Daniel Shank Cruz
@shankcruz.bsky.social
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🇵🇷 genderqueer bisexual Mennonite writer, they/multitudes.
#Mets
#LGM
#haiku
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Lots of new followers recently (good to see you all!), so here's a list of some of my obsessions that I post about: the
#Mets
,
#haiku
,
#senryu
, other reading/writing, fountain pens,
#queer
stuff 💙🧡🖋️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
11 months ago
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I have a poem in the new issue of Modern Haiku!
about 8 hours ago
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Both teams throwing a bullpen game in the deciding game of the series is not a good look, MLB
about 23 hours ago
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Congratulations to the Mariners and their fans! I’ve been watching baseball for forty years and that was one of the best games I’ve ever seen.
2 days ago
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Well, I’m really glad this game is being played on a Friday night so that I can sleep in tomorrow 😆
2 days ago
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Constantly complaining about how baseball was better when I was younger (see: pulling Tarik Skubal after only six innings—smh) is totally my thing, so I’m a hundred percent on board with this question/complaint 😆
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2 days ago
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Stephen 🇵🇸
2 days ago
God, playoff extra innings is a lot more fun when it's not happening to you
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Baseball players on their birthdays…
2 days ago
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I mean, I’m a Mets fan, and I’m glad that the Phillies lost, but the way they just lost, wow 🤯
3 days ago
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The Latest Kate
about 1 month ago
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Brian H. Feighner
4 days ago
Schadenfreude is such a base emotion. On the other hand, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Yankees. Don't let the door hit you in the Arsch!
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Kerry
4 days ago
Now I know why I slept so well last night and it’s because I woke up to the Yankees being eliminated from the postseason. When the Yankees lose, America wins.
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David Forbes
4 days ago
Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in. If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality. So...🧵 (And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).
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Indeed, alas.
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4 days ago
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Arya loves to smoosh her head up against Bella’s butt 😻
7 days ago
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I'm a little surprised (but not particularly saddened) that Hefner is part of the group that's gone, but overall I'm glad to hear this news--it's another indicator that the Mets are willing to make necessary personnel moves even when they are tough.
#LGM
#MetsSky
www.mlb.com/mets/news/er...
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Mets shake up coaching staff as Chavez, Hefner among coaches to depart
NEW YORK -- Following a difficult campaign that saw them miss the playoffs on the season’s final day, the Mets shook up their coaching staff on Friday. Hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez, p...
https://www.mlb.com/mets/news/eric-chavez-jeremy-hefner-mets-hitting-pitching-coaches-not-returning-in-2026
9 days ago
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Conservative attacks on libraries keep getting more violent.
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
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A Rash of Bomb Threats Hit College and University Libraries
At least 15 US colleges and universities received bomb threats targeting the library since Sunday as part of a nationwide swatting event.
https://bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bomb-threats-hit-college-and-university-libraries/
9 days ago
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Well, hopefully the Red Sox are able to mount a stirring comeback, but right now it looks like the series turned when they were unable to execute a bunt in game two due to bunting technique that was worse than mine when I was in Little League.
10 days ago
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I'm so excited that this anthology of critical and creative work about Dungeons & Dragons edited by
@oozannesay.bsky.social
and
@edmondchang.bsky.social
is out in the world! You can download it for free or buy a hard copy here:
playstorypress.org/books/roll-w...
#DnD
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Roll with Advantage – Play Story Press
https://playstorypress.org/books/roll-with-advantage/
10 days ago
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Here's the
#writing
activity I accomplished in September:
danielshankcruz.com/2025/10/01/w...
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
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Writing Activity, September 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do som…
https://danielshankcruz.com/2025/10/01/writing-activity-september-2025/
11 days ago
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All I’m saying is that ABC better show a ton of 1984 NLCS flashbacks during this Cubs-Padres series.
12 days ago
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A few random Mets thoughts after a frustrating season: 1. The Juan Soto signing was a good move. 2. Overall Clay Holmes was (surprisingly) the most consistent starter--3.53 ERA. 3. Francisco Lindor now has 55.6 Baseball Reference WAR, 7.2 more than Derek Jeter at the same point of his career.
13 days ago
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The Mets hat he is wearing in the video is one the team gave out at a game against the Red Sox last year (I know because I went to that game specifically to get the hat 😆), which is proof that he legitimately goes to games as a fan, not just last night as a political stunt.
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22 days ago
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Let’s go, Mets!
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23 days ago
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Say what you want about the Mets’ offseason re: pitching, the Soto signing has proven itself to be the right move. He isn’t even in his prime yet.
23 days ago
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This is intensely bad news. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says
The choice is being championed by the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025.
https://www.them.us/story/trump-admin-fbi-trans-nihilistic-violent-extremists-terrorist
23 days ago
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Exactly. Let’s go, Mets!
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26 days ago
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Good comprehensive win by the Mets tonight.
26 days ago
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What Keith Hernandez just said: the Mets’ two main men, Lindor and Soto, coming through.
29 days ago
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That run was all Lindor: the bunt and then the hustle. Let’s go, Mets!
29 days ago
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Two reminders for my fellow Mets fans as today’s game is about to start: 1. We are still in playoff position. 2. Even if we lose again today a day with baseball is still better than some random day in January without it, so enjoy it while you can!
#LGM
#LFGM
#MetsSky
29 days ago
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Saturday breakfast 🫐🥧🍨☕️
29 days ago
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲
about 1 month ago
Needs to be said.
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Cohen is a Ghost
about 1 month ago
9/11 is a great time to remember that the imperial power will seize on any opportunity to do what it was going to do anyway, especially if it gets to do it under the gaudy pagentry of being the Aggrieved
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Jon Cooper
about 1 month ago
100% true.
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He's blowing up the economy. He hasn't done squat to help the working class. The Epstein scandal haunts him. He is a weak and failing president with his back against the wall. Keep up the pressure.
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R.I.P. Davey Johnson
#Mets
#MetsSky
www.mlb.com/news/davey-j...
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Davey Johnson, 1986 Mets manager and 4-time All-Star, passes away at 82
Davey Johnson, the All-Star second baseman who won two World Series as a player with the Baltimore Orioles and managed the New York Mets to their dramatic victory in the 1986 World Series, has passed ...
https://www.mlb.com/news/davey-johnson-passes-away-at-82?adobe_mc=TS%3D1757183283%7CMCMID%3D73789515741710452057039348939144737044%7CMCORGID%3DA65F776A5245B01B0A490D44@AdobeOrg&affiliateId=mlbapp-ios_webview_news-index&rsid=mlbios.at.bat.new.implementation
about 1 month ago
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Mets win! Whew 😅
about 1 month ago
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Kudos to Senga for doing what’s best for the team here. Let’s go, Mets!
www.mlb.com/news/kodai-s...
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Senga accepts Mets' assignment to Triple-A; Alvarez back from IL
CINCINNATI -- The Mets on Friday made the dramatic move of optioning right-hander Kodai Senga, arguably their de facto ace entering Spring Training, to Triple-A Syracuse. The assignment needed to be a...
https://www.mlb.com/news/kodai-senga-optioned-to-triple-a-by-mets?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share
about 1 month ago
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Better late than never. Let’s go, Mets!
www.mlb.com/news/brandon...
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Sproat -- final piece of Mets' big 3 pitching prospects -- being called up (source)
Brandon Sproat is joining the party. The Mets' No. 5 prospect will join Nolan McLean and Jonah Tong in the Major Leagues and will make his MLB debut on Sunday in Cincinnati, a source told MLB Pipeline...
https://www.mlb.com/news/brandon-sproat-mets-call-up-prospect?adobe_mc=TS%3D1757002246%7CMCMID%3D54171451953938909735007200280018563653%7CMCORGID%3DA65F776A5245B01B0A490D44@AdobeOrg&affiliateId=mlbapp-ios_webview_news-index&rsid=mlbios.at.bat.new.implementation
about 1 month ago
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Harlot🔞
about 1 month ago
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
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Every winter, I forget just how long a 162-game season is, and every season the Mets remind me 😆 All I know is it was a good win tonight!
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about 1 month ago
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Mets win! A great job by McLean fighting through six until the offense put it into overdrive.
#LGM
#LFGM
#MetsSky
about 1 month ago
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Happy first true day of autumn! Autumn=day after Labor Day-Thanksgiving Winter=Black Friday-the Ides of March Spring=March 16-Memorial Day Summer=day after Memorial Day-Labor Day
about 1 month ago
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Here's the
#writing
activity I accomplished in August. As usual, it included lots of
#haiku
and
#senryu
-related work.
danielshankcruz.com/2025/09/01/w...
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Writing Activity, August 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do som…
https://danielshankcruz.com/2025/09/01/writing-activity-august-2025/
about 1 month ago
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I just acquired this copy of the first edition of Kenneth Yasuda’s A Pepper-Pod, a classic early text of English-language
#haiku
, and I have immediately fallen in love with it as an object, wondering about all of the people who have read it before me. It comes from a hospital in Framingham, MA.
about 1 month ago
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Pretty awesome to be at Citi Field for Jonah Tong’s first ever major league pitch 💙🧡 Let’s go, Mets!
#LFGM
#MetsSky
about 1 month ago
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If Tong pitches well tomorrow the Mets should keep him in the rotation and move Holmes to the bullpen because the bullpen clearly needs help and Holmes is worn down enough at this point that even when he has a good start he kills the bullpen because they have to cover at least four innings.
about 1 month ago
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Mets win! Phuck the Phillies! Amazing work by McLean!
about 2 months ago
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Keith Hernandez talking about left handed first basemen alert!
#Mets
#MetsSky
about 2 months ago
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It always feels good to beat the Phillies no matter how the Mets accomplish it. The offense comes up big in the clutch again!
#LGM
#LFGM
#MetsSky
about 2 months ago
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