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Didn’t know where this one would go when I started writing. Didn’t know where this one would go while in the middle of writing. And then it clicked. On colony collapse disorder, the recent die off of bee colonies, and the return of fascism. Dreams and nightmares. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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Dear Mr. Musk, What we found out is that each one of us is 1. a brain 2. and an athlete 3. and a basket case 4. a princess 5. and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

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Bizarrely nervous and anxious. I have nothing due this week or next. No pressing deadlines. No social events. I’m supposed to have a chill weekend. And now I wonder if I’m FORGETTING something very important. Am I allergic to relaxation?

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@sfchronicle.com is tone deaf publishing this. Especially in this MAGA time where certain people WANT to time travel. The S.F. Chronicle needs to tap into the whisper network about Petaluma. Because THAT is the REAL news.

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Petaluma is lovely…if you’re white or white-passing. Every time I go to Petaluma I encounter racism. My Black friends know to avoid it. The @sfchronicle’s article is right tho: Petaluma Is time travel. And Time travel Isn’t great for BIPOC www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

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Generative and healing to read this interview with @xtinehlee.bsky.social "Some of us are just slow-as-molasses writers. Most of us have day jobs and side hustles that make us less productive as writers. Does that make us shitty writers? No." open.substack.com/pub/erinnbat...

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I got to talk about the thing writers don’t talk about: writer’s block, which Erinn Batykefer more kindly calls a “Long Pause.” Who knew my writer’s block (creative writing and fiction) was so tied up in capitalism and patriarchy? Check it out. open.substack.com/pub/erinnbat...

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Sometimes I wonder if folks named Christian who are also Christian feel super at one with the universe?

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Never have I ever wanted to be on a mailing list. Until. nymag.com/intelligence...

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My #booksky thoughts on how to promote your work in an eshittified hellscape. neonliterary.substack.com/p/twitters-d...

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Me: I just realized that the word for someone who makes things w cloth and needle and thread is a sewer. But it’s also the same as fecal sludge sewer? I’m a sewer not a sewer! O: yes. But people use tailor and seamstress. Not sewer. Me: but I’m not a seamstress. O: but you’re also a sower…

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Last week I wrote about moral injury, revenge, and organizing. This week? Art as resistance and art under attack. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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It's strange that people aren't protesting outside Tesla dealerships, trying to dissuade potential customers, holding signs showing Musk giving the Hitler salute and quotes of the horrible things he has said.

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I just read this unattributed quote and after laughing I wanted to find out WHO the genius is. “When you think there’s no hope left. Remember the lobsters in the tank at the Titanic’s restaurant.”

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This is so generous. It’s hard for us as writers to share these details bc sometimes we get slapped on the hand for doing so.

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There goes NEA/ govt funding for literary orgs that support marginalized voices (“DEI”). From hereon out, only propaganda will receive funding.

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I end up liking humans despite all the shitty ones who 💩 on everyone else. This is my life. Am I a dog.

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Sounds very familiar.

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I wrote about moral injury and the process of licking our wounds. Being aware of the process can help us keep afloat. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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Word on the street is that art foundations are next on the target list. Even if not erased, their funding rubrics will likely change. Gird your loins and organize.

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Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics. When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.

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two threads on korea and how they sort of connect with post-election america bsky.app/profile/anem... bsky.app/profile/anem... two searches on who you should avoid paying oyin.bo/receipts/?ha... oyin.bo/receipts/?ha...

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Yes thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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On these last few weeks of moral injury. And how to move forward. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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This really shines a light on what's happening at this moment, and the importance of actions we take or don't right now. The parallels are shocking, even if you already knew there were parallels.

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This. Right here.

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I am the household reader of the news. I filter and disseminate non-Tr news and any uplifting or amusing news. This week. Has been a lot. I am not sure I can continue reading the news.

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Everything feels like we are in the Upside Down. If we are in Upside Down universe, I would like to request sweatshirts that keep the inside super soft and fuzzy even after being washed. For all this hell, we are at least owed non-nubbly lining.

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My melancholy menopausal mood is a black ankle length hooded cloak. I would look like a walking blanket as a 5’3” human, but it is my mood nonetheless.

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