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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 8h

Candice said: water never forgets,
Leanne said: water is a map to the future.

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Marijean Oldham @marijean.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking for a flash fiction piece published in a journal -- I don't remember where, or who, or even the title -- but it's about a mother whose daughter has become a vampire or a zombie and the mother is helping the daughter, at great risk to herself -- does this sound familiar to anyone?

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a subplot somewhat like this in Anne De Marcken’s novel It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, but not sure it quite fits (or if it was published as a standalone).

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 1d

Thai basil seems to hold up to freezing better than Italian, so I just freeze sprigs in a baggie. Italian, I chop/puree w enough olive oil to make a paste; freeze in ice cubes (proto-pesto). To retain more green, you can blanch 1st. Sage is hardier—might survive where you are—parsley’s in between.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

Fully open-access peer-reviewed journal, largely open-access biblio, collectively authored by scholars at teaching-centered institutions, pedagogical theory with psychoanalytic & political economic foundations.

And, simply on its face, a fascinating essay.

www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 2d

The federal government kept detailed records of every crop in Amache’s agricultural program, but overlooked the ways incarcerees cultivated personal gardens.

Archeologists find that people sent to Amache during WWII sought respite in the Arkansas River

The federal government kept detailed records of every crop in Amache’s agricultural program, but overlooked the ways incarcerees cultivated personal gardens

coloradosun.com

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 2d

does anybody know if my fall vaccine will offer strong protection against all variants?

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

Taylor Swift drops new variants of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’:

• The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo) Act 1
• The Life of a Showgirl (Original Songwriting Voice Memo) Act 2
• The Fate of Ophelia (Alone In My Tower Acoustic)
• Eldest Daughter (Now You’re Home Acoustic)

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Ryan Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 2d

Get up to speed on tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing over Colorado's conversion therapy ban.

From Purplish:

Colorado banned conversion therapy for minors. A U.S. Supreme Court case could upend that | Colorado Public Radio

The case pits free speech against the authority of states to regulate medical practices.

www.cpr.org

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 4d

You’ve been asking… and it’s now! Submissions are open via Submittable for Zine Machine’s Winter ‘26 Edit. All details in bio! 🔥🔥🔥

Zine Machine
Now reading for...
The
Winter '26 Edit

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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 7d

All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
zinemachine.com/the-mag

Read — Zine Machine

Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.

zinemachine.com

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 4d

I checked the handbook, this #CountsAsWriting for sure

K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 4d

should be writing but instead I'm painting the inside of this door jamb

a white door is wide open to reveal the inside jamb and hinges; the usually-hidden jamb is now painted with a random, very colorful abstract design (all done in free-hand and so full of quirks and mishaps)

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 6d

omg I almost forgot to show y’all the Jeffrey Gibson that’s in the Counter History exhibit

stretched rawhide deerskin with intricately shaded geometric patterns in black and gray acrylic and graphite

wall text:

Jeffrey Gibson
Mississippi Band Choctaw, Cherokee, born in 1972
Document, 2015
Acrylic and graphite on deer rawhide, steel nails
In Document, Gibson adapts the format of winter counts-illustrated calendars made on bison or deer hide for and by Indigenous communities in the Plains region to visually register historical events and communal memory. Rather than documenting the experience of passing years, Gibson combined abstract forms and precise layering of paint over several months to ruminate on the conventions and differences in how time and history are marked. The rigid edges of Gibson's painting respond to the sinuous, organic edges of the stretched deer hide.
James N. Knebs Purchase Fund for 21st Century Paintings, 2016
2016.110

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 6d

Ohhh, I am into this

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 8d

a tiny Yom Kippur reading

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 8d

Noah Falck & Matt McBride

the entire world stopped

to listen to the slow whisper
of every boat being swallowed by the ocean

we forget, sometimes, what
we are sorry for

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Jane Huffman @janehuffman.bsky.social · 7d

It is October, so here is my poem, "October," published in Swamp Pink this month. Thank you to the editors, and thank you for reading. 🍁🍂 swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/oct...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 8d

Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week.

Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.

I am quick at playing board games;
I have nine skills;
I forget runes slowly;
the book is a preoccupation with me and also craftsmanship.
I am able to glide on skis;
I shoot and I row so that it makes a difference;
I am able to understand both:
harp-playing and poems.
— Earl Rognvald of Orkney, trans. Judith Jesch.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 8d

a tiny Yom Kippur reading

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 8d

Noah Falck & Matt McBride

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 8d

Noah Falck & Matt McBride

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 9d

mushrooms lichen
🤝
This is performance art.

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A log covered in hundreds of little shelf fungi like turkey tails and big blobs of bright green, wrinkly lichen.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 9d

Circling back on this @portersqbooks.bsky.social rec AGAIN (like a whaleship) bc in the time since, I
1. Requested my library buy North Sun
2. Read/loved it
3. Bought it for family who will love it
4. Rec’d it to several more ppl, at least 2 of whom bought/borrowed it, 1 already rated ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · Jan 17

Ok, I hesitated a little bit because a novel set on a whaling ship on a slightly mysterious journey might be too on the nose for "All out to Sea," but North Sun is a book Lynch could adapt for sure (out in March! Sorry!) www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9781646...

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for writing it! I truly, deeply love Pattern-book and I think I may have talked my reading group into discussing it in December. I’m ordering a copy so I can continue to savor and re-savor the poems and release the library copy back to other hungry readers!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 11d

always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych.

The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...

https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn

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The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons, and they cry when there’s no one to scratch…

www.havehashad.com

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 12d

*wrote, as if it matters

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 12d

I write out several questions about this package and its contents and then I just…. Nope, I have no questions. I wish all beings well.

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