Christian A. Coleman
@colemanthe2nd.bsky.social
Digital marketing by day, SFF writing by night. Indie press. Beacon Press. Interviews in Lightspeed Magazine.
Absolutely adored the TV series, so when word got out that the original play it’s based on was at @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social, of course I had to go. So wonderful to see the OG vision. 🤌🏽
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Absolutely adored the TV series, so when word got out that the original play it’s based on was at @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social, of course I had to go. So wonderful to see the OG vision. 🤌🏽
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A story in three parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A story in three parts
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You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state
Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state
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In Alien Earth, a guy is typing "crew dead" on a computer and the words are reflected on his face, but they aren't reversed like they should be. For readabilty I guess. They should've used a palindrome instead, so we can still read it backwards. "Ya won, evil aliens. Is neil alive? no way"
September 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In Alien Earth, a guy is typing "crew dead" on a computer and the words are reflected on his face, but they aren't reversed like they should be. For readabilty I guess. They should've used a palindrome instead, so we can still read it backwards. "Ya won, evil aliens. Is neil alive? no way"
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Hadn’t realized that someone had posted this here but this really was one of my finer bangers from the old place
August 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hadn’t realized that someone had posted this here but this really was one of my finer bangers from the old place
I legit laughed out loud at this 🤣🤣🤣
Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse
August 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I legit laughed out loud at this 🤣🤣🤣
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TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
July 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
In this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Dorian gets cruised in a park right after dumping Sibyl Vane. Save for a change of threads, not much difference between Victorian cruising and today’s variety. lol. 😏 This is from the restored, uncensored version. #HappyPride
June 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
In this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Dorian gets cruised in a park right after dumping Sibyl Vane. Save for a change of threads, not much difference between Victorian cruising and today’s variety. lol. 😏 This is from the restored, uncensored version. #HappyPride
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Beacon Press has always been in the forefront of struggles for justice and freedom: anti-fascist, Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, immigrant rights, and more. And has ALWAYS published queer/queer-affirming work. Proud to be associated with Beacon. @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social
Like the headline says. We’re cueing the rainbow fans and righteous rage as we bring books by @rachelbrowne.ca, @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @kwhitlock.bsky.social, @doctressstory.bsky.social, and others to the party! ✊🏼🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Thanks, @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social! #PrideMonth
Just So We’re Queer, We’re Still Celebrating Pride Without You, Google Calendar!
By Christian Coleman | Gasp! Google Calendar looks much less iridescent and fabulous this June. It’s giving a serious case of the blahs, and the face card is nothing but a 404 error. Where’s that righ...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Beacon Press has always been in the forefront of struggles for justice and freedom: anti-fascist, Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, immigrant rights, and more. And has ALWAYS published queer/queer-affirming work. Proud to be associated with Beacon. @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social
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For the last year or so, I've been scheming with some wonderful friends to--GULP--start a small press.
The Kickstarter for our first book is coming this fall. You can follow along here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
The Kickstarter for our first book is coming this fall. You can follow along here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
Coming soon: Homeward Books: The home for books without a home
Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.
www.kickstarter.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
For the last year or so, I've been scheming with some wonderful friends to--GULP--start a small press.
The Kickstarter for our first book is coming this fall. You can follow along here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
The Kickstarter for our first book is coming this fall. You can follow along here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
It’s @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social’s publication day! 🙌🏽💃🏽 I’d like to think that if I were out during undergrad, I’d be all over queer of color theory. I’ll never know but I’m here and queer to soak it in now. Never too late. Thanks for introducing me to the work of José Esteban Muñoz, Marcos! 🙏🏽
May 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social’s publication day! 🙌🏽💃🏽 I’d like to think that if I were out during undergrad, I’d be all over queer of color theory. I’ll never know but I’m here and queer to soak it in now. Never too late. Thanks for introducing me to the work of José Esteban Muñoz, Marcos! 🙏🏽
By far, the most peaceful ASMR slasher I’ve seen. It gives an approximate idea of how Michael Haneke would approach the genre
In a Violent Nature (2024) ⭐ 5.6 | Drama, Horror, Thriller
1h 34m | Not Rated
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May 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
By far, the most peaceful ASMR slasher I’ve seen. It gives an approximate idea of how Michael Haneke would approach the genre
It’s giving affirming and mind-blowing. 🤌🏽 Can’t wait for this to hit the literary runway, @blaqueword.bsky.social!
