This is like that famous thread about the Nazi getting kicked out of a punk bar. He was polite, but the minute he would have felt welcome, a space would already have been ceded.
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This is like that famous thread about the Nazi getting kicked out of a punk bar. He was polite, but the minute he would have felt welcome, a space would already have been ceded.
I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
Muriel Rukeyser
We should all pay attention to what the radical right on X and other platforms are talking about this afternoon....of note, they are not talking about the school shooting in Colorado.
you can't keep calling twitter the nazi bar and then spend all night eulogizing a nazi on here
is it political violence when a trans woman dies because she was denied healthcare
I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already
What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
"I destroyed myself for a girl named after a flower." Annalisa Hansford's "Garden Sonnet" in petrichor 27 petrichormag.com/27-annalisa-...
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
"Imagine your hometown as a corpse: murals, water tower,/ all faded carrion in the anxious sun." Poem for a ghost town in @redogrereview.bsky.social ogre.red/issues/2025-...
mario whispering "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" as he slips through the tenuous fabric between worlds
every. time.
Revving up his powerful Moloch 5!
"there is peace of a land without pests, and our troubles submerge like manatees:" "Kayaking Cockroach Bay" by John Davis Jr. Read the whole poem in petrichor 27 petrichormag.com/27-john-davi...
Also: Pat Olliffe's art!
Without Warning." In UT, @kurtbusiek.bsky.social expanded a very minor character from Amazing Fantasy #15 into a cautionary tale about power and responsibility. The death of Sally Avril would reverberate to the end of this incredible run; it wasn't cheap. Read this aged six and it never left me.
Blessed in Worlds They Did Make
Jack Kirby story from 1959 ("I Fought the Colossus," Strange Tales # 72) predicts AI would be developed by 2020 and that one major fear would be that it would start giving the wrong answers to questions and "wreck civilization." Gotta love the 1950s giant mainframes.
Every time I read more about Timely, I learn about another character concept that Marvel did way before their better known version caught on. Today, it was Howard the (not-so Wacky) Duck.
Rest in peace Eugen Gomringer (20 January 1925 – 21 August 2025), every concrete poet lives in his shadow...
And I will not play the "I only trust x, y, z, sources" game with a dishonest, invective interlocutor. You will either confirm these things yourself or you will not. I don't owe bad faith churls anything. Respond if you want to feel some big boy catharsis, but be assured I will not read it.
We can start with the homeless encampments he cleared, throwing away poor people's worldly possessions with his own hands. Or we can start with the budget he proposed stripping $17 million in dedicated funding for LBTQ+ women and non-binary health programs. There's no limit to what you could learn.
Notably doesn't try to refute either of these true things (because they are true), but gets upset when you bring them up.
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
Today @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day20 Im exploring visual poetry. I chose Lost Sonnets by the late Catherine Vidler @timglaseteditions.bsky.social (2018) & @guillemotpress.bsky.social collaboration/conversation Lens Flare by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social & Rhys Farrell. @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
The number of liberals making loving AI slop of Gavin Newsom is alarming.
We're so excited to announce issue 9, our TWO YEAR (!!!!) anniversary issue! Featuring @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, and more.
In 2013, Chilean zinester Natalia Matzner (aka Ratalia Espigadora) rode her bike and mobile zine library / book library across Chile. She held workshops and exhibitions as she went, using her Biblioteca Nómade (Nomad Library) to engage local communities in zine-making & self-publishing... #ZineHero
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest opens September 1st. Any chap published this year by a current Wisconsin resident is eligible. This is my second year as coordinator of the contest. The final judge is my first poetry mentor, John G. Morris. www.wfop.org/chapbook-con...
Our Best of the Net nominees are in!
Stopping on the way home from an oil change to get a beer at Estabrook Park, since I worked so hard waiting on them to finish.
something I'm surprised gen AI discourse didn't hit yet is the attitude "I asked for it to be done, so I made it" has always been how rich people view using workers who have trained skills and do the technical side. they see themselves as creators for having an idea, we were just a means to that end
Kurt, some goof tried to blame your repost for the "hostile" replies OP was getting, most of which are as cruel and rude as "you do not appear to know how nuclear family is typically defined." Poor, poor OP.
I'm sure the flaws in the original post have nothing to do with it.
Jimmy Carr was born James Automobile sendt sktweet
If I’m elected mayor crosswalks will buff pedestrians strength so much that they’ll be able to punch cars into orbit
Who is this for?
Ozzy, Brian, and Sly about to start the raddest celestial supergroup.
But our bloated military industrial complex will flex a bit over Lake Michigan this weekend and there's nothing I can do but ask why
It's also ok hate it cause it's just TOO LOUD. People with PTSD or on the spectrum + pets certainly don't like it, and their distress is more valid to me than any drone pilot could ever be.
Which reminds me: did you know the first aerial bombardments on US soil were Americans bombing Americans? I get really interested in that factoid every year this event takes place.
Jets flying loud and low today in prep for the Milwaukee Air & Water Show this weekend, an event that apparently exists so that Americans can experience a light, significantly less consequential version of what the people we bomb overseas experience in our endless imperialistic orgy of destruction.
Therapist: and are the ominous Newsweek bisexuals in the room with us now? Ominous Newsweek Bisexuals:
"Elmo is a modern day Job..."
Visa and Mastercard have killed more art than every studio combined and most people don't even know about it
But no, I think everyone can tell you're upset the bird woman killed him. I don't think opinions vary on that. But thanks for playing.
You seem smart and well informed. Perhaps you can explain why Bibi allows Qatari money to enter the hands of Hamas, but never does this for Palestinian groups that want a two state solution.
