Bugs, A Skittery, Jittery History 2024 @MiriamForster
MiriamForster almost everywhere, mostly on 💙🗾 these days. Pelagian heretic, chronic retweeter and writer.miriamforster.com Occupied Chinook land, PNWJoined March 2009
There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA.
There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD.
At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how they brainwash people into believing that state brutality is not only normal, but deserved.
A group of scientists is looking into a longshot approach to getting these minerals- using seaweed to pull these minerals from the water, then isolating the minerals from the seaweed! Pretty cool!
Read this article from @hakaimagazine to learn more here! hakaimagazine.com/news/what-the-…
@leahmcelrath There has been no country in modern history that has deliberately slaughtered children this way and made them primary targets. Even in totalitarian states or conflict zones. Interview below:
@leahmcelrath There has been no country in modern history that has deliberately slaughtered children this way and made them primary targets. Even in totalitarian states or conflict zones. Interview below:
You can tell from the reactions that outside of general issues and societal norms
Someone specific went out of their way to make them feel ugly/ unwanted
I wish those people specifically hell because look at the beauty
You can tell from the reactions that outside of general issues and societal norms
Someone specific went out of their way to make them feel ugly/ unwanted
I wish those people specifically hell because look at the beauty
I know there’s a lot happening and a lot of demands on people’s funds, but Locus is a truly important part of our SF genre. I’ve been depending on it for information since, oh, around 2009 or so. AND it’s run by the coolest people! If you love SF, please support Locus!
I know there’s a lot happening and a lot of demands on people’s funds, but Locus is a truly important part of our SF genre. I’ve been depending on it for information since, oh, around 2009 or so. AND it’s run by the coolest people! If you love SF, please support Locus!
Except Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the Land O Lakes Native woman aren’t real people. They were characters created by white people to pander to racist white peoples stereotypes about indigenous and African Americans. They’re racist caricatures.
Except Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the Land O Lakes Native woman aren’t real people. They were characters created by white people to pander to racist white peoples stereotypes about indigenous and African Americans. They’re racist caricatures.
Good endings this, bad endings that. No!
The @baldursgate3 choices are
“Instead of a Dark Lord you will have a Queen, great and terrible as the Dawn!”
Vs
“I will diminish and go into the west and remain Galadriel.”
And I think that’s very nerd-sexy of them personally.
BUGS: A SKITTERY, JITTERY HISTORY by @MiriamForster received a star from Kirkus!
⭐️"Aspiring entomologists, paleontologists, and artists won’t want to miss this one."
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A longtime online friend @sassycrass has passed away. She was funny and kind and so smart. I cited her in my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. She was ahead of so many in figuring out social trends and often did not get credit. Shafiqah Hudson, you were great and you deserved better.
Going back to bed cause still sick as f***, but Abrams is having a 40% off Valentine’s Day sale!!!
You can use code Love40 and get Bugs a Skittery Jittery History on its release day!
Kirkus gave it a starred review!
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From @MiriamForster and @gordyjwright comes BUGS: A SKITTERY, JITTERY HISTORY! Learn all about bugs in this epic nonfiction picture book that’s perfect for anyone who loves to discover more about the world around them! Grab a copy today! #BookBirthdaybit.ly/49yNiiR
Bugs: A Skittery, Jittery History is out today! 🎉
Written by @MiriamForster & illustrated me. This epic book follows bugs and their cousins from their earliest appearance in the Paleozoic era up through today
🐞🪲🐌🦋🐛🦟🪰🪱🐜🦗🪳🕷️🦂🐝
More info here:
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If you wonder why a nation with the PR expertise and infrastructure of Israel is not doing a better job managing what comes out of Gaza from their own forces: consider they did a cost/benefit analysis and do not see any danger from letting all of us see this.
Here’s the thing, you can be
Against Hamas
Against killing of Palestinians
Against killing of Israelis
Against anti-Semitism
Against Islamophobia
Against hostage taking
Against arbitrary detentions
Against occupation
Against displacement
Against rockets &bombardment
ALL at once
The influencers who have been helping drive the massive spike in right wing antisemitism are now bulking up their followings by pivoting to pro-Palestine posts aimed at the left. This is an audience that could easily be pulled down the rabbit hole of antisemitic content.
The influencers who have been helping drive the massive spike in right wing antisemitism are now bulking up their followings by pivoting to pro-Palestine posts aimed at the left. This is an audience that could easily be pulled down the rabbit hole of antisemitic content.
A representative body overwhelmingly composed of Christians just passed a resolution that declares anti-Zionist Jews are antisemitic, which seems incredibly antisemitic
A representative body overwhelmingly composed of Christians just passed a resolution that declares anti-Zionist Jews are antisemitic, which seems incredibly antisemitic
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