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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h

1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 23h

Where are we sending short fiction these days? I have a piece.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would say that we should know by now that billionaires make awful decisions and make for horrible leaders, but then I remember who's running the country.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not for nothing, Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns. Imagine living in that world! And they're some of the happiest people. I wonder if I'm too old for someone in Finland to adopt me.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I really want to leave Fb, but I have so many friends and family on the site. Also, it's one of the few places where I share my publications. When Twitter with to hell, I lost a lot of great writing and editing folks and a platform on which to promote my work. TL;DR: I hate Zuckerburg's smarminess.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Getting ready to talk about sugar in my intro to African American studies class today, and was looking for artifacts of Kara Walker's awesome exhibit. This particular video is interesting in that two white men are preparing this sculpture for a showing. But interesting how? (There may be a poem?)

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Behind the Scenes with a Kara Walker Sculpture

YouTube video by Museum of the City of New York

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Kissing, Still by Pat Foran

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, he's an asshat and yet another reason to hate tech boys and AI freaks.

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Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please sign up for this class and help me buy a new car! www.cleavermagazine.com/classes/ HOPPERAEROBICS!: A 2-Hour Excursion into the Museum of Narrative Instructor: Sarah Freligh Date: Sunday, October 25, 2-4 PM ET Open to poets and prosers and all those who are word-curious. Cost: $60.

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Find community and grow your craft in our online workshops. We host both synchronous and asynchronous courses using Zoom and Canvas, an easily accessible, private online platform. Whether you’re a new...

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Three good things from this week: • I'm kind of writing again. • My registration to vote is certain and I will be using that vote to make D.C. make more sense! • I have a reading in Sudbury, Massachusetts on Sunday, Sept. 20th! www.jamesleonard.org/products/sud...

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Sudbury MA - The T-Shirt Shop at the End of Civilization

Latest iteration of Leonard and Gallentine’s installation. Building off last year’s installation of this project in an abandoned cathedral in Hoboken, NJ.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I remembered my grandmother's phone voice when calling my daughter's school this morning. My grandma was from the South, but lived in Wisconsin, where she moved during the Great Migration. Normally, she sounded like Black Dolly Parton, but on the phone with strangers, she sounded like a white lady.

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you get an email that seems to be from Taylor (one of our lovely readers), it's not us! We would never ever ever ask you to pay us to publish your book. #scam #publishingscam #phishing

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Very beautiful work from Pat Foran (@pdforan.bsky.social), and much love and care to him.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First day of classes for me and I got a class with a piano! Sometimes, not having a dedicated English building kicks ass. Mostly, though, it sucks butt.

DeMisty Bellinger sitting in front of a piano in a classroom. The picture is a selfie.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Grateful to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the Massachusetts State College Association, and the National Education Association! I am a proud member of all three! Thank your local unions for this day off (if you have it; hopefully you have it). Let's hear it for workers' rights, y'all!

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Those little cloth bags that your sheet set comes in? I use them to: • Cover shoes when they are out of season to keep dust and spiders out (don't judge my housekeeping!) • Travel bag for shoes or other things, like dirty laundry • Bag for hair tools. How do you use them?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 17/12/2025

...help me help you. 😌☺️

photo of a text message appearing on an older model flip phone. the message reads: the shoes of the fisherman's wife poems by upfromsumdirt makes a great gift!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is it crazy to post on social media that we need to spend less time talking to each other on social media? I do my share of doomscrolling. But what I've learned during my lifetime is that democracy requires having difficult conversations — and having our ideas challenged.

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hello readers and writers! Red Hen Press has been receiving ongoing reports of impersonations of our staff via email. Please verify emails by checking the Red Hen Press staff webpage here redhen.org/staff-and-board/

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Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The submission window is open! If you’ve been writing a chapbook, you can submit it to Chestnut Review from September 1 through October 31. Finalists will be announced by February 1st! All genres are welcome. Submissions are accepted via our Submittable page (not our regular magazine portal).

