we sometimes forget but we have access to a wealth of information and education unparalleled in human history. any sufficiently enterprising person can learn to cook, fire a bow and arrow, butcher their own meat, dissolve bones in a bathtub, etc
The guy who invented being a jester:
For Pride, why not buy my Elgin-nominated poetry collection, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY? It contains my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings,” and many other poems on queerness and Deep Time.
Azn: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
Itch: dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
Update: through generous donations, we knocked the amount needed by 6/19 in 9 days to $500. We're within shooting distance of paying off April rent. Please share or donate.
Melon Kuma, a terrifying hybrid of a melon and a bear, is a character from Yubari City in Hokkaido, and was inspired by wild brown bears destroying melon patches in the area. He visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building today.
I'm 2 fountain pen ink cartridges into a new side project, I spilled a beverage allll over my doom pile yesterday, and I'm rereading The Convenience Store by the Sea by Soniko Machida. Also, Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You's mini episodes are excellent.
The Sound of Trying to Remember
by Vinita Agrawal
art by Romie Stott @romiesays.bsky.social
"This is no book. It is a library
built inside a single cell."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...