Someone's big mad the bird woman killed Netanyahu.
Why aren’t these kids who can’t afford healthcare, will never be able to buy a house, and won’t get to retire having children?
Oh come on. A rejection from Taco Bell Quarterly while I'm dying IN a Taco Bell bathroom.
“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok” Ok well I asked Sappho and she said ……. ……. ..[b]osom
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Em dash club reporting in
harder than diamond
it's a common thing for right wingers to attack a candidate for being too white or too popular with white people, as they were doing with zohran until yesterday. but they always get bored and need to go back to racist shit as soon as possible.
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : John M. Bennett : JIM LEFTWICH’S LAST BOOK : PIT SWAN & ORBATE WRITING periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/07/john...
all jobs should let you take a two week vacation after working there for two months
IMINT #475 from NROL-129 (ACCM) 1. Enchilada Cold Storage 2. Tunnel of Edgelords 3. Campus of Empty Blogs
If that sounds completely made up, wait till you hear about how the CIA backed bananas over democracy in Guatemala
The CIA of a nation famous for rejecting a monarchy couped a democratically elected leader (Mossadegh) to install a monarchy in 1953. Because one was going to nationalize oil, the other gave Westerners 50% control of it.
I have these two in @alocasiamag.bsky.social alocasia.org/2025/03/01/s...
love this picture of a novelist sitting in on the poetry workshop
All supremacist ideologies are genocidal. All of them. All dream the elimination of Other. This is their political theology. There are no exceptions, see? The exceptionalisms only evidence the point. And we, as humans, cannot *live* this way. We cannot continue this horror. 💔
They paved paradise, Put up a parking lot. Paradise said: That hurt, but let me tell you about geologic time
“the grief the grief the grief the grief” — Layli Long Soldier . . . This poem appeared in Whereas by Layli Long Soldier, published by Graywolf Press, 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Bill Clinton : i endorse cuomo he’s great and really gets me People : what about the sexual harassment and abuse of his staff Bill Clinton : like i said
Quick! Someone count how many other nations the so-called "bully of the Middle East" has invaded unprovoked in the last...oh, let's be charitable...200 years?
Q: “Why do anything creative when it just feels like everything is against me the field is so competitive and unfair and robots are going to take all of the creative jobs I might just have been able to make a living with?” A: Do it to spite all of them.
Clearly we’ve been neglecting this space! But we had an amazing turnout for Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley this past Sunday! #tabipopoetry #poetryisnotdead #milwaukee #wisconsin #MKEevents
The Supreme Court is illegitimate. Not just because it is stolen, and it is, and not because it is corrupt, and it is, but because it is wrong and it does not represent the interests of the people. We have to get comfortable with unchaining ourselves from tradition, norms, and decorum.
Genuinely disturbing that they are casually discussing using LLMs as a replacement for therapy only days after the Times ran that ultra-scary article about multiple people assaulting their family members after going down a ChatGPT rabbit hole.
The preface to THE PATH TO THE SPIDERS' NESTS by Italo Calvino, written after fascism fell in Italy, is really making me have hope that if we survive all this, art will win, too..
MAGA will follow Trump into war, whatever their protestations now. It will likely just allow them to develop the rhetoric to justify more war—Greenland? Panama?—and occupation. Remember Trump once argued we should militarily occupy Iraqi oil fields? Can’t believe we’re only five months into this.
This is the last thing the BBC needs
thank goodness teenagers don’t like to rebel at all, or else this would be a surefire way to create a bunch of atheist polycules hellbent on destroying america
Just yesterday I had to show my boss that chatGPT cannot be relied upon to be factual. He had asked it to assemble him a cookbook of pasta recipes from around the world. Some of them were not only not authentic, but completely made up. Imagine if this had been something that really matters.
Editors should stop letting people do the “big reveal,” that they used chatgpt, for the end of the essay. At least show it up front so I don’t waste my time reading it. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/17/1...
Answers? What answers? Just shut the fucking chamber down until Noem is gone. Do some McConnell shit. Grind it to a halt.
Just about the only silver lining of losing Sly Stone and Brian Wilson within a week of each other is that neither will again have to hear the version of "Hot Fun in the Summertime" Mike Love recorded in 1992.
Every mayor and every governor should do this.
🔥 “You’re on the wrong side of history. You should be standing here with us… you took an oath to the constitution, not the fascists in the White House— he’s laughing at you… You’re tough behind your masks & fatigues, but how do you feel on the inside?” 🇺🇸
ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
and we’ll have corn
Reminder: if you put a rainbow flag on a bomb, it's still a bomb. Harvey Milk's name on a warship was just cynical pandering to a gay movement that sees military inclusion as a path to accessing straight privilege and all the violence of patriotism, militarism, endless war. Let all these ships sink
63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
Yesterday Trump, who hates Indigenous people specifically, went after the budget at IAIA, the Institute of American Indian Arts. This is a attack on our modern cultures as vibrant living forces. Please call your representatives, where ever you are, and let them know this is a travesty.
"Electronic Concert Not Very Amusing" -Boston Globe, February 27 1966
The feds will say they're just there for security, just there to protect people from dangerous people – but you'll discover too late that you're not the ones they want to protect, you're the ones they think are dangerous people.
Final day!
American Poop
You are not a tree, you're not a big movement, you're more like the rhizome under the earth. It can be pulled up and shredded but more grows, bit by bit and node by node. When you create this intermeshed, linked networks of new care, they're resilient if not as powerful as the big ones.
Bank robber says just asking for the money would really ruin his lifestyle.