I hate trying to read a poem in The New Yorker and then the site page closes on me, mid-read. This is why small journals are superior. The End.

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!

I have one of my dearest friends, a total progressive, but HE has only lived on the coasts his entire life. I was hanging out at his house a few years back, visiting from my hometown of Chicago, and HE made a stupid comment about "flyover" country. This Chicago girl let him have it!!!

So many bots here now. So many who feel a need to fight or find fault. 😔 Twitter escapee feeling the pain.

it is amazing how often i find myself mindlessly humming a warwick tune or two every week but have only selectively played her ONCE (that i can recall) over the past decade... i simply dont rush to her discography, EVEN THO I LOVE HER MUSIC! im gonna make more of effort to play her, i swear.

This reading is going to be sooo goood 🔥 🔥 🔥

Hey, St. Louis City opponents of data centers As @gconnolly314.bsky.social suggests: DO NOT let up. Contact Building Division with your opposition to data centers at The Armory & parking lot. Also contact your Alder. Data centers are energy sucking, polluting businesses.

Statement from people who actually know stuff. www.acog.org/news/news-re...

Eman is singing my song.

If you can't quote Spinoza you need to rethink your education. If you don't know who Spinoza was, you REALLY need to.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

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Two online courses coming up - would you like to learn about musical manuscripts or early medieval Britain? Check them out here: medievalstudies.thinkific.com #medievalstudies

Call me a filthy commie but I think blowing up boats without actually knowing who or what is on them is really evil and wrong

have a poem to start your day www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...

Small press books are such a joy—Animal Heart Press, Loblolly Press, Belle Point Press here! 📚💙 “formed by the grit / of the heart” indeed. I cannot say how important it is to support small presses right now directly. Many have alternative distribution models; they are the life of literature.

#Submissions are now open for #Verdigris: #PoetryOfDecay. If #LiftToTheSky is about rising, Verdigris is about falling — splendour unravelled, glamour undone. Open all September:

Genius!

Socialism builds strong towns! Banff and Lake Loise are situated in a UNESCO world heritage area All the pvt land to build on today is all there is ever going to be. No sprawl,no poorly constructed condos. All the cities humans love have either natural or man made boundaries keep them compact.

Si te perdiste la 15ª edición de @naukas.bsky.social en el #Euskalduna de Bilbao #NaukasBilbao2025 no te preocupes, gracias a #ETB euskaltelebista puedes volver a ver todas las charlas, agrupadas por sesiones o individuales (las están editando, paciencia) aquí: ⬇️ www.eitb.eus/es/nahieran/...

Parents of young kids, if you are paying for Disney+ and you think canceling it will take away quality programming, check out Hoopla and Kanopy. Both are FREE with your library card, and both have a LOT of kids’ programs, including Disney movies. 🤟🏽❤️😊 Follow my IG: KingRon4L

Joan Miró, Spanish (1893-1983), Femmes, oiseau, étoiles (Women, Bird, Stars), 1942, oil and pencil on paper, 103 x 75 cm, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA

No point in seeking out disaffected liberal voters who stayed home in 2024 when you could spend all your time trying to sway Klansmen, Christian nationalists, and neo-Nazis to vote for candidates they want subjugated or dead. The D party thinks if they become Republican Lite they can win.

I think people who are addicted to the dopamine hits from social media interactions don't understand why anyone would willingly decide that less is more.

Loomer and Vance telling people not to go to college is eugenics. Because education improves life expectancy and is a way to reduce socioeconomic inequities in death rates. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

You shouldn't attend the Brooklyn Book Festival in person if you don't want to spend a lot of money on books, lol.

Because of boycotts, I’m becoming more intentional about EVERYTHING I consume, beyond just what I buy from companies I boycott. Big picture, I think, is that it’s all about our responsibility as American consumers to our society, to other nations, and to the environment.

It is good that universities in the Global North assess what they GAIN from an empire of blood. However, in this poetic reflection, I suggest that this accounting often means that we don't notice what has been and is still being LOST, which in many ways is far more. folukeafrica.com/the-middle-p...

1. Don't snitch-tag. 2. Don't explain to people what they just said. 3. Don't "correct" people's jokes. 4. Don't respond seriously to silly little posts. 5. Don't respond trivially to obviously serious posts. 6. Don't "jocularly insult" people you don't know. The rest is commentary.

Reposting this great thread from @bcdreyer.social on the etiquette of social media responses. And pinning.

I looked up synonyms for “prig” today. One in the thesaurus was “Miss Priss.” My mother said that all the time (about me sometimes) and I had a little moment of nostalgia.

Ruh-ro. #ColumbiaRiver #PacificNorthwest

Olga Suvorova, Russian (1966- ), Expectation, 95 x 130 cm, oil on canvas, private collection

I wish that @bcdreyer.social could repost a list of social media response “netiquette” posted a while back. It was excellent!

Because of some childhood experiences, I have a long-standing aversion to persnickety, small-minded responses to a post (anyone’s post). You know, complaint about a wrong word, an explanation of some obvious, tangential point, any mansplaining, etc. I’m sorry, I have to block when I see those.

This is a great idea!

Finally, much-needed rain arriving in Missouri. Thanking God this morning.

One big reason housing is unaffordable: investor sales. Fellow boomers, you can help our country by refusing to sell your house to investors. Sell to real people in need of a home or gift your home to loved ones. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...

Imagine not being marinated in lies, violent images, vapid plots, sexism, and, of course, advertising. Imagine having an extra few hours a day of free time for people, nature, art. Media boycotts look pretty good.

St. Louis—this will be good!

Touching a hot stove is a far more powerful lesson than being told not to touch a hot stove. Even if being told not to includes: charts, graphs and testimonials from prior hot stove touchers.

This shot from the Trib….shades of 1776. The placard on the ground is amazing. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Mine does. 90% of the information I end up looking at is not actionable. Being 'up on things' gives me a false sense of having control over situations I actually have no control over...That is the trick for me anyway.

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

Aidan Walker is a very wise commentator. This is a very serious analysis of the messages created by Tyler Robinson. It ends with very good insights on preventing such events in the future. youtu.be/qcMYjtFWE7U?...

And the pope is a catholic. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Rough li’l week and is Sara Arnold of @juneroadpress.bsky.social the BEST or is she THE VERY BEST?! 🙏📚💙🎉🎉 www.juneroadpress.com