Featuring work by @jeffkass21.bsky.social, @kavetchnik.bsky.social, @jessicawalsh.bsky.social, and seven other poets who are not on Bluesky!

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with the viscerally stunning poetry of Jessica L. Walsh. #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryCommunity #Booksky Poet Review of the Week: Jessica L. Walsh open.substack.com/pub/dawnlevi...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

I don't really know why I'm even trying to publish poetry at all right now. People can say "poetry will change the world" but we've been writing steady for thousands of years and this is some terrible shit we're in. So--???

Bluesky seems to involve a ton of folks reposting clearly fraudulent fundraisers?

This poem by Lisa Zimmerman from @swwim.bsky.social is holding Mr steady today: “I didn’t know I loved so much of the vanishing world…” www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

I will not call it a skeet. I just won't.

If you work for the federal government and have information about what’s going on at your agency, please contact me via Signal at juddlegum.47 or use the QR Code below. I'm especially interested in speaking to people who work for the CFPB. I will maintain your anonymity.

Everything's terrible, here's my dog getting cuddles in a towel on a rainy day at doggie daycare

Come join us!

Send your music poems to me and @jessicawalsh.bsky.social , @ceemartinez.bsky.social , Jasmine An, and Jennifer MacBain-Stephens for this anthology!

Oh great.

Does anyone have a LEGIT reason to believe the 2/5 protests are a trap created to impose martial law? Because to me it seems like fear and paranoia. There are risks in this and all action, of course. But what's the alternative? Docility? Shitposting? What's a BETTER FUCKING PLAN?

I’m getting word from academics to back up and download anything you might have on a work server or work computer. Especially anyone who is NHS, NEA, NIH funded and doing work in any DEI field - queer, BLM - any federal grant funding Federally funded equipment can be seized.

Milwaukee/Marquette--icy campus bolo

Folks, I am not the Jessica Walsh who designs things (?). I'm a poet & professor, which means I'm weird & have big feelings. Feel free to keep following me! Things are crazy these days and building community is wonderful. But if you're looking for the designer JW, I ain't it. I'm the generic one. xo

Look out, Elgin/Fox Valley--icy conditions

So are NEA grants frozen, too? If so, I'm afraid they won't be back...

Saw the musical, saw the movie. I'm just not seeing what everyone loves about Wicked. I'm broken, I think 😂

I've read this and it's 🔥!

Call for subs! Come get it, my good bitches.

Mood

Life gets lonelier in ways that are as necessary as they are awful. I think we're meant to befriend the veil long before we go through it.

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

Dean told us yesterday that, in the event of an immigration raid at the college, we should know that ICE can't enter classrooms. Also, FERPA applies to ICE agents, too, so don't answer their questions about students. When I tell you what I thought my job would be 22 years ago...lord have mercy.

I will only give a shit about stakeholders the day i become a vampire

Well, shit. I guess I'll try to figure this place out finally.

Me: I think I'll check in on Bluesky ... ... Oh fuck it's list time

Me, spraying Chanel on my Carhartt: "ok, all dressed up for Thanksgiving."

"Pretty much every living poet worth reading is in this anthology!" Me:

C.D. Wright, "Poem in Which Her Mortgage Comes Due" #BlueskyPoetryClub

I wrote about why Disney needs to send Muppet*Vision 3D to Disney+, please share, I am not a crackpot: www.slashfilm.com/1720649/mupp...

You know how everyone's doing the cute name-the-snow-plow contests? My late dad was an addiction specialist who got all the city contracts for return-to-work, so based on what he told me about the city'splow crew, I'm submitting Don't Meth With Me to every one

Just be prepared. We've all seen that headline going around today that Bluesky is the current #1 app, and X dropped out of the top 25. That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.

Of all the weird things I see that I hope are real, this is the one I hope the hardest. The one I'm most hopeful for? Hopiest. Whatever, you get it.

immigration is good bc it props up the economy but who cares about the economy immigration is good bc monocultures are fuckin boring also borders are stupid and people should live where they want

If it's not my job--as a 50 y.o. ww walking around the suburbs in athleisure-- to put up both middle fingers and scream "fuck your n*zi bus" at a cybertruck, then whose job is it, I ask you?

KETTLE: [screaming] YOU WANT A NICE, CALMING CUP OF TEA? YEAH??? YOU WANNA FUCKING RELAX?

I turn 50 on 11/11. This year I will shamelessly exploit my milestone to support a great cause. The Chicago Abortion Fund helps people from all over the Midwest and South come to Illinois for safe reproductive care. Channel your election rage. Donate. action.chicagoabortionfund.org/P2P/tZTbhHOo...

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

Hey PNW, get on it. Description of the asshat who set the ballot boxes on fire: *White man 30-40 years old who is balding or has very short hair *Medium to thin build *Has experience and skills in welding *Police looking for a black/dark-colored 2001-2004 Volvo S-60 in connection with the fires.

Retired people are free to complain that their retirement lives are not what they dreamed of, but they should probably remember that most younger people won't be able to retire at all. I'm going to be 50. They'll find me dead at my desk.

FWIW there’s a difference between doomer-ism and despair. They’re used as synonyms but they’re not (even if the former can easily move into the latter). It’s of course good & right to note that things are bad. It’s bad & dumb to say that bad things are inevitable & can’t be changed.

These are dark days. It’s a good time to delight in and learn from the manul, a floofy, grumpy-faced wild cat that keeps its paws warm in snow by resting them on its tail. 🌿 The manul wants you to practice self-care in hard times, too. Look at that face. Don’t disappoint him.

Let me guess the interns are rich kids who will be safe no matter who wins. I don't know this for a fact because you can't find their names.

Made this in 2020, unfortunately it’s still pertinent today