-2022: $2.6 trillion

See where I’m going with this?
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For anyone on the fence about Straw Girl: it's atmospheric and creepy, not jump scares. There's no gore, nothing bad happens to the dog, and everyone survives.

You'll just never trust gloomy corners or partially open doors ever again. 😂

#booksky #horror #paranormal 📚💙

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