Martin Fossum
@martinfossum.bsky.social
"It's not that I'm afraid of dying, it's just that I'd rather not be around when it happens."
Writer, filmmaker, poet. SF/Humor/Litfic.
Minneapolis
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004K6HQNY
https://www.youtube.com/@kwolfbrooks
Writer, filmmaker, poet. SF/Humor/Litfic.
Minneapolis
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004K6HQNY
https://www.youtube.com/@kwolfbrooks
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Martin Fossum
@martinfossum.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Faking Smart! The Book!
YouTube video by Martin Fossum
www.youtube.com
"Possibly the greatest book ever written!"
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for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon—Verily there is nothing new under the sun
December 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon—Verily there is nothing new under the sun
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About as "everything but the kitchen sink" as western Washington's weather can get.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
About as "everything but the kitchen sink" as western Washington's weather can get.
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is my favorite song about how people will only love you if you're useful.
December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is my favorite song about how people will only love you if you're useful.
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Winter Weather Advisory issued December 10 at 5:37AM CST until December 10 at 6:00AM CST by NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Winter Weather Advisory issued December 10 at 5:37AM CST until December 10 at 6:00AM CST by NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
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“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
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This from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social's biography of Schopenhauer is sending me
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social's biography of Schopenhauer is sending me
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We all know that one of the major rules of time travel is that you have to be very careful in the past, because one small change can create an entirely different future. But rarely does anyone in the present think they can radically change the future by doing something small.
November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We all know that one of the major rules of time travel is that you have to be very careful in the past, because one small change can create an entirely different future. But rarely does anyone in the present think they can radically change the future by doing something small.
Opinion | Nature Will Bounce Back if We Just Give It a Chance
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
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Neonicotinoids are great for agriculture but not so great for the food chain because they remain in soil and waterways for decades. Europe has enforced bans with evidence now of ecological benefits, but the US has been slow to even talk about these pesticides. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Neonicotinoids are great for agriculture but not so great for the food chain because they remain in soil and waterways for decades. Europe has enforced bans with evidence now of ecological benefits, but the US has been slow to even talk about these pesticides. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Today we and the @whaleresearch.bsky.social caught up with the T46s and T46B1s in Puget Sound near Seattle! It was a spectacular sight to see them all grouped up together, including the massive fin of T46E Thor and the little fin of 2 month-old T46B1D.
#orcas #killerwhales #whalesky #salishsea
#orcas #killerwhales #whalesky #salishsea
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Today we and the @whaleresearch.bsky.social caught up with the T46s and T46B1s in Puget Sound near Seattle! It was a spectacular sight to see them all grouped up together, including the massive fin of T46E Thor and the little fin of 2 month-old T46B1D.
#orcas #killerwhales #whalesky #salishsea
#orcas #killerwhales #whalesky #salishsea
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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The Booker Prize winner.... back in stock tomorrow!
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Booker Prize winner.... back in stock tomorrow!
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/flesh/
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
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It's a beautiful day to doorknock for DeWayne Davis! Lots of people have not made their minds up about this race; talk to your neighbors about your favorite and tell them #dontrankfrey.
November 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's a beautiful day to doorknock for DeWayne Davis! Lots of people have not made their minds up about this race; talk to your neighbors about your favorite and tell them #dontrankfrey.
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Oh hey, this features both Lyda Morehouse and Scott Keever, two excellent and very talented people (I happen to know). Pretty good deal, if you can get there & are comfortable going to something indoors (as ever I recommend wearing a mask).
Hey, my friend Lyda is performing tonight at Cole Sarar's Sci Fi reading hour at the Bryant Lake Bowl! I'm going, and I hope to see some of you there!
www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/cole...
www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/cole...
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
A live reading series featuring original science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction...
www.bryantlakebowl.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Oh hey, this features both Lyda Morehouse and Scott Keever, two excellent and very talented people (I happen to know). Pretty good deal, if you can get there & are comfortable going to something indoors (as ever I recommend wearing a mask).
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Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
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The November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld features stories by R.H. Wesley, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tade Thompson, Ramiro Sanchiz, Chisom Umeh, Brent Baldwin, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
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clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
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November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld features stories by R.H. Wesley, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tade Thompson, Ramiro Sanchiz, Chisom Umeh, Brent Baldwin, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
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clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
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Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)
(Image S.Bugarsky)
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)
(Image S.Bugarsky)
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everything else sucks so bad except the story of the dam removals and the returning salmon. i guess if we all die at least we die with salmon
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
everything else sucks so bad except the story of the dam removals and the returning salmon. i guess if we all die at least we die with salmon