Callie Jennings
@aporianautics.bsky.social
Heaven bless the babe. What queer books she must have read.
she | threemachineexpression.substack.com
she | threemachineexpression.substack.com
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines..."
tfw the cites span 2400 years
tfw the cites span 2400 years
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines..."
tfw the cites span 2400 years
tfw the cites span 2400 years
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the captured sparrow whispers
& the wind by way of reply
reassures her with arrows;
sorrowfully she may not fly
the dead doves rot
as cranes hunt in the marshland
the tadpoles forgot
sorrowfully she may not cry
electric monks chant openly:
sorrowfully we may not lie
though it means that we may die
& the wind by way of reply
reassures her with arrows;
sorrowfully she may not fly
the dead doves rot
as cranes hunt in the marshland
the tadpoles forgot
sorrowfully she may not cry
electric monks chant openly:
sorrowfully we may not lie
though it means that we may die
August 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
the captured sparrow whispers
& the wind by way of reply
reassures her with arrows;
sorrowfully she may not fly
the dead doves rot
as cranes hunt in the marshland
the tadpoles forgot
sorrowfully she may not cry
electric monks chant openly:
sorrowfully we may not lie
though it means that we may die
& the wind by way of reply
reassures her with arrows;
sorrowfully she may not fly
the dead doves rot
as cranes hunt in the marshland
the tadpoles forgot
sorrowfully she may not cry
electric monks chant openly:
sorrowfully we may not lie
though it means that we may die
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Magica Riot: Full Bloom’s now sold over 300 copies in less than a week of sales, if you were ever doubting that trans books can find audiences
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Magica Riot: Full Bloom’s now sold over 300 copies in less than a week of sales, if you were ever doubting that trans books can find audiences
so honored to be cooking in your rotisserie, Ann 🪱🔪💜
Do you (like me) have strong feelings about worms and/or your voice (knife voice)?🪱🔪
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain, Google Keeps Feeding Me Distressingly Hot Factoids About Hermaphroditic Earthworm Sex
by Callie Jennings VOICEMAIL POEMS · "When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain…" by Callie Jennings Until I thought to check, I thought I knew:worms emerge from dirt to taron the ...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
so honored to be cooking in your rotisserie, Ann 🪱🔪💜
Running these "Reading / Writing for the Strength to Act" general-audience workshops for the last couple months has brought so much life back into my own writing practice - if you just hang out with professional chefs you can take for granted how much getting some food on the table, period, matters.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Running these "Reading / Writing for the Strength to Act" general-audience workshops for the last couple months has brought so much life back into my own writing practice - if you just hang out with professional chefs you can take for granted how much getting some food on the table, period, matters.
Proof that poets are prophets: this poem is now extra poignant with the last Old Farmer's Almanac dropping in 2026 :/
“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"
- Lauren Mills
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/l...
- Lauren Mills
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/l...
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Proof that poets are prophets: this poem is now extra poignant with the last Old Farmer's Almanac dropping in 2026 :/
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I read poetry like I'm eating it and I write poetry like I'm throwing up. literacy was probably a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I read poetry like I'm eating it and I write poetry like I'm throwing up. literacy was probably a mistake.
Catch my 🪱🪱🪱 pantoum just a page over from Jamie Hood @veryhotmomm.bsky.social !!!
🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/f...
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Catch my 🪱🪱🪱 pantoum just a page over from Jamie Hood @veryhotmomm.bsky.social !!!
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🏳️🌈 QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️🌈
We’re now open for submissions until 30th November.
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/
We’re now open for submissions until 30th November.
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🏳️🌈 QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️🌈
We’re now open for submissions until 30th November.
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/
We’re now open for submissions until 30th November.
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/
The speed at which my timeline took a Steam preview page of one "cozy" airport cop sim that no one has played, from a no-name developer that makes <10k-selling shovelware, and leveraged it against all media that gets labeled "cozy" can't *possibly* have anything to do with anti-femininity, nope.
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The speed at which my timeline took a Steam preview page of one "cozy" airport cop sim that no one has played, from a no-name developer that makes <10k-selling shovelware, and leveraged it against all media that gets labeled "cozy" can't *possibly* have anything to do with anti-femininity, nope.
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There was Emily the one from Ur and Emily the one from Uruk and they had nothing in common
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There was Emily the one from Ur and Emily the one from Uruk and they had nothing in common
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Enheduanna was on a first name basis with all twelve Sumerian girls yet even then there was some confusion about which Emily, Willow, or Julia she was talking about
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Enheduanna was on a first name basis with all twelve Sumerian girls yet even then there was some confusion about which Emily, Willow, or Julia she was talking about
somehow both true:
1) trans women have always existed, in every time and place in history, and will always exist
2) there are only like two dozen of us and we're all at least a tiny bit famous and we probably met at a party once
1) trans women have always existed, in every time and place in history, and will always exist
2) there are only like two dozen of us and we're all at least a tiny bit famous and we probably met at a party once
October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
somehow both true:
1) trans women have always existed, in every time and place in history, and will always exist
2) there are only like two dozen of us and we're all at least a tiny bit famous and we probably met at a party once
1) trans women have always existed, in every time and place in history, and will always exist
2) there are only like two dozen of us and we're all at least a tiny bit famous and we probably met at a party once
See also:
"transfem life is rich despite transmisogynistic violence" / "wow trans girl tragic"
"vicious policing of transfem sexuality is bad" / "wow trans girl depraved"
"this sucks" / "wow trans girl brave".
I write to resist flattening but sometimes it feels like it backfires :/
"transfem life is rich despite transmisogynistic violence" / "wow trans girl tragic"
"vicious policing of transfem sexuality is bad" / "wow trans girl depraved"
"this sucks" / "wow trans girl brave".
