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N.A. Chapman 🍄
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✍️ Writer & Community Organizer • 🏳️‍🌈 Neuroqueer & Disabled • ⛰️ Appalachia (Massawomeck, Manahoac, and Shawnee lands) • she/they

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N.A. Chapman 🍄 @waylarking.bsky.social · Oct 7
Are you hungry for stories? Craving hope? Seeking wonder? I'm re-launching my blog as a weekly poetry newsletter. Each week I'll post my field notes on finding hope through nature and stories. 📚 Read below or subscribe for free. Allons-y.

#poetry #nature #naturewriting #solarpunk #hopepunk
Welcome to Entangled Worlds
Field Notes on Hope in a World Unraveling
entangled-worlds.ghost.io
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altnps.bsky.social
Thank you everybody! We’ve been backing several efforts to halt data center developments in different communities, and it turns out you’re making a huge impact. A new analysis shows that, in just a three-month period earlier this year, the
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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clbergpowers.bsky.social
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
ips-dc.org Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 3d
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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tananarivedue.bsky.social
Mid-career journalists!! Don't miss your chance to apply for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop to help journalists write fiction.

I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.

Deadline 1/12/26

www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
Photo from the George RR Martin workshop with Tananarive and other faculty members and workshop students.
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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premeemohamed.com
The great (??) thing about a lot of species teetering on the brink of extinction/local extirpation is that the reason is habitat loss or degradation on a smaller scale. So throwing, say, 50-100 people at a microhabitat project for 5-8 years can make a HUGE difference. Night and day.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
waylarking.bsky.social
Oaks provide shelter and food for thousands of companion species. They show us that to be alive is to be many. 🌳

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
We cannot go on this journey alone. We can only go as far as the person with the least among us. We thrive only when we all feed. So take the oak’s great lesson: we have many names along the paths we tread, and most do not belong to us alone.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
waylarking.bsky.social
🌳 Take the oak’s great lesson: we have many names along the paths we tread, and most do not belong to us alone.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
Oak Tree Feeding. The oak has a name for each of its hungers. Crawling devourer. Mouthless, soaring under the summer moon. (Luna moth). Strange sunless cousin that bores in roots and befriends mushrooms. (Bear corn). Immune riddle that once wrote many stories. (Oak gall wasp). Thousands of names stack up in the oak's long memory and each one beats out a wisdom born by deep roots and thousands of suns: to eat is to feed, to survive is to be more than one, to be alive is to be many. So, when a single child goes hungry, it is as if we have forgotten our own name.
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
waylarking.bsky.social
It's saw-whet migration season. 🦉 😎🦉 Allons-y.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
Saturn rises beacon-bright. Feather-light, you must away.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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smenor.com
Since it’s apparently been forgotten substack platforms Nazis

I will never follow a link from there an if you’ve built a following there you should find a way to go somewhere else
Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
waylarking.bsky.social
🦉 Let's take a page from one of the smallest owls in the world: we know the way home.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
It is easy to feel lost in such times. Society crumbles away beneath us. But everywhere I see those building the world we want to live in. Feeding the hungry. Housing the homeless. Protecting creatures no one else even notices. Fighting fiercely for lands others would trade for pennies. We don’t need to find a better world. It is already here.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
I want the rest of us to know this.

I want folks to speak to their lives , to the diversity of who we are, the sustenance of our future and the immediacy of this moment

That if you start talking and seeing and LISTENING to people

who work ?

We can do this
erinbiba.bsky.social Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10d
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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haymarketbooks.org
Another world is possible, if we fight for it
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Raise a glass to freedom! 🍻
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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sydney-bauer.com
I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.
ashtonpittman.bsky.social Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 10d
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.

DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.

His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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grist.org
Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed.

“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

grist.org/energy/deep-...

#Hawaiian #Hawaii #Ocean #Minerals #Mining
Digging for minerals in the Pacific's graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”
grist.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
waylarking.bsky.social
🌎 Together, we're forging paths to better worlds. Want to come along? Allons-y.

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-4-fish-crow-calling/

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
White text on a textured green background reads: That is the paths we tread here together, dearest waylarks - paths toward better worlds, always just beyond the next bend. The world around us closes its tired eyes but what dreams may come then. What strange meanderings of light reveal themselves in the creeping shadows. What new worlds are revealed when the old one crumbles around us.
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
waylarking.bsky.social
🪶 The fish crow throws its net of falling light. What may it catch?

New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-4-fish-crow-calling/

#nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk
Black text on a textured cream background reads: Fish Crow Calling. The fish crow  calls and tugs in its net of falling light. The net tumbles and spills, rays splashing onto  the golden shallows in the canopy,  wriggling shadows sinking into  emerald depths. The crow hunts  with black eyes  among its spilled catch.  There! Black text on a textured cream background continues: Scurrying free,  hope dwindling. It plunges   into a hidden crevice  and waits  for the rippling splintered sea  of spring.
October 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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loisbeckett.bsky.social
Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
1. Washington DC

#NoKings 👑
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
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October 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
waylarking.bsky.social
An original collage called "Entanglement."

#nature #collage #digitalcollage #naturecollage #hopepunk #solarpunk
A collage of photos sits on a dark textured background. Blazing orange mushrooms burst from the center, rooting deep into tree roots shining with turquoise. And all around this entanglement, blue butterflies flutter and sit and wing. It is a blazing entanglement of life.
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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grist.org
Here's your daily dose of climate fiction.

Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships.

When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.

grist.org/climate-fict...

#Fiction #Solarpunk #Climate #BookSky #ClimateFiction #Teacher
Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships
Climate fiction: When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.
grist.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM