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Ashley Shelby

@ashleyshelby.com
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Novelist, short story writer, former environmental journalist, solastalgic and radicalized recluse. Often called a "climate fiction" author. Books: Honeymoons in Temporary Locations, South Pole Station, Muri. www.ashleyshelby.com

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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 14/02/2026
So at this point ICE agents in Minnesota are posing as stranded motorists in need of help from a Good Samaritan. Observers in Maple Grove spotted this ICE agent wearing an expensive jacket and hanging next to a car with its hood up. A man who stopped to see if she needed help was detained.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 29/10/2025
Always.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 15/10/2025
outlaw billionaires.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 27/09/2025
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 25/09/2025
He wears glasses, too.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 25/09/2025
Who is he? Shouldn't be that hard to find.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 24/09/2025
Stoked that I get to be part of the MN STEM Book Fest on October 12, 2025 at the amazing Bakken Museum from 10-4pm! 📚🔬⚙️💡 This event celebrates the power of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics through books, authors, and interactive experiences.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 15/09/2025
So the same person promoting the mass doxxing site also wrote a self-published book called No Excuses: The Conservative Playbook for Permanent Power and sells it on Etsy. But he also sells birthday cards and I cannot stop laughing.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 10/09/2025
Banksy's latest is of a judge beating a protester with a gavel. It was washed off within 24 hours. Would be a shame if this image were reproduced all over the US and UK. Would be a shame if someone stamped this image on the steps of the Supreme Court.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 17/08/2025
can't believe so many people looked at this piece of trash last night without letting him know what's up.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 17/08/2025
@nationals.com game last night vs. @phillies.com. white nationalist in the stands, unafraid, unchallenged. he is findable.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 06/08/2025
One of my kids has discovered a passion for #streetart and #graffiti. We are preparing to paint the garage so we offered it up as a canvas. Can't wait to see the final product. Encouraging young #artists is a necessary act.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 24/07/2025
What a privilege to chat with Dr. Roger Thompson and Ed Whittingham for this episode of @energyvsclimate.bsky.social Climate Book Reviews. If you're not following this podcast, subscribe. I may not be inducement enough, but their last episode featured @katharinehayhoe.com. Just sayin'
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 16/07/2025
OMG, another one who is on the cusp of getting it! Not right vs. left, up vs. down.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 16/07/2025
This is amazing. They are *so close* to getting it.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 18/06/2025
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 17/06/2025
Good and decent people, regardless of politics, will be repulsed by this base depravity. Those who are not are irredeemable. I see no way we can live in a society with such individuals. Where do we go from here?
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 15/06/2025
My local #nokings day protest here in #Minnesota was canceled but everyone showed up anyway--and then some. Huge turnout.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 24/04/2025
Doing more research into AI-training than is healthy for a project so I did the Data Annotations "application." Was asked to write a 5-7 sentence story about an octopus working with Sam Bankman-Fried at FTX on November 8, 2022. Aaaaannnd...I never heard back lol. Can't imagine why.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 05/04/2025
St. Paul. Minnesota State Capitol. #handsoff
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 24/03/2025
I've been trying to get off the FBI mailing list since Kash Patel was confirmed. You can't unsubscribe. And how sketchy is the landing page? Look at the logo for the FBI on this "oh, we can't subscribe you because you don't exist" landing page compared to the official logo.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 14/03/2025
@aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov...is this a hint? I'm telling you, if these two Americans announced they were founding a new party tonight, they would break fundraising records by triple digit percentages. The time is now.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 06/03/2025
In a moment of complete insanity regarding #vaccines and preventable disease, Voices for Vaccines's Just the Facts newsletter is a crucial read: www.voicesforvaccines.org/resources/ju...
