Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

Speculative Fiction author, PhD Environmental Engineering 
I write hopeful climate fiction & solarpunk. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️| SFWA
 Being gentle/healing is radical & disruptive.  

Host: Bright Green Futures podcast, stories to build a better world
#writing #hopepunk #ClimateFiction #solarpunk #ScienceFiction #ClimateChange 

"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes" (used to perpetuate more crimes).🔨 
If you think piracy is great, unfollow me.

Writing a feminist romantasy with plant magic.

website: https://susankayequinn.com/
solarpunk: https://susankayequinn.com/hopepunk-solarpunk
Bright Green Futures podcast: https://www.BrightGreenFutures.wtf
latest release: https://susankayequinn.com/books/metamorphosis-climate-fiction-for-a-better-future

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2026-08-07 17:16:12 GMT

“I know of one data storage form that can be permanent: a library...they are fiercely committed to self-repair. A good library is a collection of people, technologies&practices that pass an obligation—to remember the things we must remember...”
https://gizmodo.com/will-we-ever-solve-the-problem-of-losing-data-2000792386

2026-08-06 21:36:17 GMT

this is the most insane thing I've read in a long time
no you do NOT need AI ON YOUR BODY
no you don't need to retrain your brain to use AI
holy goddess
what are we doing here
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/718390/gemini-wear-os-smartwatches-ai

2026-07-06 15:06:54 GMT

STOP USING THE THEFTBOT FASHY MACHINE
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/ai-altering-meaning-of-users-drafts-on-issues-from-abortion-to-climate-study-finds

2026-05-09 15:35:06 GMT

"Across wealthy nations, the percentage of women aged 25-29 who are unmarried has doubled in the past twenty years, exceeding 40% in many countries. Rates of gray divorce, of people over 50, roughly doubled between 1990 and 2015. "
this article is 🔥
https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-decentering-men-is-not-misandry

2026-04-27 19:22:18 GMT

Solarpunk Bookclub is always a great convo but a question from one of our readers prompted me to write up our 3 solarpunk writers' upcoming releases!
Find your next #solarpunk read (and join the bookclub!) https://newsletter.susankayequinn.com/w8c4d5t3g5
@npub1faz…vc22 [@otterkit](https://sunny.garden/@otterkit )
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2026-04-17 13:21:59 GMT

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People are starting to see the invisible control that oil has in their lives. We've long had oil wars (and oil shocks) but people shrugged their shoulders, *what can you do*, and just accepted this geopolitical reality engineered to keep the elites in power... because we've never had an alternative *at scale* ready to deploy...
2/n
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2026-04-17 13:19:28 GMT

I used to think that solar "just" threatened the political power and profits of power companies and their fossil fuel suppliers (including the fact that they use your electricity $ for climate disinformation) but it's actually even more radical than that...
1/n
https://susankayequinn.com/2025/04/solar-how-to-get-started-and-why-you-should.html

2026-04-16 15:24:09 GMT

I sat down with myself recently & made some hard choices about what shitty compromises I would make to keep my publishing/author business alive, reaching readers with books (good) amidst all the tech company fuckery everywhere.
We do what we must. Stories are hella important right now.

2026-04-15 00:46:34 GMT

SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHOR FRIENDS
This *INSANE* email from Barnes & Noble WTF
—no more than 100 books and they start deleting??
—removing titles that don't meet minimum sales?
What the hell? I've been publishing since 2011... I have 145 titles.
AI deluge screwing us but still...it's war on indies.
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2026-02-21 12:45:48 GMT

this is so good https://www.tiktok.com/@longmirelp/video/7609062391745137933

2026-01-10 12:55:27 GMT

Feeling grateful for plants this morning. Which is such a funny thing to say, but they (and specifically my native garden patch) remind me of the seasonality of life and how there's a time to grow and a time to rest, how planting seeds for the future is something you spend your whole life doing, and this is good. This is living.
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2026-01-06 16:09:02 GMT

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it's a gain in HIS STRENGTH — he doesn't care about the country. HE HAS POWER, that's all that matters (of course).
It's really hard for normal people to wrap their brains around how fantastically evil and petty and broken these people are. That's part of how they convinced so many to vote for them — our collective unwillingness to believe they're actually THAT evil and dumb. They must mean something else, right?
But they are that evil and dumb.

2025-12-31 13:57:42 GMT

2026 is the Year Authenticity Wins
Not just by grabbing AI by the throat and throwing it into the sea.
But also fascists. And billionaires.
Basically doubling down on all the human things and yeeting the inhuman ones into the sun.

