Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialPunished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social) 8402158
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialDenis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 14hNew York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, who tragically lost his 58-year-old mum and several family members to COVID-19 complications, continues advocating for vaccination. “I have asthma,” Towns said, highlighting his “high-risk status” while raising awareness of the non-mRNA NUVAXOVID vaccine. 62462555
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#AICouldNever RIP Cassandra Wilson www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOzJ...youtube.comCassandra Wilson - Harvest Moon (San Sebastián 2011)YouTube video by Live Performances Favorites 2112
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Seriously, it is. Just so beautiful and human, in the very best way. (free article). 1176
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialFriendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner. 3520341029
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKen Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's book day for THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES in the US. My third collection, themed around what it means to speak and to be heard, is available at your favorite retailer. I'm grateful to you, reader. 57116
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026#AICouldNever Mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdje...youtube.comVivaldi’s Four Seasons-Summer 3rd Movement, performed with SSO at the Esplanade on 24 April 2022YouTube video by Chloe Chua - Classical Violinist 0162
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#AICouldNever From summer to winter www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1e...youtube.comVivaldi: Winter (L'inverno) I. Allegro non molto - Four Seasons - RAY CHENYouTube video by Ray Chen 3117
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialrivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061 6323159
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialWeightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New today, THE GREEN MAN'S DEBT by Juliet E. McKenna from @wtpress.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/the-green-ma... 0118
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialHigh Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 11/09/2026I don't typically write about 9/11 (I don't believe I've done so since the LiveJournal days, when it occurred in the first place) but I was actually thinking about it yesterday - and not because of the usual rigmarole leading up to memorial ceremonies. No, it was because of a pedicure. 127267
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If you're having a stressful day, why not sit back, relax & immerse yourself in the reconstructed soundscape of a Jurassic forest. Based on ingenious analyses of the fossilized wings of extinct insects, from a paper in latest issue of @pnas.org. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (Sound up, obviously.)🦗🔊🧪 26225
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead! That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time! Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11 🗃️🧪 513739
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 09/09/20261/x On September 11, 2001 Coast Guard Lieutenant Michael Day, aboard the Sandy Hook pilot boat New York, keyed his radio: "All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island." #maritimehistory 419099
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialPremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11/09/2026AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover. Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩us.macmillan.comWickhillsIn the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of... 24272103
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026#AICouldNever One more bit of Ray Chen joining a pianist, this one in Paris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Ny...youtube.comI met @RayChenViolinist at the SUPERMARKET in ParisYouTube video by Emilio Piano 172
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socials. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/09/2026A reminder that an extremely cool and helpful thing you can is rating (and reviewing, if you have time), my book. Amazon rankings, and the number of ratings, unfortunately matter a lot! You do not have to buy my book from Amazon to rate it! If you love ALL MY DEAD CATS, help other people find it!amazon.comAll My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning: smith, s. e.: 9780063445994: Amazon.com: BooksAll My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning [smith, s. e.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practic... 13216
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected 3031021154
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026🧵"Yet in the British Senate men rise up, (The freeborn and the fathers of our land!) And while these drink the dregs of Sorrow's cup, Deny the sufferings of the pining band." (A Voice from the Factories: In Serious Verse - Caroline Norton -1836) The poem is a powerful social protest published 1257
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I just started reading this book about infrastructure, and it's so well written and so smart and appealing about what infrastructure is and what it means and how it connects us in ways people don't always think about on a daily basis. 1531260
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialNibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So today @ninocipri.bsky.social and I absolutely blew our cat’s tiny mind. He likes to sit in this window in our home office. Which, as you can see, is literally around the corner from another window in the living room 29126
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 12/09/2026I can't think of any other quotation that's had an effect on me like this one had when I first encountered it in high school ~1992. I picked up I Write What I Like and read things like "I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people" 23411
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo8...youtube.comDust My Broom - Elmore JamesYouTube video by aardappelneez 154
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialElizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...truthout.orgThis Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their ParentsMore than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE. 4299174
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 15/09/20261/x The widest ships in the world are not tankers or aircraft carriers. They are four Norwegian survey vessels, 104 metres long and 70 metres across the stern, shaped like slices of pie. They exist for one purpose: to listen to rocks. This is the Ramform Titan class. #shipbuilding 310832
