Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

@byzantienne.bsky.social

4360

Followers

545

Following

1911

Posts

speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).

unfortunately, I care about power lines now

she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.

Posts Replies Media

Everything you thought you knew about peaker plants and 'clean-firm generation' is at least slightly wrong now, and getting wronger all the time. to quote the man, update your priors

This news is incredible. 100 days this year CA's used 100% renewables to power the entire grid, & through a heat wave, there's been no significant disruption (cough *Texas*). Energy analysts are seeing a "phase-change" of the grid with the addition of 5 nuclear plants worth of battery storage, wow

so @ceruleancynic.bsky.social sent me outside to the organic grocer to procure a) a lime; b) “weird snacks” and I have returned with … black sesame tamari-glazed rice crackers. Which, I must report, are FANTASTIC. I need some brillat saverin to spread on them posthaste

This is a fantastic essay which I am glad to have read.

Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Strange Horizons is at $19178 out of $20000 to add a novelette to next year's roster!! They have FIVE HOURS left to close that margin! www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons 2025www.kickstarter.com A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

normalcy posting continues! have a perfume microreview: Fzotic Monserrat. I tried this a few weeks ago and it smelled like wet paper-fascinating, but bad to wear. Today: PEAR PEAR PEAR (there's no pears in this fucking scent) -> green/wet/osmanthus -> damp rotting flowers if that was a good thing?

I bought gorgeous art from Lao, Uzbek, and Wounaan (indigenous people from Columbia!) artists. The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market rocks.

I don't have any potatoes, but I have just made a cherry pie again because we have so many cherries. later I might go to the International Folk Market night market

Potatoes. Let’s talk potatoes. We roasted some and there’s a garlic dill sauce.

...ye gods and lyttl fyshes, the difference between generic methylphenidate and actual Concerta in terms of efficacy is A THING. (all credit to my awesome psych, who went and fought with an insurance company for me.)

oh this looks so awesome. Backed!

Team #SFF? The amount of crowdfunds that have raised more than this with one or two white people, while this funking finale, with 47+ of the BEST remains unfunded is A LOOK. SPACEFUNK is for *everyone* - let's get this ALL over ALL the feeds. #SupportBoldIndies www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Strange Horizons has MADE THE $15000 STRETCH GOAL!! Now they're at $15,015 out of $16,500, the next stop: Ageing and SFF special issue! Reminder: this is what they're stretching for! www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

I adore Santa Fe weather. The entire sky is apricot-colored. There is a full-arc rainbow (in shades of red-gold). There is a deluge of rain. There is lightning along the arc of the rainbow. I cannot photograph this. It is amazing.

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Grateful as always to every lineworker from all over the state who came to clean up Beryl's mess

A JOHN CHU NOVEL! EEE!

I've sold a novel to Tor Books! Title to come. Thank you to @ericshowers.bsky.social and @jengunnels.bsky.social for believing in it. I'm eternally grateful to @annvandermeer.bsky.social for editing the story it's based on, which you can read at @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/hold-time-vi...

Hold-Time Violations - Reactorreactormag.com Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryos...

Damn, this is really good. Colonialism as a kind of infection. Poison land. An elegance. Reminds me of Lime Ergot (the Twine game from 2014).

Latest story, "Grottmata," is now online at @nightmare-magazine.com. A space colony is plagued by a series of inexplicable deaths; an Inspector and a factory girl know more than they let on. Thanks again to Wendy and the Nightmare team for taking this and for their care with this one.

Grottmata - Nightmare Magazinewww.nightmare-magazine.com The soldiers start rounding up us factory girls just before sunrise. We smoke cigarettes and stand in a line against the remnants of a brick wall that used to be a bakery, facing the sheer black of th...

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

It's time for white Democrats in Congress, white editors & journalists in media, white donors, & white elites to listen to Black Democrats & Black voters who are sticking with Joe Biden. Black voters saved America's ass in 2020. Black voters would suffer most under Trump. Listen to Black voters

a useless complaint: why do eyeshadow palettes never have both warm golds and cool blues/greys? am I the only person who likes these things together on my face? am I doomed to carrying around two palettes, both of which I only use half of?

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

I cannot wait for this!

Oh hey y’all guess what I have a new book coming out in March 2025 & you can pre-order it if you want! You can do so from anywhere, I recommend your local indie, but meanwhile here’s Macmillan’s link us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

OK, so this week: - UK Tories wiped out (I know, I know) - Iran votes in a reform PM (I know, I know) - France does this Sometimes, folks, there are glimmers.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks

oooooooo new @scottlynch78.bsky.social!

"Selected Scenes from the Ecologies of the Labyrinth" A brand new @scottlynch78.bsky.social story this morning, free to read at The Sunday Morning Transport! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/selected-s...

Selected Scenes from the Ecologies of the Labyrinthwww.sundaymorningtransport.com July marks our third (We can’t believe it’s been two and a half years!) summer — and we’re celebrating with four great free reads. Yes, you read that right, a whole month of free goodness from The Sun...

Hi people who added me from @costasamaras.bsky.social’s climate starter pack! I work on decarbonizing power grids, transmission development, & equitable access to clean energy. Up until last week I worked for the state of New Mexico. In August I'll be with Western Resource Advocates, an eNGO.

nice things: a) the weirdshit 'lemongrass coconut sparkling water' I bought at the organic grocery is AMAZING b) overheard impassioned conversation between two stockpersons at said grocery re: Bowie's BLACKSTAR c) have ingredients to make cherry pie d) yesterday's opera (Don Giovanni) was great

@rahaeli.bsky.social rereading 'Howling' because sometimes a girl wants a nasty-vicious spy novel more than anything else, and I'm absolutely stuck on songcalling 'Lovecraft in Brooklyn' for this story this time. (woke up afraid of my own shadow/like, genuinely afraid)

Lovecraft in Brooklynwww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by Beggars Group Digital Ltd.Lovecraft in Brooklyn · The Mountain GoatsHeretic Pride℗ 2007 4AD LtdReleased on: 2008-02-19Associated Perf...

Opera! But out here!

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Warning: Wonky 🧵 on vague energy/climate modeling ideas. Many papers I read in this field aim to compare climate mitigation scenarios or optimize mitigation pathways. The modeled transitions have lots of impacts: ⬆️ or ⬇️ deaths, illnesses, jobs, money, and so on.

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

I understand the current version of Labour sucks but I will deeply enjoy the simple pleasure of watching Tories absolutely eat shit

Reposted by

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