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Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Valero plant reports “flaring.” I’ve never seen that much smoke from flaring.
#houston #houstonfire #houstonsmoke @KHOU @abc13houston @LinaHidalgoTX Image
An industrial accident near my house, a screw in my tire, and a sick kid, this is one hell of a Monday
FUN HOUSTON CONUNDRUM, Discount Tire by Hobby will fix my tire for free cuz that’s where I bought it, but to get there I have to sit in traffic for half an hour directly in the path of a plume of smoke from a burning refinery. 🙃 I hate it here.
Would love to know what air monitors are saying @airallianceHOU

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Feb 7
Name an anti-capitalist picture book
@haymarketbooks when are you starting up a picture book division?
The suggestions so far have at most a vague flavor of anti-capitalist sentiment and are so much less clear & effective & overt than what I wish existed
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Jan 22
I first learned of Thich Nhat Hanh in 2016, during a weeks-long insomnia brought on by the election. My go-to anxiety-coping-mechanism, drinking, was not available because I was pregnant. I was watching ASMR to try to fall asleep, when I came across one of his guided meditations/
That video had a profound, calming effect on me. At that point, I don't think I had ever, in my adult life, fully inhabited the present moment. Not sober. I could get there stoned, but not on my own. In fact, I'd never really understood what people meant by "being present" /
Pregnant, terrified about *handwave* all I foresaw when Trump won the election and what my kid's future would be like, and unable to use chemical coping mechanisms to deal with anxiety, I started watching every Thich Nhat Hanh video I could find, reading a dozen of his books/
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Jan 22
For those arguing that this isn’t a thing, consider that even though Don’t Look Up was supposedly a blistering satire about COVID and/or climate change, it mentioned neither COVID nor climate change.
Naming a few best-selling authors as exceptions is not the dunk you think it is. I know there are exceptions and clifi gets published sometimes—my whole career is an exception. And I’ve also run into many publishing professionals who will point blank tell you “don’t write this.”
This article came out a month ago: google.com/amp/s/www.lati…
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Jan 21
Traditional publishing says don’t put COVID in your stories. No climate change either.

But that means our “contemporary” stories are set in a fantasy alternate reality that gets farther and farther away from the real world every day.
This is the idea thats haunting me most after talking “Art at the End of the World” with @MaryHeglar @amywestervelt and @lyta_gold last night. Podcast will be up next week!
Art is there to make sense of our world and help process collective trauma. Let us process!
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Dec 9, 2021
One of the most ethically and politically loaded aspects of writing speculative fiction is just describing how a character perceives another human being they’ve never met. So much world building is packed into every choice you make there.
Do people assume others’ genders on sight? Binary genders? Do they ascribe pronouns to this person immediately? When rendering physical descriptions will your character assume and name race or ethnicity or avoid stating them outright? What do your choices reveal about this world?
And it gets even more complex if your character finds this other character “attractive” on first sight. What beauty standards are involved there, and what does that reveal about the culture of your world, and your character’s role in it?
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Nov 4, 2021
It scares me when I see liberals assume that the CRT fight is bound to backfire. McCarthyism successfully suppressed-the-hell out of glaring, powerful truths, leading to a 70-yr of attrition of worker's rights & labor power, turning basic socialist concepts into boogeymen.
"How can you ban teaching truth? How can you ban conversations about the fundamental power dynamics that make sense of our history and present?" Uhhhhh....yeah, remember how our media tells us that providing medical care or family leave are "radical leftist positions"? Like that.
There are liberals in this U.S. who genuinely consider themselves progressive, who lick Elon Musk's boots and spit at Bernie Sanders. The amount of coordinated suppression of socialist thought that it's taken to achieve a populace like that for these oligarchs...I mean, hats off
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