Holly Wielkoszewski
@hollyfromthebigsky.bsky.social
Part time digital nomad, part time off grid Earthship homesteader. Full time reader.
Work: daypackdigital.com
Fun: aliminallife.substack.com
Work: daypackdigital.com
Fun: aliminallife.substack.com
So excited to be a part of this great new podcast. The first episode drops next week and the trailer is out today. Give it a follow and subscribe today!
The Wild Idea podcast is live! Conversations about the intersection of human nature, wild nature, and why wild places matter - with some of the most insightful thinkers out there. Listen now where you get your podcasts and sign up at thewildidea.com to be in the loop about what's coming up next!
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So excited to be a part of this great new podcast. The first episode drops next week and the trailer is out today. Give it a follow and subscribe today!
My absolute pleasure @teffeau.bsky.social !
14 novels to help you explore climate fiction -- Oh hey! This list features A Hunger with No Name and a bunch of great others! Thanks so much to @hollyfromthebigsky.bsky.social for including me! modernmrsdarcy.com/climate-fict...
14 novels to help you explore climate fiction
Climate fiction is a genre on the rise, and I’ve taken note of this increasing prevalence, especially over the past year. Simply put, climate fiction
modernmrsdarcy.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My absolute pleasure @teffeau.bsky.social !
Definitely pre-ordering!
NEW #solarpunk anthology from the Bright Green Futures podcast!
Clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio de Janeiro...
Each of these hopeful #climatefiction stories imagines a way to survive the future, together.
#booksky
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/coming-ear...
Clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio de Janeiro...
Each of these hopeful #climatefiction stories imagines a way to survive the future, together.
#booksky
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/coming-ear...
March 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Definitely pre-ordering!
Reposted by Holly Wielkoszewski
I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now.
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Gets Well and Truly Fucked — The Haunt*
Sometime in the late 1980s when I was a teenager, I accompanied my dad to the mall. Dad had gotten a pair of un-torn, un-used tickets to Woodstock as a gift and he wanted to have them framed for displ...
www.cheriepriest.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now.
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...
This ⬇️
I'm in print!
February 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This ⬇️
We've been anti-Costco for years because of their hard sell efforts and how we feel it promotes overconsumption. There's a good chance we may get a Costco membership this year.
We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
February 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We've been anti-Costco for years because of their hard sell efforts and how we feel it promotes overconsumption. There's a good chance we may get a Costco membership this year.
Very much co-sign this
I think about The City & the City (China Mieville) a lot-- as I contend with the fact that some people are living in the same geographical area as me but are taking in different information (or perhaps the same information but interpreted wildly differently?). You should read it, if you haven't.
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Very much co-sign this
I may not be able to do big things but I can do small things.
How now shall we work?
6lli6.r.sp1-brevo.net
February 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I may not be able to do big things but I can do small things.
Reposted by Holly Wielkoszewski
Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.
Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
February 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.
Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
I do what @marthawells.com tells me.
February 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I do what @marthawells.com tells me.
Excellent and scary, from @cwarzel.bsky.social who is doing some of the best reporting I'm seeing right now.
New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Excellent and scary, from @cwarzel.bsky.social who is doing some of the best reporting I'm seeing right now.
Reposted by Holly Wielkoszewski
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
Some things to read.
Links I love
I’m happy to be back today to share my favorite recent reads and discoveries. As I’m writing this post, I’m sitting in our AirBnB in Paros, Greece, after
modernmrsdarcy.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Some things to read.
Absurd.
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Absurd.
New on my Substack today:
Solarpunk Dreams
Solarpunk Dreams
Solarpunk Dreams
What if we chose to live differently?
open.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
New on my Substack today:
Solarpunk Dreams
Solarpunk Dreams
It's not the worst idea....
omg we could stop the government coup with cursive. they're all under 25 aren't they??? I bet none of them can read cursive
Write it down in cursive.
February 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's not the worst idea....
As a former diplomat with family and friends worldwide directly impacted by this (not to mention the millions who our programs help), I'm glad to see so many ways of fighting back. Foreign aid is imperfect, yes. But a blatant and illegal shutdown is not the way to make things better.
February 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
As a former diplomat with family and friends worldwide directly impacted by this (not to mention the millions who our programs help), I'm glad to see so many ways of fighting back. Foreign aid is imperfect, yes. But a blatant and illegal shutdown is not the way to make things better.
My newest post is up, all about our return to Indonesia after a year away.
aliminallife.substack.com/p/island-lif...
aliminallife.substack.com/p/island-lif...
Island Life 2.0
The return to our favorite tiny Indonesian island
aliminallife.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My newest post is up, all about our return to Indonesia after a year away.
aliminallife.substack.com/p/island-lif...
aliminallife.substack.com/p/island-lif...
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Welcome to the world, Dark Crescent! This stunning collection of Scottish Folk tales by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social joins the Harvester Series. Artwork by @jennicoutts.bsky.social ❤️ Pre-order here! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... @booksfromscotland.bsky.social #scottishfolklore
January 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Just some good news.
Starting today, same-sex marriage is officially legalized in Thailand.
It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.
It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.
January 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Just some good news.
Bangkok is always a good idea.
January 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Bangkok is always a good idea.
This year's Australian book swap picks from my friend Renee.
(I don't know how to use this app yet so just trying something random)
(I don't know how to use this app yet so just trying something random)
November 20, 2024 at 8:38 PM
This year's Australian book swap picks from my friend Renee.
(I don't know how to use this app yet so just trying something random)
(I don't know how to use this app yet so just trying something random)