Catherine Rockwood
@martin65.bsky.social
she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
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Hey. Here’s what’s eating me alive. For 5 years, I was a paralegal in the Capital Habeas Unit Middle District of Alabama Federal Defender Office. My job was to support appeals of people who were already on death row.
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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One small thing you can do *right now* — donate $5, $10, $50, whatever you're able — to this rent fund for South Minneapolis daycare workers whose families are sheltering in place. Can we raise $5k today??
Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share?
givebutter.com/Rbpl0z
Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share?
givebutter.com/Rbpl0z
Support Minneapolis Daycare Workers
Contribute mutual aid to the educators and caregivers who love and care for our children everyday
givebutter.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
One small thing you can do *right now* — donate $5, $10, $50, whatever you're able — to this rent fund for South Minneapolis daycare workers whose families are sheltering in place. Can we raise $5k today??
Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share?
givebutter.com/Rbpl0z
Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share?
givebutter.com/Rbpl0z
Introduce yourself with 5 songs
Lau -- Echolalia
Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins -- It Wasn't Me
Nina Simone -- Lilac Wine
Flowers of Edinburgh (traditional)
The Both -- Hummingbird
Lau -- Echolalia
Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins -- It Wasn't Me
Nina Simone -- Lilac Wine
Flowers of Edinburgh (traditional)
The Both -- Hummingbird
introduce yourself with 5 songs
magnetic fields - come back from
san francisco
robyn - honey
leonard cohen - take this waltz
charles mingus - cumbia and jazz fusion
kate bush - sensual world
magnetic fields - come back from
san francisco
robyn - honey
leonard cohen - take this waltz
charles mingus - cumbia and jazz fusion
kate bush - sensual world
Introduce yourself with 5 songs
PP Arnold, "The First Cut is the Deepest"
Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now"
John Cameron Mitchell, "Wig in a Box"
Ella Fitzgerald, "Mountain Greenery"
Simon & Garfunkel, "The Boxer"
PP Arnold, "The First Cut is the Deepest"
Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now"
John Cameron Mitchell, "Wig in a Box"
Ella Fitzgerald, "Mountain Greenery"
Simon & Garfunkel, "The Boxer"
February 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 songs
Lau -- Echolalia
Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins -- It Wasn't Me
Nina Simone -- Lilac Wine
Flowers of Edinburgh (traditional)
The Both -- Hummingbird
Lau -- Echolalia
Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins -- It Wasn't Me
Nina Simone -- Lilac Wine
Flowers of Edinburgh (traditional)
The Both -- Hummingbird
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Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social could use a little more help at this time. Do check out her fundraiser gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...
Medical and Post-Hospital Care for Vida Cruz-Borja
Hello, I am Vida Cruz-Borja, author of the Cirilo F. Bautista Award-winning Song of the Mango and Other New Myths and the IGNYTE Award-winning essay “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protag...
gogetfunding.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social could use a little more help at this time. Do check out her fundraiser gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...
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It happens to be my birthday tomorrow, so if you feel inclined to help support what I do, I'm still $290 short of last year's year-end goal to keep beestung funded! 😘🐝
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark
What is beestung:
beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven
www.gofundme.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM
It happens to be my birthday tomorrow, so if you feel inclined to help support what I do, I'm still $290 short of last year's year-end goal to keep beestung funded! 😘🐝
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
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who called it watership down and not warren peace
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 AM
who called it watership down and not warren peace
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Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
February 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
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Maybe, just maybe, people should start to understand that there is no such thing as non punitive detention. And so the entire premise of immigration law— that this is civil and isn’t meant to punish or coerce— is a tremendous lie
“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Maybe, just maybe, people should start to understand that there is no such thing as non punitive detention. And so the entire premise of immigration law— that this is civil and isn’t meant to punish or coerce— is a tremendous lie
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PSA: if you find an animal and want to keep it, take it to animal control anyway. They will let you have right of first refusal for adoption if no owner is found. Once you sign the adoption papers, the animal is legally yours, no matter what happens later, plus they'll spay/neuter if needed.
February 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
PSA: if you find an animal and want to keep it, take it to animal control anyway. They will let you have right of first refusal for adoption if no owner is found. Once you sign the adoption papers, the animal is legally yours, no matter what happens later, plus they'll spay/neuter if needed.
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on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.
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I just want as much attention and awe for the young people of color who are defending their families in majority POC communities as there is for the white people who are supporting their neighbors in historically white communities
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I just want as much attention and awe for the young people of color who are defending their families in majority POC communities as there is for the white people who are supporting their neighbors in historically white communities
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
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When it happens, let his name be stripped from every building and organization he slapped it on.
