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FAIRY (Spring 2027) POETRY IS QUEER @palimpsestpress.bsky.social SHE #KFB THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF #PermanentSleep Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 8d

"Fairy knows.

This way >>> "

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Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

FAIRY New & Earlier Works 1985-2025 Spring 2027 Palimpest Press

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David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social · 8h

The streets in Portland are ravaged, yeah

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 8h

🖤🤍🖤🤍

ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 8h

West Ridge, tile #025 in the archive. Enjoy.

A vintage tile floor in cream, grey and black.

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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 7h

Nightmare Jones' Eve.
@shannyraindrop.bsky.social @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social

Launch. 09Oct. #typebooksjunction #torontolitup
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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 1d

pumpkin spice cake #creamy #lish

KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 1d

"The book is the meal." #KFB10

knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 1d

Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10 @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 1d

Out of season tulips greeting October.

Thank you Loreen & Shelley. #friends

KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 1d

"And have I told you
How beautiful you are tonight?"

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Just Like a Movie Star by The 6ths & Dominique A on Apple Music

Song · 2000 · Duration 4:11

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 1d

Chill'n #tuesdaynight
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Chill Mix by Apple Music for Kirby

Playlist · 25 Songs

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 1d

This company. This night.

Lucky us. #NightmareJones #launch #TypeJunction

knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 1d

THURSDAY NIGHT 6:30
at TYPE JUNCTION

An extraordinary cast has been assembled to celebrate the arrival of NIGHTMARE JONES the newest collaboration by SHANNON BRAMER & CINDY DERBY from @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social #torontolitup

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much, Gunny! Glad you got to see it.

Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 3d

I had a chance to visit @naylandblake.bsky.social’s retrospective, Sex in the 90s, over the weekend. Awesome show. The passage of 3+ decades for many of the pieces lends perspective. Photos of my favorite pieces from the show from Matthew Marks Gallery cause I managed to flubbed my pics. #nyc #art

A color photo of Nayland Blake’s installation, Untitled, 1992/2025. The photo shows a
steel cage with wax and Dutch-process cocoa busts of Richard Wagner impaled on the finials set in a bare white room with a concrete floor. Next to the cage is a wooden desk with a plaster and silicone mold, a hot plate, a pot with wax and cocoa mixture in it, a digital scale, silicone spatulas, a thermometer, a pencil, paper, a bag of cocoa, and some hardware.

A color still photo from Nayland Blake’s single channel video, Gorge, 1998. The photo shows a white wall with a round analog clock showing an approximate time of 12:35. In front of the wall, seated is the artist, dressed only in dark blue pants. The artist is a young bearish man with a beard, close cropped, brownish hair, tattoos on his left arm and right shoulder. standing behind him is a black man, also only wearing pants. The standing man is holding a quarter of a watermelon in his left hand, while his right hand is feeding a chunk of watermelon to the seated man. The standing man is softly muscular.

A color photo of Nayland Blake’s sculpture, One Down, 1994. The photo shows a yellow plush bunny rabbit toy with a pile of 56 loose pom-poms in the same colors. Both the bunny, rabbit, and the pile of loose pom-poms also have small pom-poms attached that are brown and pink, attached in a way that in gender’s thoughts of a virus.

A color photo of Nayland Blake’s piece, David Hockney / Los Angeles, 1988. The photo shows a green blackboard edged in aluminum, with the words: “The idea that figure painting might disappear has always seemed naive to me. The most interesting thing we see in the world is another human being.” David Hockney 1983. imprinted on it in a serif font.

KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

*The Junction youtu.be/1LJiP-vDNok?...

Classic TV Theme: Petticoat Junction

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

THIS WEEK

She's headed to The Junction!*

#TypeJunction to read from/celebrate #the launch of NIGHTMARE JONES @shannyraindrop.bsky.social #CindyDerby @groundwoodbooks.bsky.social #torontolitup

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

so very pretty

*licks* & *kisses*

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 3d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Chris Klitzing 🦋🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hosea6.bsky.social · 3d

It didn’t end well for Goring

KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 3d

"Come to me, cover me, hold me
Together we'll break these chains of love
Don't give up
(Don't give)
And don't give up
(Don't)
Together with me and my baby
Break the chains of love"

#erasure #retrosundays
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Erasure on Apple Music

Listen to music by Erasure on Apple Music.

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 10d

Adrienne Rich

I have to cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, w no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 6d

Mary Reufle

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Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Carl!

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Mar 31

Caterpillar Absolem feasting on Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 4d

and this turtle says hi

eastern box turtle in my child’s hands (we removed from road, returned to bushes/wooded area) quite a spry fellow, red eyed and leg waving

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 4d

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
#Photography Brion Gysin (1958),
William S. Burroughs, Paris.

KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 4d

Playlist #SaturdayNight #livingroom
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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday night x 4. #balcony #home

KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 4d

So pleased to reissue @travissharp.bsky.social amazeballs @knifeforkbook.bsky.social debut YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER, (sold out print run) now downloadable @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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