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November 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM

Hiba Tahir

@hhtahir.bsky.social

TODAY ONLY! Submit a photo of your “I Voted” sticker OR proof of donation to any food pantry in lieu of our $15 submission fee for the inaugural TIGHTWIRES ANTHOLOGY contest! Enter for your chance to win $500 in both fiction and poetry! For more details, visit: hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

Tightwires is dedicated to featuring writers from diverse backgrounds and communities to share their experiences navigating life & art outside institutional confines.The mission of The Tightwir…

Poet & Director Carey Salerno talks about hunger, honing, & being haunted by Brigit Pegeen Kelly!

November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM

Hiba Tahir

@hhtahir.bsky.social

This week on Tightwires, I enjoyed discussing intersections of astrophysics and poetry (among other things) with Carey Salerno, poet & executive director/publisher of Alice James Books! THE HUNGRIEST STARS is out now!
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October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Hiba Tahir

@hhtahir.bsky.social

I’ve been not great at sharing this but that will change this week! Submission deadline THIS FRIDAY for The Tightwires Anthology! $15 submission fee via Venmo; $500 prize in both genres & numerous opportunities for publication! #CallforSubmissions
Find all details here: hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

Tightwires is dedicated to featuring writers from diverse backgrounds and communities to share their experiences navigating life & art outside institutional confines.The mission of The Tightwir…

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM

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Paul Haine

@paulhaine.bsky.social

"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

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October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting

@thefred.bsky.social

Twitter used to be the place where reporter talked to experts in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, etc., but the experts all left but reporters did not.

Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.

October 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

October 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM

Hiba Tahir

@hhtahir.bsky.social

I’ve been not great at sharing this but that will change this week! Submission deadline THIS FRIDAY for The Tightwires Anthology! $15 submission fee via Venmo; $500 prize in both genres & numerous opportunities for publication! #CallforSubmissions
Find all details here: hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

Tightwires is dedicated to featuring writers from diverse backgrounds and communities to share their experiences navigating life & art outside institutional confines.The mission of The Tightwir…

The Facts: Trey Reed’s 2nd Autopsy Has Not Been Released, Despite Rumors

October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM

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The Oregonian

@oregonian.com

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Ellen Hopkins

@ellenhopkins.bsky.social

October 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Joe Walsh

@walshfreedom.bsky.social

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”👇

October 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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Juno Rylee Schultz

@junoryleejournalism.com

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘

@donnerkay.bsky.social

NOT released yet. Shame on those spreading rumors that it has been. This is disrespect of family and his community.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · Oct 7

The second autopsy on the body of Delta State University student Trey Reed has not been released, despite uncorroborated social media rumors currently circulating claiming it uncovered evidence of foul play.

Reed, who was Black, was found hanging from a tree on the campus in Cleveland last month.

The second autopsy on the body of Delta State University student Trey Reed has not been released, despite uncorroborated social media rumors.

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October 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM

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amy brown

@amybrown.xyz

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM

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Effie Seiberg

@effies.bsky.social

oof

Amanda Finley Digs All the Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · Sep 12

A little ditty I wrote

Two measures of music in common time on perpetual repeat. Quarter note equals 80. Three voices needed. Children's choir, which screams any sound they want on the first beat, sforzando. And then silent. Ar -15 which keeps a steady, nonstop beat. And Congress, which is always silent

September 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM

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Susan L. Leary

@susanlleary.bsky.social

Hanif Abdurraqib 💙

from A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER (Tin House)

Day 24 - #SealeyChallenge

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@sealeychallenge.bsky.social

HOW CAN BLACK PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT FLOWERS AT A TIME LIKE THIS

dear reader, with our heels digging into the good mud at a swamp's edge, you might tell me something

about the dandelion head & how it is not a flower itself but a plant made up of many small flowers at its crown

& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am &

I wish to return the favor for the purpose of this exercise. which, too, is an attempt at fashioning

something pretty out of seeds refusing to make anything worthwhile of their burial. size me up & skip whatever semantics arrive

to the tongue first. say: that boy he look like a hollowed-out grandfather clock. he look like a million-dollar god with a two-cent

heaven. like all it takes is one kiss & before morning, you could scatter his whole mind across a field.

August 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM

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Chaski Review

@chaskireview.bsky.social

💃MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! 💃

Send us your weirdest, coolest work! Submissions close September 9

August 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Hiba Tahir

@hhtahir.bsky.social

I’m so excited to announce that after years of planning, The Tightwires Anthology is officially open for submissions! I’m especially thankful for our two incredible judges— Hanif Abdurraqib will judge poetry, and Hannah Whitten will judge fiction! hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

Tightwires is dedicated to featuring writers from diverse backgrounds and communities to share their experiences navigating life & art outside institutional confines.The mission of The Tightwir…

Author, MFA & Ph.D Mariah Rigg talks about colonization, climate change, & the color yellow!

August 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM

Hiba Tahir

@hhtahir.bsky.social

This week on Tightwires, I spoke to Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social, author of EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-- out today from @eccobooks.bsky.social! Kate Davis, former fiction editor of The Arkansas International and my best friend, co-hosted!
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The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

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August 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM

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Drew Harwell

@drewharwell.com

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

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August 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM

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Joaquín Gavilano

@jjgavilano.bsky.social

We started a new literary magazine with @colnol.bsky.social and @hhtahir.bsky.social!

Send us your work!

Chaski Review @chaskireview.bsky.social · Jul 15

What's up, world? We're Chaski Review, a new literary magazine ready to publish you! Find out more at chaskireview.com

July 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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Chen Chen

@chenchenwrites.bsky.social

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.

—Fanny Howe, RIP

July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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Diode

@diodeeditions.bsky.social

Hiba Tahir in conversation with Mandy Shunnarah

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Palestinian-American Poet Mandy Shunnarah talks about wishes, waffles, and WE HAD MANSIONS!