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“Day captures a violent contradiction at the heart of how humans decide what to domesticate and what to eradicate.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024

So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)

That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ | Reckoning Have you ever seen a behemoth? The ones brought in by the foreigners after the silent war? I was a boy, eight, nine years old, when I saw it. Have you ever seen a forest catch fire? Your entire villag...

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...

This is a super interesting video about the ICE raid that happened in Lakeview yesterday.

The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work

Of course he did. You had like four days without crisis, might ride a horse? not on PJ's watch lol

Hope PJ heals up soon!

Heh. I guess the teetotaling only goes so far.

Instead 5yo me got accused of narcing (sp?) so I joined DARE and "Just Say NO" because SPITE. I'm still a teetotaler but now I'm the one in favor of legalization; they're born agains who would NEVER.

Anyway, growlights have come a long way! (this has been Getting to Know CG On Cold Medicine)

I am officially that house plant witch. When I brought the philodendrons (5) and monstera (2; very large) in for the fall/winter season, I bought growlights for the first time. Previous growlight experience was my bio-dad growing cannabis in a bedroom closet. I really should've won that Show & Tell.

A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century | Reckoning (Selected from the field guide left on your nightstand) Common Raven: Your favorite bird. There was a big one that lived in the hospital courtyard and, on your good days, I’d take you out to see it.

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social #neurodivergentanthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a haunting meditation on personal loss and climate grief, and how we carry on.
reckoning.press/a-taxonomy-o...

I love this story so much. Morris Hinkle creates a terrible, vivid, and amazing world, painting an entire society in such a short space, and the horrors that society enacts for the "good" of all.

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The title "P-T" refers to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which you should read about if you've never heard of, and its use here amounts to a frigging brilliant literary device en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian...

P-T | Reckoning there will never be so many sea lilies. they will never roll like meadows and lace their brittle eyelash hands, nod their heads and kiss. their endless fields will smother on ash. they will bow their ...

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Micah Nemerever's powerfully evocative poem "P-T."

"they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it."
reckoning.press/p-t/

They’re ABSOLUTELY looking for people posting about No Kings. Block them.

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

@ellisnyeland.bsky.social's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a lovely remembrance of a life well lived, but it also a fortune told. "Repair Tech" warns us against the generational loss of practical knowledge, especially in uncertain times.

Free estory: All The Creatures Were Stirring When the Halloween Knight goes missing, misfit hearth witch, Merry Claus (yes, that Claus) must team up with their mercurial steed to find Hallow and save Halloween. Creatures is a cozy, whimsical …

I am woefully behind on Halloween cards & October blog posts. BUT if you want something cozy & gently spooky to read, one of my favorite stories I've ever written is available for free on my website. AuDHD, ASD characters, supportive families, acespec romance. CREATURES.
cgaubrey.com/all-the-crea...

I'm constantly astonished by how oblivious these (and other) accounts are. Should we have ever reached the heights of over-consumption driven by the Shein/ Target/Homegoods/Marshalls girlies/moms? Absolutely not. But maybe we don't shame financially insecure folks for replacing things they need.

Perfect for the season.

I'm all for being mindful of consumption (especially performative over-consumption), but it sure seems like most "deinfluencers" are single/child-free/well-off white women who have the TIME and money to spend three hours staging the perfect video of them mending a twenty year old target throw.

@lauramcknight.bsky.social's wonderfully meditative story "Before Times Shells and Gifts" speaks of what it means to sift through ruins, our own and those we may never fully understand. It also provides gentle, commiserating humor for those of us who have been told "please do not lick the science!"

Despite the unimaginable death toll of deforestation and pollution, Kaye Boesme's powerful work still offers reconciliation in the end, not merely as grace extended but in inevitability. There is hope, however fragile, to be found in such certainty.

I am once again asking you to read this essay by Amber Fox, published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social in 2022. reckoning.press/ghost-of-a-c...

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SFWA Launches FAQ for Anthropic Settlement The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has published a web page for frequently asked questions about the Bartz v Anthropic lawsuit settlement. It covers basic information abou…

SFWA Launches FAQ for Anthropic Settlement