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CD Covington
@exaggerated.bsky.social
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Writer, linguist, Germanist. Roller derby official in Berlin, Germany.
Freelance copy editor always looking for work. (rates on website)
web: www.cdcovington.com
Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Flights of Foundry is this weekend! I'm going to be on some panels (and maybe chatting with folks, or possibly reading, I don't know). Here's my schedule!
Flights of Foundry 2025 CD Covington Audience, Authenticity, & Diacritics with Your Conlang 26.09. 21:00 CEST (15:00 EDT) Chill ‘n’ Chat 27.09. 9:00 CEST (03:00 EDT) Roller Derby: Sport for Nerds 27.09. 12:00 CEST (06:00 EDT) The Heart and Soul of Translation 27.09. 20:00 CEST (14:00 EDT) Works We Love & Why We Love Them 27.09. 21:00 CEST (15:00 EDT) The Start of Something New 28.09. 16:00 CEST (10:00 EDT)
September 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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So I got a marketing email from Snag (the tights people) that was something about "enter your grunge era," and in true late-GenX, grunge teen style, I clicked it, wondering if I would get some DELIA*S clothes I always wanted.
Not even remotely. It's emo-punk-goth. With the brownest plaid.
Screenshot of a Snag marketing email. Six female-presenting people of varying sizes and races are modeling their new line, which involves wide-leg plaid pants, plaid skirts, half-mesh shirts, v-neck wrap tops, and dog chains. The grungest thing is something that looks like combat boots. Another screenshot of the same email, with the same people wearing ankhs (90s yes, grunge ... ehhh), plaid pants and skirts, and half-mesh shirts. One skirt appears to be black leather with chains and metal on it like a belt. This is goth-punk, not grunge.
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't grunge.
REM "Automatic for the People"
September 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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A tale in two pictures
Screenshot from German news site Tagesschau: Deutschland stoppt bis auf Weiteres den Export von Rüstungsgütern nach Israel, die im Gazastreifen eingesetzt werden können. Das teilte Bundeskanzler Merz angesichts der geplanten israelischen Offensive mit. (German Chancellor Merz says he's stopping weapons exports to Israel.) Another screenshot from Tagesschau, this one with a bright red "breaking" banner on the top Israels Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu hat Deutschland vorgeworfen, mit dem teilweisen Stopp der Waffenexporte die Terrororganisation Hamas zu belohnen. Er habe seine Enttäuschung in einem Gespräch mit Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz ausgedrückt, teilte sein Büro mit. (Netanyahu accuses Germany of helping Hamas.)
August 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I don't believe in these chain letters
But what if true
Photo of a waterfall in thingvellir Park, Iceland
August 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Heading to Leipzig for the Buchmesse (I have a day ticket for tomorrow). Who will I see? #lbm
View out the window of the Ringbahn
March 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Tschau, Chris
(Screenshot of Tagesschau)
A screenshot of Tagesschau about the Bundestagswahl: Lindner kündigt bei FDP-Ausscheiden Rückzug an
February 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Cute cat pic
Up-close with a blue cat with a white blaze on her nose and a tuxedo bib. She looks very content
February 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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You have gotten your shongles shit
Walgreens: get your shongles shit today
February 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Sunset said trans rights
Sunset through trees. The sky is pink and blue striped like the trans flag.
January 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I have so many pet pics it's hard to choose!
A long-haired grey cat with toys under her and a pink flamingo toy on her A long-haired grey cat with a white stripe on her nose and a white tuxedo bib is sitting on a perch.
December 14, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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Spotted today in the wild ( @otherlandberlin.bsky.social ) -- @wiswell.bsky.social 's book!
The UK paperback edition of John Wiswell's Someone you can Build a Nest in, displayed on a bookstore stack
November 30, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Rereading The Saint of Bright Doors for the @otherlandberlin.bsky.social book club next week! Can't wait to yell about it!
The Saint of Bright Doors (print book)
November 23, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Hello new followers! Welcome! Please enjoy this picture of my cat.
October 20, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #594,901!
I am user number 594901, joined Aug 17, 2023.
September 17, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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It's 8:45 pm
July 6, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Berlin today
February 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who backed this project -- I'll be sending an update later today.
Screenshot of a kickstarter progress bar, which reads: €5,939 pledged, 395% funded, 265 backers, 0 seconds to go
September 14, 2023 at 7:07 AM
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Less than 24 hours to go! And just over 700 € to unlock the last stretch goal -- a never-before-published short story from me!
Boosting appreciated :D

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cdc...
The cover mockups of "Filling your worlds with words" are in the top row. Below them reads "Dawn of the final day: 24 hours remain." In the bottom right is the KICKSTARTER logo in bright green.
September 13, 2023 at 7:30 AM
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It did fund :D And now we're heading for stretch goals and more essays in the collection to be unlocked!
Stretch goals! 3000 €: bookplate for physical tiers [mockup of design] 6000 €: Short story: "On the Origins of Station Worker Speech" for all backers. Be the first to read this story!
August 17, 2023 at 7:40 AM