Emily R. Houk
@embley-hulk.bsky.social
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Final countdown for The Saintly Hollows kickstarter. We've secured EU- and UK-friendly shipping, and all stretch goals are unlocked.
Come for the stolen moon, stay for the cursed swords and behemoth knight machine. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
Come for the stolen moon, stay for the cursed swords and behemoth knight machine. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows
Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Final countdown for The Saintly Hollows kickstarter. We've secured EU- and UK-friendly shipping, and all stretch goals are unlocked.
Come for the stolen moon, stay for the cursed swords and behemoth knight machine. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
Come for the stolen moon, stay for the cursed swords and behemoth knight machine. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
It's so absurd how this administration is ostensibly looking for ways to encourage people to have more children. Have they tried, oh, I don't know, not taking away our health insurance? Or not making everything even more expensive?? blarg.
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's so absurd how this administration is ostensibly looking for ways to encourage people to have more children. Have they tried, oh, I don't know, not taking away our health insurance? Or not making everything even more expensive?? blarg.
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He IS a predator! You don't need the quotes! He's a big old obligate carnivore boy!
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
He IS a predator! You don't need the quotes! He's a big old obligate carnivore boy!
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So excited to share the Kickstarter for Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows, my ongoing tabletop RPG collaboration with @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social. We have so much fun writing these, and people seem to like playing them too. #osr #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows
Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.
www.kickstarter.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So excited to share the Kickstarter for Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows, my ongoing tabletop RPG collaboration with @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social. We have so much fun writing these, and people seem to like playing them too. #osr #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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So happy to report that The Naming Song has won the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction.
Grateful to the judges for including my work in such excellent company, to the booksellers and librarians for their support, and to the woods and weird corners of Massachusetts for always being close.
Grateful to the judges for including my work in such excellent company, to the booksellers and librarians for their support, and to the woods and weird corners of Massachusetts for always being close.
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So happy to report that The Naming Song has won the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction.
Grateful to the judges for including my work in such excellent company, to the booksellers and librarians for their support, and to the woods and weird corners of Massachusetts for always being close.
Grateful to the judges for including my work in such excellent company, to the booksellers and librarians for their support, and to the woods and weird corners of Massachusetts for always being close.
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The Valley Bookstore Crawl ends in 3 days. Pick up a passport at one of these 7 bookstores (or download at link), get it stamped at each store, have a ton of fun, and one lucky reader wins $350 in gift cards — $50 at each store!
highfivebooks.org/pages/pvbc25
Next year: even more bookstores.
highfivebooks.org/pages/pvbc25
Next year: even more bookstores.
August 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Valley Bookstore Crawl ends in 3 days. Pick up a passport at one of these 7 bookstores (or download at link), get it stamped at each store, have a ton of fun, and one lucky reader wins $350 in gift cards — $50 at each store!
highfivebooks.org/pages/pvbc25
Next year: even more bookstores.
highfivebooks.org/pages/pvbc25
Next year: even more bookstores.
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Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a famous mythological creature who can’t believe you got his coffee order wrong
May 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a famous mythological creature who can’t believe you got his coffee order wrong
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You know who could read out the identities of every ICE agent and put that paperwork in the public record? Literally any Congressperson
May 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
You know who could read out the identities of every ICE agent and put that paperwork in the public record? Literally any Congressperson
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For those with ME/CFS/LC: I have personal experience of post-viral syndromes (plural). While they're all different there are commonalities. Here are some things that help me. They might help you, they might not, but it seemed worth sharing. Do consult your medical professional. And much luck 💕
Some thoughts on post-viral syndromes
I have long, personal experience of post-viral syndromes, plural. There are some things that helped me—not cures, but mitigations.
nicolagriffith.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For those with ME/CFS/LC: I have personal experience of post-viral syndromes (plural). While they're all different there are commonalities. Here are some things that help me. They might help you, they might not, but it seemed worth sharing. Do consult your medical professional. And much luck 💕
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"Thanks" to Am*zon, we've added a "new" "feature"! In addition to never using DRM to ensure you don't own the ebooks you buy AND never selling AI-generated chum disguised as literature, NOW Weightless will never, ever use AI to "summarize" aka ruin the 100% human-made art you came here to enjoy!
It's amazing how Amazon finds a new way to be hostile toward authors like every other week.
are authors talking about this at all? i do not want AI summarizing my books!! techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/a...
April 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Thanks" to Am*zon, we've added a "new" "feature"! In addition to never using DRM to ensure you don't own the ebooks you buy AND never selling AI-generated chum disguised as literature, NOW Weightless will never, ever use AI to "summarize" aka ruin the 100% human-made art you came here to enjoy!
