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Jacqui Zeng

@jacquiz.bsky.social
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reader. writer. tutor. adjunct. cat person. reader for ANMLY and Tinderbox Poetry Journal linktree of my published poems: linktr.ee/jacqui.z she/they reposts =/= endorsements, views are my own

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JusticeWithJean @jeantrounstine.com · 06/09/2026
Do you have any idea what #prisoners make inside and how they mange to cover their expenses? Read this fascinating article by Richard "Corey" Fox, Nathan Gray and Chastyn Hicks @prisonjournalism.bsky.social
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What a Monthly Budget Looks Like in Prison
Take a look at three monthly budgets from people inside different U.S. prisons.
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
final day!
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The immigrant advocacy/rapid response group Hijos de Migrantes has released its report on ICE abductions across Chicagoland for July 2026. HdM estimates ICE took 102 people in July. This is fewer than the estimated 139 people taken in June, though HdM cautions its figures are likely an undercount.
Hijos de Migrantes estimates ICE took ~102 people from Chicagoland in July.Hijos de Migrants breaks down detainments by weeks, showing the second week of July was the busiest for ICEPer HdM, most ICE abductions took place between 7 and 11 amA list of the Chicagoland communities which ICE hit in July.
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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
So happy to have found a bootleg Spelling Bee that works as elegantly as the original! No need to keep paying the NYT for this! spellsbee.com
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@anmlymag.bsky.social seeks new work in all genres! The editors are especially interested in receiving “translation and creative nonfiction, as well as work from marginalized writers, and work from writers outside of the US.” Submit by August 1: www.clmp.org/members/open...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...
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Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses • Wisconsin Examiner
A Madison police officer shot a man several times, killing him during an arrest for allegedly casing cars in the Willy Street neighborhood.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
millionexperiments.com/projects/bttf - I love the work BTTF does. #Map4Youth which I launched on Twitter in 2019 was their first "grant" when they were just starting. It was $2500.
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Black Trans Travel Fund
The Black Trans Travel Fund is a grassroots, Black Trans-led Collective, providing Black transgender women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers to self-determining and acces...
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 01/07/2026
☀️ As The Sick Times approaches our 3-year anniversary, we’re shifting from a startup to a more sustainable newsroom, in it for the long haul. And we’re marking that shift with a summer sustainability fundraiser. 🌱 2 weeks, 200 new Supporters? Help us grow? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/
Black and chartreuse text over a cartoon fam background reads, “The Sick Times. Help us create, grow, and sustain our Long COVID journalism.” 
2. Thermometer graphic in which The Sick Times' fundraising goal is represented by a row of pixelated hearts, as you might see in an old-school video game. The hearts are all black outlines, and the first one on the left is filled in with a little bit of red. Text above the hearts reads: "The Sick Times - Goal: 200 new monthly supporters." Underneath the hearts, there is a cartoon drawing of a field with flowers.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/06/2026
If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...
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Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers
On the morning of June 16th 2026, fifteen anti-ICE organizers were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities.
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap42
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ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
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David Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!
To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC...
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
ALOCASIA #18 is here w/ queer planty writing as spring sings! w/ Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki, nawa angel alviar horton, Logan Elizabeth Craig, Jodie Whitchurch, Matty Layne Glasgow, Shantell Powell, Shantal Jeewon Kim, KB, Blue Đào Nguyễn, & Gospel Chinedu ALOCASIA.org
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement
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Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center
When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We have been raising the alarm about detainees dying in DHS custody, but there must also be accountability for these release related deaths. Justice for Daphy, for Nurul and every disabled person caught in this deadly machinery of ethnic cleansing. migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
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The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This is LA. While CBP’s large, highly-visible terror campaign moves from city-to-city, ICE’s more clandestine operations continue daily all across America. The scope of what is happening nationally, on a daily basis, is difficult to truly comprehend.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/01/2026
Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes
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Alma Campos @almacampos.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The national response to Minneapolis has me revisiting the killing of Silverio González Villegas by ICE in Franklin Park, IL. I reported on it last fall. Worth remembering. southsideweekly.com/a-tragic-hom...
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A Tragic Homecoming
After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief, ...
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
NYT is reporting at least 80 Venezuelan’s dead after this American attack. No breakdown on how many were civilians. That’s in addition to the 115 people the US military has recently killed in boats.
Update from NYT:

