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Poet Translator Geezer socialist Queer as a happy Monday Dogs live with me

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They don’t look so good.

09.10.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good Riddance To β€˜The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

Good Riddance To β€˜The Best American Poetry’ - defector.com/good-riddanc...

30.09.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TRUMP IS TO BLAME FOR J6!!!

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

26.09.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1922    πŸ” 765    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 36

Are you saying that Trump went back on a promise?

19.09.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I miss that show.

15.09.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yep

15.09.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fifth casing had the entire text of Kapital written on it.

12.09.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fourth casing said, "Release the Epstein files," but they haven't had a chance to report that yet.

12.09.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I hope they do a better job photoshopping those bullet casings than they did with Abrego Garcia's 'gang' tattoos. That was kinda insulting.

12.09.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is he that guy whose wife plagiarized her cookbook?

10.09.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That comma:
"Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family."

10.09.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brother and Sister Enter the Forest by @rpmirabella.bsky.social
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters . . .

10.09.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I read one of those novels back in the day and the prose is just awful. It was shocking how bad it was. Fiction Writing 101 mistakes. Clunky sentences.

10.09.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

mood

09.09.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @rfk-junior.bsky.social
Got my Covid shot yesterday. Arm's a little sore but so far, no autism. Just thought I'd share.

09.09.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Whispers of Me’ by Narella Zeller, Oil on acm panel for the upcoming Beautiful Bizarre curated exhibition β€˜Reverie’ at Haven Gallery.

'Reverie’: October 25th – November 23rd, 2025
Haven Gallery, 50 Main St, Northport, NY 11768, US

To receive Collector's Preview email info@havengallery.com

#art

05.09.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He is such a worm

03.09.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is the program online? I’d love to know more about that paper on Revard’s work

02.09.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Excerpt https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-state-survival-your-questions

Excerpt https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-state-survival-your-questions

On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

30.08.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2002    πŸ” 675    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 16

that's 'perpetuates'

24.08.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You go to Hobby Lobby. You could also calculate what your time (saved) is worth, gasoline etc. and then donate it toward an organization fighting what Hobby Lobby represents (and perpuates).

24.08.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

We urge all authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website and provide the requested information.

www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

19.08.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Yes, 'and then you get to be on diverse lists' AND you get to be only on diverse lists.

23.08.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨🚨🚨NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS HAS CANCELED ALL FY26 LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS PLEASE HOLLER AT ME IF YOU ARE A WRITER WHO GOT THE EMAIL TODAY🚨🚨🚨

23.08.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 401    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7

I mean, it's still orange

22.08.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so excited to have a book coming out with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social !

22.08.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: 
Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another β€œSimpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machinesβ€”if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up.
Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogueβ€”β€œHomer, I don’t want you to do that.” β€œThen I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another β€œSimpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machinesβ€”if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogueβ€”β€œHomer, I don’t want you to do that.” β€œThen I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

16.08.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3451    πŸ” 1082    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 140

Oh for Pete's sake @bsky.app, 'wish ill' could mean you want her next book to get terrible reviews or someone burns her breakfast.

16.08.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photograph of 7 books: Bradley Peters, Sonnets from a Cell; Virgil, The Eclogues & Georgics (trans. A.S. Kline); Susan Rich, Blue Hour; Threa Almontaser, The Wild Fox of Yemen; Abigail Chabitnoy, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful; Maya Abu Al-Hayat, You Can Be the Last Leaf (trans. Fady Joudah); Rajiv Mohabir, Cutlish

Photograph of 7 books: Bradley Peters, Sonnets from a Cell; Virgil, The Eclogues & Georgics (trans. A.S. Kline); Susan Rich, Blue Hour; Threa Almontaser, The Wild Fox of Yemen; Abigail Chabitnoy, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful; Maya Abu Al-Hayat, You Can Be the Last Leaf (trans. Fady Joudah); Rajiv Mohabir, Cutlish

#SealeyChallenge Week 1

09.08.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"You consider publications friends?"

04.08.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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