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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 07/09/2026

Celebrating Labor Day by watching a "translator" get big mad at me in my emails for not wanting to publish the work they translated with AI.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 15/08/2026

On a submission spree this morning with new poems. What journals are looking for the fresh lines?

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 01/08/2026

If you’ve been looking to get a deal on my book, the giant company has it for $4.14! a.co/d/08LF5o83

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 29/07/2026

What are the best galleries for photography in Seattle?

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 21/07/2026

The poems are different once they move from a screen to paper in hand. Ink's honesty is not to be ignored.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 07/07/2026

Just when my dog starts to relax again, someone in my neighborhood decides to set off a firework again. May their lost fingers get eaten by raccoons.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 06/07/2026

I mean, I need a 4.5mm fisheye lens, right?

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 04/07/2026

As someone who has a dog, and is also an avid reader as well as an artist, this might be the worst day of the year.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Former Stockton mayor Michael Tubbs: Homeownership used to be a part of the California dream, but a flawed 2002 defect law made starter homes too costly to insure & build. So builders developed rentals instead. AB 1903 fixes that, so condos get built again. www.golden-state.org/one-law-is-k...

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 28/06/2026

In the same way we can easily find and share gifs, I wish there was an easy function to text via audio samples.

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Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This really is the most accurate and insightful analysis of AI funding models. That it is biting satire is terrifying

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 16/06/2026

New Grand Jury report just dropped! I'm happy that I've created a resource that people doing this kind of work can turn to as they think about how to make our city safer: www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/...

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 10/06/2026

There's a bar/restaurant in the neighborhood called Working Class, and I really think, with a name like that, the should have $5 beers if you show your union card.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some heroes don't wear capes

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The venn diagram of people who think speed governors in cars is too much surveillance, but think the police should pull over ebikes to check their power output: ⭕

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

Screenshot of Grist article title with the same info as in post. Image of Copenhagen bike-lanes filled with people on bikes.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/06/2026

"The first movie ever made was released in 1887. That movie is called 'Air Bud,' and it is about a dog who is good at passing a three-dimensional sphere through a two-dimensional hoop, which is illegal."

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I Love Movies, by Chat GPT

“The first movie ever made was released in 1887. That movie is called ‘Air Bud,’ and it is about a dog who is good at passing a three-dimensional sphere thro...

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

ABOUT AI:
Anyone who uses AI to write something they submit to us is a loser, and we want nothing to do with them.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

the thing about writing is that it is *so easy* unless you are good at it

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 22/05/2026

If San Diego wanted to fill some gaps in the budget, they’d make bank on parking enforcement in the bike lanes on 30th from Upas to El Cajon Blvd daily and nightly

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I have never used AI to write anything and I never will.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

They spend millions to make sure you stay car dependent, and to make sure you think that’s normal. So normal in fact, that you’ll actually fight to protect that dependency, in the name of “freedom.” Their profit depends on it.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 08/05/2026

On the one hand, I consider the Canvas Hack to be an act of domestic terrorism; on the other, I wonder what higher education as a whole expected by putting so much of our teaching tools under giant corporate control.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 01/05/2026

We could use this in San Diego

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”

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The Humanities Are the Moat

Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I think all the time about Jack Kerouac heckling Frank O’Hara that he was ruining American poetry & O’Hara responding without a beat, “That’s more than you ever did for it”

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/04/2026

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 05/04/2026

Does anyone know the name of the fella who sells pinhole photography outside the Chelsea Market?

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Even without insane and illegal wars, the thing about any dependency, including car dependency, is that once you’re dependent, they can do whatever they want with the prices. Real freedom is choices. #UrbanTruth

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

if you’re trying to “save time” as a writer by using AI, i suggest you find another profession. it takes time to write well, time to write exciting books. it takes time to write one good poem. i’ve spent years on a single poem. the time spent learning one’s craft is everything

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 27/03/2026

Looking forward to the art that comes from folks defacing all the money

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 24/03/2026

Working on one of those poems that's not very good because a bigger idea is hiding in it. But I can see it.

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Joey Wah @joeywah.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I am begging Americans to realize that car dependency is a government policy and not something American cities inherently have to be

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

City of San Diego missing out on a major source of revenue during a historic budget crisis.

hundreds of cars blocking me in the bike lane

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Did a car write this?

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 13/03/2026

Do I know anyone who uses Polaroid Zink paper? I have a few packs I can't use, and am happy to pass them along.

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 12/03/2026

To the writers who respond to rejection with snark back to editors: you're doing this wrong. We're a community built on labors of love, and if you don't appreciate the people spending time with your work, you're in the wrong business.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Damned cars parked in the umbrella lane again!

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 08/03/2026

In for the night after another magical #AWP26. Thanks, all yous, for another bunch of days of learning, comradery, and catching up with the creative world. Raise a glass to the long-run!

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Not at all. San Diego drivers refuse to pay their fair share as we saw with the freeway usage fee. It makes it all the more enraging when they bring up the cost of bike lanes at every turn. Bike lanes which are < 1% the cost of the car infrastructure. Car infra which is subsidized by non-drivers.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

These authors reviewed 73 previous studies examining car touchscreens. Conclusion: They're awful "Touchscreens tended to have negative effects on driving performance, visual attention, and secondary task performance compared with voice control and physical controls." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 03/03/2026

If we cross paths at #AWP26, I’d love to catch a portrait of you!

Adam with a camera taking a picture in the reflection of a broken sideview mirror set on an electrical box

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’m not a fan of politicians trying to make people angry for votes by claiming there actually IS a “war on cars” (there isn’t — if anything there’s been a war on every OTHER way of getting around since the 1960s). A politician just made the claim on LinkedIn. Here’s the reply I posted. #UrbanTruth

Text explaining how there isn’t a war on cars, with all the benefits of reallocating street space to move a lot more people with a lot less space and other consequences, including life and death, pollution/emissions, public and personal costs, etc. Providing more choices works better for everyone, including drivers. And more transportation choices support the economic competitiveness of cities, as smart cities know.

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Inject this content straight into my veins

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Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com · 27/02/2026

Is it too late to make #awp26 lit purely by sky light and floor lamps?

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