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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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adeniro.bsky.social
Here it is: Block by Frozen Block is a short, interactive poem I made in Twine as a vessel for ... all the stuff roiling around in my head as everyone here is fighting for our neighbors in big ways and small.

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Block by Frozen Block by Anya Johanna DeNiro
an interactive poem from Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 2026
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January 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM
gavingrant.bsky.social
Such good news! A new home for Greer Gilman’s Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes and then, even better, a fabulous new novel, Lightwards:
January 22, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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themassreview.bsky.social
After a not-so-brief hiatus, we've re-opened submissions to our #WorkingTitles series, our digital e-book collection of works longer than can fit in our print journal. For a full set of guidelines, check out massreview.org/new-submissi...
Submissions - The Massachusetts Review Submission Guidelines Submissions
The Massachusetts Review 2025 – 2026 Submissions Period is now open.  If you have submitted to us online, please check that your spam filters do not block our email. You can add [email protected]...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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themassreview.bsky.social
Curious what kinds of work we publish as Working Titles? Purchase a few from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social (They're only $1.99!!) weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
Massachusetts Review Inc. – Weightless Books
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January 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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matociquala.bsky.social
Your reminder that this amazing Humble Bundle featuring a whole litany of stone classics by female SFF writers dating back to Andre Norton (!) and including some of the absolute classics of science fiction (and, um, several books by me) is only $18.

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Humble Book Bundle: Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror by Open Road Media
Our latest ebook bundle has over 60 of the best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books written by women! Every purchase supports Active Minds charity!
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January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
gavingrant.bsky.social
<begin>head explosion
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."
January 20, 2026 at 7:38 PM
gavingrant.bsky.social
Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join me in helping Josephine in Kenya Port Vila to pursue their dream?
www.kiva.org/invitedby/ga...
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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lisasky.bsky.social
Just because animals are often guided by instinct and occupied with their own behaviour and survival, people often mistake them for being unintelligent. A lot of them are quite clever, tool-use or otherwise. I think people don't want to know how smart animals are, and what they're capable of.
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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sleestak.bsky.social
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
gavingrant.bsky.social
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...
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January 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
gavingrant.bsky.social
Mitski, Bella Ciao
Mitski - Bella Ciao (English Cover)
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January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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azrww.bsky.social
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
gavingrant.bsky.social
Meanwhile thinking about global temperatures rising 1.5°C since 1970 and wondering what the next 25-30 years will bring.
Very messy hand-drawn extensions to global climate highlights bar chart showing 2025 as 3rd-warmest year on record. Extrapolating to 2030, 2040, 2050, and 2060 with notes that it might go back to 1940s and '50s (tagged Nice dream), remain about the same and start going down (tagged working together, phew), keep going up but start leveling off in say 20 years (tagged well, that's a bit toasty) or continue with the line started about 1970 (tagged Goodbye AMOC, hello havoc)
January 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
gavingrant.bsky.social
A snowy day, in Northamp-town
Was not low, did not have me down
Snow in the foreground with more sticking to trees and shrubs in front of a shed & chicken coop
January 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM
gavingrant.bsky.social
"90% of the kids who've died weren't vaxed"
helenbranswell.bsky.social Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 5d
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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martin65.bsky.social
*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.
reckoningmag.bsky.social Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 8d
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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reckoningmag.bsky.social
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/
Cover art for Reckoning X by Moníca Robles Corzo, featuring a fish, a human, a snake, some mushrooms, and the tail of a fox in a semicircle surrounded by curlicues representing communication, with a big black X in the middle, against a white background.
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
gavingrant.bsky.social
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
gavingrant.bsky.social
Lauren Michele Jackson recommends Geoff Ryman's novel Was in "Reading for the New Year: Part Three
Recommendations from @newyorker.com writers"

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Was by Geoff Ryman Oz will never be over. The world that L. Frank Baum created in 1900 with “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” has long exerted a powerful thrall. The great Gore Vidal counted himself among the “most Americans” of his generation who had lost and found themselves in it: “In some mysterious way, I was translating myself to Oz, a place which I was to inhabit for many years while, simultaneously, visiting other fictional worlds as well as maintaining my cover in that dangerous one known as ‘real.’ ” Most Americans today, it’s safe to wager, owe their idea of Oz to the 1939 film adaptation and hunger, it would seem, for darkness as much as dazzle. For those, tired of the candy-floss fare of “Wicked” and its cinematic adaptations, I recommend Geoff Ryman’s 1992 novel. Ryman’s narrative lands upon lives crossed in some way with Baum’s book, and cares less about upending fantasy than treating it seriously, as a shade of reality most Americans cannot live without—a necessity that, if devastating, often proves less so than the alternative. There is a child whose happy world is shattered when his friends from Oz cannot make the leap into what people around him consider to be reality. There is an elderly woman, Dotty, who spends her days revisiting her Kansas childhood, bleak but for the intervention of a twinkling substitute teacher, and part-time actor, named Mr. Baum. There is a makeup artist whose adolescent charge is the professional little girl who finds true home in the heat of M-G-M lights. “I am a fantasy writer who fell in love with realism,” Ryman writes in the postscript. “It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.” — Lauren Michele Jackson
January 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
gavingrant.bsky.social
"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
gavingrant.bsky.social
Cover art is by christadonner.com. Definitely have a look through her site!
weightlessbooks.bsky.social Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 8d
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...
Cover art for LCRW #51, featuring a red-faced woman looking over her shoulder at us; her back is transparent and shows mutliple floors of a yellow structure containing silhouettes of people, a pool, and some potted plants
January 13, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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neonhemlock.bsky.social
feeling helpless; made some shirts. gonna try to log off and do something more useful now.

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FUCK ICE in a metal font on a black tank top CHINGA LA MIGRA in a metal font on a black tank top
January 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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indivisible.org
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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atherton.bsky.social
"...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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ursulakleguin.com
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.

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A close up photograph of part of the Mother Oak, the tree at the center of Oregon Contemporary's exhibition A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin. The tree holds a selection of Ursula's work for visitors to peruse, and also has recordings of her reading.
January 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM