Susan Stinson

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Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Recent essay in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies. Triker. she/her.

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I gotta say, FEDERAL SANDWICH is the best idea I've heard in a long time, and I'm ready to start doorknocking on this issue. Where's my clipboard and trusty stzck of pens?

POSTAL BANKING is a great idea and it leads me to my other great idea: FEDERAL SANDWICH. Guaranteed access to a sandwich to anyone who wants one at ANY US Federal Govt facility. Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up:

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

I love Vibe Check podcast with @theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones, Zach Stafford, and Sam Sanders. This week Zach interviews writer and comedian ALOK about comedy as trans resistance strategy, mortality, and grieving. It's beautiful. www.stitcherstudios.com/shows/vibe-c...

Vibe Checkwww.stitcherstudios.com Vibe Check is your favorite group chat, come to life.

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And tonight the dessert special is Head and Shoulders shampoo poured over a sugar glazed cruller donut.

This is a picture of a newly discovered pool never seen before by human eyes 700 ft deep in Lechuguilla Cave a part of Carlsbad National Park here in New Mexico

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Salmon have returned to the historical fishing grounds of the Lower Elwha Clallum tribe of the Olympic Peninsula, 10 years after two dams were removed. www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/low...

Tribe members rejoice after fish populations return for first time since 'historic' dam removal: 'It's been a long time coming'www.thecooldown.com The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is finally able to fish for coho salmon in the same rivers as its ancestors, thanks to the removal of two dams.

The original poster, @katharinehayhoe.com , is actively recruiting for her "scientists who do climate" list on Bluesky.

I already invite people on X to join us here weekly. But thanks to this analysis, I've decided to re-create my "scientists who do climate" list here this summer, and manually invite each of the 3,000 members on X to join us. If you're still on X, pls consider inviting your followers to join us too!

This is a heartening thread comparing likes, posts, and shares on Bluesky, Threads, and X. There's also information about a climate change scientists regular posting. Bluesky performed really well -- and the difference between positive responses and trolling is dramatic.

Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

From @hakaimagazine.com. Like this, led by persistent First Nations work : "Last Tuesday ... the governments of 17 First Nations, Canada, and British Columbia signed an agreement to secure the future of the Great Bear Sea, also known as the Northern Shelf Bioregion." mailchi.mp/hakaimagazin...

The Owls Who Came From Awaymailchi.mp

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I wanted to vote in 2004: naturalization took too long. I loved going with our kid to these when they were small. This is the first I've been to for a bit & I mostly lay on grass. There're good+bad things about this place but these people put in the work to come here & I love to see them celebrated.

Went to the Naturalization ceremony in downtown Northampton today because my kid wanted to go & it was wonderful.

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Creative types, this is a great week to reread your copy of Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by @charliejane.bsky.social. I mean, if you're feeling a little stressed out by everything and it's hard to focus.

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Daphne Gottlieb is one of my favorite people, and a wonderful queer writer/performer who has rocked my world on many occasions. She recently had a costly, annoying battle over the rights to one of her books and she needs help recouping the costs. Please give/share! www.gofundme.com/f/help-daphn...

Help Daphne Recover from her Legal Battle, organized by Alexander Darkwww.gofundme.com Dear Friends of Daphne, For the past couple of years, Daphne has been engage… Alexander Dark needs your support for Help Daphne Recover from her Legal Battle

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Big shout out to @clairewillett.bsky.social whose grant writing course has raised a cool $4400 for voting rights so far, and will undoubtedly do UNTOLD good downstream as people learn to wield this power! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Grantwriting Master Classwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'Grantwriting Master Class' hosted online at 32auctions.

Speaking of institutional memory and erasure -- archivists!

Here it is with the correct top image! buttondown.email/charliejane/...

We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...

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Haven’t received a shiny little star for my work since grade school. Thanks, Library Journal! www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-n...

Here are the panels I'm on at #ReaderCon Writing Outside the Box: Novels that Defy Genre. Fri 3pm Institutional Memory & Erasure in Fictional Societies Fri 6 pm How to Read Like a Reader Sat 12 pm My reading of new work is 6 pm Saturday Salon C! Come if you can! 7/11-14, Quincy MA readercon.org

Readercon 33 | Readercon Web Servicesreadercon.org

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Added pictures from the printer's proofs of all Wesley Allsbrook's illustrations for The Book of Love: smallbeerpress.com/the-book-of-...

For the last many months @gavingrant.bsky.social & I have been putting together a limited edition of The Book of Love in four volumes with illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook. Soon off to the printers, and then it will be available for preorder.