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices. 633174668
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's so wild and wonderful that this robot has been wandering around Mars for FOURTEEN YEARS and we get to watch it trundle about and poke rocks and send home postcards. ❤️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...science.nasa.govCuriosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA ScienceWhile parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times 271230325
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHuf...youtube.comBeoga: The Bonny Ship, The DiamondYouTube video by beogamusic 0215
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=d108...youtube.comJohn Coltrane – Alabama (1963) | A Historic PerformanceYouTube video by Dan's Jazz Journey 0104
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialSolaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Welcome to Yoon Ha Lee's Hexarchate, home to epic military SciFi, Calendrical Heresy, space marines and immortal madmen! Buy the 10th anniversary edition of Book 1 - NINEFOX GAMBIT - with a new introduction from @annleckie.com ! geni.us/ninefox10th 07128
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Speaking as someone who had preemie twins in the NICU for two very long weeks (some years ago! they're fine!), this is so awful I don't even have words to describe my horror at this appalling rejection of responsibility on the part of the federal government and the criminal anti-vaxxer grifters. 5532
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026I have read an actually ridiculous number of the books in this thread and strongly recommend you should do the same. 36218
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"This is the fast I desire: to unlock the fetters of wickedness, & untie the cords of lawlessness. To let the oppressed go free; to break off every yoke. It is to share bread with the hungry, & to take the wretched poor into your home...Then shall your light burst through like the dawn." Isaiah 58 13913
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialSadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This story about research by Stanford scientists suggesting our brains are two distinct organs, with different progentitor cells, is remarkable. An insight into how things we take for granted as one might come from two, or more. Lichens also a wonderful example. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...news.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, study findsScientists have viewed the brain as one organ for centuries. A Stanford Medicine-led discovery challenging that view could advance research into ALS, spinal muscular atrophy, and other neurological di... 0182
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026#AICouldNever evidently Borodin was also a working chemist? I believe this is a youth orchestra, which always gives me extra special joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiex...youtube.comBorodin – Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances Andrzej Kucybała – conductor Polonya'dan Celal hocama selamYouTube video by Akademia Filmu i Telewizji 1111
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺livescience.com'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in TurkeyArchaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C. 111069328
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHKS...youtube.comJohn Coltrane - Blue Train (Live in Stockholm 1961)YouTube video by christianparlet 071
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialThis Machine Kills Hair Bands @she5los.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hey, YOU! Do you want REALLY GOOD FAR-FUTURE SCIFI? Do you want ORIGAMI SPACESHIPS and HONOR DUELS and COURTLY INTRIGUE in the aftermath of a coup? Do you want a story that assumes you have a large vocabulary, but also tone-switches suddenly to be funny? Of course you do! Read Code and Codex! 25818
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2677944580
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.washingtonpost.comPentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran warWith the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows. 791229746
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@aliettedebodard.com at art museum and thought Cyril might enjoy this 1204
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And here's an essay from the HOMA site about this specific exhibit: honolulumuseum.org/stories-bodh...honolulumuseum.orgBodhisattvas and Bart Simpson: All about Tsherin Sherpa and his workExplore Tsherin Sherpa’s journey from traditional thangka painter to global contemporary artist blending Buddhist iconography with pop culture in Divine Disruption. 0112
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Too long for me but here is an hour long panel featuring the artist and two panelists, from earlier this year at HOMA. honolulumuseum.org/stories-in-c...honolulumuseum.orgIn Conversation: Tsherin SherpaHear artist Tsherin Sherpa talk about his art, influences, and practice. 161
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#AICouldNever Just saw an exhibit called Divine Disruption featuring work by Tsherin Sherpa at Honolulu Museum of Art. Really remarkable work. Here's a short interview with him from 4 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDm...youtube.comTsherin Sherpa Artist InterviewYouTube video by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1141
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026@AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9a8...youtube.comDolan's pub (Limerick, Ireland) - Irish Traditional Music SessionYouTube video by Jonathan Castillo - Rambling Fiddler 0132
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.social@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.essence.com/culture/21-b...essence.com25 Black-Owned Bookstores You Need To Visit - EssenceFor National Literacy Month, explore our insider guide to the safe spaces supporting Black authors and authentic Black storytelling across the country. 03732
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/09/2026This is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant. 222360
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialElsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A week from today DEAR BLIND LADY will be out! This is your last week to preorder and get a shiny pin from Sasquatch press! Just send your receipt to Bailey at bluestarpress dot com. Also if you’re in Seattle you can join me next Tuesday night for a launch party with ASL interpretation & bingo! 32318
Reposted by @nstover5791.bsky.socialKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#AICouldNever www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptmm...youtube.comSona Jobarteh - GAMBIA (Official Video)YouTube video by Sona Jobarteh 082