2025-12-31 02:22:54 GMT

We tried to watch a movie tonight and just... gave up.
And read books instead.
This is good. 🛋️📖

2025-12-30 22:20:01 GMT

I should probably mention that the first and second books in my #hopepunk climate fiction series are free!
It's about "how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected, tended to, and healed."
A power grid mystery for fans of Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) and Monk & Robot (Chambers).
https://susankayequinn.com/series/nothing-is-promised
#solarpunk #ClimateChange
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2025-12-28 17:11:49 GMT

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...it wasn't until I dug into my short story (about AMOC) research that I really had to pin down the effects (at least for the story).
The worst is that *we really don't know*... meaning there's a high margin of error but I'd say it's all in the bad direction.
(I wrote a short story called *Visible Mending* (submitted to Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists) about this)
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2025-12-28 17:10:19 GMT

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It's hard to really grasp how much AMOC collapse would change everything.
I've been aware of this for a while (heck THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW(2004) is based on it, but notably not scientifically accurate), but...

2025-12-28 16:58:12 GMT

"it is only in the last few years that the chance of it grinding to a halt has gone from an unlikely event in the 22nd century, to something that might start happening in the next decade or two."
everything climate is happening faster than expected
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/britains-leaders-are-hiding-from-amoc-disaster/

2025-12-25 04:10:54 GMT

I've been saving socks that need darning, telling myself I'll get out my sewing machine or teach myself visible repair (after writing a story literally titled Visible Mending).
Middle kiddo comes home for the holiday and immediately starts darning their socks. Then asked if I had any to mend...
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2025-12-21 13:35:39 GMT

Happy Winter Solstice!
The sun shining hard through the cold onto a world huddling through winter's ache feels like the hope-in-hard-times that we need.
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2025-12-18 15:40:02 GMT

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Support the art you want to exist... or it will stop existing. Creators are already under massive constant attack by AI corps.
If you're on the side of piracy, you are *not* on the side of creators.
Full stop. #destroyAI support #art
5/n

2025-12-18 15:39:51 GMT

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Dude had zero understanding how demoralizing it is to have readers attack you for wanting your work not to be stolen. Or how their demands that you put up a "tip jar" so they can tithe away their guilt aren't any kind of compliment.
4/n

2025-12-18 15:39:40 GMT

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I said all this, begging people to understand how this hurts creators... and dude was having a great time telling an author why "owning forever" his $3.99 ebook was more important, MORE "MORAL", than anything else.
3/n

2025-12-18 15:39:28 GMT

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...said I do not consent to piracy, if you want a book without the 0.01% chance of a corp clawing it back, pay for a print copy. If you want free books, use the library.
Support for piracy built the pirate libraries that AI corps used to feed their machines (literally the class action lawsuit I'm in).
2/n

2025-12-18 15:39:11 GMT

Just before I blocked him, a guy arguing why he "has to" pirate said to me, "Thanks for engaging with me. This is great!"
I replied "No, this is BAD. I've had this argument 100 times and every time I get closer to only publishing in print."
HE WAS HAVING A GREAT TIME. Even as I relentlessly...
1/n

2025-12-16 17:05:12 GMT

HOLY SHIT
"Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee"
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot."
JFC, it's always the worst people pushing AI
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/
Also: 404 is doing such great work

2025-12-15 02:43:22 GMT

this absolutely rocks
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2025-12-14 15:06:53 GMT

JFC they're trying to make it so women can't have credit cards again. LIKE MY MOM IN THE 70s
THIS FUCKING SHIT, I swear.
Leave a comment (it matters so much they disabled comments—try anyway): https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/CFPB-2025-0039-0001
Great tiktok on this: https://www.tiktok.com/@whattheish/video/7583502787271609613
TELL EVERYONE

2025-12-13 17:32:20 GMT

It really is remarkable how much every tech company is now just PURE FUCKING EVIL and intent on inserting themselves in between every human interaction so they can monetize it, monopolize it, control it...
...and now they want to insert themselves between you & THE ACTUAL ART.
It's deeply inhuman.
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/kindles-new-gen-ai-powered-ask-this-book-feature-raises-rights-concerns/

2025-12-12 23:22:17 GMT

Hey, my friend @npub1vts…l7xg's #solarpunk book is on sale — only 99c! You should grab it :)
https://howtosurfahurricane.com/
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2025-12-12 18:40:41 GMT

We tend to value things by their immediate (often monetary but also status) value right now...
...and not the value it has intrinsically or in the future or the unknown and unknowable impact it could have on others in the future.
That needs to change if we're to survive the 21st century.

