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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks, Formerly! You gave me great feedback!

Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And here it is! Cover reveal of my novel coming out May 18, 2027. Art by the wonderful Haley Wakefield, text treatment by @joshsutphin.com and published by @shirakipress.com, where you can pre-order. Waddya waddya waddya think?

book cover showing an underwater scene with kelp waving in the background. In the foreground is a pink octopus arm with its tip giving a hug to an older person's fingers. Title of the book is: A Planet for Reluctant Revolutionaries, author is Esker Park.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Haley Wakefield is an amazing artist, and also a scuba diver, so she was the perfect person to design the cover for A Planet for Reluctant Revolutionaries, my debut sci-fi novel coming out in May (but pre-orderable now). Please please please take a moment to admire it!

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Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com · 17/09/2026

Join us Tuesday 9/22 at 10 AM Pacific time for a virtual tea time celebration with @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social . Brew your favorite cuppa and sit a spell to commemorate the release of Light & Earth & Marrow! RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/shiraki-pr...

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Help a writer out! Follow her! She's good!

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger The GoGoGoGos

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Here's a plug for the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, Norway. This pic is of a bridge into the main part of the park, and it doesn't show some of the fantasy/alien/science fiction sculptures, but I guarantee, it's worth a visit if you're in town.

Along the railings of a bridge shrouded in fog are bronze sculptures of humans in various poses: embracing, child climbing parent, etc. Sculptures by Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943), Norway's most famous sculptor. These and other works can be seen at Oslo's Vigeland park.

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 23/07/2026

California becomes the second state to pass a ban on octopus farming and first state to prohibit farmed octopus sales

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California Governor Signs Octopus Farming Ban into Law

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ray Bradbury called it! So sorry I missed it yesterday, but a day late is better than nothing.

The text of Ray Bradbury's 'There Will Come Soft Rains,' which shows a totally automated house trying to wake its non-existent residents on August 4, 2026, preparing a breakfast for a non-existent family, and opening the garage door for them

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So true, Steve. Hard to remember, but true.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Otter gets some really good head rubs.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I discovered this amazing artist on a subreddit about octopuses (of course I'm on an octopus subreddit). They carve shells, rocks, wood - all of them with great skill. You can find them on FB at: www.facebook.com/samudra.9275...

two orange seashells on a rock with tropical plants in the background. The shells are intricately carved to look like octopuses.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm a Democrat in Maine. Tomorrow I vote on a slate of OVER 1300 candidates from my county to select 149 delegates to our state convention next week to choose the nominee to face Susan Collins in the fall. Do I know how many I can vote for? No. Do I know the deadline to submit my ballot? Also no.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In my own work, I’ve interviewed quite a few college-educated perpetrators. They justify their violence with a lot of the phrases we’ve heard floating around this week like, “It wasn’t rape—it was just nonconsensual,” or, “Yeah, it was bad, but should it ruin a guy’s life?”

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/07/2026

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

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Hachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I've got a story out in the current issue of Abyss & Apex! Free to read at this link. Let me know what you do/don't like about it. www.abyssapexzine.com/2026/06/sist... #scifi #sisters #terraforming #shortstories #amwriting

Cover and table of contents for Issue 99: 3rd quarter of 2026 of Abyss & Apex magazine. The picture is of a small space-suited figure watching a maelstrom erupting from the bottom of a crater.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You've cooled your last blood? Molotoved your last cocktail? Jane'd your last eyre? Caught your last 22? (I'm not sure I get what we're doing tbh.)

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This morning has already been one of surprises. First a very well-fed raccoon waddled across the street in front of my window, then my wall art of the cover of A Wrinkle in Time fell on the floor. Coincidence? I think not.

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The Incredibles Coincidence? I Think Not Meme

Alt: The Incredibles Coincidence? I Think Not Meme

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

She says it well. Take it from another long-time Maine resident.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

That's my book. It's real!

New book deal: A Planet for Reluctant Revolutionaries by Esker Park
First contact science fictin in which a curmudgeonly marine biologist and an anxious alien octoput chemist team up to protect a tiny alien refugee settlement off the coast of Oregon.
World English rights to Brianne Shiraki, Shiraki Press for publication in Spring 2027. Shirakipress.com

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The thing is, I think Platner is probably not a secret Nazi who is waiting to get into the Senate to flip on us. I think he's probably just an edgelord who currently believes what he says he does but who has given no evidence that he can stick with & work for a set of beliefs.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Already ordered this. Space octopuses are clearly in the vibe and @reasie.bsky.social has written a doozy! Mine comes out next May and fingers crossed it will be as cool. #octopuses #scifi

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Very, very excited about this because seaweed water bottles and the plasticbros who hate them feature prominently in my WIP.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Reposting because we all need some beauty.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I mean, really, how can you not 'awww' at this little pal?

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm going (it's easy because it's online) and I'm on my first panel ever!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Ooh look! It's my story, up for free! Read it if you dare! Thank you @Plotthoundmag.bsky.social for publishing it!

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is happening!!!

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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If anyone greets you with the words "May the fourth be with you" today, the correct response is "Live long and prosper"... (...or so @ncdominie.bsky.social assures me...)

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This moseyed across my feed and I like it a whole bunch. Look at those trees! And the swoopies! Let's support each other, even if we don't know each other.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I'm one of those people felled by its and it's.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Fascinating video where you can listen to the evolution of English from about 400 CE to the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=842O...

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From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue

YouTube video by Simon Roper

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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Perhaps we are all intrepid galactic explorers, only some of us do our intrepid exploring with trick knees and fading hearing.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Big old turtle glaring at me from a nearby pond. Same to you buddy. #turtle #springthaw

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Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com · 14/04/2026

It's time to make the roses bloom. WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out today! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

“A lushly written novella full of intriguing magic and love of all kinds.” —E. H. Lupton, author of the Wisconsin Gothic series.

They say the stolen rose blooms best.

When Ethan Keating Mendoza is hired as a gardener at an old Victorian residence in central Indiana, he has one clear mission: make the roses bloom. Ethan's life is roses--he's the son of a hedge witch and a partner in his father's rose growing business--but he has no magic himself.

The Kilbride estate is wild and overgrown. The roses have not bloomed in decades, and Ethan fears he may be in over his head. Worse still is Louis, the peculiar trustee of the property, who lives under a bloodthirsty curse that ties him to the garden. But Louis gives Ethan a chance, and Ethan is determined to do right by the suffering roses. As Ethan and Louis grow closer, Ethan becomes increasingly desperate to save the man he loves from the garden's curse.

But the garden isn't letting them go without a fight.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There is no McTry.

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Happy Book Birthday! I'm looking forward to meeting you THIS THURSDAY at Print Bookstore in Portland, Maine!

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