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On a walk through the hills this morning...
"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other." - Rebecca Solnit (from Wanderlust: A History of Walking)
"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other." - Rebecca Solnit (from Wanderlust: A History of Walking)
April 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
On a walk through the hills this morning...
"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other." - Rebecca Solnit (from Wanderlust: A History of Walking)
"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other." - Rebecca Solnit (from Wanderlust: A History of Walking)
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Update! UMass-Amherst's faculty senate is now on board!!
Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts:
1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country
2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts
Read and spread widely!!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...
Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts:
1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country
2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts
Read and spread widely!!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...
April 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Update! UMass-Amherst's faculty senate is now on board!!
Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts:
1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country
2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts
Read and spread widely!!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...
Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts:
1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country
2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts
Read and spread widely!!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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if you're out of state, worth contacting to say you won't be visiting / spending tourist $$ in nyc if you can't safely take public transportation
March 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
if you're out of state, worth contacting to say you won't be visiting / spending tourist $$ in nyc if you can't safely take public transportation
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Musk is not popular, and arresting him for vote-buying isn’t going to make him more popular, it forces the issue into the public eye in a way that makes him look bad
March 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Musk is not popular, and arresting him for vote-buying isn’t going to make him more popular, it forces the issue into the public eye in a way that makes him look bad
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This is good news. It's a wonderful book.
The UK edition of The Naming Song is out today from @titanbooks.bsky.social 🚂🖤👹 www.waterstones.com/book/the-nam...
The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry | Waterstones
Buy The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This is good news. It's a wonderful book.
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At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.
March 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.
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Part of what's so frustrating about this is that it's been really challenging to get the word out about this book. I spent over a decade writing it, so to come upon a weirdly positive review of a COMPLETELY IMAGINARY NOVEL I DID NOT WRITE is just kind of upsetting.
WTF. So I've got "AI" stealing my work on one side, and meanwhile it looks like a widely circulated review of my novel was written by a chatbot, featuring COMPLETELY INVENTED SETTINGS, CHARACTERS, and PLOTLINES?
March 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Part of what's so frustrating about this is that it's been really challenging to get the word out about this book. I spent over a decade writing it, so to come upon a weirdly positive review of a COMPLETELY IMAGINARY NOVEL I DID NOT WRITE is just kind of upsetting.
A positive review...of a book that doesn't actually exist. Anyone who glanced at the first pages of the Naming Song would know that this review is completely unrelated to the actual book. I guess it's a review of what a chatbot thinks a book called The Naming Song would be about. WTF is right.
WTF. So I've got "AI" stealing my work on one side, and meanwhile it looks like a widely circulated review of my novel was written by a chatbot, featuring COMPLETELY INVENTED SETTINGS, CHARACTERS, and PLOTLINES?
March 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A positive review...of a book that doesn't actually exist. Anyone who glanced at the first pages of the Naming Song would know that this review is completely unrelated to the actual book. I guess it's a review of what a chatbot thinks a book called The Naming Song would be about. WTF is right.
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If anyone on here works at Politics & Prose or other bookstores that are scheduled to host Chuck Schumer, I have a proposal—if you cancel his event, I would pledge to buy a book of equal value or make a donation to make sure you didn’t lose revenue—and I bet a lot of others would too.
March 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If anyone on here works at Politics & Prose or other bookstores that are scheduled to host Chuck Schumer, I have a proposal—if you cancel his event, I would pledge to buy a book of equal value or make a donation to make sure you didn’t lose revenue—and I bet a lot of others would too.
UGH, please go make public comments about this
The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours.
OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow.
Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art
OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow.
Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art
Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...
www.federalregister.gov
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
UGH, please go make public comments about this
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CFP: Always Here | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents
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CFP: Always Here | MEMOs
Binghamton University's Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies brings together those studying premodern non-binary gender, trans identities, & queerness
memorients.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
CFP: Always Here | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents
memorients.com/events/cfp-a...
memorients.com/events/cfp-a...
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this is a long shot, but science/ecology people: if you know of a Catskills-centered research project that is threatened or stalled out by the federal clampdown on science and grant funding, I am very interested to know
thinking ecology research but community health? anything place based
thinking ecology research but community health? anything place based
January 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
this is a long shot, but science/ecology people: if you know of a Catskills-centered research project that is threatened or stalled out by the federal clampdown on science and grant funding, I am very interested to know
thinking ecology research but community health? anything place based
thinking ecology research but community health? anything place based