Julie Phillips
@julie-phillips.com
"Opinion is the beginning of ignorance."
—Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
—Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Julie Phillips
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· Jan 3
In response to the recent election, I wrote about @ursulakleguin.com 's activism and her thoughts on (maybe) saving the world
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For the [ast few years I've been editing the short fiction for Star Ship Sofa, a venerable SF (not F/H) podcast. It's a small joint, and I've turned it primarily into a reprint market as we can afford only $50 per story.
I've also turned it into a reprint market because writers need money fast. 🧵
I've also turned it into a reprint market because writers need money fast. 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For the [ast few years I've been editing the short fiction for Star Ship Sofa, a venerable SF (not F/H) podcast. It's a small joint, and I've turned it primarily into a reprint market as we can afford only $50 per story.
I've also turned it into a reprint market because writers need money fast. 🧵
I've also turned it into a reprint market because writers need money fast. 🧵
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Finally, speaking of poor: half the money from direct sales of 120 MURDERS is going to Boston-area food banks till 12/23:
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ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...
120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era - Ruadán Books
After Midnight is as dark as it gets. BONUS: Pre-order 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era at a 33% discount and receive a PDF copy of an original Nick Mamatas story! Whether tha...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Finally, speaking of poor: half the money from direct sales of 120 MURDERS is going to Boston-area food banks till 12/23:
ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...
ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...
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Saw this kettle of black vultures from my hotel room in Miami.
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Saw this kettle of black vultures from my hotel room in Miami.
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
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Y'all, It's TODAY!
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Y'all, It's TODAY!
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". #Lit #SciFi #BookSky 🌱
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
#Lit #OctaviaEButler
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Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Plumber confirmed that the fuses blowing yesterday was due to the water heater and we need a new water heater. I did find the fuse for the water heater itself so we're good heating wise
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
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Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
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Yes, all the time, and how they’re constantly expanding the boundaries of who is disposable.
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yes, all the time, and how they’re constantly expanding the boundaries of who is disposable.
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Whereas the top wolves are basically just acting like parents and making sure everybody’s got food and letting the cubs crawl all over them.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Whereas the top wolves are basically just acting like parents and making sure everybody’s got food and letting the cubs crawl all over them.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
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People who say "we're wolves not sheep" have never seen two ewes trying to murder each other over relative status in the flock before they give birth, and then all their friends and family picking sides because being friends with the winner will raise THEIR status, until there is a massive brawl
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
People who say "we're wolves not sheep" have never seen two ewes trying to murder each other over relative status in the flock before they give birth, and then all their friends and family picking sides because being friends with the winner will raise THEIR status, until there is a massive brawl
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
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November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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This year, salmon reached parts of the Klamath where they hadn't been seen in a century. Let the joy of the river peoples be a fitting monument to Dick Cheney's passing.
Salmon seen for first time in century after historic Calif. dam removal
In an impressive feat, the salmon have crossed over the river's remaining dams.
www.sfgate.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This year, salmon reached parts of the Klamath where they hadn't been seen in a century. Let the joy of the river peoples be a fitting monument to Dick Cheney's passing.
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Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
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I do this all the time, no AI or even computer needed. It's called mind-mapping, or marginal comments, or Talmud, or Tumblr, or Post-its, or scholia, or Emily Dickinson's writing practice, or drafts, or revises, or amends, or "expand this," or highlighting, or developing an idea, or ...
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I do this all the time, no AI or even computer needed. It's called mind-mapping, or marginal comments, or Talmud, or Tumblr, or Post-its, or scholia, or Emily Dickinson's writing practice, or drafts, or revises, or amends, or "expand this," or highlighting, or developing an idea, or ...
I'm in Brighton; I hope to see you here!
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I'm in Brighton; I hope to see you here!
The Netherlands had elections today and they want people to vote, so I got to cast my ballot in a windmill.
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Netherlands had elections today and they want people to vote, so I got to cast my ballot in a windmill.
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Book of Cats mini-review: As a Le Guin completist, I figured I’d be familiar with most of what’s in this collection. But it’s full of lovely surprises—including poems that are *not* included in the Collected Poems from LOA. The drawings alone are worth the price of admission, and ... 1/3 #BookSky
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Book of Cats mini-review: As a Le Guin completist, I figured I’d be familiar with most of what’s in this collection. But it’s full of lovely surprises—including poems that are *not* included in the Collected Poems from LOA. The drawings alone are worth the price of admission, and ... 1/3 #BookSky
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Writing the introduction to this collection was a profound exercise in memory for me, as well as the chance to reminisce with @terriwindling.bsky.social about an extraordinary writer and friend, who changed our literature in ways we're only just realizing.
Pub on Tuesday!
THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP!
buff.ly/Bf9BguU
With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social
3 ways to WIN:
@thestorygraph.com
tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea
#Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF
#giveaway
THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP!
buff.ly/Bf9BguU
With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social
3 ways to WIN:
@thestorygraph.com
tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea
#Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF
#giveaway
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Writing the introduction to this collection was a profound exercise in memory for me, as well as the chance to reminisce with @terriwindling.bsky.social about an extraordinary writer and friend, who changed our literature in ways we're only just realizing.
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Seattle folks! You might wish to stop by Elliott Bay Book Company at 7 pm on Tuesday, October 21st, when Winter Texts publisher Conner Bouchard-Roberts presents A Larger Reality, the book accompaniment to the upcoming exhibition. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Conner Bouchard-Roberts presents Ursula K. Le Guin | Elliott Bay Book Company
Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles
www.elliottbaybook.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Seattle folks! You might wish to stop by Elliott Bay Book Company at 7 pm on Tuesday, October 21st, when Winter Texts publisher Conner Bouchard-Roberts presents A Larger Reality, the book accompaniment to the upcoming exhibition. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
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Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
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And we're live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5h5...
2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
And we're live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5h5...
On her birthday, a poem by #UrsulaKLeGuin
"let’s hurry, yes, to offer
everything and count on nothing,
make and break no promises ...
Outside trust, what air
is there to breathe?"
lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...
"let’s hurry, yes, to offer
everything and count on nothing,
make and break no promises ...
Outside trust, what air
is there to breathe?"
lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
On her birthday, a poem by #UrsulaKLeGuin
"let’s hurry, yes, to offer
everything and count on nothing,
make and break no promises ...
Outside trust, what air
is there to breathe?"
lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...
"let’s hurry, yes, to offer
everything and count on nothing,
make and break no promises ...
Outside trust, what air
is there to breathe?"
lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...
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Have you visited yet? It's Le Guin's birthday tomorrow, just sayin 🌑
Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Have you visited yet? It's Le Guin's birthday tomorrow, just sayin 🌑
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good news you can use!
We're also thrilled to announce that thanks to support from our readers, we are partnering with Bitch Media to republish selected classic posts from their archives that will never be behind a paywall, because we believe in preserving feminist media for future generations to enjoy.
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
good news you can use!
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So we launched Monster Lab! 👽 Discussion covered everything from category-breaking to imperialism to artist intuition to The Muppets. Monster-sized thanks to our inaugural speakers, historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social & sculptor Esti Reich.
Next Monster Lab is in December. 👹
Next Monster Lab is in December. 👹
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
So we launched Monster Lab! 👽 Discussion covered everything from category-breaking to imperialism to artist intuition to The Muppets. Monster-sized thanks to our inaugural speakers, historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social & sculptor Esti Reich.
Next Monster Lab is in December. 👹
Next Monster Lab is in December. 👹