Catherine Rockwood
@martin65.bsky.social
she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
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ALOCASIA seeks applications for instructors to lead our upcoming Summer Creative Writing Series. Instructors will each lead a one-time Zoom workshop with dates between May and August. Compensation is $500.
February 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM
ALOCASIA seeks applications for instructors to lead our upcoming Summer Creative Writing Series. Instructors will each lead a one-time Zoom workshop with dates between May and August. Compensation is $500.
"Sitting in that gallery, I sensed that the other side of the doors contained all possible futures...We can live, said the paintings on this side of the wall, another way."
-- @heatherchristle.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/vanessa-bell...
-- @heatherchristle.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/vanessa-bell...
Vanessa Bell Is Not at Home - Believer Magazine
In Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, which celebrated its centennial in May, the title character remembers a friend mocking her years before; the young Clarissa had the makings, jeered Peter Walsh...
www.thebeliever.net
February 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"Sitting in that gallery, I sensed that the other side of the doors contained all possible futures...We can live, said the paintings on this side of the wall, another way."
-- @heatherchristle.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/vanessa-bell...
-- @heatherchristle.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/vanessa-bell...
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Our language becomes fluid, blurred. Gateway. Threshold. Portal. All these things imprecise and yet signalling what we feel as a truth: beyond this opening is the strange. Whether we go through becomes a litmus test. Do we want that possibility of encountering the uncanny? – Dr. M. Benn
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Our language becomes fluid, blurred. Gateway. Threshold. Portal. All these things imprecise and yet signalling what we feel as a truth: beyond this opening is the strange. Whether we go through becomes a litmus test. Do we want that possibility of encountering the uncanny? – Dr. M. Benn
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What distinguished and delightful company to be in accepting novelettes without fees!
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Novelettes feat. @interzone.press @parisreview.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Novelettes feat. @interzone.press @parisreview.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/fee-free-novelettes-5y1Vv34m
duotrope.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
What distinguished and delightful company to be in accepting novelettes without fees!
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When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
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just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.
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Rebecca Hart Olander ♥️
“Talking to you now is like the language of bees…”
from SINGING FROM THE DEEP END (CavanKerry Press)
@rholanderpoet.bsky.social
“Talking to you now is like the language of bees…”
from SINGING FROM THE DEEP END (CavanKerry Press)
@rholanderpoet.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Rebecca Hart Olander ♥️
“Talking to you now is like the language of bees…”
from SINGING FROM THE DEEP END (CavanKerry Press)
@rholanderpoet.bsky.social
“Talking to you now is like the language of bees…”
from SINGING FROM THE DEEP END (CavanKerry Press)
@rholanderpoet.bsky.social
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They're moving out of the urban core to where their kidnappings and brutality may find less organized resistance. That's not a drawdown.
I hope so, but this last week I’ve been seeing MORE ICE activity out near where I live (45 min - 1 hour west of the cities). Last few nights there’s been a lot of drone activity. Seems to me they’re ramping up not drawing down.
At an event Tuesday to highlight business hardships, Gov. Tim Walz said he believes a bigger drawdown could be just days away. He said it shouldn't be weeks or months. "We're very much in a trust but verify mode," he told reporters.
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
They're moving out of the urban core to where their kidnappings and brutality may find less organized resistance. That's not a drawdown.
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Once again, if anyone knows of any remote full-time, part-time, or freelance jobs, I would be extremely grateful.
I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.
I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.
February 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Once again, if anyone knows of any remote full-time, part-time, or freelance jobs, I would be extremely grateful.
I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.
I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.
a friend calls the excavatory impulse around a new research interest/obsession the "badger sett" feeling.
seconded.
seconded.
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
a friend calls the excavatory impulse around a new research interest/obsession the "badger sett" feeling.
seconded.
seconded.
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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
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Melville: I hope you enjoyed that bloody action-packed chapter! But now, a moment to consider obscure technicalities about where everyone sits in the boat, how the boat is constructed, and my personal critique of current assigned seating practices.
February 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Melville: I hope you enjoyed that bloody action-packed chapter! But now, a moment to consider obscure technicalities about where everyone sits in the boat, how the boat is constructed, and my personal critique of current assigned seating practices.
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NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
me: I had a dream last night that you inherited a second wife.
my husband: I what? ...FROM WHERE??
my husband: I what? ...FROM WHERE??
February 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
me: I had a dream last night that you inherited a second wife.
my husband: I what? ...FROM WHERE??
my husband: I what? ...FROM WHERE??
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Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
Even as @propublica.org releases key reporting on the T*mp incarceration/deportation regime, it has still not settled matters with its guild.
We’re ready to strike for a fair contract after fighting for job security, a fair disciplinary process, wages that reflect the value of our work and clear guardrails around AI for more than two years. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...
The ProPublica Guild is Ready to Strike for a Fair Contract — ProPublica Guild
The ProPublica Guild is prepared to strike. We have shown up and compromised at the bargaining table for more than two years, but our newsroom’s management has slow-walked negotiations , offering w...
www.propublicaguild.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Even as @propublica.org releases key reporting on the T*mp incarceration/deportation regime, it has still not settled matters with its guild.
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what are we reading???? I just finished Lia Amador's wonderfully Cuban diaspora-inflected rom-com Witch You Would and then somehow fell into a partial Wimsey reread, though I've got Meg Elison's forthcoming Founding Fathers queued up too.
February 9, 2026 at 10:26 AM
what are we reading???? I just finished Lia Amador's wonderfully Cuban diaspora-inflected rom-com Witch You Would and then somehow fell into a partial Wimsey reread, though I've got Meg Elison's forthcoming Founding Fathers queued up too.
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Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org
LO QUE TENEMOS
queremossolpr.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org
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Macbeth: SHIT
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Macbeth: SHIT
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Remember that under the first Trump administration, Puerto Rico had to suffer through the longest power blackout in U.S. history bsky.app/profile/cost...
During his Administration, Hurricane Maria knocked out power to 1.5 million people in Puerto Rico and it didn’t get restored for ABOUT A YEAR! It was the largest blackout in U.S. history. This should be line one of any hurricane recovery political coverage. www.vox.com/identities/2...
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Remember that under the first Trump administration, Puerto Rico had to suffer through the longest power blackout in U.S. history bsky.app/profile/cost...
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power transformers mentioned in halftime show ⚡️
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
power transformers mentioned in halftime show ⚡️
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That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.
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Ok aside from the fact that this banger of a halftime show is going to give the right wing a collective heart attack, which is fucking awesome, how about the technical wizardry that went into that one camera take through the hedge maze
February 9, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Ok aside from the fact that this banger of a halftime show is going to give the right wing a collective heart attack, which is fucking awesome, how about the technical wizardry that went into that one camera take through the hedge maze