February 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
When it happens, let his name be stripped from every building and organization he slapped it on.
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Breaking MS NOW:
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family
Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.”
www.ms.now
February 7, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Breaking MS NOW:
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
sigh. some of the problematic elements of some kdramas are starting to make themselves felt through the initial lalalala I can't hear you.
everyone who's likely to secure a romantic relationship is _very_ skinny for instance.
and I mean EVERYONE
everyone who's likely to secure a romantic relationship is _very_ skinny for instance.
and I mean EVERYONE
February 7, 2026 at 1:12 AM
sigh. some of the problematic elements of some kdramas are starting to make themselves felt through the initial lalalala I can't hear you.
everyone who's likely to secure a romantic relationship is _very_ skinny for instance.
and I mean EVERYONE
everyone who's likely to secure a romantic relationship is _very_ skinny for instance.
and I mean EVERYONE
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The Words of the Week
marmot
consecrate
pettifogging
cisgender
sposh
marmot
consecrate
pettifogging
cisgender
sposh
The Words of the Week - Feb. 6
Dictionary lookups from Punxsutawney, the Vatican, and Hollywood
www.merriam-webster.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The Words of the Week
marmot
consecrate
pettifogging
cisgender
sposh
marmot
consecrate
pettifogging
cisgender
sposh
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"we all will be connected
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities | Reckoning
I. [Is ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ Coastal Road worth ∙∙∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙∙∙ ecology?] we must speak about the land as an orbit an erosion a map carbonized into the helm of cinderbl...
reckoning.press
February 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
"we all will be connected
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
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I'm a goth so death is always on my mind, but I have never heard any AI booster say that art meant that much to them. That they would TAKE THE TIME, that they were compelled to create, that their mortality shadows them constantly and forces them to do this. I only see artists saying it.
February 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I'm a goth so death is always on my mind, but I have never heard any AI booster say that art meant that much to them. That they would TAKE THE TIME, that they were compelled to create, that their mortality shadows them constantly and forces them to do this. I only see artists saying it.
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At this point I think even $150 would fix the most pressing issues. If anyone has anything, time is getting uncomfortably tight.
My February rent's grace period ends tomorrow, and still trying to put together that last $300 I need for rent and bills.
Happy to take on shorter work/smaller gigs. Everything adds up. Also, I don't really have gigs booked after February, so my 2026 schedule's wide open.
mathesonfreelancing.com
Happy to take on shorter work/smaller gigs. Everything adds up. Also, I don't really have gigs booked after February, so my 2026 schedule's wide open.
mathesonfreelancing.com
Matheson Freelancing
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February 6, 2026 at 6:57 PM
At this point I think even $150 would fix the most pressing issues. If anyone has anything, time is getting uncomfortably tight.
The public library is the only institution I subscribe to that emails using my middle name in addition to my first, and it is the _weirdest_ sensation to open an email like that.
February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The public library is the only institution I subscribe to that emails using my middle name in addition to my first, and it is the _weirdest_ sensation to open an email like that.
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Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
February 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
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OH MY GOD THIS IS SO PURE
lmao look at his lil face "heheheheheh"
Watch the moment a Greenland sled dog steals AP camera
YouTube video by Associated Press
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
OH MY GOD THIS IS SO PURE
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The latest from Reckoning X: "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities", a really dense poem by Sneha Subramanian Kanta about infrastructure and environmental justice in Mumbai and Mississauga, Ontario: reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The latest from Reckoning X: "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities", a really dense poem by Sneha Subramanian Kanta about infrastructure and environmental justice in Mumbai and Mississauga, Ontario: reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
"we all will be connected
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities | Reckoning
I. [Is ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ Coastal Road worth ∙∙∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ∙∙∙∙∙∙ ecology?] we must speak about the land as an orbit an erosion a map carbonized into the helm of cinderbl...
reckoning.press
February 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
"we all will be connected
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
to water is a story which will yield a life."
pleased and proud to share today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, "Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities," by Sneha Subramanian Kanta.
reckoning.press/newspaper-er...
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In my eighteenth year of teaching I have never yet met an occasion when it was necessary, relevant, or advantageous to describe a student's physical appearance.
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
In my eighteenth year of teaching I have never yet met an occasion when it was necessary, relevant, or advantageous to describe a student's physical appearance.
listen as a Boston-adjacent person I want to be all in on Dunks, but can we talk about their political donation history.
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
listen as a Boston-adjacent person I want to be all in on Dunks, but can we talk about their political donation history.