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Jennessa Hester 🍒
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Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · Apr 1
New poem out today from the always wonderful @petrichorlit.bsky.social!

This is an especially distraught piece from my WIP, and I'm so grateful it has a safe home 💖

Read the full issue here: petrichormag.com/petrichor-27/
wilderness survival be prepared to freeze scout master says or you might not survive beyond us mist crawls along the skin of a pond he says to breathe it in big breaths like a man and taste the fresh cuts it leaves along the inside of your throat let your body quiver as your blood bleaches the fine air red i stand frozen beside the master my throat yoked tight within his grasp a firm man’s hand i feel his fingers crawl inside my mouth and slouch down through the blood he fingers the folds and they peel back leading him deeper and deeper down i do not know who dragged us under the water i cannot tell my flesh from his own i try to scream but men only jump to save little girls from drowning looking up at the pond i wonder if water freezes beneath the surface or just on top
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luelladamico.bsky.social
Having my kids watch this to better understand the winter Olympics.
February 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
In 2002, DeLauro voted against the act that created ICE.

She can absolutely remember a time before ICE. She just can't seem to recall that, a long time ago, she used to have courage.
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t excuse this because everyone should be learning and evolving as they grow older, but I think there’s a generation of Americans, who absolutely cannot fathom a world without police enforcement of everything.
chrispolansky.bsky.social Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 1d
“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.

“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”

www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
February 7, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir

In this print adaptation of her one woman show of the same name, Sainwood offers a lens for reflection and a framework for reimagining our bodies as patient creations who’ll welcome us back.

@billiewrites.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop/p/36views
36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir by Wilhelmina "Billie" Sainwood cover: a water colour painting of two snowcapped mountains nestled in the suggestions of pastoral surroundings under a clear blue sky the cover is transposed over a photo of a mannequin's torso, pale skinned and wet as if by rain. “This is a book about breasts. Specifically, my breasts. I've had them for as long as I can remember, much longer than HRT has pinned them proudly to my chest, pink as boutonnières. These breasts have changed with me, time-lapsing with the messy beauty of a forest floor. They've changed with my body, my beliefs. Our relationship has been a matter of perspective - an ongoing process, constantly occurring, the perpetual rot and decay and rebirth of a person, of nature. It’s random, but purposeful. This transformation has a form all its own. Breasts are a landscape ripe with tension. Breasts are celebrated, shamed, hated, and fetishized across the gender spectrum. Considered unsightly on men, fawned over on women, and, at best, tolerated on those drifting between. Having grown up as a fat “boy,” and transitioning into a woman, breasts were heavy and omnipresent all my life. This book is my attempt at charting my journey, from shame to glory and back again.“ At a summer camp for boys It’s summer at camp at the swim dock. All the boys have their shirts off they’re all laughing, teasing swapping the social slang of insults for friendship of bullying for bouquets of flowers/ The quiet boy laughs doesn’t think of his body much except when he does. When he laughs his breasts jiggle. When the funniest kid in camp points this out brays his joke about milk and udders the dock bursts into a rich symphony of harsh donkey laughs of goose honks of heaving shoulders. The boy’s breasts grow still. They hide in the new canopy of his hunched shoulders. He goes and gets a tee shirt two sizes too big. This is a cave that cannot hide them. Cannot save them from more jokes. Cannot save them from the boys who say they are “tits” But still they hide in the baggy shirt. Still, they decide, it will be years before they come out again.
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
If you can, please help my dear friend Chelsea. They are a wonderful teacher in the New Orleans area, and were a ray of light while getting my MA 💕
Donate to Community Support Needed for Beloved Teacher and Mother, organized by David Brin
Help Chelsea Recover and Cover Medical and Monthly Bills: Meet … David Brin needs your support for Community Support Needed for Beloved Teacher and Mother
www.gofundme.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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mollytanzer.bsky.social
Untrue.
screen cap of convo with Red Ogre Review where they declare that nobody but unpublishable authors seem to care that much about their (very not good) licensing agreement.
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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nonoworks.bsky.social
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February 6, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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cupiidzbow.bsky.social
been meaning to post some stuff here, sorry for not being here in a while. I love these two so much <33333333 🩷🩵 #dkc #donkeykongbananza
digital painted art of donkey Kong and Pauline eating ice cream together in the freezer layer. DK’s hair is dyed a bright pink and wearing zebra printed pants, he’s holding a glass of ice cream with a mini banana on top, his tongue stuck out drooling a bit in anticipation. Pauline sits on his shoulder looking elsewhere offscreen, she’s in a light purple furry coat with a hat with zebra ears on top. Her yellow gloves fall out of the pocket she stuffed them into, DK’s other hand catching them, she’s eating lemon sherbet.
February 6, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
I'm impressed at how logistically, Sabrina Carpenter is like the perfect height to host the Muppets
Miss Piggy and Sabrina Carpenter
February 4, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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quinnanya.me
I wish current events would stop giving me material for future digital humanities / computational text analysis classes illustrating how, if you're searching a corpus at scale, you really need to be careful and actually look at your results to make sure it's doing what you think it is.
tylerfromtheinternet.com Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d
The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring
To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: Sent: Wed 7/15/2009 1:56:13 AM Subject: Re: florida visit? good typing! oh well, looks like it's a long flight anyhow... edmonton is so far away from EVERYTHING. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: i am tied up until aug On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, wrote: You planted a seed with your invite today. I have next Wed thru Sunday off (July 22-26), my last vacation for months. I was going to take polo lessons in Calgary but I (DON'T) think my body can handle it! I pull a muscle every time, and I'm starting to realize my budding polo career might have to take a back seat to my actual job. think What are you doing next week?
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
If you can, please help my dear friend Chelsea. They are a wonderful teacher in the New Orleans area, and were a ray of light while getting my MA 💕
Donate to Community Support Needed for Beloved Teacher and Mother, organized by David Brin
Help Chelsea Recover and Cover Medical and Monthly Bills: Meet … David Brin needs your support for Community Support Needed for Beloved Teacher and Mother
www.gofundme.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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eldiagram.bsky.social
hell yeah
cherrypoppunk.bsky.social Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 7d
Just had two poems accepted by my dream journal, @eldiagram.bsky.social!