2025-12-11 13:47:45 GMT

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it *is* very difficult to imagine the future that we *need* to work toward, but it's incredibly important work. I'm saying this to myself as much as to you!
In fact, I've very recently decided to double down on writing, to get back to being prolific like I've been in the past, because doing that imaginative work *ESPECIALLY NOW* is incredibly important. If you can do it, please do!

2025-12-11 13:01:08 GMT

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115696420725619108
I don't like that this is reality.
I've been writing it into my fiction since my first Mindjack series because it's so obviously THERE but ignored.
If you say "pollution is everywhere poisoning people" you'll get the same response as "COVID is still here" and "the climate is rapidly warming" and "PFAS and microplastics are in everything from placentas to the Arctic"...
it's undeniably true but you sound crazy because we've decided to have a mass delusion instead.
#note1ytk…xvn3

2025-12-10 17:21:19 GMT

someday my decades-long conviction that the chemical soup we live in is gonna shorten everyone's lives (some more than others) is gonna be an accepted fact of science
meanwhile...
"Nearly every scientist interviewed for this story does a few simple things. They filter their water, they run an air purifier, they don’t microwave plastic...opt for fragrance-free products, avoid eating out of plastic when they can, and buy organic produce."
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/

2025-12-08 14:01:55 GMT

Rooftop solar! It's growing in the US...very exciting... 🌞⚡
https://youtu.be/yVO9GcNlkLQ?si=C77onN12QhDO7YGZ

2025-12-02 23:43:23 GMT

It disturbs me how often I see folks self-styled as #solarpunk using AI.
Just don't.
I can't think of a faster way to say "I don't understand either solarpunk or AI".
Using AI is counter to the entire idea of a just and sustainable world.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brightgreenfutures/p/solarpunk-dont-need-no-ai

2025-11-30 16:25:51 GMT

on the nose metaphors: some of the more painful parts of this cursed timeline
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2025-11-22 23:18:02 GMT

Hubby is supposed to be brainstorming gift ideas for the kids but instead he's looking up auto door openers FOR CHICKEN COOPS with... I am not kidding... facial recognition for your chicken to make sure you don't let in the WRONG CHICKEN.
What a life.

2025-11-20 19:19:33 GMT

North Carolina, y'all getting up to some good trouble, keep going.
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2025-11-19 14:59:06 GMT

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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2025-11-17 21:20:16 GMT

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I never understood how much I was taught to question authority as a child (by my freedom-loving flower-child mom, to the chagrin of my authoritarian-but-mostly-absent father), until I had my own kids. And then when they questioned my authority, I was like "of course, my child, that's your job"...

2025-11-17 21:12:06 GMT

Teach your kids to question authority. Including yours.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN_EkxoDNvc/

2025-11-17 15:57:54 GMT

excellent articlel by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
"For them, America is a limitless passive resource."
I think a lot of the analogy of the abusive husband breaking dishes he expects his abused wife to clean up. And how anti-capitalist forces (families, care workers, women mostly) are constantly repairing the damage done by capitalism. One enables the other because...
1/n
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-bubble

2025-11-08 23:28:03 GMT

Saw a post that we shouldn't shame people for eating "cheap" fast food in this economy (or really any time) & I agree
yet McDonalds' sales are down because people *can't even afford McDonalds* (not least cuz they've jacked up their prices way more than inflation)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/05/02/mcdonalds-sales-drop-inflation-tariffs/83408544007/

2025-11-06 17:29:43 GMT

really can't say FUCK OFF with this strongly enough
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03624-1

2025-11-05 14:09:00 GMT

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...and then you have space to talk about the revolution, plan the revolution, **be the revolution.**
Mamdani is incredibly helpful as an example of what that looks like but that's the entire thing: it's a failure of imagination, so the revolution is also imagination.
13/n
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2025-11-05 14:08:11 GMT

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I think people (me, I'm people) often forget that organizing isn't phone banks or fundraising... it's scavenger hunts. It's neighborhood mutual aid during the hunger crisis. It's coming together because you love knitting (or D&D or bookclub) and you've got friends and emotional bandwidth...
12/n

2025-11-05 13:56:23 GMT

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we really really (REALLY) are in a moment of great cultural change and now is our chance to create out of nearly whole cloth the world that we want to live in
11/n

