Ckay
@ckay.bsky.social
Speculative fiction, anime, knitting, thoughts
https://www.ckbickford.com/
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Therapist: how have things been?
Me: pretty good actually
Therapist: and how have you been feeling?
Me: terrible
Me: pretty good actually
Therapist: and how have you been feeling?
Me: terrible
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Therapist: how have things been?
Me: pretty good actually
Therapist: and how have you been feeling?
Me: terrible
Me: pretty good actually
Therapist: and how have you been feeling?
Me: terrible
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Halfway through Fast 11, Vin Diesel turns to CGI ghost Paul Walker, tears in his eyes, growling out, "our carbon footprint is through the roof, Bri."
October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Halfway through Fast 11, Vin Diesel turns to CGI ghost Paul Walker, tears in his eyes, growling out, "our carbon footprint is through the roof, Bri."
ANYONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE THE SUPERMAN MOVIE ISN'T A REAL GOKU FAN
July 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
ANYONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE THE SUPERMAN MOVIE ISN'T A REAL GOKU FAN
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📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
If I told my grad school self that one day I would willingly sit down on a Sunday morning to read someone's dissertation, for fun, she would have a break down
May 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If I told my grad school self that one day I would willingly sit down on a Sunday morning to read someone's dissertation, for fun, she would have a break down
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.
Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.
#McClintockLetters
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.
#McClintockLetters
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Sadly the press continues to be complicit by failing to report accurately on what is happening. This is not a "DEI purge". This is the systematic erasure of the important contributions of Black historical figures. The erasure is rooted in re-segregation and racism.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge
At least one website about Robinson, who trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II, was reinstated Wednesday afternoon.
www.nbcnews.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sadly the press continues to be complicit by failing to report accurately on what is happening. This is not a "DEI purge". This is the systematic erasure of the important contributions of Black historical figures. The erasure is rooted in re-segregation and racism.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Details on the New Owners of Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF locusmag.com/2025/03...
Details on the New Owners of Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been acquired b…
locusmag.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Details on the New Owners of Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF locusmag.com/2025/03...
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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
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USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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"Despite his desire for essentially unilateral authority, he is a spectator to his own presidency the second something goes wrong," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump's response to the deadly plane crash on the Potomac River.
January 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Despite his desire for essentially unilateral authority, he is a spectator to his own presidency the second something goes wrong," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump's response to the deadly plane crash on the Potomac River.
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Wrote about some indie press SFF for @reactorsff.bsky.social! reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...
Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for January and February 2025 - Reactor
This season's indie press titles include ambitious looks at consciousness and intelligence along with memorable trips into literary history.
reactormag.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Wrote about some indie press SFF for @reactorsff.bsky.social! reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...
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Please reach out if you know of specific projects, grants, programs in Iowa that are affected by this action.
(I keep all private communications confidential)
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The White House budget office has paused all federal grants and loans, according to a memo sent to agencies Monday www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Please reach out if you know of specific projects, grants, programs in Iowa that are affected by this action.
(I keep all private communications confidential)
(I keep all private communications confidential)
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a big HOOT GROWL to all 20,000 of you who joined us for last night’s “dimension 20: gauntlet at the garden.”
the last week has been nothing short of surreal. see you tonight for dropout improv at the MGM music hall in boston!
the last week has been nothing short of surreal. see you tonight for dropout improv at the MGM music hall in boston!
January 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
a big HOOT GROWL to all 20,000 of you who joined us for last night’s “dimension 20: gauntlet at the garden.”
the last week has been nothing short of surreal. see you tonight for dropout improv at the MGM music hall in boston!
the last week has been nothing short of surreal. see you tonight for dropout improv at the MGM music hall in boston!
Wrote a poem on the train today.
How many more poets would we have if America left behind its car dependency and invested in public transportation?
I'd rather have thousands of terrible poems than morning traffic.
How many more poets would we have if America left behind its car dependency and invested in public transportation?
I'd rather have thousands of terrible poems than morning traffic.
January 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wrote a poem on the train today.
How many more poets would we have if America left behind its car dependency and invested in public transportation?
I'd rather have thousands of terrible poems than morning traffic.
How many more poets would we have if America left behind its car dependency and invested in public transportation?
I'd rather have thousands of terrible poems than morning traffic.
My biggest takeaway from Nosferatu is that there is still much less Discourse on bsky than twitter and unfortunately, I miss it
January 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
My biggest takeaway from Nosferatu is that there is still much less Discourse on bsky than twitter and unfortunately, I miss it
Boyfriend is gone tonight so I'm getting wild*
*Testing out highlighter tape so I can highlight library books. It works!
*Testing out highlighter tape so I can highlight library books. It works!
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Boyfriend is gone tonight so I'm getting wild*
*Testing out highlighter tape so I can highlight library books. It works!
*Testing out highlighter tape so I can highlight library books. It works!
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Solid relationships are, of course, founded upon being able to show your dumb little cartoons to each other.
December 18, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Solid relationships are, of course, founded upon being able to show your dumb little cartoons to each other.
Before ANYONE comes at me with the statue of David Mandela effect theory, I need you to first convince me that there's any reason to believe that you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you know what his eyes looked like. Why would you know that.
November 17, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Before ANYONE comes at me with the statue of David Mandela effect theory, I need you to first convince me that there's any reason to believe that you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you know what his eyes looked like. Why would you know that.
Read my story! It's, "The Blessing of the Boulder"! Then read the others!
We just published our 40th issue. You can read it here for free: factorfourmag.com/category/iss...
October 1, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Read my story! It's, "The Blessing of the Boulder"! Then read the others!