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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have a poem I guess

On looking into my ancient secondhand
Larousse, bought 25 years ago at a flea market, because l couldn't remember the
French for owl
The thing that made you good has made
you tawdry
The nuns foresaw Twin Peaks you know
In the 80s they taught Ruth
Les petits hiboux avec les yeux lumineux

I'm not sure how to love anything that is not a forest
Forest forest, gut forest, coral forest, lichens after rain, bromeliads
Everything is a forest under a microscope
But without my glasses on I can't see the trees
You can hear the owls though
Paul tells me he's finally heard the she-owl, or is she early this hot year Shellac, material of early 78s that made the musical world go round, is so called because it's made from the secretions of
of the female lac beetle
What she then lacks, extracted, circulates blues & jazz & tango for white shell-likes
Listen I am writing this as the wheels on

the bus do not
As we wait and wait for latex and fossil fuels and conflict minerals
Like saps we walk under trees brittle with heat that drop branches as much as leaves
There are no more bank branches, branch lines, brachiopods
The owl hoots on the abandoned railroad line
That I've walked a hundred times stumbling on conglomerate and buried tracks and bricks
Comfrey discomfiting as it composts into autumn that heap smell old heat still humidly hanging
A branch almost cracked by thirst

We nearly lost this, Paul says, they wanted to make it a through road
We fought for the dirt and weeds and ferns
The efts and tits and bats and burnets
Green alkanet is pink pinking in the regimented sunset
Lines in a document old railroad tracks nature abhors straightness
Plant all the same trees in even rows & you get paper sure but no bug life no rhizomes
Things need to be less ambitious
Things need a bit of difference
Yes that's lunch on my shirt I was reading about fungi
Like everyone does now, or will, sooner or later, be read by them

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🚲 @bicycle.bsky.social · 4h

Robert Caro: In my book I documented Robert Moses as a cautionary tale Zohran Mamdani: At long last, I have become Robert Moses from classic biography Don’t Become Robert Moses

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote about Shelley, whom I always think of in autumn gunsnrobbins.substack.com/p/music-and-...

gunsnrobbins.substack.com

Music and Moonlight and Feeling

Shelley’s mythmaking

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 5h

Everyone in the Commonwealth realms has Charles III as head of state, and this shit isn't happening in those countries.

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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 17h

typo in my post. evil in my heart

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 30/09/2026

Probably transmission fluid.

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garethhutchens.bsky.social @garethhutchens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“A teaching schedule was disrupted and students were invited to "drill for oil" by an industry-backed education program sponsored by major fossil fuel companies” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

abc.net.au

Inside the fossil fuel industry's push into Australian classrooms

At least 260 educational programs in Australia are sponsored by fossil fuel companies, according to a report by a climate advocacy group.

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So excited about my first PM Deal report! Also proud and grateful to have two poetry books forthcoming: Field of Want, Etruscan Press, Spring 2028 Definition of Elegy: New & Collected Prose Poems, Cornerstone Press, fall 2027

Publishers Marketplace
Deal Report
FIELD OF WANT
By Amorak Huey
Imprint: Etruscan Press
Cofounder of River River Books and professor at Bowling Green State University Amorak Huey's FIELD OF WANT, which explores distance, desire, and geography-in particular the fields of Ohio and the American Midwest-featuring the syntax of place, the light of the moon, the isolation of being alive, to Etruscan Press, for publication in April 2028.
Poetry
September 28, 2026

Screenshot of the first page of a book contract between Cornerstone Press and Amorak Huey for Definition of Elegy: New and Collected Prose Poems

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𝔉𝔲𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔩 𝔉𝔞𝔤 @wolvendaughter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Putting in prompts to get music you like? We already have that. It's called walking into a record store that smells of patchouli and asking the guy with the one-hitter behind his ear for recs.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade thinks the reversal of the oil and gas exploration ban breached the EU Free Trade Agreement. How do we know? Because they accidentally leaked their own legal opinion in Sep 2024. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/g... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stoen 846: from time to time to

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Ana @fullmetalkitchen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"How a $60 loaf of rye bread went viral in NYC" hahahahahahahaha 𝗡𝗢

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 30/09/2026

Poor long-suffering Matt Gertz.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, that is pathetic.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

What if we take an artform that has a unique power to connect people across space and time and strip it of its power to connect?? 🤔

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Techno Fledermaus 🦇🦇 @mousedib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My theory is that the raf base stuff is literally just diesel thefts, but that the US government accidentally divulged another completely unrelated top secret terrorist threat

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Have just made a dried apricot & tinned pineapple jam.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

You'd have been better off starting with nuances—as you're sort of doing now—than with hyperbolic claims.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Stand behind what you write.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Of course. But he really was making the strong claim, and the idea that *the discipline of history* caused the Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust is ludicrous.

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Banville strikes again 😬

John Banville cancels appearance at Spanish festival after it drops Argentinian author over pro-Israel stance
Booker Prize-winning novelist was a headline act at Granada literary festival but withdrew over exclusion of author Ariana Harwicz: screenshot of article from the Irish Times

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 28/09/2026

It truly is The Everything App™ over there. /s

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 28/09/2026

An absolute firehose of malice and cruelty.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 28/09/2026

Are you sure you're assigning blame correctly here . . . ?

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Madame Mayhem @imakemovies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Hallelujah Chorus but instead of 'Hallelujah' it's 'Capybara'

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oga-Nyappy, a cat dressed in a deer costume, is the mascot for the town of Ogano in Saitama. On his chest is a waraji-katsu (a big pork cutlet shaped like a straw sandal). His interests are kabuki and bouldering.

A squinting cat mascot dressed in a deer costume walks through a crowd.

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 28/09/2026

The psyop is kicking into high gear. /s

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Congratulations to Poets on Poetry Series author Jason Schneiderman on being awarded the 2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism by the @poetry.foundation! If you haven't read Jason's book yet, you can order your copy directly from @uofmpress.bsky.social here: press.umich.edu/Books/N/Noth...