kira homsher
@kirakh.bsky.social
writer & PhD student in cincinnati / asst. editor @ xray / rep: UTA
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How do I tell my neighbors that they cannot just have a fucking rooster in an urban neighborhood waking everyone up before dawn every morning
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
How do I tell my neighbors that they cannot just have a fucking rooster in an urban neighborhood waking everyone up before dawn every morning
It’s funny how just a simple cursory conversation with someone can immediately just signal that you live in completely different political realities
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It’s funny how just a simple cursory conversation with someone can immediately just signal that you live in completely different political realities
I’ve never seen a squirrel poop
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’ve never seen a squirrel poop
Forgot to reactivate my twitter after 30 days so now I'm really stuck here huh
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Forgot to reactivate my twitter after 30 days so now I'm really stuck here huh
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Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a children’s musical show titled “Dreams Under the Olive Trees.”
Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, shutting down a children’s show.
On Sunday night, Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a children’s musical show titled “Dreams Under the Olive…
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a children’s musical show titled “Dreams Under the Olive Trees.”
We seem to be in some kind of cultural moment where everyone feels the need to write about wrestling or boxing or deadlifting or whatever
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
We seem to be in some kind of cultural moment where everyone feels the need to write about wrestling or boxing or deadlifting or whatever
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Pls recommend short stories that particularly lend themselves to a lesson on syntax? :~)
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pls recommend short stories that particularly lend themselves to a lesson on syntax? :~)
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The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.
Yay!!!
Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Yay!!!
New York’s gotta be the only place in the country you can just walk around in a beret and expect to be taken seriously
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New York’s gotta be the only place in the country you can just walk around in a beret and expect to be taken seriously
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The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
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We’re revisiting this 2007 interview with the filmmaker Mira Nair, Zohran Mamdani’s mother, who talks about her work and recounts the puckish antics of her then-fifteen-year-old son.
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Mira Nair - Believer Magazine
The Indian-born filmmaker Mira Nair has been directing since 1979, when she made the first of her five documentaries, but her breakthrough film was a feature—the gritty, lush, and painfully sad Salaam...
www.thebeliever.net
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We’re revisiting this 2007 interview with the filmmaker Mira Nair, Zohran Mamdani’s mother, who talks about her work and recounts the puckish antics of her then-fifteen-year-old son.
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
finally scanned my story in The End Magazine, you can read here if you're so inclined: drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc6p...
Rubber Ball_The End.pdf
drive.google.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
finally scanned my story in The End Magazine, you can read here if you're so inclined: drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc6p...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
tell me a word to ctrl-F in my novel
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
tell me a word to ctrl-F in my novel
prose and cons. get it? hahaahahahahhaha
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
prose and cons. get it? hahaahahahahhaha
go birds fuck ice free palestine :)
October 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
go birds fuck ice free palestine :)
Forgot that I’m supposed to be writing for the Fat Lady
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Forgot that I’m supposed to be writing for the Fat Lady
all my favorite authors sound a little bit like junie b jones
October 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
all my favorite authors sound a little bit like junie b jones
prescribing myself a franny and zooey reread
October 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
prescribing myself a franny and zooey reread
Don't make me look at your labradoodle
October 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Don't make me look at your labradoodle
somehow despite having two parents with chronic pain / disabilities I still didn't believe that getting older would involve this much ambient pain and discomfort
October 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
somehow despite having two parents with chronic pain / disabilities I still didn't believe that getting older would involve this much ambient pain and discomfort