My story Rib-stitch has found a home with the friendliest ear rat you could hope to meet! Thanks, ear rat team 😍👂🐀🧤

thanks @judydarley.bsky.social Judy Darley for becoming an official ear rat slaughterhouse champion of literature and arts and rad surfing with your sweepingly beautiful piece "Rib-stitch" if you don't check out Judy's work then your fingers are gonna turn into soup

COLD AIR IN YOUR LUNGS BAD MEMORY OH NO: THE MICRO PIECE @judydarley.bsky.social Judy Darley, "Rib-stitch"

@judydarley.bsky.social Judy Darley, "Rib-stitch" short and poignant, like a rib-stitch? i guess? i don't know anything about knitting

NOW-- Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social hits us in the feel bone with her microfiction "Rib-stitch" you ever go walking down the street when its really cold and you start thinkin about your life and you look up at the grey sky and you feel overwhel YOU GET THE IDEA

it s monday soon noon

oh btw ear rat needs more submissions so we can send out more rejection letters hashtag fuck you, hashtag writersky fuck yourself, hashtag suck a fat one, hashtag...

going to the convenience store to buy a newspaper so i can line a human-sized birdcage with it and shit all over the place like god intended

smelling things

im a pretty simple guy; i just want to discover a way to be immortal without doing any extra work in my life and also be filthy rich and play with my little trinkets and tchotchkes until the sun explodes

splashed in red across the times

anyway go glue your eyeballs to whatever screen-hell-portal-device you use and check out nadira's @nadirarod.institute excellent VIZ POEMS and then follow nadira on bsky (this dumb fucking app what the fuck) and then go outside and and just vibe enjoy nature fucking idiot earrat.com/posts/five-e...

oh btw you should check out nadira's other stuff like the zine made of water-soluble paper so you can use it in the bathtub (maybe if we all bully nadira to produce these in real life they will become reality) nadirarod.institute/zine_001

your eyes dart all around-- brain thinks "which way do i read these?" left to right up and down bending a corner all at once your eyes are flooded with pain and suffering and quiet ugly beauty "Five Études for Typewriter" by nadira rodin @nadirarod.institute

i asked nadira @nadirarod.institute if i could call this "5 e-dudes 4 type-righter" and nadira said no and then blocked me oh well, more sexy skeleton posts for the rest of us nadira rodin, "Five Études for Typewriter" you're gonna look at these for hours

someone asked "are these poems or collages?" i answered "yes." then i walked away, stopped, walked back, said "and a fucka youa" then left and everyone clapped and obama dished the rock and i slammed that thing 360 tomahawk nadira rodin, "Five Études for Typewriter"

@nadirarod.institute nadira rodin, the visual visualizer visually visualizes a new set of visual poems in "Five Études for Typewriter" all of these are based on horrible people/places/things and we like that kinda thing. not that bad people or whatever exist, but you know what i mean

spending the next ~150 hours downloading thousands of GB's of conan o brien show archives that i will add to my external hdd and then never watch

also keep your eyes peeled for noon o clock eastern today what does that mean really, anyway? eyes peeled. you don't like, peel your eyes, right? like, with a potato peeler. that's gross. dr caligari shit going on in our expressions, wtf.

making enough coffee to make me feel like i'm a real human again

when will they make a coffee blend that opens a time portal back to 2004 and i enter it and get to watch ESPN on tv in my room and it's actually enjoyable? time patrolman find me and kill me and then incinerate my body MAN, this coffee is good

we cannot be flattered (motorcycle accident damaged that part of brain)

Who likes live music? Who likes supporting awesome independent artists? If you are a fan of hardcore, check out my interview with True Threat, Kentucky's premiere hardcore band. #music #interview #hardcore #kentucky #bands #art #truethreat #metal shawndcrabtree1.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/i...

singin a made up tune to myself all day 🎵 gettin' dat spreadsheet 🎵 until i am beaten to within an inch of my life and i can file a claim with HR (i am fired in response)

Gah! Exciting! A new p(izza)oem courtesy from the blessed brains of Ear Rat editors. 🍕 ⭐⭐ I give this poem two stars. Pizza was cold, coffee was colder, and the ambience was my own crushing sense of mortality. Would not recommend unless you, too, are into suffering chic.

if you haven't submitted something to ear rat you haven't really lived, any if you haven't seen what's on earrat.com, then you haven't lived well

ear rat is going back into cryostasis for another week with occasional shitposting tossed in but until then be your own ear rat make something weird send it to us we reject it you curse our names & throw your work into the ocean start again weirder and we reject it and you start

jess @jlovejoy.bsky.social sent this poem to our office (how did she find us) inside a pizza box which was pretty cool but there was also a polaroid of a knife with blood on it and on the bottom of the polaroid it said "publish or else" anyway, uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

chameleon cold brew ✔️ leftover skinny vinnies ✔️ nostalgic regretful existence ✔️ "Cold Comfort" by Jessica Lovejoy is stale, old, and cold today on earratdotcom @jlovejoy.bsky.social

C O L D O L D P I Z Z A C O F F E E you get the idea whatever go read Jess' poetry you dorks earrat.com/posts/cold-c...

Jess @jlovejoy.bsky.social discovered a cheat code to getting published in ear rat today: 1) mention pizza 2) mention coffee instantly posted. i didn't even read it, just BOOM, post. read it here:

Jessica "I Will Kill You With Beautiful Imagery" Lovejoy @jlovejoy.bsky.social gives us permission to open the box and take out a leftover slice in her newest poem "Cold Comfort" come on over grab a slice we got plenty

it's almost noon, you know what happens at noon, right?

[lazy twilight zone episode]: i'll be fine, just get me a coffee sir, you don't have a bottom half of a mouth omg noooooooooooooooooooooo

drinking enough coffee to turn me into a good writer (volume still unknown)

idk who this guy is, can someone plz delete his acct? plz dont go to this webterpage and read something called "files" or whatever earrat.com/posts/flies

who else up beanin their grinder and then chemexin they brews and then esophagus they burnin and then hospitalin they own selves?

this is now a bon iver speyside accountI KNOW NOW THAT I CANT MAKE GOOD OH HOW I WISH I COOOUUULLLDD GO BACK AND PUT ME WHERE YOU STOOD

okay that's a wrap on ear rat dat cam's launch week daily post multiball madness upset that you missed out submitting in time for the launch? whatever who cares, submit to us now. submissions are open. we'll see you next week

if your brain isn't so fuckin rotted out from endless dopamine-frying apps that you can read Richard's @richardowen24.bsky.social amazing work that's like 30 pages long, guess what homie that's normal, the unnormal thing is to not be able to read things. fucking read. earrat.com/posts/ping-m...

Have you read the SSU Safety Messages lately? They're popping up more frequently; people keep going missing. @richardowen24.bsky.social

having grinded my life away in many corpo cubicle farms, Richard's work really injected a hot batch of nostalgic dread into my brain that made me both want to throw my laptop into an intersection yet also keep reading every single word as closely as possible fuck, man.

this thing is like 30 fucking pages long if you aint got time for that there's a pdf link at the top (if you aint got time for that fuck you tho)

we're ending our launch week daily posts with an absolute bang, or a dagger in the heart, or a hammer to the cock, whatever you prefer Richard Sanders @richardowen24.bsky.social gives us his modern epistolary short story (over 4000 words wtf this aint short) "Ping Me"

do some stretches for today's post, it's big. "too big" you might say to yourself, when you look at it the first time. you breathe out a little harder, a slight chuckle in your brain. you bite your lower lip, you start thinking, "well, maybe i can handle it all at once" and you grab the tip of it an

prepare yourself for noon

J.D. Smith @smitroverse.bsky.social "Polydactyl" come get it before the ai bots crawl the site and let the slopbots reproduce it

one of my college professors that i made up for this post told me that poetry needs to be about really really important stuff that makes people go "oh wow how important" and then it gets printed in a leather-bound book that sits on a shelf for six thousand years. nahhhh

how many birds would a bird-giver bird if a bird-giver could give more birds? find out now, at ear rat dot cum J.D. Smith, "Polydactyl"

today's poem explores things like "how many is too many?" and "fuck you, twice" love it. J.D. Smith, "Polydactyl" @smitroverse.bsky.social