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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 17h

There is a lot of doom in the air around the twin existential threats of AI and climate change. Can we use this moment of rapid infrastructure expansion to kickstart our transition to clean energy? My full conversation with climate tech expert Steph Speirs is live on YouTube now!

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Can the AI Power Problem Lead to a Cleaner Future? (with Steph Speirs)

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My light plane reading today. I find the fight for democracy goes well with a Biscoff cookie. Thanks @naomiaklein.bsky.social

A hand holds Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s book End Times Fascism in front of some suitcases

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We’re reading The Three-Body Problem in my sci fi book club this month! Who’s read it? What did you think?

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We were racing the setting sun here and only had enough light for one take but this was one of my favorite sessions with Toni Lindgren ever. Those turtles move fast. 170bpm if I remember right. 🎵 Come Back Home by Trampled By Turtles

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)

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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Discussing Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle live now on YouTube for the ol’ science fiction book club. Join us in the chat! www.youtube.com/live/nXW0C0Z...

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick | Elle's Sci Fi Book Club

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reading about quantum mechanics is really a test of intellectual humility. The more you learn, the less you know.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The barista, handing me my drink just now: “Enjoy.” Me, turning away: “You too.” I was so sure I was going to be wished a nice day. It was the kind of unearned certainty that has toppled despots. Couldn’t adapt. So I invited her to also enjoy my drink. The image of it harasses me as I walk toward

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dream blunt rotation: Ellen Ripley, Ellie Arroway, Dana Scully

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A big bang showdown in the early salooniverse

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Disclosure Day was exactly what I was hoping it would be. Thrills, wonder, mystery, and the gift of another John Williams score (the man is 94!) which alone was worth the price of admission. If you like classic Spielberg, go see it.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe. Happy Earth Day.

A photo of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Up on the big screen at TED this morning with some rhyming humor in between talks.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Hi there. I am Elle, host of a science fiction book club, and you are cordially invited to read this book with me this month. I just picked up my copy tonight at my favorite local bookshop and I’m on page 16. Brain is happy.

Elle stands next to a bookshop sign that says “Spring into a new book.” She is holding a copy of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

SPLASHDOWN!!! Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation. Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists. Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Fellow human beings are bravely flying out into the cold darkness of space today. With this mission, NASA is laying the groundwork for so much more exploration over the next few years. I’ll be watching, hoping, dreaming with them at launch time, and I’m so glad to be alive to see the next chapter

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Are you an artist specializing in imagined worlds, speculative concepts, and/or sci-fi and fantasy themes? We’re in need of cover art and would love to see your work! Share in the comments or get in touch here: LBrunger @ ellecordova dot com

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Got to see an early screening of Project Hail Mary with the @planetarysociety.bsky.social folks last night. A fantastic adaptation. Highly encourage sci-fi fans to check it out when it hits theaters later this month.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

These guys are so clearly terrified. Spooked by their own wrongdoing. Alarmed that it’s all being recorded and disseminated before they can rewrite the story. Each bystander has a billion eyes, a billion ears. This is not what they signed up for. The recruitment propaganda promised glory, power, and

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Grammarian and Errorist are at it again! 🖊️

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Not many career paths lead to being friends with the dictionary, but I’m happy to find myself in one. Thanks for the early copy of the Twelfth Edition, @merriam-webster.com! Narrative is a bit disjointed and it’s kind of a slow burn, but by the Qs I couldn’t put it down. Five stars.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I never feel more saintly than when I put a pristine copy of a desirable book in someone’s little library box.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Nerdy items for your consideration (grammar, fonts, oh my) store.dftba.com/collections/...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Hey Instagram, maybe give @britannica.com their checkmark. I’ve heard the references look out for their own and you don’t want to find yourself in verbal fisticuffs with @merriam-webster.com

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

No, in this country we don’t tolerate senators being forced to the ground and cuffed for asking questions. We don’t tolerate masked agents rounding people up on the streets and disappearing them in unmarked vans. And we sure as hell don’t tolerate

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our van broke down in Roswell so naturally we wrote a song about the 1947 UFO incident while we were stranded there. Now our song is featured in the latest episode of the Via Podcast. It’s a fun trip through UFO lore and bizarre desert mysteries. Tune in here: mwg.aaa.com/via/podcast/...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My science fiction book club Discord is alliiivvee 🧟‍♂️ Come say hi.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The trouble with receiving a notebook so perfect and special is that I will never have thoughts good enough to write in it

Inside the notebook the owner’s details are displayed. Captain: Elle Cordova. Starship: USS Troubadour. Commissioned Date: March 8. Length of Voyage: unknown. Self Destruct Code Authorization: Cordova 4-7 Alpha Tango.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Now would be the perfect time for a massive new open world game to take over my life. Give me a backpack with upgradable tools and set me loose upon a world of someone else’s making, please.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I wish my brain would consult me before deleting files. The difference between stalagmites and stalactites? Fine. How to use a Punnett square? If you must. But NOT my current hotel room number, brain.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 03/12/2024

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 03/12/2024

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“Giddy up jingle horse” is actually such an insulting thing to say to a reindeer

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Getting winded from chasing the kind people into all the microblogging warrens of the internet. But the skies do seem curiously blue here.

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