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sonnet tangney
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writer, performance artist, feminist futurist, undercover activist for hope

Their evil is mighty but it can’t stand up to our stories. - Leslie Marmon Silko
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Good morning Bluesky 💙

Inspiration and hope amidst all the madness. Solutions exist. Our scientists, artists, brave judges light the way. We can do this.
#resist #writingcommunity
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France shuts schools as heatwave grips Europe www.rte.ie/news/europe/...
Ministry for the Future describes existing and proposed solutions to the climate crisis and global economics, woven through a story of what we face and can do
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Kristi Noem - because life imitates art and art tried to warn us.
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Image from the 1985 scifi social commentary film Brazil showing a woman getting extreme plastic surgery which btw ends very badly for the woman addicted and prey to it
June 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Most of all, tomorrow is the child of our today. Best to try to shape it into something good. Best to do that for any child. - Octavia E. Butler

Good morning Bluesky 💙

From my Indie Bookstore Day haul
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#SundaySentence #IndieBookstoreDay #resist #hope
Cover of A Few Rules For Predicting the Future, an essay by Octavia E. Butler, at by Manzel Bowman, published by Chronicle Books. Cover art is images of space with background of black space with bright white of stars, overlaid with looping ribbon of colorful images of space. Purchased at a local book shop yesterday on Independent Bookstore Day.
April 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Inspiration for your day, your week, the movement. You are not alone and together we can do anything! 💙

#resist #hope #musicsky
April 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Great sign, great pic from @stanhieronymus.bsky.social

Hands Off! What a day, all over the US and beyond!

#handsoff #protests #resist
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At Hands Off protest, protestors hold a sign that says ‘Make Orwell Fiction Again’, in style of original 1984 cover, complete with all-seeing eye of Big Brother. The sign conceals (protects?) their faces.
April 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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We can't let ourselves look away from this - Trump + Musk + DOGE + crypto = Gilead?
#resist #feminist #booksky #filmsky #moviesky #scifi #SFF
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February 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Every Groundhog Day I remember the amazing Angela Paton. I was unbelievably lucky to act on stage with this fierce performer & kind mentor - & what luck that this film full of joy, laughter and life lessons reminds me of her every year!
#filmsky #women #womenintheater #womeninfilm #actors #feminist
Photo by Rodrigo Vaz / Film Magic of Angela Paton at the Oscars, in front of a poster of Groundhog Day with Bill Murray, and a giant Oscar statue. Bill Murray famously asked her character Mrs. Lancaster if she ever had déjà vu, to which she responded, “I don’t think so, but I could check with the kitchen.” Ms. Paton was a passionate lifelong actress of stage and screen. Rest in Peace and Love, Angela <3
February 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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🤣 Yes! Bring back Obama.

