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Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011) and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
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Even if any of what he’s saying were true (and it’s very much not) it still boils down to letting kids die of preventable diseases rather than letting them live

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New grading music: surf rock instrumentals

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

I teach a lot of international students because I teach technical communication at a school with a massive engineering program. The funding cuts from grants are going to harm my employer, but if we lose international students—who pay full out-of-state tuition to be here—we’ll be destroyed.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

submitted 23 hours ago • 62 comments

Why don’t you say this to our faces, Zach, instead of in an email?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why don’t you say this to our faces, Zach, instead of in an email?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Saw this shirt when I was in Texas this past weekend and I still don’t know why I didn’t buy it.

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Now I’m curious, has anyone ever created a sock puppet just to dunk on themselves? Like as a way to garner sympathy? Or even as an art project?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The reason you know I’ve never run a sock puppet account is because I absolutely would get busted for it within like 15 minutes of trying. Also because that is absolute loser shit and while I may not be a winner all the time, I am not that kind of loser.

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I cannot tell you how much I resent the fact that I even have to know what RFK Jr thinks about vaccines and public health, much less live with the results that potential serial killer is bringing forth.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

That feeling when you see something you sold as part of your job in your early 20’s as a museum exhibit.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I cannot tell you how much I resent the fact that I even have to know what RFK Jr thinks about vaccines and public health, much less live with the results that potential serial killer is bringing forth.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I wasn’t aware that the government could bring charges against people like this anymore.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s next executive order will be the words “nuh uh” over a printout of this verdict.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Look, the world is weird enough right now without motherfuckers with Pennywise makeup on pulling up behind me at a stoplight.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Every interview with any government official or elected representative should start with a question about whether they traded any stocks during the time Trump was announcing stuff about tariffs.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Careening headlong into our “we used to be a proper country” era.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It’s the most wonderful time of the year……

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Cyberbullying is terrible. Also, Musk is too rich and powerful to actually be bullied in any real way.

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