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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mid life isn’t in crisis when every day is
Doodle on cardboard of a ghost and something ghost-esqe roasting marshmallows at a campsite with the words mid life isn’t in crisis when every day is. The doodle is on strings on a wood fence. The day is gray.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Akira Kurosawa loves a burning building almost as much as Michael Bay loves an explosion.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
By Emilia Cantor
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If there ever was a movie I wish I was blitzed out of my mind for
Movie poster for Twice Upon a Time. An animated movie from 1983. The characters are on a yellow background—a dog like animal, a man, a hero, a vulture, a fairy god mother (fgm). “The funniest heroes you’ll ever meet… they came. They saw. They screwed up.”
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If future me told past me in 2026 I’d get really into Columbo there’s a good chance I would have believed myself.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putting a stethoscope to my forehead to auscultate my thoughts.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bob Heman
ON TOP

on top of
the building
another building
a man there
leaving the air
his garment
stopping where
the colors began
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Stan Watts - "One night with a Stranger" (1983)
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don’t know why no one else in the neighborhood is outside playing. It’s only raining.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
By the time you read this I will be having or will have had ice cream while waiting for the weather to cool
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Probably feel a lot better day to day if I didn’t spend each one banging my head against some wall.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So I did end up burning my throat chugging hot coffee. What a way to feel alive!
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nearly 10pm. Guess I better go and figure things out for myself.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Explaining to my 5yo there comes a time in every persons life where you have to figure things out for yourself (8pm)
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By Akiyoshi Kitaoka
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I for one will have no sympathy for when the day comes and they get upset their pee is wasted to cool data centers
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No bull schmitt, best team in pro college sports
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Being from here I too am a fan of the Atlantiowa Hawkseyes
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aren’t you tired? I’m tired.
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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A new verse from returning contributor Alexander Limarev: A square scream got stuck in the throat of a perfect fool. — Alexander Limarev
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A square scream got stuck in the throat of a perfect fool. — Alexander Limarev
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I would not say I have an addictive personality. That is until you put chips and salsa in front of me.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Am reading. Am red.
Fingers holding a book. The sunlight coming from behind turns the bottom fingers into a glowing red.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh wow. Seriously check out this portfolio. So good!!
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been catching myself beatboxing the Mario theme song like life’s some sort of game
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wake and bake in the shire
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Baking potatoes at 630 AM like a hobbit
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have a new micro about DYING in the latest @identitytheory.bsky.social. Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting this, and to you for reading it! It's very short.
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I Died - Identity Theory
I emerge from the forest to discover I died.
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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have the great honor to have a flash fiction piece in the new issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social! Born in a @smokelong.bsky.social Xfitness workshop, Limerence is about unrequited love and spells gone awry. Check it out!! moonparkreview.com/issue-37-fal...
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Limerence
By Ly Faulk You will meet a man on social media and exchange pleasantries for months. The pleasantries will develop into a friendship from across the country. You will support each other from afar,…
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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Libraries are free! Browsing and choosing books and movies and picking up a magazine or newspaper and thumbing through is good for your brain! Make regular library time a part of your schedule and your whole life will be enriched!
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A WSB-TV Channel 2 helicopter was circling the house but most likely because of the shooting at the Subway (sandwich not train) across the way and not to do a feature on the esteemed local author of Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell.
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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Check out my new poem "Acknowledgements" which is made up of fake poems published in fake publications. neonpajamas.substack.com/p/090-poem-p...
“Last July” first appeared in the morse code of my haunted thumb.

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“The French Have a Word for That” was pressed between the seat cushions of your mother’s musty couch—the one you nearly lost your virginity on—had it not been for the clown in the other room inventing new balloon animals.

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“Bejesus No. 4” appeared in the drying spring of a pastorally-significant meadow.

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“Having Said it” first appeared in a text message I sent to the moon.
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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When I’m asked what I’ve done with my one wild and wonderful life I’ll say laundry. Or dishes. Basically anything that involved loading then unloading machines designed for cleaning.
A neighborhood with a quarter of a double rainbow over in the storm clouds
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Didn’t get any writing done this morning but did take the kids in their bathing suits to the big playground downtown to play in the puddles and on the storm-drenched slides.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Call it a weeknight the way I’m early to bed
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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A new verse from returning contributor @markgzero.bsky.social: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 reusing a plastic bag reusing a plastic bag reusing a plastic bag. — Mark Gilbert
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The Future of Poetry
reusing a plastic bag reusinga plastic bag reusing a plasticbag. — Mark Gilbert
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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A new verse from returning contributor Ron Scully: AI you and sometimes why — Ron Scully
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AI you and sometimes why — Ron Scully
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Took the boys to explore the trails under the bridge before the heat became insufferable
A concert overpass. The greenery hides the road. A tree covered in kudzu that looks like a cloaked traveler Boys on a bench next to a gravel walking path cutting through a wooded areaA highway sign atop a hill.
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Shopping cart in the suburban night.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I also do the same for me
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Quiero
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Restaurants in peace 🙏
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From about 1985 til today has just been a time
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Any day now we’ll be hitting the oh well section of the obituaries.
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Setting an early alarm to hit the gym* *snooze button
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cutting myself off. (No more coffee.) (Tonight.)
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We interviewed this wise owl about different sounds you might hear in a barnyard. Its answers may surprise you.
Plastic See’NSay Owl.
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