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Bethany Edgoose Feb 6, 2023

Today was my first day back working after a life-uprooting move. Sitting in a bare apartment on a naked mattress wondering - again - why furniture is so damn expensive; I scrolled through some blogs I wrote a few years back (pandemic blogging binge). This one made me smile; "The Calling You are Calling For is Currently Unavailable". If you, too, have spent time today wondering what it is exactly that you are doing...you might like it:
https://medium.com/counterarts/the-calling-you-are-calling-for-is-currently-unavailable-e74bc75f2663
#essay #blog #blogging #writing

The Calling You Are Calling For is Currently Unavailable

Hello? Can you hear me? Oh it’s great to connect! Yes — it is my first day on the job! I have a brand new client here, four years old. She likes trees, pretty flying things, and saying big words. A…

Counter Arts

Bethany Edgoose Dec 3, 2022

@cosmic_serf I just finished The Raven and the Hart and it was lovely. I so appreciated the diverse, older characters and your thoughtful treatment of religion. I really liked my time inside Canty's head. Thank you for a lovely read :)

Bethany Edgoose Nov 21, 2022

tonic

Nov 21, 2022

i think there should be a game show called Do You Grok It? where contestants have to try to explain a computing concept and the audience/judges vote on who did it best

Bethany Edgoose Nov 21, 2022

Graham Nov 20, 2022

#NowReading

Ursula Le Guin is rightly celebrated as a great world builder and a nuanced political thinker, but what's standing out most to me reading her short stories is just how vivid and poetic her prose could be. Even with all the praise she's still underrated

#scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #literature #literaryfiction #ursulaleguin #shortstories #prose #currentlyreading

Bethany Edgoose Nov 21, 2022

Rebecca Field Nov 18, 2022

Hello everyone! I am a #flashfiction writer looking to connect with other members of the #writingcommunity #introduction #twittermigration #flashtodons #amwriting #amreading Not sure what I’m doing here, hoping for the best as ever

Bethany Edgoose Nov 21, 2022

Gomiboy75 🇵🇸Nov 21, 2022

Good morning, folks

"In recent days, Saudi representatives pushed at the United Nations global climate summit in Egypt to block a call for the world to burn less oil, according to two people present at the meeting, saying that the summit’s final statement “should not mention fossil fuels.” The effort prevailed: After objections from Saudi Arabia and a few other oil producers, the statement failed to include a call for nations to phase out fossil fuels."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/climate/saudi-arabia-aramco-oil-solar-climate.html?unlocked_article_code=eOZUHcGyCQTFOHpyWy472qNu0nCqRaPGFIRght8JgUpVfeNT2rwtTZmDjnZcM0tSEC4D9hVlNDaWkqK1ebH1718trEZjRFnwfUDNlVGgLdWGbDc4QtlwvjaAqi_Sc1s4VGcXYY9RODTVLXKnKa_ddy8EeWnl9Kd1l_-XR926ZiF1yPg6yOnj_Jj55a1ggzwTfy5duHlfkEuW48KqFRgp7j0qWcus42hDUHP6A03gacjYJtw_joXXifidmMOG38p54cqdtAYqUERqa8x46ilprTVRS59DB1TTqOQf44fY4Iez2ZOHxc8-zoSnz3hKHBclJJJZTJ8AQ4V4UM86ImkjiXyVgBzUU6f6vlvgWZJPug&smid=share-url

Inside the Saudi Strategy to Keep the World Hooked on Oil

The kingdom is working to keep fossil fuels at the center of the world economy for decades to come by lobbying, funding research and using its diplomatic muscle to obstruct climate action.

The New York Times

Bethany Edgoose Nov 19, 2022

SL Huang Nov 19, 2022

hey folks on @sffbipoc I'd love to hear people's intros & what you're working on!

my latest is THE WATER OUTLAWS, #wuxia epic #fantasy & genderspun #WaterMargin -- v #Chinese, v #feminist, v #queer :)

Tor got me a kickass culture expert too, their notes were amazing, like that "polishing mirrors" an old-timey Chinese euphemism for lesbian sex 😂 AND THEY GOT MY CHINESE PUNS

(more here for the interested: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250180421/thewateroutlaws ) #EpicFantasy #lgbtq

what about y'all? #sff #BIPOC

The Water Outlaws

Macmillan Publishers

Bethany Edgoose Nov 19, 2022

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Evan Prodromou Nov 19, 2022

So, I'm asking, as embarrassing as it is that I don't have enough diversity in my network to do it on my own:

Can you amplify this to help us find #francophone, #Black, #indigenous, and #Asian #Canadian people, able and willing to do the hard work of helping a group remember to take diverse needs into account at the offset, so we can make a good #SocialSpace for everyone from the get go?

If that sounds like you, bless you, could you let me know so we can get a conversation started?

Thanks.

Bethany Edgoose Nov 19, 2022

christina b Nov 18, 2022

Them: "Mastodon is hard to use."
Me: _gets started easily_
#coops

Them: "The #fediverse is fragmented - hard to find anyone."
Me: _easily finds many folks here I know or enjoy_
👋

Them: "It's just white male tech nerds"
Me: _discovers fairly robust presence of non-white, non-male folks_
✊

Them: "It's set up so it's antiviral"
Me: _sees more interest in my thoughts here than ever on the birdsite_
🙃

Them: "Local servers are like isolated islands."
Me: _finds a canoe to explore archipelago_
🛶

Bethany Edgoose Nov 18, 2022

Bogi Takács Nov 18, 2022

Announcement!!! (Timeline pushed up because of Twitter going down...)

I am relaunching my book blog Bogi Reads the World.

https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/

Reviews of fiction, poetry, individual stories / poems, recommendations, bibliographies, resource lists and more. Since 2010 - and now active again!

As always, focus on work by marginalized authors, especially SFF but any topic really :) Say hi!

#Bookstodon @bookstodon #DiverseBooks #SFF #WritingCommunity #BookReviews @transbookstodon

Bogi Reads the World | Reviews, criticism and helpful resources! By Bogi Takács, Hugo award winner for Best Fan Writer. Reviewing fiction & poetry in English since 2010