Joanne Hall
@hierath77.bsky.social
Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, woke hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.
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Joanne Hall
@hierath77.bsky.social
· Jun 6
New pinned post - currently slush reading novellas for @wtpress.bsky.social with @rozc.bsky.social . If you have novella length SF or F we want to read it!
Also feel free to ask questions here before you submit.
Also feel free to ask questions here before you submit.
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"Earth itself is a living being; we're privileged to be passengers on it," said author Simon Winchester. "The planet has a self-regulating mechanism, and it will deal with climate change. We may not survive. We may ruin it for ourselves. But Earth will carry on."
www.thexylom.com/post/simon-w...
www.thexylom.com/post/simon-w...
Lessons on Climate Futures from Wind’s Tempestuous Past: An Interview with Author Simon Winchester
A newly published history of the wind turns to sea gods and early wind turbines to show how today’s challenges to renewable energy repeat a centuries-old pattern.
www.thexylom.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Earth itself is a living being; we're privileged to be passengers on it," said author Simon Winchester. "The planet has a self-regulating mechanism, and it will deal with climate change. We may not survive. We may ruin it for ourselves. But Earth will carry on."
www.thexylom.com/post/simon-w...
www.thexylom.com/post/simon-w...
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Only 99p/99c right now!
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Only 99p/99c right now!
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If you missed our E.M. Faulds' excellent ecofiction tale 'Love, Scotland' in 2024's Gallus, here's your chance. 'Love, Scotland' features in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction (Apex Book Company / Violet Lichen), out now in all good bookshops.
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@apexmag.bsky.social
@bethkesh.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
"A triumph. 23 stellar tales offering creative and varied takes on the book's themes. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactful." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review A must...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you missed our E.M. Faulds' excellent ecofiction tale 'Love, Scotland' in 2024's Gallus, here's your chance. 'Love, Scotland' features in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction (Apex Book Company / Violet Lichen), out now in all good bookshops.
@bethkesh.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@bethkesh.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
Doctors have asked me to keep a migraine diary again and upped my meds, so we're right back to where we were before *sigh*
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Doctors have asked me to keep a migraine diary again and upped my meds, so we're right back to where we were before *sigh*
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By looking at the countries that consume the least meat, we can better understand the forces that shape diets, and explore what lessons they might offer in the pursuit of a more sustainable and equitable food system.
These Countries Eat the Least Meat, and Here’s What We Can Learn From Them
Income, religion and government investment all play a role in meat consumption.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
By looking at the countries that consume the least meat, we can better understand the forces that shape diets, and explore what lessons they might offer in the pursuit of a more sustainable and equitable food system.
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Head up, UK types. Looks like you can pick up GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD for just 99p on ereader. So if huge trees and deep weirdness that will only get weirder are your thing THIS MAY BE FOR YOU.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
Gods of the Wyrdwood: The Forsaken Trilogy, Book 1: 'Avatar meets Dune - on shrooms. Five stars.' -SFX
'Avatar meets Dune - on shrooms. Five stars.' -SFX
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Head up, UK types. Looks like you can pick up GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD for just 99p on ereader. So if huge trees and deep weirdness that will only get weirder are your thing THIS MAY BE FOR YOU.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gods...
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Similar story for IEA scenarios (2025 update on this coming soon). The older "current policies" outlooks have simply ended up not coming true. That's because the policies did not remain 'current' - there were 'new policies'.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Similar story for IEA scenarios (2025 update on this coming soon). The older "current policies" outlooks have simply ended up not coming true. That's because the policies did not remain 'current' - there were 'new policies'.
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#1 - deviation from the worst scenarios
If fossil fuel use had grown at the rate it did in the 2000s, global CO2 emissions would be ~5-10 ish gigatonnes (a few percent) higher than they are today
They did not - and they deviated pre-pandemic, too.
If fossil fuel use had grown at the rate it did in the 2000s, global CO2 emissions would be ~5-10 ish gigatonnes (a few percent) higher than they are today
They did not - and they deviated pre-pandemic, too.
Always my fav chart from the GCB, and here's the 2025 update.
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
It lays out what we've avoided, what we've failed to avoid, and what's at stake if we let the future slip
We are not on a good trajectory, and slipping back into a worse trajectory is always possible. But: we know it bleeds
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#1 - deviation from the worst scenarios
If fossil fuel use had grown at the rate it did in the 2000s, global CO2 emissions would be ~5-10 ish gigatonnes (a few percent) higher than they are today
They did not - and they deviated pre-pandemic, too.
If fossil fuel use had grown at the rate it did in the 2000s, global CO2 emissions would be ~5-10 ish gigatonnes (a few percent) higher than they are today
They did not - and they deviated pre-pandemic, too.
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Special quiet when you need it. Listen on repeat. 🎧
Episode 183 - Upland fir forest (38 mins *sleep safe*)
Listen with headphones for the full gorgeous effect of the wind in the fir trees in this remote place.
> bit.ly/LenDent1
Episode 183 - Upland fir forest (38 mins *sleep safe*)
Listen with headphones for the full gorgeous effect of the wind in the fir trees in this remote place.
