Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn.bsky.social
Spec Fic author | PhD Environmental Engr | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I write hopeful climate fiction and solarpunk.
Host: Bright Green Futures podcast
https://linktr.ee/susankayequinn
"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes."🔨
Working on a novel about families and plants.
I write hopeful climate fiction and solarpunk.
Host: Bright Green Futures podcast
https://linktr.ee/susankayequinn
"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes."🔨
Working on a novel about families and plants.
definitely struggling (these guys never actually pay a price for long)
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
definitely struggling (these guys never actually pay a price for long)
wondering if the 🔨(hammer icon) in my profile will be appropriately interpreted as Luddite iconography and not that I'm suddenly in the building trades
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
wondering if the 🔨(hammer icon) in my profile will be appropriately interpreted as Luddite iconography and not that I'm suddenly in the building trades
The most successful industrialists—the ones the Luddites fought—were the ones willing to be the most brutal.
It repulsed people, even then.
The story "progress requires brutality" has been repeated endlessly since.
That's what we have to break: THE STORY
Anyway FUCK AI
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
It repulsed people, even then.
The story "progress requires brutality" has been repeated endlessly since.
That's what we have to break: THE STORY
Anyway FUCK AI
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The most successful industrialists—the ones the Luddites fought—were the ones willing to be the most brutal.
It repulsed people, even then.
The story "progress requires brutality" has been repeated endlessly since.
That's what we have to break: THE STORY
Anyway FUCK AI
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
It repulsed people, even then.
The story "progress requires brutality" has been repeated endlessly since.
That's what we have to break: THE STORY
Anyway FUCK AI
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
The starkness of the bare-limbed trees is matching my mood today.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The starkness of the bare-limbed trees is matching my mood today.
ah ok, that explains it
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
ah ok, that explains it
I like this idea (from @brianbeutler.bsky.social ) — make the consequence off the fucking scale of what they expect
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I like this idea (from @brianbeutler.bsky.social ) — make the consequence off the fucking scale of what they expect
honest to god, this is the first time since Trump was re-elected that I feel like we have an actual strategy
like... not that we're organized or anything (or even need be) but this FEELING is instant and obvious and I fully expect to see it happen everywhere
like... not that we're organized or anything (or even need be) but this FEELING is instant and obvious and I fully expect to see it happen everywhere
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
honest to god, this is the first time since Trump was re-elected that I feel like we have an actual strategy
like... not that we're organized or anything (or even need be) but this FEELING is instant and obvious and I fully expect to see it happen everywhere
like... not that we're organized or anything (or even need be) but this FEELING is instant and obvious and I fully expect to see it happen everywhere
hell yeah
HELL YEAH
People voting to defend their neighbors, just like they're doing food drives to feed their neighbors and using whistles and organizing and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS to defend their neighbors.
This is America rejecting Trump's brutality.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQxhjgn...
HELL YEAH
People voting to defend their neighbors, just like they're doing food drives to feed their neighbors and using whistles and organizing and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS to defend their neighbors.
This is America rejecting Trump's brutality.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQxhjgn...
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
hell yeah
HELL YEAH
People voting to defend their neighbors, just like they're doing food drives to feed their neighbors and using whistles and organizing and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS to defend their neighbors.
This is America rejecting Trump's brutality.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQxhjgn...
HELL YEAH
People voting to defend their neighbors, just like they're doing food drives to feed their neighbors and using whistles and organizing and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS to defend their neighbors.
This is America rejecting Trump's brutality.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQxhjgn...
not linking to the NYT whenever possible
there is no surprise about this anymore
we, as a culture, as a people, need to stop lionizing horrible men and stop giving them power
STRUCTURALLY
#TaxTheRich is just one way to disempower them
We also need to send them to jail (& their corrupt enablers)
there is no surprise about this anymore
we, as a culture, as a people, need to stop lionizing horrible men and stop giving them power
STRUCTURALLY
#TaxTheRich is just one way to disempower them
We also need to send them to jail (& their corrupt enablers)
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
not linking to the NYT whenever possible
there is no surprise about this anymore
we, as a culture, as a people, need to stop lionizing horrible men and stop giving them power
STRUCTURALLY
#TaxTheRich is just one way to disempower them
We also need to send them to jail (& their corrupt enablers)
there is no surprise about this anymore
we, as a culture, as a people, need to stop lionizing horrible men and stop giving them power
STRUCTURALLY
#TaxTheRich is just one way to disempower them
We also need to send them to jail (& their corrupt enablers)
filed under
Fascists Metaphors Write Themselves
Fascists Metaphors Write Themselves
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
filed under
Fascists Metaphors Write Themselves
Fascists Metaphors Write Themselves
The tech in my near-future cli-fi already exists or is next-logical-step—intentionally.