2025-11-05 13:45:26 GMT

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Fascists being unable to force the resistance to riot has been clarifying *for both sides*.
Non-violence is the great weapon of every resistance movement.
**there is a reason why all our narratives say it doesn't work**
the only way they can stop us is by convincing us not to resist
10/n

2025-11-05 13:45:11 GMT

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Like... a whole neighborhood running off ICE with nothing but whistles and cursing? It's an *indelible* lesson.
Like...7M people in the streets having an antifa party calling for your ouster? Terrifying to the fash.
9/n

2025-11-05 13:44:54 GMT

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America is determined to re-learn all the lessons the hard way: that democracy is a participation sport, that you will lose every fucking right you don't fight for, that non-violent protest of sufficient quantities of people is fucking terrifying to the fascists.
8/n

2025-11-05 13:15:14 GMT

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(it's more complicated than "just" vote & protest; it's community building, it's radical compassion, it's rediscovering and reclaiming values, it's standing up to defend freedom and science and human rights, it's finding joy and building a world worth fighting for; it's all those things)
7/n

2025-11-05 13:15:02 GMT

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America is broken in ways that can't be patched together.
What's happening, what has to happen, is a *radical restructuring of social relationships*, ie real change.
That's what revolution *is*.
And it's happening (and has to happen) in radically peaceful protests & at the ballot box.
6/n

2025-11-05 13:13:13 GMT

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Trump egging us on with fascist crackdowns, begging for riots to justify *more* state violence really brought some clarity.
The answer *is* "just" voting & protesting. But no one protests to sacrifice *more* human rights. We don't show up at the ballot box to vote for *more* fascist fuckery.
5/n

2025-11-05 13:12:59 GMT

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"Why aren't people doing anything *more*?" I've heard this relentlessly over the last nine months, as if nothing was happening. "Voting and protesting have failed! We should be rioting in the streets!"
But *that* is the lie.
4/n

2025-11-05 13:12:42 GMT

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I'm still furious. With few exceptions (incl Mamdani), Dem leadership has been a catastrophic failure. Every one needs to be primaried.
Yesterday's vote tells them THEY WILL. Yesterday is the people saying "You're gonna take away my ability to hold fascist power to account? I don't think so."
3/n

2025-11-05 13:12:26 GMT

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(throw trans people under the bus! don't talk about climate!, don't talk about Trump!)
...as if that were the solution to fascism.
Elites right and left caved, rushing to serve the regime and take part in the spoils. BUT THE PEOPLE? The people were more furious every day.
2/n

2025-11-05 13:12:08 GMT

It has been clear for the entire fucking eternity since Trump was re-elected that the people were out ahead of the elites on how to react, how to resist, how to fight.
It's been terrifying to watch Dems in power "pivot" to reactionary politics...
1/n

2025-11-05 04:53:11 GMT

well done, friends!!
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2025-11-04 17:52:06 GMT

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SIGNED PAPERBACKS + FOOD DRIVE! #paranormal #romance (my secret spicy penname, revealed for a good cause)
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: https://forms.gle/cKhST45XPmYg2CfV9
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#bookstodon
#SNAP
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2025-11-04 17:47:56 GMT

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Audiobook code giveaway + FOOD DRIVE! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: https://forms.gle/fpg9HY1YdbMDFyMZ9
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, including my spicy romance books!
#bookstodon
#SNAP
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2025-11-04 17:42:31 GMT

I'm running a book giveaway! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk #steampunk
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: https://forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh5YLo9
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#bookstodon
#SNAP
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2025-10-31 12:56:23 GMT

writing some #solarpunk today
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2025-10-30 14:41:42 GMT

PITTSBURGH FRIENDS: this tool is really great for navigating all the myriad options of where to find food in the PGH area. It's sponsored by the PGH food bank but has *all* the resources, large and small. Please share!
https://findfood.pittsburghfoodbank.org/s/
#SNAP

2025-10-30 00:13:43 GMT

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funny story from my purple state of PA (I live in a neighborhood with a lot of Republicans):
climate driven storm knocked power out for like a WEEK
I'm the local eco hippie with solar panels, so I had PLENTY of power.
I set a chair outside my front door with a power strip and a sign that said "FREE POWER"
older guy was gobsmacked how great this was, how "no one is neighborly any more!" and I'm 1000% sure he's a Republican and I'm like 🧐 DUDE I'M A LIB IT'S WHAT WE DO🤣 🌞
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2025-10-30 00:08:29 GMT

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🤞

2025-10-30 00:02:06 GMT

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My kiddo went to Georgia Tech and I can definitely see the "take care of your own" come into play... but even with that, you've got a lot of structural and cultural headwind.
I wish for the south to reclaim that radical history too! Any time you're organizing and working together with folks to take care of each other THAT ALONE is a radicalizing factor, so the more of that, the better.

