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Betsy Mars

@bamars.bsky.social

486 followers 526 following 12 posts

Poet, assistant editor at Gyroscope Review, photographer, animal lover, struggling optimist. Better description coming eventually.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.

A chat request from a late friend
I recognize the pain of thinking if I could only talk to them one more time. It is among the more familiar human laments. But that's just the thing it is a human problem to be endured not a technological problem to be sold. Our capacity for loss – in fact the necessity of losing and having lost – is what makes us who we are. Individually and collectively. There is no workaround. There will be no workaround. And every step toward preventing that or perverting that is an affront to our humanity. Why not just taxidermy nana and prop her up at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre dinner table? At least there's something real and tangible about that. Undeniable in its sacrilege. You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.

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Betsy Mars @bamars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Betsy Mars @bamars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very grateful to have had this poem in @oddpocketpress.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/oddp...

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 26/07/2026

Publishers, if you work with Lightning Source or are distributed through Ingram, take note that Ingram is offering an opt-out if you don't want your books sold to AI companies buying them to scan for AI training. ⬇️

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AI Opt Out

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Betsy Mars @bamars.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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Speed Kills

Learning to live at the speed of soul, not the speed of sound...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.

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Betsy Mars @bamars.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

haikuniverse.com

haikuniverse

a haiku a day | brought to you by Poetry Super Highway

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Pls spend from now until Tuesday eve celebrating a truly great American: Martin Luther King Jr. Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!

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martin luther king jr. is giving a speech at a podium in front of a crowd of people .

ALT: martin luther king jr. is giving a speech at a podium in front of a crowd of people .

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Betsy Mars @bamars.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Love this. It tickles me no end, which is something I haven't felt in um 9 days.

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