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I'd say Edward and Buzzard definitely rhyme but to be fair Farquhar is maybe more of a half rhyme

does it get better or worse if I tell you his first name was Edward, for a triple rhyme

like a not insignificant number of people who would otherwise have been harmed have not been harmed because I am Like This

strong sense of justice + abnormally calm adrenaline response + being the sort of leftist queer who goes to those leftist queer events where if you hang around long enough someone will inevitably do a workshop on some kind of bystander intervention = being real proactive at bystander intervention

for the handful of people on here who have seen my 'reverse chronology of the chair making industry of high wycombe' lightning talk, you can now view even more of the source material!

one in a million!

a 0.000001 chance, I believe (this is a lot easier with a D10!)

Piers Morgan doing his stopped-clock occasionally-right thing (this time on the sheer excellence of Bad Bunny) will never stop feeling weird or surprising

Jesus H Christ this is fascinatingly awful

honestly, ctrl+f with boolean operators when????

new one today from @annacarlakahn.bsky.social
missing someone is like its own sense

I've got a story in the delightful Night Shades!

seems like a good use of free will to me

looking forward to listening to this, I remember you talking about interviewing her!

me, to myself, while googling: what's he done this ti-
me, to myself: oh

I have been doing this and as a result I have written every day so far this year, sometimes 200 words and often many more. The experience and the people have both been lovely.

I'm torn between thinking that it is important to talk about Renee Nicole Good's poetry because she was a whole person and her poetry was part of her, and thinking that you should not have to be a prize winning poet for your murder by government agents to be an outrage.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Ashes Some are nights others stars Each night lights its own star And dances a black dance around it Until the star burns out The nights then divide among themselves Some become stars Others go on being nights The last night becomes both star and night It sets fire to itself And dances the black dance around itself

other people are sharing beautiful/hopeful/fiery poems for the new year but I'm afraid I'm here in the corner with my Vasko Popa like the little Vasko Popa gremlin that I am

I like to think that Vasko Popa would approve

one of my most effective twitter moments was when I whined about how all poetry presses make their books ever so slightly taller than the height of a normal fucking bookshelf, and a poetry press saw it and made their books shorter

My favourite new year James Tate poem:

The Immortals

None of us have felt good this year:
pus around the eyes,
sores that come and go with no explanation.
But we still believe we will come through it!
I signal this news
by lifting a little finger.

YouTube video by Janelle Monáe Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel [Official Music Video]

close second tho

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRz...

I feel like there are a lot of cooler answers I could give that are less honest but if I am being completely true to the depths of my soul it's this one

www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ox...

hello, I did not know until just now how much I have missed being able to tell from the syntax of your tweets that they are funny despite having absolutely no idea what any of the content means*

*(this is not a request for an explanation)

sympathy for their children though, knowing what we know about DV rates among cops

they aren't going to leave any of this at the door when they come home

the other week at work I told a whole-team call that Culinary Class Wars feels like someone redesigned Masterchef: The Professionals while on uppers, and while I wish I had more of a brain to mouth filter I wasn't exactly WRONG

I am really, really, really sorry to be that guy but when did you last have your iron levels checked

yes please!

I am hoping he would be flattered by Gonzo's portrayal of him

It's got some hard moments but Tracy K Smith's Life on Mars got me THROUGH some stuff