David Archer
@davidetc.bsky.social
36 trillion cells trying to get some rest. he/him
Musician, writer, bookseller, etc. based in Haida Gwaii. #pwME
I like boosting solutions. Better ways and amazing people are all around. www.davidarcher.net
Musician, writer, bookseller, etc. based in Haida Gwaii. #pwME
I like boosting solutions. Better ways and amazing people are all around. www.davidarcher.net
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Shoshannah Greene's 6x6" piece 'Light Switch' goes for $2500!
November 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Shoshannah Greene's 6x6" piece 'Light Switch' goes for $2500!
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
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When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
My favourite book this year, glad it’s getting recognition!
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a Time Magazine “Must-Read Book of the 2025”, 🥰.
I’m pleased that they at least said the genre is “hard to pin down” (that’s an understatement because the novel contains multitudes).
Full list here: time.com/collections/...
I’m pleased that they at least said the genre is “hard to pin down” (that’s an understatement because the novel contains multitudes).
Full list here: time.com/collections/...
'Death of the Author' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My favourite book this year, glad it’s getting recognition!
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In 2015, a man commented "looks great!" on a picture of a cake his niece had baked, and that is the last normal thing anyone has said on the internet.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In 2015, a man commented "looks great!" on a picture of a cake his niece had baked, and that is the last normal thing anyone has said on the internet.
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LOVE THIS IDEA!
Canada-focused social media platform Gander Social has raised over $1 million through the first phase of its equity crowdfunding campaign. betakit.com/gander-socia... #cdnpoli
Canada-focused social media platform Gander Social has raised over $1 million through the first phase of its equity crowdfunding campaign. betakit.com/gander-socia... #cdnpoli
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
LOVE THIS IDEA!
Canada-focused social media platform Gander Social has raised over $1 million through the first phase of its equity crowdfunding campaign. betakit.com/gander-socia... #cdnpoli
Canada-focused social media platform Gander Social has raised over $1 million through the first phase of its equity crowdfunding campaign. betakit.com/gander-socia... #cdnpoli
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It’s #WorldPneumoniaDay. Here is my #SciArt lung #embroidery, she breathed (2018) with a poem about ease of breath stitched between the bronchi.
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s #WorldPneumoniaDay. Here is my #SciArt lung #embroidery, she breathed (2018) with a poem about ease of breath stitched between the bronchi.
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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I had my doubts about the new weather warning Haida Gwaii received yesterday (coastal flooding) - but damn they were correct. Highway is currently closed
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I had my doubts about the new weather warning Haida Gwaii received yesterday (coastal flooding) - but damn they were correct. Highway is currently closed
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One minor take-away from the NYC mayor's race for those concerned with AI/synthetic media and its effects on politics and elections might be that, in this particular instance, the guy who made a malicious deepfake lost and the guy who made authentic videos won.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
One minor take-away from the NYC mayor's race for those concerned with AI/synthetic media and its effects on politics and elections might be that, in this particular instance, the guy who made a malicious deepfake lost and the guy who made authentic videos won.
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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America's Mayor is an American Muslim Immigrant.
That's it. That's the post. Carry on.
That's it. That's the post. Carry on.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
America's Mayor is an American Muslim Immigrant.
That's it. That's the post. Carry on.
That's it. That's the post. Carry on.
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Dusenbery highlights the astonishing underfunding of conditions that affect more women than men.
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Dusenbery highlights the astonishing underfunding of conditions that affect more women than men.
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EIC Kelly has a new poetry chapbook out with Bottlecap Press! It's a collection about her lupus. If you feel like supporting a chronically ill writer and editor, here's a link to purchase: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
Paperback copies are $10 each, and digital PDFs are $3.50 each.
Paperback copies are $10 each, and digital PDFs are $3.50 each.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
EIC Kelly has a new poetry chapbook out with Bottlecap Press! It's a collection about her lupus. If you feel like supporting a chronically ill writer and editor, here's a link to purchase: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
Paperback copies are $10 each, and digital PDFs are $3.50 each.
Paperback copies are $10 each, and digital PDFs are $3.50 each.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Sephiroth, Lelouche Von Maincharacter, and the Catbus showing up to tell AI to knock it off.
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sephiroth, Lelouche Von Maincharacter, and the Catbus showing up to tell AI to knock it off.
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When you have an invisible disability, people accuse you of faking.
When you’re visibly disabled, too many people—and I’m talking here in my darling blue city of Seattle—treat you w/ contempt.
And it costs SO much more to be #disabled.
This is all part of how disabled people become unhoused:
When you’re visibly disabled, too many people—and I’m talking here in my darling blue city of Seattle—treat you w/ contempt.
And it costs SO much more to be #disabled.
This is all part of how disabled people become unhoused:
As legislative attacks on unhoused people ramp up, disabled people are on the front lines. Sources told me they are terrified of being rounded up and forced into a detention camp, as Trump promises to make those part of his administration's legacy.
Escalating Anti-Homeless Policies Fall Hardest on Disabled People in the US
As legislative attacks on unhoused people ramp up, disabled people are on the front lines.
newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
When you have an invisible disability, people accuse you of faking.
When you’re visibly disabled, too many people—and I’m talking here in my darling blue city of Seattle—treat you w/ contempt.
And it costs SO much more to be #disabled.
This is all part of how disabled people become unhoused:
When you’re visibly disabled, too many people—and I’m talking here in my darling blue city of Seattle—treat you w/ contempt.
And it costs SO much more to be #disabled.
This is all part of how disabled people become unhoused:
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4.8 GW of grid flexibility from batteries and virtual power plants! $1.5 to modernize and expand public transit! Fantastic news out of Illinois!
Last night, Illinois passed two of the biggest pro-climate laws of 2025
In the final day of session, lawmakers voted for $1.5B in annual transit funding and passed the Clean & Reliable Grid Act
By passing these pro-affordability, pro-climate bills, they've shown what’s possible when states lead 🧵
In the final day of session, lawmakers voted for $1.5B in annual transit funding and passed the Clean & Reliable Grid Act
By passing these pro-affordability, pro-climate bills, they've shown what’s possible when states lead 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
4.8 GW of grid flexibility from batteries and virtual power plants! $1.5 to modernize and expand public transit! Fantastic news out of Illinois!
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- first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?"
- second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vc7f4oafdgxsihk4cry2xpze/bafkreig5uzy6ezdmsey5ykembgorvrvib52jmdtskvbwgkv3vuccpks534@jpeg)
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Food is a right, not a privilege.
We know many members of our reading community, including our bookselling partners, will be impacted ❤️ Here's how to help, and where to find help.
We know many members of our reading community, including our bookselling partners, will be impacted ❤️ Here's how to help, and where to find help.
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Food is a right, not a privilege.
We know many members of our reading community, including our bookselling partners, will be impacted ❤️ Here's how to help, and where to find help.
We know many members of our reading community, including our bookselling partners, will be impacted ❤️ Here's how to help, and where to find help.