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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Really looking forward to teaching this online "humor in poetry" workshop. I chose this topic because I used to think I had to mine my life for trauma in my poetry, and I mean, I still do that, but now I am funny as I do that. There are still spots available:

Humor in Poetry with Melissa Fite Johnson | NE Poetry Society

Think poetry has to be serious all the time? Think again. In this workshop, we’ll laugh, play, and explore how humor can crack open truth, deepen emotion, and spark joy—even in the heaviest topics. Co...

www.nepoetrysociety.org

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 5d

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 5d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 7d

@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social press is a powerhouse! Three of their titles (including my book 🥰) on the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award

A real testament to the work @wordperv.bsky.social is doing

Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 6d

always thinking of this Louise Glück poem

Telemachus' Detachment

When I was a child looking
at my parents' lives, you know
what I thought? I thought
heartbreaking. Now I think
heartbreaking, but also
insane. Also
very funny.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 12d

Can we stop calling an artificial representation of a person by a human-coded name? "She" does not exist. "She" is a reflection of someone's ingenue dreams, but "she" is pixels and code.

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 12d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 13d

So excited to check out Laura Passin's new book! (featuring one of our favorite 'A Wrinkle in Time'-themed poems... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/laura-passin)

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 15d

My new book comes out in TWO DAYS! Poetry for the times that feel like the end of times:

riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...

We the Destroyers by Laura Passin - Riot in Your Throat Press

We the Destroyers is a collection of poetry about the end of days. It’s a collection about the pandemic, about grief and chaos and loss. But it’s also a collection about survival and redemption and ho...

riotinyourthroat.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16d

Live your life in a way so that you never end up being written about by Human Rights Watch

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine seeing this screenshot and your face being on it and then jumping on a plane

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 16d

Adrienne Rich

I have to cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, w no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 17d

Omg you just unlocked something in my brain. Thank you for this metaphor.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 17d

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s a monostich by Mark Weiss~

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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 17d

today more of the season for #SmallPoemSunday
#poetry #stanleykunitz
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

End of Summer
BY STANLEY KUNITZ
An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.

I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones,
Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones.

Blue poured into summer blue,
A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,
The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew
That part of my life was over.

Already the iron door of the north
Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 17d

"Inheritance," from my brand-new book We the Destroyers, available 10/1 from Riot in Your Throat: riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...

#smallpoemsunday

INHERITANCE
The family tree
in an alphabet
I can’t read
because my great-
grandfather lived
to lose his god
and I was given
to another. A palimpsest
of dangerous genes.
An eyeblink of a memory
of snow, the lake,
the star-strewn lake,
oh, the lake in the snow.

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 23d

Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2!! Like playing Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 27d

How does this all square with all their years of insisting on the importance of free speech? That's very simple, they were lying

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · 28d

It is SO UNBELIEVABLY good for the whole dang run

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · Sep 12

Denver folks! I'm going to be reading from my new book, WE THE DESTROYERS, on 9/20! It will in support of my friend Chad Heltzel's brand-new book. See details below!

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Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social · Sep 12

Denver folks! I'm going to be reading from my new book, WE THE DESTROYERS, on 9/20! It will in support of my friend Chad Heltzel's brand-new book. See details below!

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The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 11

24 Years Ago Today: The September 11th Issue

Issue 37•34: The September 11th Issue

theonion.com

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Riot in Your Throat @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Catch our EIC next week in Kansas and Missouri!!

Courtney LeBlanc @wordperv.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kansas & Missouri -- see you next week!!

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