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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.
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Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
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These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
January 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Ayize Jama-Everett (The Liminal People)

Divine Forces: Exploring the Power of the Orishas
San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street
Featuring Tomi Adeyemi, Kemi Ashing-Giwa & more

3:30 PM Black Diasporic Religions
Sakena Young-Scaggs & Ayize Jama-Everett
mod: Dr. Stanford Carpenter
Celebration: Divine Forces: Exploring the Power of the Orishas | San Francisco Public Library
A transformative in-person event blending the power of Yoruba spirituality with cultural exploration and collective healing. Featuring Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Tomi Adeyemi and panels with...
sfpl.org
January 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Mitski, Bella Ciao
Mitski - Bella Ciao (English Cover)
YouTube video by mitski's stuff
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January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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Happening now: Hundreds of protesters are marching in front of the Home Depot on 36th St and Thomas where several day laborers were taken by ICE last Sunday. Chants of “ICE out of Home Depot, ICE out of AZ” and “ICE kills moms.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Meanwhile thinking about global temperatures rising 1.5°C since 1970 and wondering what the next 25-30 years will bring.
January 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
A snowy day, in Northamp-town
Was not low, did not have me down
January 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM
"90% of the kids who've died weren't vaxed"
1. Time for a #flu update. 🧵
#CDC was informed of 15 more pediatric flu deaths in the week ending 1/10, which brings this season's total to date to 32. This number, sadly, will continue to climb because kids & teens have borne the brunt of this flu season.
90% of the kids who've died weren't vaxed
January 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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*clears throat*

The TENTH ANNIVERSARY edition of @reckoningmag.bsky.social comes out tomorrow.

Huge congratulations to @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social on a decade of imagining, working, and collaborating this remarkable magazine--"creative writing on environmental justice-- into existence.
Reckoning X has stories, essays, poetry and art from 10 countries, in English and Spanish. It has a story about a space marine recovering from trauma, an essay about how Tove Jansson made art amid world war, a painting of a dodo in disguise, and a poem shaped like a fish at the end!

The end

(4/4)
January 15, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Reckoning X is here! It's our collectively-edited 10th anniversary issue, themed on communication in environmental justice. See @monarobot.bsky.social's cover art and read editorials from @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social, @cgaubrey.bsky.social, and an exquisite corpse (!): reckoning.press/reckoning-x/
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Hey, lookit that, neighbor star mystery author Margot Douaihy in the @shelf-awareness.com this morning — her new Sister Holiday (gritty New Orleans mystery) Divine Ruin dropped this week
Reading with... Margot Douaihy
Margot Douaihy's debut mystery, Scorched Grace, won the Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction and was named one of the Best Crime Novels of the Year
www.shelf-awareness.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Lauren Michele Jackson recommends Geoff Ryman's novel Was in "Reading for the New Year: Part Three
Recommendations from @newyorker.com writers"

www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
January 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
"Despite video evidence proving Nick never made physical contact with a police officer – and despite no immediate action being taken at the time – more than a year later, the officer involved accused Nick of attempting to run him over."
Drop the Charges Against Nick Tilsen
In 2023, Nick Tilsen pulled over to conduct a routine cop watch where a Native unhoused relative was being stopped by Rapid City Police (RCPD) in Rapid City, South Dakota. A year later from that cop...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Cover art is by christadonner.com. Definitely have a look through her site!
New issue of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is here from @gavingrant.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social! Look at that cover weightlessbooks.com/lady-churchi...
January 13, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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feeling helpless; made some shirts. gonna try to log off and do something more useful now.

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January 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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It’s not enough to just express our outrage about ICE’s horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good. We must also demand that our elected officials act.

Join a local event this weekend to say ICE Out For Good: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...

Or you can host an event: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 10, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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"...42% of U.S. adults now support abolishing ICE entirely, while 50% oppose getting rid of the agency. That compares to 29% in Summer 2018, when the phrase was a rallying cry for progressives, 21% on Election Day 2024, and 37% in mid 2020, during the recent peak of the social justice movement..."
January 9, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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This Saturday, 1/10, join lead curator Theo Downes-Le Guin for an exhibition walkthough of A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin at Oregon Contemporary. The walkthough will be followed by a Q&A and community reading featuring selections from Changing Planes.

www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-rea...
January 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Tonight (Thursday, 1/8) 7 pm on Zoom. New to Ice Watch and want to get involved? Already Ice Watching & open to sharing? Register online: defend612.com/events
January 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Legendary bookstore dropping an incredibly brave statement for any retail establishment 😂
If you're out observing ICE and need to use the bathroom, we're open from 11-6:30 and have three public restrooms. We've got a plunger and we know how to use it!
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 PM
These brighter ones went up last February and have proved popular. Thanks to everyone who bought them (and donated) we've sold 199 and raised $2,121 for Safe Place International
www.bonfire.com/read-books-p...
January 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Coming up on a year of these shirts on Bonfire. We don't make anything on them (we sell them at BKMN for that) and happy to say we've sold 135 and raised $1,490 for CCATE.
Read Books Punch Nazis | Bonfire
One by one, we bend that arc toward justice.. March 12, 2025: Nike shirts. Feb. 17, 2025: New campaign with brighter shirts. We’ve been selling these shirts & stickers...
www.bonfire.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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I never wanted to have ANY, never mind this much, grudging sympathy for Robespierre, never mind the Khmer fucking Rouge. “Abolish ICE” is somehow now the conservative position, and I’m clinging hard to the centrism of “we’re going to need Nuremberg trials.”
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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abolish ICE
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
US government is a death cult. Increasing use of death penalty. Putting untrained armed militia on the street. Cutting international aid. Killing people in and around Venezuela. Bombing (at least) seven countries.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Violent paramilitary organizations are shooting civilians in the face in Minneapolis and we're just supposed to sit here doing our jobs?
January 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM