same advice I got from Eduardo C. Corral and Diane Seuss. Write the weird stuff!!!
✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine)@skymagpie.bsky.social · last wk.I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
just had my first 12+ hour shift at the post office Mail is SO dirty everyone. Wash your hands!
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...
Issue 44 / Fall 2026
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate. Although the writing contains many common poetic images and topics (the moon, birds, fear, loss, love, and language itself all make appearances), …
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I can't afford to live, and even if I could, most of the food is poisonous, and even if it wasn't, the world is burning as billionaires suckle the last pennies from its corpse, but tell me more about how a trans person playing field hockey is the greatest existential threat of our time.
POEM 367: "Henrietta Leavitt Reads An Astronomical Glass Plate Negative" by Brian Evans-Jones "she angles glass to throw what light the low sun shares onto these black stars—blotched on white like speckles on an egg, a void from which knowledge might hatch" stonecirclereview.com/henrietta-le...
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
what if, and I'm just spit balling, we didn't have a severe t-storm warning every saturday-monday?
A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · last mo.The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.
moved all my furniture to dust and vacuum and wow this room is so big if no one ever has to enter, sit, or eat in here
“What nation has the most robust economy? // Death. // And on what is that economy built? // The end of pain. // What are Death’s most notable exports? // Incompletion, oil, / and the arts.” — @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social, “The News” @milkweededitions.bsky.social
Trampoline #33.3 is excited to have poems by Joshua C. Pipkins, Jason Ryberg, and @leepottspoet.bsky.social. www.trampolinepoetry.com Take care.
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Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
it's not why *everything* sucks, but having all three branches of the federal government captured by thieves, abusers, bigots, and cowards is definitely why a lot of things suck
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2mo agoDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
The story isn’t “ICE got someone killed by hiring a bipolar guy,” it’s “ICE kills people, that’s what it does and what it will do until it’s abolished”
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ICE enforcement escalates in Chicago as communities mourn immigrant fathers killed by federal agents
This week, rapid response teams have documented at least four encounters in which federal agents approached people while they were in their vehicles.
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“If you don’t use the tech that kills Black people you’ll be left behind”
Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo agoElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
