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I’m bored of the “is bluesky an echo chamber” debate, we need a more exciting one: is bluesky an evil haunted carnival?

Strawberry economics

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Friendly reminder my music is on loads of NON-Spotify services as well! I’m an Apple Music girlie myself!

that's a personal fowl

This relationship map of the penguins at the Kyoto Aquarium is wild. It shows love triangles, friendships, enemies, and much more. Each penguin wears an armband that allows visitors to identify each penguin. Best soap opera in the country!!! Source: buff.ly/2bp5VFc

You can’t argue with @gailsimone.bsky.social, now that’s a law…

Peng-Yi Chang’s Demon Fighter/Night Orchid (1983) (it has more alternative titles than I think anyone knows what to do with) is a showcase of Taiwanese wuxia’s near miraculous ability to blend utter goddamn junk with genuine avant garde absurdity. LOOK at this stuff!!!!

Coming back from Mothman Country, I can accept this proposal

Thanks, Tom Gauld!

That's how it goes in poetry some times. 30th National Poetry Month winds down but who knows what next awaits?

I mean...

Just posted an updated list of 200+ US literary journals for poets trying to get something published in all 50 states this year for my paid subscribers on Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/posts/156692... Good luck!

Thoughts from Susan Sontag

Facts that will hurt some of us.

Sharing this while we still can

Thoughts on ChatGPT making the rounds

Life as a poet

For those who need it

Knowing him, he's only saying that because it already tried to existentially threat HIM personally and he can't have that. Probably fumbled it trying to use it on someone else.

30th anniversary National Poetry Month means keeping it real

Mixed messages with the graffiti around here

3 quotes by American presidents. A continuing series...

Wild how the technology that's going to replace all workers is now being described as a delusional thought simulator you've poured into every critical piece of office software.

my parents on the moon launch mom: why are they going to the moon dad: same reason we go to your brother in Australia- some people like going very far away to a place where you die if you go outside

bug or rabbit, who can say they drift in a creek and seek the Way

"Why should I have to provide modern teens with the social safety nets I benefited from?" I just know I can hear the ocean from your ears. Be quiet if you can't find basic decency or critical thinking skills

south Wales people: go see the Gwen Jones Strange Beauties exhibition at yr Amgueddfa Caerdydd. it's wonderful.

30th National Poetry Month continues

American Born Chinese turns 20 this year! A big congratulations to Gene Luen Yang! :) What a journey it's been.

ICE is building Concentration Camps. FOR THE EXACT SAME REASON GERMANY DID. What was the official government stated purpose of the Camps in Germany? To help those interred to EMIGRATE OUT OF GERMANY. Word for word the same as ICE. KNOW YOUR HISTORY!!!

A reminder from National Poetry Month #30:

Very excited to be sharing the news that one of my essays on speculative poetry is featured in the latest issue of Locus :)

A fun poem for consideration

And this is why I'm not thrilled with auto-captioning without at least an option to edit it easily on the platforms. Don't even get me started on why I don't post on Guy Fawkes Day.

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

My energy going into the weekend

Continuing our 30th National Poetry Month posts, a reminder for some of you:

Anyone who will say with a straight face that they don't read prologues but would read them if they were called Chapter One instead is not a serious person.

May you increase the world's supply of cool today.

While a coarse articulation, I'm fascinated because I generally read books externalized to the content unless authors explicitly presents the tale as 2nd person or breaks the 4th wall. I wonder how this works w. aphantasia and across non-US cultures

Women Warrior turns 50 this year. It came out during the American bicentennial so there's a lot of poetry to that. I wonder if AAAS has any panels this year about it? Guess we'll hear about it this weekend

An interesting observation

A look at some of the myths and legends of Laos and Southeast Asia with Ajahn Amorn Setthithorn that we worked on for the Laomagination project. Poetry, art, SEAsia and more with many free posts on Patreon, but paid subscribers appreciated, even at $1! www.patreon.com/c/thaoworra

An old haiku of mine from ten years ago (2016) while I finally catch up on the Monarch series in between everything else.

As your annual reminder:

A look at the Catholic University of America Lao-English dictionary entry on phi, spirits of the Lao tradition and adjacent terms and distinctions that were recognized in 1972.

Just in time for National Poetry Month and Lao New Year welcoming Year of the Horse, a tote bag from Poetry Magazine. Very cool

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.