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ce-mckenna.bsky.social

Writer & Software Engineering Consultant. UCRiverside - Palm Desert MFA candidate. Reed BA ‘08 | OSU MA ‘12 Boulder County Historic Preservation Advisory Board Reed Alumni Board Boulder, CO mostly. cemckenna.com There’s no such thing as a bad pun.

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It was a three-moose kinda morning.

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Sums it up.

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I missed the residency at @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social so much I decided to spend my birthday poolside. We’ve got Mark Haskell Smith’s MOIST for me and @sgj.bsky.social THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER for Miles. Fresh cherries. Cold soda water. Sun’s out. Guns out. Sky’s out. Thighs out. It’s a good day.

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Topper installed! Let the summer truck camping commence!

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Tesla has not been on the right path for self-driving cars since they rejected lidar in favor of using optical cameras to assess their environment. Elon’s hubris infects everything he touches, and this one has killed already, will kill again. www.engadget.com/transportati...

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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

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When the world burned, I was in Palm Springs. I read. But none of my reading changed the news. I wrote. But all my words were silent, between me and the page. And I cried. But all those tears evaporated in the heat.

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Grabbed a @gabino.bsky.social original in DIA on the way to @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social — the hottest MFA residency in the world (unless there’s a residency in Kuwait…)

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Someday, I hope I can master subtextual power dynamics like @jessearmstrong.bsky.social does. #Mountainhead was just what I needed to ease me through my #Succession withdrawals.

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So what’s the consensus: are we all bringing our US passports on domestic flights now, just in case?

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This video of my friend Shodekeh just blew my 5 year old nephew’s mind. Maybe it can brighten your day, too. #beatboxing #music #shodekeh www.youtube.com/watch

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Are we surprised? No. No we are not.

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I don’t love giving myself inflexible identities. Attaching yourself to a group often means you stop criticizing it. You stop checking in with yourself. You go to lengths to protect that core descriptor. But “Good Auntie?” That one, I’ll take to my end.

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Isssssss a coldsssssssneeeek

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Storm over the Indian Peaks. Spring in the Rocky Mountains is moody. It keeps your temperature regulation honest and your senses occupied.

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Dear Google, Your search sucks now. Your AI results are confidently wrong and I have often had the experience of clicking on an ad instead of the link I had added exact search terms for. So now, I shall duck things. Or Go them. I know it’s Bing under the hood but I don’t even care. You did that.

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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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I made my first friend in this yard. It was the summer of ‘89 and we drove over with my great-grandparents from the ranch in Ward. A cluster of kids ran around, getting dirty. Pretending. The magic words, then, as now, were, “Hi, I’m Caitlin. Wanna be friends?” Works every time.

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Dinner at my favorite restaurant on earth. #goldhill #goldhillinn #kirbybump

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My two favorite guys in the whole world—my husband and nephew—had a backward somersault competition, played tag, and ran through sprinklers together. And then walked home hand-in-hand. Summer heartsposion

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it’s not too late to have a completely different body by the start of summer! simply dispose of the one in your basement and murder somebody new

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Just a wee afternoon snoozle

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I rode a #TriumphTrident660 for the first time today. It had never been on my radar before — when it comes to Triumphs, nothing turns my head like the #Thruxton900 (RIP) — but it sure is flirting with me now.

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I think letting a drug-addled lunatic and his crew of sociopathic incels randomly rip apart government agencies with no oversight may not have been as terrific an idea as it seemed

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I woke up and saw the sun and the mountains and remembered that I’m going to be published in an anthology with @jimvermin.bsky.social, who wrote a book with Bad Religion, which means that on the Kevin Bacon scale, I am only TWO Bacons from @badreligionband.bsky.social And whooeee! That made my day

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Yes, I70 is a mercurial mistress. But damn. Them views are worth the occasional pain.

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Can someone sober tell me how to kick my Reddit addiction? I’m just on there because I miss talking to people and haven’t found a good way to connect IRL with new communities. Everything is online now and honestly, the internet super sucks. I miss chatting with smart, odd, new-to-me humans.

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One of the best things that ever happened to me, education-wise, was taking #A-levels, which were conducted mostly with hand-written essays. It taught me critical thinking, memorization, and how to structure my thoughts logically. #Writing is important. gizmodo.com/ai-cheating-...

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