Jessica Reisman

your moment of calm: sea potatoes! potatoes of the sea!

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A digital collage (not AI) from four years ago just as a moment's refreshment on the timeline.

From my new piece on the trash fire:

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Pood!

Stop Saying America Has Always Been Like This Even if it's true, you're not helping

Follow-up essay to my last few concerning an easy narrative that shuts down the energy to resist:

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HB, you! 🌞

Streets twist and buildings wedge into unlikely shapes to avoid the trees. Any tree hosting enough creatures counts as a dwelling and cannot be removed without permission from its inhabitants. The squirrels rarely allow that. Who lives in the tree outside your door?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

Adopt A Rent — Stand With Minnesota Adopt the rent of a family impacted by the ICE occupation in Minneapolis

Stand With Minnesota is out of donors for Adopt A Rent, and we currently have way more rent needs than we can cover!

Want to directly support a MN immigrant family in urgent need to help keep them safe and housed?

Fill out our form here: standwithminnesota.com/adoptarent

Thank you! 💐

Sarah, Tim and JVL Went to See Minneapolis for Themselves YouTube video by The Bulwark

I really really want the world to know that *those federal fuckers have not left*. They are changing tactics. More disguises. Smaller tactical pairs. Smarter tactics.

Reposts welcome, but more importantly share this with folks NOT on Bsky who think we are safe.

youtu.be/5l7JuNrrD6I

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW:
Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

Humans are a tragedy and a trauma; we have been since our beginnings. We are also an opportunity and a beauty, like the rest of nature. But for fuck's sake, why can't we get rid of the fascist murdering ugly damned greedy racist shites.

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Strike on Iranian primary school kills 148, authorities say Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation

The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets?
And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there.
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I'm so sorry, Wendy.

Photograph: Lottie, our own Sprocker Spaniel, with a copy of A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale. The art is by Wendy Froud, best known for her work as a puppet designer for The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, various Muppet movies, etc., as well as the creator of Yoda for Star Wars. Proceeds from this auction will help the good word of Sprocker Assist & Rescue. You can bid from anywhere in the world; we're happy to mail the signed book anywhere.

The Sprocker Spaniel Assist & Rescue's fund-raising auction is now live. I've donated a 1st edition copy of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S FAERY TALE: a children's book by me (story), Wendy Froud (art), & Brian Froud (design), signed by all three of us. www.jumblebee.co.uk/sprockerassi... (Lot #73)

Just remember that you don't have to stare into the doom rectangle all day to be aware of what's going on. You're not a bad person for taking a break.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Being able to drive as ourselves and use the correct bathroom are essential to basic everyday life — they aren't privileges afforded to only people who aren't transgender.

We're suing the state of Kansas.

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Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

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Things I have been grieving The loss of usefulness in my hands, to sores and pain and the slow curl into claws as tendons thicken, harden skin turning to stone The animals, leaving, killed by us with their habitats, the black hole we have planted in the heart of nature, our planet, our own lives The horror humans visit not just on other animals, but on each other The way I feel pointless when my writing feels unvalued, unwanted, the long-tended, striven for, nurtured writing career, moribund And knowing that I will never see you again © Jessica Reisman 2020

Wrote this in 2020. Still rings true tones in me. But also, I know there are lights shining through; there are always lights shining through.

Hey! Guys, I write a series on Reactormag called SFF Bestiary. Have you written a book, sff or f, that features aliens based on earth animals? We're on cats now. Would love some new reads. Can't promise to feature them all, but let us know about your book. Every little bit helps.

Think I might need to write a story with these four, actually.

Fancy unicorns
Striped frogs
Fire demons
Tree ghosts

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