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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 1d

A poem for our times; a spell to trap and temper the Chaos Cheeto.

From The Making of a Sonnet, edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 7d

Troubleshooting the US government: "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"

Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 9d

And now we're going to "rescue coal"?! Maybe 1984 isn't the right analogy. This is some planet-destroying Death-Star-superlaser Darth-Vader shit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

www.nytimes.com

Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 9d

We’ve completely moved into a 1984 timeline, where the DOE is concerned.

The only rule about climate change is you can’t talk about climate change.

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

www.politico.com

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 11d

The beginning? What year is it?

Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Sep 5

We'd love to see your proposals for excellent, little-known, and unjustly neglected authors. Reach out for more info!

The Unsung Masters Series @unsung-masters.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're seeking proposals for future Unsung Masters volumes!

Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15.

For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 29

Finally, celebrate with me by buying a book from Tupelo's remarkable and important catalogue -- @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, @jennymolberg.bsky.social, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social -- and so many more!

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 29

The life of a book depends on word of mouth, and this one especially lives in conversation with community. If the themes resonate with you, I’d be honored if you share and promote this announcement. Poetry carries voices despite every attempt to extinguish them. We will not be silenced.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 29

Infinite Scroll / Infinite Eye wrestles with technological & corporate overreach, ecological collapse, and the erasure of identity—it coalesces around a personal journey with illness I’ll share more about in the months to come.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 29

Forché’s work reminds us that poetry is a technology of empathy and resilience: it resists erasure, protects cultural memory, and exposes the forces that demand our silence. To have this book chosen by her feels like an initiation into this tradition of witness.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 29

I got this news the same day the NEA announced the end of its artist grant programs. Our cultural institutions and communities of resistance are being dismantled in real time. Even as I celebrate, I'm mindful of this attempt to eliminate our capacity to understand and even to love one another.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m deeply honored to share that my manuscript Infinite Scroll / Infinite Eye has been awarded the Berkshire Prize from Tupelo @tupelopress.bsky.social, selected by Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social.

So grateful to Kristina Marie Darling, Jeffrey Levine, and everyone at Tupelo!

TUPELO PRESS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THE 2025 BERKSHIRE PRIZE - Tupelo Press

Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Carolyn Forché, has selected INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California as the winner of the 2025 Berks...

www.tupelopress.org

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California is the winner of the 2025 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry.

Congratulations @infinite-scroll.bsky.social

www.tupelopress.org/tupelo-press...

TUPELO PRESS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THE 2025 BERKSHIRE PRIZE - Tupelo Press

Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Carolyn Forché, has selected INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California as the winner of the 2025 Berks...

www.tupelopress.org

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 21

“You have to like what time does.”

This poem by Carmen Giménez Smith.

Poem: Entanglement (Published 2020)

www.nytimes.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 12

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea

I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

www.motherjones.com

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Aug 11

“In April, Elon Musk’s X supercomputing center near Memphis was found, via satellite imagery, to be using dozens of methane gas generators that the Southern Environmental Law Center alleges are not approved by energy regulators to supplement grid power and are violating the Clean Air Act."

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

www.technologyreview.com

Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Jun 23

Green and Brown on Blue, 2025

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Apr 25

No one will believe this, but:

When I was a kid, the top income tax bracket was MORE THAN 90%.

Corporate tax rate was 450% of what it is now.

That was under Dwight Eisenhower.

Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · Apr 25

Effective Corporate Tax Rates

1950: 50%
2025: 13%

Top Marginal Tax Rates

1950: 91%
2025: 37%

If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · Apr 7

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Feb 21

“Elon Musk has [saved] the United States less than 1 percent of its budget. If those savings are put toward renewing or expanding Trump’s tax cut, which seems likely, those billions will flow directly from the mouths of the world’s poorest into the pockets of the world’s richest.”

The Influence of Foreign Aid

America is losing a diplomatic tool the government has relied on for decades.

www.nytimes.com

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Feb 15

Symptoms of The Mumps include:

- Pain in the neck (and critical thinking glands)

- Whole body chills, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, malaise

- Difficulty swallowing (bullshit)

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · Feb 15

Musk + Trump = The Mumps

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KaCe Kapunkt @kck65.bsky.social · Feb 14

'Schalter' #FotoVorschlag

Das Foto zeigt einen kleinen Schaltkasten/Verteilerkasten an einer beigen Außen-Hauswand. Jemand hat zwei Augen aufgeklebt und eine kleine Nase und einen Mund gemalt, so dass das kleine Kästchen aussieht wie ein freundliches Gesicht.

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Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social · Feb 15

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Feb 6

I still don't know if Musk doesn't understand that USAID is a huge government handout to U.S. companies, especially farmers, or if he just doesn't care.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Feb 6

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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