"The Lovers" is now online on Youtube. An indie/crowdfunded Filipino short film by students brand-new to the animation industry. Directed by Alice Mao & Sophia Paez (Studio Heartbreak). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUa2...
Haley
@haley-exe.bsky.social
Virginian living in Texas. Poet, project wrangler, weight lifter, mom. She/her, bi, inevitably tired. Avatar created here: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/137904 haleycampbell.net
Finally got the tempo right for squats today, and as I am settling into bed I can feel both the all-consuming post-lift hunger and the DOMs gearing up to wreck my shit tomorrow. I love lifting so so so so much.
Don't buy the merch. Don't play the game. Don't visit the theme park. It's not complicated.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w agoOne thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.
Put the finishing touches on the materials for my first ever workshop. I think it came together pretty well all things considered!
Trying to pray with poet Weldon Kees Small Prayer Change, move, dead clock
I could use some hivemind advice: give me your very best behavioral activation strategies. I am stuck in a hell of a funk and cannot seem to lever myself out again. I have to DO things, create, read, build momentum to fix it, but: doing stuff kinda sucks? I will take any ideas.
On the one hand, someone gets 1000 demerits for writing in a library book. On the other, it's sweet feeling as though I'm having a little one-sided conversation with another reader.
Do any of you have a Murena Hiroh or Fairphone? My phone is dying and the Murena phones sound perfect, but I've read they can be pretty buggy. I'd rather not have to install Graphene myself if I can avoid it, which is the other option I'm considering.
Having a "chug a second coffee before unleashing the toddler at the library" kind of morning. Fellow parents, send me fortitude.
This is SO fun! Do it do it!
Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · last mo.Okay I am your book sommelier. Drop $10 ($5 for the zine, $5 for shipping, sorry) on King Ludd’s Rag No. 26, then tell me your favorite poem, book, song, etc., and I’ll pick out a book you might like and include it in your order for free. malarkeybooks.com/store/klr26
Hey hey! I'm planning a free generative poetry workshop during the first week of September. It's virtual, small, and will focus on using old poetry drafts to create new material. Come write with me!
Haley@haley-exe.bsky.social · 2mo agoOkay! I've got an official sign up form for this thing! If you're not comfortable with Google forms but want to participate, DM me or just reply to this thread. forms.gle/9jAcGsFPfDkL...
With all the caveats about the amount of safety I have relative to other queer folks, being a typically-read-as-straight parent is..... really odd. I'm too gay to feel entirely comfy in community with straight parents and not gay enough for explicitly queer parenting spaces.
Holy shit this is the *only* closet building advice that has ever made a single lick of sense to me. I wish I didn't hate Instagram or she'd be an instant follow.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo agoO'Connell strikes me as much better because she's trying to help you think about clothes in a systematic way, rather than saying you need to buy [trending thing]. While her "three Cs" framework isn't how I think about clothes, I can see it being useful. Many ways up the mountain. IG itscalbal
I'm looking for pieces to assign as part of my Poetry Archeology workshop. Curious if you know of poems that were inspired by or are in close conversation with an author's older work? And if you're interested, sign up here! 3 spots left! forms.gle/9jAcGsFPfDkL...
Poetry Archeology Signup Form
Poetry Archeology is a generative workshop where we'll dig into our old poetry drafts and fragments to create new pieces or revisions. We'll meet on three evenings in the first week of September (we'l...
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I gotta tell you, it feels pretty wild getting an encouraging rejection from a 9-5 day job application 😂 Same exact language as the nice rejects I get from lit mags, right down to "we hope you submit again!" What a weird crossover episode.
Three more spots available for my free workshop! Come join me for three evenings the first week in September to excavate old work and create something new.
Haley@haley-exe.bsky.social · 2mo agoOkay! I've got an official sign up form for this thing! If you're not comfortable with Google forms but want to participate, DM me or just reply to this thread. forms.gle/9jAcGsFPfDkL...
We need 2-3 more writers with a science-y backgrounds to help us turn news chaos into orderly information on @unbreaking.org's infectious disease control, food safety, and medical research funding pages. The commitment is a few hours every couple of weeks. Is this you? 🌱 unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
How to help — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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I have an Important Employment Conversation in just a second so I have put on a fortifying coat of Fancy Lipstick.
Okay! I've got an official sign up form for this thing! If you're not comfortable with Google forms but want to participate, DM me or just reply to this thread. forms.gle/9jAcGsFPfDkL...
Poetry Archaeology Signup Form
Poetry Archaeology is a generative workshop where we'll dig into our old poetry drafts and fragments to create new pieces or revisions. We'll meet on three evenings in the first week of September (we'...
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I'm organizing this workshop series and volunteering my time as an aid that weekend on behalf of SPX! Please check it out, tell your friends! We're hoping this will be a reoccurring partnership and we can bring the DMV area comics workshops outside of SPX weekend 🤗
Small Press Expo@smallpressexpo.bsky.social · 2mo agoSmall Press Expo is proud to present a series of four comics-focused workshops September 5th and 6th, the weekend before the Expo. These classes are hosted by VisArts, a nonprofit organization and hub for artistic exploration and social impact.
"many of us wander into poetry out of sheer love and only realize later we're in a marriage" --Robert Bly
Officially accepting signups for Poetry Archeology: a generative workshop! We'll meet three evenings (CST) during the first week of September to dig through old drafts and workshop what we craft from them. I'll take 5-6 participants to keep things manageable.
ATN: ATX folks! The Austin Sanctuary Network is holding an in-town vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Saturday
Austin Sanctuary Network on Instagram: "Join us to honor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s life and the countless immigrants who have been impacted by ICE. The community vigil will take place at the Wildflow...
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A heartbreaking story, but @bonabooks.bsky.social kicks ass for coming forward with resources to help other presses. I wonder what folks like me, with extensive genAI experience from the tech sector, could do to help combat this problem? Help craft intake processes or advise presses maybe?
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 2mo agoAI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
Been too hard on myself recently. I want to hear every single one of you tell me something you're proud of, a task you knocked out or how cute you looked today. I'll go first: I am networking my ass off to find a new job, wrote a ton of good poems recently and grew my own tomatoes this summer!
Okay I'm thinking.... First week of September? Anybody interested?
Haley@haley-exe.bsky.social · 2mo agoSometime around the beginning of fall I'm considering a project where I dig through old, abandoned poetry drafts to see what I can revise, resurrect or recreate. I'm curious if any of you have done something similar, or if you'd be interested in an informal workshop on that theme?
From Aracelis Girmay's book, Kingdom Animalia: bookshop.org/a/862/9781934414620 #poem #booksky #writing
that it's possible to truly understand what goes on inside a studio from the outside. before i broke into AAA, i used to make all kinds of assumptions about studio culture or strategy or intention from the outside looking in. i don't do that any more!
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 2mo agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?