It includes the most complicated piece I've ever written, inspired by the trading quests in The Legend of Zelda 🎮
a cartoon character with a beard is standing on a rocky surface .
Alt: a cartoon character with a beard is standing on a rocky surface .
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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decafjedi.com
My co-author Dr. Megan Condis and I gathered nearly 3,000 print ads from the console wars era to analyze whether the popular narrative that "Sega was for rad teens and Nintendo was for babies" actually holds up.

The results paint a slightly more nuanced picture.

Read about it on @aftermath.site!
The Console Wars, As Told By '90s Nintendo And Sega Advertisements
'The way you come to understand [anything] inside and out is by seeing how it evolved over time'
aftermath.site
February 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM
cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
Congressional Democrats are not asking to defund ICE, let alone abolish it.

This is because they also like using the government to harm marginalized folks. They're just less gaudy about it.

Schumer and his ilk are fundamentally just Republicans in disguise.

Support socialists, not Democrats.
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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tanyagoldman.bsky.social
This semester I’ve started taking attendance @ "Intro to Film" screenings by having students complete brief exit survey. They pick an adjective to describe what they watched and explain why. I make a word cloud and share at our next class. Here’s how my ~75 students described IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.
Word cloud based on adjectives used by ~74 students to describe film IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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charliejane.bsky.social
HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks!

Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18

This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!

www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
The covers of five books by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, with the Humble Bundle logo. Supporting the MIss Major/Alexander J. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center.
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
wow i love putting together a packet of other people's poems for teaching. it's one of my favorite things. assembling a packet of other people's poems for a class. like, i can't wait to share something beautiful. and talk about it together. other people's poems. a packet of them!
February 4, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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vulpesokamis.bsky.social
If anybody thinks this is a joke
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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mousterpiece.bsky.social
People were…interplaying…with the film?
February 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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cjzero.bsky.social
reading your timeline like
February 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
Interesting to see three horror movies on the charts this week.
1 - Send Help - $20,000,000 2 - Iron Lung - $17,800,000 3 - Melania - $7,042,000
February 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
Just had two poems accepted by my dream journal, @eldiagram.bsky.social!

It includes the most complicated piece I've ever written, inspired by the trading quests in The Legend of Zelda 🎮
a cartoon character with a beard is standing on a rocky surface .
Alt: a cartoon character with a beard is standing on a rocky surface .
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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robertdownen.bsky.social
Looking like Rehmet will win SD9, a +17 Trump district, by 15 points. The district hasn't elected a Democrat since 1991. Wow.
robertdownen.bsky.social Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 7d
Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less
robertdownen.bsky.social Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 7d
‼️‼️ Still a lot TBD, but Rehmet is leading early vote count by **13 POINTS** in a district that Trump won by 17 points. I'll be updating in this thread throughout the night.
February 1, 2026 at 5:08 AM
cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
Just had two poems accepted by my dream journal, @eldiagram.bsky.social!

It includes the most complicated piece I've ever written, inspired by the trading quests in The Legend of Zelda 🎮
a cartoon character with a beard is standing on a rocky surface .
Alt: a cartoon character with a beard is standing on a rocky surface .
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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jrobertandrews.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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calthalas.bsky.social
Also a great nugget for all book historians, professional vintagers worked in revolutionary America to ensure that pamphlets were stained and foxed immediately after printing to look real and „old“. They probably did this in Boston with tea.
January 29, 2026 at 9:35 PM