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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 22/08/2026

I have a favorite bookmark now, thanks to @kristadb1.bsky.social

A hand painted bookmark of a post and wire fence, golden green field, a copse of what I think are aspens, a house sided with a shed, and birds startled into a big blue sky with high, thin clouds. I laid it on my current knitting pattern.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 07/08/2026

I have a picture of my FC room but I ripped out the back half for honestly no good reason. I wanted to try something and it's a disaster. Anyhow here's how it looked before

My FC room. Designed for socializing and a handy place to sleep if things run late. A large dark room with tufted leather Chesterfields, a long table, bookshelves, and a sleeping loft built in final fantasy xiv.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 08/07/2026

so i'm usually fixated on a game and the torch has shifted to final fantasy xiv, much to the delight of my local friends. I have my own room in the guildhouse and I'm in the midst of decorating it. tax:

A screenshot of a final fantasy player's private room in the Free Commany house. the player has gone to the trouble of floating furniture above floor level to create a loft in the back of the room. underneath the loft is a big desk with two chairs facing it and a door partition. beside the wall of bookshelves is a long table with four chairs, and to the right is a pair of tufted chesterfields at right angles to each other.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 10/06/2026

I'm pretty happy about Nextcloud Office releasing today

A screenshot of Nextcloud Office's new free document app, built to be compatible with Microsoft. The interface is much like Office 2019 without the copilot junk.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 06/04/2026

blue prince players: have I messed up with this foundation placement? do I need to start a new game?

a screenshot of the blueprint of day 24 of blue prince. a 5x9 grid has room tiles on it. the tile at row 7, column 3 is called the foundation. once you draft the room, it's permanent.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 24/03/2026

B&N has 25% off preorders I'm trying to write some tropey hook thinger for the gram but The Feywild Job is 25% if you use PREORDER25 when you order it from Barnes & Noble TODAY or TOMORROW check it out www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-feywil...

expanded cover for The Feywild Job by C. L. Polk. Two trees whose branches have grown together to make a bridge provide a place for Saeldian, genderfluid Archfey Warlock, and Kell, male College of Glamour Bard, to sit, relax, and probably bicker a bit for the fun of it.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 09/03/2026

So I don't know what to say about this book. Ten years after Saeldian ditched Kell in Baldur's Gate, they're back together for one last job Kell will get everything he ever wanted. Saeldian will lose everything they have except the power that keeps them safe--but it's the least they can do for him.

The cover of The Feywild Job by C. L. Polk

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 20/02/2026

I can never find these

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 14/02/2026

Alyssa Winans to the rescue!

the cover for The Feywild Job by C. L. Polk. An orchid pink background and two people sitting on the branches of two trees that meet like a bridge

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 14/02/2026

Does this meme sell my book or nah

A two circle Venn diagram. Left: Multiple BG3 runs to romance all companions. Right: Heists but make it cozy. Center: The Feywild Job

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 06/02/2026

some people were asking what this meant. i actually said it on tumblr but here it is

I tell myself: "I'm the owner of the company. But more importantly, I'm also the head of Scriveners Local 23, and I have some demands."

So what that means is that I have a four day work week. I work monday-tuesday and then Thursday-Friday. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.

I have a workplace wellness program that means I can take breaks for yoga, meditation, exercise, and naps.

I have unlimited paid personal days thanks to my project oriented work structure--I get to decide what's the best balance between production and restoration. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.

I have five days each quarter for vacation. attending a convention, conference, expo, bookstore event tour, or a writing workshop *is not a vacation.* that's business-related travel. taking a day or two for a weekend jaunt *is not a vacation.* that's unlimited paid personal days. Five working days. Each Quarter. Vacation. and since I always have Wednesdays off, it doesn't count.

I know there's a piece of your brain saying "I have to hustle, I have to hustle"

I know

My brain does that too

And without the union boss in my head, I'll just work until I drop. That's what I did for years. And then I burnt out so bad that this is the first time I have actually made real, noticeable progress(1.) similar to my pre-burnout rates in years.

