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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5d

Really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, with its intricate threading of lives and the speculative. Beautifully written and deeply perceptive! Available now! bookshop.org/p/books/bein...

Sepia-toned cover of Beings by Ilana showing a forest canopy over a small road and a car by the side of the road, with a flying saucer hovering overhead. With author text is dull gold over the saucer and the title in the middle of the cover in all caps in white and "A NOVEL" at bottom also in gold.

Below the cover is a quote from the New York Times Book Review:

"Engaging, elegant... A restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of 'truth' versus memory."

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 10d

Can someone out there who's more influential than me come up with a new word for "subtweeting" that happens outside of Twitter? And then make it a thing?

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Bloomsbury Books US @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social · 20d

@ilanaslightly.bsky.social's novel BEINGS in on sale today! @nytimes.com Book Review calls it "engaging, elegant... restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of ‘truth’ versus memory." Read the full review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

Were They Abducted by Aliens, or Is Their Memory Just Spotty?

www.nytimes.com

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 20d

BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community).

photo of me, a white queer with glasses and long hair wearing a white tank top, holding my second novel, BEINGS, which is out today.

photo of BEINGS's dedication, which reads:To Mike, who kicked this whole thing off, and to Micha, who unknowingly helped finish it

Photo of BEINGS's epigraphs which read:
Safe journey, space fans, wherever you are. - Stephen Hill, host and producer of Hearts of Space
"It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now." - Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. - Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

The start of BEINGS's acknowledgements (which are five pages long) which reads: Before I get to the thank-yous, I want to acknowledge that any misrepresentations of or factual errors regarding real places, time periods, or people--and any mistakes in general--are entirely my own. There are many, many people to thank (some of whom don't know I exist but whom I feel compelled to acknowledge anyway), so let's get started. Thank you to Mike Cahill, to whom this book is dedicated, for always listening to podcasts while making dinner, for letting me interrupt you...

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 28d

"Are you likely to recommend Earth to family and friends?"

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 28d

and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not achievable at all and 10 is easily achievable, how achievable do you believe this dream is for you

Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 28d

I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 28d

4 stars, Ariel

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 28d

I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Sep 4

That's incredible. I love how the heron looks like it's eyeing its next snack.
It's actually set into the window frame? I haven't been brave enough to try that yet with any of my stained glass.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Sep 3

ohhh thanks for sharing! I see a bunch of used copies online for around $4, so I'm gonna grab one.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Sep 3

I used fusible bias tape to do the leading and then stitched it down with a twin needle. It was a lot of fun, so I'll definitely be trying it again soon.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Sep 3

I bought a stained glass pattern that I converted to fabric, so a little of both?

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Sep 2

My stained glass quilt pairs well with my quilt stained glass

A wall hanging showing a great blue heron in stained glass style next to a stained glass panel of a quilt block.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Sep 2

I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend.

A quilted wall hanging showing a great blue heron standing in water, in a stained glass style.

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Axios @axios.com · Aug 30

Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government

Trump believes the "Deep State," scientific establishment and federal bureaucracy were overdue for a purge.

www.axios.com

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Jul 3

The best part about taking a trip is coming home and watching your inbox fill up with pleas to fill out surveys and write reviews for the hotel, the restaurants, the airline, the train, the rideshares, the theatre tickets, the tours.

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Eleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · Jul 1

Digital collage #dataviz to highlight the rise of forest loss by wildfires 🌳📈📊

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Hannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social · Jun 23

The hardest part of data journalism isn't writing code, it's everything else that takes a lot of experience & practice to do right — understanding your data's limitations, knowing what or who it leaves out, figuring out how it relates to other information.
A bot will never be good at that.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Jun 21

Tbh I spent the whole week saying "France" in meetings bc I couldn't remember how to pronounce Cannes

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Jun 21

Looooooool

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Jun 21

When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real.

"respondents were asked to identify Iran on the map" shows a world map covered in yellow dots. Iran is outlined with the annotation "23% correctly identified Iran."

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · Jun 3

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s Deportation Flights Increased in May, Data Shows

The increasing pace of ICE removal flights suggests deportation numbers could continue to rise.

www.nytimes.com

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · Jun 2

Absolutely stunning. You can say so much with a quilt.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Jun 2

I’ve been watching our kelp forests decline across my lifetime and it makes me very sad because kelp is cool as hell and supports a lot of marine life so I made a quilt about it.

A strip-pieced quilt with random lengths in various shades of green melting into a scatter of half-square triangles against a dark blue background.

A closeup of the quilt, showing the wavy quilting, which makes it look a little like an underwater scene

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · May 31

Damnit Kelsey

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