Cathy Coley
@cathycoley.bsky.social
she/her, writer, actor, advocate, former educator, MamaBear 🏳️⚧️, late dx AuDHD. EDS, disabled. BC Survivor. Simon’s Rock Alum. Gun Control Climate crisis is here. 🌎🚫fascists anywhere Represented by AMT! Opinions are mine and only reflect on me.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Earth glides past the spaceship window on this phone in my hand where people sleep in doorways where old moon is in a puddle and the mice eat poisoned greens packed by names we'll never know it's all so impossible too big too small glass eye in my pocket sees nothing at all #sensewrds 251
Short stories can be amazing and life-transforming and for some writers (raises hand) it's easier to write an 80,000 word novel than an 8,000 word short story. With the novel you have so much more time and space and margin to get things right. With a short story you have to nail it all, fast.
Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · yesterdayI remember reading it in high school but had forgotten the title. It amazes me how powerful something so short can be
Noticing some folks seem to think writers just say clever things without understanding how the world works, as if we're all naifs who just happen to be good with words instead of people with formal educations and a professional interest verging on requirement in the ability to conduct research
What if i was a rock, cool and smooth Sat in a river, where nothing else matters, Except the ebb and flow of the tide
“a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet”
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
muellershewrote.com
Verdant Green forest Where I lay on fallen leaves In sun dappled light ✨
I should be clear that the architecture of Bluesky makes it the social media place I most like to be. I'm not on social media to be an influencer or instigator; I want to hang out with folks and have an enjoyable time. This place delivers on that. I hope it continues to do so for a long time.
#sensewrds Prompt 250 Refracted sunlight in dew drops of leaves in the slowest of summer breezes as the August morning mist lifts the rain back up to clouds to storm in the afternoon again. It’s all change and all the same.
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
librarian.net
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Deepest green broad leaves Shake diamonds after the rain Sparkles with every breeze In October will come a reddish hue Before the blues of winter #sensewrds 250
Spokane, Washington is now evacuating due to wildfire🔥 Wildfires are also raging throughout: The western US Canada Spain France Greece Tunisia Algeria
'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.
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There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
Also, a big fuck you to Brett Kavanaugh for writing a whole concurrence in Barbara literally explaining to Congressional Republicans how to do this
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
@maryanabhak.bsky.social thanks for your reposts of poems. 💜 miss you! We need to get on the same coast one of these years!
#sensewrds Prompt 249 Rainbow brilliant child moves from climbing the stair rail, expressing through hair color, clothes, and dabbling in all the arts. They move up into the hills soon, to discover more about the world and themself. Not too soon, even for me, but for that pull on my heart.
#sensewrds Prompt 248 Maple syrup runs down a stack of pancakes, fresh picked blueberries mixed in, steam and bubble hot off the griddle. Some things never change, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina hills to beach, only who is called family, the dog begging by table.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.
PuahHope@puahhope.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, pearl jam, or Alice in chains