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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 27

lmao courts are pushing to fine those stupid fucking LLM companies that stole millions of books to train their AI. They would owe between $200B and $1.8T in theft and copyright infringement fines. Lmao lmao lmao

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 22

Oh I love this reading list! Have you read Patrycja Humienik’s We Contain Landscapes? Polish-American but a fantastic collection on Polish heritage in my opinion!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 22

This is great - Wadud is such an inventive and inspiring poet and I think you’ve done her quite well.

Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 22

Can’t wait to talk more about Silvonek’s poetry!!

Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · Jun 18

In another piece, Jamie Silvonek writes about the reproductive health care she and others in her prison have received.

As a Girl in Prison, I Experienced Degrading Health Care

Getting health care in prison is challenging at the best of times. In the worst of times, it is degrading and disparaging.

prisonjournalismproject.org

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 21

Writing about recent books is so challenging. I feel haven't lived with the book long enough to write about it.

I envy anyone who feels like they can give a confident opinion of a literature in short periods of time.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Jun 20

positive update in who knows how long: Open Books has met the match and the donation has been made to the Sameer Project's North Gaza initiative. Open Books has raised $26,000 for this so far w/matching campaigns and book sale proceeds.

donation link to cont. to give: chuffed.org/project/help...

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 12

How did people see Isr*el murder 100 journalists in 1.5 years and not immediately assume the American cop structure, trained by Isr*el, wouldn’t also target media?

Be safe and protect your journalists

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Jun 10

Seattle protestors are using the new seated Lime scooters to keep ICE goons from leaving the immigration court

clearly time to send in the marines

Seattle protesters block ICE vans from leaving immigration court

On Tuesday morning, about 40 people gathered at the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle, which houses a federal immigration court.

www.kuow.org

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 5

You and your words build community, and community will support you.

This is what I learn with every moment of engaging with writers and artists, poets and essayists. Our people are scaffolding for each other. And we are all constructing something marvelous, something beautiful.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎲🤩🥹 to you too!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 5

Reading poetry is a way of grasping life, nurturing every bit of good, connecting up severed bits of ourselves.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 4

I like to think if you hold out your hand long enough, a bird might simply perch there.

Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · Jun 2

Sometimes the act of creation is a kind of divine insistence on remembering.

Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · May 29

The fact that writing cultivates more writing for me excites me. A neverending process toward purpose and fulfillment is a neverending effort toward happiness.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · May 23

Me, sending my second poetry ms. to the press’ first book contest which rejected my first poetry ms. last year:

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Literary Cleveland @literarycleveland.bsky.social · May 15

⚡ Gordon Square Review is back! ⚡

Issue 15 is out today with 17 new writing about sacrificial sisters, fleas and conspiracies, epigenetics and Modern Standard Arabic, Jackie Chan and Chick-Dumpling’s Chief Accounting Officer.

Check out the full issue now!
www.gordonsquarereview.org

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · May 16

Having a very “everyone hates me” day! Feelings are dumb!!

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Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social · May 15

So my friend @cathylinhche.bsky.social won a *ahem* Sundance Film Award

Come see her film at SIFF or at Elliot Bay Books this Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM!

I will read a lil something to celebrate her, and her new book, too!

Author photos of Cathy Linh Che, Alex-Gallo Brown and Paul Hlava Ceballos are beside a book cover of Becoming Ghost. Text reads: Elliot Bay Books Company. Sunday 5/18 at 5 PM

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · May 14

mean (adj.) 'undignified, low; not elevated or sublime.'
meanness (n.) 'the state or quality of being mean.'
ode (n.) 'a lyric poem...in varied or irregular meter and of moderate length.'

I wrote an Ode to Meanness: it's in this chapbook 🖤

bottlecap.press/collections/...

Dogwitch, by Catherine Rockwood

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. “Tenderness, anger, intensity: Catherine Rockwood’s poems howl, growl, and show their soft bellies to teach us ‘how to love a fearsome high-ribbed ...

bottlecap.press

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EcoTheo Collective @ecotheo.bsky.social · May 14

"Iona" by Constance Hansen. Read more from our Winter 2024 Issue by clicking the link in our bio.

#ecotheo #celebratewonder #poetry #Iona

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Amina Memory @aminamemorycain.bsky.social · May 8

Very happy that my short story collection CREATURE, published in English by @dorothyproject.bsky.social, has been translated into Spanish by Daniela Betancur and will be out this month with Fiordo Editorial in Argentina. www.fiordoeditorial.com.ar/product-page...

Criatura, de Amina Cain | Fiordo

PARA LECTORES DErelatos literarios, atmósferas enrarecidas, voces peculiares con puntos de vista fuertes — «Amina Cain es una escritora bella. Como la chica que, desde el asiento de atrás en tu coche,...

www.fiordoeditorial.com.ar

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · May 6

This week on my substack you can find writing on Kate Zambreno and Jacques Derrida, wrongness and greed, rudeness and screencaptures, and, you know, these beautiful things, all of them.

This Week's Laughter #37

An archive in ‘ههههه، هاهاها

open.substack.com

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · May 5

Right? Ugh

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · May 5

This is absolutely ridiculous, NFTs use vastly more energy and water than crypto.

Unnecessary and pitiable to the authors and artists whose work is being entrusted.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · May 5

You are a cutie patootie!!!

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