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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 14h

I love your punctuation poster!

Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 17h

"An artist is supposed to fight against that, to try to make something good even if it doesn't make them a billion dollars. Greed will always destroy good work, because money and art have drastically different priorities." - @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social

Defector @defector.com · 4d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

defector.com

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Valerie A. Smith, Back to Alabama, Sundress '24 @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the video! Thanks for an Amazing reading with MonicaWeatherly @notebookscltv.bsky.social

The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 2d

Now online: Our August event with @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social & Monica Lee Weatherly.
thenotebookscollective.com/notes/in-con...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 2d

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse.

Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam."

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 2d

This. I decided a few years ago that a lot of art produced by absurdly rich ppl doesn’t do it for me anymore. I’m not saying it’s all bad. I’m saying I’m not attached to or invested in it. I don’t care what their commentary is because it’s so divorced from my everyday life. Rax says it better here

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Her formula that worked so well 15 years ago falls totally flat today, given her wealth & celebrity. How is it possible to empathize with her bullshit?

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

"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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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

the body showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 6d

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign videos are one of the only bright lights for me right now. Never thought I'd be thankful for something like this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 8d

How about supporting these amazing poets & buying this anthology of their astonishing poetry wherever u get books?Imagine what they tell us of the human spirit that they put pen to paper under bombardment,displacement, loss of beloveds—being made to live in tents as they are set on fire or starved.

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 23d

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publishing it were immense.

Copper Canyon Anthology Spotlights Poets in Palestine

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of…

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 8d

The 2025 winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are:

Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star"
@jessicacuello.bsky.social (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another"
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments"

See our site for more! Link in first comment.

Photos of the winners of the Schiff Awards under the heading "2025 Robert and Adele Schiff Award Winners." Each photo gets its own post page, to follow.

White text on a brick-red background: "Robert Sorrell Bynum, fiction, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is A white man with brown hair to his shoulders and tortoiseshell-frame glasses. He's wearing a black jean jacket over a puffer jacket and shirt, and he's standing on a beach in front of a body of water.

White text on a brick-red blackground: "Jessica Cuello, nonfiction, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is a black-and-white photo of a white woman with curly hair. she is wearing a dark sweater and light-colored shirt and sitting oustide.

White text on a black background: "A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, poetry, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is A Palestinian American woman with brown hair and hazel eyes. She's wearing a dark shirt, dangling earrings, and a necklace chain, and standing in front of a white window shade.

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 8d

It's so discouraging

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 8d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9d

from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 10d

🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open.

No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 10d

Trying to remember that good things are out there.

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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m all for unifying. I’m all for bridging gaps. But not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 13d

and emptied. And now, how will I ever fix

this mess? This tentacled blue. The sun

broke through the east windows and the hue,

violet. Ventricle blue. Look at all the words

I didn’t write. Not even my hands, splayed

wide, not both of them, could hide this stain.

—Jennifer Martelli 💙

'This tentacled blue' — poetry by Jennifer Martelli

In memorium. Rest in beauty, poetry, & power, dear Jennifer Martelli. These poems, she said, were part of a manuscript inspired by Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria. Stain The blue ink bled onto m...

www.lunalunamagazine.com

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 13d

We're all dunking on this post, but we really need to ask ourselves if we would do any better in his position.

Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this.

My GOD

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 13d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13d

I kind of think pissing off every imaginable constituency in America in the course of a single week isn't the BEST way to launch your Big Bad Fascist Final Boss Crackdown but what do I know

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 14d

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Jenn Martelli. She was a wonderful poet, colleague, collaborator, and friend to all. Her light will be dearly missed.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16d

I have never found a portrayal of Christ more relatable.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 15d

"Everyone is a little autistic."

No.

Autism is a perfectly normal part of human diversity, but it isn't a quirk of character; it's a lifelong pattern of social, sensory, and behavioural differences that shape how a person experiences and interacts with the world.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 18d

Autism is ok, actually.

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