We revealed the cover for SEEDS FOR THE SWARM yesterday, so I now have 2 books available for preorder! Pick your poison—YA anticapitalist scifi or Adult SFFH short stories arcing from severely dystopian to solarpunk fantasies. Don’t they look pretty together? Links in🧵
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Cli-fi author & enviro journalist, DEPART, DEPART!, REAL SUGAR IS HARD TO FIND, SEEDS FOR THE SWARM they/them rep: Mstdn: simkern@writing.exchange
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Never forget that it wasn’t just the book. It was the dehumanizing marketing for it as well
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This wouldn't be possible without the support of the book community! What an amazing community we are. Let's finish this together! #hcponstrike
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This is part of the Latino settler colonial project in Brazil. Lands like the Yanomami's are reservations, demarcated and protected Indigenous lands with special regulation. However, cartels of mining, logging, agrobusiness use gov't oversight/support to steal Indian lands. 5/
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Experts advice boiled down to: Homeowners who can afford it should switch to an induction or electric stove. For renters and others who can’t replace their appliances, the experts provided tips on lowering the health risks.
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"find a safe group of friends to vent about bad reviews to" is much more actionable advice than piling on with yet another "lol u shouldn't be an author if u care what people think" or "why did u even become an author if negative feedback affects you"
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No greater proof of the problem with policing and that we live in a police state than having police officers shooting and killing protestors because they want to create a Cop City where they can “practice being police”
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If your environmental organization cannot denounce the murder of a forest defender, it should not exist.
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I've developed a short explanation to try to help the patients I see understand the danger of COVID-19. I tell them, "COVID infects the lining of your blood vessels. That's how it can damage any part of your body and why people have so many different types of complications."
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Real Sugar is Hard to Find by – My first read of 2023 & a gripping short story collection that feels very fitting to share today. Exploring intersections of climate change, reproductive justice, queer identities, & family trauma. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1b7a51
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Sad. All Utah trans bills heard yesterday just passed their senate. This would be a gender affirming care ban, a birth certificate ban under 18, and a forced outing bill.
They will move to the Utah house.
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If you do one thing today, read this powerful piece about Tortuguita, the protester murdered in Atlanta as part of a coordinated campaign of state terror against the movement against the construction of Cop City.
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Breaking news: the Aurora Police Department has re-hired Matthew Green, the officer who threatened Elijah McClain with his police dog during the stop that led to the young man's death.
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Georgia police killed a #StopCopCity protester two days ago, and arrested 7 more––charging them with domestic terrorism. Their combined bond amount to be released is $117k.
Can you donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to help bail them out?
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We’ve been getting some asks about this, so we wanted to clarify: we’re requesting that submissions, reviews, & freelance work are withheld from all parts of HarperCollins US, regardless of imprint, until we get a fair contract to minimize union work performed without us
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If you'd like to make sure and know about this latest equipment failure and the resulting pollution, this meeting on Jan. 26 would be a good place to do it.
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Yesterday, after equipment failed, TPC Group's Houston plant, looming over in the East End, burned chemicals for about 2 hours — including >205 pounds of cancer-causing 1,3-butadiene, the chemical their Port Arthur plant leaked for months after a 2019 explosion. 🧵
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Literally the media coverage on trans people right now.
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It’s now easier than ever to donate to our strike fund—no more checks!
We’re so grateful to those who‘ve donated as we put our paychecks and careers on hold to get a fair contract.
Continued support is more critical than ever. Donate below! ❤️
📚📕givebutter.com/HCPstrike?lt_u 📕📚
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A massive Christian conservative political trust invested $.5 million to a ranching cartel to help advertise their “regenerative” methods.
Except there are no methods. They’re literally just taking ranches and calling them regenerative. Pure greenwashing by Civil Eats:
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In an industry dominated by a handful of large meatpacking companies, member-owned @CNBeef has plans to document its ranchers’ practices and encourage a shift toward more regenerative practices. @ce_tracey reports. civileats.com/2023/01/10/can
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Sending out more projects this week, but not to editors at . We support the strike. It's going to suck when Harper realizes they have big holes in their '24-5 lists & it'll to cost them SO MUCH $$$ to fill instead of just paying employees a living wage!
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You cannot quote MLK while your workers are still on strike and you refuse to come to the bargaining table. MLK was pro union and worker's right.
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Today, we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who continues to inspire us to dream and march forward without limits.
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Don't forget about our Bookshop page!
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It’s a great day to kick off your reading resolutions (or simply let go of all shelf control 
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The career of an author is a strange beast and it is rarely what most people perceive it to be from the outside or what is happening on the surface. This has been on my mind a lot lately, for very personal reasons. So I guess I'm going to write about that a bit.
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Consider that the reason you think gas stoves are superior to electric is because A) the oil industry has paid massively to create that belief and B) maybe the last time you used an electric stove was a shitty, 30-yr-old coil-element one
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Jeffrey Dahmer victim’s mother, Shirley Hughes, suggests that Evan Peters’ #GoldenGlobes win is dangerous:
"There's a lot of sick people around the world. People winning acting roles from playing killers keeps the obsession going and this makes sick people thrive on the fame."
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How wonderful to see this featured! Thanks for sharing, Jeff!
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Great to see my local librarsy system featuring @sim_kern's Depart Depart when I logged on yesterday! Note to my fellow straight white men...spaces we take for granted as safe are simply not for so many people. Pick up a copy today, mine came from Island Books in WA.
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I need everyone who is hurting and scared of all these anti trans bills to know: this is the opening salvo meant to scare you.
In time, committee meetings will come.
I’ll post beautiful video of testimony.
So many bills will die.
We will celebrate our wins.
Keep heart,
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This is insane.
Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its Covid vaccine.
It only costs $2.85 to make.
Taxpayers paid 100% of Moderna’s Covid vaccine development.
We paid $2,500,000,000.
This is the people’s vaccine. Shame into changing course.
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Love this interview with in 's Culture Study on , the ongoing strike, and why it matters so, SO much: "And all the while, profits skyrocket, while the people who do all that work struggle to meet their most basic, human needs."
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I’m really excited to read “Seeds for the Swarm,” forthcoming by ! Near-future, queer, Texas climate fiction about teenagers resisting the corporations that profit from destroying the world. Hopeful! Timely! Punk! I can’t wait.
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