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They are stealing our human food. Even the lemons that must be tart. They are going bowling in the part of the walls that is empty space, the parts that are not the wood that holds the structure.

MODERN PESTS by Niles Baldwin

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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"AI will never have this little moment, part of larger moments that make up a community of creative people in dialogue and conversation with each other…

"If they were to eat a human, they would gain the ability to mimic human speech and thought processes.

"But they would not be human."
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
AI will never have its pedal short out in the middle of the song and have to improvise what to do to get to the end. AI will never have to kick someone out of the band.

@timkabara.bsky.social on Suno, Alzabo, and Missing the Entire Point of Being Alive in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE ↓
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This room can hold a scream, if it’s creased just right. This room can hold a whisper. This room can hold a pulse.

DOLLHOUSE REALTOR by Shae

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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
…a dreamtime lost in proving was regained by kneading herself awake in this pursuit of perfection which so infected her that her head began to swell and warm with something beyond a fever…

THE BEST THING SINCE PERFECTION by Jason Graff

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November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The clamor fades with distance, but I walk with the constant knowledge that it might reappear any moment and deliver me with a single swipe to the ground, where I’d be mauled—this is just what they do, right?

INTERCESSOR by @leonnardmenifee.bsky.social

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November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Shirts are selling GREAT but your metalhead brother is gonna be mad when he finds out you didn't get him the Brody jawn for Xmas
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Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.

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November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“By Sunday I was utterly exhausted, but I powered through…”

Lukas Armstrong-Laird reports from the 26th Maryland Film Festival
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The clamor fades with distance, but I walk with the constant knowledge that it might reappear any moment and deliver me with a single swipe to the ground, where I’d be mauled—this is just what they do, right?

INTERCESSOR by @leonnardmenifee.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I'm a simple man. I see a cool ass Bruiser Brody shirt, I grab it.
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Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.

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November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Anyway, did you hear a big storm’s coming? Supposed to flood the street right here in front of our condos.

BEFORE THE STORM COMES by C.S. Mee

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November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The promo video read “there are worlds they have not told you of: Diffusion.”

Sounds like a party to me!

@timkabara.bsky.social recounts AN EVENING OF DIFFUSION in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE

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November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
their bullet wounds had stopped itching, nothing bled.
birds tapped their skulls apart like candy shells.

Sink your teeth into two new poems by Jordan Ranft

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November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I am a hologram learning to divide myself.

CRACKED ACTOR by M. A. Toothill

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November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.

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November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A circle pit soon materialized. Endorphins inundated your nervous system like a flooded ravine.

CANDLES by @jlmoultrie.bsky.social

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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I’d thought it was a farm with our house on it. But they told me when the Lord rings our phone we answer.

PRIOR TO THE STATE INQUIRY, MY PARENTS RAN A CHILDREN'S PRISON by Christian Fuller

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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“I could see the cloud of cigarette smoke from down the block. A group of art-weirdos were mingling outside of 2640 Space.”

Jess Bither reports from the November edition of Baltimore’s underground film showcase, New Works
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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What say clattering of bones, fingers of smoke, numbers of a name?

Three poems by @kevingrauke.bsky.social

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November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.

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November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Respect is due to all those who have blazed the underground trails that we are so fortunate to travel today.

@timkabara.bsky.social returns with lore and more. Enjoy this review of another CD-only release from the Baltimore underground in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Memories open the back door and leave,
not even my father will help me find them

FATHERS OF MEN by @archedroadway.bsky.social

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November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Another customer tried to open my stall and I vomited all over the door.

ALL DAY BREAKFAST by Laura Cafasso

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November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM