Michela

They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

I'm so sorry for your loss, poor baby 💔😿

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

Book promo post:
Right now, the ebook edition of EDGES (arguably my most popular novel) is on sale for the "why not take a chance" price of 99¢🎉🚀! EDGES is a far-future, space-faring, nanotech-drenched adventure. Links and info at my website: mythicisland.com/inverted_fro...
#sciencefiction #scifi

"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'"

Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:

www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...

Oh this is perfect, exactly what I think about genres and categories and labels for books, and the first couple of sentences are the perfect starting point on the issue in my opinion 💖

Post from Angelica Chong saying "There is something incredibly satisfying about reading the first page of a book, and immediately something in your brain sits up and goes 'oh, I'm going to like this'-- and then every subsequent page proves you right."

What is best in life, reader edition.

I love all of these photos and details, and I'm always amazed at the perfect matching of the frames to the pictures, with so many trees in the background! 💖👏
#SaveDeadBoyDetectives #DeadBoyDetectives

Today I'll say Find The River (one of my favourite R.E.M songs in general)

All good advice in this thread. Short stories don't work well for me,if I finish one, I don't get the What's next itch. I pick novels of genres/authors I love, with short chapters / chapters with breaks within them,when my attention span is low. So I look forward to the next reading session #booksky

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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That Lovebugs chocolate! 😍🐞

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

TO THE LIGHT OF SEPTEMBER When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings and the late yellow petals of the mullein fluttering on the stalks that lean over their broken shadows across the cracked ground but they all know that you have come the seed heads of the sage the whispering birds with nowhere to hide you to keep you for later you who fly with them you who are neither before nor after you who arrive with blue plums that have fallen through the night perfect in the dew

you who are neither before nor after
you who arrive with blue plums
that have fallen through the night
perfect in the dew

-W.S. Merwin, To the Light of September"
#everynightapoem sharing Merwin on his birthday

Congratulations! 🎉 Looking forward to learning how to build a universe (for science purposes of course)!

That sounds devastating, I'm so sorry for your loss 😞

Happy birthday and well done for you exercises! 🎉 🎂 🎶

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Off the top of my head, Running Up The Hill by Placebo and King of Pain by Alanis Morissette.

Why I've become so intentional about what I draw attention to here: "what we notice, share & talk about influences what others notice too... it acts like a vote for what grows..When attention is poured into fear, it multiplies division. When it’s directed toward solutions, it multiplies possibility"

Reading the 2nd of Nghi Vo's 'Singing Hills Cycle,' WHEN THE TIGER CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN. Came across this line. I love when you can tell a writer's enjoying themselves.

'What was the point of being a Singing Hills cleric if they didn't get to ride a mammoth when the opportunity arose?'

Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.

I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.

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I heard Strange Currencies on the radio and fell in love with it, then I ended up revisiting R.E.M.'s back catalogue (I didn't have their previous albums yet) and became a fan for life. Still one of my favourite songs in general, but I also love Let Me In so very much. 💖 🎶 🎸

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

Accounts featuring cats and dogs are the priority, of course 😻💖🐶

"And you need to defend yourself from that imagination."

This tracks 😆

The old "my life will never be as complicated or screwed up as these people's lives!" thing is also a great benefit

The City We Became is already in my pile of To Be Read. Women of the Fairytale Resistance sounds intriguing! 💖📚

Jayden Revri for Michela Connect with your favorite stars.

Sharing my cameo from Jayden for other #DeadBoyDetectives fans, it definitely brightened up this stressful day! 😊
I asked a question about Charles' favourite place for a case and holidays (you will probably guess the holidays one 😁)
#SaveDeadBoyDetectives

www.cameo.com/recipient/68...

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Thank you for sharing it! 💖 Back to his favourite topic! 😁 Joker sounds great as a role for him, I think he also has the expressive face for that character! 🃏 #SaveDeadBoyDetectives