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Duck hat. Duck. As a hat. Hat duck.

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I have said all along that I think Biden will win in November; I know he is the only choice to preserve this disgrace of a democracy. And still, this is terrible. It is shameful. That this is the best we have on both sides? The moderators refuse to moderate. It’s fucking ridiculous.

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This debate is a prime example of how profoundly we are ill equipped to deal w/the rise of authoritarianism. Letting blatant lies fly. Doing nothing to follow up on lies & ignoring questions. Normal rules don't apply. We need to think--CLEARLY--about the best ways to clear the air & support truth.

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Heard four minutes of the debate on NPR in the car and got so depressed that I was actually relieved when my baby started screaming in his car seat and I had to sing loudly to him and could no longer hear the radio.

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“When I die, I’m going to be cremated and the ashes are to be thrown in Rick Perry’s hair.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Kinky Friedman, Proudly Eccentric Texas Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 79www.rollingstone.com Kinky Friedman, the proudly eccentric Texas singer-songwriter and folk hero, has died at age 79

Happy Pride to all in the great thread below. Also to those unexpectedly kind and or gallant to queer strangers. And the expansive young people who grin at me on my trike. And brave ones starting a new dyke bookstore in my town. To the shy, the rowdy, and the fat. Thanks, @wiswell.bsky.social

Happy Pride to gay people who support trans people, and trans people who support ace/aro people, and ace/aro people who support unsure and questioning people. Happy Pride to all of us who are there for all of us.

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If you’d like to support the Smith College Library Workers’ Union as bargaining begins, the union has made it easy with a quick form. SCLWU hopes to gather as many signatures as possible from students, staff, faculty, alums, & community members. Thank you! forms.gle/2gNfouMmT4ga...

Sign our open letter of support!forms.gle CALL TO ACTION 6/26/2024: With over half of Smith College Libraries Workers United (SCLWU) members reporting that they are looking for other jobs, and while recruitment and retention are at all time l...

Read first six pages of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg. Someone is holed up in her house in an artless season, having survived her "Housemate" who died many years ago. I am having a "Killing Me Softly" feeling: "as if he'd found my letters and read each one outloud." Excited + a little scared.

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Congrats to Kelly—what a great surprise! & Double headers by Martha Wells & T. Kingfisher! 3-in-a-row for Charlie Jane Anders! Vajra Chandrasekera's sweep continues! UKL, yay! Neil, Iain, John, Uncanny, Tor! (Tor recusing, touch of class!) Out there screaming for Uchechukwu Nwaka & P. Djèlí Clark!

2024 Locus Awards Winners locusmag.com/2024/06...

2024 Locus Awards Winnerslocusmag.com The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards on June 22, 2024, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Henry Lien MCed the awards ceremony with Cory…

There's a tornado watch for much of Massachusetts until 8pm. Take care, friends! #WesternMA IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS FRANKLIN HAMPDEN HAMPSHIRE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF FITCHBURG, FRAMINGHAM, GLOUCESTER, GREENFIELD, LAWRENCE, LOWELL, NORTHAMPTON, SPRINGFIELD, AND WORCESTER.

tornadoes in Massachusetts, stay safe, my fellow Massholes

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'You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.' Link: deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t... #Privacy #Meta #Facebook

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

Murray Hill! So great in Somebody Somewhere. I read once twenty years ago at a fat queer event he mc'd called Jiggle-O at a club named Galapagos in Brooklyn. The evening was put together by my pals from NOLOSE. "Nice job, kid," he said to me from the bar as I left. Readings! Thrilled by this.

Beautiful profile of Murray Hill: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/s...

Is Murray Hill’s Showbiz Dream Finally Coming True?www.nytimes.com For years he wowed ’em in the clubs with his drag-king lounge act. Now, against all odds, he’s breaking out.

I love to give readings. Reading at Writers with Drinks back in the day was great because of how @charliejane.bsky.social treated my work. I've signed up to read new work at @readercon.bsky.social in July. I'm scared that no one will come. Scared I won't be ready. Those risks themselves move me.

I love hearing authors read their own work. Author readings are the lifeblood of book culture -- i miss bookstore readings and spoken word events. So in my latest newsletter I offer some tips to help authors do a better job with reading out loud 📚🎤🤩 buttondown.email/charliejane/...

Let Authors Read Their Work!buttondown.email One thing that bums me out is my sense that people don't seem to want to listen to authors reading their work in public as much as they used to. (This is a...