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wordsthathop.bsky.social
Just "B"
@wordsthathop.bsky.social
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flash writer | Contemporary YA WIP | educator | computer & application techie | long-distance runner🏃🏼‍♀️👟| kitchen witch Words in Emerge Literary, HAD, Flash Flood Currently reading American Short Fiction (Fall 2016)
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 1d
The birds flying overhead approve 😉
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 1d
The geese approve!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 1d
My. What large pumpkins you have!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 1d
You know what to do. So do it! Good luck! #writingCommunity #flashfiction
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HAD @havehashad.com · 3d
Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
The theme is "LUCK". In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry". POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap. PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece. Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under. Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry". All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 1d
In the various @nycmidnight.bsky.social challenges I've competed in, I've gotten my fav genres (comedy, fairy tale, historical, romcom) 1x each, and my least fav…horror 3x & thriller 3x.

Am I cursed?!

Will that stop me from registering for the Dec. 5th 250-word challenge? Nah!

nycmidnight.com/250
The 250-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight
The 250-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in 48 hours.
nycmidnight.com
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 2d
That's so wrong lol!!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 3d
His wording was so odd. Almost like he was reading from a bad AI script!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 3d
Oooohhhh!! What pillow?
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 3d
OMG!! This is nuts!

Bravo to those who intervened!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 3d
Maybe not. I think when you grow up filthy rich, you end up with a more centric point of view and a "how can I make more money" mindset (even at the detriment to others). I think many of us who grew up poor or in the working class would have a much better chance of becoming givers & philanthropists.
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 3d
The video of Elliot Rodger is so chilling. Now just think how many other men are being led down that same thought path. It's only a matter of time before more and more act on it!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 3d
This is an important one to read!
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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 3d
"They are almost always male, white, young, and single, and because of the communities that draw in these men, namely the incel movement and the bigger manosphere, they lean very far to the right in their political ideology.”
#GunControlNow

ellieleonard.substack.com/p/the-lonely...
The Lonely White Male
I’m about to tell you something you already know, but because we live in a time of MedBeds and AI-generated videos of Donald Trump dressed as the Grim Reaper and playing a cowbell on his very-serious-...
ellieleonard.substack.com
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 4d
The color is beautiful!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 4d
The tide is high but I'm holdin' on...
Debbie Harry (or someone who looks like her) in a store reaching up to the top shelf for a box of Tide detergent. A caption on the image says, "It was at that moment that Debbie Harry had a great idea for a new song."
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 4d
I hate those so much.

And even moreso, I hate the ones where someone takes another person's video and records themsleves laughing through the entire video. You can't see them, but you can hear them and it's stupidly annoying.
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 5d
I'm so sorry. That's so hard.
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 5d
Fuck the officials who ruled it a suicide! So they somehow just oops missed the fact that he had blunt force to the back of his head? Nope. I will never buy that.
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 6d
Back in my much younger years, I had a rat named Socrates. He was so playful and sweet. Many times I took him out with me (to the store, on a walk, to friend's homes) and he would ride on my shoulder. I miss him!
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 6d
That dude is an entitled ahole.

If you buy a lottery ticket and don't win, you can't get your $ back

If you buy raffle tickets and don't win, you can't get your $ back

If you bet on a horse and don't win, you can't get your $ back

If you play casino slots and don't win, you can't get your $ back
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 6d
5, 6, 7, 8 Donald Trump is full of hate.
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 6d
I don't know who she is, but she has a very natural and classy presence.
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 6d
FvCK iyeece
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Miss Jay @missjay.bsky.social · 6d
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 6d
I hate AI so much! I hate that artists & writers have had their work stolen. I hate that AI uses far too much energy & water. I hate that students use it to cheat. And now teachers use it to grade WTF?!

Why oh why isn't AI reserved for complex issues like disease diagnosis/cures or climate change??
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 7d
Dept. of It's Come to This:

I was asked to referee a squabble between a person who actually knows how to wield language and a colleague who insisted that an AI assistant was correct about a point of prose.

Spoiler alert: It was not correct.
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 7d
Sometimes I look at my students' assignments and I think "Are you purposely trying to do everything BUT what I asked for???"

Weary teacher here.

Twelve more years until I can retire. Twelve!! 😖
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Just "B" @wordsthathop.bsky.social · 7d
Hi... when will you be open again for submissions? On your website it lists the first 7 days of certain months. October is one of them but it looks like submissions are closed.
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