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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 1h

crazy how much of America 2025 would've been a Yakov Smirnoff bit in 1985

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 13h

Writing a novel requires economic privilege

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 19h

15 mins of me on the 15th... hoping to open a portal

Fievel 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @jasoncrane.org · 19h

THIS WEDNESDAY! Grab a poem, invite a pal, and head on over to @raqc-cville.bsky.social for the Third Wednesday Poetry Open Mic with featured reader @dirtgod.bsky.social! Queer as heck and fun for everybody! See you there!

#poetry #charlottesville

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Fievel 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @jasoncrane.org · 19h

THIS WEDNESDAY! Grab a poem, invite a pal, and head on over to @raqc-cville.bsky.social for the Third Wednesday Poetry Open Mic with featured reader @dirtgod.bsky.social! Queer as heck and fun for everybody! See you there!

#poetry #charlottesville

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 21h

at this point crackpot podcasters are as mainstream as anything else

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 21h

lol I love when someone on Fox News is like "the mainstream media" derisively. bitch... that's you!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 21h

They say we should kill spotter lantern flies bc they're invasive, but damn... they're so beautiful.

Album art insert of Lee Oskar (of War fame) solo album

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 22h

the Buck Squad has helped calm Charlottesville's gun violence, but they loss fed funds plus city funds dropped from $250k to $94 k. in comparison, CPD budget is $28 million. this is what the fuck ppl mean when they say defund the police. that money could be better spent elsewhere (& do way more)

Residents used to compare these Charlottesville blocks to a war zone — this is how the community turned it around

Residents and community leaders say the Central Virginia Violence Interrupters is one organization that helped make the neighborhood safer. Now, with shrinking budgets and fewer staff, they’re unsure ...

www.cvilletomorrow.org

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 1d

I want no argument and 40 thirst traps and every day I wake up to no thirst traps and 40 argument

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 1d

November already looking like an active one, with two haiku slams and an oral storytelling open mic, all hosted by ya boy. Plus I think I've got a poetry reading later in the month too.

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 1d

It was perfectly hearty. Freezer is empty of halal goat now though 😔

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 1d

idk if lima beans, sweet potato, & goat meat makes sense, but we fixin to find out in a couple hours

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being mad at bluesky users about free speech after all the Charlie Kirk shit

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 2d

ignorance is bliss

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 2d

I actually brought your zines but then remembered that driving here lol

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 2d

In the basement at Richmond Zinefest... come holler at me

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YamiNOOOO 😱🔪🩸 @yamino.bsky.social · 3d

People really gotta stop getting my hopes up making names like Peter Thiel trend if it's not an obituary 😔

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

I took the fans out the windows today so I could shut some of them tonight. Sigh.

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

lol this is exactly why I laid on the couch an extra two hrs last night watching Phillies/Dodgers

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wait, I wrote it to that beat I sent you a while back @dogfuck.bsky.social

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

@soundconspirator.bsky.social likely Tentacles of the Beast shit tbh

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

Read a really anti fascist rap verse/poem I wrote this morning at an open mic tonight w obvious conservatives there. We've entered a phase where that didn't feel entirely safe, but fuck it. I come from reckless stupid ppl, so I gotta make it difficult for everybody.

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

saw Quelle Chris mentioned on the tl, so gotta post this all-time banger to play first thing in the morning loud af to trick a great day into being

Quelle Chris - Buddies | Official Video

YouTube video by Mello Music Group

youtu.be

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dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

blocked. blocked everybody who liked the list too.

dirtgod raven mack @dirtgod.bsky.social · 3d

oval office keeps getting more and more pen and pixelly

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