Reposted by CBMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/02/2026"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"buff.lyI’m Still Your AmericaHey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ... 9518204
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Bad Brains and Living Colour Lyle Lovett and his Large Band Kiss Reverend Horton Heat Ozomatli 000
Reposted by CBDavid Archer @davidetc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026"Joining with others to shape a future is the holiest act." This relentlessly hope-filled and smart conversation brought me joy today. By @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @adapalmer.bsky.social @andreahairston.bsky.social @isisasare.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...strangehorizons.comFeminist Futurism Versus Project 2025: An Empowering Speculative SalonWhen Le Guin talks about genre writers as “the realists of a larger reality” we surrender the power of that when we narrow our work to only depict one type of future. We have great power to restore… 04417
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Thank you and also: while there is great intent here, what makes you think he's going to listen to Congress? We've seen no evidence to support that, so Congress needs to actually use the tools and powers available to them, not just say the right things. 010
Reposted by CBBruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister. 9064041489
Reposted by CBPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."organizingmythoughts.orgWe Have to Move"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you." 81008402
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Vaxxed up, bitches!! Flu and covid. Science is real. Fuck MAHA. 040
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 22/10/2025It's nice to be able to support one of my elected representatives!! 030
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Always on point and beautiful and full of heart and funny as hell 000
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Post-truthiness is too real "...people sharing AI slop and misinformation do not actually care that it’s wrong. They care that it matches their feelings. " 020
Reposted by CBRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.theguardian.comShocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca SolnitFeminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture 02782974
Reposted by CBMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/09/2025"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."buff.lyThe Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is... 17816
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Even if you don't read sf and don't know or care what the Hugos are, this is a beautiful and humane and important essay. 140
Reposted by CBLibrary of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 07/08/2025In memory of genius satiric songwriter (and mathematics professor) Tom Lehrer, American Musicals editor Laurence Maslon recalls his memorable e-mail exchanges with livinglegend@ucsc.edu about which stage musicals were CLASSICS, GROUNDBREAKERS, HISTORIC, LANDMARK, or simply GREAT.loa.org“That Was the E-Mail Exchange That Was”: Tom Lehrer Weighs In on the Greatest American Musicals - Library of AmericaAmerican humor lost one of its great voices this summer with the death of genius singer-satirist Tom Lehrer at the age of ninety-seven. The mind behind such madcap classics as “We Will All Go Together... 0174
Reposted by CBEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 04/07/2025🧵Today is Friday, July 4. Good morning ❤️ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all [people] are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, 5297109
Reposted by CBDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/07/2025If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you 292264706
Reposted by CBFLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...newsweek.comWhy Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | OpinionThe lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism 752545382
Reposted by CBNPR @npr.org · 25/06/2025Did we really squeeze the big sound of Living Colour behind the Tiny Desk? Yes, we did. And, yet, the band lost none of its intensity.n.prLiving Colour: Tiny Desk ConcertDid we really squeeze the big sound of Living Colour behind the Tiny Desk? Yes, we did. And, yet, the band lost none of its intensity. 26855191
Reposted by CBMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...rollingstone.comCopaganda and MeMaris Kreizman writes about the way police are mythologized in popular culture in this excerpt from her book 'I Want to Burn This Place Down' 452202496
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I live on the other side of the country but have become quite invested in this race. Do the right thing, New York! 000
Reposted by CBGailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here. stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/stone-soup.ghost.ioHammer SpeechLast night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver... 18410166
CB @cbloom.bsky.social · 22/06/2025My first year of teaching (~25 years ago) my 6th grade class was studying ancient Greece. Boy did asking them to research Greek goddesses on the internet teach me a lesson!! Bring back books in the classroom. 010
Reposted by CBte reo word of the day @te-reo-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025Mānawatia a Matariki: Happy Māori New Year #aotearoa #newzealand 09342
Reposted by CBAndy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025We've updated and republished our guide to surveillance-resistant protest, first published in the summer of 2020. Paywall is down for this. www.wired.com/story/how-to...wired.comHow to Protest Safely in the Age of SurveillanceLaw enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. 3298158
Reposted by CBK.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 12/06/2025Yet again, yes it's okay to be pissed that Democrats aren't doing more. But framing Democrats as the only ones with agency while Republicans hold the balance of power and still get to whoops-a-daisy into authoritarianism is bullshit. Call your GOP reps. 5449130
