seven “swans a swimming” rasmussen
@toomanyspectra.bsky.social
humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️🌈 antifascist educator ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS out Aug 4, 2026
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the day is finally here: you can order my debut non-fiction, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS: HOW THE DRAKE EQUATION REVEALS THE ODDS OF LIFE IN THE COSMOS from B&N!!
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complete (first draft) @ 10.7k words >:)
January 3, 2026 at 6:10 AM
complete (first draft) @ 10.7k words >:)
NEOSTEIN’s first meeting is sold out 3 weeks ahead of time….the people really do yearn for the parisian salons
helloooo nyc gay people: i’m hosting an 1920’s style bushwick art salon where artists and writers can mingle and share and work! interested? DM me for the link!
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
NEOSTEIN’s first meeting is sold out 3 weeks ahead of time….the people really do yearn for the parisian salons
absolution by jeff vandermeer is the linguistic equivalent of an obliterating blast of gamma radiation that permanently alters your DNA and the trajectory of your life 10/10
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
absolution by jeff vandermeer is the linguistic equivalent of an obliterating blast of gamma radiation that permanently alters your DNA and the trajectory of your life 10/10
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if all goes well, we will be together in two weeks, and then there's just... a thousand other things to figure out and plan, but it's a start in the right direction!
if you want to toss a few pennies for our future, here it is one more time 💖
if you want to toss a few pennies for our future, here it is one more time 💖
Support Charlotte T
Support Charlotte T
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December 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
if all goes well, we will be together in two weeks, and then there's just... a thousand other things to figure out and plan, but it's a start in the right direction!
if you want to toss a few pennies for our future, here it is one more time 💖
if you want to toss a few pennies for our future, here it is one more time 💖
Reposted by seven “swans a swimming” rasmussen
It’s @toomanyspectra.bsky.social’s book coming out next year! You can preorder it here 😊
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...
Cloudy with a Chance of Starships: How the Drake Equation Reveals the Odds of Life in the Cosmos|Hardcover
An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligenceCloudy with a Chance of Starships takes readers on an irreverent expedition through the marvelo...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It’s @toomanyspectra.bsky.social’s book coming out next year! You can preorder it here 😊
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cloudy-wit...
a boyfriend is really just a kind of labubu
December 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a boyfriend is really just a kind of labubu
local writer triumphs at karaoke with moving performance of “i’ll make a man out of you”
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
local writer triumphs at karaoke with moving performance of “i’ll make a man out of you”
the more things change, the more they stay the same (20 vs 32)
December 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the more things change, the more they stay the same (20 vs 32)
“too windy out to be beautiful today” little old lady at the post office speaking the TRUTH
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“too windy out to be beautiful today” little old lady at the post office speaking the TRUTH
2026:
December 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
2026:
helloooo nyc gay people: i’m hosting an 1920’s style bushwick art salon where artists and writers can mingle and share and work! interested? DM me for the link!
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
helloooo nyc gay people: i’m hosting an 1920’s style bushwick art salon where artists and writers can mingle and share and work! interested? DM me for the link!
when i was born a sorceress put a curse on me that said i would always have to wait exactly 12 minutes for the bus
December 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
when i was born a sorceress put a curse on me that said i would always have to wait exactly 12 minutes for the bus
wavelongth
December 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
wavelongth
you are not immune to propaganda
December 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
you are not immune to propaganda
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December 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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mostly toastmas to all who celebrate:
December 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
mostly toastmas to all who celebrate:
i know that this is generally considered to be the worst idea ever but does anyone local want to brave a times square NYE with me? you can sleep on my couch if we ever make it back to brooklyn
December 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
i know that this is generally considered to be the worst idea ever but does anyone local want to brave a times square NYE with me? you can sleep on my couch if we ever make it back to brooklyn
added 3700 words to my lesbian dark academia novelette today and zero to my actual work manuscript 👍
December 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
added 3700 words to my lesbian dark academia novelette today and zero to my actual work manuscript 👍
this christmas eve check the JWST User Docs (and then check them twice) to find out if your FOV constraints are naughty or nice
December 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
this christmas eve check the JWST User Docs (and then check them twice) to find out if your FOV constraints are naughty or nice
i didn’t read many books this year but here’s what i saw people reading around NYC:
![Books I See Strangers
Reading In Public
People We Meet On Vacation — Emily Henry
Complete Stories — Clarice Lispector
His Dark Materials — Phillip Pullman
all about love - bell hooks
The Safekeep - Yale van der Woudem
Blink — Malcolm Gladwell
The End of the World As We Know It: Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
Amadoka — Sofia Andrukhovych [NOT
PUBLISHED YET]
Random Acts of Senseless Violence — Jack
Womack
A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine
The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty
The Trauma of Birth - Otto Rank
Taipei - Tao Lin
Our Missing Hearts — Celeste Ng
All The Colors of the Dark - Chris Whittaker
You, Again — Kate Goldbeck Traction — Gino Whitman Circe - Madeleine Miller
Mona Lisa Overdrive — William Gibson
Unsex Me Here — Aurora Mattie](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qofqpqau42nmrqgtcqpr4o7w/bafkreie7e6jwxpbw3kcmfctuwhmevvbzs5neoypxcnm7nx3esugvw2dd2m@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
i didn’t read many books this year but here’s what i saw people reading around NYC:
submitted my proof of employment as an adjunct to get state health insurance and was immediately approved for medicaid
December 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
submitted my proof of employment as an adjunct to get state health insurance and was immediately approved for medicaid
you can just do stuff
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
you can just do stuff
i think i have to make my wildest dreams come true… i think im gonna start a spec fic writer’s salon that meets every week at a coffee shop to discuss short stories and do writing sprints… entering my Gertrude Stein era…
a black and white photo of a window with a cup on the sill
ALT: a black and white photo of a window with a cup on the sill
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
i think i have to make my wildest dreams come true… i think im gonna start a spec fic writer’s salon that meets every week at a coffee shop to discuss short stories and do writing sprints… entering my Gertrude Stein era…
LOVE IS STORED IN THE CHRISTMAS CARD
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
LOVE IS STORED IN THE CHRISTMAS CARD
unfortunately or fortunately for my christmas card recipients these are the only stickers we have in the house
December 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
unfortunately or fortunately for my christmas card recipients these are the only stickers we have in the house