2025-10-29 23:41:45 GMT

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Blue areas in red states will fare better. That's where people will go if they figure it out (and have transport, which can be a major problem for #SNAP folks).
This is whole thing is a live test of the mutual aid model folks have been talking about/educating people on since the pandemic started.

2025-10-29 23:41:27 GMT

Red states have no conceptual model for this. They're brain rotted on rugged individualism: it's soup kitchen at the church or zip.
Meanwhile,blue state folks are like "let's set up mutual aid at the coffee shop for SNAP folks"
Blue states already mobilizing resources.
Red states gonna starve.
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2025-10-27 14:05:25 GMT

Woke up with tons of ideas for the food drive, "organizer mode" fully activated. More to come.
I encourage everyone to think not just "can I donate/volunteer" but "how can I use *JUST FEED PEOPLE* to..."
1-build community
2-educate about how we care for people
3-fight R propaganda about "the poor"

2025-10-27 02:06:40 GMT

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2025-10-27 01:36:40 GMT

Republicans, faced with the consequences of their own actions (40M Americans stripped of food assistance), are desperate to portray anyone getting SNAP as “lazy”.
Kids. Disable folks. Vets.
40M people are on food assistance because rich fucks are greedy.
Maybe America will see that clearly now.
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2025-10-24 16:11:41 GMT

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Here's an art-thing I made that might brighten your day: a little gothic queer romance adventure solarpunk at the bottom of the sea...short & free!
(part of the *Halfway to Better*collection)
#shortstory #bookstodon #hopepunk
(I'm still in love w/the linocut cover)
https://susankayequinn.com/books/slimy-things-did-crawl
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2025-10-24 13:55:00 GMT

I know things are shitty and hard and the climate is giving people PTSD and Trump is demolishing America (not just the East Wing) but people are still making art and connecting and helping and you need to know...
THAT MATTERS
A LOT
So connect, help, enjoy/make art
be everything the fascists hate
(zine by "leftover lunch loves you" and you can find her work here including some free downloads: https://www.instagram.com/leftoverllunch/ )
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2025-10-21 20:50:32 GMT

FYI
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2025-10-21 00:39:56 GMT

omg I love this
@npub1lwg…pnsr
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2025-10-19 23:36:00 GMT

OMG 🤣💀
https://www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-2096750/4301395639208-jd-vance-s-motorcade-hit-with-shrapnel-after-artillery-mishap-during-celebration-report
"JD Vance's motorcade hit with shrapnel after artillery 'mishap' during celebration: report"
ME, yesterday, before this LMAO:
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2025-10-18 21:24:55 GMT

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100% this
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2025-10-18 21:22:28 GMT

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Also, as suspected, the costumes were out in force! Chickens, unicorns, inflatable-anything-goes...
I love how Portland Frog has given permission for everyone to get creative and have fun with this.
*we need this so bad*
Anyone with a frog suit, hat, or balloon got extra candy from me, just sayin

2025-10-18 20:48:02 GMT

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EVERYONE wanted a picture of Lady Liberty. Many wanted a picture WITH Lady Liberty. Especially kids,but adults too. Lots of pro picture-takers too, probably some press.
I was hoping there'd be another Statue of Liberty...and I was not disappointed! Only pix I have of the protest (hands were full)!
#NoKings
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2025-10-18 20:38:32 GMT

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Tools of the resistance!
Can't tell you how excited people were to get free zines from Lady Liberty. Came up to me, wanted to see the box.
It helped that the zines were labeled, but when Joy and Hope were gone and only Mutual Aid and Movement Building were left, it was kind of ironic commentary!
#NoKings
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2025-10-18 20:31:21 GMT

Pittsburgh #NoKings (one of 3!!), tons of people, kids, grandmas, young and old. Lots of Frog Friends!
Lady Liberty was a big hit—brought 200 zines and gave away every last one—the Hope and Joy zines went fast.
A ton of people took my picture.
Proud of you, PGH.
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2025-10-16 17:01:33 GMT

Bright Green Futures is a podcast + newsletter + website:
—curated list of Hopeful Climate Fiction
—writing-related Climate Non-Fiction
—solarpunk zines
—Bright Green Futures anthology
—Solarpunk Starter Pack
—For Libraries page
#podcast distributes to Spotify, Apple, Youtube, Pocket Casts, and Overcast (& there's a standalone RSS feed).
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/
#climatechange #hopepunk #solarpunk #stories #libraries #zines
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2025-10-15 20:34:52 GMT

There's something truly clarifying when you can't turn AI off unless you pay extra
"disabling AI features is currently available only on the Business plan"

2025-10-13 15:03:30 GMT

My periodic shout into the void:
The only reason why anyone cares about anyone's gender is because the whole of society is based around assigning human rights based on gender (and societal privileges to the "better" genders).*
*terms and conditions apply, worse in some societies than others, but all do this

2025-10-12 12:25:19 GMT

So firing the measles-tracking people at the CDC was a "mistake"
Look.
—it was not a mistake
—it was backlash
—the press collaborates via this "mistake" rhetoric
—it's all designed to make you think you have no power
WE HAVE POWER
Pushing back fucking WORKS
It should be automatic at this point.

2025-10-11 13:53:04 GMT

Hubby:*gets Target gift card from parents of kids he teaches to sail*
Me:Aw, that's so sweet! Also: I'm boycotting Target
Hubby: it's my gift card
Me: You know what Target has right now? That no other place can rival in complexity, vastness, and just aisles & aisles of the stuff?
Hubby:...
Me: CANDY
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2025-10-09 21:03:08 GMT

I'm convinced there are two powerful ways of having impact in the world, only one* of which gets recognized as such:
1 - WRITE STUFF DOWN
2 - PERSIST*
1/n

2025-10-04 20:44:20 GMT

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"Feeding America, a national nonprofit association of food banks and other organizations, estimates that for every meal its food banks provide, SNAP provides nine. "

2025-10-04 20:39:16 GMT

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Do you know who food banks feed?
Kids. Lots and lots of kids.
"Vivian Santiago, 54, pieces together what she can from food-distribution sites across Albuquerque....to feed her daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter...her electronic benefits card isn’t lasting even halfway through the month because of the increase in grocery prices, which have risen nearly 30%"

2025-10-04 20:31:43 GMT

Just fucking FEED PEOPLE.
Cutting food stamps, food banks... the fash are just starving people. I hate it so much.
I've brought half my farm share to the food bank for a couple years but I doubled up this year... because I knew these fuckers would do this.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/

2025-10-04 14:44:04 GMT

It is truly amazing how many people are twelve.
I honestly had no idea.
@veryimportant.lawyer
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2025-10-03 15:19:14 GMT

Our pick for #solarpunk (online) bookclub for October is in! We'll be reading Solarpunk Creatures!
**October 23rd, 8pm ET**
Subscribe to get reminders and Jitsi links! https://www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bookclub
@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social
@singingtotigers.bsky.social
@tashanmehta.bsky.social
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2025-10-03 13:30:44 GMT

**Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit**
AUTHOR FRIENDS: the searchable claims database is up! Make sure you check for your works (and check misspellings of your names, titles, etc, the database is a mess).
TELL YOUR FRIENDS
https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/
The FAQ will answer your questions but I also wrote an editorial about the lawsuit in Sigma (local PGH SFF newsletter): https://parsec-sff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sigma-473-September-2025.pdf
Anyway, check it out!
Sue
#writers #writing #AI
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2025-10-03 12:23:05 GMT

This “loyalty oath” shit the fascists are trying with the universities reminds me of this post I made 7mo ago… and we’re still fucking here.
(Only of course it’s much worse now)
They will not stop until they are stopped.
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2025-10-02 17:29:13 GMT

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“post game interview, how we feeling” LMAO

2025-10-01 16:44:47 GMT

Excellent article by @npub1fdr…lvhs about the AI bubble that's coming (and consuming everything before it pops): "the AI bubble is vastly larger than any other bubble in recent history."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

2025-09-30 02:28:57 GMT

This article is so fucking awesome.
"Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. (The broad embrace of the term slop is a heartening sign..."
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
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2025-09-29 15:24:48 GMT

This whole MedBed thing is super crazy but...it occurs to me that Trump is now using AI videos of himself to make himself sound fluent. On top of everything else, it's super alarming the WH is trying to normalize AI videos of the prez as a substitute for the actual president saying actual words.

2025-09-27 17:02:55 GMT

The world is so surreal, I feel crazy shouting at it, and that's probably not the healthiest reaction but it's the real-est one right now.
Remembering the world doesn't have to be this way exacts a toll.
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