Elder African penguins are living their best life at the New England aquarium in Boston.

#FreeToRead

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/science/penguin-retirement-home-aquarium.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.2bDe.BPFR3hVFTtIm&smid=nytcore-android-share

#FreeToRead article from our latest special issue! Xie et al. use #palynological data to uncover insights into #vegetation succession in the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13168
@WileyEcolEvol
#ecology #PlantSci #EcoEvo #botany

Well, probably should do a self-promo post since it's been... half a year or so.

Hi, I'm D. Moonfire (https://d.moonfire.us/), I mostly write steampunk and fantasy. 97% of those words are free to read on my website, https://fedran.com/ with the index of stories at https://fedran.com/sources/. No Patreon, no subscriber, no fees (well, I have a Patreon, Librepay, and Ko-Fi, but you get nothing special for them, what you read is what you get). Really, the only payment I crave is to someone say they like it, ask questions about stories, or just let me know I touched their lives.

For a while I was belting out a chapter or story a week and did so for three hundred consecutive weeks (I'm proud of following cadences). I did burn out for a little but I'm getting back into it, but that is why "about" 907,205 words can be found on the site for your enjoyment. All of the stories can be read online, download in EPUB and PDF format. I even have an OPDS feed if you want to add my library to your ebook reader.

Most of my stories are "lightly edited" (I don't ask for money, I can't pay editors), but I do have a couple professionally polished ones on the main website.

For a fantasy world, I didn't want it to be all action or drama, so there are slices of life, forensic mages, people struggling with the trials of just being human with topics ranging from saving one's family from death to dealing with jealousy in an open marriage. There are also spicy stories, which are hopefully all properly tagged.

My stories are also overlapping. The story about a talented swinger being rescued by a middle-aged lesbian who can sharpen knives with a touch bumps against the story about a young violin player trying to avenge a murder which intersects with a story about a young man trying to take a trip across the country in his new fangled car.

If you have a topic you want, I'll be glad to tell you what I have or what might touch those topics. Some of them will get me to write it, but I just like to burble about the joy of world-building.

For the latest update on Hurricane #Milton @ WaPo from their 47 correspondents contributing to LIVE reports.

"Milton is now a Category 2 hurricane, crossing the Florida peninsula after making landfall along its west-central coast Wednesday night. The storm, possibly the most powerful hurricane to hit the Tampa Bay area in more than a century, is producing a life-threatening ocean surge that could result in 10 to 15 feet of water in some areas and extensive damage. Even before landfall, strong winds brought a spate of unusually strong tornadoes, including one in St. Lucie County that caused multiple fatalities."

This LIVE Update page is #FreeToRead, courtesy of The Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/09/hurricane-milton-florida-landfall-live-updates/

Palestinians are becoming angry with Hamas' leadership. They say "If Hamas wanted to start a war, 'they should have secured people first — secured a place of refuge for them, not thrown them into suffering that no one can bear,' said Salma El-Qadomi, 33, a freelance journalist who has been displaced 11 times since the conflict started."

Even if Palestinians were in favor of the October 7 attack on Israeli settlements, they now want the war to end and think that Hamas is being stubborn about not being willing to negotiate a cease-fire that will require them to return hostages. #Israel #Gaza #FreeToRead

https://wapo.st/3Uf9Yid

Measles, the equal opportunity killer. Between Covid and measles, Darwin is culling the stupid from the herd. #Humor #FreeToRead

https://wapo.st/49IR75G

Nature is beautiful! New species discovered off the coast of Chile by a deep sea robot. #Sea #Chile #Science #FreeToRead

https://wapo.st/3OWw6fg

https://tapas.io/series/Silent-Rain/info is live! New episodes drop at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays (US Pacific). It's a #FreeToRead #ScienceFiction #Horror #novel

It's raining. It's been raining for days, and the forecast is for it to continue raining. The rivers and streams are rising, things that go bump in the night are lurking, and Sherman must find his family.

Fortunately, Sherman has his family dog with him as they run through the woods, fall into various side adventures, and discover a family secret.

The winning stories of the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest are now live! These stories celebrate vivid, hope-filled stories of climate progress.

I was one of the story reviewers who sorted through slush to determine which ones were passed up to the judges. Check out the stories and the beautiful art that accompanies them!

#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Imagine2200 #ShortStories #FreeToRead

https://grist.org/imagine2200-climate-fiction-2024/

For all the #readers and #writers around here - the #authoravengers did a new thing, a writing prompt challenge - and I want to throw my result as a #freetoread #shortstory out there, for everyone to #enjoy and #comment on.
It is #fantasy with only a tinge of #horror - I got some nice feedback already. As always, #interaction makes you a #vip - would love your opinion! Title: Troubling reflections. Word count: 5885. Please boost?

https://ko-fi.com/post/Author-Avengers--August-2023-writing-prompt-resul-W7W2OKJZW

Woohoo my short story BACKLASH is now #FreeToRead online @ Trembling with Fear by The Horror Tree!

https://horrortree.com/trembling-with-fear-8-20-23/#more-636203

#FreeToRead deep historical analysis of the Great Wall, censorship, marital fertility, commercial trust, artisanal skill transmission & more in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review special issue. Thoughtful intro & overview by guest eds Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma http://ow.ly/q1in50PlUr7

@econhist @devecon @politicalscience @demography @sociology @geography @anthropology #China #histodons #history #OA #economics #econtwitter #fertility #trust #networks #artisan #censorship #banking

#Introduction

Hi, I'm Len! I'm a yt, ND writer from Germany, here to connect w/ other writers, artists & nerds, gush about my special interests & send out thoughts into the #Fediverse.

Here's a non-extensive list of my interests aka the # I follow:
#SFF #SciFi #Fantasy #Phantastik #Solarpunk #Horror #Mystery #Movies #Books #TV #Games #Writing #Neurodivergence #QueerJoy #Cats #Sharks #HammerheadSharks

Curious abt my work? Check out the link most of my pub'ed shorts are #FreeToRead.