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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

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Spec Fic author | PhD Environmental Engr | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I write hopeful climate fiction and solarpunk. Host: Bright Green Futures podcast https://linktr.ee/susankayequinn "AI is a lying machine made out of crimes." Working on a novel about families and plants.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hello, I'm Sue, I write hopeful #climatefiction cuz HOLY HELL we need a way out of this mess.

Website: many novels, much short stories

NEW: Bright Green Futures! (stories from guests of the pod)

I wish more people would read (free):
SLIMY THINGS DID CRAWL lnk.to/SlimyWebsite
#booksky #solarpunk

Trio of recent releases from Sue:
1) "New Collection"—Bright Green Futures: 2024, a collection of the guests of the Bright Green Futures pod, edited by Sue, releasing Earth Day 2025 (cover is white background with illustrated botanical drawings of wildflowers)

2) "Hopeful Climate Fiction"—When You Had Power (Nothing is Promised 1) by Susan Kaye Quinn, the first in a 4-part series of near-future novels about an energy island Sci-Fi mystery (cover is an underwater diver with a futuristic city in the background)

3) "Solarpunk"—Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn, a collection of short solarpunk stories by Sue (cover is print art from Eddie Spaghetti showing an assortment of images each representing one of the stories inside)

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 6h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, sci-fi and fantasy folks, if you happen to know folks who are involved with various estates in the field, do tip them a hat about the Anthropic settlement. Agencies do not get $ out of the deal and may not remember to talk to estate clients. My agent was worrying about estates not being alerted

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2h

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xanadian @xanadian.bsky.social · 5h

I'm glad rah explained because my exvangelical ass had gotten as far as googling "wtf is a monstrance" and, well, wow. Hot damn, as it were. Daaaamn.

They took the closest thing to Jesus-on-earth down there and made ICE turn them/Him away at the gates?

OOF.

Well done.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2h

Not sure why you're determined to use words incorrectly but ok...block it is

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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing work by Nikkolas Smith

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 3h

I've got my preorder in!

You're gonna want this book, friends.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 3h

a Catholic priest leading a Eucharistic procession to the ICE detention facility and getting turned away... and very publicly calling that out... this, my brother in Christ, is exactly what the church should be doing. Well done.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 4h

Teen birth rates have been dropping for decades as have overall birth rates... in almost every country. So no, not "exponential"

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slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 2d

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 4h

Not to mention that there are some pretty strict checks/balances on keeping predators out of kid spaces... but literally anyone can have kids and who has access to them is 100% up to parents...

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 6h

very interesting

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 6h

What does this ad say to me, a cis dude?

When someone plants a flag it tells you where they stand.

He's planted a flag, saying he will fight for the most slandered group in America today.

If he'll fight for them, he'll fight for everyone's rights.

That's what you want in a politician.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 7h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 6h

Me: we should eat more seasonally, more locally, it's better for people and the planet—
Adult Kiddo: I EAT SEASONALLY PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE IS A SEASON
Me: that's not what I meant... okay fine

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 6h

One thing I'll give the fascists: they're thoroughly destroying the idea that it (anything they wanted to do) was ever about "saving money".

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16h

Russ Vought wasn't lying when he said he wanted to inflict "trauma" on our public servants.

This is what he is doing...with RFK Jr.'s permission at HHS. Last night, they destroyed our nation's ability to track and report emerging diseases/potential pandemics, among other things.

This cannot stand.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

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Torsten Lütten @torstenluetten.bsky.social · 7h

Heartbreaking.
Fascism is when you let it happen.

🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 7h

When you have a pedophile regime out here kidnapping children we really have to start asking ourselves. What’s going on?

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 7h

Looks like your Halloween candy is gonna be even more expensive than last year and full of shrinkflation.

(It's mostly climate-change-induced crop failures, not tariffs — but also tariffs for the US)
www.reuters.com/business/cho...
#climatechange #halloween

price of cocoa showing steep jump in price in 2024 and even higher in 2025

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14h

Hubby:*gets Target gift card from parents of kids he teaches to sail*
Me:Aw, that's so sweet! Also: I'm boycotting Target
Hubby: it's my gift card
Me: You know what Target has right now? That no other place can rival in complexity, vastness, and just aisles & aisles of the stuff?
Hubby:...
Me: CANDY

ME: Time to put Halloween candy out for all my coworkers
picture of bowl of candy
Also Me: *works from home

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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