Brian Spears
@briankspears.bsky.social
Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011) and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
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Brian Spears
@briankspears.bsky.social
· Nov 16
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing millions of people that what they really wanted to do was argue with complete strangers on the internet 24/7.
A grok of cybertrucks
what's the collective noun for cybertrucks? A disgrace? A humiliation? An offense?
oh god an entire pack
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A grok of cybertrucks
Anybody know what the proper exercise setting for shoveling snow is on the Apple Watch? Like Biathlon or something?
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Anybody know what the proper exercise setting for shoveling snow is on the Apple Watch? Like Biathlon or something?
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TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Do you know how unpopular something has to be to put English faculty on the same side as Econ professors?
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Do you know how unpopular something has to be to put English faculty on the same side as Econ professors?
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Classes are completely asynchronous and I offer them discounted if you don't want a writing critique at the end.
These are not shopping deals but I am offering three upcoming writing classes and I spent a long time trying to figure out the lowest cost I could do for the amount of time I put in.
First: flash fiction
Then horror: forms.gle/yQ7Lo5PFzpAD...
Then sci-fi: forms.gle/eNHR73KMNrQj...
First: flash fiction
Then horror: forms.gle/yQ7Lo5PFzpAD...
Then sci-fi: forms.gle/eNHR73KMNrQj...
Flash Royale January Edition
If you’ve ever played video games, you may have heard the term Battle Royale. It refers to a type of game that features a large number of players who play with the goal of being the last player standi...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Classes are completely asynchronous and I offer them discounted if you don't want a writing critique at the end.
I don’t have a problem. I have a lot of yarn. That’s the opposite of a problem.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don’t have a problem. I have a lot of yarn. That’s the opposite of a problem.
Every once in a while I remember that I pitched someone an idea for a podcast and wow did they push me out of the path of an oncoming train.
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Every once in a while I remember that I pitched someone an idea for a podcast and wow did they push me out of the path of an oncoming train.
Post your favorite lord of the rings character, wrong answers only
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Post your favorite lord of the rings character, wrong answers only
Not even if they paid me.
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are at their best-ever price for Black Friday
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are at their best-ever price for Black Friday
They also make for a great gift.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Not even if they paid me.
Happy 81 days to Mardi Gras, y’all!
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Happy 81 days to Mardi Gras, y’all!
Think for a moment about how many things we now consider hobbies are connected to older forms of production people once needed just to live: gardening, fabric arts, woodworking, music and written creation. The list is massive.
There’s a reason we hold onto these things. It’s part of our humanity.
There’s a reason we hold onto these things. It’s part of our humanity.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Think for a moment about how many things we now consider hobbies are connected to older forms of production people once needed just to live: gardening, fabric arts, woodworking, music and written creation. The list is massive.
There’s a reason we hold onto these things. It’s part of our humanity.
There’s a reason we hold onto these things. It’s part of our humanity.
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More hats for the little free library
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
More hats for the little free library
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Anyway, if you're saying it's fine to steal from people because you don't want to pay them, that's not Marxism or Communism. That's just capitalism.
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Anyway, if you're saying it's fine to steal from people because you don't want to pay them, that's not Marxism or Communism. That's just capitalism.
I still think nothing makes me feel more middle-aged than getting Black Friday deals from a CPAP supply company.
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I still think nothing makes me feel more middle-aged than getting Black Friday deals from a CPAP supply company.
My current favorite student typo (which I have seen multiple times this semester) is them forgetting the final s in assess.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
My current favorite student typo (which I have seen multiple times this semester) is them forgetting the final s in assess.
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I’ve been wondering since these came out if professors can ban these from the classroom. Probably not, at least at my institution.
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’ve been wondering since these came out if professors can ban these from the classroom. Probably not, at least at my institution.
I am your father, Charlie Brown
It's a walk-off, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I am your father, Charlie Brown
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Raising the minimum wage is good, but not good enough.
Workers should’t have to constantly fall behind until politicians can be made to do their job.
It is time to do what Michigan, Maine, Ohio, Florida and 16 other states have already done and take the politicians out of it. #IndexTheMinimumWage
Workers should’t have to constantly fall behind until politicians can be made to do their job.
It is time to do what Michigan, Maine, Ohio, Florida and 16 other states have already done and take the politicians out of it. #IndexTheMinimumWage
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Raising the minimum wage is good, but not good enough.
Workers should’t have to constantly fall behind until politicians can be made to do their job.
It is time to do what Michigan, Maine, Ohio, Florida and 16 other states have already done and take the politicians out of it. #IndexTheMinimumWage
Workers should’t have to constantly fall behind until politicians can be made to do their job.
It is time to do what Michigan, Maine, Ohio, Florida and 16 other states have already done and take the politicians out of it. #IndexTheMinimumWage
Excuse me? I need those cables for when I finally decide to reorganize the files on my former backup hard drives.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excuse me? I need those cables for when I finally decide to reorganize the files on my former backup hard drives.
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
Everybody else in my house right now has no idea what’s happening on the internets right now. They’ve made much better choices than I have.
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Everybody else in my house right now has no idea what’s happening on the internets right now. They’ve made much better choices than I have.
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
Do I want to grade papers this morning instead of read whatever it is y’all are talking about? Of course not.
Would it be better for my mental health if I did? Oh no doubt.
Would it be better for my mental health if I did? Oh no doubt.
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Do I want to grade papers this morning instead of read whatever it is y’all are talking about? Of course not.
Would it be better for my mental health if I did? Oh no doubt.
Would it be better for my mental health if I did? Oh no doubt.