Kakistocracy bans Łink (Jay)
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free palestine
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borders are violence
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abolish ice
free palestine
e pluribus unum
borders are violence
inherent dignity for all
adhd working-class academic, nc, us
typos are stylesheet
i write crap for fun. jayparr.wordpress.com
pfp by terijian bearheart
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Temple in a City literary journal
Letter, Constance, Regarding the Sculpture of Constance Lloyd Wilde Holland at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue in Central Dublin] by author Jay Parr. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
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Oh hey! I saw pictures of the Oscar Wilde memorial in Dublin, and all I could think about was poor Constance—pregnant and naked and cold and pushed to the side—so I wrote a tiny ekphrastic thingy that TIAC was kind enough to publish!
@templeinacity.bsky.social
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Ooh! Idea! When we park and go into the store, let's all grab a cart from the parking lot and take it in!
Even if we're not using a cart!
Even if we're not using a cart!
Society is just breaking down by the minute.
Seriously, how much of a lazy d-bag do you have to be to do this?
(Also, that vehicle is innocent, I’m referring only to the cart and proximity to the cart corral).
Just unbelievable.
Seriously, how much of a lazy d-bag do you have to be to do this?
(Also, that vehicle is innocent, I’m referring only to the cart and proximity to the cart corral).
Just unbelievable.
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Ooh! Idea! When we park and go into the store, let's all grab a cart from the parking lot and take it in!
Even if we're not using a cart!
Even if we're not using a cart!
The fun thing about a 600-year-old narrator is that we tend to think on the scale of our own life so far. WW2 wasn't all that long ago to this guy. The '70s—50 years ago—is recent in his mind.
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The fun thing about a 600-year-old narrator is that we tend to think on the scale of our own life so far. WW2 wasn't all that long ago to this guy. The '70s—50 years ago—is recent in his mind.
The most annoying thing about cheating is the due-process bureaucracy. That shit's a pain in the ass.
You make me do all that, I'm gonna be pissed. And I'm not gonna feel particularly charitable about the rest of your work in the class. I just might go looking for other violations.
TL;DR, Don't.
You make me do all that, I'm gonna be pissed. And I'm not gonna feel particularly charitable about the rest of your work in the class. I just might go looking for other violations.
TL;DR, Don't.
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The most annoying thing about cheating is the due-process bureaucracy. That shit's a pain in the ass.
You make me do all that, I'm gonna be pissed. And I'm not gonna feel particularly charitable about the rest of your work in the class. I just might go looking for other violations.
TL;DR, Don't.
You make me do all that, I'm gonna be pissed. And I'm not gonna feel particularly charitable about the rest of your work in the class. I just might go looking for other violations.
TL;DR, Don't.
I love it when bureaucracies arbitrarily change the whole process for something you do once, maybe twice a year.
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I love it when bureaucracies arbitrarily change the whole process for something you do once, maybe twice a year.
-or- Change Your B+ Into a D With This One Simple Trick
When the essay confidently discusses an assigned story in detail, with quotes and analysis, except it's not about the story at all—or anything else in the class—and appear to have been manufactured out of whole cloth based on the story's title alone.
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
-or- Change Your B+ Into a D With This One Simple Trick
When the essay confidently discusses an assigned story in detail, with quotes and analysis, except it's not about the story at all—or anything else in the class—and appear to have been manufactured out of whole cloth based on the story's title alone.
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When the essay confidently discusses an assigned story in detail, with quotes and analysis, except it's not about the story at all—or anything else in the class—and appear to have been manufactured out of whole cloth based on the story's title alone.
Sleep: take 2.
December 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Sleep: take 2.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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HELL YEAH!! We just need to sell 5 more blind boxes or 5 digital bundles in 2 days! Think we could make another sale by the end of the night? Thank you all again for all the help!!
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December 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
HELL YEAH!! We just need to sell 5 more blind boxes or 5 digital bundles in 2 days! Think we could make another sale by the end of the night? Thank you all again for all the help!!
tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com
tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com
Oh hey cool! Some stuff to read that's not all about The Horrors!
We’ll post a story or two or three a day for many, many days. But here is the whole issue. You can conduct your own unguided tour. We’re not the boss of you.
