Where to start?🧛🏽

'There's Magic In Bread' by Effie Seiberg

'The Books Would Like a Word' by Cythia Gómez

...and more Fantasy Magazine stories are among the many awesome titles on the SFWA Nebula Reading List!

📚Give them a look🍞

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WHAT YOU CAN DO:

✨Submit a public comment to the Census National Advisory Committee Meeting before November 16th: census.gov/about/cac/nac/…
✨Respond to the current Federal Register request for comment before December 19th: federalregister.gov/documents/2023… (5/7)

Rather than address the growing crisis of an ongoing pandemic, not to mention those already disabled, the US Census is responding by changing the definition of disability.

And if they do so, the rate of disability as identified by the Census is slated to drop to 8%. (2/7)

#Disability rates have skyrocketed in the United States in the wake of #COVID , with infection-associated chronic illnesses like #MECFS , #POTS , & #MCAS surging.  US Census figures currently report that 14% of Americans are now disabled. (1/7) 🧵

I have no solutions or action items except this:

Don't query Barry Goldblatt.

Instead, take a look at Alex's helpful threads on agents of the good.

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Mikki tweeted this thread earlier and then she linked to this, a post talking about a harassment incident at last year's WisCon: facebook.com/story.php?stor…

The person who did this? Agent Barry Goldblatt.

Woot! My Claws & Contrivances Kickstarters is live NOW. Let's get an audiobook made with the fabulous Emma Newman as narrator - AND you can snap up fantastic rewards along the way, from ebooks to art cards, signed paperbacks, themed yarn & Zoom calls! kickstarter.com/projects/steph…

Bringing this back up because I owe an apology to Sheree Renee Thomas for how I handled this: Ms. Thomas, I'm sorry. Thread below:

The first #LongCovid patient who received #BC007 or a placebo reports he his close to his pre Covid health.
He was wakeboarding for 2h and is not experiencing any PEM. He feels completely normal!

If that drug is really working we need it asap!

📍Whoa—It’s not everyday a former Surgeon General directly debunks the ex-WH COVID Czar & SA virologist (who has been miserably wrong claiming that OG Omicron was “mild”), both of whom refuted by WHO data. I very much respect Jerome Adams ever since he left Trump WH. The #EG5 …

This story by Stephanie Burgis was so sweet and deceptively straightforward at first, until the scope and the depth change and then it becomes an even more triumphant story (for the protagonists and the toads and the snakes). Just lovely! :)

Celebrating The Raven Throne's book birthday with a very large coffee! I'm so happy to have this book (full of big world magic, companionable hedgehogs, feisty red squirrels, & a loving, squabbling family desperate to protect one another) out in the world at last.

The best way to keep track of what I’m up to is my newsletter, The Ed’s Up: buttondown.email/edyong209

My plan is to keep it free (especially if I end up writing original stuff on it) but you can opt to pay a subscription if you want to support my work. 8/

Oh, and, pls read this piece on what 'fatigue' really means while you're at it. 10/ twitter.com/edyong209/stat…

Sleepy sundog
#DailyDoggo

Banger tepid intrepid

Students at Stanford University developed glasses that transcribe speech in real-time for deaf people. Amazing. The product is called TranscribeGlass.

When he described #PEM as the “annihilation of possibility” it stopped me in my tracks. I took a moment to weep. Finally someone sees. This is the symptom that causes me the most suffering but it is so hard to describe. Thank you, Ed Yong is not here for writing this explainer.