C. L. Polk
@clpolk.com
I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
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C. L. Polk
@clpolk.com
· Nov 14
Okay I need to tell y’all something
if someone doesn’t act right in my replies I must block them
People don’t know how to act here yet, and will come to argue or dunk back and drag it out and listen Bluesky doesn’t put up with that
I don’t either
Conduct yourselves
if someone doesn’t act right in my replies I must block them
People don’t know how to act here yet, and will come to argue or dunk back and drag it out and listen Bluesky doesn’t put up with that
I don’t either
Conduct yourselves
I handed in my galleys this morning and I have a new project starting on monday and i'm drifting around my apartment feeling ... weird. like I can't relax.
usually when I hand something in I feel like I get to have a week where I don't have to even think about doing anything even if i feel guilty
usually when I hand something in I feel like I get to have a week where I don't have to even think about doing anything even if i feel guilty
February 7, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I handed in my galleys this morning and I have a new project starting on monday and i'm drifting around my apartment feeling ... weird. like I can't relax.
usually when I hand something in I feel like I get to have a week where I don't have to even think about doing anything even if i feel guilty
usually when I hand something in I feel like I get to have a week where I don't have to even think about doing anything even if i feel guilty
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One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
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You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
I don't know if this will work but Tim Blackett was talking about KS rewards for Black bird commons and they careen straight off into inventive. You can get these cool t-shirts though. I love the designs.
Black Bird Commons: from Pop-Ups and Dreams 2 brick-n-mortar
Help bring an inclusive, Community-Built Bookshop + Art Market + 3rd Space to reality on Treaty 4 Territory in Regina, SK
www.kickstarter.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I don't know if this will work but Tim Blackett was talking about KS rewards for Black bird commons and they careen straight off into inventive. You can get these cool t-shirts though. I love the designs.
This play wasn't performed in its day because it was most likely censored. Now I kind of want to make readthroughs of it exist, like those zoom dramas from the pandemic
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
This play wasn't performed in its day because it was most likely censored. Now I kind of want to make readthroughs of it exist, like those zoom dramas from the pandemic
It also seems like a good day for bookshop to let me buy ebooks with my gift certificate money. I am still waiting.
Today seems like a good day to download the Bookshop ebook reading app.
February 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
It also seems like a good day for bookshop to let me buy ebooks with my gift certificate money. I am still waiting.
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This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
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Btw, if you post a cutesy ai caricature of yourself, you’re announcing to any artist friends you have that you don’t give a shit about them. 🤘
February 5, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Btw, if you post a cutesy ai caricature of yourself, you’re announcing to any artist friends you have that you don’t give a shit about them. 🤘
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Step 1: Spend decades telling yourself tales of your genetic superiority
Step 2: Build a career demonizing people who don't look like you
Step 3: Spin lies re: vast numbers of bad people invading
Step 4: Believe your own hype
Step 5: Stumble over the lie-ness of your lies
Step 6: Fix that bug ⬇️
Step 2: Build a career demonizing people who don't look like you
Step 3: Spin lies re: vast numbers of bad people invading
Step 4: Believe your own hype
Step 5: Stumble over the lie-ness of your lies
Step 6: Fix that bug ⬇️
They were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out.
(Part 2)
(Part 2)
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
February 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Step 1: Spend decades telling yourself tales of your genetic superiority
Step 2: Build a career demonizing people who don't look like you
Step 3: Spin lies re: vast numbers of bad people invading
Step 4: Believe your own hype
Step 5: Stumble over the lie-ness of your lies
Step 6: Fix that bug ⬇️
Step 2: Build a career demonizing people who don't look like you
Step 3: Spin lies re: vast numbers of bad people invading
Step 4: Believe your own hype
Step 5: Stumble over the lie-ness of your lies
Step 6: Fix that bug ⬇️
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People blame women for "getting ahead on their looks" but what actually happens is creepy men put their looks ahead of their competence and refer them to similarly creepy men, often without their knowledge.
