Good morning 🫡

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She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

@jordinowrites.bsky.social congratulations - I loved "Ode to Moo Deng" and, I may be the only person who had never heard of her.

masculinity is a prison

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

There we go.

Many thanks to @leepottspoet.bsky.social for publishing my new poem, “Liberation Song,” in Stone Circle Review. Stoked to join so many fine writers in this journal. 🙏

looking back at some poems I wrote last year… 👀

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

are you latine and a writer/poet? Let Jordan know and he can add you to his list. #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #SkyPoets #BskyPoets

w/ my short king (he’s 6 foot)

I just spent all last year applying to jobs, trying to get to stability, and the main org I started work for just had huge budget cuts. I am out of work again. I'm spinning right now looking for work again—if you can contribute in the meantime, v*nmo: ellybelle / CA: ebelle

I’m writing more POETRY yall, I feel the juices

yall…. I got a job offer 😭😭😭

painted pokemon cards with friends 🔥🌕🌊

there’s nothing really good mexican food can’t fix

in a shortage

I dreamed I was in an earthquake this morning and it turns out there WAS earthquake that I must’ve felt

Revelations about the role Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.

finally deleted twitter off of my phone, good RIDDANCE. insta ur next!

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

anyone got a poem/book to get me out of a poetry/reading hiatus?

Aren't you

wish it were easier to get engagement here, but ill persevere regardless bc im not going back to the other place

what’s y’all’s favorite track off of bad bunny’s new album

first job rejection of the new year… cheers!

📍 Papercuts

wrote a poem and it felt like my brain unclogged

tamales navideños 🔥🔥🔥

do yall writers like using Substack? I still haven’t figured it out tbh

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

i love being on Facebook marketplace

felt cute might delete laterrrr

remember when that one popular lit mag tried to make crypto poetry happen… embarrassing

what is y’all’s favorite way to generate writing inspo? i like to wait til it strikes me right before bed, then sleep and forget the ideas by the time i wake up

"The musky odor of tilled earth Radiating off two of its bodies" #TodaysPoem #poetry Harvest of Tzapopan by Jordan Alejandro Rivera (@jordinowrites.bsky.social) (2024 @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2j8nkw9d

"Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows."

Jesus Christ. Let trans people live their lives. Seriously, just fuck off.

it’s 62° in boston today, december 10th… we’re so cooked

it's so deeply upsetting that trans journalists are being barred from being in newsrooms and not given freelance work at a time when all of this is ramping up and most cis people genuinely don't know how to report on instutitionalized hatred and punishment of trans people. I have concerns and fears.

snagged this absolute diva in my first descent back into pokemon cards since the 2010s 😭😭

so you’re telling the pokemon card ive been using as a bookmark since 2020 is worth $500 now

500 followers! So happy I’ve found lots of my old twitter community here, and new peeps :) Thanks for the support 🫶

i want to do more poetry readings but i am shyyyyy 👉👈

I’m going to be blunt and say that most disabled people end up dying because healthcare systems are unfit for purpose and prioritise various savings over our lives. In the US blatantly for-profit healthcare system, however, this is *egregiously* so. Constant, open, utterly pointless social murder.

pet stores with free-roaming cats that drink from the aquariums >>>>