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Joe bielecki
@noisemakerjoe.bsky.social
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Host of Writing The Rapids. Author of Tired. Fatherhood enjoyer.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · Jul 4
Take a break. Listen to writers talk to me about their work.
Writing The Rapids - YouTube
A writer curated discussion podcast and audio literary magazine
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 11h
Using AI at work is like training your replacement before they've even been hired.
Acrisure to cut nearly 400 jobs in move to AI
Grand Rapids-based Acrisure has announced it will begin cutting jobs in early 2026. The insurance brokerage is automating hundreds of positions with artificial intelligence
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 14h
One is inclined to ask himself if it's "worth it" but always stops short of defining what "worth it" might mean.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 1d
Without Writing the Rapids, my social media would be long deleted
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 15h
all us weirdo indie writers can pool our money together and get a little compound somewhere. I’m sure nothing would go wrong
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 15h
It’s a tough time to be a decent person anywhere. I’m certainly a few more “and then they came for the…”s down the list from where we are.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 15h
Same! I’m too far down on the Irish side and just Barely too far down on the Polish side.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 1d
Without Writing the Rapids, my social media would be long deleted
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 1d
that's all I've been doing
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 1d
A lot of people have made a lot of noise about how supporting indie artists is important now more than ever. Honestly community theatre is about to be the only performance I trust is real.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe I’m just getting goofy with it, but I honestly feel like only consuming physical media released before 2020 bought second hand.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 1d
Ai videos for people who want ai videos. Ai videos about how scary ai videos are for people who don’t like ai videos. Bots talking to bots. Compliment a stranger’s sweater. Take a loved one to the park. Take a deep breath or several. Being a religious mystic seems more quaint than ever
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 2d
Me
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 3d
well, I just spent twenty minutes excitedly talking at my wife about found footage movies. Husband of the year is me.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 3d
Hey boss I asked chat gpt if I deserve a raise and it said I do, a 250% raise to be exact.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 3d
I’d like to take my wife, kid, and friends, and open up a little cafe/bookstore in a little seaside Canadian town.
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dragonetti @dragonetti.bsky.social · 4d
everyone online who I like should move to my neighborhood and then I'll never use the Internet again
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 4d
banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books
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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 4d
i gotta start blogging again. we're never returning to a functional social media internet
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 5d
I knew a guy who did something similar with those magnet stone things
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 5d
Love being able to identify songs as “sampled in a vaporwave song”
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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 5d
Read my book about a conspiracy theory to control people's minds through pop music!
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · Aug 27
Had a dream that Harold Bloom wrote a really nice review of @ossuary.bsky.social’s novel Backmask, so maybe there is an afterlife? Anyway get it on bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/back...
Backmask
Check out Backmask - <p>Inspired by pop music history and written in the style of 60s horror pulp, BACKMASK is the fake history of a conspiracy theory surrounding the Satanic agenda to control childre...
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Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social · 6d
Book trailer for my fourth book of poetry: #Brillo

Available from Lavender Ink Press on 11.15.2025

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BRILLO (2025) Official Book Trailer - Paul Cunningham
YouTube video by Paul Cunningham
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 6d
I think that’s just how gen z operates
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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6d
to be a hater is to offer yourself as fuel to a forest fire. whatever you were before, all that'll be left of you is a dead streak of earth and carbon. the fire will not remember you
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 6d
Happy Bandcamp Friday. Buy some weird music.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 7d
I’ve been slowly grabbing a bunch of the classic gothic novels over the past few months and have just now started The Castle of Otranto. I feel like this is a Moment in my life.
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