May 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It’s giving affirming and mind-blowing. 🤌🏽 Can’t wait for this to hit the literary runway, @blaqueword.bsky.social!
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Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else).
1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.
1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.
May 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else).
1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.
1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.
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Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
This is one of the most-shared posts on Bluesky in the past day and it's just completely false. You might think ChatGPT is a *bad* search engine, or prefer another search engine. But it has had integrated web search since last year.
May 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
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SINNERS is an extraordinary fantastic lens through which to process (African-) American history.
Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America."
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Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America."
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The Devil in America - Reactor
Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shatteri...
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April 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
SINNERS is an extraordinary fantastic lens through which to process (African-) American history.
Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America."
reactormag.com/the-devil-in...
Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America."
reactormag.com/the-devil-in...
Hell to the yes! 🙌🏽
So, I hear ya’ll like #Sinners. might I also humbly suggest…
April 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hell to the yes! 🙌🏽
Backed and pledged! The more Black superheroes in my life, the better. And the ones who want more Black superheroes, I see you, too. Rosarium Publishing has only 30 mins to make their goal! Come through, y’all!
The Adventures of Lion Man
THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN brings one of America's first Black superheroes back to life! From the minds of Eisner Award winners John Jennings and Damian Duffy, Bill Campbell, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, and E...
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April 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Backed and pledged! The more Black superheroes in my life, the better. And the ones who want more Black superheroes, I see you, too. Rosarium Publishing has only 30 mins to make their goal! Come through, y’all!
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Remembering Val Kilmer in Real Genius (1985). Somehow laser science got an astonishingly accurate pop culture movie. It didn’t have to accurately depict building and troubleshooting excimer lasers and yet somehow it did.
April 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Remembering Val Kilmer in Real Genius (1985). Somehow laser science got an astonishingly accurate pop culture movie. It didn’t have to accurately depict building and troubleshooting excimer lasers and yet somehow it did.
Hard same. I dissociate when the singing starts. 😶🌫️
bong joon-ho went on late show with colbert to promote mickey 17 and got asked if he'd ever do a musical,
March 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hard same. I dissociate when the singing starts. 😶🌫️
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“I realized in all my public speaking about Rosa Parks both how hungry people are for this fuller history and also for understanding why we get the fables we get and what political work they do.” — @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social in convo w/ @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social #BHM
Not Your Fairy-Tale Rosa Parks: The Second Edition of Her Rebellious Life Biography Turns 10
A Q&A with Jeanne Theoharis and Gayatri Patnaik | When I published the original edition, I did so without being able to see a cache of Rosa Parks’s papers that had been held for years by Guernsey’s au...
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February 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“I realized in all my public speaking about Rosa Parks both how hungry people are for this fuller history and also for understanding why we get the fables we get and what political work they do.” — @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social in convo w/ @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social #BHM
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Brains are back on the menu, boys
Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease.
"Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo
"Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo
Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor
Prion disease is caused by misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic self-propagating conformations, leading to rapid-onset dementia and death. However, elimination of endogenous PrP halts...
www.science.org
February 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Brains are back on the menu, boys
Goddamnit. Copilot is the new Clippy. 🤦🏽♂️ I feel like I’ll waste more time in online rabbit holes figuring out how to disable this ridiculous appendage than by ignoring it with all my spite.
a cartoon character from the cartoon network is shown
ALT: a cartoon character from the cartoon network is shown
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January 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Goddamnit. Copilot is the new Clippy. 🤦🏽♂️ I feel like I’ll waste more time in online rabbit holes figuring out how to disable this ridiculous appendage than by ignoring it with all my spite.