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Jordan D. River
@jordanriverwrites.bsky.social
Pericollapse poet/author. Game/Book reviews. I love feedback! Please! I write short stories, essays and novel mostly in verse across genre, but typically horror adjacent. Check media tab for latest from me.
https://jordanrivertales.wordpress.com
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#TreasureIsland A Rhythmic Voyage
Third Movement, The Island Cleaves
Interlude

Jim at 14, reflects on the journey so far and introduces the Doctor's tale of the shipboard mutiny.
Panama Papers.
Paradise Papers.
Trump/Epstein Papers.

Bear with me here, I think there might be something wrong with the global rich and powerful.
February 12, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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We know prizes are bullshit! They’re just taste cosplaying as authority. So we stripped away the lie & left the contradiction standing. No prestige. Just cash. We'll pick our favourite poems & won't pretend we're doing anything else!
#TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky
February 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Netflix's Decameron is a fantastic reflection on the failure of a social contract and how individuals act in those circumstances. And it has a rocking soundtrack, like specifically designed to pull in GenX. #Doomer #Collapse
February 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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“Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
A 400-Word History of Capitalism
Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but th...
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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Tired of journals that ask for poems about your garden and then ghost you?
This one wants the bin, the syringe, the protest chant.
This one’s built with spit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow
Call for Submissions: Poetry With Spit, Spine, and Something to Say - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout February 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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“American politics is in need of a large-scale demolition. Republicans and Democrats are constitutionally illegal organisations: they lobby themselves into power, collude with corporations to abuse Americans, and sponsor violence and genocide across the world”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
The Myth of System Change. And The Heroes That Actually Make It Happen
Systems never change.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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I want to share a thread of articles with everyone on Bluesky. Repost this thread & share it far & wide. Post it on other platforms. Spread the word!

Elizabeth Halligan is a "Systems theorist & consciousness researcher" per her Medium profile. Yes, these essays are on Medium but they ARE NOT

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January 29, 2026 at 12:21 AM
A meditation on our future dystopia in the form of an epic thread.
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Its time for some serious theological discussion. Traditional views of the deity all have him as a holier than thou figure. Perhaps this is a built in feature of Anselm's ontological argument. But by the same argument wouldn't God be able to curse more strongly than any other being in creation?
2.4 What if God Said the F-Word
...Being some thoughts about the Lord God incarnate
zoomburst.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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The Second Amendment Was Never Meant for Everyone

After the killing of Alex Pretti, white America is realizing what Black gun owners have always known — rights are conditional.

theintercept.com/2026/01/28/a...
The Second Amendment Was Never Meant for Everyone
The killing of Alex Pretti, a licensed gun owner, in Minneapolis is waking white Americans up to the reality that rights are conditional.
theintercept.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Few volumes thrilled me more as a young one than this very one.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping...

~ from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, #botd 1809

art: The Raven by Gustave Doré
January 19, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Last week bent time.
This week: #FalseCrowns — borrowed authority, inherited power, praise that doesn’t fit.
Who crowned you?
Who benefits from you believing it?

New theme opens Friday.
Don’t post early.
Use Alt Text.
Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.
January 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Probably the most important paper on generative AI and how our current approach (implied within the systems we live under ie greed and control) is destructive of the concept of society. Please read and pass around. Not alarmism.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies
papers.ssrn.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Sunday Thought: A Monologue Against Fascism

It would appear that #fascism is rearing its ugly head – and not just in far flung places like Russia, Turkey, or even Hungary – but in the good ole USA as well.

more... linomatteo.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/a...
A Monologue Against Fascism
Sunday Thought: A Monologue Against Fascism It would appear that fascism is rearing its ugly head – and not just in far flung places like Russia, Turkey, or even Hungary – but in the good ole USA a…
linomatteo.wordpress.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Just take no notice of the flags
in every town...
This is a poem about the B word. About the Hostile Environment. About those bl**dy flags.

It's taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't, my second full collection. Drop me a DM if you'd like a signed copy...
January 10, 2026 at 9:25 PM
A meditation on collapse.
January 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Now this is a vision board.
Context: in my next Vivian Amberville novel, the main cast of characters capture one of these Darkthings that dwell in the abyss of reality (beyond the Dark Door between Life and Death) and name it "Fredrik".

Original creature design by yours truly.

Materials used: stone clay, iron skeleton.
January 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever..." - Thomas Jefferson, 1784

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Q9...
No Gringo
YouTube video by Vienna Teng - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM
TFW you finally finish writing something you think is really good despite being exhausted and burnt out by the Red Queen's Race but since you wrote it for a contest you can't share anything about it for the next 3.25 months. rattle.com/page/chapboo...
a man in a suit and tie is holding his head and screaming in an office .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding his head and screaming in an office .
media.tenor.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I received my copy of Gramarye in the mail Saturday. Look at how gorgeous it is! Thank you @chicentreffsf.bsky.social ! I devoured it all in one sitting. Everything about the production of this quarterly cries care and quality. The contents give me huge Imposter Syndrome feels. So good!
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Very proud to be in this issue. Please check out the other fantastic poems included here! #Poetry #Alliteration
While I'm reading submissions for the Winter issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, enjoy reading the current issue, devoted to Norse and Icelandic poetic form.

alliteration.net/current-issue/
Current Issue: Fall 2025
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
alliteration.net
January 3, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."

Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.

www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
www.the-reframe.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Can I suggest an addon resolution for this year?

Buy less. That's it. No specific oligarch to boycott. No real target to hit. Just buy less. Do you need what's in your basket or do you want it? Change your hierarchy of wants. Take a breath. You can jump back on the treadmill at any time. Buy Less.
January 2, 2026 at 10:52 AM