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turning chronic illness into poetry since 2003. the internet's #1 jonathan franzen defender. buy my books for your mentally ill girlfriend

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k snap@ksnap.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's been a rough week. I found out my sweet girl has terminal cancer. She has been my constant companion through years of instability. I'm heartbroken but focusing on feeding her as much cheese as she wants.

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greg2hats@cyberbadboy.com · 5mo ago

Basically the con of being a Borrower (4" tall person with normal intelligence but proportionally smaller strength) is the cats eating you. The pro is when you steal pills you can get seriously fucked up for a long time.

Todd Dillard@toddedillard.bsky.social · 6mo ago

the flipside of the Granta shenanigans is how difficult it is to get into these upper tier magazines unless you have some sort of professional clout already, if poorly executed, lyrically garbage, MFA-derivative stuff is getting in + the editors' friends, there's really no place for anyone else

k snap@ksnap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This was the last poem I wrote for Destroy Your Masters (just under the wire, I'd finished all the other poems months before) and every time I come back to it I like it more and more

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k snap@ksnap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I thought yoyo club was gonna be a bunch of dorks (affectionate) teaching each other yoyo tricks but it turns out it's a bunch of dorks (still affectionate) trading yoyos with each other

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k snap@ksnap.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I just want you guys to note the dip that happened when covid hit and we did eviction freezes, emergency rental assistance, additional grants for shelters etc

greg macdougall (613)@equitableeducation.ca · 7mo ago

There is also **a lot** now. I'm not sure where to find good national stats stretching back decades, but: "In recent years, homelessness in New York City has reached the highest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s." The main idea is that wealth inequality has been getting worse and worse

Graph of "Number of homeless people sleeping each night in NYC DHS and HPD Shelters 1983-2022" from NYC Dept of Housing Services (DHS). that indicates it was approx 12,000 at the start of the count, nad has basically gone up ever since but with a few blips where it went back down for a while or plateaued. But it kindof peaked at around just over 60,000 in the late 2010s and then dipped a lot with the pandemic, but at the end of the graph (Oct 2022) it hits the highest count, 65,633.