Tech won't save us, the climate crisis is a social problem, but getting clever w/the tech we have is 100% the way
Real Life🐢🤖 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#solarpunk novel susankayequinn.com/books/when-y...
2/n
Tech won't save us, the climate crisis is a social problem, but getting clever w/the tech we have is 100% the way
Real Life🐢🤖 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#solarpunk novel susankayequinn.com/books/when-y...
2/n
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The tech in my near-future cli-fi already exists or is next-logical-step—intentionally.
Tech won't save us, the climate crisis is a social problem, but getting clever w/the tech we have is 100% the way
Real Life🐢🤖 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#solarpunk novel susankayequinn.com/books/when-y...
2/n
Tech won't save us, the climate crisis is a social problem, but getting clever w/the tech we have is 100% the way
Real Life🐢🤖 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#solarpunk novel susankayequinn.com/books/when-y...
2/n
TURTLE BOT!🐢📖📚
I love when something from one of my books shows up in real life! Like Grade 10 student Evan from Ontario 🇨🇦 who built an eco-monitoring turtle bot!
(The mystery in my #solarpunk novel involves a missing sea turtle bot)
1/n
#climatechange #turtle #climatefiction #hopepunk #climatesky
I love when something from one of my books shows up in real life! Like Grade 10 student Evan from Ontario 🇨🇦 who built an eco-monitoring turtle bot!
(The mystery in my #solarpunk novel involves a missing sea turtle bot)
1/n
#climatechange #turtle #climatefiction #hopepunk #climatesky
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
TURTLE BOT!🐢📖📚
I love when something from one of my books shows up in real life! Like Grade 10 student Evan from Ontario 🇨🇦 who built an eco-monitoring turtle bot!
(The mystery in my #solarpunk novel involves a missing sea turtle bot)
1/n
#climatechange #turtle #climatefiction #hopepunk #climatesky
I love when something from one of my books shows up in real life! Like Grade 10 student Evan from Ontario 🇨🇦 who built an eco-monitoring turtle bot!
(The mystery in my #solarpunk novel involves a missing sea turtle bot)
1/n
#climatechange #turtle #climatefiction #hopepunk #climatesky
meanwhile, the monster gets spooked
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
meanwhile, the monster gets spooked
Mindjack is really two trilogies, the first about Kira's story and the second about Zeph's.
Zeph's story is darker, written in the turbulent times after the first Trump election. There... might be a lot of political commentary in there /js
#YA #SF #booksky
susankayequinn.com/books/locked...
Zeph's story is darker, written in the turbulent times after the first Trump election. There... might be a lot of political commentary in there /js
#YA #SF #booksky
susankayequinn.com/books/locked...
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Mindjack is really two trilogies, the first about Kira's story and the second about Zeph's.
Zeph's story is darker, written in the turbulent times after the first Trump election. There... might be a lot of political commentary in there /js
#YA #SF #booksky
susankayequinn.com/books/locked...
Zeph's story is darker, written in the turbulent times after the first Trump election. There... might be a lot of political commentary in there /js
#YA #SF #booksky
susankayequinn.com/books/locked...
It may be that I've thought through this whole "mindreading" thing more than the average bear, given I wrote six books about mindreaders and Mindjackers 🤣 ⚡
susankayequinn.com/series/mindj...
susankayequinn.com/series/mindj...
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It may be that I've thought through this whole "mindreading" thing more than the average bear, given I wrote six books about mindreaders and Mindjackers 🤣 ⚡
susankayequinn.com/series/mindj...
susankayequinn.com/series/mindj...
this energy
always www.instagram.com/reel/DQpuPMR...
always www.instagram.com/reel/DQpuPMR...
