Jill McCabe Johnson
@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social
Writing about nature, science, history, & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief. TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems) last year. LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir) next year. EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press. Here for lit community & Caturday.
Just thinking about a Mensa conference I put on 40 yrs ago. One speaker was a strategist from Microsoft talking about AI, how it was going to replace human intelligence. The arrogance! All AI can do is steal and mimic, not think or create. It was a techboy fantasy then & it’s a techboy fantasy now.
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Just thinking about a Mensa conference I put on 40 yrs ago. One speaker was a strategist from Microsoft talking about AI, how it was going to replace human intelligence. The arrogance! All AI can do is steal and mimic, not think or create. It was a techboy fantasy then & it’s a techboy fantasy now.
Summers will “step back from public commitments” only because no one will want him anyway. This is not accountability, it’s protection.
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
Update from The Harvard Crimson on Summers: he’ll step back from public commitments, but remain in the classroom, continue his directorship of a center, & keep his University Professorship. How is this in any way holding him accountable for his actions? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Summers will “step back from public commitments” only because no one will want him anyway. This is not accountability, it’s protection.
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
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Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
From today’s hike…
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
From today’s hike…
From today’s walk…
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
From today’s walk…
From yesterday’s walk…
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
From yesterday’s walk…
Look who’s signing books at the #PortlandBookFest! The brilliant and inimitable poet, Amanda Hawkins, with their book, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Look who’s signing books at the #PortlandBookFest! The brilliant and inimitable poet, Amanda Hawkins, with their book, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones.
Check out @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social representing at #portlandbookfestival!
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Check out @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social representing at #portlandbookfestival!
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Reposted by Jill McCabe Johnson
Portland is lit for the #portlandbookfestival! Completely sold out!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Portland is lit for the #portlandbookfestival! Completely sold out!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
Portland is lit for the #portlandbookfestival! Completely sold out!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Portland is lit for the #portlandbookfestival! Completely sold out!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
If you’re going, come find Wandering Aengus Press at booth 67, meet our authors and editors, and get lit, too!
Who’s willing to pay me to review neighborhood coffee shops ‘cause I am ready!!!
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Who’s willing to pay me to review neighborhood coffee shops ‘cause I am ready!!!
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm here for the #PortlandBookFest and excited to host our last reading of the year with poets Amanda Hawkins and Christopher Martin tomorrow at 4p Pacific, 7p Eastern.
Join us on Zoom!
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And come find us in person at Booth #67!
Join us on Zoom!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
And come find us in person at Booth #67!
The last reading of our 2025 series will come to you from the Portland Book Festival #portlandbookfestival with poets Christopher Martin & Portland's own Amanda Hawkins.
Please join us on Zoom, Thursday, November 6, 4-5 pm Pacific, 7-8 pm Eastern
Pre-register here:
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Please join us on Zoom, Thursday, November 6, 4-5 pm Pacific, 7-8 pm Eastern
Pre-register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm here for the #PortlandBookFest and excited to host our last reading of the year with poets Amanda Hawkins and Christopher Martin tomorrow at 4p Pacific, 7p Eastern.
Join us on Zoom!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
And come find us in person at Booth #67!
Join us on Zoom!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
And come find us in person at Booth #67!
Oh my heart, this miniature bookstore in progress from @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
Spent the evening assembling this miniature bookstore. TBC.
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Oh my heart, this miniature bookstore in progress from @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
This gets tricky…
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This gets tricky…
Alert:
Humans on the loose after truckload of animals escaped. Take caution. Humans are highly aggressive toward rhesus monkeys.
(CW: Every aspect of this story is beyond disturbing.)
Humans on the loose after truckload of animals escaped. Take caution. Humans are highly aggressive toward rhesus monkeys.
(CW: Every aspect of this story is beyond disturbing.)
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Alert:
Humans on the loose after truckload of animals escaped. Take caution. Humans are highly aggressive toward rhesus monkeys.
(CW: Every aspect of this story is beyond disturbing.)
Humans on the loose after truckload of animals escaped. Take caution. Humans are highly aggressive toward rhesus monkeys.
(CW: Every aspect of this story is beyond disturbing.)
Reposted by Jill McCabe Johnson
Out now: Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 — edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free to download from The Broken Spine website.
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Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 - Eds. David Hanlon & Katie Jenkins (Digital) - The Broken Spine
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 (Digital Edition) Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 brings together bold, contemporary voices from across the globe. Edited by David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, this downloadable...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Out now: Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 — edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free to download from The Broken Spine website.
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Big thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk, @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social & David Hanlon for including my poem in @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social's Autumn 2025 Selected Poetry.
Hope y'all read the whole, beautiful issue!
@lossley.bsky.social this one's for you.
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Hope y'all read the whole, beautiful issue!
@lossley.bsky.social this one's for you.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele...
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Big thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk, @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social & David Hanlon for including my poem in @brokenspinejournal.bsky.social's Autumn 2025 Selected Poetry.
Hope y'all read the whole, beautiful issue!
@lossley.bsky.social this one's for you.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele...
Hope y'all read the whole, beautiful issue!
@lossley.bsky.social this one's for you.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele...
Reposted by Jill McCabe Johnson
COVER REVEAL!
After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!
After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!
COVER REVEAL!
After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!
chrysbuckley.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
COVER REVEAL!
After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!
After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!
Yes, yes, yes! Gender violence is the issue, and it’s worldwide. Misogyny is so deeply entrenched in our psyches, we give abusers a pass and instead villainize whole groups of law-abiding people out of ignorance and fear.
…to create a movement in Western countries to drive out ppl of colour from Western society. The correct thing, for these politicos & v unusual journo, would be to discuss why are at least one fifth of Irish, British, Canadian etc men sexual predators.
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Yes, yes, yes! Gender violence is the issue, and it’s worldwide. Misogyny is so deeply entrenched in our psyches, we give abusers a pass and instead villainize whole groups of law-abiding people out of ignorance and fear.
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
"We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. ... We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.”
--Kenny Loggins
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--Kenny Loggins
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Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone” - Kenny Loggins
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flyin...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. ... We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.”
--Kenny Loggins
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--Kenny Loggins
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No kings except King salmon.
‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
No kings except King salmon.
Really glad I'll be visiting Portland soon for the #PDXBookFest!
City of "love & acceptance!"
@literary-arts.org
City of "love & acceptance!"
@literary-arts.org
Dozens of costumed roller skaters gathered in the south waterfront Thursday night, where they rolled their way down to the ICE building to create an impromptu roller rink and dance party.
"We are full of love & acceptance, and will do everything we can to protect our community and promote love!"
"We are full of love & acceptance, and will do everything we can to protect our community and promote love!"
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Really glad I'll be visiting Portland soon for the #PDXBookFest!
City of "love & acceptance!"
@literary-arts.org
City of "love & acceptance!"
@literary-arts.org