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Xopher Besinger

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · Apr 3

I wrote a poetry chapbook & my plan was to self-publish a little run but the idea of any kind of self-promo/commerce fills me with despair. So I just made a pdf copy if you would a copy message me here or get a hold of me somehow

A yellow hat balancing on a foot the cover image of a digital poetry chapbook I don't want to throw up in a public place by Xopher Besinger

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 20h

"It was like getting my pussy ate by stereo playing 'metal machine music'"

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 20h

look for it in your local bookstore's "nobody asked for this" section

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 1d

Its a live sporting event the app can crash a few times as a treat

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 1d

Would be better if it weren't being shown on glitchiest streaming app ever conceived

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 1d

Yr bog-standard 8-6-2 double play

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 1d

Something about that squat soda cup is appealing

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn't even really set as much as switch off

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 5d

Porn spam bots with the mentat mantra in the bio

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 6d

Running "vibes are off" front page above the fold

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 6d

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Mo Tucker of the Velvet Underground, Jets fan

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 6d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah Ozzy is way major jarring

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 7d

I mean yr point is the same

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 7d

Alice Cooper

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 7d

Don't tell @veerswatch.bsky.social

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 8d

"Hey I haven't actually been doing my job for a few months is that going to be an issue? :)!"

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 8d

Attempting to type a calm and measured response to an email when the actual correct answer is "are you fucking kidding me?"

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 8d

Attempting to type a calm and measured response to an email when the actual correct answer is "are you fucking kidding me?"

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 8d

Arguing with pedants on reddit about Samuel Beckett is like the plot to a Samuel Beckett novel "Xopher Dies"

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12d

Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you.

Keep it up. You’re doing great.

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 14d

What about Sweet?

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 16d

Cor, that's right mad innit?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17d

One Battle After Another is like if The Dude somehow became the main character of Sicario.

a man with long hair and a beard is drinking milk from a cup

Alt: a man with long hair and a beard is drinking milk from a cup

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 18d

My neighbors just capitulated in our brief, passive-aggressive outside stereo volume battle...dogs I am listening to Room to Live at noon on a Saturday you absolutely cannot fathom how annoying I can be

Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 19d

*staring intently at Tim's lips*"I bet this is Dirty Air"

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 19d

The audible gasps of recognition three tom hits into "Don't Make Plans This Friday"...we are a bunch of psychos

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Jon Solomon @jon.wprb.com · 19d

Ain’t you ever been alone in your life?

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