Jan. 4, 2026, 1:03 p.m. ET
Mariana Martinez
Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela
The death count from Saturday's attack has risen to 80, between civilians and members of security forces, according to a senior Venezuelan official.
He added that the number could rise further.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 03/01/2026
Everything is infuriating and the people in charge are irrevocably evil.
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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Do *you* want to own *the cutest tea towels* in the world? Check out Rogers Park Free Store’s Silent Auction!
Rogers Park Free Store Virtual Silent Auction 
The Roger’s Park Free Store will be holding a winter silent auction from December 5 through December 20, 2025.
Here’s how to participate:
1) Visit the link in our bio to access items and see current bids
2) Email rogersparkfreestoreauction@gmail.com to place your bid - we will email to confirm your bid as well as if you are outbid within 24 hours 
3) Final bids are due at 11:59pm CT on December 20, 2025
4) We will announce winners on December 21 (who will then donate through our Open Collective account) and deliver items in early January!Some of the items available!
Image of a small wall calendar with colorful illustrations by Olly Costello
Image of the book Read This When Things Fall Apart edited by Kelly Hayes
Image of two screen printed tea towels by Andria Green — one pink with green pea pods and one blue with navy moon phase pattern
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
nativeorganizing.org
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
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Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Direct link: nlgchicago.org/donate/
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Support the NLG!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16/10/2025
@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/
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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit
A large group of ICE agents in full tactical gear.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/09/2025
The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago
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Donate to Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund, organized by Maria Orozco
Support Chicago’s Street Vendors We are the Street Vendors Association of Chicago… Maria Orozco needs your support for Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Sodexo continues to deny T Hoxha written confirmation of her library job, 25 days into her hunger strike. Pressure their large shareholders (incl. Artisan Partners and BlackRock), which are listed here. Use our toolkit for email templates: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
Chart from Sodexo website, "Changes in the breakdown of share capital and voting rights over the last three years." 
Largest are Bellon SA, Artisan Partners, MFS Investment Management, BlackRock, First Eagle Investment Management, Employees, Treasure Shares, and Others.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
‼️T Hohxa, a Pal Action prisoner is on DAY 16 of their hunger strike. Their statement Aug 26, 2025: "A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."
Statement from T. Hohxa august 26, 2025
"A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."
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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Now is a great time to donate to Palestinian orgs and gofundme’s! Dollars are going a little bit farther, for now.
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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
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Jacqui Zeng @jacquiz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
📌 (just reposting so I remember to share this thread with my students next semester)
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 29/07/2025
On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala, writes @mikeelk.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/chri...
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Where's the Outrage Over Labor Leader Chris Smalls' Violent Arrest by the IDF? | Common Dreams
Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a single major media outlet has covered his violent detention by the...
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 24/07/2025
The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
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Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.
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Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…
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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This week the Worldcon membership will get a chance to add a #poetryhugo to the ballot permanently. Poetry has been here from the beginning and it deserves recognition. If you love speculative poetry, please share this awesome article by Lynne Sargent.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Restore Alaa's account! She's a real person. This suspension undermines her ability to seek support, which undermines the survival of her family. These people are dying. Let her fucking talk and connect with people who care.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Our most beloved comrades at Open Books have been running an urgent fundraiser for Sameer. They are getting close to their $10k goal thanks to a few new matching campaigns. Please contritibe and share, offer a match (named or anon- dm us) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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Urgent Fundraising for The Sameer Project
As many journalists in Gaza are now experiencing serious health problems due to the extended campaign of forced starvation, it is more important than ever for all of us to keep speaking about the unsp...
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Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Incredibly I have six sonnets in the new issue of The Missouri Review. I've included two of them here. Thanks as always to the editors for including my work! These ones are full of space and Florida and vanishing, so a good summation of my obsessions.
Front cover of the new issue of Missouri Review. A person with long hair in a bun and a missing torso looks down on a grey city scape that they tower over.Sagittarius A*

In the pool a dead June bug floated towards me and I ducked 
beneath it. Underwater I watched it turn in the current 
how a star would watch a lost astronaut tumbling along 
in the vacuum of space. I find the term vacuum unfair 
to space. It contains after all most of everything. 
We're the noisy exception—our colliding satellites, 
our deep space probes and gold records proving to ourselves 
we will outlast ourselves, if only in the vacuum. What's gold 
to a universe full of gold? What's a lonely record 
to a universe of collapsing stars? Last time I listened 
to “Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground,” I felt the song 
hurtling further away from Johnson’s burned house, 
hurtling further away from Jesus's name, from the holes 
in God’s hands, those two voids. I sank into that voice like water.
Of Those Hidden Stars, Minimalist Zodiac, Tell Me

In Florida the night cactus is preparing to bloom, 
and I'm cooking breakfast wondering what new flowers 
have emerged yellow along my fence line—lighthouses 
someone built while I was sleeping. The night cactus blooms 
only once a year. It looks like a sky temporarily 
absolved of light pollution. Will we stubbornly cling 
to the old constellations, or invent new ones reflective 
of those hidden stars? Minimalist zodiac, tell me 
how in these days anyone can without despair remain 
open to the world. Tell me how to look for constellations 
without wondering which shape will be the first to lose 
its attendant animal. I am dicing tomatoes 
and cracking eggs. I am sleeping through extinctions. The night 
cactus, in brutal heat, readies its zodiac of blooms.
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
it's the end of non-binary awareness week today, and beestung is stalled at $385/$1840 for our campaign to keep paying and publishing writers under the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit umbrellas. and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated! www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
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Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark
What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"For decades, policy makers and profiteers have swapped human care for high-stakes testing, scripted curriculum, and surveillance. AI isn’t the disease — it’s a symptom of a colonizer’s model of schooling that is extractive and dehumanizing, rather than liberating."
truthout.org
Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.
AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Dear friends, I’m trying to support The Sameer Project at a time when this support is desperately needed. Any amount you contribute will help. 🙏 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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[W4G] $500 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
July 2: A new match! Poet Alina Stefanescu has stepped up to offer a $500 match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing with their new Medical Campaign! Help us raise $500 --> which will me...
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