Shelby Edwards
@sedwards.bsky.social
Writer poet with a day job | Senior senior risk manager with a knack for things going sideways | Army Maj (Ret). | Plant geek | Northwesterner | @STEWest at that other place
I love this--how could you not want to have a conversation with this guy?
New goals for how to end my sabbatical (and also, thinking I need to get myself to France).
New goals for how to end my sabbatical (and also, thinking I need to get myself to France).
One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934.
MGM loved it, took him on and he went on to became an Oscar-winning screenwriter.
MGM loved it, took him on and he went on to became an Oscar-winning screenwriter.
February 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I love this--how could you not want to have a conversation with this guy?
New goals for how to end my sabbatical (and also, thinking I need to get myself to France).
New goals for how to end my sabbatical (and also, thinking I need to get myself to France).
It's all FRESH outside...35 degrees, partially cloudy and a good north breeze. Nice, nice weather.
February 19, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It's all FRESH outside...35 degrees, partially cloudy and a good north breeze. Nice, nice weather.
The Trump regime has, without consulting Congress, decided to roll back disability benefits for Veterans. They intend to downgrade a veteran's disability rating based on the impact of medications and other interventions. So if you have any relief www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings
The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.
www.stripes.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:24 AM
The Trump regime has, without consulting Congress, decided to roll back disability benefits for Veterans. They intend to downgrade a veteran's disability rating based on the impact of medications and other interventions. So if you have any relief www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
What a bizarro world inverse of the Voice of America.
Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6
Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...
reut.rs
February 18, 2026 at 11:00 PM
What a bizarro world inverse of the Voice of America.
In the middle of the SAVE act chatter trying to retrieve a parent's birth certificate which the State he was born in has no record of. Neither does the county. If it wasn't for the hospital record (not official) he wouldn't, officially, exist. Millions of people have document limbo like this.
February 18, 2026 at 10:12 PM
In the middle of the SAVE act chatter trying to retrieve a parent's birth certificate which the State he was born in has no record of. Neither does the county. If it wasn't for the hospital record (not official) he wouldn't, officially, exist. Millions of people have document limbo like this.
Arugula and two types of radishes planted today, it's cold, but the sun's out. All the summer weeds are sprouting, the nettles are up, and my apricot-plum cross is ready to flower. Lot's to do out there over the next couple of weeks.
February 17, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Arugula and two types of radishes planted today, it's cold, but the sun's out. All the summer weeds are sprouting, the nettles are up, and my apricot-plum cross is ready to flower. Lot's to do out there over the next couple of weeks.
Been a long time, but I'm walking away from a book I'm reading. Not going to give it a bad review but oof, dark isn't automatically edgy and writers, please find editors to love. Gave it a good try, more than 50 pgs, but nope not even my mild curiosity about it maybe getting better... Life's short.
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Been a long time, but I'm walking away from a book I'm reading. Not going to give it a bad review but oof, dark isn't automatically edgy and writers, please find editors to love. Gave it a good try, more than 50 pgs, but nope not even my mild curiosity about it maybe getting better... Life's short.
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a knockout of a scream from Adam Gianforcaro that I love more and more every reread
"I SAY I’LL BE BETTER BUT I WON’T BE BETTER. HUMANS SAY THAT A LOT. THE FIRST PART AT LEAST. ABOUT BEING BETTER. I’M SORRY ABOUT THAT TOO. WE SAY THINGS WE DON’T MEAN..."
https://www.havehashad.com/m7psu
"I SAY I’LL BE BETTER BUT I WON’T BE BETTER. HUMANS SAY THAT A LOT. THE FIRST PART AT LEAST. ABOUT BEING BETTER. I’M SORRY ABOUT THAT TOO. WE SAY THINGS WE DON’T MEAN..."
https://www.havehashad.com/m7psu
An Apology to Scream Over the Wind When You Stumble Upon a Horseshoe Crab at the Delaware Bay by Adam Gianforcaro
I’M SORRY FOR DISTURBING YOU. FOR THE KIDS TWIRLING YOU BY YOUR TAIL AND LEAVING YOU BELLY UP. I AM SORRY FOR ONCE BEING A CHILD. I AM SORRY TOO FOR BEING A MAN. FOR THE NATURE OF MEN. THAT THE SHELLS…
www.havehashad.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
a knockout of a scream from Adam Gianforcaro that I love more and more every reread
"I SAY I’LL BE BETTER BUT I WON’T BE BETTER. HUMANS SAY THAT A LOT. THE FIRST PART AT LEAST. ABOUT BEING BETTER. I’M SORRY ABOUT THAT TOO. WE SAY THINGS WE DON’T MEAN..."
https://www.havehashad.com/m7psu
"I SAY I’LL BE BETTER BUT I WON’T BE BETTER. HUMANS SAY THAT A LOT. THE FIRST PART AT LEAST. ABOUT BEING BETTER. I’M SORRY ABOUT THAT TOO. WE SAY THINGS WE DON’T MEAN..."
https://www.havehashad.com/m7psu
Ever thankful for analog skills like "light a fire"... upper 30s and raining so it's just lovely outside.
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Ever thankful for analog skills like "light a fire"... upper 30s and raining so it's just lovely outside.
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
This. AOC may not be fully in her powers yet on the international stage, but she was articulate, thoughtful, deeply committed to the American idea and sharp. Very tired, past tired, of the pundit "journalist" class that can't see failing white male leaders who have serious responsibilities.
