Last post for the night. (Seem to be using this as a procrastination tool.) For MLK Day tomorrow, let's leave off with In Memoriam, by June Jordan. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47716/... Even if it's only figurative, there is this great piece as well: poets.org/poem/i-must-...

Snow blurs overhand it drapes the air like a shawl sound becomes hushed spaces become liminal phases tested/traded out #tanka

Why do words that start with 'cl' - like in the case of - 'claim, - clap, - clip, - claws, - climb, - clasp, - cling', etc... always refer to things that relate to the hands! I discuss the topic of phonestheme here! medium.com/languages-wi... #language #Linguistics #Langsky #Writesky

What are they thinking? the violets in the hedgerow that makes them bow so? #haiku #wildwalkprompt

‼️urgent need to volunteers….

WHILE confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Opener to the famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [1] www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...

#dailyhaikuprompt Light a candle For the thirty-two dead and the many missing. #chingalamigra

Adding another writing related post to the Friday night social media binge, we have this very thoughtful essay about the singing for supper we all get around to doing by an incredibly talented and cool DMV writer, @ivygrimes.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/the-horror...

Just a little of Nelson Mandela's favorite poem on the Friday before MLK Day. I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. --William Earnest Henley www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/...

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Re-upping this. Thanks again for making it, @ziibiing.com. www.standwithminnesota.com

droplets form drupe-like on the undersides of ferns plumptious morning dew #wildwalkprompt

Hello! Back again this fine Friday with links for our Minnesotan brothers and sisters' charities. mnfreedomfund.org www.isaiahmn.org www.northsideachievement.org www.openarmsmn.org www.tpl.org (Largely for MN tribal lands and public park services.) wpbp.org sahanjournal.com/about-sahan-...

Another podcast for the writerly types. Everything in life is location, location, location.

In Olney, MD, Indivisibles stage a memorial with the names of each life taken by ICE this year www.instagram.com/reels/DTYcUo...

As always, back with some more potentially helpful links. www.instructables.com/DIY-Gas-Mask/ actualfirstaid.com/uploads/1/0/... phr.org/our-work/res... www.crisisprevention.com/en-GB/blog/g...

We are all fleeting in words and understanding brief without remorse. #haiku

Thanks to @eyesonice-bmore.bsky.social @freestatecoalition.bsky.social @pslweb.bsky.social Bmore & more who organized speakers/march in 24 hrs to stand up for our neighbors & us all in Bmore, Glen Burnie, DC, Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, LA, Memphis, NOLA & everywhere @charmcityclfa.bsky.social

These dancers are a common sight at Minneapolis protests and cultural events. Protesters are gathered around as they wait for the protest against ICE to start in south Minneapolis.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

I regret to inform you all that we appear to be wearing the hat made from a witch's arsehole.

An excerpt from Haile Selassie's address to the United Nations, 1963:

Destroying USAID harms Americans. It protected food systems, stopped pandemics, strengthened American farmers, and saved lives on under one percent of the budget. Its loss risks millions abroad and instability at home.

Seduced by pencil, warned by history, annexed territory, cane as cudgel, assigned blame, unwilling participant, cruel game. #TCPrompts #pinchespoemas

It's Stella Gibbons birthday! Piss off everybody but make them laugh while you do it!

TIME #poetry #prompt #spokenword #vss365 oddball #vssdaily elevator #WIPsnips benefit #Solseed New_Year #emoetry heartbroken #OurPoetryX start_fresh #Dailyimageprompt snail #foxprose resolved_retention #2wordprompt standard, partner #moonmystic in_a_misty_morning #firewords280 trampling, treachery

Sun defeated Moon / beheaded Coyolxauhqui / cast down mountainside #haiku #poem #moon #coyolxauhqui

Guys. Take cover. I'm writing... ... a book for the youths.

Former battlefield Hot haze of summer engulfs the dead's deerlike ghosts. #haiku

Patterned in powder A footprint gently impressed unfossilized. #wildwalkprompt #haiku

Lobbing a curveball Through the window of Life was Certainly a choice. #haiku

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Want to attend a protest or start a petition? Here are some organizations with resources and toolkits for getting mobilized in your area. www.codepink.org www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action indivisible.org/take-action-... www.answercoalition.org Vietnam didn't end with inaction.

Greedy cruel bastardry is not a spectator sport. It might be cold outside but we have jackets and there is no reason at all the citizens of the US should be doing a Moskovskaya Oblast and staying in during this madness. Yet here we are, meeting an existential threat with little resistance. Again.

And Mary Oliver, of course, was right.

BAD LIT FRIENDS loves you so much during the holiday season that we're putting something extra special in your stockings with our HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA EDITION! Dropping Friday 1/2/26 (!), it's about the sexiest writing topic EVAR. Contract law, anyone? #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity

Making a bit of a thread for New Years of cool stuff to be found around these parts, and also to shine a light on cool people. So, without ado, as follows: Cool publishers: @mgliterary.bsky.social, @dielaughingmag.bsky.social, @currentwords.bsky.social

Baltimore Beat photographers worked hard in 2025 to capture some of this year’s most important moments. baltimorebeat.com/the-year-in-...

books2read.com/ap/nEJQpv/Zo... For the next 30 hours, you can be the proud owner of one of the titles in the link above for a very doable 1.99 USD. Could be worth it. You don't know. #books #weirdlitbooks #ebooks #horrorcomedy #speculative #writingforthemassessogetoffyourahem

Ahead of a brutally cold winter, Baltimoreans honor unhoused residents who have died as advocates worry about city’s preparedness for the season baltimorebeat.com/ahead-of-a-b...

Made a thing. Also just want to make it known that some of you guys out there have *demands.* Kind of curious ones when the pay is like a twenty and some exposure, too. That being said, I had fun banging this out in five minutes and hope it's a quick, funny read. www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

The weir as it tipped gelid water Over a dam would appear In twists and curves spilling forth, A laminar flow of ice shear. #wildwalkprompt

#StreetArt by #EddieColla on Woodseer St., Shoreditch, #London

Sergey Fyodorovich Podmarev (1935-1990)

#StreetArt in #Paris 20th by #Ardif 2020

Have to agree. This graffiti is what's up.

Not airing too much laundry on here, so I'll keep it extremely vague, and the person involved was nice enough. I feel like picking some brains on the topic of bilingual works. Where would you think a general audience or publisher thinks you've lost them? #writing #publishing #bilingualworks

My Star Trek themed restaurant would definitely be a steakhouse called 'Who Weeps for Our Bearnaise?'

You've just opened a Star Trek restaurant. What are you calling it? Jadzia's Snax

Sometimes I look up and forget that there's a black button eyed sock monkey peeping over the edge of my shelf. It's probably as good as a marathon for the old ticker though.