Cindy Watkins 🌈
@craftysilence.bsky.social
Poet, writer, fencer, geek. Uncle. Please sit.
http://cindywatkins.net
https://bangalorereview.com/2024/05/waiting-2/
http://cindywatkins.net
https://bangalorereview.com/2024/05/waiting-2/
Just listened to Victoria Adukwei Bulley's collection Quiet on audiobook and it is incredible (the writing and the performance).
There you are
this cold day
boiling the water on the stove pouring the herbs into the pot
hawthorn, rose;
....
holding
your heart in your hands at the table saying please, please to nobody else here in the kitchen with you.
How hard, how heavy this all is.
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#Poetry 💙📚👀
this cold day
boiling the water on the stove pouring the herbs into the pot
hawthorn, rose;
....
holding
your heart in your hands at the table saying please, please to nobody else here in the kitchen with you.
How hard, how heavy this all is.
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#Poetry 💙📚👀
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Just listened to Victoria Adukwei Bulley's collection Quiet on audiobook and it is incredible (the writing and the performance).
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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Some of the most heartbreaking calls I took at the COVID info hotline were from meatpacking workers who wanted to know how to protect themselves at work from getting sick.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Some of the most heartbreaking calls I took at the COVID info hotline were from meatpacking workers who wanted to know how to protect themselves at work from getting sick.
Back on my visual poetry nonsense. #poetry
Wrote this a few days ago while I was thinking a lot about how our country's hard fist (fed gov) doesn't want to help the hungry and how our country's open hands (states, localities, local communities) show up to feed the hungry.
Wrote this a few days ago while I was thinking a lot about how our country's hard fist (fed gov) doesn't want to help the hungry and how our country's open hands (states, localities, local communities) show up to feed the hungry.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Back on my visual poetry nonsense. #poetry
Wrote this a few days ago while I was thinking a lot about how our country's hard fist (fed gov) doesn't want to help the hungry and how our country's open hands (states, localities, local communities) show up to feed the hungry.
Wrote this a few days ago while I was thinking a lot about how our country's hard fist (fed gov) doesn't want to help the hungry and how our country's open hands (states, localities, local communities) show up to feed the hungry.
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I didn't like the graphics I saw online, so I made a new graphic of Maimonides' Ladder of Tzedakah to accompany a #philosophy project I'm doing.
Feel free to use it (CC BY SA) for your own purposes.
#charity #giving #MutualAid #TikkunOlam #Maimonides #medieval #alAndalus #alMaghreb #Fustat #mySCA
Feel free to use it (CC BY SA) for your own purposes.
#charity #giving #MutualAid #TikkunOlam #Maimonides #medieval #alAndalus #alMaghreb #Fustat #mySCA
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I didn't like the graphics I saw online, so I made a new graphic of Maimonides' Ladder of Tzedakah to accompany a #philosophy project I'm doing.
Feel free to use it (CC BY SA) for your own purposes.
#charity #giving #MutualAid #TikkunOlam #Maimonides #medieval #alAndalus #alMaghreb #Fustat #mySCA
Feel free to use it (CC BY SA) for your own purposes.
#charity #giving #MutualAid #TikkunOlam #Maimonides #medieval #alAndalus #alMaghreb #Fustat #mySCA
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Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
What is the point if there's literally nothing concrete in that bill for healthcare? It's not the Dems that should be caving.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What is the point if there's literally nothing concrete in that bill for healthcare? It's not the Dems that should be caving.
For any interested, I'll be giving an introductory lecture on Andalusian Poetry (focusing on Muslim and Jewish poetic traditions from the 10th-13th century) for Highland Forde (Frederick MD chapter of SCA medieval education nonprofit) this evening at 7pm EST. meet.google.com/orq-xieo-xfr
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November 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
For any interested, I'll be giving an introductory lecture on Andalusian Poetry (focusing on Muslim and Jewish poetic traditions from the 10th-13th century) for Highland Forde (Frederick MD chapter of SCA medieval education nonprofit) this evening at 7pm EST. meet.google.com/orq-xieo-xfr
I have gotten more work done to this playlist than mortal minds can possibly imagine.
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youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Zelda & Chill - YouTube
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November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I have gotten more work done to this playlist than mortal minds can possibly imagine.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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You are stronger than you think.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You are stronger than you think.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.
Reposted by Cindy Watkins 🌈
Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration
On Fri. my agency emailed to notify the Transit Benefits program was paused due to being unfunded, and it may take a month or two to restart the program even after the shutdown concludes. For me, it's the equivalent of a $200 p/ month pay cut.
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On Fri. my agency emailed to notify the Transit Benefits program was paused due to being unfunded, and it may take a month or two to restart the program even after the shutdown concludes. For me, it's the equivalent of a $200 p/ month pay cut.
DM'ing/GM'ing is the most efficient way to platonically service top your friends.
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
DM'ing/GM'ing is the most efficient way to platonically service top your friends.
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Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.
Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.
Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
New author photo
October 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
New author photo
O autumn lords of merriment! #BaltimoreLanternParade
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
O autumn lords of merriment! #BaltimoreLanternParade
Baltimore Halloween Lantern Parade, I love you.
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Baltimore Halloween Lantern Parade, I love you.
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I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"
#Hinge when it shows you a hottie right before telling you you're out of likes
a man in a suit is talking to a woman with purple hair
Alt: a teen boy in a suit snatches a cookie from a woman with purple hair and takes a bite
media.tenor.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
#Hinge when it shows you a hottie right before telling you you're out of likes
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Thys meetinge koude have been a Renaissance Faire
September 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Thys meetinge koude have been a Renaissance Faire
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listen up, sluts
Speech trainer John Bowe writes, "As a public speaking expert, I use one phrase that gets audiences to instantly perk up and pay attention."
'Highly engaging' people use this 3-word phrase to get people to listen, says public speaking expert
Given people's short attention spans, it's never been harder to get people engaged in what we have to say. Public speaking expert John Bowe shares the 3-word phrase that will instantly make people listen.
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September 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
listen up, sluts