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This. AOC may not be fully in her powers yet on the international stage, but she was articulate, thoughtful, deeply committed to the American idea and sharp. Very tired, past tired, of the pundit "journalist" class that can't see failing white male leaders who have serious responsibilities.
Thinking one of the most important things we can do right now is to ensure we're listening to voices other than white men. We're building the future, it demands awareness. This piece from Shae O. Omonijo is worth the time.
Something Bigger Than AI is Happening open.substack.com/pub/shaeomon...
Something Bigger Than AI is Happening open.substack.com/pub/shaeomon...
Something Bigger Than AI is Happening
Pay attention and read every single word please.
open.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Thinking one of the most important things we can do right now is to ensure we're listening to voices other than white men. We're building the future, it demands awareness. This piece from Shae O. Omonijo is worth the time.
Something Bigger Than AI is Happening open.substack.com/pub/shaeomon...
Something Bigger Than AI is Happening open.substack.com/pub/shaeomon...
Been wrestling with family documents for a week and just an absolute pox on this long tradition of erasing women's identities. "Mary, wife of" doesn't tell us anything. Generation after generation the line's erased at the level of family history, of course they're missing from the big stuff.
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Been wrestling with family documents for a week and just an absolute pox on this long tradition of erasing women's identities. "Mary, wife of" doesn't tell us anything. Generation after generation the line's erased at the level of family history, of course they're missing from the big stuff.
For everyone worried about AI, there are still vast data sets that do not exist online. Having to plan a trip to the east coast just to be able to dig through paper archives. I love that, and also, I need a patron to fund my travel budget...
February 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
For everyone worried about AI, there are still vast data sets that do not exist online. Having to plan a trip to the east coast just to be able to dig through paper archives. I love that, and also, I need a patron to fund my travel budget...
I'm the half feral aunt, out here doing my thing happily, hunting down our family tree and filling in the ancestor stories, resurrecting all the women who, good heavens, everyone has tried so hard to erase. There's a second book and more than a few poems in here somewhere. All those whispers.
February 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I'm the half feral aunt, out here doing my thing happily, hunting down our family tree and filling in the ancestor stories, resurrecting all the women who, good heavens, everyone has tried so hard to erase. There's a second book and more than a few poems in here somewhere. All those whispers.
People don't remember, but so many spoke out against forming DHS saying it would go to have the exact problems we are facing today. Let it die. Reset and reform the functions.
For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
Never reactivate it.
February 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
People don't remember, but so many spoke out against forming DHS saying it would go to have the exact problems we are facing today. Let it die. Reset and reform the functions.
Oof. Today is an exercise in separating the action from the outcome. The lesson over and over again is we have to do our work, make the ask, and set aside what we think the outcome or response will be. It's impossible. We just have to do the thing, as well as we can, over and over again.
February 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Oof. Today is an exercise in separating the action from the outcome. The lesson over and over again is we have to do our work, make the ask, and set aside what we think the outcome or response will be. It's impossible. We just have to do the thing, as well as we can, over and over again.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but Johns Hopkins is hiring two writers for their president and the pay for the senior writer position caps out at 130k
February 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this but Johns Hopkins is hiring two writers for their president and the pay for the senior writer position caps out at 130k
I made the mistake. Of not putting all the cords in one place. And now I need the one cord. That might be in the box.
February 13, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I made the mistake. Of not putting all the cords in one place. And now I need the one cord. That might be in the box.
With all the tax bits rounded up and sent off to the accountant, now it's family paperwork and website migrations and scheduling professional development (strategic futures workshoping and AI prompting how to's) and trying to slow this year down already.
February 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
With all the tax bits rounded up and sent off to the accountant, now it's family paperwork and website migrations and scheduling professional development (strategic futures workshoping and AI prompting how to's) and trying to slow this year down already.
These men have grown accustom to acting with impunity to the detriment of the world, their unfettered influence has gone too far. More sunlight can only be a good thing.
⚠️ Independent media @republik.ch are facing a lawsuit by Palantir after a 2-part investigation in Dec 25, based on FOI requests, showing how the company lobbied Swiss authorities. The case raises real concerns about freedom of the press. 1/ netzpolitik.org/2026/david-g...
David gegen Goliath: Überwachungskonzern Palantir verklagt die „Republik“
Der Großkonzern Palantir geht presserechtlich gegen das Schweizer Magazin
netzpolitik.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
These men have grown accustom to acting with impunity to the detriment of the world, their unfettered influence has gone too far. More sunlight can only be a good thing.
Sitting here at almost midnight learning for the first time of Canada's new citizenship policy as of December 2025 and... well then. Wow. Just, that would be a whole new thing.
February 12, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Sitting here at almost midnight learning for the first time of Canada's new citizenship policy as of December 2025 and... well then. Wow. Just, that would be a whole new thing.
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
All of my socials across all of the platforms are full of joy and gratitude and wisdom over the Bad Bunny half time show and I'm just thinking I'm damn happy I've curated a universe that is all that. Believe, peoples. Go on, let's see what we can do.
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
All of my socials across all of the platforms are full of joy and gratitude and wisdom over the Bad Bunny half time show and I'm just thinking I'm damn happy I've curated a universe that is all that. Believe, peoples. Go on, let's see what we can do.