gas station snack break
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blue đào nguyễn * nb Vietnamese-Khmer-Teochew (潮州話) lesbian, poet, mixed media (wood, fibers, clay, & more) artist ⸂⸂⸜(രᴗര๑)⸝⸃⸃⋆｡°✩. previously based: MA, currently based: việt nam. www.bluenguyen.com
"Today. I remembered— / asymmetrically, yes—but / there you were. In a flash. / On every axis." From "Gödel’s Second Incompleteness or Ode on Dissociation II," one of three new poems by Letitia Jiju. ➡️ buff.ly/Nbalq90
“I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone’s decision against silence.” - Yiyun Li
accidentally got one of my campers hooked on competitive pokemon. she's learning type matchups today, but tomorrow she'll be at worlds
A Sandhill Crane offers their young one some sort of plant material chunk. I believe it's a water lily root.
Great Blue Heron on the riverbank, preening & stretching 🪶
Perilous love quartet Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) vs Pennant dragonflies (Celithemis) Crew flint pen strand Bonita Springs, Florida 7-9-26 Rob & Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OneTwoThreeFour, 4 photos each the same bird/s. Alt: #ForJanet, any Robin will do. #birds #ECK #threewordgenre
"Outside, the garage sale goes up in flames and smells like cigarettes, and I remember my grandfather. The neighbor’s son hops a burning fence to save a blue jay. His father is gentle with both of them, just this once. " —Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin anmly.org/ap42/kyla-ye...
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin – ANMLY
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Wars begin inside of one person, imagine that. Molly Brodak
“Every day God asks, Cruelty again?” — Nora Hikari . . . This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
god, probably: stop writing time loop stories me: okay kill me about it then god, probably: hm mayb- *timeloop*
i don't have many mutuals on bsky since i went from being inactive on here to being a semi-active bird-watching-photos re-poster but if anyone out there is listening: apply for this workshop! wim was really chill (and proactive) about making workshops accessible and workable for everyone!
kith books@kithbooks.bsky.social · 2w agowe're looking at opening applications for both kith crit: cohort 2 (open to the trans, Crip, queer, & sick) and a second, specifically transfeminine, 8 week critique workshop in a couple of weeks. if you'd be interested in either, eyes on this space.
A male pheasant landing on a tree in China. Photo by 牧野放歌, which translates to Makino Sings Seeing this helps me understand why pheasants are so often represented on Chinese pottery. This would make a gorgeous tapestry too.
One Great Egret did not like another Great Egret being nearby and sent a strong message with some chasing and tail feather pulling.
this month was dead dad anniversary month + 102 f (38.8 c) fever and 133 BPM resting heart rate month + recurring chronic infection month and 2 oncology appts + 1 ent appt month so fine maybe mars retrograde was beating my ass (or whatever)
also throw back to my lambda workshop back in 2025 (i was dealing w housing insecurity at the time) and was joining in from public spaces (cafe where gf worked as a barista, local cafes, storage closet of local bike non profit org that gives bikes for free to low income peeps in Lowell, etc.) (!!!)
Per Alan @alan678.bsky.social, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is, #EyeOfTheWild, the alt is #LastBird #GreatEgret #birds #photography #nature #wildlife #thelittlethings #ECK #FlyDay 🕊️ Photo from this morning with iPhone
as a disabled non yt queer person who is working class & grew up in poverty/below poverty line (on food stamps, sec 8 housing, etc.) i always see v classist or racist takes from yt ppl who are supposed allies lol (but im never surprised bc.. sounds about yt)
moments from the Time Machine ™️ (2023): 1. photo i took of my friend and old roomie Montana <3, 2. my gf and i visiting my mom in my childhood sec 8 apartment, 3. selfie w too big tie, 3. bodega cat at convenient store otw home from train station commute working as a cashier in retail job
also from the Time Machine ™️ (summer 2024): 1. my gf sitting after we stopped somewhere and accidentally found a portal, 2. selfie at YA peer mentoring job, 3. selfie, 4. store surv3illance strikes again ft my gf and i :3
these photos are all from the Time Machine™️ (2023), i hate tw*tter & am not rly active on there anymore but these were posted originally on my tw*tter back in 2023: 1. selfie in old liminal space bedroom, 2. hi surv3illance ft me, my angel wings, &old roomie, 3. selfie, 4. dr office fake sky ceiling
"Posthuman turns on the camera. Their body is already a cybernetic system–what remains but the upload? The viral response? Naked, Posthuman adjusts the lighting, assumes a provocative pose, filters personhood into pornography." —Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey beestungmag.com/issue27/two-...
Two Prose Poems by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
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Update: a deer ate the tomato plant I rescued. 😅
Steve Edwards@the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 4w agoStorms knocked over one of my tomato plants & its main stalk nearly snapped in two. But I made a splint & carefully taped it up. Readjusted its cage, staked it properly. After a few days of wilting leaves & wondering, the plant started growing again. Mend what you can be mended, friends.