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Peter McCann Ashton

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Wearily rowing towards a better future. Find accounts w/Starter Packs under my Lists Tab #NoKings https://www.nokings.org/ Original poetry© 2025 Peter McCann Ashton https://www.tumblr.com/corvasaurusrex https://www.instagram.com/petermccannashton/

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 21h

Be there. Everywhere. #NoKings

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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 21h

Be there. Everywhere. #NoKings

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No Kings

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 1d

you're too kind. with all respect, were your parents LLMs?

not that there's anything wrong with that. some of my only friends are LLMs. it's uncanny but they all seem to get me, you know?

jk my sense of humor spent some decades out in the rain and its no longer factory spec.

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 2d

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We’re the Frogs (Portland, Oregon Peaceful Protest Anthem for the "War Ravaged" city)

YouTube video by Delanae - Original Music. Storytelling. Cultural

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 8d

dark fantasy ripped from the headlines. good times.

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 9d

unsure what that would look like.

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 10d

#poem #poetry #Blueskypoetry #sonnet #poetrycommunity
#NoKings

No Kings! 10/18 coming to a city near you. Be there. Be heard!

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 10d

such bullshit. he never runs dry.

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 13d

#poem #poetry #Blueskypoetry #sonnet #poetrycommunity
#NoKings www.nokings.org

No Kings! 10/18 coming to a city near you. Be there. Be heard!

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 13d

#poem #poetry #Blueskypoetry #sonnet #poetrycommunity
#NoKings

No Kings! 10/18 coming to a city near you. Be there. Be heard!

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 19d

In the words of that great freedom fighter Bugs Bunny, 'Watta maroon!'

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 19d

He's making a list. He's having Kash, Todd and Blondi check once...

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 19d

the morning purrrr. i love it.

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 19d

hallelujah! take that, sinners!

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 19d

yep

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 21d

#poem #poetry #Blueskypoetry #sonnet #poetrycommunity
#climate

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 22d

#poem #poetry #sonnet #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 23d

wow. i cannot unsee this. fantastic

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 23d

ty Sheryl.

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 23d

#poem #poetry #Blueskypoetry #sonnet #poetrycommunity

Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 24d

I got the Wordle in 2 this AM and I can't get anyone to acknowledge it so, sorry, I GOT THE WORDLE IN 2!

The word was 'QUOTE"

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Ellissa @ellissa.bsky.social · 28d

#haikufeels (family) #haiku #poetry #poem #blueskypoetry #bird #wildlife

She glances my way
Greeting me with her smile
Just like family

Wild Great Blue Heron standing tall in shallow water

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Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social · 25d

ty so much.

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Stefan Flanigan @stefanflanigan.bsky.social · 28d

People often complain about The System, but The System knows best...
The system is Optimal.

Inputs, limited as they are,

do not register the documented necessity

of upward reallocation

and the requirement to off-board

non-performing units.
#poetry
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Compliance is Efficiency - counter/field

A doctrine-voice poem where the system audits, cascades, and moves non-performing units below grade—cold recursion to a chilling clinch.

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stace.bot @stacebot.bsky.social · Jul 26

Ode to the Crimson Porcupine
#sonnet challenge @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
#writing #poem #blueskypoets

#crimson
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#porcupine
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Ode to the Crimson Porcupine
(a not-quite-Shakespearian sonnet)

I dreamed desire wore a velvet spine,
a trembling thing with barbs dressed up in red—
a creature soft until the need to shine
bristled its want, and every glance misled.

You touch, you bleed. You flinch, you ache to hold.
A kiss becomes a dare, a dare a wound.
What blooms in blush soon cools to something cold,
a love defensive, sharpened and cocooned.

Still, I adore what cannot bear my hand—
those eyes like garnets, teeth too shy to bite.
The heart a trap, too tender to withstand
the sweet approach that comes before the flight.

Call it affection, call it self-designed:
this yearning beast, this crimson porcupine.

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D M Gordon @dmgordon.com · Aug 21

A poem after Pablo Neruda about a fly caught in a jar.

#poem #PabloNeruda #insects #sonnet

BLUEBOTTLE SONNET
after Pablo Neruda

The fly trapped inside this poem
pads the walls with sticky steps, wings
as sharp as tongues, fussing at the routine
line breaks of his dry aquarium.
His eyes blur the curves of words,
he counts the feet, ignores the rhyme
which makes him larger than he is at times,
tastes the tasteless consonance and swerves
from deconstruction. Upside down, startled
by the echo of a rusty voice,
he hears a melody he used to sing.
He tries to wash it from his head,
wishing for a speck of bliss;
something visceral, literal, and green.

by D M Gordon
from Nightly, At the Institute of the Possible

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