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Unlikely Stories @unlikely-stories.bsky.social · 22h

Bar Redux and Unlikely Stories present a night of pro-democracy, anti-fascist art supporting the Fall of Freedom movement! Presenting music, poetry, and other writings, a silent procession for free speech, and a literary open mic. Tues, Nov 25, 8pm in New Orleans!
www.facebook.com/events/13470...

Bar Redux and Unlikely Stories present Fall of Freedom: a Pro-Democracy, Anti-Fascist Night of Poetry, Music, and Literature. Music by Josh Benitez, music and writing by NaTRILL Dizaster, poetry by Andy Young, poetry by Daniel W.K. Lee, poetry by Cid Galicia, writing by Rel Farrar, writing by Scythe Sylvia, poetry by Briana Augustus, poetry by Russ Mercado, with your MC Jonathan Penton, and a musical event by the No-Law Solidarity Choir. Plus a Silent Procession for Free Speech and a Literary Open Mic. Tuesday, November 25, 8pm. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., New Orleans #FallofFreedom FallofFreedom.com @FallofFreedom

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 5d

A creepy October photo I took in 2011. Just a sweaty doll in the snow without her calvaria.

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't read any Muriel Spark, but that pose with the black cat breaks my heart. So maybe I will.

The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 5d

#CoverReveal : We're obviously always delighted to celebrate one of our (very!) local literary stars, Muriel Spark, and Hodder has James Bailey's Like a Cat Loves a Bird, "a spiky and delicious new literary biography", coming next April.

#books #livres #MurielSpark #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 6d

This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is for anybody who's had to clear a house, who's found objects that must have had significance for someone no longer here to tell their story....

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 5d

I'm also confused why this can create such a hullabaloo when everything else is such an absolute dumpster fire.

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joe positive @joepositive.wtf · 5d

FTR: my (small, white, ashkenazi) family included several cousins generations older than I, whom I called "aunt" and "uncle" because addressing them by first name (or "cousin") seemed inappropriate.

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 5d

Is the login service for my.ny.gov down @ny.gov?

Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 6d

At least it’s not Kars4Kids. I’d sell out anyone to avoid that.

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh, I feel like Unrest is severly overlooked. Wonderful music!

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 6d

I call this JFCGLP.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 7d

BRAND NEW SENTENCE LEVEL RESEARCH

Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps.

There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A couple lil pink baby stinkbugs emerging from their eggs onto a plant stem that looks covered in cotton candy.

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 6d

I should say some larger sources, like Rolling Stone, know the score.

Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 6d

Moreover, our mainstream press doesn’t know how to deal with it. So far there’s capitulation and “unbiased” reporting.

There are alternatives though.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 7d

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 9d

Online here with other villanelles and many other poems, even sestinas!

Elizabeth Bishop did both forms really well. “One Art” for the villanelle and “Sestina” for the sestina.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/...

The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

www.poetryfoundation.org

Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 9d

I love a good villanelle. This one I return to often. I needed it today.

The Waking by Theodore Roethke.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 10d

Boosted through my account to almost nobody.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 10d

five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

www.kickstarter.com

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 13d

Who the fuck wants a ballroom nowadays anyway?

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 13d

I’m imprisoned by my prescription pill delivery service.

Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 13d

This is wild and gross, but not surprising. Money comes first.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 14d

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 13d

This is wild and gross, but not surprising. Money comes first.

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Clay (feet of) @claysw.bsky.social · 13d

No worries, just imagining an interesting evening in Vienna.

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