Kate Schaefer
@kateschaefer.bsky.social
She/her. Everything is more complicated than that. I volunteer with Carl Brandon Society, Clarion West, Otherwise. I walked Hadrian's Wall a few years ago. I read a lot. I sew a lot. I garden a little. My grandchildren are old enough to vote. I digress.
Did I ever get around to recommending this fabulous (in all senses) story by Chris Willrich in Beneath Ceaseless Skies?
It's a story about stories and about a library and the idea of libraries and the way a person needs a good book to live in.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...
It's a story about stories and about a library and the idea of libraries and the way a person needs a good book to live in.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library by Chris Willrich
“Oh, no, not at all. I have not retired, and neither have my informants. My informants are dead. I am a necromancer, grandchild. The pool of possible spies is far larger among the dead than the living...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Did I ever get around to recommending this fabulous (in all senses) story by Chris Willrich in Beneath Ceaseless Skies?
It's a story about stories and about a library and the idea of libraries and the way a person needs a good book to live in.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...
It's a story about stories and about a library and the idea of libraries and the way a person needs a good book to live in.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...
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But imagine what would happen to a capitalist society if we were outraged at the condition of every unhoused person we came across. If the very fact of poverty in the face of wealth drove us apoplectic with rage. What would happen to white supremacy if white people saw black people as… people?
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
But imagine what would happen to a capitalist society if we were outraged at the condition of every unhoused person we came across. If the very fact of poverty in the face of wealth drove us apoplectic with rage. What would happen to white supremacy if white people saw black people as… people?
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Get that coffee ready! Applications for our 2026 Novel Writing Workshop close tomorrow night (11/13).
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Get that coffee ready! Applications for our 2026 Novel Writing Workshop close tomorrow night (11/13).
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
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This affects the ebook of my mythic realist novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. If you want to get the ebook, you can order it directly from the @subpress.bsky.social here. It's about a family who may be refugees from another reality, living in Calcutta.
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This affects the ebook of my mythic realist novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. If you want to get the ebook, you can order it directly from the @subpress.bsky.social here. It's about a family who may be refugees from another reality, living in Calcutta.
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
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Retweeting for astronomy feed.
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If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Retweeting for astronomy feed.
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Interested in learning materials to prepare undergraduate students for working with pathogens and pathogen data? I’m hosting a small curriculum development sprint/workshop. Industry/clinical and educators needed.
Please share. Apply by November 28, 2025
dnalc.cshl.edu/pdn-2026-wor...
Please share. Apply by November 28, 2025
dnalc.cshl.edu/pdn-2026-wor...
Call for Applications: Pathogen Data CUREs—Curriculum Development Workshop
dnalc.cshl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Interested in learning materials to prepare undergraduate students for working with pathogens and pathogen data? I’m hosting a small curriculum development sprint/workshop. Industry/clinical and educators needed.
Please share. Apply by November 28, 2025
dnalc.cshl.edu/pdn-2026-wor...
Please share. Apply by November 28, 2025
dnalc.cshl.edu/pdn-2026-wor...
I used this link to verify that my ballot had been received and counted. It's easy to check!
This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I used this link to verify that my ballot had been received and counted. It's easy to check!
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Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
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On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
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Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
otherwiseaward.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
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Some actual great news in the midst of ... everything else.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Some actual great news in the midst of ... everything else.
It continues to be time to donate to support food banks.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It continues to be time to donate to support food banks.
Today I saw my neighbor Jeff out clearing storm drains all over our neighborhood, many blocks away from his own house. I applaud neighbor Jeff and his public-spirited efforts!
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Today I saw my neighbor Jeff out clearing storm drains all over our neighborhood, many blocks away from his own house. I applaud neighbor Jeff and his public-spirited efforts!
I've emailed my two senators.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I've emailed my two senators.
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President Harry S. Truman was so disgusted upon hearing about the treatment of Black soldiers in World War II that he desegregated the Armed Forces.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
President Harry S. Truman was so disgusted upon hearing about the treatment of Black soldiers in World War II that he desegregated the Armed Forces.
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16/ "[The memorial] allegedly evaded Trump's executive order to halt policies promoting diversity and inclusion." /end
Sources:
🔹 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
🔹 blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
🔹 web.archive.org/web/20250720...
Sources:
🔹 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
🔹 blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
🔹 web.archive.org/web/20250720...
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
16/ "[The memorial] allegedly evaded Trump's executive order to halt policies promoting diversity and inclusion." /end
Sources:
🔹 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
🔹 blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
🔹 web.archive.org/web/20250720...
Sources:
🔹 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
🔹 blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
🔹 web.archive.org/web/20250720...
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15/ He says: "In March, a complaint against the [American Battle Monuments Commission] appeared on the website of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative American think tank."
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
15/ He says: "In March, a complaint against the [American Battle Monuments Commission] appeared on the website of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative American think tank."
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14/ Professor Kees Ribbens, senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, says that the removal appears to be the result of a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which is currently the focus of controversy over anti-Semitism.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
14/ Professor Kees Ribbens, senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, says that the removal appears to be the result of a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which is currently the focus of controversy over anti-Semitism.
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13/ "Not only did they play a crucial role in the construction of the cemetery in Margraten, 172 of them also received their final resting place there."
8,000 Americans lie at Margraten, which also commemorates 1,700 still missing.
8,000 Americans lie at Margraten, which also commemorates 1,700 still missing.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
13/ "Not only did they play a crucial role in the construction of the cemetery in Margraten, 172 of them also received their final resting place there."
8,000 Americans lie at Margraten, which also commemorates 1,700 still missing.
8,000 Americans lie at Margraten, which also commemorates 1,700 still missing.
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12/ He calls the lack of attention paid to Black liberators "truly insufficient," and notes: "Approximately 12.5 percent of the American liberators were of African-American descent." His organisation had campaigned for their recognition, which had been lacking for decades.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
12/ He calls the lack of attention paid to Black liberators "truly insufficient," and notes: "Approximately 12.5 percent of the American liberators were of African-American descent." His organisation had campaigned for their recognition, which had been lacking for decades.
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11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.
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10/ A second panel was dedicated to telephone engineer George H. Pruitt, who died on June 10, 1945, while trying to save a comrade who had fallen into a river.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
10/ A second panel was dedicated to telephone engineer George H. Pruitt, who died on June 10, 1945, while trying to save a comrade who had fallen into a river.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.
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9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
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8/ Wiggins says that the gravedigging was so traumatising that no one talked during the day, except for the few who would pray over the graves and some who quietly cried.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
8/ Wiggins says that the gravedigging was so traumatising that no one talked during the day, except for the few who would pray over the graves and some who quietly cried.