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CZEdwards
@czedwards.bsky.social
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Nontheist Quaker. PsyD: CBT/PTSD. SJCleric. She/they
I write #hopepunk fantasy: Rien’s Rebellion 1st book free @ czedwards.net
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discord: czedwards or https://czedwards.dreamwidth.org/
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(no alt, no credit! You can’t fail 50% of the communicating and get a passing grade.)

this is the good stuff. More Christianity like this, I might still be one.
A blue text box with the logo of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the upper left corner, a wolf howling over a basketball: STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET, MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE— GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
January 26, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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It’s a transparent background, Bsky just defaults to black. Flat Greggy can go anywhere.
A photo of a urinal with a quick pasteup of the transparent Bongino image peeking out of the bowl.
January 26, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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For meme purposes:
Transparent background image of Greg Bovino in body armor making him look like an evil, pathetic Don Knotts.
January 25, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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An X dot com screen-grab: NickFrank40 @NickyFrank30 X.com My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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JingleCat, having gotten her favorite Fancy Feast for dinner, is utterly unenthusiastic about rotisserie chicken for dessert. (This isn’t terribly surprising; NinaCat is the chikin fiend.)
A small glass dish with scraps of cooked chicken breast looking forlorn on a grey desk pad.
January 23, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Hey, @fidelioscabinet.bsky.social — those ring bindy things? Worked perfectly.
A pair of small notebooks on a gridded self-healing mat. Both have a light blue ring binding, one has a blue cover. Back of notebook, slowing the binding bar. This one is 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches.
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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What I'm planning is to use a 5 hole punch, paper I like, and cuttable snap-ring binding coils, like this:

If I can build them the way I want, I am happy to share.
January 19, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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Sign tied to a Minnesota barricade (no alt text, no credit!)

Love the parentheticals.
A sign mounted on cardboard and secured to an aluminum bike rack/barricade. The text is a blow up of the restraining order issused againsed ICE on 1/16/2026 Text as below. CASE 0:25-cv-04669-KMM-DTS Doc. 85 Filed 01/16/26 Page 82 of 83 3. Covered Federal Agents are hereby enjoined from: With a parenthetical handwritten that reads: This means: Legally forbidden from" and a second handwritten parenthetical that reads This means: *STOP* a. Retaliating against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge. b. Arresting or detaining persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct and absent a showing of probable cause or reasonable suspicion that the person has committed a crime or is obstructing or interfering with the activities of Covered Federal Officers. c. Using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct.
January 19, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Personal grump:

I have been using Borden & Riley ha’penny sketchpads at 2.5”x3.5” as my daily pocket To Do for years (because writing it down & crossing it off works for me) and I’m on my last one. Guess I will be learning ring binding here real soon because I need paper, not card stock.
A battered, tiny, top ring-bound notebook, half the size of an index card, with eyeglasses for scale. Made by Borden & Riley sometime in the last 3 decades, it originally had 50 pages and was one of at least 6 I bought and carried. It is now much reduced and down to its last 20 sheets.
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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About 350 to go. Anyone in Maine who wants them for the upcoming, hit me up. Ping me and tell me to follow you back so we can exchange Signals or encrypted email. Should be able to get them to you by Monday/Tuesday.

And am happy to set up my next box of about 1000’s recipient, too.
A box, almost full, of small whistles in pink, green, red, black-green sparkly and red-green-blue color-shift.
January 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Yes, there are deliberate patterns, and each represent the most critical setting in the individual story.

Each cover is built out of creative commons images and credit will be in the title page.

Now I just need to finish the damn maps.
Alternate cover for Wisdom’s Fire. Black cover with an impressionist photo-painting of a farmhouse in a field with an autumn tree and green pasture, and storm, smoke, and reflected fire in the sky above the farmhouse. Birds are fleeing. Same fonts. Redemption & Revolution’s new cover. A twilight purple cover with the sun setting clouds to shine, purple mountains in the distance, and a cluster of buildings with tile roofs and a silo with a shallow domed roof at mid-distance. Golden, tangled, semi-feral grassland in the foreground. Same fonts. Foundation’s new cover. A slightly purple-white, domed building on fire, with fire in the distance, and a purple reflection in the foreground. Same fonts.
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Well… I think I’ve got all six covers where I want them.
New Cover for Kingdom. An old city on a hill with plains in the background. It’s late in the day, colors have shifted to greens and pinks and browns. Two visible towers. Title in a rough, italc script in white, series and author name in a smaller all cap font with fancy Rs. New cover for Repudiation & Refuge. Cover image of a colonade at night, with a full moon framed in an arch. Color shifted towards blue and purples with white as a base. Title in same rough, italic font. Series name and author in same caps font. New Cover for The Committed ones. A black cover with a very tall forest in the late afternoon, with golden light between the trees. Two very small figures walking in the distance. Same fonts.
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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There are 8 billion of us on this planet. We’re fine on baby making. Our issue is distribution, and distribution is No Big Deal if you’re not fucking racist. And is not stupid.
This is a profoundly misogynist argument & dude barely missed using Hysterical.
Your white sperm is not entitled to an egg.
Screenshot of a bsky post: William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social • 9h Bluesky Elder I'm gonna say it: it's stupid how psychotic people get when birthrates are discussed. If you scream at and shout down anyone who isn't a handmaids tale type when the subject comes up, then the policy space is going to be dominated by them, for what's clearly going to be a consequential issue.
January 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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With alt-text, useful principles to keep in mind.
A text post: Useful Tips for Dealing with The Republican President Bernice King, daughter of MLK and Coretta Scott King, posted this advice online around 2018. It's been edited: 1. Never use his name, EVER ("the Republican President" will do). 2. Remember this is a regime and he's not acting alone. It is a Republican regime. 3. Do not argue with those who support them - it doesn't work. 4. Focus on their POLICIES, not his orange-ness or that other one's makeup. 5. Keep your message positive. They want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their darkest policies will grow. 6. No more helpless/hopeless talk. 7. Support artists and the arts. 8. Be careful to not spread fake news. Check it before posting. 9. Take care of yourselves, AND... 10. RESIST! Plus, when you post or talk about the Republican President, assign his actions to "The Republican Administration" or "The Republicans". This will have several effects; the Republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what some of them don't like. He will not get the attention he craves. Posted online in multiple places since 2018, including Reddit (r/Isbt) and Facebook.
January 13, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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"Can I tell you a secret? I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country. I think it's a non issue. Without social security numbers they're not getting the welfare people claim they're getting, the vast majority of them are normal people trying to live a better life. This whole wall deport-the-illegals bullshit is just the one percent convincing the working poor to blame a subset of the working poor for the fact that they're all poor, instead of realizing they're all poor due to vast income inequality and resource price inflation in combination with wage stagnation. The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor. It's because the people who control everything refuse to increase your wages." Jessie Memer
January 12, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Better color balance, still not quite right (but I’m going to have to find some tutorials), with a starry night background.

