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Host of Writing The Rapids. Author of Tired. Fatherhood enjoyer.

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · Jul 4

Take a break. Listen to writers talk to me about their work.

Writing The Rapids - YouTube

A writer curated discussion podcast and audio literary magazine

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2h

Look what we did with our brains!

Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · 3h

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE

WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 3h

actually you know what, no, I need to get back to writing this new book, and that poetry collection, and edit some old manuscripts, get this press off the ground. They're gunna make me poor no matter what I do. Sorry, forgot that for a second.

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 3h

I gotta learn to weld or something

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 3h

I gotta learn to weld or something

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 23h

My daughter has really picked up on how my wife speaks to me, so I get greeted in the morning by this little voice saying "wake up my handsome dada guy!"

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jpate.bsky.social @jpate.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to the good people at Heavy Feather Review (@hfr.bsky.social ) who've published poems from a collection I've been working on about cult films.
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/15/j...

James Pate: Three Poems for Haunted Passages

Messiah of Evil (1973) We sit in the sun and wait. We sleep. And we dream. Each of us dying slowly in the prison of our minds. —Arletty, Messiah of Evil I’ve often thought of the human head as a me…

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Lewis’ The Monk is an incredibly fun read.

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 2d

A decent metric for the overall quality of a horror film is how cumbersome it makes car while being chased look.

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 2d

To our detriment

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 2d

I'm begging online leftists to learn what a sales funnel is and how to use it

Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2d

The hyper-leftist antipathy toward the “no kings” rally was very dispiriting and a lot of people lost points on that one

You can’t complain that liberals don’t care and then scoff when liberals come out in big numbers showing that they care

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 29d

I'm a solatic, I go crazy whenever the sun's up.

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure I made it look just as easy as it felt!

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 2d

I am now 33

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 2d

The 1.5% cropland available for cultivation number is quite striking.
Also nearly 100 more aid workers killed in Gaza than Israeli soldiers since Oct 7.

As the ceasefire begins, a look at the Gaza war by the numbers

With start of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and release of hostages and prisoners, here are some key figures related to the Gaza war and the Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked it.

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Growing up a white American Catholic has made it so that I’m always mildly surprised to be reminded that Catholicism wasn’t always part of the whiteness blueprint

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting how for so many early gothic novels it seems like Catholicism is treated as a “spooky other”.

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Is that good?

Sophie @sophiefrommars.bsky.social · 19d

The US Army will not be able to pay its soldiers if the US economy completely collapses. The US economy has only one profitable sector right now, tech. The US tech sector is ENTIRELY held together right now by the AI bubble

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 4d

I’m having a hard time thinking of a slasher movie where the horror is heightened because the characters are likable and you don't want them to die.

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 5d

I gotta go to voidcon next year

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 5d

I gotta learn how do take care of a vegetable garden. And pickle. And can. I’m doing well.

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 6d

Using AI at work is like training your replacement before they've even been hired.

Acrisure to cut nearly 400 jobs in move to AI

Grand Rapids-based Acrisure has announced it will begin cutting jobs in early 2026. The insurance brokerage is automating hundreds of positions with artificial intelligence

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 7d

One is inclined to ask himself if it's "worth it" but always stops short of defining what "worth it" might mean.

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 7d

Without Writing the Rapids, my social media would be long deleted

Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 7d

all us weirdo indie writers can pool our money together and get a little compound somewhere. I’m sure nothing would go wrong

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a tough time to be a decent person anywhere. I’m certainly a few more “and then they came for the…”s down the list from where we are.

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 7d

Same! I’m too far down on the Irish side and just Barely too far down on the Polish side.

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 7d

Without Writing the Rapids, my social media would be long deleted