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2025 words: Suburban Witchcraft 10, SHINE Poetry 5, Belletrist 7 | 2024 words: Stanza Cannon, Red Ogre Review, & Where Meadows | SFSU & Goddard College grad | readteachwrite.com | Moved my teacher self to: @justteacherthings.bsky.social

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ReadTeachWrite @readteachwrite.bsky.social · 26d

I am absolutely thrilled to have two poems in this gorgeous, lovingly produced magazine alongside so many wildly talented writers and artists! A big thank you to our amazing editor.

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social · 26d

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 10 is now Live!
Read at : suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10

We hope you enjoy exploring this issue brimming with #art, #photography, hymns, remnants of a wounded Summer reintroducing itself to the Autumn’s gold with #poetry, #stories and a #drama play.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

How to be an educated, informed, and pro-library voter in the upcoming election cycle: bookriot.com/library-elec...

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11h

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 1d

It's #LetFreedomReadDay! Take at least ONE action today to defend the freedom to read. When we all #UniteAgainstBookBans, we can make a difference. All you need is 5 minutes to make an impact! #BannedBooksWeek

🧵 Check out the thread below or UniteAgainstBookBans.org/LFRD/ for some ideas 👇

The freedom to read is under attack. Let's do something about it. Let Freedom Read Day. Banned Books Week. UniteAgainstBookBans.org/LFRD/ Unite Against Book Bans.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

L.A. TACO is launching our first-ever mini documentary series. Here's how you can be a part of it: givebutter.com/lataco_october

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American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to everyone who sold out our STAND BY ME (1986) / MISERY (1990) @beyondfest.bsky.social double feature with filmmaker Rob Reiner last weekend at the Aero 💙

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

im very happy in my solitude, my life is fine, and eating squares of jack cheese directly from the bag while staring glassy-eyed at a movie whose name i couldn’t tell you if my life depended on it is a sign of a deep psychic ease.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 14d

Write into the honey.

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Write into the rain.

—Rick Barot

Write into the smudge in the painting where the pink lays into the green. Write into the plush of his lower lip. Write into the light pouring from the oculus above the baroque courtyard. Write into the whippoorwill that sings each morning, bringing in the morning. The two old balloons caught in the branch outside the fourth-floor window. The sky and its gray flannel suit. Write into the person practicing scales but practicing them out of order. Write into the honey. The story he told about the hierarchies of honeybees. The story he told about the man mummified in honey. Write into his white hands. Write into the smell of pomade. Write into the smell of August, a thug of a smell. Write into each trivial but astonishing trick, like roller-skating backwards or snipping thread with your teeth. Write into the rain. Write into its fall, knowing that the only god you can know is gravity.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 5d

keep your wonder alive, keep your aliveness alive

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 6d

For your Monday
Everyone Is Acting as if We're Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home
~ Kelli Russell Agodon
I am a body longing for someone to text me, "Hey, babe, I'm kind of into you." I miss you even though I don't visit. /and we butt dial the wrong person.

Everyone Is Acting as if We're Not Temporary, and I Am Falling Apart in the Privacy of My Own Home
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When he said, Sometimes we learn the most from losing, I think how often I've been bamboozled by life, how I've dropped a quarter in a slot machine and instead of cherries got coffins. Got death?
Yeah, I've seen the grim reaper wander my neighborhood in a Chanel suit and a diamond studded scythe because we all want to be overdressed for the afterlife, we all want to believe
there is a special place for us. But when I watched the body of my nana fade into thinness I thought please let me leave early—in a plane crash, car accident, a lightning bolt, don't let me hold on so long I am a body longing for someone to text it
—hey babe, I'm kind of into you. To say, I miss you even though I don't visit. Death and we butt dial the wrong person. Death on a good drunk of port. Once I remember my dad saying,
You are worth more than you think, as I always sold myself off at a discount and I wish I didn't, I wish I didn't say how much I hurt on social media
but sometimes I just want to believe I'm not alone like how we're all doing cartwheels on life's grass until someone lands in a sinkhole, until one of us decides it's late and the streetlights are telling us it's time to return back home.

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Cronut the Barbarian @cronutthebarbarian.bsky.social · 4d

We are on loan to each other.

Tell the one you love that you love them while you can.

Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 4d

"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."

Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.

(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)

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Martin Turnbull @martinturnbull.bsky.social · 2d

This jaunty little fellow was known as the Laurel Canyon trackless trolley, an electric rubber-tired trolley introduced in 1910 to promote real estate development. It started at Sunset Blvd, then wobbled up Laurel Canyon Blvd to Lookout Mountain Ave. This photo was taken in 1914.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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kash @thisiskashmir.com · 2d

A story in 3 parts:

Kashmirviii.com

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 1d

Research is a skill! Here is a great guide from Bookriot on how to become well informed about your local elections. Maybe the way you help protect the right to read is by taking these skills & making a voting guide or candidate scorecards to distribute to your neighbors.

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: my cheat sheet to November elections has dozens of local elections that are critical for local power on all sorts of issues.

one thing to spotlight: conservative majorities on school boards are on the line, again, with key hotspots in CO, TX, and PA.

see here:
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

boltsmag.org

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 2d

Ludmilla Tchérina in "The Red Shoes" - BOTD

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 3d

DAILY MEMO: ICE Raids The Streets of San Pedro, Long Beach, and More, Kidnapping at Least 30 People
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If you appreciate this reporting, please consider becoming a member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this information.

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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 3d

I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @lataco.bsky.social

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