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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Forget Myers-Briggs, forget Enneagram numbers, tell me what Noah Kahan song hit you like a left hook square in the memory you thought you were over

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 10/08/2026

On my blog, I wrote about how America's museums are falling apart. The US has 20k+ museums, and most have historic buildings with leaky roofs, failing HVAC units, and flooding basements. What they don't have is money for repairs. Please read/share! 🧵 johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-s-...

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

UPDATE: I was not proved wrong but the casting turned out to be the least of my issues.

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Friends, my strange little Shakespeare-inspired story is featured on a podcast! Check out my episode & all the other awesome things that Manawaker Studio does. Thank you, thank you to CB Droege!

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

George Clooney in O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU has impeccable Odysseus energy. I don't believe Matt Damon has Odysseus energy, like, at all. I very much hope to be proved wrong.

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Today in the park: a hundred tiny reminders of hope for brighter days ahead.

White crocuses in the foreground with more white and purple crocuses in the background.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/02/2026

The whistles are the entry point. But the long game is the community that is being formed every time someone who has never really been engaged before decides to do This One Thing that gives them a reason to talk to their neighbors. Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Late to the party, I know, but I finally canceled Spotify after years and years. Feels good. 💪🏻

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

San Juan Islands, what a dream you are.

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 04/08/2025

Whew, online engagement is really tough right now. I know it because I see Uncanny Magazine still has stretch goals that need to be unlocked! 51 hours to go: www.kickstarter.com/...

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“Rumor has it that by the time he died, the better-days-past vine had overtaken his house so completely that the funeral director had to come equipped with gardening shears to remove the body from the premises.“ Oh I just know this plant would be the end of me. ✨🌱 🍵

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Fun fact: This is the actual plant that lives in my house (a Scindapsus pictus Silver Splash, for the botanically inclined) that inspired "Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine." Let me know if you see any faces in it.

A houseplant (satin pothos) with silvery patterns on green leaves.

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Crow & Cross Keys || SUBS OPEN @crowkeys.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We are in a celebratory mood, here at the tower. Today's post is very special, not only because it is in a fun format (we love a fun format), but because it is our 500th post! Please enjoy... "Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine" by @eleridenham.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/30/c...

A muted greyscale banner for flash fiction, Care Guide for Your Better-Days-Past Vine by Eleri Denham published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a close up of a leaf with silver markings.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/05/2025

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy:

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
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When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/04/2025

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.

"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Portland friends! On April 24, come see some Earth themed short films, including mine! @makingearthcool.bsky.social

Poster for the Earth Shorts for Earth Day screening, happening on April 24 at the PAM CUT Tomorrow Theater

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/04/2025

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Really pleased to have this little piece in the latest issue of Bending Genres, out today. It's quite different from what I usually write & I'm so glad it found such an awesome home. Thank you, thank you to @bendinggenres.bsky.social. Can't wait to read the whole issue! bendinggenres.com/sear/

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Shooting some footage on the coast yesterday & caught this full rainbow over Seal Rock. Oregon is magic. ✨️

A rainbow positioned over some off-shore rock formations on an overcast coastline.

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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

One of my absolute favorite things is: Great Horned Owls 🦉 In the evenings I walk my dogs, and their hoot hoot hooots just … calm me. Today one swooped in front of my car, landed on a branch, and looked straight at me. As Rebecca Solnit says: “Everything we can save is worth saving”

A drawing that looks like overlapping ribbons around a rose that says: Everything we can save is worth saving. -Rebecca Solnit

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Since we’re talking about how much billionaires suck again, here’s a reminder that your local indie bookstore deserves your business this holiday season. They have gift cards and are happy to mail stuff out. Same goes for @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Buy books. Give books. Support bookstores.

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Eleri Denham @eleridenham.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Hi! I'm Eleri. I write fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays. Interested in maps, myths, and all the other ways humans have found to understand their place in the natural world. Happy to meet you.

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