Jan Lee

Last day to submit to The Apostrophe - theme is ROOTS.

The Apostrophe is now open for submissions. Deadline January 31, 2025.

@paulisci Why isn't your book named this?

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“You can’t recycle your way out of it.” vox.com/climate/373316…

I am looking forward to a future in which the youngsters deride jokes about hating your job the same way we now roll our eyes at Boomer jokes about hating your wife.

I am looking for books to review for Earth.org magazine. Give me a shout if you have one to submit.

@BethanyAllenEbr I recently visited a country that scored 97 on the freedom index. I attended a book launch. Everyone was chatting, laughing, complaining, engaging in serious discussions (about the government and other topics), *and not worried about who might be listening*. It really struck me.

What is it that so strikes me about democratic countries? The first thing is the lack of fear. Yes everyone has fears but in a normal democracy, people don't go around living in fear of the government and each other. An enormous weight is removed from people's shoulders.

Every time I visit a democratic country I'm like WOW. THIS COUNTRY IS AMAZING.

"...for a Future that doesn't suck." Diese Woche @stevewi29193475 kennengelernt, der als Ingenieur in der Schwerindustrie quasi aus Notwehr begann, "climate fiction" zu schreiben, nicht dystopisch, sondern als konkrete Utopie. Wir brauchen Erzählungen der Hoffnung ☀️ #fairhaven

@FY4Chan ... I thought everyone in HK did that daily. Wake up, sing the anthem, brush teeth, sing the anthem again, breakfast, anthem again (just to be sure), sing it lustily while walking to the MTR station, hum the tune while riding. Right?

"Do you think school inspectors start the week by singing the national anthem together? "No, I don’t think so either." 🤔

@LFFriedman @zhonggg Yes, and with great interest!

I impulse-purchased a lovely little volume called "Postcards to a Young Unicorn" by Beate Sigriddaughter - it's something like a list of aphorisms - and would love to recommend it but I don't have enough Amazon purchase history to do so.

@chinarhyming I'm beginning to be glad we didn't speak after that occasion.

@chinarhyming Oh, wow! I sat next to him at a seminar last year and he described himself only as a retired lawyer; I got the impression he was some sort of academic. I suppose he was not ready to share his other opinions with a new acquaintance.

Pride month: Why Hong Kong is ready for same-sex marriage 🔗 buff.ly/3zwRzqe #pridemonth #LGBT #gay

@hoaxeye We all know that Stanley Kubrick was hired to direct the fake moon landing but the thing is he's such a stickler for detail that he insisted it be filmed on location

The video doesn’t show leaked footage of the lunar landing . It was never released by Wikileaks. The video is made of clips from the moon landing and footage from the 1979 movie ‘Capricorn One.’ More details: politifact.com/factchecks/202…

@FY4Chan To be fair if you're in China the entire population of TW probably seems like a small number in comparison

"Zhu Fenglian... said in a statement late Friday that the new judicial directives “are aimed solely at the very small number of supporters of ‘Taiwan independence’, who are engaged in malicious acts and utterances”." "Very small numbers". That oh too familiar phrase once more.🙄

What's yours? Can't think of one? Okay, better submit!

@miniMAG_lit What if they are using trimensional viewing? I recently saw this in conference proceedings: "Though the conference was virtual, I would like to acknowledge that I wrote and delivered this from my home office on the traditional territories of ..."

@miniMAG_lit Do you think aliens who have conferences here on Earth will really acknowledge us as the traditional owners of the land?

Opening Session at Earth Live! 2641 Interplanetary Business Symposium by @Jennychu2 #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writersoftwitter #microfiction #poetrytwitter #poetry #fiction

Very cool to see this one published!