Kyla Houbolt
@luaz.bsky.social
I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available here: https://asterismbooks.com/product/becoming-altar-new-and-selected-poems
https://kylahoubolt.us
https://kylahoubolt.us
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I guess we can take the "pre" out and just say "order". I learned Asterism is now shipping copies of *Becoming Altar*! So go ahead and grab one, maybe a few to give as holiday gifts! Some people who don't usually read poetry like this book. (My family. Go figure.)
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
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"Environmental groups sue USFS over logging in Pisgah National Forest [in NC]...Logging on a steep slope right next to this phenomenal river is going to pollute, clogging it with sediment. It's going to kill endangered species." wlos.com/news/local/e... 🌎
Environmental groups sue US Forest Service over logging in Pisgah National Forest
A lawsuit has been filed against the US Forest Service over a logging project in Pisgah National Forest.
wlos.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"Environmental groups sue USFS over logging in Pisgah National Forest [in NC]...Logging on a steep slope right next to this phenomenal river is going to pollute, clogging it with sediment. It's going to kill endangered species." wlos.com/news/local/e... 🌎
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Remember our joy pop-up? It’s going to keep popping. We’re permanently opening subs for flashes of joy (well, as permanent as anything, which is not very but you get the idea). If we love it and it’s joyful we’ll add it to the issue. Like a little library of joy.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Remember our joy pop-up? It’s going to keep popping. We’re permanently opening subs for flashes of joy (well, as permanent as anything, which is not very but you get the idea). If we love it and it’s joyful we’ll add it to the issue. Like a little library of joy.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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‘Everyone has a book inside them’.
They don’t. They really don’t.
They don’t. They really don’t.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
‘Everyone has a book inside them’.
They don’t. They really don’t.
They don’t. They really don’t.
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A note by @anthonyframe.bsky.social on Threads reminded me: November deadlines. Are not in my budget due to the adding up of submission fees. I know it’s an evil empire, but Google forms or just email would work fine. I’ve used email as an editor just fine.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A note by @anthonyframe.bsky.social on Threads reminded me: November deadlines. Are not in my budget due to the adding up of submission fees. I know it’s an evil empire, but Google forms or just email would work fine. I’ve used email as an editor just fine.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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[U.S. Postal Service]
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
August 3, 2023 at 12:55 AM
[U.S. Postal Service]
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
I wouldn't want to be part of anything called "The Poetry Elite". YMMV.
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I wouldn't want to be part of anything called "The Poetry Elite". YMMV.
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The title made me curious and my goodness, it’s an AI slop illustrated journal where “form is not a cage but a cathedral” and “rhyme is not outdated but resurrected”. Sounds welcoming and not incel or white supremacist coded at all.
New publisher listing for: The Poetry Elite (Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: The Poetry Elite
New publisher listing for: The Poetry Elite (Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The title made me curious and my goodness, it’s an AI slop illustrated journal where “form is not a cage but a cathedral” and “rhyme is not outdated but resurrected”. Sounds welcoming and not incel or white supremacist coded at all.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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It's better than when I was little. They don't dress in Native costume. It's heavier on history than patriotic mythology. And the focus is on reading aloud.
And now some food.
And now some food.
I'm at the 7 yo's Thanksgiving presentation and feast.
10 lbs of potatoes peeled, cut, and in the pot. Now for coffee
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It's better than when I was little. They don't dress in Native costume. It's heavier on history than patriotic mythology. And the focus is on reading aloud.
And now some food.
And now some food.
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By no means am I an expert, I am actually kind of dumb. But being at a fuckin' coal mine for 12 years is what made me want to be a socialist. It wasn't reading theory. It was the experience of being a working person in rural America.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
By no means am I an expert, I am actually kind of dumb. But being at a fuckin' coal mine for 12 years is what made me want to be a socialist. It wasn't reading theory. It was the experience of being a working person in rural America.
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Come lunchtime—
for all who cannot stagger it—
we stand like kept dogs
waiting at the elevator,
holding an unspoken “stay.”
#短歌 #tanka #poetry #poesia
#haikufeels
for all who cannot stagger it—
we stand like kept dogs
waiting at the elevator,
holding an unspoken “stay.”
#短歌 #tanka #poetry #poesia
#haikufeels
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Come lunchtime—
for all who cannot stagger it—
we stand like kept dogs
waiting at the elevator,
holding an unspoken “stay.”
#短歌 #tanka #poetry #poesia
#haikufeels
for all who cannot stagger it—
we stand like kept dogs
waiting at the elevator,
holding an unspoken “stay.”
#短歌 #tanka #poetry #poesia
#haikufeels
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My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
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“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”
-- Charles Simic
-- Charles Simic
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”
-- Charles Simic
-- Charles Simic
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Who will send the first submission since our launch? Will it be YOU?
Welcome to Some Words, a literary journal hosted on a message board.
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
Want to send us work? Here are the guidelines.
somewords.boards.net/thread/4/sub...
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Who will send the first submission since our launch? Will it be YOU?
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I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story
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Get Inside, the Cops are Coming: Roma Families in Greece are Under Threat
In the outskirts of Athens, Roma families live under constant suspicion, struggling for dignity, work, and a place to belong.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/get-ins...
In the outskirts of Athens, Roma families live under constant suspicion, struggling for dignity, work, and a place to belong.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/get-ins...
Get Inside, the Cops are Coming: Roma Families in Greece are Under Threat - UNICORN RIOT
In the outskirts of Athens, Roma families live under constant suspicion, struggling for dignity, work, and a place to belong.
unicornriot.ninja
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Get Inside, the Cops are Coming: Roma Families in Greece are Under Threat
In the outskirts of Athens, Roma families live under constant suspicion, struggling for dignity, work, and a place to belong.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/get-ins...
In the outskirts of Athens, Roma families live under constant suspicion, struggling for dignity, work, and a place to belong.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/get-ins...
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What we embrace or reject is not God. We embrace or reject our necessarily limited and incomplete personal conceptions of God.
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience
What God Do You, or Don’t You, Believe In?
The God in Your Head is Not the Real God
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What we embrace or reject is not God. We embrace or reject our necessarily limited and incomplete personal conceptions of God.
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience