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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 15h

I'm now remembering my very first airline booking fuck up, which was also my first time booking tickets on the Internet, in like 2001.

My father & I were traveling fr Calif to Costa Rica, and my mom,who always does the travel logistics, wasn't coming with us, so she left it in our untrained hands.

Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 16h

Please tell me your stupidest travel mistake stories. I am currently on route from SFO to OAK on Bart bc I got to SFO and 1) learned I had unintentionally cancelled both legs of my flight when I changed my return flight 2) I was too late to even get on standby bc I cut it too close

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, I know. But CC is no Michael D. Neither candidate is suited to the role we're being asked to elect them to, in my view. For very different reasons, but equally unsuited, I believe.

It's not political office.

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 23h

I know what you mean, and I always vote, but this time out it's very much not the least worst but the least absolutely dreadful.

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 1d

@billymills.bsky.social - Ginsberg's Parlor Organ/Blake's Cottage - allenginsberg.org/2025/10/t-0-9/

Ginsberg Parlor Organ/Blake's Cottage - The Allen Ginsberg Project

Allen Ginsberg’s Cherry Valley parlor organ – photo by Charles Barron How about some good news? We certainly need good news. Allen Ginsberg’s old parlor organ. Last month we sent out an SOS – We urgen...

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 1d

@billymills.bsky.social László Krasznahorkai on Allen Ginsberg - the new Nobel-Prize winner's Ginsberg connection - allenginsberg.org/2020/03/t-m-...

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 1d

How's the vegetarianism going?

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 1d

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chainsaw/ motosega/ tronçonneuse

chainsaw I take no pleasure in thisnow I am become destroyerThere is no sense of mastery;these are problemsof our own making, and innocents must suffer.Is there innocence in what survivesat the cos…

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 1d

Join us. JOIN US.

Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 1d

And four days after that I'll be in the Hancock Museum, talking to @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social about his many books on natural history and the natural world, why North East nature is just better, and his new project on the political history of conservationism: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-sm...

Richard Smyth: A Nature Writer at Large

An evening with nature writer Richard Smyth in the NHSN Council Room

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 2d

@billymills.bsky.social - Remembering John Lennon - - allenginsberg.org/2016/01/amne...
- allenginsberg.org/2011/10/octo....

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Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 1d

If the Pope hears that a bear has converted to the Free Church, does the he shit himself (in the woods)?

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 2d

And another:

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Seeing things

in a book I borrow and return a little moth things rot apart and then I see them

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 2d

Past and present Fianna Fáil, both of sombre and funereal mien yesterday.

#aras25

Bert Ahern (left) with Micheál Martin, the taoiseach.

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 2d

My October review roundup early in the month. With added @j-tkelly.bsky.social @henryghenrik.bsky.social @unionherald.bsky.social

ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/r... #poetry #bookreviews

Recent reading October 2025: A Review

Shady Library, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781300052364, £4.64 The Gate, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781257941216, £4.65 some presence, Charlie Ulyatt, self-published via Bandcamp, 2025, £3 More of How…

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

Hurray for wise & steadfast Billy Mills ! I have for a long time been honored by his *critical* friendship – am blessed to be in his debt.

Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 2d

My October review roundup early in the month. With added @j-tkelly.bsky.social @henryghenrik.bsky.social @unionherald.bsky.social

ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/r... #poetry #bookreviews

Recent reading October 2025: A Review

Shady Library, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781300052364, £4.64 The Gate, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781257941216, £4.65 some presence, Charlie Ulyatt, self-published via Bandcamp, 2025, £3 More of How…

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 2d

Rules is rules.

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 2d

Me too, and yes it is. I also attended a talk he gave about it.

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Charlie Ulyatt @charlieulyatt.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Billy :)

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 2d

And not forgetting @charlieulyatt.bsky.social

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 2d

@billymills.bsky.social - Six Gallery Reading 70th Anniversary Celebration - allenginsberg.org/2025/10/t-o-7/

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 2d

My October review roundup early in the month. With added @j-tkelly.bsky.social @henryghenrik.bsky.social @unionherald.bsky.social

ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/r... #poetry #bookreviews

Recent reading October 2025: A Review

Shady Library, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781300052364, £4.64 The Gate, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781257941216, £4.65 some presence, Charlie Ulyatt, self-published via Bandcamp, 2025, £3 More of How…

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 3d

On the hat.

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That Would Be An Ecumenical Matter

YouTube video by Herman The Tosser

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 3d

Zen question:

If a bear shits in the woods, does the Pope hear it?

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 3d

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Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games

In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3d

If you ask me to give one defining aspect of the character of Hooklanders, it would be their refusal to have their sense of awe diminished. They refuse to be disenchanted. Modernity is no barrier to their sense of encroaching otherworlds. Even in suburbia, they maintain wonder. – Dr. M. Benn

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