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Tonkey Kong

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Taller than Charizard, but that ain't much to write home about. I write poems about cilantro (and a few other things).

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Loreley Weisel-Librizzi @loreleywrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
more people should respect the raw sexual energy of bioluminescence
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Rolanda 露露 @cornsilk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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nadezhda the cockroach 🪳 @antiwhimsybrigade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
he's saying the quiet part loud here, ai allows white filmmakers to control racial and ethnic minorities in an attempt to make them appear complicit in their own racist slander. paul schrader likes ai because it allows him to have a black actor that he owns.
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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ピカチュウげんきでちゅう
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
we've updated our tracker on federal policies for gender-affirming care with all the recent news from HHS
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DOJ, HHS, FTC, FDA: The alphabet soup of efforts to restrict gender-affirming care
Dozens of investigations, subpoenas and lawsuits are bearing down on families of trans youth and hospitals providing the care.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Salted City Psalms, by T!K! Williams
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Each of these poems was written in a place that no longer exists. From demolished music venues to the arms of vanished partners to the interiors of...
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My debut poetry collection is out now at Bottlecap Press! These are some of my favorite pieces from my life since college, and one of them contains the best bit of wordplay I've ever written - which is saying a lot. Pick up a copy at the link in the next post! 💜💜💜
Each of these poems was written in a place that no longer exists. From demolished music venues to the arms of vanished partners to the interiors of reforming vastus lateralis muscles, each of these poems serves as a snapshot of something that was deeply significant to T!K! Williams at a previous point in her life but, for better or for worse, had to be left behind.

This debut chapbook was born from upwards of a decade of internal dialogue about memory, sentiment and personal growth, but above all, it came from T!K!'s desire to keep her writing fun, even when its subjects weren't. Included here are some of her favorite poetic forms, the sestina and the villanelle, which both utilize repetition of words and lines to both force deeper thematic explanation and open new ways to play with language.

T!K! Williams (she/they) is a poet and hopeless music enthusiast based in Indiana. She writes from the intersections of trans identity, disability, autism and faith, even if she doesn't quite know where those things come from yet. Her work can be found in Mania Magazine, Poetries in English, Transients Magazine, and JAKE!, and she can be found trying to talk to the deer in the nearest forest.
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nao is so tired (gwf soon) @elidibus.amaurot.social · 02/08/2026
They should invent an ADHD that lets you
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My debut poetry collection is out now at Bottlecap Press! These are some of my favorite pieces from my life since college, and one of them contains the best bit of wordplay I've ever written - which is saying a lot. Pick up a copy at the link in the next post! 💜💜💜
Each of these poems was written in a place that no longer exists. From demolished music venues to the arms of vanished partners to the interiors of reforming vastus lateralis muscles, each of these poems serves as a snapshot of something that was deeply significant to T!K! Williams at a previous point in her life but, for better or for worse, had to be left behind.

This debut chapbook was born from upwards of a decade of internal dialogue about memory, sentiment and personal growth, but above all, it came from T!K!'s desire to keep her writing fun, even when its subjects weren't. Included here are some of her favorite poetic forms, the sestina and the villanelle, which both utilize repetition of words and lines to both force deeper thematic explanation and open new ways to play with language.

