Aki Gibbons
@akigibbons.bsky.social
Writer with roots in Okinawa and California. She/her
Dream-driven flash fiction, eco-fiction and slipstream:
https://open.substack.com/pub/driftingisland
Dream-driven flash fiction, eco-fiction and slipstream:
https://open.substack.com/pub/driftingisland
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An extraordinary ballet of life and death.
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
An extraordinary ballet of life and death.
Looking into Earthships and “biotecture”, I came across this article on touring and sleeping in one in Taos.
newmexicotravelguy.com/taos-earthsh...
newmexicotravelguy.com/taos-earthsh...
Taos Earthships: What It’s Like to Visit — and Spend the Night Off the Grid 🛖 - The New Mexico Travel Guy
Curious about Taos Earthships? Here’s what it’s like to visit Taos, take the tour, and spend the night off-grid — quirks, comfort, and sustainability included.
newmexicotravelguy.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Looking into Earthships and “biotecture”, I came across this article on touring and sleeping in one in Taos.
newmexicotravelguy.com/taos-earthsh...
newmexicotravelguy.com/taos-earthsh...
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Honestly, the pieces are coming together for a series of horrible events - the AI crash combined with a government shutdown and millions of poor and starving people encountering a racist invading federal force.
I think we are but a hair’s breadth away from a vicious civil war.
I think we are but a hair’s breadth away from a vicious civil war.
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Honestly, the pieces are coming together for a series of horrible events - the AI crash combined with a government shutdown and millions of poor and starving people encountering a racist invading federal force.
I think we are but a hair’s breadth away from a vicious civil war.
I think we are but a hair’s breadth away from a vicious civil war.
The reason I started Substack.
Ive just been writing a thing that made me realise how much I miss blogs. Blogs were great! People used to get attention and affirmation for creating amazing stuff! And now you’re all on here going “look at this awful thing that someone awful said/did” instead. What happened to you? Go write a blog!
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The reason I started Substack.
I’m still waiting for this to happen…
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I’m still waiting for this to happen…
“Tech is a speculative industry, money is made not on the product working, being any good or, in many cases, even making it to market. The money is made by making us believe.”
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Pip Finkemeyer
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Pip Finkemeyer
Social media didn’t live up to its promises. So why do we think artificial intelligence will be any better?
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Tech is a speculative industry, money is made not on the product working, being any good or, in many cases, even making it to market. The money is made by making us believe.”
“My friends grew up dreaming of Farrah Fawcett – I dreamt of the Brontë sisters and Mary Shelley.”
- Guillermo del Toro
- Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.
l.euronews.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“My friends grew up dreaming of Farrah Fawcett – I dreamt of the Brontë sisters and Mary Shelley.”
- Guillermo del Toro
- Guillermo del Toro
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nothing left
of the war
except forest
of the war
except forest
September 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
nothing left
of the war
except forest
of the war
except forest
So much has happened, a constant flux and pivoting with no solo time to muse and think.
A lot of life and work and people stuff and very little creative stuff.
And now here we are deep into October.
A lot of life and work and people stuff and very little creative stuff.
And now here we are deep into October.
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So much has happened, a constant flux and pivoting with no solo time to muse and think.
A lot of life and work and people stuff and very little creative stuff.
And now here we are deep into October.
A lot of life and work and people stuff and very little creative stuff.
And now here we are deep into October.
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Written by Haley Harrison.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.
These sacred tattoos were banned in Okinawa. A new generation is bringing them back.
Once worn by nearly every Ryukyuan woman, these intricate hand tattoos were outlawed for over a century.
www.nationalgeographic.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Written by Haley Harrison.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.
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In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I shared the morning of my fortieth birthday. They are now a book of cards:
An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days
In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I ori…
www.themarginalian.org
April 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I shared the morning of my fortieth birthday. They are now a book of cards:
Handcrafted Yomitan pottery, just right for a cappuccino or a small bouquet
April 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Handcrafted Yomitan pottery, just right for a cappuccino or a small bouquet
Beautiful, soul-stirring things are more precious than ever. Flowers on the table and a perennial friendship, handwritten notes and light through leaves. A well tended garden. Innocent laughter of children playing outside. Getting lost in an ancient town. And always the ocean.
April 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Beautiful, soul-stirring things are more precious than ever. Flowers on the table and a perennial friendship, handwritten notes and light through leaves. A well tended garden. Innocent laughter of children playing outside. Getting lost in an ancient town. And always the ocean.
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the size of the world decreasing
rubbing my palms
to shed stiff new jeans
a garter snake
floating over grass
a line
slipping between
lines
fenced in fenced out
round and round
#poetry #micropoetry
rubbing my palms
to shed stiff new jeans
a garter snake
floating over grass
a line
slipping between
lines
fenced in fenced out
round and round
#poetry #micropoetry
March 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
the size of the world decreasing
rubbing my palms
to shed stiff new jeans
a garter snake
floating over grass
a line
slipping between
lines
fenced in fenced out
round and round
#poetry #micropoetry
rubbing my palms
to shed stiff new jeans
a garter snake
floating over grass
a line
slipping between
lines
fenced in fenced out
round and round
#poetry #micropoetry
From the temple to the garden
Participating in the birth of a new media system
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Over five years on, this little beauty is still being borrowed in libraries, for which authors get paid (which is how I know!). You can also get a fresh copy from @saltpublishing.com here
www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...
www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...
March 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Over five years on, this little beauty is still being borrowed in libraries, for which authors get paid (which is how I know!). You can also get a fresh copy from @saltpublishing.com here
www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...
www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...
Frida Kahlo synchronicities
March 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Frida Kahlo synchronicities
Attended an astounding performance by jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano Co. This piece: Hutcheonite. Hearing it played solo on a handcrafted Yamaha grand a few feet away from me was mind blowing. youtu.be/wJNPOw0q5TU?...
March 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Attended an astounding performance by jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano Co. This piece: Hutcheonite. Hearing it played solo on a handcrafted Yamaha grand a few feet away from me was mind blowing. youtu.be/wJNPOw0q5TU?...
Fucking Trump and his clan of losers. So mortified for Zelensky.
March 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Fucking Trump and his clan of losers. So mortified for Zelensky.
Weekend goals: The Brutalist and The Substance
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Weekend goals: The Brutalist and The Substance
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… choose 20 paintings/prints that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting per day for 20 days , in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just paintings/prints.
#blueskyart #art #painting …
Day 10
Nathaniel Russell
No explanations, no reviews, just paintings/prints.
#blueskyart #art #painting …
Day 10
Nathaniel Russell
February 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
… choose 20 paintings/prints that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting per day for 20 days , in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just paintings/prints.
#blueskyart #art #painting …
Day 10
Nathaniel Russell
No explanations, no reviews, just paintings/prints.
#blueskyart #art #painting …
Day 10
Nathaniel Russell
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February 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM