Dr Sweet Machine
@sweetmachine.bsky.social
Supernova with human skin. Author of We the Destroyers & Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin
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The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
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Time is a flat circle.
January 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Time is a flat circle.
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
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some Linda Pastan for #smallpoemsunday
January 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
some Linda Pastan for #smallpoemsunday
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
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You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty
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new quarter century
more art
more good
more art
more good
January 1, 2026 at 1:23 PM
new quarter century
more art
more good
more art
more good
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Always worth a post
December 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Always worth a post
Catcalled on the streets of Chicago, "DAMN GIRL YOU LOOK SMART IN THOSE GLASSES"
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Catcalled on the streets of Chicago, "DAMN GIRL YOU LOOK SMART IN THOSE GLASSES"
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all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
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I have read this book and cosign! It IS a good book, and you, too, should read it, especially if you think about the climate, family, grief, and what makes for bonds between living creatures when the world is ending.
Shameless self-promotion at the end of the year: my second book of poetry, WE THE DESTROYERS, came out from @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social in your throat this year:
riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...
I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!
riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...
I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!
We the Destroyers by Laura Passin - Riot in Your Throat Press
We the Destroyers is a collection of poetry about the end of days. It’s a collection about the pandemic, about grief and chaos and loss. But it’s also a collection about survival and redemption and ho...
riotinyourthroat.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have read this book and cosign! It IS a good book, and you, too, should read it, especially if you think about the climate, family, grief, and what makes for bonds between living creatures when the world is ending.
Shameless self-promotion at the end of the year: my second book of poetry, WE THE DESTROYERS, came out from @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social in your throat this year:
riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...
I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!
riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...
I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!
We the Destroyers by Laura Passin - Riot in Your Throat Press
We the Destroyers is a collection of poetry about the end of days. It’s a collection about the pandemic, about grief and chaos and loss. But it’s also a collection about survival and redemption and ho...
riotinyourthroat.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Shameless self-promotion at the end of the year: my second book of poetry, WE THE DESTROYERS, came out from @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social in your throat this year:
riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...
I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!
riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...
I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!
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Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
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Please answer the questions in this thread:
The article you’re sharing touts a teacher making students use “A.i.” to design ugly sweaters. That’s a repugnant use of tech based on theft to rob kids of the chance to use their own minds and hands to actually draw. Do you support that attack on human creativity?
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Please answer the questions in this thread:
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them
It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull
interviewer: incredible
interviewer: incredible
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull
interviewer: incredible
interviewer: incredible
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
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Cheers, @sweetmachine.bsky.social, already enjoying it so much.
December 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Cheers, @sweetmachine.bsky.social, already enjoying it so much.
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Gonna be a holly dang jolly Riot in Your Throat kind of winter break this year, I tell you what
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Gonna be a holly dang jolly Riot in Your Throat kind of winter break this year, I tell you what
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We are thrilled to see two UNM Press books on the PEN longlists! 💙📚 🥳
a chronology of blood by Teo Shannon
and
Delusions and Grandeur by Mark Sundeen
a chronology of blood by Teo Shannon
and
Delusions and Grandeur by Mark Sundeen
Congratulations to all of the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards nominees! With a list that includes biography, poetry, translation, science writing, and more, this year’s longlist has something for every reader. Join us in celebrating this year’s nominees, see here: pen.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
pen.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We are thrilled to see two UNM Press books on the PEN longlists! 💙📚 🥳
a chronology of blood by Teo Shannon
and
Delusions and Grandeur by Mark Sundeen
a chronology of blood by Teo Shannon
and
Delusions and Grandeur by Mark Sundeen
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime