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Amal El-Mohtar
@amalelmohtar.com
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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
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rhyskamjones.bsky.social
This out next month by @amalelmohtar.com contains not one but two of the best recent reinterpretations of the Blodeuwedd story, Celticists take note
Seasons of Glass and Iron
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February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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tfw you could’ve had a faster solve if the very sweet server hadn’t started making conversation!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 13th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 11 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Enjoyed this! Funny instance of being shy of solving something because there were other paths open & I didn’t want to dither over whether or not I was correct (but dithered over other things)

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 12th 2026 (Tricky), in 05:30
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:33 AM
amalelmohtar.com
This is a really great thread
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22h
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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Kingston I am in you!
amalelmohtar.com Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 3d
Kingston I am coming to you on Thursday!

5 pm on February 12 in the Fireplace Reading Room, Stauffer Library second floor.

Hope to see you there!

library.queensu.ca/about/news/j...
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Join us for a Conversation with Amal El-Mohtar
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February 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Last day of Red Door Cafe in its current location. It’s only moving up the street (into bigger & more modern premises the staff are excited about) but it’s still bittersweet to say goodbye to a space I really loved for five years. I’ll especially miss this amazing free-handed mural by Theo Tannis
Selfie of me wearing a grey tank top, black hoodie, glasses, and a melancholy smile. Behind me is a really neat mural by Theo Tannis made of squiggles and dots that looks a bit like if sheet music spontaneously started dancing to itself.
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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davidjbradley.bsky.social
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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why does it take him 3 minutes of concentrating all the weight of his body into two paws crushing my internal organs before he settles like this
Selfie in which I’m lying down on a grey couch draped with a quilted blue cover to protect it against cat hair. Lying comfortably on top of me is a black and white cat, extending a single white paw to rest just below my throat while I look at him lovingly.
February 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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laworldcon.bsky.social
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!

Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
Hugo Award nominations now open.
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
amalelmohtar.com
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 11th 2026 (Medium), in less than 8 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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phantasticaschool.bsky.social
@sergiviciana.bsky.social  nos presenta "El río tiene raíces", de @amalelmohtar.com . Un libro tan mágico como lírico que no te puedes perder 📚🤓👇
February 11, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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shing.bsky.social
secret late night announcement. I'm launching later this month, in collaboration with illustrator @supercoolspyclub.bsky.social, JANUARY : a postcard writing game for two people, set in a kaiju-filled alternate history, about distant but persistent friendships.
a photograph of a postcard book mockup. some game prompts can be seen, as can a watercolor painting of an eel. Part of the cover is visible; it features a collage and some portion of the eel painting.
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
I don't care how many have cameras. I'm concerned that 13,000 ICE agents have jobs.
ms.now MS NOW @ms.now · 3d
BREAKING: ICE Director Todd Lyons says 3000 out of 13,000 ICE Agents have cameras

Watch hearing live here:
youtube.com/watch?v=mmDo...
February 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
amalelmohtar.com
I think this might be my fastest time? Just felt pleasantly locked in

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 10th 2026 (Medium), in 02:13
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Kingston I am coming to you on Thursday!

5 pm on February 12 in the Fireplace Reading Room, Stauffer Library second floor.

Hope to see you there!

library.queensu.ca/about/news/j...
Join us for a Conversation with Amal El-Mohtar | Queen's University Library
Join us for a Conversation with Amal El-Mohtar
library.queensu.ca
February 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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PLEASE PAY ATTENTION THIS STORY

THIS WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE ROTTING IN A PRISON CAMP

(no one should be)
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d
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Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Tell Congress: Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!
Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman from Paterson, NJ, who courageously protested the genocide in Gaza, has been held in ICE detention for nearly 11 months. The Trump administration and IC...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
masking is not an extreme measure; it’s like, level zero of measures. it’s the easiest possible option
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 4d
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Molasses-brained this morning but pleased to have scored stats

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 9th 2026 (Easy), in 03:11
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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fareedblackman.bsky.social
No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
May 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
amalelmohtar.com
Air Canada I understand we’re approaching Valentine’s Day but I simply don’t think an airline should advertise its sales with “fares worth falling for”
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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kateheartfield.com
Even in this thoughtful and excellent essay, the exceptionalism is hard to shake. "Where else but in America could a left-wing, brown-skinned immigrant, a racialised ‘other’, become the mayor of a globally influential city?" Who is the mayor of London? Who are the mayors of Montreal and Toronto?
lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d
‘As the Swedish diplomatic historian Anders Stephanson writes, “the alarming fact” is that “everyone on this earth has an enormous stake in how the United States chooses to be and act in this world.” Not just enormous, but existential.’

Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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elizabethcobbe.bsky.social
Strong recommend for @amalelmohtar.com 's The River Has Roots! Beautiful, winding, (literally) lyrical story. The bonus short story at the end is also really touching and lovely.
hardcover copy of Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots
February 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
seachanger.bsky.social malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 6d
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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dwmmphotography.bsky.social
Last Thursday evening at Bernardo WMA in New Mexico.
Nearing the end of their wintering season.
February 8, 2026 at 5:19 AM