T!K! Williams (she/they) is a poet and hopeless music enthusiast based in Indiana. She writes from the intersections of trans identity, disability, autism and faith, even if she doesn't quite know where those things come from yet. Her work can be found in Mania Magazine, Poetries in English, Transients Magazine, and JAKE!, and she can be found trying to talk to the deer in the nearest forest.
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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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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Incredibly excited to tell y'all that my debut poetry chapbook Salted City Psalms is out today in physical and digital editions from Bottlecap Press! It would mean so much if y'all got a copy, I love the poems in here so much 💜💜💜 bottlecap.press/products/sal...
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Salted City Psalms, by T!K! Williams
Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Each of these poems was written in a place that no longer exists. From demolished music venues to the arms of vanished partners to the interiors of...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/07/2026
the long trauma of covid will be with us so long as people live in denial of the fact that covid is not over
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'll always adore Oshii's vision of Ghost in the Shell but seeing everyone else who grew up with it as a serious, philosophical series realize that Shirow was a nasty freak with horrible fashion sense is filling me with unbridled glee
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 15/07/2026
"Especially at a time when propaganda is rampant under the Trump 2.0 regime, it feels particularly crucial to ensure that those invested in Disability Justice are aware of what we owe to Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party."🫂 www.equitableforall.com/articles/cel...
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Celebrating How Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party Paved the Way for Disability Justice
This newsletter post is the author's attempt at highlighting how Brad Lomax and the Black Panther Party paved the way for Disability Justice, as she continues to reckon with the grave costs of Access ...
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Bastard Toadflax @plumicorns.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Tumblr post from @asteroidtroglody:
Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful
The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For incredible books by a deafblind author, meet the brilliant, incisive, searingly funny @snarkbat.bsky.social. You'll burn thru BEING SEEN v. quickly & then rush to preorder DEAR BLIND LADY. AND she's teaching on using Disability Justice wisdom to make all our communities better in a few weeks:
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Learn, To Do: A Training Series for This Moment
Tools and Tactics for Collective Liberation, from the Grassroots on Up
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/07/2026
The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is asking for help with funeral and burial costs, legal expenses, everyday living costs, and the wife’s needs, who has lost her lifelong companion and sole provider.
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Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
First sonnet in a while, inspired by Diane Seuss
 My doctor told me I needed sodium like I needed salvation,
to at least aim for twice the daily amount in order to remember what
normal meant, but knowing about something and being able
to rest in it are very different states of being.  After
the appointment, and after the next appointment and the next appointment,
I packed my bags full of peppercorns and fennel seed and 
started walking, and on my way the oceans parted and the dead
came back to life, whether or not that was better for any of them.
I am tending the pillars outside Sodom.  I am seasoning the pickled
ground of Gomorrah.  I am trying to sustain myself on tombs
whose passages I never cleared but whose traps can reach
out their gleaming, bitter hands and know that I will meet them.
In this way my ambitions are lethal, and I am still a child, and I am left
scraping small crystals from the palms of someone who can only look back.
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It remains true that the assertion of personal comfort/convenience at the cost of overall good is a fascistic impulse.
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Through the Static @throughthestatic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ICE has made 10,000 arrests in a five-day period— doubling its arrest numbers— and much of it hasn’t been reaching headlines. The U.S. has been wrapped up in festivities with several cities hosting the FIFA World Cup, including Seattle, and with Pride events and parades. Read more below & subscribe
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ICE arrests 10,000 people in five-day period as Pride Month and FIFA come to a close
By Hannah Saunders Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made 10,000 arrests in a five-day period— doubling its arrest numbers— according to the NYT, and much of it hasn’t been reachi…
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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Miyazaki directing Miwa as Moro in Mononoke Hime
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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026
Hyperion Cantos
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Doug Postlethwaite @dougpostlethwaite.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sometimes being an ally is providing artillery support.
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zinā' warrior princess @melifonos.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
chuquimamani-condori btw
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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
IF I DIE OF AIDS — FORGET BURIAL — JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA David Wojnarowicz in 1988 David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992
David Wojnarowicz wearing a denim jacket that he has decorated to read, on the back: if I die of AIDS– forget burial – just drop my body on the steps of the FDA. White lettering, a pink triangle.
