Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her)

I love them.

Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge.

The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms

only 0.26 cents a pop for a US account

explains much

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/pric...

a wall of beautiful prints of animals from the love notes from nature calendar, including an ant cutting a leaf carrying that leaf home, clownfish, a salamander, a turtle with yellow fish, a pair of penis fencing flatworms, humpback whales, orcas jumping over a yacht, anglerfish, crows on pumpkins, bats, and cuttlefish laying eggs

Want a calendar you can write easily on, none a that shiny paper need-a-sharpie nonsense?

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You can even turn them into prints after!

take my money!

Protectress Check out Protectress - Protectress</em> is a hybrid poetry-prose novella offering a risky take on the legend of Medusa. With stunning economy of words and a delicate hand, Protectress</em> provokes u...

Signing exclusive Protectress stuff today! Haven't read it yet? It's my Kirkus-star-awarded novella in verse about Medusa and her sisters--and their allies--confronting rape culture, the importance of solidarity, and compassion: bookshop.org/p/books/prot...

2026's Abortion Battles Will Be Fought More in Courts and FDA Offices Than at the Polls—Analysis Judges and federal regulators will make significant decisions over Americans' reproductive rights next year.

2026’s abortion battles will be fought more in courts and FDA offices than at the polls. This article was published in collaboration with @us.theconversation.com.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

December 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in December 2025 make great gifts.

@karlajstrand.com has got Ms Magazine's December Reads for the Rest of Us! msmagazine.com/2025/12/09/b...

Maybe this is woke or DEI. I have no idea. I care and I want them to fly further than they could imagine. My job is to teach them how to find the wind.

My students are not my customers. A person walks into a shop, they want a bag of oranges, they buy it+ leave. I check them out, having no interest in their well being or existence. A student walks into my classroom. I invite them on a quest to become a better thinker and human.

These are all so so beautiful and amazing.

I want a lexicon of words where you plug in a word with a closed vowel and get a synonym with a more open one. Or where a hard-to-sing word gets suggestions for an easier-to-sing one. Lyricists and librettists would love this, and singers would love them.

we will have to agree to disagree!

Seasonal reminder that raisins are extremely toxic to dogs and cats, just a few of them will kill your pet.

Christmas-themed food, which is often packed with raisins, and then handed to small children, *will* end up in a pet's belly.

he's one of those authors who thinks he's clever, and some readers think is clever, but when clever people read his stuff, it's obvious he's not

that's horrifying

This part right here is like the bane of my existence.

Think about the WHY we need alt text in the first place when writing yours.

The purpose is to describe what's in the text for folks who cannot see the image. It has to actually describe the image/include the text/etc.

please use alt text!

Another lyrics commission involving myth! Hooray!

I love them both, but the idea of a bunch of nesting sea lions is scary--those things are BIG!

seals =/= sea lions and they interfere significantly with salmon production, a major local industry

Still time to get a proposal in for BAVS2026 in Liverpool. Go on - you know you'll regret it if you don't!

Sent a bunch of science/facts-about-the-natural-world books off to my great-nephews, ages 6 & 4. Last year I have them a kids' telescope and the Reys' guide to stars. I'm hoping that even if they don't know me in person, I can contribute to the growth of their minds.

Once again, I need people to stop confusing the order of your awareness with the order of oppression.

Ableism is not new. The popularity of ableist beliefs, including those about ADHD, is not new, and it’s pretty insulting to watch you “discover” it like a European guy tripping over a continent.

My GP told me a story of how she came home from running, threw out her shoulder and back while trying to take off her pull-over sports bra, and was stuck on the floor til her spouse came home and could help. The struggle is very real.

and a spectacular one at that!

The Reality of AI Animal Content – Sedgwick County Zoo If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen them – bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or “rescued” wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to be…

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.

scz.org/blog/the-rea...

boosting the signal

I'm way more into Deathtöngue than the 3 singers posted below.

This is JUST MY OPINION

I see artists say they don't use alt text because they can't begin to describe the image

IMO *some* indication of the image is better than nothing

"this is an oil painting of a weird hairy monster sitting under a tree"

helps a user who relies on alt text to feel included