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know the summer is not over, but I wanted to share you my summer jam (ahem: earworm). I looked online and there's a video! Elis Regina is absolutely adorable. I'm in love with her, I mean, I know she's probably forty years older than me (is she still alive?), but look at her here!

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Elis Regina & Tom Jobim - Aguas de Março (subtítulos castellano y portugués)

YouTube video by Jordi Asturies

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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Please get in touch (either by my website chayabhuvaneswar.com or via the chat here if this could help you. And good luck with your writing!

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seen a lot of people responding to this with “I’m just going to pirate the show,” and I want to gently remind everyone that the central idea in this piece is that there’s no way to engage with the Potter franchise in any capacity that doesn’t benefit Rowling and her bigotry

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Saying @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social is more than enough, but the table of contents is FUCKING STELLAR (pardon my French): Linda Addison, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @victorlavalle.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, Wrath James White…

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I haven't published anything in a while, but I'm writing something new. My protag had to go to the music store, so I'm using the same store here: barrenmagazine.com/a-lost-day/

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A Lost Day - Barren Magazine

Barren Magazine - A Lost Day -

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canadians: Are you guys okay with us visiting you even though our prez is a tool? I really want to go to Quebec again and maybe Toronto. I won't try to overstay my welcome, even though my hubby's a dual citizen! That is, unless, you want me to stay.☺️

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you are teaching any of my work--books, short stories, essays, poems--I am available for either a video visit or, if close enough to me (and if you'll buy me lunch! Or make me lunch. I'm a vegetarian), a in-person visit. See demistybellinger.com to contact me!

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't think they'd ever take my stuff, but I think you have a chance. Yes, you!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We're open for applications! Become a SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellow in 2027! www.smokelong.com?page_id=4310...

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

About a dozen years ago I was part of a pedagogical conference that was all MOOCs, all the time. MOOCs until the cows came home. Turns out we were all just MOOCs.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I keep hearing that AI is going to get better, then I see shit like this. Just do your own work. So horrible that a school ok'd this.

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Middle School student agendas contain misspelled states and science errors, raising AI questions

YouTube video by WSMV 4 Nashville

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I know it's been said before, but I'm stressing it here: Let's stop it with classic rock and pop songs slowed down for horror movie soundtracks. Jordan Peele did it, sure, but let's just stop that. Okay? The End of Oak Street is using Billy Joel's "My Life." That's for 'Bosom Buddies,' my dude!

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Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I struggle to not feel numb because so much is getting thrown at me on the daily. This is a necessary watch.

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Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com · 08/08/2026

This is the best deal in books

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Independent media is now more important than ever. Subscribe to a newspaper with reporters who ask hard and relevant questions. Support your favorite podcasters who do real news, not just opinion. Support local artists and buy books. Old media is dying, especially network TV. This seals it! ⚰️💀🔚

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Me in my Happy House. I'm writing a 4th novel. What's that that you say? Fourth novel? You think I only have one? No, no, only one was published. Two will stay on my hard drive. Shopping one around now. Btw, hubby designed & built my lil house. Should I be concerned with the yellow wallpaper?

Picture of DeMisty in her yellow wallpapered writing space.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Garden fresh peppers and cucumbers with capers, figs, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds. The dressing is a missile dressing from The New York Times. Alas, no lettuce.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I talked to Krystal Two Bulls and Joseph White Eyes about how Native organizers are resisting the sprawl of data centers in Indian Country. We also discussed how chatbots, robots, mineral extraction, and surveillance are affecting Native communities.

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You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle

“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.

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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oh-oh, Death Whoa, Death Won't you spare me over 'til another year? Well, what is this that I can't see With ice-cold hands taking hold of me? Well, I am Death, none can excel I'll open the door to Heaven or Hell "Oh, Death, " someone would pray youtu.be/kpq6N57XqTI

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Ralph Stanley: "O'Death" - Live

YouTube video by Mike Abb

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