K Jack (they/he)
@acathemic.bsky.social
Graduate student in English ☆ interested in outer space, anti-colonialism, speculative fiction, & cultures of science ☆
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April 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Readers, writers and editors nominating for writing awards in 2025: please consider ‘Loving Safoa’ (Neon Hemlock Press novella) and “Undrowned Histories: A Retrospective Reading of The Deep (2019) and Flowers for the Sea (2021)” (Interstellar Flight Mag essay).
#awardseligibility #SFF
#awardseligibility #SFF
December 14, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Readers, writers and editors nominating for writing awards in 2025: please consider ‘Loving Safoa’ (Neon Hemlock Press novella) and “Undrowned Histories: A Retrospective Reading of The Deep (2019) and Flowers for the Sea (2021)” (Interstellar Flight Mag essay).
#awardseligibility #SFF
#awardseligibility #SFF
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What’s that supposed to achieve exactly?
CVS, Anthem, other big corporations remove executive photos from their websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting
Days after Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York, the leadership webpages for a number of insurance companies have been edited to hide personal information.
www.fastcompany.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:02 AM
What’s that supposed to achieve exactly?
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CALL FOR PAPERS
"Caribbean Literatures and the Environment"
Deadline 1 Dec. 2024
Topics: oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2024/06/call...
"Caribbean Literatures and the Environment"
Deadline 1 Dec. 2024
Topics: oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2024/06/call...
Call for Papers: Caribbean Literatures and the Environment
Journal of Modern Literature Call for Papers Caribbean Literatures and the Environment Topics addressed may include oceanic literature; l...
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:09 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Caribbean Literatures and the Environment"
Deadline 1 Dec. 2024
Topics: oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2024/06/call...
"Caribbean Literatures and the Environment"
Deadline 1 Dec. 2024
Topics: oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2024/06/call...
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Hello it has been five days. This is SO DESPERATE. MAI HASN’T SEEN HER KIDS IN WEEKS.
Can we get TEN €10 matches? Quote when you match to keep it going.
Give: tiny.cc/HelpMai
(And if you give €10+ I will send you my book! Submit your receipt here: tiny.cc/DivyaShop)
Can we get TEN €10 matches? Quote when you match to keep it going.
Give: tiny.cc/HelpMai
(And if you give €10+ I will send you my book! Submit your receipt here: tiny.cc/DivyaShop)
We have been stuck here for like three days. I can’t tell you how scary this is given the urgent situation.
Truly anything helps.
tiny.cc/HelpMai
Truly anything helps.
tiny.cc/HelpMai
Still 240 left, and I think we can still do it TODAY.
Are we serious people?
Can we get this campaign out of stagnation?
And help Mai reunite with her kids?
tiny.cc/HelpMai
Are we serious people?
Can we get this campaign out of stagnation?
And help Mai reunite with her kids?
tiny.cc/HelpMai
November 20, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Hello it has been five days. This is SO DESPERATE. MAI HASN’T SEEN HER KIDS IN WEEKS.
Can we get TEN €10 matches? Quote when you match to keep it going.
Give: tiny.cc/HelpMai
(And if you give €10+ I will send you my book! Submit your receipt here: tiny.cc/DivyaShop)
Can we get TEN €10 matches? Quote when you match to keep it going.
Give: tiny.cc/HelpMai
(And if you give €10+ I will send you my book! Submit your receipt here: tiny.cc/DivyaShop)
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Hi all, I created a Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Studies starter pack. This is for the academic study of SFFH :) The list is still tiny as I don't know who is here. Please let me know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu
go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu
November 13, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Hi all, I created a Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Studies starter pack. This is for the academic study of SFFH :) The list is still tiny as I don't know who is here. Please let me know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu
go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu
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The myth of universities being a bastion of liberalism is something conservatives are perpetuating so that they can attack universities with anti-intellectualism, when the actual tea is that universities collude with fascism to suppress dissent & conservatism is deeply entrenched in them.
April 19, 2024 at 2:23 PM
The myth of universities being a bastion of liberalism is something conservatives are perpetuating so that they can attack universities with anti-intellectualism, when the actual tea is that universities collude with fascism to suppress dissent & conservatism is deeply entrenched in them.
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Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot
What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...