Christopher Mark Rose
@chrisrose.bsky.social
Spec fiction writer, engineer, owl. Stories in Asimov's, F&SF, Interzone. Avionics in NASA spacecraft. #ViableParadise #SFF #VP23 #SFWA #Codexian #SciFi #CharmCitySpec #writingcommunity BLM 🇺🇦
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All you writers, take strength from the knowledge that what you write may long outlive you. What you write may be indelible. #amwriting
Always a repost—
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Always a repost—
A good idea that seems especially relevant today—
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A good idea that seems especially relevant today—
OK, I assumed this would just be rage bait for me, but he makes some good points, maybe(?) Gift link, so you can judge for yourself—
Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OK, I assumed this would just be rage bait for me, but he makes some good points, maybe(?) Gift link, so you can judge for yourself—
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
i was today years old when I learned that Cookie Monster's actual name is Sid(??!) We've been this close for so long, and he's never told me? I'm like WHAAAA—?
#monsters
#monsters
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
i was today years old when I learned that Cookie Monster's actual name is Sid(??!) We've been this close for so long, and he's never told me? I'm like WHAAAA—?
#monsters
#monsters
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications
undertowpublications.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
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For real. Please check this out, if you haven't. Share if you have. And nominate if you're so moved!
If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading.
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For real. Please check this out, if you haven't. Share if you have. And nominate if you're so moved!
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That's gonna leave a mark—
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
That's gonna leave a mark—
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As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
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In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
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Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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Have you read?
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky at Inner Worlds
This story is staggering. Please heed the content warnings, but it is so worth the pain.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky at Inner Worlds
This story is staggering. Please heed the content warnings, but it is so worth the pain.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Have you read?
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky at Inner Worlds
This story is staggering. Please heed the content warnings, but it is so worth the pain.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky at Inner Worlds
This story is staggering. Please heed the content warnings, but it is so worth the pain.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...
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🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...
#sciencepolicy #saveNASA
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I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
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Don't cross a picket line. 💪
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Don't cross a picket line. 💪
We've been saying this for a while now—
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...
Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
We've been saying this for a while now—
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...
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Everybody could pitch in a little bit to help them out as they look for new jobs—
gofund.me/20b5f322e
gofund.me/20b5f322e
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
gofund.me
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Everybody could pitch in a little bit to help them out as they look for new jobs—
gofund.me/20b5f322e
gofund.me/20b5f322e
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Prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich, but can they convict? www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Jury selected for the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'
Sean Dunn went viral over the summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
www.nbcnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich, but can they convict? www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Is anybody really buying bitcoins from a little atm-like machine in a convenience store? It just seems like the dumbest waste of retail space, and they're everywhere around here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Is anybody really buying bitcoins from a little atm-like machine in a convenience store? It just seems like the dumbest waste of retail space, and they're everywhere around here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
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Seven years ago today, when I was one of the Guests of Honor at that year's World Fantasy Convention, I gave one of the most important speeches I'm ever likely to give. It was all about conventions — what they’ve been, what they are, what they could be, and what they should be youtu.be/XbWHTYj2xl8
Scott Edelman's World Fantasy Convention Guest of Honor Speech
YouTube video by Scott Edelman
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Seven years ago today, when I was one of the Guests of Honor at that year's World Fantasy Convention, I gave one of the most important speeches I'm ever likely to give. It was all about conventions — what they’ve been, what they are, what they could be, and what they should be youtu.be/XbWHTYj2xl8