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Rebecca Kirk Connors

@aprilist.bsky.social

Poet, story-teller, addicted to regency romances & houseplants. Zinester. Author of the chapbook, Split Map. Co-director of the thenotebookscollective.com (@notebookscltv.bsky.social).

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 5h ago

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads:

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”

1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · yesterday

I’d say this election is just about all Sayed and done

The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 2d ago

We're back in August for what promises to be a fantastic conversation and reading with poets Dorsía Smith Silva & Vincent Toro. Learn more and register (for free!) here: thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

In Conversation: Dorsía Smith Silva & Vincent Toro

Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning, CavanKerry, 2024) and Vincent Toro (Hivestruck, Penguin 2024) will explore why their writing in these precarious times is essential…

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d ago

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

democrat is socialist and socialist is communist

jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 5d ago

just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 6d ago

New news: the 4th, beach times, interviewing Mary Simmons at @solsticemfa.bsky.social, a fox, & upcoming events. It's a lot.

This World Makes My Brain into Pudding

Patrick saw our fox! Dear dears, Welcome to the end of July. I lament the end of summer while still having about four weeks left. It went by too fast and I...

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 7d ago

imagine getting dunked on by Playboy for being weird about women’s bodies

Playboy@playboy.com · 7d ago

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

An X post by user @BrianAtlas that reads: "Hiplet trend of men refusing to date women with hip dips is INFURIATING women. If it’s okay for women to have a height preference, it’s okay for men to prefer to date women without hip dips." It comes with a diagram.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last wk.

The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.

The sword situation
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement. I called my brother to check if there were any developments with respect to his sword and he said he could sort of make it out way up there if he squinted. I don’t know why everyone’s losing it over these swords he said. Then I called my congresswoman to ask yet again if there were any plans to tackle the sword situation as it were and the girl who answered said it was the official position of the office that the swords do not exist except in some rare foreign cases. I could tell she was reading from a script. Can you let her know that they most certainly do I said and she said that she would pass the message along and hung up. Outside some landscapers were at work trimming the neighbor’s hedges. Each of them with a gleaming blade perched inches from the back of their necks. Why didn’t they just grab it at this stage I thought. Why didn’t they just reach right up and grab it.

New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · last wk.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · last wk.

The folks at @asteralesjournal.bsky.social have been so kind and I’m thrilled this poem found a home with them. A meditation on art and mortality and maybe, just maybe, you’d like to read it? www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-gianforc...

Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters@asteralesjournal.bsky.social · last wk.

Today we begin sharing our Issue 7 gems! Check out @adamg.bsky.social's beautiful ekphrastic meditation "As Above, So Below." www.asteralesjournal.com/2-7-gianforc...

Shadows draw upon the lowly parts as if they were the artist and not whichever light source was kind enough to share its labor. I wonder how much of art in luminosity and how much of it is fear. Adam Gianforcaro, "As Above, So Below"

Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · last wk.

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last wk.

This was before October 7 the first day of Israel Palestine history

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2y ago

Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was assassinated by Israel two years ago today. Here's Israeli cops beating pallbearers in her funeral procession. www.welcometohellworld.com/look-at-what...

JT Cestkowski @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 2w ago

HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2w ago

Old age is always wakeful

james o @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social · 2w ago

non-poets: wow, a master’s degree, you must be so skilled with words and language me looking at the blank Word doc:

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 2w ago

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 2w ago

The only thing inevitable about AI is its failure I would love to put on a cap & gown and give this one-sentence speech to hundreds of CEOs

Futurism@futurism.com · 2w ago

It's a bloodbath.

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool

Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 3w ago

"POWDER MILL RD; Walk in party looking for advice on standing around in public." Same

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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tonight! We'll be at the Solstice MFA Reading Series to chat with @marysimmons.bsky.social before her reading at 7:30 PM. You can catch the reading online - it's free! Can't wait to catch up with all these amazing folks!

solsticemfa.bsky.social@solsticemfa.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us for the fourth event in our July 2026 Reading Series, featuring faculty members @jennifermurvin.bsky.social and Laura Williams McCaffrey and our 4th Spotlight Poet Mary Simmons, nominated by @notebookscltv.bsky.social. Hang with us in person or tune in via the livestream: buff.ly/fViwAs7

Solstice MFA Reading Series, 131 Woodland Road, Auburndale, Massachusetts , 02466 and livestreamed on Zoom

July 13, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern featuring Jennifer Murvin, Laura Williams McCaffrey, Mary Simmons

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3w ago

They made the lives of people struggling at poverty wages worse from the remove of and with the protective bracketing procedural politeness of the Senate... violence by another name. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-rube-gol...

I’ve been thinking a lot about killing people lately. No, not like that, relax.

What I mean is all the manifold ways people in this country with power of any kind use it to kill. Not directly mind you. Not with a knife or a gun. Instead I’m concerned with the much more mundane and pedestrian acts of violence that our legislators and other bureaucrats dispense perfunctorily under the cover of How Things Are Done. Most notable recently in this long and noble American tradition was the Senate vote on including a minimum wage raise in the Covid relief package over the weekend. All Republicans and eight Democrats including Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Jon Tester of Montana, Tom Carper and Chris Coons of Delaware, Angus King of Maine, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and, rather infamously by now, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, mustered their considerable powers, considered the plight of Americans currently working at the minimum wage, looked them in the eye and said:

No. Fuck you.

Or rather they didn’t look them in the eye and that’s sort of the problem. They made the lives of people struggling at poverty wages worse from the remove of and with the protective bracketing procedural politeness of the Senate. This, much like our legislators’ continued refusal to enact Medicare for All is an act of violence by another name. It is sending people to suffer and to starve and to scrape by and to slowly but surely die. It might take a bit longer than other more reliable forms or killing but it is killing all the same.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3w ago

What can you do to lessen some suffering where you are?

Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Got this vibe

Edith Wilson's proof of life photo after Woodrow Wilson had a stroke. He's propped up at his desk and she's standing next to him pointing to a paper he should sign. He had been incapacitated for weeks.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mitch McConnell has released a photo and the first statement on his condition: "I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia."

A photo of Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao

Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you are demanding people not even criticize the clubby sort of whitewashing of a warmongering petty monster devoted to installing a dictatorship in America, you are holding regular people to a moral standard Lindsey Graham never cleared a single day of his life.

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 4w ago

harpers.org/archive/2018...

21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

every lecture about respecting the dead in the wake of Graham's (or McConnell's presumed upcoming) death from the mainstream media should be taken as what it is: a declaration that they respect power more than they respect our democracy or constitution and that they will collaborate in enslaving us

Richard J Laya@richardlaya.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lindsey Graham used his power as a US Senator in an attempt to overthrow a legitimate election, all in favor of an authoritarian pedophile. He literally called the GA Secretary of State in an effort to change the certified results. His heart attack should have occurred in a prison cell, not at home.

solsticemfa.bsky.social @solsticemfa.bsky.social · 4w ago

The first reading of our July 2026 Reading Series was a hit! Huge congrats to Maurizio Turco, Gina Chung, Kathleen Aguero, and Kevin McLellan. Check out the recording here: youtu.be/Iwxw4BiWsr0

Valerie A. Smith, Back to Alabama, Sundress '24 @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social · 4w ago

Whether Alabama is your home or simply a place you've passed through, I hope these poems meet you wherever you are and remind you that our roots continue to nourish us, even from a distance. 📖 Back to Alabama is available now for $20. 💚 Cash App: $kv25549 💙 PayPal: @vsmithpoetry #BackToAlabama