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Poet Translator Geezer socialist Queer as a happy Monday Dogs live with me
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What the fuck is that black thing on his head

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Be scared. Very scared.

submitted 21 days ago • 195 comments

Quintessential example of Dullard White Guy affirmative action hiring. A TV host who wasn't smart, informed, or engaging.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Weirdly orientalist headline in today's NYT (i.e., when is a murder a slaying?): www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Don't let shame or overwhelm stop you from taking a few basic steps to protect yourself and your community. Maybe you've used your cats name for your password on everything for years. All your shit is on social media. You get stressed out about tech stuff. It's all good. You're not alone. 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

Uh oh, somebody skipped history class the day they did Italy.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If any metaphor could suffice, this might be it.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

How do we find our ppl on this brave new platform?? We are a small press from the Midwest publishing since 2011. Our open period for manuscripts is until the end of this month!! #booksky #poets #writers #smallpess #poetsofbluesky #queerpoets #opencall

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Last year, I received an email about a suspicious Facebook login. I immediately went to Facebook to secure my account, only to find it had been terminated without any chance to appeal. The hackers had drained my bank accounts, spending thousands on Facebook ads and leaving me literally penniless. 1/

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

Thinking about poetry as heather, broom, gorse, furze. Tenacious. Flowering, astonishingly, from the dry brittles, barren dusts, wind-scoured rock. Indicating ground-food, enough to reveal unexpected colours. Water-hoarding. Shoring-up. Root-reinforcing what's prone to crumble away in time.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Why Greenland? So that President Musk has a place to house servers for his bitcoin etc. enterprises, a place where the cooling of those servers occurs (mostly) naturally and doesn't carry the enormous fuel price tag domestic locations do.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

An early Xmas present from me to me

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

This is my new Favorite Thing Ever.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating eclectic list of contributors to this fascinatingly eclectic list of books, from the frivolous, giant-haired Vivek to dullard-of-the -decade Nate Silver to Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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