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C. L. Polk

@clpolk.blacksky.app

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I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · Nov 14

Okay I need to tell y’all something

if someone doesn’t act right in my replies I must block them

People don’t know how to act here yet, and will come to argue or dunk back and drag it out and listen Bluesky doesn’t put up with that

I don’t either

Conduct yourselves

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Soulaan-Lee 🖤 @baldbeaute.bsky.social · 32m

I’m confused if u have a gift or talent why use AI?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 24m

We told you that hiring a woman of colour to do social media for you doesn’t make you a good person.

Please hire a good person to be your candidate for president. There are far better governors out there.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 1h

Minneapolis friends, it is really disturbing to me how many signs I see iin support of Becka Thompson. She is racist, thin-skinned, allergic to nuance and deep thinking, and has proved herself to be utterly ineffective and bullheaded on the Park Board. Why would she be any different on City Council?

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · May 25

Book banners are such pathetic losers I can’t get over it.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 59m

I’ve never looked. If they put me on a list that’s amazing. Please make sure I have no idea who you are, that’s marvellous, how convenient, I appreciate you doing this labor on my behalf

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1h

I have done my best to avoid glurge writing but people use this crap to “edit” their narration on videos and then read it out loud and it makes me “people are eating and I can hear it” level angry

The voice is the same. It doesn’t matter what the subject is. It’s so terrible! can’t they hear it?

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Bookstore Romance Day @bookstoreromanceday.org · 1h

It's only taken a week for 60% of tickets to be claimed. Don't miss out on @oliviawaite.com @clpolk.blacksky.app @kitrocha.com @jessiemihalik.com @evaleigh.bsky.social @stephanieburgis.bsky.social & #LeslyePenelope talking magic lost & found on 11/1 @ 3 PM EDT. www.eventbrite.com/e/1762356127...

Pale blue background. At the top left is the black silhouette of a hand facing downward with golden sparkles spilling from it. At the lower right is a black silhouette of a hand facing upward with golden sparkles rising from it. Gold text at top reads "Lost & Found Magic" Dark blue text below reads "A Virtual Conversation With Olivia Waite, CL Polk, Leslye Penelope, Jessie Mihalik, Eva Leigh, Kit Rocha, Stephanie Burgis" Lighter blue text reads "Sat. Nov. 1 at 3 PM Eastern on Zoom"

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1h

It’s good! I used steam to install battle net and it worked out easier than using lutris. It was a PITA looking for the right folder to drop TRP3 in, but I figured it out!

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 9h

I decided to switch distributions to linux cinnamon mint and l like it better than ununtu

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 15h

YOU CAN EXTEND YOUR SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 10 BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT BEFORE OCT. 14!

Yes it's only for one year, yes you should consider Linux, but if you just don't want to deal with this shit NOW, here's a comfy raincheck. It says "$30" but I just did for free:

windowsforum.com/threads/how-...

How to Enroll in Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) Before Support Ends

As the end of official support for Windows 10 approaches on October 14, 2025, many users are seeking ways to maintain their system's security without transitioning to Windows 11. Microsoft's Extended ...

windowsforum.com

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 11h

heyyyy!

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 12h

Person of the Year?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 17h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 22h

daily 08.10.25

A hard brush colour and light study of a young black woman, done in blocky shapes and colours of brown, yellow and black. the lighting is muted and grey toned

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 17h

Absolutely this. I don’t care if they booking four appointments an hour and billing them all for an hour or just sitting around for 45 minutes doing nothing. It’s wrong.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 18h

So with the teacher strike happening in Alberta, I have discovered that many of Alberta‘s charter schools are found by basically the wives and girlfriends of VCP movers and Shakers?

It’s the Tory version of opening a yoga studio

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 20h

I like this bookshop a lot! yay!

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21h

Ubisoft: "Okay, so in this game you fight the Klan"
Marketers: "You can't sell that in America"
Ubisoft: "Why?"
Marketers: "Umm [gestures broadly]. The Klan fucking won?"
Ubisoft: "Merde."
Marketers: "Yeah, we've asked for the Statue back but they're being dicks about that too."

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 22h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 20h

I rejoice!

indie pattern companies are lovely, but I was going to miss Vogue patterns a lot

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1d

Thank you. I knew y’all were on it.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1d

I don't know what that is

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1d

Aw, YEAH!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1d

Nope. Not at all. On so many levels.