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jgomoll.bsky.social
Electronic artist, feminist, organizer, politically left, reader, science fiction/fantasy fan, storyteller, lap swimmer, atheist, news junkie, at home in Madison Wisconsin. she/her/hers Banner artist: Triangulador
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No more US Worldcons while this policy is in place. It's probably too late for @seattlein2025.org , but @laworldcon.bsky.social should consider whether it's possible to move to an alternate location outside the US. Certainly going forward we shouldn't seat any more US Worldcons.

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

Scary fun! I told at a Moth story slam. Theme was Reset. My story: In college I pretended to be a confident, outgoing person instead of the shy, quiet, bookworm who I’d been high school by pretending not to be shy. Climax: my dramatic confrontation with a wasp. 5 minutes, nerves, & so much laughter.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

1st time telling at StorySlam! - how I almost missed my HS graduation while glazing a pot, racing to finish before I lost access to ceramics lab. Clock stopped; I panicked. Only 5 minutes till ceremony began. I showered, pulled my graduation gown over naked body. Funny story. Telling was scary fun.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

I told a friend that I’d joined Bluesky and he asked, “isn’t that pronounced BLUE-SKI?”

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Post-election, Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel, Years of Rice and Salt is swimming in my consciousness. Its characters reincarnate into 10 times and places in Robinson’s epic, alternate world history, each time becoming (mostly) better human beings.…

submitted 160 days ago • 4 comments