Catherine Rockwood
@martin65.bsky.social
she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
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I was on the SFWA committee to create the first-ever Nebula Award for poetry and it is live for nominations. Deadline 3/1. Please nominate at least one poem! www.sfwa.org/2025-ne...
2025 Nebula Nominations Ballot - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
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February 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I was on the SFWA committee to create the first-ever Nebula Award for poetry and it is live for nominations. Deadline 3/1. Please nominate at least one poem! www.sfwa.org/2025-ne...
"The answer to how much knowledge we should possess is/all we can bear. As many ideas as we're prepared to shock into life/
and raise to live on their own."
--Dobby Gibson, "Sludge" (from _Hold Everything_)
and raise to live on their own."
--Dobby Gibson, "Sludge" (from _Hold Everything_)
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"The answer to how much knowledge we should possess is/all we can bear. As many ideas as we're prepared to shock into life/
and raise to live on their own."
--Dobby Gibson, "Sludge" (from _Hold Everything_)
and raise to live on their own."
--Dobby Gibson, "Sludge" (from _Hold Everything_)
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to clarify: this is me reading *your* poetry
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
to clarify: this is me reading *your* poetry
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very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now
we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!
www.thedollhouse.studio
we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!
www.thedollhouse.studio
The Doll House
www.thedollhouse.studio
February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now
we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!
www.thedollhouse.studio
we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!
www.thedollhouse.studio
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It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.
Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.
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To the tune of Summer is Icumen In
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
To the tune of Summer is Icumen In
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Oh, oh and @reckoningmag.bsky.social - specifically poems, essays and stories on environmental justice, with a strong emphasis on intersectionality.
February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Oh, oh and @reckoningmag.bsky.social - specifically poems, essays and stories on environmental justice, with a strong emphasis on intersectionality.
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Exactly $0 of our tax revenue should be spent on this.
"AI assistants could be used ... to help state workers answer questions from citizens by finding relevant information scattered across many web sites and documents. The assistants could also help write emails and presentations or organize data into spreadsheets."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/b...
Healey rolls out ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for state workers - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts plans to make the digital tool available to all 40,000 employees in the state's executive branch.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Exactly $0 of our tax revenue should be spent on this.
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at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew
February 13, 2026 at 12:04 AM
at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew
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Apologies to my neighbors, my dogs and anyone who walked past the house as I screamed: ‘I don’t want a fucking app for my fucking hair dryer!!’
February 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Apologies to my neighbors, my dogs and anyone who walked past the house as I screamed: ‘I don’t want a fucking app for my fucking hair dryer!!’
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It would be very cool (and also completely shocking) if someone were to nominate my 2025 climate-fiction short story "The Electric Ant In Its Natural Habitat" for a Hugo.
Free to read (*with* annotations) in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social issue 2.
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-el...
Free to read (*with* annotations) in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social issue 2.
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-el...
February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
It would be very cool (and also completely shocking) if someone were to nominate my 2025 climate-fiction short story "The Electric Ant In Its Natural Habitat" for a Hugo.
Free to read (*with* annotations) in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social issue 2.
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-el...
Free to read (*with* annotations) in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social issue 2.
www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-el...
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We really must get that 'I have neighbours everwhere' mantra I our heads and live by it. Not just in the US.
It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
I have neighbors everywhere.
February 12, 2026 at 6:57 PM
We really must get that 'I have neighbours everwhere' mantra I our heads and live by it. Not just in the US.
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4. Here is a Brimstone Moth, making a frankly wank attempt at camouflage on my old porch window.
February 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM
4. Here is a Brimstone Moth, making a frankly wank attempt at camouflage on my old porch window.
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Good morning to voice and audience and that oft forgotten one: the reader.
February 12, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Good morning to voice and audience and that oft forgotten one: the reader.
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my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here!
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
February 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here!
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
Not now, Toad the Wet Sprocket.
February 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Not now, Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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hey, we've got an interview with
House, Body, Bird author @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social!!
check it out
and get a load of that cover!! 😍
links to preorder, too 🖤
psychopomp.com/the-wonder-o...
