returning to bsky simply to opine that the hardcore show i went to ended early because too many people tried to be too macho and fights kept breaking out. anyway listen to writing the rapids.
Joe bielecki
@noisemakerjoe.bsky.social
Host of Writing The Rapids. Author of Tired. Fatherhood enjoyer.
Michigan has one women's prison and three of those women have died in the past month.
Third woman inmate dies at Michigan prison in less than a month
Growing concern surrounds the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility after the weekend passing of a 36-year-old prisoner prompted renewed scrutiny from elected officials and advocates. Emergency c...
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this headline writer must have grown up with very different parents than me. I was told an A- isn't really an A because it takes your grade point average below 4.0
Dr. SkySkull@drskyskull.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing
AI has completely demolished my interest in almost everything computer related
I used to have this big fear of being out of the loop. Would feel a big social pressure against being uninformed. Dude, I gotta just wander more.
my favorite kind of anime are like this too. I used to be too concerned with Knowing What's Going On for comics, we're going to the comic shop today for my wife's bday, maybe I'll grab something random and see what happens.
Sara Century@saracentury.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat non-superhero fans don't understand about my love for superhero comics is that they are weird and they used to be even weirder. I don't like MCU so much. I like that comic runs used to go on for like 100 issues and the whole time I'd be like, what the Hell am I reading???
Amygdalatropolis Warlock The Sluts
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo agoSay a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.
Some news! UNCLE TIME, my new chapbook of prose poems, is out this fall with @gasherpress.bsky.social pre-order: www.gasherpress.com/product-page...
Spring means going out in public with my family and remembering just how many people are determined to be miserable in places meant for fun
every trans woman who writes a book, an essay, creates a comic, or conducts a study contributes to the uplift of our consciousness as a people. keep going, we all need to hear you. You need to hear you. Bellow my sister, so all the world may record your truth.
meanwhile we keep living because we are committed to each other’s well-being & embrace the responsibility we share in relations with each other, beings, the great earth. meanwhile we grow & salvage & reuse & build small within the ruins, because grief & growth are similar processes in constant play.
Reading Curizo Malaparte's Kaputt as an american in 2026 is an experience i tell ya
can we all collectively promise to just ignore the next crop of losers who pop up in the wake of people like this falling into obscurity? I probably would never have known who he was if dozens of youtubers didn't make dozens of videos about how dumb he is.
Popstonox@popstonox.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year
I refuse bitterness in my heart and instead focus on admiring those I cherish for any and all of their pursuits, everyone everyone transform into free beasts! Run, run and kill and eat as you please!
In this month's episode of Writing The Rapids @potheadfuckbrain.bsky.social and I talk about writing fragmented stories, Stephen King, wearing little jean shorts while playing in a band and more!
Inheriting the House with Max Restaino
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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I will however ask, rhetorically perhaps, if you are not an anarchist after today, what in the world is it going to take?!
Joe bielecki@noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 4mo agoI won't preach to the choir.
"Despite the far-out premise, Cieri’s well-researched attention to the period means that this somehow feels like a book where the names have been changed to protect the (extremely) guilty." Mom my name is in Reactor magazine!!!
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 4mo agoHistory is plenty weird in reality, but certain authors have an amazing talent for creating brilliantly strange twists on everything from Anne Boleyn and the Founding Fathers to the Space Race and the occult origins of Las Vegas...
Wow, I can’t believe that the stupidest man on the planet who is also a truly vile piece of shit said something stupid.
have you heard of this cool thing called Just Sitting In Your Backyard With You Favorite People? its fuckin awesome dude
Soon everybeast was tucking into oat bannocks, flatbread, white cheese with sage, and one of Mother Buscol's honeycakes. There was herbal tea or elderflower cordial to go with it.
found several sites that work similar to stumbleupon and am finding a number of neocities pages that warm my heart with their uniqueness.
my boy sherlock, the most anxious dog to ever live is seven today. wife and kid said happy birthday to him and he grumbled at them
kiddo got into the preschool we wanted, blood pressure stabilized.
dreamed of the word "sauk", was impressed that I remembered it when I woke up so I decided to google it and:
Sauk people - Wikipedia
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