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 03/03/2025
@kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social, knowing you are working on legislation to keep Elon Musk's hands off our data, please pay attention to the real intent behind the "5-bullet e-mails" he's still demanding of fed workers. This is an ongoing opsec leak in real-time.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 03/03/2025
"Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma." This is Curtis Yarvin. This is the plan Musk and Thiel want to follow.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 27/02/2025
Received this from a friend of mine at a state university in the Midwest, and it made me sick to my stomach. I know there's so much to keep track of, but the impact on #climatechange #research is absolutely devastating.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 21/02/2025
Noooooo, community ed! Don't do it. Don't promote the use of #ChatGPT among aspiring #writers!
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 21/02/2025
Sticker the egg section of your grocery store, wheatpaste the graphic below, get the information out. People don't quite understand WHY eggs are this expensive. We're on track to having zero eggs in our grocery stores. (credit to @fiveorangepips.bsky.social)
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 19/02/2025
My son is a senior in high school, so we're getting lots of mail. This is from the Marines, certainly printed before 1/20/25. This photo is sort of heartbreaking and now a misrepresentation of what our #military does for those who desperately need help, thanks to an unelected billionaire.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 16/02/2025
I know there is a lot to keep track of, but please keep your eye on MAGA influencers like Jack Pobosiec. They've pivoted from trying to divide and radicalize Americans to doing the same to Europe.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 11/02/2025
Even as the falcon cannot hear the falconer, #bookstores and #libraries continue to be places where the center holds. Grateful to The Thinking Spot (Wayzata) for supporting local authors like me, and to all #indiebookstores and #libraries for being the foundational part of #democracy that they are.
Photo of a page from a magazine featuring independent Minnesota bookstores, and displaying an image of a stack of books, including two of the author's.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 08/02/2025
So I'm subscribed to #fbi e-mails and with #KashPatel at its head, I decided to unsubscribe. I can't. They won't let me.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 07/02/2025
This was the best description I've seen of who this guy is--he truly is peerless when it comes to loserdom.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 05/02/2025
Sixteen degree weather? Not a problem for us Minnesotans. Glad to have been at the State Capitol today participating in the #5150 protests.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 03/02/2025
So...I'm very intrigued by the state of Tom Selleck's house now.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 03/02/2025
More than 88,000 people follow Anarcho Spirituality on Instagram. 88,000 people. Can you imagine if even half of them decided to do something about the destruction of our democracy? We're out there. And the time to move is now.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 03/02/2025
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 02/02/2025
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 01/02/2025
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 01/02/2025
#federalworkers have examples of "withdrawal of efficiency" tactics from the Wobblies and other early labor leaders. On-job strikes included forgetting how to do your job well, malicious compliance, perfectionism, lost/delayed items necessary to do your job, etc. #resist #fedworkers #sabatoge
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 30/01/2025
Media, this is the headline. Stop taking the bait with the manufactured DEI bullshit. Do your jobs.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 27/01/2025
I'm really afraid the epic dressing-down #gustavopetro just gave Trump and his administration will get buried, as X has already disabled the translate button. When a U.S. president has to be lectured on what freedom. means and on the history of his own country, we're in trouble. #colombia
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 27/01/2025
Unable to fetch translation? Again and again? I'd bet a Sunday dinner that Elon Musk and X are intentionally making it impossible to translate President Petro's remarkable, truly beautiful clap-back. Take screenshots. I did.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 22/01/2025
Grateful to have been invited by River Falls Public Library to speak next week. Our #libraries continue to take #climatechange seriously and to provide venues for community conversations like this one. Libraries (and #librarians) are a cornerstone of this democracy. #books #climatefiction #clifi
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 22/01/2025
Short little thing up on #substack tonight.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 22/01/2025
An unthinkably massive creature, scarred by the continual attacks of a small contingent of whalers, fought back. I think about Moby Dick a lot these days.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 21/01/2025
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 19/01/2025
I don't thinks the move indoors had anything to do with the weather and everything to do with the fact that the tech-bros who will be on the presidential dais tomorrow are cowards who know the public abhors them.
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 17/01/2025
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Ashley Shelby @ashleyshelby.com · 17/01/2025
Wanted to test something so I prompted #Google #Gemini to generate some art. It literally refuses to produce images with an #anticapitalist critique lol
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