Because the union boss went on strike, and the boss' bottom line was *destroyed.* If I have to crunch now, the union boss enforces recovery time. that's all overtime. but since I don't get paid a wage, I get all that back in time.

The boss never wants to see a strike like that again.

There is power in a union, even if it's only the union in your head.

(1.) only it's not similar. it's half the "speed" of pre-burnout. It's probably my actual true real speed and not my sweatshop labour hustle culture speed. FUCK THE BOSS IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 29/01/2026

all my steam games work on linux. I'm messing around in world of warcraft right now. I use something other than the steam launcher to run FFXIV, though and the UI is...a lot like windows 7.

a quick screenshot of my straight out of the box linux cinnamon mint desktop. I'm playing wow in a window. that's my draenei shaman in the middle of Azhure Watch.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 26/01/2026

Hey, do you remember hearing that Pam Bondi said she'd pull ICE out of Minnesota if they handed over their full voter information? have you seen this map?

A map of the USA including Alaska and Hawaii. States are colored in according to this key:

Yellow States have been Sued for not providing complete voter list, including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
Green States Have not provided any voter list.
Blue States Provided publicly available version of voter list or instructions on how to obtain it.
Red States Provided complete voter list, including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
Orange States Received other requests from DOJ, but no request for voter lists.
Gray States have either not had any requests or there is no data.

This map is on the Brennan Center's website tracking DOJ requests for Voter Information. I posted the URL in a reply to this post.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12/01/2026

My home river? Don’t mind if I do!

A photograph of the Fraser River, at night. Lights from the ships docked across the river make streaks of coloured light on the water.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 09/01/2026

i mean, I had a bunch. But this is the first one that i remembered, probably because I wore it out

A cassette case lying on its back. Nine inch nails: pretty hate machine is written on the indexing edge.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 08/01/2026

I keep thinking about this book Don't Bite The Sun, which was published in 1977 and then someone I know shared this exact passage yesterday:

Pathetic, really. I thought City Planning sounded promising. Actually what happens is this: The Committee does a survey, for instance, and finds how the air traffic going to the Adventure Palace gets in a jam near the Time tand Space Monument. So the Committee draws up a report saying this is because of the queue of bird-planes waiting to drop into the Monument nets, and how about making them a special bridge to go and queue on, which will get them out of everyone else's way. This comes through on a computer and is translated by another computer, after which the message is given to the Older Person, officially designated Planner. Swooning at his exhilarating task, he digs up an assortment of suitable machines and programs them to work out the best way ithe bridge should be built, of what, when, how traffic should be diverted meanwhile, etc. Then, proudly bearing the machines' mathematics, color proposals, artistic balance directions and sign posting arrangements in paws clammy with enthusiasm, he trundles off to another machine park, gets a robot to feed the instructions into the relevant computer, and palpitatingly watches metal apparatus go to work making the diversion bridge. And they really kid themselves they've made something, this lot.

Don't Bite the Sun
Tanith Lee
Published 1977, DAW Books

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 06/01/2026

also, here is the image with alt-txt for bluesky people

The cover for C. L. Polk's D&D novel, The Feywild job. Two trees growing side by side with two boughs grown together in an arch, where an elf-human person holding a softly glowing orb sits, head turned to look at the human man sitting beside them playing the fiddle. vines, flowers, and mushrooms bracket the title written in white text on a dusty rose-lilac background.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 05/12/2025

My breakfast (wow, I thought this posted hours ago, now i have to figure out so else to eat)

A blue plate holding my sandwich with whole grain bread, Black Forest ham, swiss cheese, tomatoes, sweet yellow peppers, sprouts, spruce tip mustard, kewpie mayo

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 03/12/2025

You probably don’t but here you go

I took a screenshot of the ribeye on offer at the Midtown co-op. As you can see the prices work out to $29.23 USD per pound for the “cheaper” ribeye and $33.78 USD per pound for the expensive one.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 26/11/2025

i mean it's odd to say "tell us how you make your money" and then not actually let us respond, but Hello, I make my money from writing books and through the kindness of people who bail me out of emergencies on ko-fi and kick in a few bucks a month on patreon my biggest advance was $15k per book