Theirs is a really deep relationship. Rien loves that baby girl like almost nobody else.
Same image, with a dark blue starry night background, and the color balance pulled into a better match of silver-blue.
January 12, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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#DigitalArt
Procreate exercise in stitching images together and altering certain aspects with the liquify tool. No background.
Rien and Emma, or at least, close images to the ones in my head.
I still need to work on color balance in layers, which is not easy.
A manipulated image of the profile of a blonde white woman with long hair and wearing glasses gazing down at a little girl with dark curly hair, a heart-shaped face and big eyes, with her hand to her left ear, and looking into the distance on the image’s left.
January 12, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Or not. Maxfield Parrish era time. I really like this one, going to go sleep on it and read the relevant book it belongs to, but I think this is the one.
A golden hour trio of tile roofed buildings with a shallow domed stone silo, surrounded by dry, golden vegetation, with a violet-shadow mountain range in the background and a twilight purpling sky with reflective clouds.
January 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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I think the finished one. I might still try a nightscape if I can find one I can alter for major light, and possibly some distant hills if I can find one that doesn’t have a hiker in mid-ground🙄, but for now, I’m happy.
A golden hour trio of tiled roof buildings with a round, shallow-dome roofed silo and dry, tangled vegetation in the foreground, on a dark sunset blue sky with pink and smoky clouds. Slightly over-charged colors.
January 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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A not quite halfway image: it had a building I didn’t want and I needed a different sky, so this will get a new background.
A golden hour landscape of a three tiled roof buildings and a stone silo with a curved, shallow dome roof, and a tangle of overgrown, late summer golden vegetation in the foreground. The sun is low and from the right. The sky has been removed and has a blue-grey background showing through.
January 10, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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Pretty muffins. (it’s always worth remembering that muffins are a 1 bowl, 32 minute start-to-finish (including the dishes) project. Even faster if you find a mix you like. It’s something that can at least make a hyperlocal environment a bit better.)
A dozen blueberry-corn muffins, in paper muffin cups in a silver muffin tin. Extra, tiny blueberries on top.
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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And how Jacob Frey resisted replying with, “Maybe I am, but at least I’m not a jackass” I will never know.
Screen-grab of a tweet and reply: Jacob Frey reposted: Mayor Jacob Frey @mayorfrey I am aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland. The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We're demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities. 11:54 AM • Jan 7, 2026 • 109.8K Views Reply from: Elon Musk @ X @elonmusk • 20m You are a pathetic donkey
January 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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Go to Settings, then down to Content & Media. In that panel, untick “Autoplay videos and GIFs”.

Truly. Protect yourselves, okay? Nobody’s paying you to watch snuff films, nobody’s forced you onto a jury, bearing witness ALSO means knowing something exists and refusing to be silent or complicit.
Screen-grab of Bsky’s Content and media panel, with Autoplay videos and GIFs unticked.
January 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Thanks. Covers are hard. The others have come together much more easily. Two left that are being more difficult.
Kingdom’s new cover. An old, winter city on a hill, with a plain in the distant background. It’s been color shifted to a greenish, twilight sky with pink and brown buildings with steeply pitched roofs. New cover for The Committed Ones. A dark forest with late afternoon light between the tall trees. In the distance, two indistinct human figures are on a path. New cover for Wisdom’s fire. An altered image of a distant farmhouse surrounded by fields and trees, with a red, smoky sky and a flock of geese fleeing ahead of the smoke and fire.
January 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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Making messes of public domain images. (still working on replacing book covers for Rebellion because one was withdrawn from CC).

Options for Foundation (because there’s a fire.)

Any feedback? impressionistic is the goal.
A modification of a photo of a domed building, the foreground is dark grey and ashy. The sky in the background is red, yellow, and smoky. It is no longer photo-realistic, it has become impressionistic. Another photo modification of a public domain image of a domed building, also now impressionistic. The building is in shades of grey, pink, black, and white, with a purple shadow in the foreground on a orange-pink ground, with a dark orange and grey-black smoky sky.
January 7, 2026 at 5:36 AM