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Velma
@velmatrout.bsky.social
Minor American poet and dipshit. Your Human Shape (Broken Sleep Books). Alone in the White Marble City (New Delta Review).

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Hey man this is kind of a weird way to behave, please stop spamming my posts with your crusade
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I would [blank] myself if the leading lights of my movement were this fucking lame
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hell it almost happened to me but I had the good sense to become a Unitarian instead
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Extremely disappointing but truthfully not that surprising; Cave has been shifting from "I use Christian imagery for aesthetic reasons" to "I am actually an unironic Christian" for a minute now. Many such cases, unfortunately.
Highly specific siren: Nick Cave and Rod Dreher hung out
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In general I'm not looking for any artwork to be my friend. That's what people are for.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Okay so check this out:

1. You know the saying "god is my copilot"

2. And Microsoft's little AI assistant is called Copilot

3. And a not insignificant number of tech eccentrics (to put it diplomatically) think AI will become a god

Ergo: "Copilot is my god."
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I need to get kinda high tonight and listen to Natasha by pig destroyer. I think I will regret it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#poem involving a hollow earth
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We had such a beautiful reading at Molly's last night. Packed crowd. People spilling out the door. And not a fascist in sight :).
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Velma
"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?

TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#poem carved from a Unitarian hymnal
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
An English professor of mine argued that through subtle hints dropped throughout paradise lost, one could surmise that Milton felt the same way.

That said I would kill to hang with a Christian ufologist.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
wow this is so beautiful
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I would love to be astonished some time
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
7 PM DOORS / 7:30 READING
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY PHILADELPHIA COME THRU
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
assuming that both christianity and aliens are real, do you think:

1. Jesus died for the sins of all lifeforms

or

2. Each alien race has its own Jesus
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
To it's credit I think that it fails in interesting ways for interesting reasons, and an interesting failure is preferable to a frictionless success. But still.
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Saw Weapons last night. Enjoyable but disappointing. Felt like a movie that misunderstood itself, that considered itself to be much Weirder (capital W) than it actually was. And the ending chase sequence was a complete and total miss. Punctured the whole thing to ridiculousness.
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#poetry involving a line from my son
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
to the average republican, simply being indian or mexican is a greater crime than being an eager participant in a vast and well-documented sex trafficking ring.
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hit Points Lovecraft. Is this anything?
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#poetry involving sweetness
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
dawg what am I supposed to do with th squash my wife is growing
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM