Discovereuse
@discovereuse.bsky.social
Avid gardener, reader of literary speculative fiction
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FOLKS
January 26, 2026 at 10:50 PM
FOLKS
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Unclench your jaw.
Relax your brow.
Go get a drink of water.
See if you've taken your meds
Eat something.
Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.
Because you do.
You're a wonderful person.
And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
Relax your brow.
Go get a drink of water.
See if you've taken your meds
Eat something.
Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.
Because you do.
You're a wonderful person.
And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Unclench your jaw.
Relax your brow.
Go get a drink of water.
See if you've taken your meds
Eat something.
Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.
Because you do.
You're a wonderful person.
And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
Relax your brow.
Go get a drink of water.
See if you've taken your meds
Eat something.
Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.
Because you do.
You're a wonderful person.
And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
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Today’s moment of calm. Take a deep breath and count to seven. Then enjoy my Chorus of Wrens Singing in the Peas
January 23, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Today’s moment of calm. Take a deep breath and count to seven. Then enjoy my Chorus of Wrens Singing in the Peas
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I keep being annoyed at past me for not having an Oxford dream.
January 19, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I keep being annoyed at past me for not having an Oxford dream.
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PSA: misinformation campaigns are doubling down on Minneapolis and St. Paul right now and you need to get a LOT more skeptical about things you’re posting.
Ask yourself: Is it from a highly reputable source? What makes it “reputable?” Are people I know offline/in trusted orgs talking about this?
Ask yourself: Is it from a highly reputable source? What makes it “reputable?” Are people I know offline/in trusted orgs talking about this?
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
PSA: misinformation campaigns are doubling down on Minneapolis and St. Paul right now and you need to get a LOT more skeptical about things you’re posting.
Ask yourself: Is it from a highly reputable source? What makes it “reputable?” Are people I know offline/in trusted orgs talking about this?
Ask yourself: Is it from a highly reputable source? What makes it “reputable?” Are people I know offline/in trusted orgs talking about this?
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One of the reasons that trees are the longest-lived organisms is their remarkable ability to rebuild after stress or injury. This bur oak, growing in a woodland pasture, was struck by lightning more than 50 years ago. It has built a new crown and is growing with vigor.
January 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
One of the reasons that trees are the longest-lived organisms is their remarkable ability to rebuild after stress or injury. This bur oak, growing in a woodland pasture, was struck by lightning more than 50 years ago. It has built a new crown and is growing with vigor.
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THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 8:30 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
January 8, 2026 at 11:35 PM
THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 8:30 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
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Love this story about traditional ecological knowledge and stingless beekeeping in Peru! news.mongabay.com/2026/01/im-p...
‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees
In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a traditional Amazonian fermented beverage. Every day, she would boil and mash ...
news.mongabay.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Love this story about traditional ecological knowledge and stingless beekeeping in Peru! news.mongabay.com/2026/01/im-p...
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I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.
Have needle. Have thread. Have scraps of paper. Have free will. Have made a notebook.
January 2, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.
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Moby looking at some snowflakes this morning.
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Moby looking at some snowflakes this morning.
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Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.
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For any children (or kids at heart) interested in Solstice, eerie fiction or both...
BBC World Service has a great 12-part audio adaptation by Simon McBurney and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising
Start on Midwinter Eve (tomorrow)...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service has a great 12-part audio adaptation by Simon McBurney and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising
Start on Midwinter Eve (tomorrow)...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - The Dark Is Rising
A young boy’s time-travelling fight against ancient evil
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
For any children (or kids at heart) interested in Solstice, eerie fiction or both...
BBC World Service has a great 12-part audio adaptation by Simon McBurney and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising
Start on Midwinter Eve (tomorrow)...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service has a great 12-part audio adaptation by Simon McBurney and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising
Start on Midwinter Eve (tomorrow)...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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Happy Winter Solstice everyone!!!
May this day bring comfort, joy, good food and fun with loved ones. 💙🩵💜
May this day bring comfort, joy, good food and fun with loved ones. 💙🩵💜
December 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Happy Winter Solstice everyone!!!
May this day bring comfort, joy, good food and fun with loved ones. 💙🩵💜
May this day bring comfort, joy, good food and fun with loved ones. 💙🩵💜
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Handy thread!
Vegetarians! Vegans! Anyone who enjoys cooking! Here's a thread of recipes for the veggie / vegan dishes I cook regularly and which have helped me massively cut down on the amount of meat I eat these days. First, a cheap, easy., quick dal which *everyone* should be able to cook:
Cheap, Easy, Quick Dal
This is my basic recipe for dal – it’s the one I cook when I need a fresh pot of dal quickly. Ingredients: 300g split red lentils 900 ml water 1 medium / large white onion diced 6 ̵…
alomshaha.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Handy thread!
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while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March
just saying
just saying
Ursula K. Le Guin — The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March
just saying
just saying
Highly recommended avocado slices in ramen with cilantro and basil
December 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Highly recommended avocado slices in ramen with cilantro and basil
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Great to see IPA Founder Dean Karlan featured in @vox.com's Future Perfect 25.
A powerful reminder that evidence, cost-effectiveness, and impact must stay at the center of development efforts.
Read the full feature: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
A powerful reminder that evidence, cost-effectiveness, and impact must stay at the center of development efforts.
Read the full feature: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The 6 big thinkers reshaping foreign aid, masculinity, and development
Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Thinkers
www.vox.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Great to see IPA Founder Dean Karlan featured in @vox.com's Future Perfect 25.
A powerful reminder that evidence, cost-effectiveness, and impact must stay at the center of development efforts.
Read the full feature: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
A powerful reminder that evidence, cost-effectiveness, and impact must stay at the center of development efforts.
Read the full feature: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature
Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature
The British-Turkish writer was elected after a vote among the society’s fellows, with outgoing president Bernardine Evaristo describing her selection as ‘terrifically inspired’
Novelist Elif Shafak has been named the new president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), taking over from Bernardine Evaristo as she reaches the end of her four-year term.
British-Turkish writer Shafak, the author of novels including The Island of Missing Trees and There Are Rivers in the Sky, was announced in the role on Friday after a vote among fellows at the society’s AGM on Thursday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature
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I taught my students about these pairs of words in English. I said they wouldn't be tested on them - a lot of adults don't know about them! But they're so cool:
horror/horrid
stupor/stupid
vapor/vapid
rigor/rigid
fervor/fervid
humor/humid
squalor/squalid
liquor/liquid
valor/valid
tumor/tumid
...
horror/horrid
stupor/stupid
vapor/vapid
rigor/rigid
fervor/fervid
humor/humid
squalor/squalid
liquor/liquid
valor/valid
tumor/tumid
...
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I taught my students about these pairs of words in English. I said they wouldn't be tested on them - a lot of adults don't know about them! But they're so cool:
horror/horrid
stupor/stupid
vapor/vapid
rigor/rigid
fervor/fervid
humor/humid
squalor/squalid
liquor/liquid
valor/valid
tumor/tumid
...
horror/horrid
stupor/stupid
vapor/vapid
rigor/rigid
fervor/fervid
humor/humid
squalor/squalid
liquor/liquid
valor/valid
tumor/tumid
...
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fetor/fetid
torpor/torpid
turgor/turgid
pallor/pallid
fulgor/fulgid
candor/candid
languor/languid
tepor/tepid
Some of these are super rare, but a lot are common!
If you can think of some, please add!
torpor/torpid
turgor/turgid
pallor/pallid
fulgor/fulgid
candor/candid
languor/languid
tepor/tepid
Some of these are super rare, but a lot are common!
If you can think of some, please add!
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
fetor/fetid
torpor/torpid
turgor/turgid
pallor/pallid
fulgor/fulgid
candor/candid
languor/languid
tepor/tepid
Some of these are super rare, but a lot are common!
If you can think of some, please add!
torpor/torpid
turgor/turgid
pallor/pallid
fulgor/fulgid
candor/candid
languor/languid
tepor/tepid
Some of these are super rare, but a lot are common!
If you can think of some, please add!
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This is welcome news for Utah’s information ecosystem. A healthy democracy relies on informed citizens, and removing the paywall means more Utahns will have access to rigorous reporting about their government and communities.
🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune:
🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune:
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is welcome news for Utah’s information ecosystem. A healthy democracy relies on informed citizens, and removing the paywall means more Utahns will have access to rigorous reporting about their government and communities.
🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune:
🔗 The Salt Lake Tribune:
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And if you turn it off you don't even get simple spellcheck anymore. You know, the kind that has been around since the 90s and definitely does not need AI.
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And if you turn it off you don't even get simple spellcheck anymore. You know, the kind that has been around since the 90s and definitely does not need AI.