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Matei Tomasevici 🥨 馬太 @covrig.bsky.social · 8d

#ClassicsTober
#ClassicsTober25
#Day7

I don't know much Greek, but familiar with biblical φαρμακεύς (warlock, sorcerer, drug brewer)
I couldn't find a biblical drug brewer pics, since their mention is very general
So here's Baba Yaga riding her giant mortar.

#slavic
#witch
#mythology
#folklore

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Phantom of the Archives (~*Christine*~) @archivewhisperer.bsky.social · 56m

#ClassicsTober
#ClassicsTober16

Day 6: Moira
@classicstober.bsky.social
@mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social

Phantom of the Archives (~*Christine*~) @archivewhisperer.bsky.social · Sep 2

#vss365
#past
#poem

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 15d

As a teacher, I approve this message:

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16d

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

A poster of a manifesto about reading, by Loki, with 6 points on reading "bad" books, short books, comics, audioooks, webcomics and fanfic, plus not finishing bad books cos life is too short.

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MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social · Aug 21

Has anyone else noticed that ChatGPT 5 is pretty bad? It keeps asking for details and a lot of follow up questions before commencing work. Might this be an attempt by OpenAI to reduce the insane computational demand?

You can test the free version (along other free models) anonymously at Duck.ai

A screenshot of the Duck.AI pop up that let's users pick a chat model to use. GPT-5 mini is highlighted in a red circle.

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 4h

✍️

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you!

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 6h

restorationobscura.substack.com/p/the-phanto...

The Phantom Atlas

A Geography of Haunting in New York State

restorationobscura.substack.com

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 7h

entrusting the greed-ists to assure a compassionate world
for any and all who live to love is a fool's pursuit at best
at worst we are coming to understand just how shallow pooled
we are managed here as//elevation of spirit and consciousness
not idle concepts
akin to watching crocuses returning

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 7h

this poem is
blood beneath
thick trunk trees
plea easels
this poem tastes
of immediacy
this poem is water
is Life undone
twined formless
cherry stained
pit words
letter finger bowl
like mayflies
flowers and midnights
this poem eats realms
all over a room
ward lovely scented
ripened us

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 7h

high on lightning
to these trees in x ray vision
flash staccato eye bounce downtempo
fog settling in between mountain tops
a field of womb dark mushrooms
are you not glad you came this way
scared your cells a sacred stay
we've been reverent to tempests
and mushrooms as guides ever since 🍄⚡🌄

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 7h

unfurling the ides
in brief glimpses
fire and crows...

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 8h

when the culling starts remember we are to be turned into
batteries for a machine learning future, one that is ripe with
how the role of being sold cracked mythology is a keystone
to maintaining and broadening control
perceptual and perfunctory

in this place history is a story repeated

often

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 8h

🌊 shiva linga
hummingbird sounded sunlight
everywhere nowhere
rite there near where a breath
catches us on fire
we swear by watching tippled incrementalisms
accepting fate as if liberated like beetles when Winter
i remembered cherries darling
the dark ones, so juicy, so cold #emoetry #vss365

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 8h

A young aversion
due to introversion—
any #speech I'd resist,
if #impromptu,
oh Jesus Christ,
let me cease to #exist,
scuttling out
like a #beetle

adulthood #unveil ed
a new me,
I don't turn heel,
run from the lectern,
I nail myself to the spot
& in hellfire I rot,
I call it growth—
maturation.

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 8h

great close...

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 16h

#Emoetry prompt for 10/15/2025

is

#Liberated

#writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 11h

I stand on the threshold,
a #doorway
in front of me

do I become a slave
or remain #liberated?

In my hand
I hold the key,
gleaming brilliant
like #ore,
precious as
a delicate #oyster

I know my fate
yet barely hesitate.

Love is the key,
I open my heart.

#Emoetry #WildWalkPrompt
#vssdaily #whistpr

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 8h

in an early morning dark
sparks and fingertips trailing over wooly blankets
these discharges tell me all i need to know about
feeling triboelectric and how the future is always
concerning itself with my breath rite now
so i sip black coffee and i grind some sativa
and find myself quietly aware

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 15h

open.spotify.com/track/4s4FAg...

Desert

open.spotify.com

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 15h

poem and witch

we met walking byes and wards
seemed we were both
a written bitten bent strut mutt-a-many
good-n-plenty in a bowl on the coffee table
beads over a doorway to the back, we sat
easy chair smelling to a map less here
feeling the tingles when in
someone's house for the first time

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 15h

ground flower and a few prayers worn like spells
as the light leaves further the night grows more inviting
morning a later and later arrival each day these moons

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 15h

vines fine spindled rope
hung up on terms
endearing static meaning
lean bones being ache tomorrow today
we siphon the heart of the sun from our marrow
dreams sped near east asia
community water source
toting 10L containers to every house
painting raindrops on their doorways #vssdaily #prompt

mirrored late fall early spring kind of rust blue gold cloudy sky and deciduous tree line... folding in on itself forming faces and other what have yous

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 1d

Even the animals aren’t safe….

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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 15h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_d...

Valerie June - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Charmeuse @charmeuse.bsky.social · 15h

but would you sit outside
in the cold air with me
for a minute
and drink in the night sky
and then kiss me

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