I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 25/11/2025

I finally tried making a mash of whole grains for my bread. i used a 12 grain cereal for the mash and mostly whole wheat flour for the biga. The poppy seeds didn’t really stick

Two loaves of multi grain bread topped with poppy seeds cooling on a wire rack.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 19/11/2025

I know no one asked what I am knitting but I took a progress picture of my #WatermarkCardigan anyway. I wanted it to be shorter on the body so I started dividing for sleeves way early

A Watermark cardigan by Jared Flood, knitted by me. A partially knitted gray cardigan is laid out on the sunny part of the floor to show off the texture of the knitting using knit-purl stitch patterns and cable knitting techniques. The knitter has opted to make their cardigan body much shorter than the original pattern, with deeper sleeves to accommodate layers underneath. Yarn is Briggs & Little Heritage, which does not knit to the pattern gauge, so sizing adjustments have been made. It has taken roughly 120 hours to knit this far. There have been many mistakes.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18/11/2025

I want everyone to post their hometown slop (technically the first one is local slop, I wasn't born here, the second one is hometown slop, though!)

on the left - a dish known as Ginger Beef. strips of beef, battered and deep fried, then tossed in a wok with a sweet ginger and hot pepper sauce. in the early days this dish used to be three chilis hot on the menu and that was a genuine warning. today it's honestly just sweet.

on the right - the sign for the Silver Inn Restaurant, where the dish was invented in 1970. It's round and mounted on a red brick wall.

the California Roll was invented in Vancouver in the 70's as a way to ease Vancouverites into eating sushi because they were all scared of raw fish. Now Vancouver has so much good sushi they take it for granted. This version uses crab-flavored pollock instead of the real crab and mayonnaise that was original.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 05/11/2025

but hold on, you just said you transferred with 14 labelers! how can you be at 21? An excellent question! These labelers were automatically added to my account, are not removable, and count towards my 20, that's how If you're on bluesky or blacksky, do you see these bonus moderation services?

a list of mandatory bluesky moderation services from brazil, russia, turkey, india, and germany that were automatically added to my account when i moved it to blacksky.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 05/11/2025

i originally wanted the e95s because it's the modern version of the elite and it's so very midcentury modern, i mean look at this gorgeous creature

a burgundy and gold pilot e95s, uncapped, posted, and ready to write. I like the inlaid nib and the way the pen tapers.

a Pilot e95s pen in burgundy/gold, capped. the short body makes the capped pen more of a pocket pen size. I like it because the proportions between cap and barrel are interesting.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 01/11/2025

I couldn’t post this and I don’t know why

Paul: we really are anti-torment nexus. you can’t get rid of the torment but, you know, you gotta put in some hours to fight it

My reply: this is an awful idea.

You can’t say “we’re anti torment nexus” and by that you mean “we’re going to use an enforced civility filter that will punish the no-no words. this is what’s best for you.”

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 04/10/2025

wait, what are you doing

a screenshot of the character creator of baldur's gate 3. I have made a Zariel Tiefling Druid, body type 2. that's moonlight horns mod and i think Tav's hair salon.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 02/10/2025

Hold on that's not what I meant--

the character selection screen for a character in world of warcraft classic mists of pandaria. the character is a female draenei hunter in mismatched armor with a red fox companion.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2025

@sidekickai.bsky.social what? an algorithm reply guy? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 24/09/2025

well, you could read a story instead. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark. A white pointed hood with open mouths for eyes on a red background. a pair of black hands raised and curled around the title, where the hooded person's mouth would be.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 21/09/2025

Bluesky's guidelines ban this work.

First edition cover of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, a book in which the author relates the story of being raped as a child of single digit age in the first ten pages. A black silhouette of a bird in flight on a red background with a yellow circle rising (or setting) at the horizon of the bottom of the page.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 21/09/2025

Bluesky's guidelines ban this work.

Titian, The Rape of Europa. Europa holds onto a bull's horns as it races away. Europa waves a red cloth, signaling distress. cherubs chase her, but the bull, who is Zeus in disguise, continues his kidnapping.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12/09/2025

Certified getting in good with Santa Claus 2025

A screenshot of a site that measures how often an account uses alt-text. I used my own account and i have an A plus 100% score.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 10/09/2025

no, because when I scroll through the document and click on the things I had set as headings, they register as the headings of the type I set, but my navigator does not look like that.

What i see when I choose Navigator in Libre Office. it's a tiny pop up window with nothing inside it.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 08/09/2025

No. Absolutely not. oubliette.

Obvious AI pfp
Samuel
@writerswingagency4.bsky.social
O followers 406 following 0 posts
Book Marketer @ Blue Sky | Helping authors turn stories into brands Marketing

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 29/08/2025

Reminded of this every day

Red poster with white lettering. “Keep Calm and carry on.” Allegedly a slogan the British invented for postering in public in case their nation was taken over by fascists.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 25/08/2025

the filthy dude was harmless and didn't deserve his situation and the young woman was having anxiety until I pulled out the tried and true cure of handing her a $5 to look at (this one.) We then talked about how money was nonsense until she felt better.

an example of the 1969 series of canadian banknotes, the 5 dollar bill with Wilfrid Laurier. It's anchored by blue, and to prevent counterfeiting it's very intricately embossed. the ink was raised and wilfrid laurier's portrait is made with contour lines. a mesmerizing experience to look at while on psychedelics to break anxiety. Never fails to prompt the observer to question currency as an all-important thing.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 19/08/2025

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT, BABY! Congratulations to Air Canada Flight Attendants on their swift and unerring strike action!

A timeline of Air Canada's Battle with flight attendants
August 16 - Some 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants begin strike just after midnight. Air Canada grounds all flights.
That same day - Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu orders binding arbitration between management and union, forcing employees back to work.
August 17 - CUPE announces plans to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike.
August 18 - Canada Industrial Relations Board deems the strike "unlawful" and orders employees back to work by noon ET.
Cupe says it will continue to strike despite the action deemed illegal.
August 19 - CUPE announces the union and management have reached a tentative deal. Air Canada says flights will gradually resume.

Screenshot from "Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strike" CBC News, August 19, 2025.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-contract-dispute-flight-attendants-1.7612403

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 13/08/2025

hey Calgary, the Forever Canadian petition is here! check it out. don't forget sunscreen, a hat, drinking water, and that you will probably be standing in line for a while to sign. The lineup to sign was down the block at a pop-up signing in Kensington! forever-canadian.ca

Handbill announcing that Forever Canadian will be hosting petition signing at Rosemont Community Centre and Confederation Park from 4-6 p.m. on August 12 (too late, sorry) and at City hall Plaza steps from 11am - 1pm on August 13, 14, and 15

Handbill announcing that the Forever Canadian petition will be hosted at the Shaganappi entrance of Nose Hill Park, at Bowness Park, at Confederation Park, North Glenmore Park, and Carburn Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on August 16. also on August 16, you can sign at Prince's Island Park from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and at Park Park in Inglewood from 10 a.m. to noon.

Handbill announcing that the Forever Canadian Petition will be hosted at Confluence Park on Agust 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Confluence Park, which is on the riverwalk by the Bison Structure.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 08/08/2025

So I like to pair my knitting with audiobook listening and i have cast on a new sweater and i thought what if i keep track of my listening for the project So here we are! What i have cast on and what im listening to Progress reports to come

Cover of The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling, with the “a novel” on the cover. A person in faded robe and a veil like a medieval nin holds up a honeycomb frame. There is a crowd of faces where only one face should be. A big golden sun icon ia the background for the title, shown in pink.

The cover photo for Watermark by Jared Flood, Brooklyn Tweed designs. A Black woman wearing a pale gray sweater with her back to the camera, showing the chevron diamond panels on the back. (I plan to knit a shorter version than this.

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