S. Preston Duncan
@sprestonduncan.bsky.social
Writer of #poetry and occasionally other things. Author of Blood Alluvium (Parlyaree Press).
Leathercrafter.
INELDA-trained death doula.
Richmond, Virginia. #RVA
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Leathercrafter.
INELDA-trained death doula.
Richmond, Virginia. #RVA
sprestonduncan.com
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Sometimes I remember I'm supposed to be promoting this thing. I'm proud of it. If you're into incantatory grief poetry, given to the rushed wallowing of modernity, or find yourself searching for the fragile stillness between trauma and music, you might like it.
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It is absolutely batshit fucking insane how hard Republicans have been working to suppress these files. And MAGA *still* believe it's a hoax.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It is absolutely batshit fucking insane how hard Republicans have been working to suppress these files. And MAGA *still* believe it's a hoax.
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
There's a word for this.
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There's a word for this.
I started calling my son's stuffed goose Foie Gras and my wife is simultaneously horrified and unable to stop calling it by that name.
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I started calling my son's stuffed goose Foie Gras and my wife is simultaneously horrified and unable to stop calling it by that name.
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
Your country might be run by a tyrant if...
Government career lawyers reluctant to defend obvious abuse of presidential power.
DOJ, according to 3 people with knowledge of the matter, has struggled to determine which of its offices and lawyers will handle Ms. Comey’s lawsuit, leading to the highly unusual lapse. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal DOJ affairs.
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Your country might be run by a tyrant if...
I'm adding Glass Animals to the shitlist along with Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, The Decemberists, and Katie Perry.
If there's a musical equivalent to road rage, those fuckers cause it.
If there's a musical equivalent to road rage, those fuckers cause it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm adding Glass Animals to the shitlist along with Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, The Decemberists, and Katie Perry.
If there's a musical equivalent to road rage, those fuckers cause it.
If there's a musical equivalent to road rage, those fuckers cause it.
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"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
I'm learning Gaeilge.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm learning Gaeilge.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Josh Donald of Bernal Cutlery and Next Gen Chef winner Chef Andrew Sargent of Per Se on shopping for vintage kitchen knives.
www.chowhound.com/2020338/tips...
www.chowhound.com/2020338/tips...
6 Things To Look For When Shopping For Vintage Kitchen Knives - Chowhound
If you regularly scan the cutlery section of your local thrift shop in search of vintage kitchen knives, be sure to check out our expert tips.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Josh Donald of Bernal Cutlery and Next Gen Chef winner Chef Andrew Sargent of Per Se on shopping for vintage kitchen knives.
www.chowhound.com/2020338/tips...
www.chowhound.com/2020338/tips...
Not sure making your facilities look like a parade of pathogens and oozing wounds is necessarily the best way to get folks into them, Bon Secours.
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Not sure making your facilities look like a parade of pathogens and oozing wounds is necessarily the best way to get folks into them, Bon Secours.
Why do these pot stickers keep sticking to the damned pot?!?!
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Why do these pot stickers keep sticking to the damned pot?!?!
If you want someone to listen to you, in Irish you say "Éist liom," but it doesn't translate as "listen to me," it translates as "listen *with* me."
The difference says quite a bit.
The difference says quite a bit.
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you want someone to listen to you, in Irish you say "Éist liom," but it doesn't translate as "listen to me," it translates as "listen *with* me."
The difference says quite a bit.
The difference says quite a bit.
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There was a time when 90% of Americans would have understood how deranged in every conceivable way a post like this is
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There was a time when 90% of Americans would have understood how deranged in every conceivable way a post like this is
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
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Sorry for sharing a post from the other website, I know, but JCO's remarks on that website's owner feel like something that'll be narrated over the end credits of a Musk biopic.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sorry for sharing a post from the other website, I know, but JCO's remarks on that website's owner feel like something that'll be narrated over the end credits of a Musk biopic.
Of all the destinations on our mad whirlwind of a honeymoon, I was least excited about Rome.
So of course I fell in love with it.
Jazz singers on boat bars, ancient architecture, plant kiosks by the Spanish Steps, delicious food. There's just a bit of magic there.
So of course I fell in love with it.
Jazz singers on boat bars, ancient architecture, plant kiosks by the Spanish Steps, delicious food. There's just a bit of magic there.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Of all the destinations on our mad whirlwind of a honeymoon, I was least excited about Rome.
So of course I fell in love with it.
Jazz singers on boat bars, ancient architecture, plant kiosks by the Spanish Steps, delicious food. There's just a bit of magic there.
So of course I fell in love with it.
Jazz singers on boat bars, ancient architecture, plant kiosks by the Spanish Steps, delicious food. There's just a bit of magic there.
I've been thinking about this email from Manchán Magan a lot today. Validation is hard to come by, I guess.
I wasn't expecting him to actually read my book, much less respond. Sure wish I'd had a chance to meet him.
(redacted to avoid insulting anyone)
I wasn't expecting him to actually read my book, much less respond. Sure wish I'd had a chance to meet him.
(redacted to avoid insulting anyone)
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I've been thinking about this email from Manchán Magan a lot today. Validation is hard to come by, I guess.
I wasn't expecting him to actually read my book, much less respond. Sure wish I'd had a chance to meet him.
(redacted to avoid insulting anyone)
I wasn't expecting him to actually read my book, much less respond. Sure wish I'd had a chance to meet him.
(redacted to avoid insulting anyone)
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
I've always liked you on a personal level. This is unforgivable. You caved on nothing but their word, which is worth nothing. You gave the 1% a trillion dollars in tax breaks. You cost hundreds of thousands of people their health insurance.
Shameful day for Virginians.
Shameful day for Virginians.
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I've always liked you on a personal level. This is unforgivable. You caved on nothing but their word, which is worth nothing. You gave the 1% a trillion dollars in tax breaks. You cost hundreds of thousands of people their health insurance.
Shameful day for Virginians.
Shameful day for Virginians.
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Get yourself a mayor that both antisemites and Islamophobes hate.
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Get yourself a mayor that both antisemites and Islamophobes hate.
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I took this picture one year ago today. And tonight, this painting pops up on my feed. Feels like a sign.
Take me back to Tuscany please.
Take me back to Tuscany please.
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I took this picture one year ago today. And tonight, this painting pops up on my feed. Feels like a sign.
Take me back to Tuscany please.
Take me back to Tuscany please.
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frankly, the more these folks lambaste him and distance themselves from him for having basic human decency and common sense, the better for him politically
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
frankly, the more these folks lambaste him and distance themselves from him for having basic human decency and common sense, the better for him politically