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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Apr 19

Joker using ChatGPT to generate some new insulting/disrespectful nicknames for Batman

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Apr 21

Contemporary is my favorite. What about you?

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Mar 31

Poetry month is my favorite time of the year because I love getting a contact high off everyone's creative energy.

Who is doing a 30/30 for Poetry Month?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Mar 22

“What Reddit does… is give ppl a space that they can create + collectively control, and where they can ask one another question after question after question, in every possible permutation… But the only 2 ?s that ppl ever really ask on Reddit, if you think abt it, are these: Am I alone? Am I okay?”

The Nicest Swamp on the Internet

Reddit’s not perfect, but it may be the best platform on a junky web.

www.theatlantic.com

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · Mar 22

“Reach up from your mere bones” A poem by Rachel Abramowitz.

Waking Ruin

By Rachel Abramowitz

Keep close to mirrors, says wolf.
Reach up from your mere bones toward
the bile-black night, says beetle.

What a naive bunch, says a thing
passing through the garden on hind legs,
boiling in a dream. I've got a sweet tangle

for you, okay, it plants grasses like you wouldn't
believe. (I'm on quiet fire in this garden,
the rosemary nips at me, the insects sniff

behind my ears.) Listen, lie here, under
this hedge, let it cover you like a nightgown.
(Inside the jar of my head, such a three-

headed lion!) I subtract you (worm of my speech),
unhook your eyelids, lay still as a cabbage.
(The trees know me.) (Reader, they know me.)

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Mar 22

Omg Tove Ditlevsen is DEVASTATING and AMAZING.

I will check these out thanks!

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Mar 21

If you need tables or counters (or dressers, or desks, or vanities)cleared, Nora can help you with this!

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hi poetry fiends (not a typo), who is celebrating poetry month with a 30/30? I always try one and i's one of my favorite things.

(also interested in any of your plans to read specific amounts of poetry or certain books. Basically I am saying: please talk to me about poetry and with your poems)

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Mar 5

Ash Wednesday

A parody of the "friendship ended" meme; the text says, "Friendship ended with Mardi Gras. Now Halloween is my best friend." I'm standing on the right, shaking hands with my eyeball creature costume on the left. In the lower left and right are two smaller pictures of my gargoyle Mardi Gras costume from this year, with big X's crossing them out.

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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · Mar 1

My poem "Into The Machine" & one by my friend @valerieloveland.bsky.social are in the new Science Fiction Special Issue of SNAKESKIN edited by Jessy Randall!

www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk

This site is marginally nicer when viewed with a browser that can handle frames.

www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 27

I should look into this, thanks

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 27

I have to read this novel about the haunted Morrissey poster

Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 27

I love Sam & Max! Is it the old game or a new one?

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 27

Love Gina Myers's long poem Works & Days that is in American Poetry Review

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 27

Things in my life I can control

Yellow cabled and bobbled scarf in progress, on knitting needles

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · Feb 23

Dear Lonnie Musk,

I can tell you five things I *didn’t* do this week:

- give you up
- let you down
- run around and desert you
- make you cry
- say goodbye

And a sixth bonus:

- tell a lie and hurt you

Best,

Dz. Nutz

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · Feb 23

Dreamed I got a poetry rejection from Fogo De Chão.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 20

Kris and I watched a documentary on the artist Aldwyth, who assembles huge amazing collages. I never heard of her before and I feel like my brain is on fire.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 20

Trying to knit socks again and it is still annoying

Two tips of socks on one needle. The sock are various shades of gray

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 20

Saw this at school today

3 panel stand up cardboard presentation about which denture adhesive is best

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 18

What is this cat's name?

Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 17

Wrote a poem about the Neighborhood Watch Eye.

Blue background with an eye that is looking to the right. Text says Neighborhood Watch We look out for each other

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 17

I always marry Harvey, just like I always date Harveys IRL.

Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 17

Not sure if it was my mouse or keyboard or google's unwanted AI angel, but it deleted my poem one letter at a time, quickly. I could get an older version that still had everything but needed to redo some editing.

Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · Feb 14

I didn't know you were into Stardew! Did you marry anyone?