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
this energy
always www.instagram.com/reel/DQpuPMR...
always www.instagram.com/reel/DQpuPMR...
This Pittsburgh Lit Fest looks awesome! My books will be at the pop-up bookstore, and I'll be checking out the pitch sessions and other authors — I already see @aanpress.bsky.social and @bfbzine.bsky.social!
Nov 16, 2-8pm Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) PA
#booksky
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
Nov 16, 2-8pm Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) PA
#booksky
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This Pittsburgh Lit Fest looks awesome! My books will be at the pop-up bookstore, and I'll be checking out the pitch sessions and other authors — I already see @aanpress.bsky.social and @bfbzine.bsky.social!
Nov 16, 2-8pm Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) PA
#booksky
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
Nov 16, 2-8pm Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) PA
#booksky
www.scribblehousepgh.com/litfest/
...and then you have space to talk about the revolution, plan the revolution, **be the revolution.**
Mamdani is incredibly helpful as an example of what that looks like but that's the entire thing: it's a failure of imagination, so the revolution is also imagination.
13/n
Mamdani is incredibly helpful as an example of what that looks like but that's the entire thing: it's a failure of imagination, so the revolution is also imagination.
13/n
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
...and then you have space to talk about the revolution, plan the revolution, **be the revolution.**
Mamdani is incredibly helpful as an example of what that looks like but that's the entire thing: it's a failure of imagination, so the revolution is also imagination.
13/n
Mamdani is incredibly helpful as an example of what that looks like but that's the entire thing: it's a failure of imagination, so the revolution is also imagination.
13/n
AUDIOBOOK CODES + FOOD DRIVE! #paranormal #romance (my secret spicy penname)
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/4ymjnWvDLKov...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/4ymjnWvDLKov...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
AUDIOBOOK CODES + FOOD DRIVE! #paranormal #romance (my secret spicy penname)
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/4ymjnWvDLKov...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/4ymjnWvDLKov...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
SIGNED PAPERBACKS + FOOD DRIVE! #paranormal #romance (my secret spicy penname, revealed for a good cause)
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/cKhST45XPmYg...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/cKhST45XPmYg...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
SIGNED PAPERBACKS + FOOD DRIVE! #paranormal #romance (my secret spicy penname, revealed for a good cause)
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/cKhST45XPmYg...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
1 -Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 -submit receipt here: forms.gle/cKhST45XPmYg...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, incl #hopepunk #cyberpunk
#booksky
#SNAP
Audiobook code giveaway + FOOD DRIVE! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/fpg9HY1YdbMD...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, including my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/fpg9HY1YdbMD...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, including my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Audiobook code giveaway + FOOD DRIVE! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/fpg9HY1YdbMD...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, including my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/fpg9HY1YdbMD...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for more book giveaways, including my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
I'm running a book giveaway! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk #steampunk
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm running a book giveaway! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk #steampunk
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
TIME TO VOTE, Pennsylvania!
Show your anger at this Republican shitshow! Vote to retain judges that Rs are trying to unseat, ESPECIALLY RETAIN THE PA SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
Higher traffic that I'm used to seeing (esp off year). PLUS I met a township council member I'm voting for outside the poll!
Show your anger at this Republican shitshow! Vote to retain judges that Rs are trying to unseat, ESPECIALLY RETAIN THE PA SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
Higher traffic that I'm used to seeing (esp off year). PLUS I met a township council member I'm voting for outside the poll!
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TIME TO VOTE, Pennsylvania!
Show your anger at this Republican shitshow! Vote to retain judges that Rs are trying to unseat, ESPECIALLY RETAIN THE PA SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
Higher traffic that I'm used to seeing (esp off year). PLUS I met a township council member I'm voting for outside the poll!
Show your anger at this Republican shitshow! Vote to retain judges that Rs are trying to unseat, ESPECIALLY RETAIN THE PA SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
Higher traffic that I'm used to seeing (esp off year). PLUS I met a township council member I'm voting for outside the poll!
PA doing its part to discourage the transition to a clean energy system! I'm sure it has nothing to do with this fossil-fuel-heavy state being last in clean energy adoption!
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
PA doing its part to discourage the transition to a clean energy system! I'm sure it has nothing to do with this fossil-fuel-heavy state being last in clean energy adoption!
