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

I'm so excited for this! Come to Maine to sign books and chat with us please? Nobody ever does and we're just a short bus ride from Boston...

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This really is wonderful fuel for our rage right now!

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

Thanks, Formerly! You gave me great feedback!

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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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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'd be interested to know what the careless wish was!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is this what you're trying to say? Arthur will be killed by the Circle of Wizards if he doesn't learn to control his anger, but his rage fuels his search for the evil sorcerer? if so, you might want to say that more clearly. Also, rather than his orphan status, you might want to say his age.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This one also has a vagueness problem. I don't understand the significant of the scale in billowing sleeves, nor can I really picture them. Also, the stakes aren't as clear as they are in the emoji one.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This one is missing the groundhog day nature of the trap for the suitors and that aspect is really cool. Also the 'power of the sea pulsing agains the shores and in their veins' is too vague to really give a sense of the story.

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This one of the 3 pitches is the most clear and compelling to me (even though I found the emojis distracting). I love the loom splintering and releasing the suitors.The only thing I don't quite get from any of them is the Lady MacBeth reference. Maybe this one should have a different X with Odyssey?

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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 · 18/09/2026

Fantastic news! Great agency!

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

Excellent point but here we are.

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

And now I must make my own 'Writing Career Bingo'

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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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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Right!?! That particular puzzle doesn't know as many words as us people do. Harrumph!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ok, so idea: pair no-socials-September with give-me-your-address-or-phone-number so you can set some of your friends free from being locked in the computer...

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Uncle Bao the Silly Cat in Carrier

ALT: Uncle Bao the Silly Cat in Carrier

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All hail the Immortal Marker! 🖊️🖊️🖊️

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Those bookmarks are amazing

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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 · 19/08/2026

Oh this is great news! Congratulations!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My first-contact sci fi is coming out in May2027 from new hopepunk publisher, Shiraki Press. A curmudgeon marine biologist and an alien octopus team up to protect a tiny refugee settlement in the kelp beds off the coast of Oregon. shirakipress.com/products/a-p...

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A Planet for Reluctant Revolutionaries

Curmudgeon marine biologist Dr. S clawed her way to a respected research career through outsmarting and outperforming her male colleagues at every step along the way. Now sixty years old, she’s groomi...

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Absolutely, my only quibble is calling it 'they' instead of us. The Democratic Party is in process of being taken over - by us - and of course the old guard is putting up a lame kind of fight, but the writing is on the wall, as long as we keep the pressure on!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I won't deny that the dems were taken over by corporate tools in the late 80s, but I was there when it fought hard for decent wages, racial and sexual justice, and the environment. I'd add that the party is rapidly being taken over by people who care about these things. There is hope for it!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Those look like great panels! Wish I could be there. Next year in Montreal!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Great news! I loved that book!

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So glad you got to see it, and with such great optics!

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

Adult Upmarket Speculative

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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

To make things even MORE exciting. Each candidate has supplied their statement for me to peruse. Were they given any guidance on what the statement should contain? No to the No-th power. 1300 STATEMENTS!

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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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