CZEdwards
@czedwards.bsky.social
Nontheist Quaker. PsyD: CBT/PTSD. SJCleric. She/they
I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.net
https://linktr.ee/czedwards
discord: czedwards or https://czedwards.dreamwidth.org/
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I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.net
https://linktr.ee/czedwards
discord: czedwards or https://czedwards.dreamwidth.org/
Tumblr: https://galantier.blog/
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CZEdwards
@czedwards.bsky.social
· Nov 26
You’re welcome to follow me, but I check your media tab for alt-text. If you’re not alt-texting your images, I will put you on a mute list.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
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I’m in Mumbai and our tour guide just asked if the horrifying stories about ICE he’s seeing all over the media here are true, that they are kidnapping kids from schools to use as bait, if you want to know how the world sees what’s happening.
February 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I’m in Mumbai and our tour guide just asked if the horrifying stories about ICE he’s seeing all over the media here are true, that they are kidnapping kids from schools to use as bait, if you want to know how the world sees what’s happening.
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It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
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- a man with his hands up being punched to the ground
- man being punched multiple times
- pepper spray has been used
- tensions really did rise
VERBATIM live cross ABC accounts of police violence. This is why “I grew up believing police keep us safe” white people have to see it for themselves.
- man being punched multiple times
- pepper spray has been used
- tensions really did rise
VERBATIM live cross ABC accounts of police violence. This is why “I grew up believing police keep us safe” white people have to see it for themselves.
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
- a man with his hands up being punched to the ground
- man being punched multiple times
- pepper spray has been used
- tensions really did rise
VERBATIM live cross ABC accounts of police violence. This is why “I grew up believing police keep us safe” white people have to see it for themselves.
- man being punched multiple times
- pepper spray has been used
- tensions really did rise
VERBATIM live cross ABC accounts of police violence. This is why “I grew up believing police keep us safe” white people have to see it for themselves.
Why I’m still up at 4:30
Map in progress, currently mono (drawn in color, post-processed to b/w)
Coppices are incredible biodiversity and exactly what you want for a lot of pre-dimensional lumber construction & wood, from poles to firewood, but they are hell to draw. Dense trees do not depict well.
Map in progress, currently mono (drawn in color, post-processed to b/w)
Coppices are incredible biodiversity and exactly what you want for a lot of pre-dimensional lumber construction & wood, from poles to firewood, but they are hell to draw. Dense trees do not depict well.
February 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Why I’m still up at 4:30
Map in progress, currently mono (drawn in color, post-processed to b/w)
Coppices are incredible biodiversity and exactly what you want for a lot of pre-dimensional lumber construction & wood, from poles to firewood, but they are hell to draw. Dense trees do not depict well.
Map in progress, currently mono (drawn in color, post-processed to b/w)
Coppices are incredible biodiversity and exactly what you want for a lot of pre-dimensional lumber construction & wood, from poles to firewood, but they are hell to draw. Dense trees do not depict well.
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Imagine if people who live in former Spanish colonies did an English strike for a day: spoke only Spanish.
I mean, Trump is squealing about Spanish from South Florida!
I mean, Trump is squealing about Spanish from South Florida!
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Imagine if people who live in former Spanish colonies did an English strike for a day: spoke only Spanish.
I mean, Trump is squealing about Spanish from South Florida!
I mean, Trump is squealing about Spanish from South Florida!
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It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM
It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes
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“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right,” one Meta engineer wrote in 2023 with a grinning emoji. [...] “If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues.”
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 AM
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right,” one Meta engineer wrote in 2023 with a grinning emoji. [...] “If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues.”
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apart from the ten thousand more immediate things wrong with them (see: racism) it is impossible to ignore how JOYLESS these people are. angrily choking down the worst shit in the world and pretending it’s delicious rather than admit something can be both “good” and “in Spanish” at the same time
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 AM
apart from the ten thousand more immediate things wrong with them (see: racism) it is impossible to ignore how JOYLESS these people are. angrily choking down the worst shit in the world and pretending it’s delicious rather than admit something can be both “good” and “in Spanish” at the same time
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Honestly, it has to be a weird time to be a figure in pop culture due the president being Literally The Worst. Like, Elmo can say sharing is good and somebody in his X mentions will say “Elmo, you rotten son of a bitch. This goes against everything President Trump stands for.” And that’s not wrong.
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Honestly, it has to be a weird time to be a figure in pop culture due the president being Literally The Worst. Like, Elmo can say sharing is good and somebody in his X mentions will say “Elmo, you rotten son of a bitch. This goes against everything President Trump stands for.” And that’s not wrong.
If only we could have the speed, simple scoring, and limited ad time of soccer with the half-time show of gridiron.
February 9, 2026 at 3:51 AM
If only we could have the speed, simple scoring, and limited ad time of soccer with the half-time show of gridiron.
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Matter of fact, forget the football game!
Next year they should have a full length Bad Bunny show with a shortened football game halfway through.
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Matter of fact, forget the football game!
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wow, Donald Trump really rethinking his meeting with those three witches
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 AM
wow, Donald Trump really rethinking his meeting with those three witches
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I'll only support this if he promises to move there and take Peter Thiel, the vile Trumps and all of maga with him. Leave us the earth. We'll actually take care of it.
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 AM
I'll only support this if he promises to move there and take Peter Thiel, the vile Trumps and all of maga with him. Leave us the earth. We'll actually take care of it.
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
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Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
www.latitudemedia.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
oh, when the interlocutor (Not Preacher) tells you they've never once listened to Gipsy Kings, Deep Forest, Los Lobos, Ritchie Valens, Lisa Gerrard, The Hu, Selena, AR Rahman, any of a dozen Cyndi Lauper collabs, KPop, CPop, a hell of a lot of Euro-metal, or Eurovision.
And how limited they are.
And how limited they are.
“Why would I watch a half time show in a language I don’t understand?”
For the same reason one might watch an Opera in a language they don’t understand. Because stories can transcend language. The problem is, no one in this country has media literacy.
For the same reason one might watch an Opera in a language they don’t understand. Because stories can transcend language. The problem is, no one in this country has media literacy.
February 9, 2026 at 3:28 AM
oh, when the interlocutor (Not Preacher) tells you they've never once listened to Gipsy Kings, Deep Forest, Los Lobos, Ritchie Valens, Lisa Gerrard, The Hu, Selena, AR Rahman, any of a dozen Cyndi Lauper collabs, KPop, CPop, a hell of a lot of Euro-metal, or Eurovision.
And how limited they are.
And how limited they are.
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Because, Clay, more than half of this nation's primary language has been Spanish since... the 17th century; more than half the territory of this nation was Spanish for longer than it's been US; we have no official language because thousands belong here. But flash your ignorance, man.
Because, Clay, more than half of this nation's primary language has been Spanish since... the 17th century; more than half the territory of this nation was Spanish for longer than it's been US; we have no official language because thousands belong here. But flash your ignorance, man.
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
With alt text:
Because, Clay, more than half of this nation's primary language has been Spanish since... the 17th century; more than half the territory of this nation was Spanish for longer than it's been US; we have no official language because thousands belong here. But flash your ignorance, man.
Because, Clay, more than half of this nation's primary language has been Spanish since... the 17th century; more than half the territory of this nation was Spanish for longer than it's been US; we have no official language because thousands belong here. But flash your ignorance, man.
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“Why would I watch a half time show in a language I don’t understand?”
For the same reason one might watch an Opera in a language they don’t understand. Because stories can transcend language. The problem is, no one in this country has media literacy.
For the same reason one might watch an Opera in a language they don’t understand. Because stories can transcend language. The problem is, no one in this country has media literacy.
February 9, 2026 at 2:29 AM
“Why would I watch a half time show in a language I don’t understand?”
For the same reason one might watch an Opera in a language they don’t understand. Because stories can transcend language. The problem is, no one in this country has media literacy.
For the same reason one might watch an Opera in a language they don’t understand. Because stories can transcend language. The problem is, no one in this country has media literacy.
if only it was a takedown of University of Phoenix and the other overpriced, for-profit diploma mills. Because lord knows this country needs about 1000% fewer cash for credit marketing degrees.
COLLEGES WITH LOW-EARNING GRADUATES MAY LOSE ACCESS TO STUDENT LOANS – CBS NEWS
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 AM
if only it was a takedown of University of Phoenix and the other overpriced, for-profit diploma mills. Because lord knows this country needs about 1000% fewer cash for credit marketing degrees.
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If this is aimed at for-profit loan harvesters run by the presidents friends, that would be one thing, but it won't be. It will be aimed at CCs and secondary state schools and will be evil beyond measure.
COLLEGES WITH LOW-EARNING GRADUATES MAY LOSE ACCESS TO STUDENT LOANS – CBS NEWS
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 AM
If this is aimed at for-profit loan harvesters run by the presidents friends, that would be one thing, but it won't be. It will be aimed at CCs and secondary state schools and will be evil beyond measure.
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Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.