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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I mean, I'm doing better than most people here. [Pan out. Wide shot. Hell]
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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
fr fr
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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I love this SO much! I constantly talk about how indie bookstores in NYC provide the safest spaces I've been in since 2020 (and that includes hospitals and doctors offices).
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share! m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...
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OFTV 40 - The High Priestess of Poughkeepsie
Play OFTV 40 - The High Priestess of Poughkeepsie by OneFromTheVaultspodcast on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
@warrocketajax.com thought y'all would be amused that the thanos-copter is about to be an official magic the gathering card
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チムニー @chimney1022.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
∴。   ・゚*。.   ・ *゚   ・ ゚* ・。 *・。 *.。 。・ °*. ゚。 °*. ゚*. 。。 ・ 。 ・゚ 。°*. 。*
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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
for @coyotemedia.org, I chatted with the one and only @bootsriley.bsky.social about how he made a movie where audiences cheer for the words "dialectical materialism" www.coyotemedia.org/boots-riley-...
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Boots Riley Is Here to Recruit You
First, he’d like you to go see ‘I Love Boosters’ in theaters May 22. Then please consider joining the revolution.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/05/2026
Carcinization is real
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
yes it's true there's news today but before I get into that can we take a minute to appreciate that 54 years ago this week Ornette Coleman played for the patients of the San Giovanni Psychiatric Hospital and the band took the sound out into the cosmos & it's beautiful. youtu.be/na_3r_bf5gA?...
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Ornette Coleman Quartet :: Roma 1974 #1
YouTube video by interplanetarymusic
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megadrivers @megadrivers.coolpics.biz · 10/05/2026
2:12am going back for more mud
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Watched R100 yesterday and I can confidently say that more movies should be bold enough to fix all their main male characters' problems by getting him pregnant
Seven Japanese women in leather bdsm outfits standing in a line before a red curtain.
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Morgan @morganthemothmaam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fuck it, Zordon Mamdani
Zorhan Mamdani portrayed as Zordon from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
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Caoimhe Deyn @empressofkashyr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Two different poets have now published two different books about a trip to Knareborough where they went insane chasing saints, speaking to stones, and absorbing its weird history, and neither of them mentioned that I was also there playing Pokemon Crystal on my atomic purple gameboy the ENTIRE time
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Sat down and tried to write a sonnet like Dianne Seuss. I think I failed at that pretty spectacularly but I still really like this one on its own merits. I'm still trying to get a better feel for sonnets so it was a good exercise.
My doctor told me I needed sodium like I needed air,
to at least aim for twice the daily limit in order to remember what
normal meant, but knowing about something and being able
to rest in it are very different states of being.  After
the appointment, and after the next appointment and the next appointment,
I packed my bags full of peppercorns and fennel seed and 
started walking, and on my way the oceans parted and the dead
came back to life, whether or not that was better for any of them.
I am tending the pillars outside Sodom.  I am seasoning the pickled
ground of Golgotha.  I am trying to sustain myself on tombs
whose passages I never cleared but whose traps can reach
out their gleaming, bitter hands and know that I will meet them.
In this way my ambitions are lethal, and I am still a child, and I am left
scraping small crystals from the palms of someone who can only look back.
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Practicing anarcho-soberist activism by crop dusting the entire length of the liquor aisle at work so no one will want to spend any time there
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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
What if I started posting poems again
Starting today, I stand past the edge of path,
accruing small debts to gravity.
I have studied release before,
a body ago,
and I was left ruined in the pursuit
of something that even now I still
reach for, even if I do so in a safer,
more learned way,
with other hands reaching with me.

If my body is a machine, even if it breaks
or slows now, I have still spent half my life
in perpetual motion, gently grasping my problems
and trying to find the right place
to let them fall
and this
isn’t very different
if I don’t 
start thinking about it.

I am a non-Newtonian fluid, and I
am not under new pressures,
no matter how flattened
and spread thin I find myself.
But, like me, my muscles
have lost their memory, and none of us
can remember the correct
amount of force to apply,
barely aware yet
of the freedom this will give us.

I respond in kind, in all the ways
that I can.  I break
and I devour.  I support
and I envelop.  I I struggle
and I love.  I struggle
and I fall.  I struggle
and I love.
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tradd Moore
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/01/2026
Hear me out: a writing residency where I get to write anywhere else but the hell immediately surrounding me
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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
you learned nothing, you practiced nothing, you diminished yourself, you outsourced your human capacity for growth, intelligence, and personal reflection to a fucking jerk-you-off machine
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