On this day in 1985, Kate Bush released “Running Up That Hill" - the lead single from her fifth studio album “Hounds of Love”

it's been brought to my attention that i havent promoted my books in a minute, so here's a thread of links for my books (tho, to my knowledge To Emit Teal is out of print) 1st up, 2025's The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife from University Press of Kentucky www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife - The University Press of Kentucky

The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa...

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upfromsumdirt@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

for my follow-newbies: im upfromsumdirt, a poet, visual artist, & graphic designer residing in lexington, ky. i don't submit often but my poems have appeared in a variety of anthologies & journals. my art is mostly limited to bookcover design, but ive shown in galleries & exhibitions. my chirrens:

“Places like #Lochiel with this cottonwood forest, where this ribbon of green runs dozens of miles from #Mexico to the US, these are the last threads of an ecosystem that has declined so much already," said Russ McSpadden, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall

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NEW: Looking to lend a hand? Each week, we round up ways to get involved around D.C. Here's this week's list:

12 ways to volunteer around D.C. this week

Fighting back against one year of occupation and more ways to show up for your neighbors.

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Live Nation strikes again pitchfork.com/story/brookl...

BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs

Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation

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Who among us can honestly say that we, like the moon, have not seen better days

Remembering Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys who would have celebrated his 62nd birthday today. RIP

pure fan fiction for people who don’t live in DC and will never visit and only hear about it on Fox News

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 7h ago

This notion that they've done anything to improve DC in any way including re: crime is ludicrous. Ask anyone who lives in DC. They've done nothing, zero, bupkis.

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Marty Olliff@martyolliff.bsky.social · 8h ago

The parallels between Space Nazi spreading his seed among women and spreading his litter in space (“million-satellite” plan, booster rocket crashing into the moon) are remarkable. Some men will do anything other than go to therapy.

For this year's #SealeyChallenge, we curated a list of 31 #poetry books and 3 poetry anthologies on Split This Rock's Bookshop storefront: bit.ly/4ySbavz We're a #Bookshop affiliate, so when you buy books via our list, we earn a commission (but doesn’t cost you extra!).

2026 Sealey Challenge Reading List

Check out this list on Bookshop

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Hello, my short story collection, Black Arts, comes out in 34 days. If you pre-order it, you will get 13 stories that play with form and genre delivered to your beautiful home. It's already a paperback, so you will actually want to carry it around and read it www.blackgarnetbooks.com/item/UhelvOr...

Black Arts by Megan Giddings | Black Garnet Books

The very first story collection from the critically acclaimed, visionary author of the novels Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the CrossroadsOver three genre-busting novels, Megan Gidding...

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Holy shit.

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

Virginia resident has state’s 1st locally acquired case of dengue fever - WTOP News

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue, a viral disease usually associated with international travel.

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CBGB's being dismantled after the closing 2006

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Drones have become an incredibly powerful tool to expose animal cruelty. But a new Trump administration rule could make it much harder to fly them over farms.

Tonight we find out whether Michigan voters are bluesky posters or bluesky replyers

Highest # of votes tonight for VA's US House candidates: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08): 27,531 Rep. John McGuire (R-VA05): 24,046 Shannon Taylor (D-VA01): 21,134 Elaine Luria (D-VA02): 16,620 Tom Perriello (D-VA05): 15,670 Doug Ollivant (R-VA07): 13,086 bluevirginia.us/2026/08/live...

honestly can't stress enough, as a former family law attorney, how depressingly common Max Miller's behavior and words are, right down to the petty fixation on custody procedure and rules when faced with allegations of shocking violence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."

No cheating, post your lock screen.

Museum Wanderer@museum-wanderer.bsky.social · yesterday

No cheating, post your lock screen.

Resign RFK Jr.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

Breaking news: The CDC is expanding the cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states, adding six states where illnesses have been traced to shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico, according to individuals familiar with the investigation.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. —June Jordan. Art by Sophie McTear.

An essential thread to share widely!

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · yesterday

The underlying fantasy of consumer-facing "A.i." is slavery. "A.i." billionaires want to create pliant, submissive, attentive slaves. That's why they've instilled such repulsive levels of sycophancy into their chatbots. That's not ESSENTIAL to LLMs. That's HUMAN-CREATED. Because they want slaves.

We’re so grateful to Enzo Silon Surin for having Editor/Director Rebecca Hart Olander on “It’s a Poetic Life” for its feature “Press Enter: The Heart-Labor of Small Presses and the Creative Minds Behind Them” to talk about Perugia & her own books. Listen @ link in bio. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

New publisher listing for: Biophilia: Love Poems for the Living World (Poetry; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

New Publisher Listing: Biophilia: Love Poems for the Living World

New publisher listing for: Biophilia: Love Poems for the Living World (Poetry; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

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I haven’t felt like posting on this site since my mother died in October, but I feel compelled to raise my periscope given the horrifying crisis at the Morocco/Spain border in Ceuta and the disturbing amount of misinformation that’s circulating around it.

Do we have a "made without genAI" badge or digital sticker that science communicators and artists can use so people know that our work is for humans by humans?