David J Bauman

Now they're turning the frogs gay!

In the midst of my recovery, received these beautiful contributors copies of my poetry chapbook From the Yew from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social. I’m inordinately proud of this little book and hope you can pick up a copy from the publisher.

At first I thought this said "Waiting in an election who may never arrive." I am sorry to say, I'm a tad relieved

Yes, keep your eyes. No amount of cultural awareness is worth this

Plus, if I were a girl named Isabell, I’d be flippin’ furious if people called me “Belly.” Wtf

The “founders” 🙄

The streets in Portland are ravaged, yeah

Aubade With Birds by Samuel Day Wharton   when the crows crack against the morning often they are chasing a hawk from some other world to this one       & often the magpies in turn chase the crows back to where they c...

Thanks, Samuel!

By the way, I loved your poem, "Aubade with Birds," in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. It seems perfect for our current time and also perfect for October & Halloween!

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Love to see it

Also, I’m only in season one so no spoilers but all this team Conrad and team what’s his name—no. Absolutely not. No that girl f*cked up irreparably when she turned down Cam Cameron.

At the behest of college student workers at the library I finally started to watch the summer. I turned petty, I mean Pretty.

Tell me, why does it feel like I’m watching twilight? I’m just waiting for the sparkly vampires to show up.

Oh that looks and sounds like heaven

“Which moves us without the need for us to move,” what an amazing metaphor for time, the tunnel through the shark tank!

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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Tired Christ, I’m so Jesus

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.

Thanks, it’s an enormous relief

And so good for my anxiety

Thank you!

Omg omg
Big news for my little library system! A grant for $80,000 is almost twice as much as I expected to receive for a very complicated and document-heavy application. This was the biggest weight on my mind and nerves and it means we will more than make budget for this year.
*collapses in relief

Well said, and thank you. Yes, I’m too good at being too hard on myself.

Yes, I was just talking with friends about this sort of thing this week. I always told myself it was theatre, waiting tables,, making tips, but it my tired as lowest moments I just felt like I was only good at what I did because I could lie so very well. Not a great legacy to want to pass on

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.

Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.

We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

Getting there! Hoping to have all my fingers operational in order to hook up the new microphone 🎤 this weekend

Hoping you’re feeling better, Han!

This is super cool

If you dont do it, someone else much shittier will set you back 15 paces that you have to try to make up for once you get the wherewithall to realize You were what was needed in the first place.

😆 "Who ARE you?"