Kyla Houbolt
@luaz.bsky.social
I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available here: https://asterismbooks.com/product/becoming-altar-new-and-selected-poems https://kylahoubolt.us/becoming-altar.html *Mapless* forthcoming soon from SHINE.
Rep Miller on TV talking @ his child's injury feels like when my abusive ex blamed me for our daughter's black eye—which happened *while he was home alone with her.* Anyway, my memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE is about what it took to escape. It's a good book and, alas, always timely. tinyurl.com/4v2kb6v7
The woman who made her family disappear: how Karen Palmer escaped her abusive husband
He had threatened her, locked her up and absconded with one of their daughters. Palmer knew she and her girls needed to escape – but it would involve huge risk and total reinvention
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I'ma do one of these: 1 like, 1 answer. For some reason the alt text did not pick up the numbers but you can figure it out. Or not.
Abdul El-Sayed got Haley Stevens to spend $60 million from AIPAC on a concession speech.
I Didn't Need These Things eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/i... "struck with a splitscreen dream"
I Didn’t Need These Things
I snored in saxophone, drooling into the pillow like I’d just lost a tooth, & we slept shirtless, but we didn’t have sex. Just kissed, the rain pounding against the roof windows, we…
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Sweet little glimpse of a moment and a lifetime up for y'all this week. Lose yourself briefly in "The Man in the Corner of the Photograph," from Arden Stockdell-Giesler Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-28-26
El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."
Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.
this makes me want to look ugly (and really whatever THAT is!) So very awful, this.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h agoBe cool if companies stopped trying to reinvent physiognomy every few years.
Poetry lovers, keep an eye out for SHINE Quarterly, Issue 8, releasing in September -- with 24 poets from around the globe...including Doug Stoiber! #poetry #shinepoetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity
Out of hospital. Still need help this week. have $40/300. still need $260, and I really need it at midweek (which we’re at). Grateful for any help.
Matt Stefon@mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 3d agoDidn’t make my first leg and missed a bill yesterday. So, back to asking for the whole $300 today, which I do need soon. Please help if you can. Grateful for all and any help. PayPal: @MatthewStefon Venmo: @Matt-Stefon Cash: $MFStefon
Then he added, "So there is literature that you enjoy and is meaningful to you. That's good. That's a start. Now what is it about the works of Ayn Rand that you enjoy so much?" "I dunno, really, there's just something about sexy vampires that really gets me involved in the story."
"Family values" apparently means this has to stay in his family, and not be addressed with any guts or spine outside his circle of power. Total crap.
Sharon@asharona140.bsky.social · last wk.Max Miller
Sometimes I wish this rollercoaster was just a train track
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)
I say congrats goncrats go rats ongracts something something is this a #weirdpoemwednesday or what? @tomsnarsky.bsky.social sorry
Sea Calm How still, How strangely still The water is today. It is not good For water To be so still that way. Langston Hughes
What if i was a rock, cool and smooth Sat in a river, where nothing else matters, Except the ebb and flow of the tide
turns out you can’t write anything but a #weirdpoemwednesday if you listen to two straight hours of Roy Orbison singles. morning, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social!
Yeah, I just blocked a couple of big established and well-regarded accounts who were promoting AI for some damn reason. No no nope not on my timeline. Go tf away, I don't care who you think you are. ⬇️ Meanwhile, my pinned post. Five people, five books signed, you will be blessed. Hit me up! 📚❤️🔥📚👀
If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 20h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
poets.org/poem/wake-tu... "and my spine remains my favorite part of me because I cannot see it."
Wake Turbulence
After leaving my old life / I return often
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I came across this basically by accident. Why is this not bigger news? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Survivor's report led to dozens of charges in largest human trafficking case in Ontario's Halton region | CBC News
A 10-month human trafficking investigation that began after a woman came forward to police has led to 85 criminal charges against nine people in what the Halton Regional Police Service calls the large...
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𝗘𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀! Racists are the worst, so it's pretty entertaining to see them get skewered(figuratively). How evil is this woman to try to get a hardworking supermarket clerk who helped her deported! Explain the consequences of tearing people away from their families where needed. Invoke empathy.
my six year old: so the villain of this movie uses mind control? me: yup! msyo: i know how to defeat them! me: how? myso: just STOP THINKING! (dad’s heart swells with pride)
Oh, don't sleep on this! I am sure there are five people on bsky in the US who would be utterly blessed to own a signed copy of *Becoming Altar*. Hit me up! I'm gonna keep making noise about this. (You can also contact me via kylahoubolt.us )
Kyla Houbolt@luaz.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you would like a signed, inscribed copy of Becoming Altar, this will be your last chance. Once these five copies are gone I will not be purchasing more. If you'd like one signed, send me a DM!
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.
