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🎃Monster Mashda🎃

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Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 6h

Can you help me out? Cast your mind back in time and tell me how many books you read in grades 1-12 that were written by women with female main characters. More helpful would be if you included the year you graduated from high school. Thank you!

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 12h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 6h

One of the best feelings in the world must be to be a baseball organist who’s like fuck it, I’m playing Thriller

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

Not even at a year into this and we're at the anxiously watching to see if an academic can successfully escape from America stage.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Just getting ahead of the announcement tomorrow

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"Sir, Seal Team Six has neutralized the Nobel Prize Committee"

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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 7h

"The minute I focus on music, I can no longer focus on anything else—including writing."

Tamar Shapiro shared a playlist for her debut novel Restitution at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/09/t...

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 7h

Give Jared the Nobel Peace Prize (sarcasm)

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 11h

Pots set to catch blue crabs kill tens of thousands of imperiled diamondback terrapins every year, but a simple excluder device could pretty much solve the problem.

“It’s cheap, it’s simple, and it could save thousands of turtles,” said the Center’s Tara Zuardo.

Get the rest ➡️ bit.ly/436AEGX

A diamondback terrapin seen on the beach while conducting shorebird surveys for the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge Complex. The markings on its face and legs are very striking.

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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · 11h

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 11h

Thís is Eglantine Price
Eglantine learned Witchcraft to figbt
tbe Nazis
Be Líke Eglantine.
Hex the Fascists.

Image from Bedknobs and broomsticks

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Dominion Voting Systems has been sold to the former GOP director of elections in St. Louis -- will now be named Liberty Vote.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

Company, which reached $787.5m defamation settlement with Fox News, becomes new entity called Liberty Vote

www.theguardian.com

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🍉Jen B with a Deadly Sting 🐝 @jennnanigans.bsky.social · 12h

Legends gonna legend.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

Note: Mamdani leads by double-digit among Black and Hispanic voters, and by 48 percentage points among Asian respondents. White respondents go 39/37 for Cuomo.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

New Quinnipiac poll of New York City:

Mamdani 46%
Cuomo 33%
Sliwa 15%

(A month ago, it was Mamdani 45%, Cuomo 23%, Sliwa 15%, Adams 12%.)

One obstacle to Cuomo rising much higher: Mamdani's favorability rating is 43/35, but Cuomo's is 37/52.
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 12h

I am sincerely trying to keep that PMA, though it's a challenge at present.

Bad Brains - Attitude

YouTube video by Send More Cops!

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 15h

@victoriachang.bsky.social, you must stop being such a damn incredible poet. No, I'm kidding, you must never stop.
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The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)

To witness two objects grasping each other, is the worst

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 15h

"Samantha [a Republican and military spouse] said that she was 'very disappointed in my party, and I’m very disappointed in you.' She pointed out that Johnson had the power to call the House back into session."

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15h

A C-SPAN caller made an emotional plea to House Speaker Mike Johnson to end the government shutdown, saying that "my kids could die" if she can't afford their medication.

C-SPAN caller confronts House Speaker Mike Johnson about shutdown effects: 'My kids could die'

The caller, who identified herself as a Republican and military spouse, said she would not be able to afford her children's medication if the shutdown continues.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 16h

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 15h

Will you be attending AWP?

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 16h

Today's Featured Poem:

"Lazarus" by Claudine Toutoungi from Emotional Support Horse published by @carcanet.bsky.social

Read here:
poems.com/poem/lazarus/

Lazarus

The little fly you squashed and put into the ashtray —how it walked out later that same day, bold as

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Euronews @euronews.com · 16h

The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed in Aktau on 25 December 2024 while on a flight from Baku to Grozny.

Putin admits Russian air defences downed Azerbaijan plane killing 38

The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed in Aktau on 25 December 2024 while on a flight from Baku to Grozny.

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 16h

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 17h

A poem is an anti-capitalist machine

yes, it is broken if you try to produce with it

no, it doesn’t produce on command

the factory is closed

the worker is sleeping

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · 17h

His signature is pubes. Awesome watch.