Thank you @oliviajulianna.bsky.social and #trouble_man90

#hope #resist #Obama #trump #congress
Image of President Obama with text ‘Do It, I dare you’ in retweet by @oliviajulianna.bsky.social of @trouble_man90 screenshot of Republican congressman from TN that says he just introduced legislation to allow Trump to run for 3rd term. The same Rep under Federal investigation for campaign fraud until the Trump administration recently signaled intentions to drop the case.
February 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
#resist
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Book 20/3
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
#resist
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Book 20/2
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
#resist
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January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
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Book 19
Book cover for The Giver by Lois Lowry. On a black background, most of the right half is filled by the black and white photo of a man’s face, with a long white beard and hair - it is in fact a photo of the blind painter Carl Nelson - who peers to the side with sad concern. On the bottom left corner, a tear in the black reveals the silhouette of trees backed by a fiery landscape and sky. A gold badge displays the Newberry Award for Children’s Literature.
January 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi #feminist
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Book 18
Book cover for The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper. Background is a medieval style wood carving with floral, architectural and celtic designs, under an arch at the left stands a woman in a simple long tunic and belt and at the right a under another arch is a man in a short warriors tunic and belt with boots. At the top of the page, 'Author of Raising the Stones and Grass'. At the bottom a quote from Marion Zimmer Bradley, 'It's grand... one of the most involving, serious, and deeply felt studies of relations between the sexes that I have ever read - and then some.'
January 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi #decolonize
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Book 17
Book cover for The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Background is a European Renaissance period rendition of a night sky with a rich dark blue regularly sprinkled with eight pointed golden stars. In the center of the cover is a small faded gold clock face with Roman numerals around the edge and a flying sparrow in the middle. At the top, ‘20th Anniversary Edition with new afterward by the author’. At the bottom, ‘New York Times Bestselling Author’ and ‘A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction,’ quoted from the New York TimesTimes Book Review.
January 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi #history #environment
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Book 16
Book cover for Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. A layered dual image is centered on the cover, a white border revealed underneath beyond the edges of the image. At the center and forefront of the image is an aged book, its cover the blue sky of a perhaps renaissance era map, dissected by navigational circles and with one puffy white cloud in the middle. Under this image of the book cover are revealed the edges of a golden tinted image of 15th Century Constantinople. In the blank white at the top, ‘By the author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize’. At the bottom, ‘The instant News York Times Bestseller ’. Two badges at the left display ‘ New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books’ and ‘National Book Award Finalist’.
January 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
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Book 15
Book cover for Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. Background is a sunlit sky, as if seen from flying just above cloud level. The title and author read in a circle like the numbers on the face of a clock, the three clock hands in the middle point to ten minutes and 35 seconds after eleven o’ clock. At the top a small round badge reads ‘Includes The Story of Your Life the basis for the major motion picture ARRIVAL’. At the bottom is a quote from Junot Diaz, ‘Shining, haunting, mind blowing… Ted Chiang is so exhilarating, so original, so stylish he just leaves you speechless.’
January 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#environment
#cansky
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Book 14
Book cover for Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Background is parchment colored with images of lovely but lifeless birds and bugs strewn across the cover. A quote from the book is printed above the title, ‘…what we have to face is not an occasional dose of poison which has accidentally got into some article of food, but a persistent and continuous poisoning of the whole human environment.’
January 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
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Book 13
Book Cover for A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’ Engle, 50th Anniversary Edition. Cover has primary blue background with title in white block capital letters. Three white silhouettes of figures - a very young child, a teenage girl and a man - are each centered within multiple thin black and wider lime green circles, which overlap and yet barrier the figures from each other. A golden badge displays The Newberry Medal award for distinguished contribution to American Children’s Literature.
January 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi #environment
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Book 12
Book cover for The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. background is white with a light beige band down each side in the center of the cover is an old pocket watch with no chain and no hands. At the top is printed, 'One of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year,' and at the bottom a quote from Jonathan Lethem, "The best science fiction nonfiction novel I've ever read."
January 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#SFF
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Book 11
Book cover for Black Sun by New York Times Bestselling Author Rebecca Roanhorse. Background of cover is black, words are in fiery yellow and orange. At the right of the cover we see the lower third of a woman's face in tinted blue, just below her cheekbones her skin transitions to feathers, extending up into the black as the spread wings of a bird, while in the space between the wings a field of sun sparks illuminates the black background. The yellow ring of a solar eclipse extends from the edge of her wings up and around to the edge of the cover, cutting through the book's title in the center. "Roanhorse is the epic voice of our continent and time," from Ken Liu at the top.
January 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
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Book 10
Book cover for Dune by Frank Herbert. Image is stylized landscape of orange and tan waves of sand dunes, a black night sky at the top shows distant stars and two moons. The book title is vertical down the middle of the page, and a lone figure wearing a cape walks away on this central line, leaving a symmetrical pattern of footprints across the sand.
January 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#scifi
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Book 9
Book cover for Spanish translation of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Illustrations by Eva Vázquez, Translation by Maite Fernández. Image of stylized city, blocky grey buildings all crammed together, a brown path cutting through the middle, with fiery blood red dots strung together and scattered along the path, connecting the cinder block like homes, one red dot at the front and edge of the town is unstrung, and sits on the ground, bleeding red over the cliff to create a bright red path through the dark grey beyond the city. The small black silhouette of a person walks away from the town on this blood-lit path.
January 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
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#scifi

Book 8
Book cover for This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Light blue background with an image of an upright red cardinal and upside down bluebird, as if reflecting each other; each bird's image is divided in five vertical sections which are offset to each other, creating a sense of a puzzle or a technical glitch. Across the bottom of the cover, "This book has it all," from Madeline Miller, NYT bestselling author of Circe. In a vertical red band of color at the right edge, "Seditious and seductive" from Ken Liu.
January 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge 💙📚
#scifi #feminist #futurist

Book 7
Book cover for Woman on the Edge of Time, a novel by Marge Piercy, with a new introduction by the author. Background image is split vertically between black shadow on the left and filtered sepia light on the right where shadow at the ground bleeds to light at the top. In the filtered light we see the silhouette of a person's head and arms reaching up toward the top where a hawk flies in front of light coming through a window. This quote from Gloria Steinem is illuminated across the grounding shadow, "This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Percy's great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make."
January 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books

#BookSky

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#BookChallenge

Book 6
Book cover for 1984 by George Orwell, 75th Anniversary, authorized edition from the Orwell Estate. Red background with large black etching of a single eye, wide with fear. Small type at bottom, 'Includes an introduction by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and an afterward by Sandra Newman'
January 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM