Notices by Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (susankayequinn@wandering.shop), page 4

Grab 'em while they're still free!

#solarpunk #hopepunk #climatefiction #climateCrisis #ClimateSolutions

GET THE STORIES HERE: https://susankayequinn.com/series/halfway-to-better

I will never forgive the AI companies for wounding the world this way.

Always nice to see this at the top of the charts!

Open Minds (Mindjack #1)

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

https://susankayequinn.com/series/mindjack

#YA #dystopian #SF #Scifi #books @bookstodon

"A smiling, accomplished biracial woman not only makes for a perfect symbol of the joyous mission of multiracial democracy, especially given that she has assumed the role of saving democracy. Her foil is a sour-faced criminal whining about how everything is “rigged” against him.

Kamala Harris, and the believers in America’s experiment of self-governance who she now represents, may indeed have the last laugh."

#HarrisWalz2024

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/10/the-weird-and-sexist-criticism-of-kamalas-cackle-decoding-how-harris-got-the-last-laugh/

"Move purposefully and fix things"

#Harris2024 #election2024 #MastodonForHarris

@seanbala to me (and I've said this on the pod), we're all co-creating solarpunk together, so
I'm not (and really no one is) the arbiter of "what solarpunk is" — and I just as often call what I write (and hold up on the pod) "hopeful climate fiction" —I'm very uninterested in genre battles in general, but definitely with this. What matters is the work.
@solarpunkpresents

A woman stopped at my book table. She was interested in my hopeful climate fiction & mentioned she makes her own clothes. I told her I had a favorite t-shirt but it was too baggy—I could sew a straight line but I was afraid I’d ruin it.

She proceeds to give me a step-by-step tutorial on how to tailor my shirt without fear &how to avoid mistakes. I totally think I can do it now.

I gave her a book in exchange for this valuable information.

I think it’s the most #solarpunk thing I’ve ever done.

She's the only candidate with any real legitimacy, including being on the ticket when people voted in the primaries. Everyone *should* back her as nominee.*

I will back whoever is the nominee, but I sure as hell hope it's Harris & she's the undisputed nominee & the "major donors" don't decide they want someone else.

*forcing out Joe was a hell of a risk & I'm still mad, but we need to BE LIKE FRANCE & pull together an unprecedented coalition to beat back the fascists.

And quit fucking around.

When Trump was elected, I read Thomas Snyder's On Tyranny: he said DO NOT SURRENDER TO THE TYRANT IN ADVANCE.

I thought, "Well, yes, of course. RESIST."

Then I watched, horrified, as people rushed to surrender to the tyrant in advance.

WTAF

No

Tyrants are ALWAYS less powerful than they seem & rely on people rushing to surrender. You'll always have boot-lickers, but the folks who RESIST have the most power. Cuz they refuse to give up the power they have.

That changes everything.

#VOTE

@JonChevreau @KathyLK @benroyce @burnoutqueen @todwest @Sassinake @GrimmReality

The ones who incite political violence are *always* surprised when it gets pointed at them.

@KathyLK @benroyce @burnoutqueen @todwest @Sassinake @GrimmReality

I also feel it's important to point out that none of this hurts Trump—fascism isn't hurt by violence and the fear it inspires, that's their entire modus. They incite it because fearful people turn to a strongman. It gives them power. Even more now that he's survived this attempt. So, in a very real sense, they don't care if it backfires, if they eat their own, if they call for hanging their own... they always benefit from it.

@MichaelEMann

This graph haunts me but the media can't even say the words "climate change"

@pearbear@social.overlappingmagisteria.org

SLIMY THINGS DID CRAWL is one of Many Books' "May 2024 Book of the Month" which reminds me to tell you that you can download this short #solarpunk story about undersea mining for free!

https://susankayequinn.com/books/slimy-things-did-crawl

https://manybooks.net/articles/books-of-the-month-may-2024
#hopepunk #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ocean #mining #ClimateFiction #ShortStories

Nice work. No notes.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

Supply chains are breaking (again), Norway is stockpiling grain, the Great Plains aquifer is apparently drying up, and COVID is in a summer surge that no one's talking about.

This is fine.

#climatechange

My stories on my website:
https://susankayequinn.com

*Latest #solarpunk*

Halfway to Better (short story collection)—print, ebook, audio
https://susankayequinn.com/series/halfway-to-better

#clifi #novel #series: a 2050 world of #ClimateCrisis, turtle bots & an intrepid power engineer!
https://susankayequinn.com/series/nothing-is-promised-on-audiobook

My #solarpunk story IT'S IN THE BLOOD in Reckoning.
https://reckoning.press/reckoning-8/

PODCAST: Bright Green Futures, stories to build a better world
https://www.BrightGreenFutures.wtf

From 2019, which tells you how slow this narrative is to change....

TO BE CLEAR: I'm in favor of fighting oil&gas industry AND reimagining a future where we reduce, reuse, repair, rewild&more. A BETTER future—one worth fighting for.

We have to change how the whole planet works, including not letting the rich/oil/gas industry burn it to the ground. Resist, opt-out, work for change.

Your piety doesn't matter.
Your activism does.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal

"Creative destruction!" now a literal description of the tech industry.

29 min: https://youtu.be/yUoj9B8OpR8

@seanbala I’m on writing retreat this week so things are *exceptionally* well :) I hope you enjoy the pod!

@seanbala This comment made me happy. Thank you for posting it. :)