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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6h

So excited to read! 🍄🍂🌿🐋

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6h

Here's the link!

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Invasion Force by Katharine Tyndall — The Dodge

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6h

A true-ish story of war and fungal spread, INVASION FORCE tells of how Clathrus archeri, a fungus known as the Devil's Fingers, reached Europe from Aotearoa New Zealand in 1914. Out now in The Dodge!

Pictured: clathrus archeri growing near Bornheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Clathrus archeri, a fungus known as the Devil's Fingers. Young exemplars develop in stone-grey sacs known as "witch eggs"; when they sprout each has four pink tonguelike fingers covered in black gleba to attract flies.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

Thank u. All's I can say is it's a bad day to be an abyssal demon

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely vicious drag from Umberto Eco

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

#bookreview no.22: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas. It's simply not the kind of book I prefer. The most affecting part is the beginning, with the friendship between siss and unn, and then of course unn in the ice. Otherwise too sparse and quiet for my taste, but altogether good at what it does.

The Ice Palace penguin classics edition by Tarjei Vesaas

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

Ok now the COVID test came back positive lmao.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like absolute hell. Keep testing negative for covid but I have exactly the symptoms of the new strain going around - can't talk, can barely swallow. According to the German health ministry like one in 10 ppl are sick rn 😱😱😱😱😱 stay healthy ppl

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 5d

This is so fucking dumb and infuriating. Please never call anyone a militant vegan again lol, it's the carnivores who are militant and are using everything in their legislative power to enforce meat consumption.
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‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6d

Beauty, beauty, beauty, beauty/
Walking everywhere.

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 6d

It's true! Her name is Anne Tifa

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 7d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 8d

I'll have a spore-laden, devilish fungal story in the next issue of The Dodge! Just in time for mushroom season 🍄🍂🍄

The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 8d

Keep an eye out folks! Our Fall 2025 Issue will be out October 15th! Featuring all kinds of eco-writing and translation from a wonderful set of new and established writers.

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 8d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins

I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 8d

The actual scientific study was trying to highlight advances in inhaler technology which do not use HFAs, a greenhouse gas. But it's easier to get clicks by telling people "the libs" want to ban inhalers.

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 8d

This is clear anti-climate ragebait by a Sinclair Broadcasting-owned local media outlet. The actual scientific article does not recommend lowering inhaler use at all. This is right wing media trying to tell you those evil climate activists want your kids to suffocate.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 8d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 8d

This is clear anti-climate ragebait by a Sinclair Broadcasting-owned local media outlet. The actual scientific article does not recommend lowering inhaler use at all. This is right wing media trying to tell you those evil climate activists want your kids to suffocate.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 8d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 9d

The imbued heart is an account-changing drop for me. Doubled the value of the acct lol

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 9d

That's absolutely insane luck

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 9d

Are u a browns fan?? At least u can coast for a year on how u embarrassed the Packers the other week

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 9d

My TBR list right now:

The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica Zürn
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

I'm banning myself from buying new books until I finish all the ones I bought this year :o

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 10d

This won't mean much to most of y'all but I got a draconic visage AND an imbued heart this weekend. Best weekend of my gaming life by far.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 10d

#bookreview no. 21: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk. Rich as moss and heavy as mountain fog. This is a contender for the best book I've read this year. A queer, historical, mythological eco-horror set in the Silesian mountains. There was so much incredible detail in this work, I will have to re-read.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 10d

"...Thilo claimed that a landscape is capable of killing a person. That it has immense strength, because it is a concentration of various energies, the culmination of geometry. And this happens here too, in Görbersdorf, once a year the landscape takes its sacrifice and kills a man."

The Empusium, A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk. Blue Fitzcarraldo Editions book against a black background.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 10d

Also it seems like a revamp of the whole 2000s da Vinci Code fad but who am I to judge

Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 10d

As someone who did natural sciences I never got the whole dark academia thing. There's no way to romanticize spending 8 hours a day doing a meta-analysis on soil macrofauna.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 11d

Getting bullied for your dietary choice by adults in a restaurant in 2025 is pretty typical for rural Germany though so we just laughed it off and ate a really mid falafel somewhere else. Overall, probably wouldn't go back but the beach was cute