I write to resist flattening but sometimes it feels like it backfires :/
The lovely @anemoneart.bsky.social came up with this version of the meme to describe an occasional problem seen in reading A Rotten Girl!
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
See also:
"transfem life is rich despite transmisogynistic violence" / "wow trans girl tragic"
"vicious policing of transfem sexuality is bad" / "wow trans girl depraved"
"this sucks" / "wow trans girl brave".
I write to resist flattening but sometimes it feels like it backfires :/
"transfem life is rich despite transmisogynistic violence" / "wow trans girl tragic"
"vicious policing of transfem sexuality is bad" / "wow trans girl depraved"
"this sucks" / "wow trans girl brave".
I write to resist flattening but sometimes it feels like it backfires :/
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Proud of this talk I gave last week! How stories about death warp our politics & what we can do about it.
(The game design aside was like 4x as long in the first draft - let me nerd out at you about the death drive in Chutes & Ladders & Pachisi sometime)
(The game design aside was like 4x as long in the first draft - let me nerd out at you about the death drive in Chutes & Ladders & Pachisi sometime)
9 17 25 Reflection - "What we talk about when we talk about death" with Callie Jennings
YouTube video by Sanctuary Boston
www.youtube.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Proud of this talk I gave last week! How stories about death warp our politics & what we can do about it.
(The game design aside was like 4x as long in the first draft - let me nerd out at you about the death drive in Chutes & Ladders & Pachisi sometime)
(The game design aside was like 4x as long in the first draft - let me nerd out at you about the death drive in Chutes & Ladders & Pachisi sometime)
I am grateful to have lived long enough to watch electronic mail take its place alongside the letter & the mix tape & the actual answering of the actual phone as yesteryear's romantic transmitter of yearning & delight
when my wife shares the latest version of her book or her novella with me and I get the email notification I always do a little giggle because I get to see her name and I love her so much
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I am grateful to have lived long enough to watch electronic mail take its place alongside the letter & the mix tape & the actual answering of the actual phone as yesteryear's romantic transmitter of yearning & delight
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hey if you follow me and you like my shit about bleak sci-fi worlds and wounded women and the horrors of existing as trans you should go read this right now
palimrya.itch.io/dragonfly
palimrya.itch.io/dragonfly
Get Your Gun, Dragonfly by Palimrya
cybernetic transsexual hellworld romance
palimrya.itch.io
October 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
hey if you follow me and you like my shit about bleak sci-fi worlds and wounded women and the horrors of existing as trans you should go read this right now
palimrya.itch.io/dragonfly
palimrya.itch.io/dragonfly
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I have busted
the ghost
that was in
your hood
and which
you were probably
scared of
and screaming
Forgive me
busting
makes me
feel good
the ghost
that was in
your hood
and which
you were probably
scared of
and screaming
Forgive me
busting
makes me
feel good
October 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I have busted
the ghost
that was in
your hood
and which
you were probably
scared of
and screaming
Forgive me
busting
makes me
feel good
the ghost
that was in
your hood
and which
you were probably
scared of
and screaming
Forgive me
busting
makes me
feel good
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
I'm coming from a more optimistic starting point in that I experience an extremely real trans creative & intellectual scene. I think this is in part because so many artists & intellectuals work to cultivate their own robust critical apparatus, though it looks different from book reviews. 🧵
I don't think it's a hostility problem so much as an apathy problem. A 'what difference will it make' problem.
An unwillingness to ruffle feathers, an unwillingness to allow there to be stakes in the labor of art problem.
An unwillingness to ruffle feathers, an unwillingness to allow there to be stakes in the labor of art problem.
Aside from the obvious factor of our (uneven) material oppression, hostility to criticism remains the biggest stumbling block to the development of a real trans creative and intellectual scene. Until we develop a robust critical apparatus, it seems like we'll just keep playing pretend.
October 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm coming from a more optimistic starting point in that I experience an extremely real trans creative & intellectual scene. I think this is in part because so many artists & intellectuals work to cultivate their own robust critical apparatus, though it looks different from book reviews. 🧵
i'm nothing in between you know you wouldn't want it any other way
i'm an urchin i'm a consumer i'm a beached whale im a shopping bag in the pond
October 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
i'm nothing in between you know you wouldn't want it any other way
dear my entire culture: more captivating invaluable weird many-fonted historical artifacts of fury and organizing with hot girls kissing on the front please.
At an industry thing for LittlePuss and was chatting about Gendertrash with ppl, expressing amazement it's been moving the numbers it has been (which I am still amazed by). It was then in real-time I realized in addition to everything else we did print a book with two hot girls kissing on the cover
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
dear my entire culture: more captivating invaluable weird many-fonted historical artifacts of fury and organizing with hot girls kissing on the front please.
"THESE ARE THE KIND OF FANTASIES WE CAN AFFORD"
Very excited for this one. Some of my favorites of Hikari's here: beestungmag.com/issue18/two-...
and here: coupletpoetry.com/nora-hikari/
Very excited for this one. Some of my favorites of Hikari's here: beestungmag.com/issue18/two-...
and here: coupletpoetry.com/nora-hikari/
October 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"THESE ARE THE KIND OF FANTASIES WE CAN AFFORD"
Very excited for this one. Some of my favorites of Hikari's here: beestungmag.com/issue18/two-...
and here: coupletpoetry.com/nora-hikari/
Very excited for this one. Some of my favorites of Hikari's here: beestungmag.com/issue18/two-...
and here: coupletpoetry.com/nora-hikari/
yesssssss go get the thing, friends!
EASEL 01 is now available secure your copy NOW!!!!
readeasel.com
readeasel.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
yesssssss go get the thing, friends!
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for the night crowd 🌙
ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
for the night crowd 🌙