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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

UNPLUG it. (Metaphorically speaking.) This isn't even the beginning, it's the middle end. Anyone who though we could trust billionaires....

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So, "Grudge Keeper" is from my upcoming chapbook that will go into the world as an art object I'm making with my book artist friends and some various other artists and painters. "My lover asks" is from a collection I'm shopping about a Gen Xr reckoning w/ change/progress at a very raucous wedding.

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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

friendly reminder that if you’re worried about cultural decline you can just pick up a book published by a small press and feel way better

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Quote from the NYT article on Microsoft and OpenAI's "concerns": "Microsoft and OpenAI contend their work was covered under legal protections for “fair use” of copyrighted material. They say the articles were sufficiently transformed into entirely new work by A.I., and were

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Taking a break from non stop listening to CONFESSION II for a relisten of....ARTPOP I dunno. I wanted to hear "Swine" and "Sexx Dreams"

What kompromat did they decide to action against Fetterless to get him to switch?

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The AI doomsdayers from the actual companies and now all the new theft and just how it still SUCKS - these GOP AI commercials have no rizz, esp the ones Vivek is deploying against Amy Acton - honestly, let's just unplug it all. It's garbage.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When you realize you MUST alter the opening sequence of poems in your manuscript and then do the math on the fees for all the pending submissions you know are going direct to DECLINED 💀

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I haven't read the X-universe monthlies since Krakoa was shuttered, but I will add that while Krakoa engaged a lot of what works best for X-Men comics, it also fell into what ruins the comics: too many ongoing titles

Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What a fun reading this was!!!

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Soooooooooooo looking forward to this! Sign up today.

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Michael @mikeiam.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Enjoying an evening of poetry and jazz with @benkline.bsky.social reading from his Lamda Award winning poetry book, "It Was Never Supposed To Be" at Juniper's in Covington

Poet Ben Kline reading from his award winning poetry book

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I've already started plotting just how GAY I'm gonna be.

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I often wonder at all the articles and essays about R and MAGA voters...the surprise certain people have that they vote the way they do...and I realize that way too many people don't want to accept how awful most people are. Whether warped by age and or algo, just plain dumb, it is what it is.

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Listen, only 3 of them voting AGAINST birthright citizenship was not part of the Heritage/Prjt25 plan. F them.

Because there's not much Madonna traffic/community on Bluesky, I've not been here lately. I've been on IG where all the algo is giving me all M all day every day. Can't believe the release week - High Holy Mother New Album Week - has arrived, just over 7 years since Madame X, the longest gap

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I don't have enough time left in my life to waste it on that NYT opinion drivel about "I'm gay not queer" like wtf keep on walkin' and live your life and call yourself whatever you want and leave the rest of us out of your nonsense mansplaining. Good grief.

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Three weeks since, still can't believe this happened.

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On George Michael's birthday, thinking about how amazing it was to be present for the peak years of Michael, Madonna, Prince, Janet, George, Whitney, Mariah, Celine, U2, all the superstars. (See also being around for the nadirs of GnR, INXS, Kylie, Paula, Jody, Beyonce, Nirvana, Y2K pop, etc.)

Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This new Chlöe + Timbaland album gives me fantastic late 90s Missy/Aliyah energy, but the songs are barely songs!

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"Everything I Don't Like Is Unconstitutional" A Memoir by Samuel Alito

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Any serious Democratic candidate for president must pledge to at minimum add at least four new justices in order to begin restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 13/06/2026

Alito just completely ignoring Trmp and Noem's racist nonsense.... say it again: PACK THE COURT

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🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry: It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline! @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

Winner graphic displaying the book cover of It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline!

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

any day there's a new Ben poem in the world is a great day

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: It Was Never Supposed To Be by @benkline.bsky.social, @variantlit.bsky.social & Queer Enlightenments by Anthony Delaney, @groveatlantic.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Book cover for It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline, Variant Literature: Shortlisted for Gay Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. It Was Never Supposed to Be contains multitudes: of desires, of risks, of fears, of fluids, of loves, of assignations, of histories. “I’m in a doom generation,” Ben Kline writes early in the collection as he charts the “one step forward, two shoves back” of change arched between “one plague pitted against another.” Occupying the familiarity of traditional form and the heady rush of innovative forms, Kline builds a uniquely queer structure, a house where freedom and desire, history and progress, risk and reward coexist. https://variantlit.com/product/iwnstb/

Book cover for Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers by Anthony Delaney, Grove Atlantic: A ground-breaking history delivered in a refreshing new voice, Queer Enlightenments details eleven overlooked stories of eighteenth-century queer people who lived extraordinary lives of resistance and joy. Shortlisted for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. https://groveatlantic.com/book/queer-enlightenments/

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

That delinquencies number is a recession red flag. (I've also noted a LOT of repo tow trucks lurking the neighborhood in the past year.)

Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Many thanks to George and NewPoetry.ca for publishing this oddball form creature of a poem about moms, gin and the nature of existence.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Why do they keep talking about the genitals of school age kids? Well these are the same people using the presidency to protect a billionaire ring of pedophiles. You do the math.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

all this ...."information" on T666p and his health....I guess lil Stevie Miller and Rus Voughthole are basically running the country? Or at least telling Vance, Heggy, Rubio and the others what to do?

Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This ongoing story about Steven Rosenbaum and his A.I. book just reinforces my consistent point that this tech is NOT what its owners insist it is, that it is bad for both the planet and us as humans, that it's another grift getting a few middle aged white dudes extremely rich.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I got on my laptop to attempt a #smallpoemsunday draft, glass of rose at the ready, but instead I'm doomscrolling about AI. Ugh. And NO ONE wants to read poems about AI. I certainly don't!! LOL

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

great thread on leaders' interactions with AI tools vs the reality the rest of us experience