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Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPORTS POET

@meghankempgee.bsky.social

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Teacher | Writer (she/her) Contested Strip: ONE MORE YEAR Space Heroines of El Andoo The Animal in the Room What I Meant to Ask Things to Buy in New Brunswick More The Bones and Eggs and Beets Nebulas Passing in the Night & editor of COME OUT AND PLAY!

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Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPORTS POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social · Feb 17

Hi! I’m new here! Was on Twitter @madmollgreen, looking for old & new contacts here.

I write: poetry, comics, & scripts!

I teach: first-year comp, creative writing, visual rhetoric, & multimodal composition.

Right now: coediting a sports comics anthology & writing poems about Monica Seles.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

My life, by Matt Tarpley

Angry frog, cartoon and four panels. The frog says I am looking my best. I am working my hardest. I am expressing myself. I am trying my best

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

Oops, here’s the link: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

open.substack.com

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 3d

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 5d

I love gay people. Talking about “last minute Halloween costume ideas” on October 5th.

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John Stange @stange.myatproto.social · 7d

you ever think maybe a stylistic norm that talks about human life this way isn't providing any value

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

From the New York Times: Breaking news: U.S. attacks Venezuelan boat for fourth time, challenging legal bounds

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPORTS POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social · 11d

Happy birthday!

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Lane! Draws! Comics! @lanedraws.bsky.social · 11d

I'm 33 today. Birthdays are always a bit weird for me, but, if you'd like to celebrate it, you could share this post with my art and my portfolio attached. ;)

Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 11d

worth repeating: reading in the margins: Jordan Abel
, another fragment of a longer work-in-progress, / @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/reading-in...

reading in the margins: Jordan Abel

, another fragment of a longer work-in-progress,

robmclennan.substack.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12d

It’s Monday, the gyre is widening, and I am once again asking for your support. My Republican opponents have loaned themselves $50k and $100k respectively, trying to make it look like they have large support.

I believe a candidate should be for the people.

www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/Kluwe/

Donate to Chris Kluwe

Show your support with a contribution.

secure.actblue.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12d

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

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jin @ghangaji.bsky.social · 13d

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

tweet that reads:
Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

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Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPORTS POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social · 13d

Genuinely, congratulations!

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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 15d

LGTBQ+ youth disproportionately experience homelessness compared to their straight and cis peers. In the US, up to 40% of unhoused youth identify as LGBTQ+.

That’s why this series was created - to provide support, essential tips, and resources to youth who are so often overlooked by the system.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 15d

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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Chloe Lee MD, MPH @chloenazra.bsky.social · 18d

“It's not a safe time to be a woman," said one of my patients. "With someone like that in power, abusers can basically do whatever they want to us.”

My latest for medpagetoday.com

@lindseyboylan.bsky.social #medsky #epstein #trump
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Opinion | The Women Behind the 'Wonderful Secrets'

The government's role in the Epstein case has profound effects on women's mental health

www.medpagetoday.com

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Magda Pischetola @magpische.bsky.social · 20d

"As limited as the recognition of Palestine – a state with no territory or sovereignty – is, it is a step in the right direction, because it re-establishes the existence and the rights of Palestinians as individuals and as a collective"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

How to burst the Israeli bubble | Noam Sheizaf

Recognizing a Palestinian state is a limited but welcome step that addresses an enduring blind spot: Palestinian rights cannot be conditioned on Israeli interests

www.theguardian.com

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 21d

It's been 8 years since Hurricane Maria hit PR. Since then, reconstruction has been selective and gentrified. Tarps still cover roofs in remote and poor areas, our power system is a joke and our coastlines are being taken over by billionaire investors.

Madre de Dios, digital painting 2018

An unholy interpretation of the virgin Mary as the emissary of death and destruction in Hurricane Maria

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Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPORTS POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social · 21d

Such a beautiful artwork!

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · 26d

Join Come Out and Play contributors Andy Casdonte, @dogspunk.bsky.social, Steve MacIsaac, @meganpraz.bsky.social, @sonyasaturdayart.bsky.social, and @losthiskeysman.bsky.social for a panel discussion at Los Angeles Comic Con! Saturday Sept 27 at 3PM in room 402B and the book signing at booth 1420!

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 23d

Vaclav Havel wrote about the importance of pointing out the law in a totalitarian society - it may not help in a situation where the government makes and enacts laws willy-nilly, but calling it out keeps the insanity of it all in the open for all to see.

…But precisely because they know how desperately the system depends on it-on the "noble" version of the law, that is-they also know how enormously significant such appeals are. Because the system cannot do without the law, because it is hopelessly tied down by the necessity of pretending the laws are observed, it is compelled to react in some way to such appeals. Demanding that the laws be upheld is thus an act of living within the truth that threatens the whole mendacious structure at its point of maximum mendacity. Over and over again, such appeals make the purely ritualistic nature of the law clear to society and to those who inhabit its power structures. They draw attention to its real material substance and thus, indirectly, compel all those who take refuge behind the law to affirm and make credible this agency of excuses, this means of communication, this reinforcement of the social arteries outside of which their will could not be made to circulate through society. They are compelled to do so for the sake of their own consciences, for the impression they make on oue siders, to maintain themselves in power (as part of the system's own mechanism of self-preservation and its principles of cohesion), or simply out of fear that they will be reproached for being clumsy in handling Ihe ritual. They have no other choice: because they cannot discard the rules of their own game, they can only attend more carefully to those rules. Not to react to challenges means to undermine their own excuse and lose control of their mutual communications system. To assume that the laws are a mere facade, that they have no validity, and that therefore it is pointless to appeal to them would mean to go on reinforcing those aspects of the law that create the facade and the ritual. It would mean confirming the law as an aspect of the world of appearances and enabling those who exploit it to rest easy with the cheapest (and therefore the most mendacious) form of their excuse.

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 22d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

www.wired.com/story/uncann...

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Bex @wordofgreen.bsky.social · 23d

In a dozen beautiful ways, canceling streaming services in favor of checking out DVDs from the local library has changed my relationship with media. 11/10. Highly recommend

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