minor_ecologist 🦉🐛🍄🦑🐍🕸

Kristen Gallagher; writer; intergeneric garden figure; fictional scientist; animal futurist; she/they

[minor_ecologist 🦉🐛🍄🦑🐍🕸 @openopenopen]

Got new fiction up at @thebafflermag: Florida, The Skunk Ape, cat face trees, tree communication, evolving humanoids, Swamp Thing, Philly & The Everglades. https://t.co/OwywMJTu5Y

[Peach Mag @peachmgzn]

Now: "The Classic Rock DMZ," a story by Kristen Gallagher @openopenopen, the author of 85% TRUE/MINOR ECOLOGIES (Skeleton Man), GRAND CENTRAL (Troll Thread), and WE ARE HERE (Truck Books).

https://t.co/VckSGtV9Kh

[minor_ecologist 🦉🐛🍄🦑🐍🕸 @openopenopen]

This was a fun! Thank you @TomComitta. It was a delight to hear and share space w @kyrasimone11 & Anelise Chen.

[Tom Comitta @TomComitta]

Tonight! Tonight! By Leonard “Smashing Pumpkins” Bernstein! Words! Enunciated! Live! Longest day of the year! Shortest distance between now and when the event begins = today! Now! Now now! Every second! Every minute is slightly closer to when it all starts!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist that produces site-specific sculptures and land art using natural materials, ephemeral and transient because it returns back to nature . Here are some sycamore leaves around tree roots and Sumach leaves art

📸Andy Goldsworthy

[minor_ecologist 🦉🐛🍄🦑🐍🕸 @openopenopen]

@thebafflermag I love this description

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

A dog psychic, a songbird detective, a nature researcher with a car full of frogs—in new short fiction from @openopenopen, a pack of chill cultists follow in the footsteps of a (late, great) painter of the spiritual realm.
https://t.co/jHZARStVCs

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

As Florida spends $7B on 119 new highway lane miles, Disney World has a larger bus fleet than Orlando, Jacksonville & Gainesville combined. This leaves 3.5 million Floridians with less transit capacity than an amusement park shuttle system.

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

A Common Grackle serving attitude.

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

In new short fiction from @openopenopen, an underemployed journalist travels to Florida to investigate the cult their sister seems to have joined—and discovers they are kind of nice, actually. https://t.co/jHZARStVCs

[cats with powerful impression 🐾 @catshealdeprsn]

Its spider time

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which parts of two different trees, commonly but not exclusively the same species, grow together, self grafting and sharing nutrients

The term emanates from latin- ōsculārī, to kiss

[ALT-immigration @ALT_uscis]

There is a traffic law in Cambodia: elephants have the right of way.
Elephants learned to exploit it to stop sugar cane trucks and snack at will

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

The Queen, a Northern Cardinal, was visiting the nature center parking lot this morning. She is finishing a suet nugget when she is startled by an Red-winged Blackbird. The growling after the Blackbird grabs a peanut is her informing him that she will be taking her spot back.

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

Arkansas-raised friend of my daughter is working on a fantastic playlist of country songs ("Climate Twang-xiety") about environmental degradation and climate change.

What you got?

[Sarah @sarahcw_]

The chaotic energy from Philly fans has me on the floor😂💀

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Reminder: record profits are unpaid wages.

[Benji Jones @BenjiSJones]

A woodpecker drilled holes in someone’s house in California and filled them with acorns.

When the homeowner cut open the wall, the nuts spilled out. All 700 pounds of them.

These photo! They are amazing.

Story by @smessenger via https://t.co/E4BprwVKeN

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Striking French workers gave free energy to low-income households, cut power to a politician and plan to target the wealthy.

Here's how nationwide strikes with "Robin Hood" tactics are rocking the country and what's expected next.

[Leigh Claire La Berge @marxforcats]

A lot of talk about English, Lit., and unions in response to Guillory Gate. But this from ACLA is fantastic. No professionalization w/o unionization. Unions as sites of literary criticism; unions for grad students; for profs; for UPs; if literary studies has a future, it's here.

[Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City @defendATLforest]

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X