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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 2m

yes & if you have four children don't just feed three of them

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 2h

The inimitable and late-lamented Kent Johnson remembered by Jeffrey Side.

Kent Johnson: In Praise of Mischief and Literary Disruption

Beyond the surface: Delve into poetry, literature, and culture with insightful analysis and unexpected connections.

jeffrey-side.blogspot.com

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1h

2025 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest

Honorable Mention

I still remember
the taste of coffee from a thermos
on the trail
now my only companion
a stone in the shoe

Maria Tomczak
Opole, Poland

#tanka #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #tankapoem

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 19h

Did y'all know there's a version of "Sledgehammer" that includes Phil Collins on drums *and* guitar work by Brian May?

Anyway, here ya go.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftB2...

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (The Prince's Trust Rock Gala 1988)

YouTube video by King's Trust Music

www.youtube.com

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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 19h

Finally fixed my typewriter for long enough to get this piece finished and away. 🤞

Typewritten text in black and red ink / the erotic hauntology of autocorrect / always trying to come in a text near you

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 18h

After the bombs stopped, silence filled the streets the kind of silence that follows loss.
We walk among the ruins of what used to be home, trying to find pieces of ourselves.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with @benburgis.bsky.social's critique of the critique. I can be pretty analytic philosophy sceptical (see e.g. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-...) but sometimes people just kinda flail in critiques, they basically just make stuff up about it.

benburgis.substack.com/p/if-you-wan...

If You Want to Critique Analytic Philosophy, It Helps to Know Something About It

A note on Neil Vallelly's essay "Analytic Philosophy Is a Dead End for the Left."

benburgis.substack.com

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 2h

In-text plate (folio 3) from Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/10615

Gift of Tyler Graphics in memory of Joan Mitchell

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 22h

Happy birthday to the late, great Pharoah Sanders, arguably the best artist to use to get jazz-averse people into the genre. I didn’t realize the 1975 Paris tape that came out a few years ago had recently been supplemented with a complete recording elementalmusicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pharoa...

Pharoah Sanders - Love is Here - The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings, by Elemental Music Records

11 track album

elementalmusicrecords.bandcamp.com

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algeventual @algeventual.bsky.social · 17h

Telecommunication

#glitchart #visual #abstract #newmedia #visualart #glitch #design #newmediaartist #visualizer #abstraction #glitchartist #glitch #audiovisual #touchdesigner

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 28m

#rumramruf, #ragnarshattr

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 29m

#rumramruf, #egilshattr

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 31m

#bill_knott

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 7h

“we ourselves were the the unknown law that we obeyed”

clarice lispector

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Today, the US federal government honors a Genovese man who did his own research.

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Bits of Pluto @bitsofpluto.edavis.dev · 8h

A cropped image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 4h

beautiful

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Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social · 7h

Troqueer Parish Church, Dumfries.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #History

Atmospheric black and white photo of an 18th century church with 19th century alterations and a bird cage style belfry. Surrounded by tombstones under a dramatic sky.

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 13h

adelaide crapsey is a great poet

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 15h

sounds like a plan

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 16h

he didn't wrote many poems but when he did they slay

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Goliardic Society @goliardicsociety.bsky.social · 1d

Poem written in a copy of Beowulf by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Alastair Reid.

#medieval #medievalliterature #medievallit #middleages #medievalstudies #poetry #language #beowulf

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 16h

just think if nixon were alive he'd be the most honest republican

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 16h

i want back to that timeline