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This Berenstain Bears lunchbox from 1993 captures a simpler time, before internet misinformation and social media, when the family computer primarily provided us with incomplete jigsaw puzzles, treble clefs, apples, and live fish

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I’m proud to be here, to be queer, and to be really fucking annoying about it

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So can we all agree that if people start losing their homes to a recession we are all gonna band together and buy it back at the auction for a penny while threatening any rich person who tries to come buy it up? Like, this has been done before. We can do it again.

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This was a great conversation. I had a blast

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Works as advertised

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I’m booking spellwork events in bookstores and one of the biggest requests is around the spell I wrote for hope. Spellwork is a creative outlet for me and to have people be in need of hope right now feels like a lot of people are reading the room. So I want to emphasize a controversial take

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The view from the 5am writer’s club

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Deadly storms and widespread flooding in Kentucky killed 12 people. Gov. Andy Beshear says it will take a long time to recover and the state will need federal help.

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I gave an interview on my poetry collection, Dark Way Down, and we talked about David Bowie, queer love, and toxic masculinity. Do you want to talk about the intersection of music, poetry, artistic living? Let’s be friends!

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I’ve never been this angry. My heart has grown feral and ungovernable, sprouted fangs like a viper, teeth like a saw, evenings ripe with heartburn, nightly gnashing, grinding my soul while I sleep.

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I need poetry audiobook recommendations. Send me what you’re liking right now

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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

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i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying

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Happy Valentine’s Day

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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They made the expensive so we wouldn’t thrown them. (I hope you and your pets do not get bird flu. Please wash your hands, etc)

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I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.

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Sometimes I wonder if my cat loves me but then he literally bullies me until I go work from the couch so he can curl up next to me

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Ready to ride out the winter with new books on my TBR

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Your reminder that fame is not wealth and America is broken. Mainstream people know him as the cabbie from SCROOGED, but he’s a prolific musician and entertainer who has been at the heart of music since the late ‘70s. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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As a chronic big sister loudly declaring things cool and uncool, I would just like to remind you all Fuck em.

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I am mystified by the conservative contingency that demands to be rich, controlling, and then alarmed when disliked

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Every Drake felt that. Former Detroit Red Wing Dallas Drake. Drake from Drake & Josh. 16th century explorer Sir Francis Drake. Drake Mallard, the mild-mannered alter ego of Darkwing Duck. Mandrake the Magician. That sh*t was like Order 66 for Drakes.

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This just in

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When I say repurpose stuff for witchcraft, this is what I mean. Spells for Success is available in your local bookstores and occult shops. Let this be the year that you bless the bricks you throw for you liberation.

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One of my favorite things to be accused of is doing stuff “for attention” Bro, I’ve got a naturally 85 decibel speaking voice, and huge naturals. I’ve never had to beg for attention.

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My virtual launch of Dark Way Down is at noon and you’re all invited! @megelison.bsky.social will be on the performance list and you won’t want to miss that us06web.zoom.us/j/8286327705...

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they couldn't have booed just a LITTLE harder???? 💔

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God grant me the confidence of a stoner with a business idea

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A man next to me at the diner has complained openly about Oakland and compared it to the “horrors” of Detroit and as someone who has lived both places I’m this close to challenging him to a duel. Those are two places you don’t shit on around me.

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Me selling my spell deck to people “It’s the perfect gift for people you don’t like very much but think should improve”

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All of the men who have fumbled me in the last twelve months are saying they are attending my book launch, and while that is unlikely, the universe has the chance to do the funniest thing

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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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It's official! @laurenparker.bsky.social's brilliant, Bowie-inspired collection, Dark Way Down, is out in the world!! A must-read for poetry fans, music fans, and all the cool people. If you haven't ordered a copy yet, here's the link: animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow... Congratulations, Lauren!

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Today is my book birthday! Dark Way Down is my second book released in 2025 and you can get it from @animalheartpress.bsky.social or order it through your local bookstore animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow...

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“There is only one way to defeat fascism” No. There are multiple ways, and we need pretty much all of them right now. The only tactics we don’t need are complacency, endless virtue signaling and infighting. Everything else is kind of at least up for discussion.

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The night before I become an author, I’m power squeezing a sinus infection out of my ears like toothpaste and then will celebrate. It’s gonna be, Benoit blanc, and a chilled bottle of NyQuil.

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“I also appreciated that each and every spell begins with drinking water,” writes Sprocket Wagner of this new spell deck. “Not only does this build in attention to one’s energy levels as a principle of spell work, it also tricked me into staying hydrated as I reviewed…” wildhunt.org/2025/02/revi...

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Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.

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Me: Audible still has my poetry book up as religious My editor: ugh I emailed them Me: can’t wait until all those religious people discover my book and realize the good word of the book of cocaine

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“These are spells for a life in the process of being lived; a beautiful life, a difficult life, and the space inbetween where the living actually occurs.” Review for Spells for Success is up with the Racket! theracketsf.com/home/review/...

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Wildlings! Join us on zoom or FB livestream to celebrate the launch of @laurenparker.bsky.social 's Bowie-inspired collection, Dark Way Down. With special guests! bit.ly/3WfMRWH If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can get one here animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow... #poetry #BookLaunch

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