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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Jul 3

A post about making resolutions on one's birthday and being accountable for making time to write a novel. #writing #accountability #noveling #writingabook #WIP

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Sixty Years in the Wild: To Myself on My Birthday | Joz Varlo aka MX Kelly

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · Jun 22

Truth

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · Jun 22

Iraq 2.0 brought to you by the 'No More Wars' dictator

#fucktrump

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm rooting for you, but the system is corrupt.

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Jun 22

Love love love Mary Oliver!

Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · Jun 22

Mary Oliver for a bit of balm.
#smallpoemsunday
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#poetry

One of Mary Oliver’s Blackwater poems from her collection, American Primitive, 1983. Winner of the 1984 #pulitzer

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · Jun 21

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 143

On leaving the nest for the first time female #bumblebee workers thoroughly survey the surrounding landscape on long looping exploratory flights; stopping often to ‘sample’ #flowers until they discover a favourite patch.
#bees
#nature
🐝🌍

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Bitevil 🎃💀👻 @bitlevel.at · Jun 21

@ionawonderbox.bsky.social another for your collection.

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IrishLisa @irishlisa.bsky.social · Jun 22

Deep space echoes,
Planets wear a sapphire ring.
My doorbell just rang...

#Haikufeels (ring) #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #ShortPoem #CreativeWriting #CosmicHumor #EverydayLife

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A detailed image of the planet Saturn and its prominent ring system, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in June 2023. Saturn appears as a large, brownish-orange sphere with a shadow cast by its wide, bright rings. Several small, bright points of light, likely moons, are visible to the left of the planet against the blackness of space.

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Jun 20

My previously published microfic story with the theme of "creative future advertisement/warning label." www.patreon.com/posts/fifty-...

Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · May 19

A new #fantasy #Haiku #poem is up.

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · May 18

Fuck censorship! Full stop.

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · May 18

Here is one of the 11 new poems I wrote yesterday. I saw each of these #birds yesterday. Please enjoy "one late afternoon: birds." #freeform #birdpoem #BirdPoetry #naturelovers

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one late afternoon: birds | Joz Varlo aka MX Kelly

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · May 17

This is how for-profit healthcare works:

You pay a private company to help cover your healthcare expenses.

Your doctor has to ask this company before treating you.

The private company then decides if they will cover it. If they say “no,” they make more money.

It’s immoral.

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · May 18

Wrote as an automatic writing. Wrote on the fly, minimally edited & designed after. A pro-peace poem. BC we all need to heal from the world we have known since birth: the world of continual war. #peacepoetry #peace #propeace #NOWARNOMORE #warriorsheal #Healing

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warriors, heal. {poetry on the fly} | Joz Varlo aka MX Kelly

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · May 16

I forgot tags, damnit. #scifi #shortstory #microfic #microfiction #sciencefiction #scifihumor #humor #funny

Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · May 16

My previously published microfic "Fifty Percent of Smartsuits™ Fit You Perfectly" is up on my Patreon page. I was inspired by the novel series "The Murderbot Diaries" to write this story. It is a story in the shape of an advertisment for Smartsuits™.
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Fifty Percent of Smartsuits™ Fit You Perfectly | Joz Varlo aka MX Kelly

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · May 6

A Patreon post about upcoming fiction. #wip #wips #worksinprogress #horror #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #writing #humorscifi

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What I'm Writing Now: Fiction for Patreon #1 | Joz Varlo aka MX Kelly

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Apr 30

Billionaires are the only ones that function well under capitalism. No one functions well under cruelty, even if they think they do.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · Apr 30

My autistic adult daughter just said, "The only difference between Asperger's and autism was how well you functioned under capitalism. That's why billionaires still cling to the term."

Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · Apr 30

"Asperger's" is an outdated, offensive term.

Hans Asperger was a eugenicist Nazi who called autism "autistic psychopathy", sent disabled kids to be euthanized, promoted "race hygiene" and "supported the Nazi goal of eliminating children who could not fit in w/ the Nazi Aryan ideal"

The Independent @the-independent.com · Apr 30

Bill Gates’ daughter reveals father has Asperger’s syndrome after comments about autism spectrum

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Apr 30

"You will have nothing and you will be happy." Happy when the guillotines roll in, yeah.

Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Apr 30

Day 30 - last day of #NationalPoetryMonth #poetrychallenge. Today's #haiku #poem is about my lifelong fascination with weather, esp #tornadoes. I knew what physical #science I would take at college before I even enrolled. #weather #poetry #shortpoem #shortpoem

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Day 29 of #NationalPoetryMonth and it's another #poem about yellow #butterfliess, this time a #3waysoflooking poem. I hope you dig it. #3ways #linkedhaiku #haiku #poetry #poetrychallenge #shortpoem #shortpoetry #nature #butterfly #littleyellowbutterfly

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Apr 28

EXTRA #NPM25 #poem. And it is another 'definitions manifestations translations transmissions' called "transmissions: positive negatives." #freeform #freeformpoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #npm #shortpoem #shortpoetry

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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Apr 28

Day 28 of #NationalPoetryMonth - one of my first #haibun #poems. Dedicated to all the editors, teachers & writers who self-edit. Gotta love that "red pen." #NPM25 #npm #poetry #poetrychallenge #shortpoem #shortpoetry #editing #Writing #teaching #redpen #redpencil
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Joz Varlo/m.x. kelly (author/poet) @jozvarlo.bsky.social · Apr 27

A little-bit of a longer #freeform #poem for Day 27 of #NationalPoetryMonth. And a little bit suggestive. "making love with poetry books." #NPM25 #npm #poetry #poetrychallenge #shortpoem #shortpoetry #notsoshortpoetry

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