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Erik Schuckers

@erikjs.bsky.social
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Queer writer. Eldergoth. Fan of horror, torch songs, & fried mushrooms. He/him. sevenkitchenspress.com/keystone-cha…

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good morning, dumplings. I hope today that your coffee is hot and all your enemies drop dead.
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What kind of fully-cooked brain do you need to have to believe that "solving" a game is even a thing?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Put the dead into your poems without garbing them in your grief. Give them cake, put on their favorite music. Listen to their gossip. Let them tell you how they've learned to bake bread. To carve clarinet reeds. Let them comb your hair. Help them remember the color orange. The scratch of wool.
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'm not used I'm preloved
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 04/08/2026
today on COYOTE: on ChatTJB, the "startup" "AI" "company" where one guy answers all of your prompts himself so that you stop giving your brain function over to LLMs. www.coyotemedia.org/chattjb-want...
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ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
He is going to go to his grave thinking he was the best most special-est boy ever, and I know i should be grateful for the first part but the second part really pisses me off.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A thousand curses upon anyone who creates *AI* generated photos (and a lot else). A longer rant: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy
Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/06/2026
Happy Lottery Day!
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Gender-affirming care for minors is not a bad thing. It’s been so needlessly demonized and the position has been so thoroughly capitulated to that I think people forget it’s actually a good thing. A Grammy award winning artist had gender affirming surgery at 16. It’s a great thing!
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
when you’re cute AND a confessional poet
a pizza made to look like a dissected mouse, with a cute mouse face and spaghetti guts
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
how the cannibal hill people lure me to their isolated cabin in the woods
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
#HQPrideParty Day 9: Light Rewatch of gay polymath Philip Ridley's bleak, sun-drenched, and unforgettable feature film debut, "The Reflecting Skin" (1990). @horrorqueers.bsky.social
Horror Queers Pride Watch calendarTwo young boys in a golden field face a desolate farmhouse over which ominous dark clouds hover in Philip Ridley's 1990 film, The Reflecting Skin
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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Lots of new followers, mostly thanks to @fathermarc.bsky.social. As his publisher I’m thrilled. If you are new to Sibling Rivalry Press, check us out. We changed the face of literature in the last 15 years. www.siblingrivalrypress.com
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Home | Siblingrivalrypress
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#HQPrideParty Day 7: Loose Spending the night with that sex-positive icon in "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2" (1987). @horrorqueers.bsky.social
Horror Queers Pride Month watch calendarQueer icon Mary Lou Maloney accepting her prom bouquet and waving majestically in Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 (1987)
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
#HQPrideParty Day 6: Gay Revisiting an underseen favorite, Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) @horrorqueers.bsky.social
Two high school boys, one shirtless with a basketball, face off in a gym in 1981 slasher movie Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/06/2026
This just means putting "A.i." companies under Trump's control, so no thank you. Instead, require "A.i." corps to remove all unlicensed content from their databases. ALL OF IT. And tax them 100% of their income and use that money to refund creators they stole from. That should take care of it.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
To my peeps, and my Brown and LGBTQ friends. Never forget that your light was so damn bright they handed the world to the first asshole who promised to dim it.
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
But what does Jeff Bezos think of "The Sheep Detectives"?
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day
Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer in Twin Peaks, smoking at the breakfast table
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I bow before popular opinion and the tight, polished shoes of David Suchet's Poirot. (He even got the walk right.) But the best Marple? Forever Geraldine McEwan.
Geraldine McEwan sparkling in fluffy hair, pastels and a beige cardigan as the best Miss Marple ever
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
this beautiful gay planet deserves so much better than billionaires and chatgpt and landlords and cybertrucks and US presidents and coward universities and therapy speak and biopics
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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Action Item: Become soil and/or ash Assigned To: Body Status: In Progress Deadline: TBA
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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
To honor Transgender Day of Visibility, an annual day celebrating the incandescence of the trans community, Split This Rock is pleased to announce a special collection in The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. The collection will be released in April. Read the full letter: bit.ly/4rYRXn9
Split This Rock’s red logo at the top. Below, with each word on one line and in a different color of the rainbow, text reads “Trans Day of Visibility Special Collection.” To the right, a heart with blue, pink, and white: the colors of the trans pride flag. At the bottom, bold black text reads “Coming April 2026.”
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
ignoring that talk therapy is not just "talk" (speech) but also "therapy" (treatment)
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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Kate Sosin @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We urgently need to address the fact that queer media has been decimated over the last year. Them has been sold. NBC Out dissolved. INTO shuttered. At a time when they are needed most, most queer and trans journalists have no platform or income.
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Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
An early January poem from Tenderness, nearly a decade old
January 2017 by Derrick Austin

You are the safest child in the world, 
I say to plastic Jesus in the nativity.

My Facebook timeline is a villanelle 
of suffering: the boy from Aleppo

whose dust-skin is the color of water pouring, still, from faucets in Flint.

Drunk, recovering from last year, 
my eyes are wet moonflowers.

Christmastide is over. No carolers 
approach the well-lit houses.

No one knocks on a stranger's door.
And who would admit them?
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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John Luke Byrne @byrninlove.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Oh and btw 2026 is for art, for craft, for direction, for growth, and for creation. With these, we nourish ourselves
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Chris Potter @cpotterpgh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Whether you loved City Paper or loathed it (and those of us who worked there often did some of each) this is a goddamn shame. But the fact that Pittsburgh's alt-weekly survived so long is a testament to its community, and to its staff and contributors over the years, including those let go today.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
One of my new favorite prose poems has entered the chat Hedgie Choi, from her debut collection Salvage (2025)
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/12/2025
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
these comparisons of Erika Kirk with Tammy Faye Messner do TFM deep injustice. yes, an affinity for glitter and makeup. but TFM was complex and compassionate, words that do not in any way describe EK.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 17/12/2025
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
Headline: ProPublica management wants 100% discretion over when and how to use AI
Supplementary text: The organization rejected our proposal that ensures staff will not be replaced by AI and requires labeling AI-generated content
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
You say blob. I say rat king.
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Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Only 364 days til Halloween
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king
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