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Adam Ford

@theotheradamford.bsky.social

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Poet and toy photographer living on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung country in so-called Australia. Kickstarting a collection of comic book poetry. Free Palestine.

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19h

UPDATE: With 21 days to go we are 28% toward funding CHOOSING SIDES, my book of poems inspired by Rom Spaceknight. Here’s a poem from the book. If you want to help this kooky thing get made, visit tinyurl.com/choosing-sides #romspaceknight #australianpoetry #speculativepoetry

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19h

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 2d

sussudio? bad? oh COME ON

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 5d

Well they hand out tokens that actually look like Skeletor designed them? Well. They *do* know Skeletor is the bad one, right?

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 5d

we also have shut up brain or i’ll stab you with a q-tip on high rotation

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 5d

money can be exchanged for goods and services

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 5d

And here’s another poem from this collection of poems about #romspaceknight that you can help to bring into the world at tinyurl.com/choosing-sides - now with extra oblique X-Men cameos! #xmen #obliquexmencameos #speculativepoetry

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 5d

KICKSTARTER UPDATE - A little less than a month to go and we are at 25% of the funding goal! Thanks to everyone who voted with their money for a specpo collection of b-movie cyborg poems! If you want in, visit tinyurl.com/choosing-sides #romspaceknight #specpo #speculativepoetry

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 13d

i walk along darkened corridors

a crowd of people are holding up candles in the air

ALT: a crowd of people are holding up candles in the air

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 16d

oh my gosh yes

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 18d

i don’t care why you cancel your sub but please keep boycotting these genocide-complicit f-holes.

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

Plus pls enjoy a poem from the book, “The Great Rocketeers Revival”, inspired by Rom issue 22. #romspaceknight #speculativepoetry #australianpoetry

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

PROJECT UPDATE: I’m 21% toward the kickstarter goal for CHOOSING SIDES, my scifi poetry collection written in response to Rom Spaceknight comics. Thanks to all who’ve pledged. If you want to know about the book, visit tinyurl.com/choosing-sides #romspaceknight #australianpoetry #speculativepoetry

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

but which whisky?

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

libraries have an amazing suite of free digital access memberships. i use the digital catalogues of my local library, my state library and the national library of australia to access everything from movies and audiobooks to international newspaper archives and even academic journals.

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

“You got a little bird poo in the motivator intake there. It’s an easy fix.”

Two action figures stand together in a large stone-floored hall, one looking at the back of the machine that curves over on the shoulders of the other. The figure in front is wearing goggles, red boots and a whites and yellow hiphop jacket with puffy sleeves over a black catsuit. The other is wearing a jumpsuit and boots decorated in bright splashes of primary blue, red and yellow.

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

libraries are bedrock. i love that you can suggest things for them to buy so that everyone in the community can read or watch them

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

and if you pick a disc from a thrift on a whim or even at random or just based on the chance that it’s in the store when you are, you could find something new and it’s like YOU ARE THE ALGORITHM

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 19d

If you are cancelling streaming services it's worth noting that we are currently living in a golden age of thrift store DVDs. Lot's of people have liquidated their collections because of streaming or because of the switch to bluray...

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

Yes indeed. My favourite embedded element from the Rom comics is Rogue’s face turn after the Brotherhood fought Rom. What’s yours?

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 19d

“The question isn’t ‘What is this doing here?’ The question is ‘Who left this here? And why?’” #spaceghost #alextoth

An action figure of Space Ghost, a superhero from an old 1960s cartoon, dressed in a white uniforom with black facemask and yellow cape and red bracelets stands amid dark green vegetation holding an iron bar in their right hand.

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 21d

And you know? I AM glad. FUCK that guy.

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 21d

makes me think about how nobody gets cross when we say “i am glad that stalin died fuck that guy”.

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 21d

i sometimes wonder if its a stage format these days

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 21d

i still dream of the return or the variety show format. i honestly believe we are ready for this.

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Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 21d

thats his gd origin story. he’s a guerilla leader who’s in a starfleet onesie saying yes captain by the third act of the pilot