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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever TS comes up I'm always like "This is a Beyoncé household"

Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · 2d

I was just thinking about this...B just keeps getting better and better! (In fairness I never listen to TS, but just based on the reviews it seems like she's coasting...downward)

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · 14d

just no

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 14d

At tonight’s Seattle school board meeting, director Liza Rankin is calling for a resumption of the mass school closure process that the district abandoned last year in the face of widespread public opposition. This isn’t a surprise. I wrote last month about her determination to force austerity:

Op-Ed: Closing Seattle Schools Is Still a Bad Idea » The Urbanist

# Last week school board director Liza Rankin wrote a memo to her colleagues suggesting a major new round of austerity for the Seattle Public Schools that could revive a plan to close numerous schools...

www.theurbanist.org

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks so much to @lynnelamberg.bsky.social and @sciencewriters.org for featuring my chronicle of trial and error in creating AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR and finding a wonderful publisher in Cornerstone Press. Also a glimpse of the many books that inspired mine. 🙏🏻📚 www.nasw.org/member_artic...

A bookshelf of books with their spines visible, with text beneath reading: Deirdre Lockwood—An Introduction to Error: Poems
“I used to follow parcels of water around the ocean,” Deirdre Lockwood reports in her poem, “My Chemistry.” She divides her first book of poetry An Introduction to Error into four sections: Materials, Methods, Results, & Discussion. A self-described “observationalist,” she offers meditations on research and life: “detecting what is or trying to write it down and not get too seasick along the way.”

A photo of books with the spines visible. Titles include Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss, Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck, Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith, Tributaries by Laura Da', Time is Always Now by Rebecca Starks, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Psalms by April Bernard, Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson, Selected Poems by Gabriel Zaid, Praise by Robert Hass, Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons, Obit by Victoria Chang, Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren, Information Desk by Robyn Schiff, Deepstep Come Shining by C.D. Wright, Blackbird Bye Bye by April Bernard, Collected Poems 1937-1971 by John Berryman, Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz, Rooms are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali, The Nerve by Glyn Maxwell, The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · 20d

Join us tonight! 🎉

Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm so excited to be launching my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, in conversation with the brilliant Sarah DeWeerdt! Come out and join us at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Sept. 18 at 7 pm. Cosponsored by @nswa.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47800

On a green background there are images of two women (Deirdre and Sarah) and a cover image of the book An Introduction to Error. Text on the graphic reads: Elliott Bay Book Company | Deirdre Lockwood w/ Sarah DeWeerdt | Thursday 9/18 7 pm

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · 22d

AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR is out today from Cornerstone Press! Join me in celebrating mistakes and uncertainty. 🙈Thanks a million to Eunice Kim for the beautiful cover art, Rosanna Warren, and everyone who has supported this book making its sidewinding way into the world. ❤️

Cover of the book An Introduction to Error lying at an angle on a wood table. It includes a print by Eunice Kim showing four black circles filled with white dots, three in an organized grid and one only part visible, seeming to float up off the page. Below the image is the text:
An Introduction to Error
Poems
Deirdre Lockwood

Text: "A brainy, passionate, wildly original book; a primer for surviving, with love and courage, on a threatened planet." -Rosanna Warren, author of Hindsight

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · Sep 4

Some good news: *everyone* is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington State, and it *will* be covered by your insurance!

KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · Sep 4

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

Confused about your eligibility for the Covid shot? In Washington state, you’re covered

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

www.kuow.org

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Andrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · Sep 4

"So yes, the governors of the west, of Washington, Oregon, and California, will take up the efficacy of science."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can still order the book for 20% off through Sept. 15 from Cornerstone Press below -- or pick up a copy at Elliott Bay, Third Place or your fave independent bookstore. www.deirdrelockwood.com/book

Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm so excited to be launching my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, in conversation with the brilliant Sarah DeWeerdt! Come out and join us at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Sept. 18 at 7 pm. Cosponsored by @nswa.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47800

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

Shivers. Congratulations!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 22

No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 22

Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous:

newrepublic.com/article/1994...

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Aug 20

I never met Steve Gilbert, but I wish I had -- the stories of his incredible toxicology research, outreach and advocacy (plus winemaking and winetasting clubs!) are legendary. It was inspiring to work on this memoriam piece. deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/mem...

In Memoriam: Steven Gilbert

DEOHS community reflects on a treasured toxicology colleague, science communicator and public health advocate

deohs.washington.edu

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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · Aug 8

Joanne Kyger

NOT YET
Not tomorrow night
but the night after tomorrow
Not tomorrow
but the night after tomorrow
Then the moon will be full
Then the moon will be full

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UW DEOHS @uwdeohs.bsky.social · Aug 7

Offering health care for pets helps their humans too, according to a new study led by DEOHS's Center for One Health Research.
@wsuvetmed.bsky.social @uwsph.bsky.social deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/off...

Offering health care for pets helps their humans too

Integrating human and animal health care increases access to services for unhoused youth, according to new study from DEOHS’s Center for One Health Research

deohs.washington.edu

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."

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UW DEOHS @uwdeohs.bsky.social · Aug 5

It was “win-win” research for shellfish & crop farmers. Then the USDA canceled it.
DEOHS faculty Sarah Collier's project helped shellfish farmers find a market for seaweed that smothers their oyster & geoduck harvests by testing it as fertilizer. @uwnews.uw.edu
deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/vid...

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Aug 5

Congrats, Todd!!

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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · Aug 4

Over the weekend, we received the sad news that two of our @realchangenews.bsky.social vendors were detained by ICE at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Real Change is mobilizing quickly to provide assistance to the vendors and their loved ones. www.realchangenews.org/support-ice-...

Support for ICE Detainees | Real Change

"This is not merely an unfortunate incident; it is a calculated act of cruelty and intimidation that goes against the very fabric of our mission and our city's values," said Krystal Marx, Executive Director of Real Change.

www.realchangenews.org

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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Aug 4

Seattle folks, please vote by tomorrow! This is a critical primary, a chance to elect much more progressive folks to lead our city. I'm supporting:
✨Katie Wilson for Mayor
✨Erika Evans for City Attorney
✨Dionne Foster and ✨Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council
www.thestranger.com/stranger-ele...

The Stranger's Primary Election Voting Guide

The Stranger's 2025 Primary Election Voters Guide

www.thestranger.com

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 2

Good Saturday morning—pour yourself a cup of coffee, and have a poem by @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social 💜☕️

Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Season of salmonberry then currant
raspberry
thimbleberry cherry almost
blackberry

—Deirdre Lockwood, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning!

@deirdrelockwood.bsky.social

“Porosity” by Deirdre Lockwood

Season of salmonberry then currantraspberry thimbleberry cherry almostblackberryof ants in the kitchenof napping while she napswriting undercoverthe blanket naked (its crimson sleeve whirling in th…

moistpoetryjournal.com

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Season of salmonberry then currant
raspberry
thimbleberry cherry almost
blackberry

—Deirdre Lockwood, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning!

@deirdrelockwood.bsky.social

“Porosity” by Deirdre Lockwood

Season of salmonberry then currantraspberry thimbleberry cherry almostblackberryof ants in the kitchenof napping while she napswriting undercoverthe blanket naked (its crimson sleeve whirling in th…

moistpoetryjournal.com

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