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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 8h

The phrase "be the example that you want to see in the world"

I feel sharing my experiences & thru my actions & content, I'm just trying to set a better example in life & on social media of what I want to see more of in the world

Kind & caring people who want to make a positive difference

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 8h

I'll only speak for myself...

A dark (abusive/violent) childhood that nearly killed me (father tried to kill me & suicidal attempts)

Bullied at home which caused extensive damage & at school for being Jewish, a nerd, mental illnesses, etc.

I vowed to be a better person & advocate for other people

Some people are mean and bitter because they had a rough childhood. Some people are kind and caring for the same reason.

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly, you're preaching to the choir! Everyone needs to be doing this using whatever methods they have available to them.

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, it has & it's terrifying... everything is in the express lane with being destroyed in this country and racially profiling to wrongfully detain and deport people and it's infuriating 🤬

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 9h

I 2nd this 💯 I know people who want a job or want a better job but can't find one b/c companies want to be stingy with hours and/or pay... it's disgusting

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 9h

IMO #poetry is a creative form, unique style of #writing, self expression & storytelling

Shout-out to #PoetrySky & all #poets 📖✍️🤓

@poetrywithlinda.bsky.social
@haiku-poetry.bsky.social
@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
@glasspoetry.bsky.social
@poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social
@sirenityphoenix.bsky.social

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 9h

Re-posted for more exposure

@glasspoetry.bsky.social IMO, you have an awesome profile! I'd be delighted if we became mutual supporters

Followed you 📖✍️🤓

Have a great day/evening 😁 🙏

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Aug 6

Pre-order Ashley Cline's loading a new continent and see why Gaia Rajan says, "Here is a poet who understands that to witness truly means to listen for the spaces between words".

www.glass-poetry.com

loading a new continent

the new chapbook by Ashley Cline

pre-order now for only $7.50

www.glass-poetry.com

How refreshing, then, to find a work so deeply attuned to the quiet, the silent, the ordinary, where "even the moss / on the drainage spout" holds emotion, where we look not at divinity but the "spiders [who] cling to the legs/of new gods."

Gaia Rajan

button buck / gradient sunburn

when we hear that the world is ending,
we are told that it is for good this time.

as if we have not heard that story before.
as if we have not gilded our lips amber
with worry in the meantime—

it is august, impossibly so. & the magic
lilies show their sleight of hand to the
audience.

have you heard the story? they say. you
know the one! & we turn away

in our crushed velvet & pink. we pretend
that we do not know what happens next,
the final trick—

the one where he disappears beneath the
sickle tire of june, & we wear the blood
in our mouths all summer long.

Secretly three raccoons in a trench coat, Ashley Cline is the author of four chapbooks of poetry: & watch how easily the jaw sings of god (Glass Poetry Press, 2021), electric infinities (Variant Lit, 2023), cowabungaly yours at the end of the world (Gutslut Press, 2023), & — most recently — loading a new continent (Glass Poetry Press, 2025). A two-time Pushcart nominee, her best at all-you-can-eat sushi is 5 rolls in 11 minutes.

if you stand still enough / on a forest trail in late-february

a butterfly will mistake you for nature / pass so close

that you will hear the monsoon of her wings / in distant harbors—

from "the universe is full of secrets"

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Conor ❤️ #MelanieC ❤️ #Sweat ♥️ #musicmatters #musicislife #music ❤️ @conormcl2025.bsky.social · 10h

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IHIP News: Marjorie Taylor Greene SLAMS MAGA As Trump's Cult FALLS APART!!

YouTube video by I've Had It

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder the same 🤔 it's harsh/unfair working conditions and it's wrong!

Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 10h

#Company #Policies #Diversity #Business #Unemployment #Workforce #Jobs

Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 11h

It's stressful trying to get it completed w/in a preferred time frame & a bit anxious to get the book done & published so I can start focusing on book #3. Editing is less nerve wracking as it is annoying & aggravating b/c I only want to make the writing better w/o feeling like I'm re-writing my book

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 11h

Companies are changing or ending their diversity initiatives & federal layoffs...

Diversity initiatives...this has Project 2025 all over it...

Companies are succumbing to the fascist dictator's demands & agenda. They're refusing to fight back & stand their ground.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 19h

Credit @conormcl2025.bsky.social

Reaching a ceasefire deal & release of hostages in Gaza is good, but won't change the damage to America & Americans lives (programs/services, healthcare, human/civil rights, prosperity, etc) demise of America, Constitution & freedoms (progress over the past 250 yrs)

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 11h

My 2nd book is at 17,733 words, and 3/4 completed.

It'll likely be over 20K words once the manuscript is done, then the worst part of the writing process begins...

Editing 😒

I'll be using Grammarly for this process until it's fully completed.

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 21h

"Indigenous Peoples' Day serves as a counter-narrative to Columbus Day, bringing awareness to the genocide, forced assimilation & mistreatment Indigenous communities have faced while celebrating their ongoing resilience, vibrant cultures & significant contributions to society"

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

a poster that says invasion is not discovery celebrate indigenous peoples day

ALT: a poster that says invasion is not discovery celebrate indigenous peoples day

media.tenor.com

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of #IndigenousPeoplesDay

"We celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day to recognize and honor the history, culture, and perseverance of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, whose existence and sovereignty have been systematically undermined by colonization."

👇 Continued in thread #2 below 👇

a poster for indigenous people 's day with a native american design

ALT: a poster for indigenous people 's day with a native american design

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 21h

#Teachers, today I'm putting my primary focus on supporting YOU and your #classroom supply needs

#Music
#Art
#ESL / #ESOL
#SPED
Basic supplies (soap, hand sanitizer, etc.)
etc.

W/e you need, I'll re-post it. Also, there is NEVER quid pro quo

Thank you @moonwitch99.bsky.social

#EduSky #TeacherSky

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 12h

It has a "adult content" warning, but there is nothing 'adult content' about this; it's a beautiful piece of #poetry

Check out @sirenityphoenix.bsky.social for more poetry content (and on instagram)

#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity