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MLIS. Multimodal sensemaking theorist/info designer ideocene.net. Information flows in complex systems. Game design. Editor CJILS + https://bylines.scot/author/leahbrown; @ fediscience.org. Writer. she/they/banshee 🇨🇦

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Teaser 2 for my interactive fiction game, with the official game title reveal:

"Alight in Tyrnasìth"

Btw, the title track for AIT is called "Inward, Outward, Forward, Backward"

Coming 2026 🐝

youtu.be/SMfr02nUL4o?...
Alight In Tyrnasìth - interactive fiction teaser trailer 2
YouTube video by Mapfulness
youtu.be
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From The Hobbit:
"The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower,
And bright are the windows of Night in her tower."
Images: M45, the Pleiades and tonight's waxing crescent Moon. 🔭
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Last night’s #aurora show. #astronomy
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Hi, I'm a NY times bestseller and a multiple National Magazine Award-winning journalist.

I've had FT jobs or multiple gigs going ever since I moved to New York a decade ago.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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"Personal libraries are assembled for reasons that are different from other collections."
Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania
Desiderius Erasmus lived his happiest months from late 1507 into 1508 at the Venetian print-shop of Aldus Manutius. A peripatetic scholar, the Dutch scholar had lived in Rotterdam and London, Basel…
lithub.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Still on my "nightshade librarian" bullshit
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Winter berries & winter sun #RathlinIsland
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I feel like David Lynch would have appreciated an extremely angry tarantula named "Pissy"
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Boosting again for Hosam and Noor's family. Please donate or share.

@fairshare.help

chuffed.org/project/1360...
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Boosting again for Mohammed's family. Please don't use his PayPal, but the WhyDonate campaign, as he cannot access his PayPal.

@fairshare.help
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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If you want to help a family who has raised very little ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed was a driver but he lost his car and his home. He is trying to take care of his four children. Fires who is in dental school, Mohammed who finished his final year of high school, Halal, a 7th grader and Bisan, a 5th grader.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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This is a success story that Sierra Leone deserves credit for.

#GoodNews #PublicHealth #Blackademics #Epidemiology
At the peak of the outbreak Sierra Leone was seeing 600 cases of mpox weekly. Over the last 8 months 200,000 vaccine doses have been delivered prioritizing the most at risk groups. Currently cases are down to 30 a week.
Public health works to end epidemics.
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
Sierra Leone’s mpox case-count is plummeting. Can the country get to zero new infections?
Ten months into a national public health emergency, and nearly six months into a vaccination campaign, Sierra Leone appears to be winning its fight against mpox.
www.gavi.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
logging off
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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This is happening in cross-stitch too. There are a lot of people making "patterns" that are just AI pictures or real art that has been run through a pixel filter that doesn't look good, doesn't match up with DMC threads, and doesn't make any sense.
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Wkly #KidLitLaunches thread: Did you post about a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Want to help boost a #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?Reply with link to the Bluesky or blog post. Only for books launching Nov.24-30, 2025 #2025-Wk48.

Book bloggers, agents, publishers welcome to post links!
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
Today (24 November) marks the passing of Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. He remains regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music.

📷 Getty
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It's Monday and you need an octopus salsa dancing with her human fren. 🐙

youtu.be/CYBFRu4gkdA?...
Stuck on you: caring for our giant Pacific octopus
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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My bestie, digital ethicist Thor Busch is going to be speaking at the Sustainable Games Alliance next Thursday!

Public talk: Does talking about sustainability connect us or drive us apart?

A deep dive on the theoretical debates around sustainability in games. To register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Foxes are the cats of dogs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
*childish cackling*
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Champagne for my real friends,
The Meox Mix jingle on an infinite loop in your mind until you draw your last breath for my SHAM friends!
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm polishing up a map I made earlier this year. I will make another version of it next year, maybe even interactive.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM