Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

Please go read this essay. Hannah-Jones is just one of our best thinkers/writers and uses this essay to better articulate the sense of malice (we all feel it!) pervading everything, especially since CK was murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Our first show at a new venue with a new name! Poetry Night at Sitwell’s is now “Poetry at Artifact” at Urban Artifact in Northside (Cincy, OH). We’ll feature poets @benkline.bsky.social & Michael C. Peterson, & we’ll have our usual open mic. Come on in!

Couldn't finish Klein's convo w/ Coates. Because Ezra is fully in his conservative turn, like so many young liberal white guys who, upon acquiring money and influence, don't like being told they are wrong and suddenly the world is against them, and women should (this,) queer people should (that) 🙄

Cincy/NKY poetry fans: Come out to Roebling Point Books’ Newport location this Saturday at 2 p.m.! I’ll be reading with the fabulous poets, @benkline.bsky.social & Preeti Parikh ❤️🙏🏻.

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So, square that with your Venezuelan boat bombings, Vancypants, and the people vanished from your concentration camp in the FL swamp.

Buddy, those were just paisleys on the couch cushion.

Vancypants is either completely clueless of how unlikeable he is or he's fully aware, which is why he's so mad about how unlikeable T666p, him, DHS, ICE, etc., are. Stop snatching people off the street and letting the Israeli gov commit genocide and you MIGHT not be so unlikeable. Yeesh. I know,

That's probably Kash's handwriting on that round in the rain. Like...what?

welp....

Not me sipping a negroni and SUBMITTING TO JOURNALS to avoid doom-scrolling.

Finished another one of them before work this morning. Not sure how I managed to write anything coherent pre-coffee.

It's the podcaster reality show government series, Season 2, episode 245ish

gosh, I logged on to scroll the politics and enjoy some snark, but now I'm writing a poem about a ring bearer at a wedding and going in on my aversion of traditions.

THIS Even if the current version of MAGA/white christian nationalism/altrite nve/tech bro oligarchy pulled off whatever Vance Thiel Ellison Miller Vought Carr and company are attempting and subjugated everyone who isn't a str8 white kkkristian man, it would not achieve the utopia they believe: they

LOL as if If you spend ANY time going through the comments on X, most of the accounts are bots with some vaguely maga avatar, no followers, and following only the accounts they regularly harass/shit post.

Most of the things on social media that are bad for teenagers are bad for adults, actually

A must read

They are trying too hard to make people care about that person. Most everyday Americans didn't even know who he was.

My aversion to a certain word on my poems ruined me for today's Wordle 🤣

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

Paying attention to Klein, Maher, Shapiro, many others post Kirk murder trying to pivot to maintain their pundit/elite class status while dodging the Miller/Bannon magamob. Regardless of their actual or state beliefs, they want to maintain their social status. Even as others like Owens and Carlson

Stories like this highlight how the T666p/M!ller propaganda worked. My dad, a cattle and grain farmer, didn't fall for it and planned accordingly. Just last week he was telling me about so many of his fellow farmers retiring/selling off during T666p 1 and COVID...hence, the high price of meat from

Smash two movies together to make a new movie: Desperately Seeking Susan Swept Away

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That new SearchLight Institute just started and already needs new batteries....deeming queer rights and climate change indefensible positions is like handing Tucker Carlson the remote to chip in your AI addled brain.

I'll be playing my banjo mouth! 🤣

Coates' piece in Vanity Fair is fantastic, but isn't going to change a thing about certain people/pundits/outlets cleansing the cultural palate on that person. The columnists and news orgs are too scared of T666p and his minions. Which didn't surprise me - look how quickly their shock/grief turned

I just started FIVE NEW poems inspired by a gay wedding I attended earlier this month. I was...quite an adventure that could easily have been Netflix movie, but I'll make it a micro chap or chapbook instead.

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Of note, it's difficult to make a similar list for right wing views because the posters of them often don't have real jobs - they all work for think tanks, religious affiliated groups, altrite grift machines or, worse, staff congressional offices.

Last night, I tried to explain Kirk, Fuentes, Loomer, the groyprs, black pill, accelerationism, white nationalism moral reform/revival goals, etc., to a friend who only has Instagram. I could see her spinning out of it quickly. It's a LOT of keep track of, even if she at least got the big point of

The ease of encountering/seeing the assassination footage (note I don't say finding) is terrifying. 11 year olds, who probably shouldn't be on social media, don't need to see that.

Some Ohio flint I can use as a coaster. Picked up several colorful pieces at the Guild Fair on Northside!

If you don't really understand the MAGA subcultures and are curious about their outhouse drama explained without videos, memes or awful videos:

"by the editors" LOL more like by the main 🤡

I switched from spring/summer gin to fall/winter bourbon three weeks earlier than usual...should I just go full pumpkinspice and start my Fall Drafts file too???????????????????????

I've stayed offline all day - coffee, museum with friends - we saw this fantastic exhibit about rural/urban representations in French Impressionism - then a French bistro lunch for an old school Croque Monsieur...and now I log on and discover I recognize the names of all these "characters" in the

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

We should all pay attention to what the radical right on X and other platforms are talking about this afternoon....of note, they are not talking about the school shooting in Colorado.

The cruelty really is the point.

Having read her work and aware of her ideals for a good decade, I've always found Weiss to be the sort of step on others for self advancement and who courts the types who'll eventually step on her.

And I thought Project 2025 was a slog.... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

This poem is WOW and so so relevant to the moment/life.

What's happening in Nepal, after Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh...could it happen here? So many Gen Zrs seem caught in the altrite cult due to their upbringings and social media stupor. Although it was a social media ban that triggered Nepal, if for completely different reasons than exist here.

Reading about this Tx A&M incident...absorbing both reporting and commentary...I find myself wondering why the student complaining is even in college. The tone in the video...if I were in the room I'd turn to my fellow student and wonder aloud "Why is she here?" I know I know degree job etc. But....

Next up at Poetry Night at Sitwell's in Cincy: Poets @benkline.bsky.social & Michael Peterson take the mic! Come out to Sitwell's Coffee House on October 7th at 7:00 p.m. and bring a poem to share during the open mic.

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.