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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 3d

I'm late on this but thanks to everyone who was so supportive during #DVpit last week :)

koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 9d

A Chicago writer embarks on an experiment for one year—no algorithms, no streaming, no dating apps. Just longing and low-res light, American Apparel dresses, flip phones, bad bangs, meet-cutes, and questionable choices. A novel about burnout, memory, and the myth of going back.
#DVpit #A #F #LitFic

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 9d

A writer, exhausted by the internet and her own life, embarks on an experiment to live like it’s 2010 again—no apps, no algorithms, just mixtapes, polaroids, meet cutes, & Washed Out on repeat. But she soon learns nostalgia isn’t home—it’s the space between who we were and who we’ve become. #DVpit

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 10d

taking a waymo to the honky tonk

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 15d

this is sooo good!

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Sep 17

Tanehisi Coates writes with a clarity that is rare. This reflection is worth reading.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 19d

gas station coffee. fresh socks. my library card. butter, salt, heat. just a few things that have saved me on bad days :)

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 19d

there are many kinds of ghosts but I promise to be the good kind

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 23d

i turned 40 this year and still act the same as when I was 8 (I just rented a vhs and I have a pizza on the way)

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 23d

i was putting fake spiderwebs across the bushes in my yard and i overheard the neighbor boy tell his friend "oh yeah, that's my neighbor. she's cool. she's from the 1880s"

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · 27d

carhartt shorteralls season continues (it's 95 degrees out)

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Sep 4

I can't wait to read long, fat books this winter

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Feb 5

trump about to try to put a buccees on the gaza strip

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Jan 27

my 65 year old neighbor had a sign on their porch that said “welcome to the porch” but now he has a new sign that says "this is the porch"

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Jan 25

here's your reminder about 60 tons of cosmic dust falls to Earth every day, settling everywhere from mountaintops to your car windshield. even in the most mundane places, fragments of the universe are quietly present, reminding us that wonder exists everywhere

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · Jan 22

When it comes to promotion, I haven’t been thinking about that all. It’s not that it isn’t important, I’ve just mostly been grieving my literary/media community and being able to share our work with one another in a pretty seamless and effective way.

Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · Jan 22

Anne Helen Petersen recently wrote about divesting from socials too & I just kept thinking that I have a much smaller audience & idk how I would be able to promote my work & grow my readership without it. Any other independent journos asking similar questions?

The Social Media Sea Change

What happens when the thing that structured so much of our lives loses its utility?

open.substack.com

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Jan 17

scenes from west texas

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Jan 9

im so glad ethel cain released an ambient noise album just in time to be the soundtrack of my strange winter

koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Jan 4

making zines, listening to cassettes, baking bread, reading long, fat books >>>>

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Dec 30

a summer afternoon in 2012 would cure me rn

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𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖞𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 🕯️ @warmyellowlight.bsky.social · Dec 28

towns with names like Ypsilanti please be serious

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Dec 28

a river rock with nymphs under it hates to see me coming

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Dec 20

noticing more writers and artists focusing on creating analog offerings next year and that makes sense to me! ppl are tired of living on algorithms. we want tangible things we can hold in our hands that have meaning and weren't given or sent to us via AI or through data harvesting

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koty neelis @phonenotepoetry.bsky.social · Dec 11

making a zine on interesting cloud formations >>>

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