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
People blame women for "getting ahead on their looks" but what actually happens is creepy men put their looks ahead of their competence and refer them to similarly creepy men, often without their knowledge.
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cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked.
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
February 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked.
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
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The reason it's important for normies to recognize that what they want & are doing to fight the regime is leftism is they don't have to reinvent the wheel, they can tap into what humanity has been building to take care of this, & listen to the humans who have been aware all along things need fixing.
February 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The reason it's important for normies to recognize that what they want & are doing to fight the regime is leftism is they don't have to reinvent the wheel, they can tap into what humanity has been building to take care of this, & listen to the humans who have been aware all along things need fixing.
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In a time of book bannings, AI, and decreased library funding, the best thing you can do to support books is be very, very loud about them. @mollytempleton.com on how we can help the authors we love:
It's Time to Get Loud About the Books You Love - Reactor
Some ideas to help keep literature and the book community alive.
reactormag.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
In a time of book bannings, AI, and decreased library funding, the best thing you can do to support books is be very, very loud about them. @mollytempleton.com on how we can help the authors we love:
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Covid really pulled the last of the curtain down. Everywhere.
The people at the top do not have brilliant minds and never have
Hollywood producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein:
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
February 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Covid really pulled the last of the curtain down. Everywhere.
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Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
all this time there were actual craft rules being gatekept? Well shit
February 5, 2026 at 5:49 AM
all this time there were actual craft rules being gatekept? Well shit
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RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM
RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.
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This app did the thing yet again where it updated itself and turned “Require alt text before posting” off, so if you have that set, go into Settings > Accessibility and turn it back on (and if you don’t have it set, I recommend doing that)
February 4, 2026 at 10:40 PM
This app did the thing yet again where it updated itself and turned “Require alt text before posting” off, so if you have that set, go into Settings > Accessibility and turn it back on (and if you don’t have it set, I recommend doing that)
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i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
Hey so Tim Blackett is a book guy and he is trying to start a bookstore in Regina, SK and it may seem mad to start a bookstore in this time but hope is a tenacious thing
I love the vision of the place he's building and the intentions for it to be somewhere to go
I love the vision of the place he's building and the intentions for it to be somewhere to go
Black Bird Commons: from Pop-Ups and Dreams 2 brick-n-mortar
Help bring an inclusive, Community-Built Bookshop + Art Market + 3rd Space to reality on Treaty 4 Territory in Regina, SK
www.kickstarter.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Hey so Tim Blackett is a book guy and he is trying to start a bookstore in Regina, SK and it may seem mad to start a bookstore in this time but hope is a tenacious thing
I love the vision of the place he's building and the intentions for it to be somewhere to go
I love the vision of the place he's building and the intentions for it to be somewhere to go
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If "all people probably need is a little help, and its wrong for people to hoard that help" was actually internalized in the US, entire power bases would collapse.
One of the retirement porjects is a book on how a rabidly Christian nation obsessed with sin turned Greed into a virtue.
One of the retirement porjects is a book on how a rabidly Christian nation obsessed with sin turned Greed into a virtue.
February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
If "all people probably need is a little help, and its wrong for people to hoard that help" was actually internalized in the US, entire power bases would collapse.
One of the retirement porjects is a book on how a rabidly Christian nation obsessed with sin turned Greed into a virtue.
One of the retirement porjects is a book on how a rabidly Christian nation obsessed with sin turned Greed into a virtue.
Maybe they wouldn't have struggled if they focused on good journalism, but we know why they didn't
Speaking to WaPo employees, editor Matt Murray says cuts are about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
February 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Maybe they wouldn't have struggled if they focused on good journalism, but we know why they didn't
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It feels like billionaires are destroying everything right now just to taunt us. It's like a bully at the beach kicking over other kids' sand castles and saying "Whose gonna stop me?" I think it's time we show them.
How much longer are we gonna allow billionaires to wreck everything good?
February 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
It feels like billionaires are destroying everything right now just to taunt us. It's like a bully at the beach kicking over other kids' sand castles and saying "Whose gonna stop me?" I think it's time we show them.
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