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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 1d

"[T]he world of our lives is made out of language. With the wrong language, one of strict categories and confinement, the world becomes a fake, a stage set whose actors don't know they are in a play, a Potemkin village whose inhabitants believe they live in the real world." --Rachel Pollack

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · 6d

I've just posted a reflection on how misleading it is when an important form of political speech is called "protest" by the mainstream media. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/publ...

Public Discourse and Resistance

The liberal news media in the US continually reports on this or that European country going autocratic or being threatened by blocs of vot...

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Brian U. Garrison @bugthewriter.bsky.social · 11d

L.A. stood strong and Portland will too! Terrible decisions continue by the so-called U.S. Department of War, pointing the cannons at its own citizens. Enjoy this lovely poem by @gwynnega.bsky.social

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force

our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas

strangehorizons.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 20d

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · Aug 31

I love Leo Tolstoy's take on the Great Men theory of History, which he discourses on throughout War and Peace. Near the end of that magnificently acute novel, he responds to 19th-century historians' treatment of Napoleon by declaring, "Napoleon was a tool of History."

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · Jul 7

There is a really valuable initiative to get a Hugo Award category for Translations, and I am a huge supporter of this idea. Translations deserve their own category and recognition--they are a unique subsection of SFF and have done so much for the global SFF community translatedhugo.org

The Translated Hugo Initiative

Putting the World in Worldcon

translatedhugo.org

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · Jul 6

Words from Audre Lorde I--we--need to keep remembering:
when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are now HALF-WAY through the fund-drive, with two and a half weeks remaining.

We are 2/3 of the way towards meeting our baseline funding goals for next year.

A lot of rewards and special pieces still remain to be unlocked.

To find out, and to, donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · May 25

"War is the modern human sacrifice ritual." @luisahteish.bsky.social

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · May 17

I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system.

The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.

It’s designed to make you quit.

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · Apr 29

AskHistorians has joined with thirty other research- and academia-focused subreddits to issue this statement condemning recent and ongoing efforts to undermine scholarly research and intellectual freedom in the United States.

Please share widely!

www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

www.reddit.com

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · Apr 27

Whenever the opportunity arises, I happily channel Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann, as I did on my recent trip to the sublime Neah Bay.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Apr 22

I'm like a broken record on this, but this stuff needs to be stopped right now and it's of paramount importance. we are staring into the abyss of ethnic cleansing and mass murder in not too long at all. this cannot be come the new normal.

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Apr 22

“Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Has Simply Disappeared’

www.nytimes.com

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Mar 20

How AMAZING that I am a finalist for national awards in 2 different countries:

my picture book DAS DORF DER STEIENE for the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis in Switzerland
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my translation of LETTERS IN CHARCOAL for the Carnegie Medal in Illustration in the UK.

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#kidlit #kidlituk #booksky

Selfie wearing a Keith Haring t-shirt standing in front of bookshelves of my own books or books I translated, holding

in my left hand my picture book DAS DORF DER STEINE illustrated by Lena Studer, translated from Spanish to German by Eva Roth (Atlantis Verlag) which is a finalist for the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis in Switzerland

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in my right hand my translation into English of LETTERS IN CHARCOAL, written by Irene Vasco, illustrated by Juan Palomino (Lantana Publishing) which is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in Illustration in the UK.

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StoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social · Apr 3

Outsiders. Rebels. Who doesn't love an underdog? Deep inside, most of us identify with those who are a little—or a lot—different. Sometime in our lives, we've felt like we didn't quite fit in. Forging your own way builds strength, and makes for a damn good story! storybundle.com/outcasts

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · Mar 28

Here's a question for science-fiction writers: are any of us addressing fictional science? We're going to be seeing lots more of this, since that is probably the 'research" that will now be getting the best funding in the US. future. (We're in Stalin-Lysenko territory now.)

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · Feb 4

A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out

It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it

So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper!

1/n

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning

Widely credited with ending population control and ushering in a new era of reproductive rights, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action also incl...

www.tandfonline.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Mar 18

Deep bow to the Wikipedia author for this bold and truthful language. And disturbing that the precedents and terminology for this seem so forgotten.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraor...

en.wikipedia.org

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · Mar 17

In a nutshell. "Centrist" Democrats want to stall History; Republicans want to abolish it. Leftists and a handful of Democrats want to keep making it.

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · Feb 28

I was on CBC this morning, talking about this list of books I made for Black History Month for Iron Dog Books: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

www.cbc.ca

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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · Mar 2

We're so excited to finally announce that The Curve of The World will be published with Aqueduct Press! Thanks to a wonderful team of folks that helped make this happen, @timmi.bsky.social, @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social, and many more!

Vonda N. McIntyre @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social · Mar 2

We can finally announce Vonda N. McIntyre's last book, The Curve of The World, will be published soon with Aqueduct Press @timmi.bsky.social! Thanks so much to
@jenniegoloboy.bsky.social and our dedicated committee for making this happen!
#vondanmcintyre

Jennie Goloboy @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social · Feb 25

When it's in Publishers Marketplace, it's real! So excited to have Vonda McIntyre's last book out in the world soon! @clarionwest.bsky.social @timmi.bsky.social

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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · Feb 26

So one buyer scoops up Analog, Asimov’s and F&SF…

www.patreon.com/posts/123173...

Asimov's, Analog and F&SF purchased by new owner | Jason Sanford

Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Jennie Goloboy @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social · Feb 25

When it's in Publishers Marketplace, it's real! So excited to have Vonda McIntyre's last book out in the world soon! @clarionwest.bsky.social @timmi.bsky.social

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Timmi Duchamp @timmi.bsky.social · Feb 24

I'm pleased to announce that Aqueduct Press will be publishing the late Vonda N. McIntyre's luminous final novel, "The Curve of the World."

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