🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Philly! 📀 coming up on Sept. 15 📀 Track Changes series welcomes multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, & poet @sad13.horse & bestselling author @mlrio.bsky.social!! grab a bev, catch readings & chats, & buy their books courtesy of H&H Books advance 🎟️🎟️: sept-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com

me when i say "i don't care where we eat"

“AI changes the nature of humanity” no It doesn’t, you’re just not used to being high

happy labor day www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

American workers are getting the smallest slice of the pie on record

Since 2000, the value of the S&P 500 stock index has gained about 600%. Over the same period, inflation-adjusted worker earnings have climbed just 12.5%.

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me when i say "i don't care where we eat"

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

it brings me no satisfaction to get my demonically possessed printer to work through a nonsensical series of rites & offerings bc it just means i've been inculcated with its demonic logic

so excited & grateful to be able to share that preorders are open for my new chapbook-length long poem, Tired Light, coming soon in October from @thirtywestph.com here’s a small sample from the poem, with thanks to @joshdale.co & the whole Thirty West crew :) 💫 (🔗 below)

Philly! 📀 coming up on Sept. 15 📀 Track Changes series welcomes multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, & poet @sad13.horse & bestselling author @mlrio.bsky.social!! grab a bev, catch readings & chats, & buy their books courtesy of H&H Books advance 🎟️🎟️: sept-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com

the first day i get to wear tall boots with a short skirt & a long trench, & feel all of my Powers return to me

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 7d ago

to be real, I’m sick of thinking Serious Thoughts for the day, let’s talk about something dumb: when does summer end, for you? accepting all answers besides Sept. 21 thanks

queer friendship is driving 250 miles to get sublimely high & watch mary oliver docu together in person

was this morning years old when I learned that Nina Simone covered “Suzanne”….. responses to everything will be delayed by min 1 business day

📻 TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT 📻 at the beautiful Solar Myth in South Philly north of the equator and west of the prime meridian of earth

alina pleskova@alinapleskova.bsky.social · 4w ago

joinnnn us for the August edition of the Track Changes reading/listening/conversation series at Solar Myth, ft. two stellar poets: @isaacpickell.bsky.social + @oliviamuenz.bsky.social 🎶 🔸 advance tickets: august-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com 🔸 newsletter: track-changes-series.beehiiv.com

no idea why this cunty Ken doll got ad-suggested to me, but i hope she’s having an amazing summer

my work exists at the intersection of vibing out and just chillin, with a particular interest in troubling the tension between having shit to do and preferably not really having any shit to do but also not having to worry about money for once in my life

me & my poem

joinnnn us for the August edition of the Track Changes reading/listening/conversation series at Solar Myth, ft. two stellar poets: @isaacpickell.bsky.social + @oliviamuenz.bsky.social 🎶 🔸 advance tickets: august-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com 🔸 newsletter: track-changes-series.beehiiv.com

me & my poem

joinnnn us for the August edition of the Track Changes reading/listening/conversation series at Solar Myth, ft. two stellar poets: @isaacpickell.bsky.social + @oliviamuenz.bsky.social 🎶 🔸 advance tickets: august-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com 🔸 newsletter: track-changes-series.beehiiv.com

just remembered that rfk jr / kid rock sauna jeans milk in a hot tub workout video & ruined my own friday afternoon

happy birthday Diane di Prima 🎈

this is more of a comment than a question, but why are people

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

O to no longer be wedged in the stifling armpit of summer

Alice Notley

finally we can bring this canonical text to the cinema

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last mo.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

squarespace hiked up their prices (then apparently walked it back??) but in the meantime, i was galvanized to travel back in time to my blog girlie days & made an intentionally web 1.0 version of my site all by myself using html .... shout out to neocities 👽 alinapleskova.com

alina pleskova

Alina Pleskova is a Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based poet and editor. Author of the poetry collection Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023).

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(guy pointing at the first toaster) is this a bread witch

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Could AI be conscious?

Call me the most reasonable and normal man alive if you will but I don't think it should be legal to bet on if there is going to be a fire. www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/c...

People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN

As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.

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