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cass ws 🐱💤Feb 7, 2023

Kate Schapira Feb 2, 2023

Anyone there building Pokemon-like ecological learning around observing different real-life creatures? I feel like the "gotta catch 'em all" thing is very "eurocentric naturalist" but there might be something that nerds and nerdlets would respond to in the focus on creatures' different "powers," regions and relationships? Maybe a way to do it that doesn't suck? This message has been brought to you by an afternoon with a 7-year-old I adore and his Pokemon obsession

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cass ws 🐱💤Feb 3, 2023

“One of the things I love about Lao Tzu is he is funny. He’s explaining a profound and difficult truth here, one of those counterintuitive truths that, when the mind can accept them, suddenly double the size of the universe. He goes about it with this deadpan simplicity, talking about pots.” - Le Guin on ‘The uses of not’

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cass ws 🐱💤Feb 3, 2023

I picked up Ursula Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching a few years ago, based on a recommendation on MetaFilter. I liked it on first read. And I love it on second - especially because Le Guin is one of the people I miss most acutely who I’ve never actually met!! Her footnotes feel so comforting to me.

cass ws 🐱💤Feb 3, 2023

2023 is my year of rereading! reencountering things that filled me with comfort, identification, anger, joy. Picking up things that didn’t quite hit me right the first time, or reconsidering people and ideas I needed desperately in a specific moment.

It’s a lovely exercise, especially with one eye on the craft/technical aspect (how does this story pull off its trick?) and another just enjoying the cozy fellowship of a story that’s lived and changed along with me 🥰

cass ws 🐱💤Jan 29, 2023

Matthew Kressel Jan 29, 2023

I'm looking forward to this panel TODAY at 12pm ET on Hopepunk & Optimistic Futures for #TBRCon23! You can watch the panel live (or after) here: https://youtu.be/Xf7bneMwqdo

TBRCon2023 Panel 29 | Hopepunk & Optimistic Futures with Cat Rambo, Ruthanna Emrys & More

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cass ws 🐱💤Jan 29, 2023

Catherine Rockwood Jan 29, 2023

Today from @ReckoningMag: the stunning short story "Why We Bury Our Dead At Sea," by Tehnuka. https://reckoning.press/why-we-bury-our-dead-at-sea/

And from our special post-Roe issue on bodily autonomy, the third of Taylor Jones's eerie, beautiful paintings of the body in nature.

https://reckoning.press/bosque-nuboso-nocturne/

Taylor's painting introduces next week's release, the novelette "Those Dark Halls" by M.C. Benner-Dixon, which was mentioned in Locus this week:

"a tender and complex story of expectations, bodies, and autonomy."

Why We Bury Our Dead at Sea | Reckoning

“Does the defendant admit posting this message after the sinking of the ship Deep Power?” The prosecution lawyer looked up from his papers, directly at Kaveri. “I quote: ‘A hundred oilers nowhere near make up for even a single whale fall, but I guess it’s a start, el-oh-el’.” My cousin, blank-faced in the dock, said,

Reckoning | creative writing on environmental justice

cass ws 🐱💤Jan 21, 2023

Brad Johnson Jan 19, 2023

An astounding image of our moment at the precipice:

Climate activists standing against the inhuman-scale machinery of the open-pit Lützerath brown coal mine, with a wind farm visible in the distance.
#climate #LützerathLebt #coal #renewable

cass ws 🐱💤Jan 21, 2023

ok my plan was to continue immersion reading The Obelisk Gate (!) but Jane has apparently forbidden me from getting up to get my book. 🐱🙅‍♀️🐱

cass ws 🐱💤Jan 21, 2023

Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧Jan 20, 2023

In my latest newsletter, I offer some ideas for how to save SFF short fiction!

https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/some-ideas-for-how-to-save-short-fiction/

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cass ws 🐱💤Nov 28, 2022

Annalee Newitz 🍜Nov 18, 2022

I love the idea of ancient stories that survive for thousands of years to remind us that climate change is real. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/indigenous-aboriginal-ice-age-stories-true/671681/

Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales

Indigenous stories from the end of the last Ice Age could be more than myth.

The Atlantic