> bit.ly/LenDent1
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Special quiet when you need it. Listen on repeat. 🎧
Episode 183 - Upland fir forest (38 mins *sleep safe*)
Listen with headphones for the full gorgeous effect of the wind in the fir trees in this remote place.
> bit.ly/LenDent1
Episode 183 - Upland fir forest (38 mins *sleep safe*)
Listen with headphones for the full gorgeous effect of the wind in the fir trees in this remote place.
> bit.ly/LenDent1
Heads up! Amazon have a deal on the print version of @wtpress.bsky.social Fight Like A Girl 2 - a mere 4.99 for something both signable and absorbent, if you like that sort of thing... please share?
www.amazon.co.uk/Fight-Like-G...
www.amazon.co.uk/Fight-Like-G...
Fight Like A Girl - Volume 2
Fight Like A Girl - Volume 2 eBook : McKenna, Juliet E, Smith Spark, Anna, Ware, Danie, Sebold, Gaie, Bond, Charlotte, Morgan, Lou, Davies, K T , Clarke, Roz, Hall, Joanne: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Heads up! Amazon have a deal on the print version of @wtpress.bsky.social Fight Like A Girl 2 - a mere 4.99 for something both signable and absorbent, if you like that sort of thing... please share?
www.amazon.co.uk/Fight-Like-G...
www.amazon.co.uk/Fight-Like-G...
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Cached US Kindle giveaway, courtesy of @galatfemme.bsky.social: 10 copies of The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 1) by @nghivo.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read*. Naturally. Siiiiiiigh. I need more hours in the week.
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Cached US Kindle giveaway, courtesy of @galatfemme.bsky.social: 10 copies of The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 1) by @nghivo.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read*. Naturally. Siiiiiiigh. I need more hours in the week.
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
For fucks sake.
To give you an idea about just how eventful the end of COP30 was, I wrote and rewrote this entire 2000 story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social three times over a period of about six hours as it was all happening.
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
drilled.media
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
For fucks sake.
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I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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ICYMI!
Yes, I have a YA fantasy out!
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he...
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
#YAfantasy #sapphic #swords
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he...
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
#YAfantasy #sapphic #swords
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
ICYMI!
Hi! I am only sporadically here as the latest Samsung update has trashed my phone. Hopefully normal nonsense will resume asap
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Hi! I am only sporadically here as the latest Samsung update has trashed my phone. Hopefully normal nonsense will resume asap
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If this doesn’t brighten up your feed just a bit then I don’t know what.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
If this doesn’t brighten up your feed just a bit then I don’t know what.
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Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
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You need to be reading CL Hellisen's work if you're not already! Their latest book Shape of Monsters is an absolute dark fantastical gem, and their short fiction is some of the best 👇 clhellisenlanding.carrd.co
Self promo is my bane; it makes me feel like an immense tit when I post stuff about my writing (thanks to upbringing - never blow your own horn), but it is increasingly apparent that all it means is that I'm utterly invisible as a writer...
So, anyway.
I have books and stories out there.
So, anyway.
I have books and stories out there.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
You need to be reading CL Hellisen's work if you're not already! Their latest book Shape of Monsters is an absolute dark fantastical gem, and their short fiction is some of the best 👇 clhellisenlanding.carrd.co
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My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
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Rewilding can be contentious. It has been seen as a threat to farming, and a rural way of life. But in my experience this framing is often false. Whilst it is an ideological challenge, it is one that can rebuild our connection to the living world ✍️Jon Conradi, Wild Mosaic
Rewilding: Moving the focus from landscape to people
Jon Conradi, Wild Mosaic Rewilding can be contentious. It has been seen as a threat to farming, and a rural way of life. But in my experience this framing is often false. Whilst it is an ideological c...
wp.me
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Posting to read later
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Saw this today, so a belated happy publication day!
Today is the day!
The long-awaited Mennik Thorn prequel novella, The Dead Man, is out now. I promised this to readers quite a long time ago. It works well either as an introduction to the series or for those who've read the other books, so no excuses! Go get it. :)
books2read.com/thedeadman
The long-awaited Mennik Thorn prequel novella, The Dead Man, is out now. I promised this to readers quite a long time ago. It works well either as an introduction to the series or for those who've read the other books, so no excuses! Go get it. :)
books2read.com/thedeadman
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Saw this today, so a belated happy publication day!
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Can you all wish @kaylaallen1965.bsky.social very best of luck for tomorrow? She's have a couple of unsightly lumps removed.... ;) It sounds like her medical people are very kind and nurturing.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Can you all wish @kaylaallen1965.bsky.social very best of luck for tomorrow? She's have a couple of unsightly lumps removed.... ;) It sounds like her medical people are very kind and nurturing.
I am forty-fucking-eight. Why have I just this week broken out in zits?
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I am forty-fucking-eight. Why have I just this week broken out in zits?
Dydd 223 of #365DaysOfFood brecwast is Greek yoghurt, bananas and honey. Of course I had to pay the banana tax...
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Dydd 223 of #365DaysOfFood brecwast is Greek yoghurt, bananas and honey. Of course I had to pay the banana tax...