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templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Oh hey cool! Some stuff to read that's not all about The Horrors!
Burnout in 5…4…3…
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Burnout in 5…4…3…
Oh hey! I saw pictures of the Oscar Wilde memorial in Dublin, and all I could think about was poor Constance—pregnant and naked and cold and pushed to the side—so I wrote a tiny ekphrastic thingy that TIAC was kind enough to publish!
@templeinacity.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/ekphrastic-j...
@templeinacity.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/ekphrastic-j...
Temple in a City literary journal
Letter, Constance, Regarding the Sculpture of Constance Lloyd Wilde Holland at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue in Central Dublin] by author Jay Parr. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oh hey! I saw pictures of the Oscar Wilde memorial in Dublin, and all I could think about was poor Constance—pregnant and naked and cold and pushed to the side—so I wrote a tiny ekphrastic thingy that TIAC was kind enough to publish!
@templeinacity.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/ekphrastic-j...
@templeinacity.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/ekphrastic-j...
The alarm rings in five hours. Still haven't slept. At all. Blerg.
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The alarm rings in five hours. Still haven't slept. At all. Blerg.
V has a point.
THE MENFOLK ARE TOO EMOTIONAL TO HOLD AUTHORITY RESPONSIBLY AND WE ALL KNOW IT
Call me when y’all get serious about the matriarchy
It’s just me and one e girl holding the banner😔
It’s just me and one e girl holding the banner😔
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
V has a point.
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The arts are the front line of the resistance to fascism. It is not an accident that AI is being deployed by tech bros, who are overwhelmingly aligned with fascists, to discredit and devalue arts and artists.
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The arts are the front line of the resistance to fascism. It is not an accident that AI is being deployed by tech bros, who are overwhelmingly aligned with fascists, to discredit and devalue arts and artists.
In my head are cultures that think it's weird to hang so much importance on who impregnated one's mother. Like, they just don't get why that's important to anyone.
Every time I try to write one of these cultures, people get uptight about it. I'm beginning to think it's a limitation of the audience.
Every time I try to write one of these cultures, people get uptight about it. I'm beginning to think it's a limitation of the audience.
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In my head are cultures that think it's weird to hang so much importance on who impregnated one's mother. Like, they just don't get why that's important to anyone.
Every time I try to write one of these cultures, people get uptight about it. I'm beginning to think it's a limitation of the audience.
Every time I try to write one of these cultures, people get uptight about it. I'm beginning to think it's a limitation of the audience.
Note to self: use in humanities survey?
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Note to self: use in humanities survey?
(taps sign)
Everyone who isn't an immigrant has opinions on what we can just do to be safe and very little of it is actually helpful, especially today.
How can you "do things the right way" when there is no right way anymore?
How can you "do things the right way" when there is no right way anymore?
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
(taps sign)
The fact that we still equate"hot coffee" with "frivolous lawsuit" 30 years later just goes to show how effective the tort-reform lobby's smear campaign against Stella Liebeck was.
December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The fact that we still equate"hot coffee" with "frivolous lawsuit" 30 years later just goes to show how effective the tort-reform lobby's smear campaign against Stella Liebeck was.
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Foggeh.
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Foggeh.
When the chain snaps I'm cranking hard, at low speed in too high of a gear, trying to get out of the way of DC traffic. I'm fourteen here, on the bike my dad sold me before he ran off to southwest Virginia with his mistress. I land on the top tube hard enough it's still healing two weeks later. #wip
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
When the chain snaps I'm cranking hard, at low speed in too high of a gear, trying to get out of the way of DC traffic. I'm fourteen here, on the bike my dad sold me before he ran off to southwest Virginia with his mistress. I land on the top tube hard enough it's still healing two weeks later. #wip
She's got a point, y'all.
Maybe creating a financial system that encourages amoral psychos to hoard all of the money was a bad idea
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
She's got a point, y'all.
Kicking myself for not getting a Reservation Dogs shot of the Disney Princesses™ when we were all staging for the parade.
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Kicking myself for not getting a Reservation Dogs shot of the Disney Princesses™ when we were all staging for the parade.
The kids are calling them "vinyl players" now?
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The kids are calling them "vinyl players" now?