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upfromsumdirt
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile.

poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
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"are you bot, winter-brained?"

*with apologies to mr. maximus decimus meridius*
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
carry on & do what you do.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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November 21, 2024 at 3:45 PM
the lone, single season of The Fades (6 episodes?!? was that all?!?), an end-of-days sci-fi/fantasy, is still on Hulu and very much worth the watch.

bonus, it's an earlier casting of Daniel Kaluuya and Agent of Shield's Iain De Caestecker.
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"the sun stares down into the mouth
of Charlie Brown and she says 'you never ask me to moan'
that’s because a kiss completes us
heat rises from the earth, melts the snow
& wets the leaves."
Faster Charlie Brown! Kill! Kill!
In space no one can hear you scream, Charlie Brown.
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O, Charlie Brown, they do not love your hands."
"Goddess, sing the rage, of Peleus's son, Charlie Brown"
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, Charlie Brown
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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It's almost six years old and the book designer's choice of typeface was widely praised www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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My debut collection still exists only in my dreams, but these are my favourite anthology appearances from the last couple of years. And there are links to some free online stuff in my pinned post as well.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
i think it's because of her voice that ive always thought of Macy Gray as "child-like"... "youthful", maybe... but watching her play someone's mama (or grandma?!?!) in a movie & realizing we're the exact same age (yeah, yeah im a grandpa too) has me feeling OLD AF for no good gotdamn reason.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
i miss actual comedians in movies... too many films star standup comics and thats no indication they can be funny on film.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
from Black Stélé in the Hour of Chaos - hinting at the origins of the Virgin Madonna motif before the introduction of Jesus.
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Killah Priest just out here Killah Priesting to the fullest extent
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
jesus was all over africa and the middle east leaving accounts of his gnosticisms and thangs. yall just wanna adhere to what the 5th century A.D. haters told yall to adhere to...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Ham...
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
good afternoon.

stevie wonder
I WISH

youtu.be/hYKYka-PNt0?...
Stevie Wonder - I Wish (the original version)
YouTube video by Lukefilter
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
sent three.

the poem i shoulda sent from the w.i.p.:

MORE THAN MUD or ORUNMILA CREATES THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
who has the montgomery hat toss in a poem? or in fiction?
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I love any business model that requires a constant stream of tax dollars to keep afloat just to make sex pests like Sam Altman and Elon Musk wealthy

Who doesn't love Elon Musk, that guy is a character
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I love how Musk named his Memphis supercomputer Colossus after a computer in a sci-fi book that destroys everything.
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
chase someone else.
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
rainer maria rilke
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
i co-sign on this bullshit ‐ all the thumbs up on yee-haw's HOT DAMN DILLS... takes me back to the quality heat of the hot banana peppers my older sister was hoarding under her bed back in the 70s.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
i mucked around and slipped in once before, let's see if i caint do so again...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM