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Tolu Oloruntoba

@toluini.bsky.social

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Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). New Collection: UNRAVEL (McClelland & Stewart, 2025). Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 11h

The sky’s white with November’s teeth,
and the air is ash and woodsmoke.
A flush of color from the dying tree,
a cargo train speeding through, and there,
that’s me, standing in the wintering
grass watching the dog suffer the cold
leaves. I’m not large from this distance,
just a fence post
Ada Limón

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 9h

This book is delicious.

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 9h

Thelma & the Sleaze is also a brilliant band name. Thanks!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 9h

I want to know more about them but I’m afraid to ask a search engine.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 10h

Wondrous things I’ve encountered in Premee Mohamed’s THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS:

vibration-activated lightspiders in a glass enclosure, for illumination; limb regeneration; bio-engineered wasps that can deliver analgesics and antibiotics in cadence.

I haven’t even gotten to the war pterodactyls!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

Wow look at this typo. “I’m already feel bad.” 🤦🏾‍♂️

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

With alt text
(and I hope this isn’t AI)

Chicago - A 31-year-old Domino's delivery driver was arrested late Friday after what police described as a "pepperoni standoff" over the
30-minute delivery guarantee.
According to neighbors, Jessica Ramirez arrived at an apartment complex 12 minutes late with a large pizza order. When the customer asked for a discount, Ramirez allegedly dropped the boxes on the sidewalk and shouted, "I race traffic, not time machines!"
Witnesses say she then opened one of the pizzas, plucked off slices of pepperoni, and began flinging them like Frisbees while chanting,
"Thirty minutes or less is corporate propaganda!"
Officers say Ramirez refused to hand over the remaining pizzas until someone "signed a petition to abolish delivery deadlines."
Reactions were mixed-some residents called her "a warrior against unrealistic expectations," while others said she had taken "hot and ready" a little too literally.

Mugshot-style photo of a white person in a black zip-up hoodie with one shoulder bared.

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I know the reposted story is not real.

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

Wait I dig this remake of Neal Stephenson’s SNOW CRASH.

8-ʙɪᴛ™ @the8bitidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Free her!!!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

(Don’t worry I’m already feel bad for being prideful. Christian shame is hard to unlearn.)

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been doing the dam thing, it would seem.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished creating my slides for the MacEwan reading on Wednesday and I find myself quite proud of myself.

It’s a strange feeling (since I struggle with self-worth issues) but reviewing 6 years of published work has given me a good zoomed-out view.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 1d

lol this is perfect description. Needs to be seen to be fully understood.

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 2d

Back to the dreadful and delightful Jackson Lamb. His hair looks even smellier this season.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 9d

kyla houbolt
ONE FROG

from her chapbook collection, But Then I Thought

One Frog

Tonight one frog sings outside. It's no country for rain. I live far away.
but I can hear this one frog, it's a loud frog, alone in some creek or
other. in a county of two lane roads that twist in the dark. Still there is
comfort here because somewhere glimmering among the darkened
trees is a lighted window. An old man and his nephew sit inside,
whittling. They're making toys. One makes a small cart with rolling
wheels: the other makes a dog with a wagging tail. There are no
children nearby, not even in the neighboring counties, so one might
wonder who the toys are for. But the old man and his nephew don't
seem concerned: they iust keep whittling. Occasionally one of them
smiles. The shavings go into the fire. The frog sings. The roads twist in
the dark. The creek is low. One day it might rain.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 6d

It was a good post! I hope you can find some sleep.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 6d

does this…does this mean insomnia won this round? 🙂

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 7d

Or the neurodivergent ability to compute very diffuse signals into ✨knowing✨

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 7d

This book is SO good.

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 7d

“nephmew” is the best word I’ve read today.

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 10d

Is waking up in tears a sign of life stress? Asking for a friend.

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Robin in the woods @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 11d

(Bob Marley writing drafts)
I'm gonna be steel like an eel in Biel

I'm gonna be tin like a pangolin in Turin

I'm gonna be lead like a hammerhead in Hampstead

I'm gonna be zincy like a minke in Helsinki

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 11d

Or Mahaila Smith’s SEED BEETLE.

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 11d

Or Franny Choi’s SOFT SCIENCE.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 11d

Or a full-length collection. David Fincher and/or Lana Wachowski need to option @paulvermeersch.bsky.social ‘s NMLCT.

Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 11d

When is Netflix going to start adapting poetry chapbooks into limited series?

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