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Ashley Shelby
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Novelist, short story writer, former environmental journalist, solastalgic and radicalized recluse. Often called a "climate fiction" author.
Books: Honeymoons in Temporary Locations, South Pole Station, Muri.
www.ashleyshelby.com
We vastly underestimate the intelligence of small creatures.

Also, your reminder: spiders are your friends. Don't hurt them. If you want them out of your house, capture gently with a glass and slide a paper under the opening. Release them outside.

ca.news.yahoo.com/spiders-foun...
Spiders found weaving larger ‘scarecrow’ versions of themselves to fool predators
Spiders also spotted shaking their webs to create movement of their fake decoys
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In the wake of last week's elections can we get a shout out to #Texas voters who cleaned house back in May, voting out school board members who had enacted book bans, removed #LGBTQ+ books from school libraries, and restricted classroom conversations about LGBTQ+ topics? See thread for details:
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
@amyklobuchar.com and Tina Smith voted no. Grateful that they have done their job to represent the interests of their states.

However, we need new leadership. @schumer.senate.gov has not done his job and is not half as enraged as the voters who let you know last week that they want you to fight.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
In case you were on the fence about whether it's time to move away from @democrats.org politicians like @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov and @kaine.senate.gov, consider how enraged you are in this moment. Then consider how untroubled the people bound to represent our interests are.
Reporter: What do you say to your colleagues who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation?

Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…

Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.

Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
If you haven't called your Democratic senators' offices lately to support their refusal to back down, please do that asap, it only takes a second. Because Democrats care about human beings and Republicans have demonstrated they don't, they are probably wavering right now.
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reposted by Ashley Shelby
Starting to think Gates doesn’t have great judgment 🤔
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Always.
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
outlaw billionaires.
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"My mind, and yours, is not theirs to colonize. Defending our attention and our imagination are acts of resistance."

My latest piece is up on Solastalgia Supper Club (a dinner party for people who feel too much, and still want seconds).
The Empathy Tax
The Ruling Class's one cool trick is engineered chaos. Defending your interior life is resistance.
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Trump Administration has pocked the "17 trillion" in tariffs.

Notice they never bring it up anymore. Farmers are going bankrupt. The government has run out of money. And there's zero sign of the tariff money that he claims he has in hand and that was to lead us to a "golden age."
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Our government is spreading lies about vaccines and doesn't care if they kill babies doing it. For the love of god, if you haven't gotten your Tdap in the last 10 years or dont remember, please go get it today. Got mine at a MinuteClinic last year. Easy.
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
September 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Stoked that I get to be part of the MN STEM Book Fest on October 12, 2025 at the amazing Bakken Museum from 10-4pm! 📚🔬⚙️💡

This event celebrates the power of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics through books, authors, and interactive experiences.
September 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Tip for anyone who cares about public health or their children: print out the AAFP's immunization schedule. They do not endorse the current CDC recommendations. This would be the schedule you'd see if the CDC wasn't under attack by an anti-vax idiot: www.aafp.org/family-physi...
Birth Through Age 18 Immunization Schedule
Birth Through Age 18 Immunization Schedule
www.aafp.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
So the same person promoting the mass doxxing site also wrote a self-published book called No Excuses: The Conservative Playbook for Permanent Power and sells it on Etsy. But he also sells birthday cards and I cannot stop laughing.
September 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Looks like the doxxing site Charlie's Murderers had to wipe the names of the doxxing victims it was terrorizing. Thank god for lawyers: www.charliekirkdata.org
Charlie Kirk Data Foundation
www.charliekirkdata.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reposted by Ashley Shelby
"The Expose Charlie’s Murderers dox site’s end goal is a scam ass meme coin called $ECM" via Teridax on twitter.
September 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Reposted by Ashley Shelby
This is my nephew defying orders from Iowa governor. He and his family have received countless death threats and the local sheriff’s department suggested they leave their home so they did. Tell me more how the radical left is the problem

www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-gr...
Official Defies GOP Governor's Order To Fly Flags At Half Staff For Charlie Kirk
He said he did not want to honor a man "who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic."
www.huffpost.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reposted by Ashley Shelby
The complete absence of any human emotion from Donald Trump's post about Charlie Kirk's death has me shook. I know he's a narcissistic sociopath, but it's still unnerving to see a "tribute" that rings so hollow, that still centers self, in a moment like this.
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Banksy's latest is of a judge beating a protester with a gavel.

It was washed off within 24 hours.

Would be a shame if this image were reproduced all over the US and UK. Would be a shame if someone stamped this image on the steps of the Supreme Court.
September 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reddit is apparently now building "social credit reports" on users based on their comments. This is deeply concerning: www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...
From the 50501 community on Reddit: Ok I want everyone to be aware of something I just noticed when modding the sub
Explore this post and more from the 50501 community
www.reddit.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
@nationals.com game last night vs. @phillies.com. white nationalist in the stands, unafraid, unchallenged. he is findable.
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@msf.ca I've been getting a ton of mailings from you and have been looking through every single newsletter, letter, blow-in card, etc.. to see you mention the starvation event in #Gaza even once. Nothing. I had to go to your website to find your statement and activity.
August 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
One of my kids has discovered a passion for #streetart and #graffiti. We are preparing to paint the garage so we offered it up as a canvas. Can't wait to see the final product.

Encouraging young #artists is a necessary act.
August 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM