putting my phone away & reading a book because it will make me happy but posting about it so as to inspire others
Pam Yve Simon
@pamyve.bsky.social
Poet. Photographer. Caregiver. (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pamyve
In line with their broader pattern of treating public lands as assets to be sold off rather than preserved for public use, the Trump administration is now opening up federal lands and military bases to private companies for AI data center development. Call your reps 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/ai-dat...
Ban AI Data Centers on Public Lands ⭑ 5 Calls
The Trump administration is opening up federal public lands and military bases to private companies for AI data center development, bringing heavy …
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Some FAQs from the Poetry Hugo website in advance of the vote to ratify the #poetryhugo: What Works Are Available for Nomination?
Poets! Would you please share any poems of comfort that may be read at graveside? Was just asked to read something in a few hours for my dearest great uncle. Thank you. 🙏
HAD is mostly ppl always being "very normal" about everything today from Anisha Arvind: "The pigeon is back and I have named him Gerald which my therapist says is a form of attachment and I said yes that is correct I am attached to Gerald he has information." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-a...
I Am Being Very Normal About the Fact That the Pigeon Outside My Window Has Been Looking at Me for Three Weeks and I Think He Knows Something by Anisha Arvind
The pigeon is back and I have named him Gerald which my therapist says is a form of attachment and I said yes that is correct I am attached to Gerald he has information. He has the look of someone who...
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What if I told you about King Midas. What if I did it three more times. What if it was queer. What if it was trans. What if it was in Small Wonders TODAY.
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 3w agoYou know the story of Midas, right? Stories shift and warp though, so let's hear that old tale a few more times. Let @elijah.mea.rs tell us how "He Washes His Sins In the River" :
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. —Alain de Botton
Love @vastchasmmag.bsky.social and their championing of writers. It was a true pleasure working on edits with the @vastchasmmag.bsky.social team for “LOLZ.” So touched they shared another one of my dear poems from the wonderful @acropolisjournal.bsky.social.
Vast Chasm Magazine@vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 3w agoWe’re sure you remember @pamyve.bsky.social's “LOLZ” from our last issue. Her “Seahorses, or, How I Am Trying to Hold On” is another one that sticks with you @acropolisjournal.bsky.social acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/archive2022/...
Mine were off, but it’s always worth checking these settings
Fabio Santana@fabiosantana79.bsky.social · 4w ago- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels
THE GREAT PUMPKIN PANCAKE PARTY is out in the world! This book is about food and family, and the traditions that help us become who we are. Thank you to everyone who has preordered, requested it from the library, shared it, reviewed it, or cheered it on. It means more than I can say.
New week, so I feel like we're exiting birthday season but hey why not post one more time just in case the universe wants to thrust some kismet upon my book. No, my book does not include any lines like "thrust some kismet" in it.
Mitchell Nobis@mitchnobis.bsky.social · last mo.I'm not a big "hey it's my birthday season" kind of guy, but if some brave lit agent wants to take a shot on my basketball dad novel, I'm not above saying "well hey that'd be a fine gift right about now," is alls I'm saying.
New Yorkers - Send your City Council member a letter today, and tell them stable and consistent funding for NYC’s library systems is important to you: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
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@mayor.nyc.gov & @council.nyc.gov There’s still time to stand up for libraries and allocate 0.5% of the budget to them this year! We know you understand how crucial the services our libraries provide are to the city and we’re counting on you. 📸 Roxas Timmons w/Human Flower Productions
WE WON!!🙌🏾 THE OCEAN OBSERVATORY INITIATIVE (OOI) INSTRUMENTS ARE STAYING IN THE WATER!!!!! 🌊 🦑🧪 (for now 🙏🏾) oceanfdn.org/the-national...
The National Academies Just Set the Record Straight on Ocean Observing - The Ocean Foundation
The NSF is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative and TOF President Mark J. Spalding explains what's at stake.
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I hope all the Black folks here and everywhere are gearing up for an absolutely dialed-up Juneteenth this year. All of us who are non-Black, especially those of us who are white, it's a great time to honor and observe by tripling down with learning and action. One book list:
Read Black Writers
Read Black writers all the time. Always. A highly incomplete and ongoingly updated list of great stuff.
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the bio is half the fun, can't urge you strongly enough to click through for that but today, from Mitch Nobis, a kinda quintessential "HAD piece": https://www.havehashad.com/el4pt
We are open for reprints now! Send us your lovely flash stories that would benefit from being out in the world again: smallwondersmag.com/submissions/
Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders
Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.
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NYC, today is the last day to request a mail-in ballot online: you may do so here: RequestBallot.Vote.NYC Knicks in 5.
COVER REVEAL: I'm super excited to share the cover of my story collection After Last Call, coming out next April from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. And thanks to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for the amazing work he did designing the cover 💙 Pre-order link: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
This is another big week for our public libraries in NYC as the public has a chance to weigh in on funding at the City Council budget hearing on Wednesday 6/10. Everything you need to know to testify is here: bit.ly/June10Testify - the libraries have a shortfall and they need you to advocate.
Testify on June 10 to Support NY Public Libraries
Budget Hearing for NYC Committee on Libraries The NYC City Council’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International Relations is holding a hearing on May 26, 2026 to discuss the executiv...
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Here’s the cover for @willmusgrove.bsky.social’s story collection After Last Call. Drops next April, reserve a signed copy now. Thanks to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for another great cover! malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
Free submissions for reprint flash fiction are open at @smallwondersmag.com - don't miss the submission window: smallwondersmag.com/submissions/ #WritingCommunity #LitMag
Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders
Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.
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I keep thinking about this line "There are memories that remain across generations like single-use plastic” from @readinstead.bsky.social ’s new poem in @variantlit.bsky.social . And I think that is precisely the point. Read Jared’s thought-provoking piece below:
Jared Beloff@readinstead.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat do you need right now? Maybe you need my odd new poem about Jane Goodall’s Hologram in @variantlit.bsky.social's new Summer Issue... variantlit.com/jane-goodall/
Happy as a Clam™ by Katlina Sommerberg @ksommerberg.bsky.social "We bring you Biometric Shell™ Technology, a sanctuary of seamless containment." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Read this beautiful poem “When Death Comes, Look to The Tower” by @alwayscoffee.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com Excerpt: “hold steady, your heart a lighthouse, a reminder that time and again, we save each other”
Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 3mo agoDarlings! My new poem, "When Death Comes, Look to The Tower," is out at @smallwondersmag.com!! It's for anyone who needs a reminder of their own strength -- that you have all the power within yourself, that you tell your own story. smallwondersmag.com/piece/when-d...
"even trees hold their memories hushed, ringed in their bodies,...." I love this phenomenal poem by @jenwithwords.bsky.social in @templeinacity.bsky.social 💙💙💙 templeinacity.com/poetry-by-je...
Temple in a City literary journal
Poem Trees & Teeth by author Jenny Wong. Published in Temple in a City literary journal
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