House, Body, Bird author @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social!!
check it out
and get a load of that cover!! 😍
links to preorder, too 🖤
psychopomp.com/the-wonder-o...
February 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
hey, we've got an interview with
House, Body, Bird author @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social!!
check it out
and get a load of that cover!! 😍
links to preorder, too 🖤
psychopomp.com/the-wonder-o...
House, Body, Bird author @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social!!
check it out
and get a load of that cover!! 😍
links to preorder, too 🖤
psychopomp.com/the-wonder-o...
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THIS is the dystopian film i wanna see... sentient ai is less a threat to me than the billionaires sacrificing our children to preserve it.
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
THIS is the dystopian film i wanna see... sentient ai is less a threat to me than the billionaires sacrificing our children to preserve it.
"aenigmatite" -- poets, you know what to do.
In which I spread the good word of peralkaline igneous petrology to the New World, and finally get an American news corporation to print fun facts about aenigmatite. 🥌
Why do all Olympic curling stones come from one small island off Scotland’s coast? | CNN
Every single curling stone in the Winter Olympics is crafted from a special granite found only on Ailsa Craig, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland.
edition.cnn.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
"aenigmatite" -- poets, you know what to do.
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"And what becomes of rain returning to crevices.
What feeds them to the amplitude of later days and suns.
How much nitrogen must then be bought to keep an oak from dying."
—Guérin Asante
alocasia.org/2023/06/21/g...
What feeds them to the amplitude of later days and suns.
How much nitrogen must then be bought to keep an oak from dying."
—Guérin Asante
alocasia.org/2023/06/21/g...
Guérin Asante :: “On the Other Side of Moss” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM
"And what becomes of rain returning to crevices.
What feeds them to the amplitude of later days and suns.
How much nitrogen must then be bought to keep an oak from dying."
—Guérin Asante
alocasia.org/2023/06/21/g...
What feeds them to the amplitude of later days and suns.
How much nitrogen must then be bought to keep an oak from dying."
—Guérin Asante
alocasia.org/2023/06/21/g...
The answer to the question you're now asking is Edward Flynn. #mapoli
Today, I filed a resolution in the Boston City Council to formally support Mayor Wu’s “Executive Order to Protect Bostonians from Unconstitutional and Violent Federal Actions.”
I am deeply frustrated and profoundly disappointed to share that this resolution was blocked by one of my colleagues.
I am deeply frustrated and profoundly disappointed to share that this resolution was blocked by one of my colleagues.
February 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
The answer to the question you're now asking is Edward Flynn. #mapoli
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I had two clients moved within an hour of ICE learning we were looking for them and advising us there was not plan to move them.
A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved.
3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions.
20/
A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved.
3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions.
20/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I had two clients moved within an hour of ICE learning we were looking for them and advising us there was not plan to move them.
A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved.
3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions.
20/
A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved.
3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions.
20/
kdrama where no one drinks: does such a thing exist? The one I'm watching now _exclusively_ lets people articulate important feelings when they're hammered?
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
kdrama where no one drinks: does such a thing exist? The one I'm watching now _exclusively_ lets people articulate important feelings when they're hammered?
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Poetry fundraiser for rent assistance happening 2/15 at 4pm central! Featuring yrs truly, @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social, @katnuernberger.bsky.social and more! Donate to receive the zoom link.
Artwork ("The Gift") by Pete Railand of @justseeds.bsky.social
Artwork ("The Gift") by Pete Railand of @justseeds.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Poetry fundraiser for rent assistance happening 2/15 at 4pm central! Featuring yrs truly, @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social, @katnuernberger.bsky.social and more! Donate to receive the zoom link.
Artwork ("The Gift") by Pete Railand of @justseeds.bsky.social
Artwork ("The Gift") by Pete Railand of @justseeds.bsky.social
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The woman in the bathrobe below is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social.
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The woman in the bathrobe below is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social.