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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 12h

If you've already read Watermyth and would like to check out other works by me, did you know I have 27 published works of short fiction that have been reprinted and sometimes translated? Also poems:

mythopoetica.com/bibliography

Bibliography – through wildwood, through water

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

Home at 730pm. My crash is going to be epic.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2h

Out today, the latest Tyrant Philosophers piece - book 3.5 in the series is a novella length offering about the life of Angilly, who we met in Days of Shattered Faith. You don’t need to have read that (or any of them) to read this.

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 2h

Lives of Bitter Rain by @aptshadow.bsky.social is out today!

A novella in the Tyrant Philosophers series, this book takes a deep dive into the character of Angilly and her past, and further explores the empire's reach, and the costs of living inside it...

💙📚🪐
#SFF

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 2h

Both a book nerd and a music nerd here. True happiness is reveling in our nerdery. ❤️

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 2h

The realization that I am old enough to be a grandmother was followed up with, "Damn, I'm a childless and independent music nerd at 50. COOL."

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 2h

Today's Ambient listening:

From Where You Came (2025) by Kara-Lis Coverdale.

Bandcamp: kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com/album/from-w...

#Musicsky #Ambientsky #womencomposers

From Where You Came, by Kara-Lis Coverdale

11 track album

kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 3h

"we should not assume that technological revolutions are productivity revolutions. The rate of productivity growth has been in sharp decline since 2003, and today sits where it stood before the widespread adoption of the personal computer"

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3h

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 3h

I've been up since 1am. (slept 9pm-1am)

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 3h

Catching up with another round of newsletters discussing OpenAI’s latest breathless announcements. Can we all agree the theftbros are sounding increasingly desperate and just ignore them?

Give us some insightful analysis of their environmental impact instead?

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 3h

I am still at work (thought to drive straight home after class) because I left my housekeys in the office and now I'm too tired to drive so I'm going to chillax a bit first.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 3h

First MA class of the semester over. Good group of students, I'm looking forward to seeing how they develop over the semester. Still baffled at how much I enjoy teaching about teaching (pedagogy-based class) but I guess after 21 years of teaching that happens. Old lady likes to proselytize.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 5h

At the Faculty for audit meeting in the morning, teaching in the afternoon. Crashing later. 🫠😅😭

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 8h

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 17h

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · 7h

Little update. Mostly been off bsky coz I've had some complications involving fevers, bleeding. It's been a rough six weeks, physically, mentally, emotionally. Would have liked to have rested but I gotta pay for the hospital bills and various tests and medications. Anything you can spare will help.

Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · May 23

Hi all; I'm going to undergo a significant procedure later this year (sorry, would rather not disclose) and my husband's health insurance doesn't cover it. We're going to need funds for the care during and after. Any help would be much appreciated:

gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...

Medical and Post-Hospital Care for Vida Cruz-Borja

Hello, I am Vida Cruz-Borja, author of the Cirilo F. Bautista Award-winning Song of the Mango and Other New Myths and the IGNYTE Award-winning essay “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protag...

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 15d

I've been obsessed with the myth of Cupid and Psyche since I was a kid reading it for the first time in a hospital bed, and that obsession fueled a later obsession for French Salon Fairytales...which led to my building the hypertext narrative upon which this novel is based. A fractal of cupids!

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Nov 29

An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️

#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia

mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...

The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 13d

Emes meum librum, quaeso. Meum librum est bonum et habet plurimas fabulas antiquas cum fabulas novas. #Booksky 💙📚

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Nov 29

An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️

#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia

mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 15h

I absolutely adore The Bell at Sealey Head. It’s one of my favourite books by McKillip and I can’t get over being mentioned together with her! 🥰

Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 20h

Can confirm, did make me want to eat Trinidadian food!

Watermyth by @mythopoetica.bsky.social and The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip also have lovely food descriptions

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 11h

Disabling replies to avoid unsolicited advice which will only annoy me.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 11h

The problem with working out regularly is that one gets hungrier. Also, blood sugars working well also means one gets hypo if not fed regularly. Deficit becomes a challenge. 🫠

(the good news is that I can actually eat /more/ now but then it would just be maintenance mode)

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 9d

If you want a taste of the merkingdoms of the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms before you buy a copy, here's "When Sirens Sing of Roses and of Delegated Power" in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, published in 2019.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/when...

#BookSky 💙 📚 #sirens #mermaids 🧜‍♀️

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 12h

My street team sign-ups go public on Friday, but you can see all the behind-the-scenes and sign-up info early by joining my Discord server

discord.gg/ZFCyNwv4uJ

Join the Stories Across Worlds Discord Server!

Check out the Stories Across Worlds community on Discord - hang out with 35 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 12h

If you've already read Watermyth and would like to check out other works by me, did you know I have 27 published works of short fiction that have been reprinted and sometimes translated? Also poems:

mythopoetica.com/bibliography

Bibliography – through wildwood, through water

mythopoetica.com

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 12h

Just grateful I'm quite wide awake right now. Thank you, coffee.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 20h

But I am just a plain simple menswear guy

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