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Cody Stetzel

@bearable.bsky.social

[They/Him] I write about laughter, joy, and what foot-forward community embracing looks like. Love your love. Poems, bear scholar, and all around person who cares. riantly.substack.com

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lmao courts are pushing to fine those stupid fucking LLM companies that stole millions of books to train their AI. They would owe between $200B and $1.8T in theft and copyright infringement fines. Lmao lmao lmao

27.06.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh I love this reading list! Have you read Patrycja Humienikโ€™s We Contain Landscapes? Polish-American but a fantastic collection on Polish heritage in my opinion!

22.06.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is great - Wadud is such an inventive and inspiring poet and I think youโ€™ve done her quite well.

22.06.2025 01:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canโ€™t wait to talk more about Silvonekโ€™s poetry!!

22.06.2025 01:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Writing about recent books is so challenging. I feel haven't lived with the book long enough to write about it.

I envy anyone who feels like they can give a confident opinion of a literature in short periods of time.

21.06.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

positive update in who knows how long: Open Books has met the match and the donation has been made to the Sameer Project's North Gaza initiative. Open Books has raised $26,000 for this so far w/matching campaigns and book sale proceeds.

donation link to cont. to give: chuffed.org/project/help...

20.06.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How did people see Isr*el murder 100 journalists in 1.5 years and not immediately assume the American cop structure, trained by Isr*el, wouldnโ€™t also target media?

Be safe and protect your journalists

12.06.2025 22:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Seattle protesters block ICE vans from leaving immigration court On Tuesday morning, about 40 people gathered at the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle, which houses a federal immigration court.

Seattle protestors are using the new seated Lime scooters to keep ICE goons from leaving the immigration court

clearly time to send in the marines

10.06.2025 22:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 423    ๐Ÿ” 101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

You and your words build community, and community will support you.

This is what I learn with every moment of engaging with writers and artists, poets and essayists. Our people are scaffolding for each other. And we are all constructing something marvelous, something beautiful.

05.06.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽฒ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿฅน to you too!

05.06.2025 03:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reading poetry is a way of grasping life, nurturing every bit of good, connecting up severed bits of ourselves.

05.06.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like to think if you hold out your hand long enough, a bird might simply perch there.

04.06.2025 03:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes the act of creation is a kind of divine insistence on remembering.

02.06.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The fact that writing cultivates more writing for me excites me. A neverending process toward purpose and fulfillment is a neverending effort toward happiness.

29.05.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Me, sending my second poetry ms. to the pressโ€™ first book contest which rejected my first poetry ms. last year:

23.05.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โšก Gordon Square Review is back! โšก

Issue 15 is out today with 17 new writing about sacrificial sisters, fleas and conspiracies, epigenetics and Modern Standard Arabic, Jackie Chan and Chick-Dumplingโ€™s Chief Accounting Officer.

Check out the full issue now!
www.gordonsquarereview.org

15.05.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Having a very โ€œeveryone hates meโ€ day! Feelings are dumb!!

16.05.2025 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Author photos of Cathy Linh Che, Alex-Gallo Brown and Paul Hlava Ceballos are beside a book cover of Becoming Ghost. Text reads: Elliot Bay Books Company. Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM

Author photos of Cathy Linh Che, Alex-Gallo Brown and Paul Hlava Ceballos are beside a book cover of Becoming Ghost. Text reads: Elliot Bay Books Company. Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM

So my friend @cathylinhche.bsky.social won a *ahem* Sundance Film Award

Come see her film at SIFF or at Elliot Bay Books this Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM!

I will read a lil something to celebrate her, and her new book, too!

15.05.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dogwitch, by Catherine Rockwood Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. โ€œTenderness, anger, intensity: Catherine Rockwoodโ€™s poems howl, growl, and show their soft bellies to teach us โ€˜how to love a fearsome high-ribbed ...

mean (adj.) 'undignified, low; not elevated or sublime.'
meanness (n.) 'the state or quality of being mean.'
ode (n.) 'a lyric poem...in varied or irregular meter and of moderate length.'

I wrote an Ode to Meanness: it's in this chapbook ๐Ÿ–ค

bottlecap.press/collections/...

14.05.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Iona" by Constance Hansen. Read more from our Winter 2024 Issue by clicking the link in our bio.

#ecotheo #celebratewonder #poetry #Iona

14.05.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Criatura, de Amina Cain | Fiordo PARA LECTORES DErelatos literarios, atmรณsferas enrarecidas, voces peculiares con puntos de vista fuertes โ€” ยซAmina Cain es una escritora bella. Como la chica que, desde el asiento de atrรกs en tu coche,...

Very happy that my short story collection CREATURE, published in English by @dorothyproject.bsky.social, has been translated into Spanish by Daniela Betancur and will be out this month with Fiordo Editorial in Argentina. www.fiordoeditorial.com.ar/product-page...

08.05.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Week's Laughter #37 An archive in โ€˜ู‡ู‡ู‡ู‡ู‡ุŒ ู‡ุงู‡ุงู‡ุง

This week on my substack you can find writing on Kate Zambreno and Jacques Derrida, wrongness and greed, rudeness and screencaptures, and, you know, these beautiful things, all of them.

06.05.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right? Ugh

05.05.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is absolutely ridiculous, NFTs use vastly more energy and water than crypto.

Unnecessary and pitiable to the authors and artists whose work is being entrusted.

05.05.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You are a cutie patootie!!!

05.05.2025 06:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
mirror selfie of Ally wearing blue and brown batik shirt, beige cardigan, brown pants & shoes

mirror selfie of Ally wearing blue and brown batik shirt, beige cardigan, brown pants & shoes

selfie of Ally and Cody at the symphony

selfie of Ally and Cody at the symphony

I looked so cute to go to the symphony with @bearable.bsky.social today

05.05.2025 04:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In absolute reticence to say but cutting 99% of fat from my diet and exercising 45-60 minutes every day rigorously has in fact made me substantially healthier.

26.04.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

so seems like I'm going to get paid on time next week but still need a little bit more support until May 1st.

Thank u for your help.

Grateful ๐Ÿ’œ

#mutualaid

23.04.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Where, who, how does one get their hands, reasonably, on a pdf of recent poetry anthologies from those big uni/academic publishers?

Even Nortons, Routledges, etc are so expensive I wouldnโ€™t dream of purchasing. But the anthology is such important work, generally.

23.04.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Days late, but just saw a post of someone celebrating earth day byโ€ฆ launching another AI education chatbot?

Happy hair day! Letโ€™s celebrate by lighting our scalps ablaze!

23.04.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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