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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 29/09/2026

It's true! And such beautiful eyes.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 28/09/2026

When even store managers see the benefit of workers organizing unions!

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 28/09/2026

I decided I needed an #ursulakleguin benefit T-shirt from @pmpress.bsky.social, because of the cats. Then I liked it so much I got another one by the same artist, @nobonzo.bsky.social. And now I'm feeling pleased with myself, so here are pictures.

A T-shirt showing a woman reading a book to an audience of cats. It reads, "There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories." --Ursula K. Le Guin

Me in a T-shirt showing an optimistic socialist backlit by a rising sun, along with a black cat who is sitting on books titled "Solidarity," "Mutual Aid," and "Liberty." A banner reads "Support the Minnesota Fifteen."

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wonderful #Tolkien news! Westminster Abbey has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien will be honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner. I've known about this project for some years + was privileged to be consulted during its development. Great to see it made public! www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/a...

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PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Get 20% off this new title from @shereereneethomas.bsky.social with code SEPTEMBER thru 10/1 here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lord grant me the confidence of a guy who @s William Gibson to answer a question Gibson wasn't asking about AI /wintermute expression

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 09/09/2026

So do I. And I loathe this smug bastard who kept her from winning the prize.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 09/09/2026

Angela Carter's Booker Prize, you mean, for Nights at the Circus. But we know how it happened, because the chair (posthumously) took the credit.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 31/08/2026

Congratulations! on this and on Trace Elements, which I just finished reading; it's terrific.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic goes to A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, written by Ursula K. Le Guin, adapted and art by Fred Fordham (Clarion Books; Walker UK).

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Mia You @miayou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Deadline moved to 7 September!

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🚲5🇵🇸 @anyfishanytime.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is the way. If data centers in rage you because of a niche interest, tell your other nerd friends! Make everybody mad!

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 21/08/2026

Our cats, photographed much better than I can by @annebillson.bsky.social

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 05/08/2026

Podcast over @ursulakleguin.com gemaakt voor @groene.nl, met journalist Daphné Dupont-Nivet en de geweldige Stephan Sanders. Zij heeft Hij kende haar werk eerst niet, maar werd meteen fan. www.groene.nl/podcasts/den...

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Podcast: In het Denkspoor van Ursula Le Guin

Hoe Ursula Le Guin in haar ambigue utopieën het westerse denken over tijd, vooruitgang en hiërarchie uitdaagde.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 03/08/2026

this is really, really bad, and Spokane is ... not exactly on the national radar. I know there are infinite people and places that need help, and everyone's resources are finite, but some options if you are so inclined:

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

While Miller’s abuse, Clancy’s trial, and Smith’s tradwife back-pedaling may seem like very different stories, they’re all connected by one common thread: the outraged response from women, especially mothers.

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Nara Smith, Lindsay Clancy, Max Miller—and Our National Reckoning on Motherhood

We've reached a tipping point

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 01/08/2026

I saw the Lyres in a club in Seattle in about 1987, back in my misspent youth. They had a big fight onstage and Conolly played the rest of the set with a bloody nose. It was a small window into something very unhappy behind the music.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 01/08/2026

Ursula K. Le Guin on loving a man in a uniform, read by my friend @michelleruizkeil.bsky.social

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's a map of the continent of AI-ia, which includes the countries AI-tania, Côte d'AI and the Central Republique of AI.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 31/07/2026

If you go by the color coding, then Côte d’Ivoire is almost in the right spot. But none of those countries is shaped like any actual African country. They're just blobs.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 26/07/2026

A long-ago email exchange with @ursulakleguin.com: >> But then sometimes I wonder very much if I have a Secret Life. > Someone who tests off the scale for introversion has no secret life? The triple-locked box in the secret compartment could be empty! I miss her.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 24/07/2026

It's quite possible. But the idea of receptivity was important to her from her early twenties. It came in part from the French existentialist Gabriel Marcel, who thought being was not a solitary state but had everything to do with openness and commitment to other beings, other lives.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 24/07/2026

This is a very Le Guinian thought.

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Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"I repeat: in order for a book to exist, it is sufficient to be possible"

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Meanwhile, from Sweden, where they watch this version of Ivanhoe every New Year's Day, "Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert has wielded his lance for the last time".

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 08/07/2026

Or he had to pay too much alimony and child support, or it all went up his nose. Who's to say? There's no need to hand out imaginary good fortune to the undeserving.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 08/07/2026

He might have become unhappy later because he wasn't writing a novel. You never know.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 05/07/2026

To everyone whose email I haven't answered because I'm over my ears in a book:

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 05/07/2026

Oh, no! Minnie! I'm so sorry!

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/06/2026

This week on In Your Spare Time, author @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social reads post 11, "The Tree," from January of 2011. This post is Ursula's lovely eulogy for a Christmas tree: "A real Christmas tree, a cut tree, is a ritual sacrifice. Better not to deny the fact, but to accept and ponder it."

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In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin: Rebecca Campbell reads "The Tree"

This week, Rebecca Campbell reads Post 11, "The Tree," which Ursula posted in January of 2011. The original post can be read at Rebecca Campbell's website is

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has been announced! Congratulations to everyone!!!

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Here Is the Shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction - Reactor

Congratulations to all those selected!

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 25/06/2026

I, on the other hand, got stopped on the street by two tourists who asked me to explain what the name of my neighborhood meant. I told them, obviously ("well, nobody knows, but the two main theories, bla bla bla"), but why me? Do I look that much like a walking encyclopedia?

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 15/06/2026

A gem from the archive: a poster for Ursula's first public talk, at Portland State University in 1971. Were you there? If you attended any of Ursula's earliest events, we'd love to hear about the experience! Thank you to @julie-phillips.com for the image!

A hand-drawn poster, in purple ink on white paper, reads:
Ursula K. Le Guin
internationally acclaimed science-fiction Authoress
SPEAKS
today
Thursday
March 11
3:00 pm
53 Cramer Hall

and in very small writing at the bottom, it says "COME AND BECOME ENLIGHTENED."

There are doodles all around - a moon at the top, a sort of flower/vine that goes around the sides and bottom, and a doorway/stone hall in which a humanlike figure looks forlorn.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 15/06/2026

I also wrote about speculative fiction author Doris Lessing, who came to ICFA as guest of honor in 1989 and was the life of the party. www.fantastic-arts.org/2013/doris-l...

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 15/06/2026

The one on the top left is Angela Carter, who I wrote about in The Baby on the Fire Escape

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 10/06/2026

I heard @bluejo.bsky.social read an excerpt from this two years ago. It was strange and beautiful and I'm excited to read it.

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Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So this is background for “The Screwfly Solution” - an unforgettable short story by James Tiptree, Jr. Highly recommend her biography by @julie-phillips.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 03/06/2026

This week on In Your Spare Time, Molly Gloss reads post 8, "The Sissy Strikes Back," from November 2010. "I’ve lost faith in the saying 'You’re only as old as you think you are' ever since I got old," Ursula begins in this post about aging, and who exactly it's "for."

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In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin: Molly Gloss reads "The Sissy Strikes Back"

This week, Molly Gloss reads Post 8, "The Sissy Strikes Back," which Ursula posted in November of 2010. The original post can be read at Molly Gloss's website is  

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Love that nearly all the BTL comments on the HOW TO ROB A BANK trailer are people ̶g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶x̶c̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶h̶e̶i̶s̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶ grousing about amazon's labour practices and mistreatment of its warehouse employees.

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How To Rob A Bank | Official Trailer

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Welp, so book of the day is Nella Larsen’s Passing so I can talk to my mom about it. It’s about two very light-skinned Black women, one of whom has chosen to fully pass as white—married a white man who doesn’t know etc—and the other of whom lives as Black except for occasionally in restaurants etc.

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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 01/06/2026

I'm glad others might get to see them and grateful to those who are making it possible. www.yuroktribe.org/yurok-condor...

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Yurok Condor Restoration Program | Yurok Tribe

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