Rita Chang-Eppig
@rchetypes.bsky.social
Novel about pirate queen: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea. Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Stories in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc. rchetypes.com she/they
This is among the coolest news ever
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This is among the coolest news ever
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Call your elected officials. Get loud. Tell them you’re demanding public health leaders follow the science.
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Call your elected officials. Get loud. Tell them you’re demanding public health leaders follow the science.
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
The science says that the COVID vaccine is not only safe, but it saves lives.
Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
The kids deserve protection
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My pet theory is that execs think AI is convincingly human-like because they are completely surrounded by assistants. They believe people exist to serve and flatter them.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My pet theory is that execs think AI is convincingly human-like because they are completely surrounded by assistants. They believe people exist to serve and flatter them.
Tech companies, I have one thing to say to you: sunk cost. Just let the AI thing go. Everyone will be better for it, including you.
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Tech companies, I have one thing to say to you: sunk cost. Just let the AI thing go. Everyone will be better for it, including you.
I hope some of you will buy my novel, "Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea" for Black Friday from your local bookstore or from Bookshop.org. It's about a pirate queen, yes, but it's really about people living in economic precarity during an authoritarian regime. So, you know, nothing like right now.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I hope some of you will buy my novel, "Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea" for Black Friday from your local bookstore or from Bookshop.org. It's about a pirate queen, yes, but it's really about people living in economic precarity during an authoritarian regime. So, you know, nothing like right now.
The Community of Writers at Olympic Valley was one of the first conferences that took a chance on me as a newbie writer. Their funding has taken a big hit in the current environment. If you donate now, you can get your donation matched!
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November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Community of Writers at Olympic Valley was one of the first conferences that took a chance on me as a newbie writer. Their funding has taken a big hit in the current environment. If you donate now, you can get your donation matched!
communityofwriters.org/donate/?mc_c...
communityofwriters.org/donate/?mc_c...
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The annual reminder. If you don't have a legal team to get you clearance.
FYI: don't quote song lyrics in your books. This is not fan fiction where you can get away with that. Quoting someone else's intellectual property will get you sued.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The annual reminder. If you don't have a legal team to get you clearance.
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I'm happily self-employed and hope to never have a full-time job again, but every once in a while a job posting comes along that makes me go "Unless..."
Web Editor at @parisreview.bsky.social is one of those!! www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...
Web Editor at @parisreview.bsky.social is one of those!! www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...
Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
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November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm happily self-employed and hope to never have a full-time job again, but every once in a while a job posting comes along that makes me go "Unless..."
Web Editor at @parisreview.bsky.social is one of those!! www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...
Web Editor at @parisreview.bsky.social is one of those!! www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...
I’ve read both these terrific authors and you don’t want to miss out on this convo if you’re in DC
I'll be in conversation with my homegirl Jamila Minicks, author of MOONRISE OVER NEW JESSUP, at 6:30 on December 12 at Sankofa Books in DC talk about my new novella FES IS A MIRROR! Y'all coming? 👀
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I’ve read both these terrific authors and you don’t want to miss out on this convo if you’re in DC
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bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
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Hollywood not jumping all over Manny Jacinto’s popularity & sex appeal after The Acolyte is especially baffling like HELLO???
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Hollywood not jumping all over Manny Jacinto’s popularity & sex appeal after The Acolyte is especially baffling like HELLO???
I, too, have trouble coming up with the right thing to say in the moment. Recently a white guy started doing a racist Japanese accent in front of me, and I rolled my eyes, shook my head in a “you should be embarrassed” way, and walked away from him. This will be my go-to move from now on.
I really need to practice saying “what a weird, rude thing to say” to the people who say weird, rude things to me
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I, too, have trouble coming up with the right thing to say in the moment. Recently a white guy started doing a racist Japanese accent in front of me, and I rolled my eyes, shook my head in a “you should be embarrassed” way, and walked away from him. This will be my go-to move from now on.
The new season of Man on the Inside is basically Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee trilogy with Ted Danson and honestly I’m here for it
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The new season of Man on the Inside is basically Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee trilogy with Ted Danson and honestly I’m here for it
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Fall of Freedom starts today. Here’s NPR on the initiative www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
This weekend, artists are speaking out across the country
Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Fall of Freedom starts today. Here’s NPR on the initiative www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
So much of my income just goes toward donations now, and I don’t even make much money. That’s not me “virtue signaling,” that’s me saying that the situation in the world has me so stressed out that I have to donate money to self-soothe and to convince myself I’m not helpless in the face of evil
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
So much of my income just goes toward donations now, and I don’t even make much money. That’s not me “virtue signaling,” that’s me saying that the situation in the world has me so stressed out that I have to donate money to self-soothe and to convince myself I’m not helpless in the face of evil
It is taking every ounce of my energy to not “Well, actually …” someone right now
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It is taking every ounce of my energy to not “Well, actually …” someone right now
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Just saw one of those “best cities” rankings that placed Taipei at 60 BEHIND SAN JOSE and I would just like the compiler of that list know that they are bad and should feel bad
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Just saw one of those “best cities” rankings that placed Taipei at 60 BEHIND SAN JOSE and I would just like the compiler of that list know that they are bad and should feel bad
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The wait is over. Welcome to the 2026 Virtual Writers Retreat Faculty! 🥳
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The wait is over. Welcome to the 2026 Virtual Writers Retreat Faculty! 🥳
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
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I can be trusted with potions and spells
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I can be trusted with potions and spells
Those elite SFF mags you want to get published in aren’t going to publish you if they don’t exist. Subscribe!
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
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November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Those elite SFF mags you want to get published in aren’t going to publish you if they don’t exist. Subscribe!
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If you're working on an essay collection and feeling stuck or overwhelmed or just wishing for some guidance and camaraderie, consider applying for my six-month Essay Collection Incubator, which starts in January! (Applications due by December 4) www.lillydancyger.com/essay-collec...
Essay Collection Incubator
Generate, revise, and prepare your essay-collection manuscript for submission—with guest authors and industry professionals, craft lectures and exercises, and multiple rounds of feedback.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you're working on an essay collection and feeling stuck or overwhelmed or just wishing for some guidance and camaraderie, consider applying for my six-month Essay Collection Incubator, which starts in January! (Applications due by December 4) www.lillydancyger.com/essay-collec...
Sometimes I think about how Anthony Bourdain presented this image of masculinity that was actually positive (Try new things! Be respectful of other cultures!) and how many young men grew up influenced by that. Has anyone else come to fill that niche? Or is it all just dipsh*ts like Andrew Tate now?
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sometimes I think about how Anthony Bourdain presented this image of masculinity that was actually positive (Try new things! Be respectful of other cultures!) and how many young men grew up influenced by that. Has anyone else come to fill that niche? Or is it all just dipsh*ts like Andrew Tate now?
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I loved this novel - here's an interview I did with her for the @SeattleChannel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF6X...
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: Erika Swyler's new book explores what happens when AI takes over
YouTube video by Seattle Channel
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November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I loved this novel - here's an interview I did with her for the @SeattleChannel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF6X...