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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 4h

It's true! Her name is Anne Tifa

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 13h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 1d

I'll have a spore-laden, devilish fungal story in the next issue of The Dodge! Just in time for mushroom season 🍄🍂🍄

The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 1d

Keep an eye out folks! Our Fall 2025 Issue will be out October 15th! Featuring all kinds of eco-writing and translation from a wonderful set of new and established writers.

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 1d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins

I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

The actual scientific study was trying to highlight advances in inhaler technology which do not use HFAs, a greenhouse gas. But it's easier to get clicks by telling people "the libs" want to ban inhalers.

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

This is clear anti-climate ragebait by a Sinclair Broadcasting-owned local media outlet. The actual scientific article does not recommend lowering inhaler use at all. This is right wing media trying to tell you those evil climate activists want your kids to suffocate.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

This is clear anti-climate ragebait by a Sinclair Broadcasting-owned local media outlet. The actual scientific article does not recommend lowering inhaler use at all. This is right wing media trying to tell you those evil climate activists want your kids to suffocate.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

The imbued heart is an account-changing drop for me. Doubled the value of the acct lol

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

That's absolutely insane luck

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

Are u a browns fan?? At least u can coast for a year on how u embarrassed the Packers the other week

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

My TBR list right now:

The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica Zürn
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

I'm banning myself from buying new books until I finish all the ones I bought this year :o

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 3d

This won't mean much to most of y'all but I got a draconic visage AND an imbued heart this weekend. Best weekend of my gaming life by far.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 3d

#bookreview no. 21: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk. Rich as moss and heavy as mountain fog. This is a contender for the best book I've read this year. A queer, historical, mythological eco-horror set in the Silesian mountains. There was so much incredible detail in this work, I will have to re-read.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 3d

"...Thilo claimed that a landscape is capable of killing a person. That it has immense strength, because it is a concentration of various energies, the culmination of geometry. And this happens here too, in Görbersdorf, once a year the landscape takes its sacrifice and kills a man."

The Empusium, A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk. Blue Fitzcarraldo Editions book against a black background.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 4d

Also it seems like a revamp of the whole 2000s da Vinci Code fad but who am I to judge

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who did natural sciences I never got the whole dark academia thing. There's no way to romanticize spending 8 hours a day doing a meta-analysis on soil macrofauna.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 5d

Getting bullied for your dietary choice by adults in a restaurant in 2025 is pretty typical for rural Germany though so we just laughed it off and ate a really mid falafel somewhere else. Overall, probably wouldn't go back but the beach was cute

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 5d

We actually found one place which listed 3 vegan options on their online menu so we went even though it was a schnitzel restaurant. In the restaurant their menu had changed and there was nothing vegan. We asked the waiter anyway and he basically laughed at us and two other customers joined in.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 5d

Went to Warnemünde yesterday which is like a kitchy German coastal town. It was beautiful and cute in a stuck-in-2005 way. Only shitty thing was there were absolutely no vegan options in town other than like, fries

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6d

Too bad we're vegans or they'd probably be geeked for like, sprats

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6d

Going to the Baltic sea with my sea-loving partner who is deadass excited for bracing winds and sea buckthorn candies

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6d

It smells like the sulfurous bowels of hell in here

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6d

5 minutes into the 2.5h regional train ride and all the Germans start cracking out the HARD BOILED EGGS

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Grist @grist.org · 6d

Read this climate fiction story about third spaces, #belonging , and love.

To Labor for the Hive

A beekeeper finds a new sense of purpose and community after helping to develop a warning system for floods.

grist.org/climate-fict...

#Fiction #Romance #Solarpunk

To Labor for the Hive

From the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest: A beekeeper finds a new sense of purpose and community after helping to develop a warning system for floods.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 7d

My most useful college job was being a transcriber at the speech and hearing lab. I had to listen to audio tapes of speech experiments and transcribe every word as quickly as possible. I can like, live transcribe every word in a two hour work meeting.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sorry. I don't care how prestigious it is. If there's a 30$ application fee, I'm just not applying lmao

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