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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein

@fklein907.bsky.social
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Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025) linktr.ee/francesklein

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 17h
I do not need AI to “recap my year,” my brain does that every night when I’m trying to fall asleep
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 18h
Hilarious to me that I have to do a module on “concussions in sports” for my role as the drama and debate coach
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
he should be at the club
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
he should be at the club
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People portray women in politics as type A ball-busters, but I think they might be just the national level?
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saying "hope everyone can be normal today" as i log on to the no one can be normal site
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you assign a group project in grad school I should be allowed to tase you
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A picture of a white hand holding a knitting needle with a knitted square approx 2 inches wide and 3 inches long. It is amateurish but does not look as unhappy as the previous knitting
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mom found grandma’s binder of Pokémon cards. Everyone’s fighting over who gets the charizard
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Sometimes, i’ll be reading and my wife will come over and ask very pointed questions about Mrs. Brisby and the rats of N.I.M.H. and i realize all too late she’s trying to feel out whether i want to have sex, but i’ve already failed the test." - Poem set during my forty-seventh year, Justin Lacour
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Knitting is proof that autistic people have always existed because no way did a neurotypical person come up with this shit
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It only took two days, four YouTube videos and a book for literal children, but I learned to knit! I am bad at it! I will keep trying!
A picture of a hand holding a small patch of knitting with pink string. The knitted work appears to be in pain, crying out to a god that neither listens nor cares. In the background is a “how to knit” book for children
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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And the issue rounds out with some speculative fiction from Palak Aggarwal flight-literary.ghost.io/palak-aggarw...
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Palak Aggarwal- Fiction
The Rooms After Forgetting The boarding house had no name on the door. People still found it when they needed to disappear from something, though they never said that directly. They said they were...
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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Then, creative nonfiction from the always incredible @thorntonforreal.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/lisa-thornto...
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Lisa Thornton- Creative Nonfiction
I Learned to Count at Seventeen New Hampshire is 1,000 miles from Illinois. Thirty-five years ago, a Greyhound bus ticket cost $20. Two years is long enough for a dad to be divorced and forget how ...
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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Followed by poetry from Justin Lacour: flight-literary.ghost.io/justin-lacou...
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Justin Lacour- Poetry
Poem set during my forty-seventh year So i’m walking behind a woman slinging her yoga mat down Magazine Street.  i’m trying not to look because a saint wouldn’t look. John Coltrane said he wanted t...
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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Flight 6 opens with our Brewer's Choice selection from @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-gran...
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Michael Grant Smith- Brewer's Choice
Disemploy Guidelines (1) Of all the capuchin monkeys who ever worked here, you are our favorite capuchin monkey. Your boss has a problem with you. They despise your talent and goals. Your boss is ...
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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Flight 6 is live! We had big dreams for our 1st birthday issue, but life got in the way. You can read all about how we put the issue together here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-6-now...
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Flight 6 Now Live!
This issue of Flight marks one year of sharing what we think is some of the best damn writing and art out there. Flight 1 landed in August of 2025, which means that by now we've passed that one year m...
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You are guaranteed compensation if you took the purity pledge along with everyone else just so you could hold the new kid’s hand in the promise circle"
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thi...
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You may be entitled to financial compensation if you screamed yourself hoarse singing Dashboard Confessional, but it didn’t get you any closer to kissing Tommy Brooks behind the bowling alley. You...
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
earned an honorary degree in engineering for the way I got all the parts of the board game back in the box without breaking anything or crying
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The youth are learning the consequences of early 2000’s fashion
A picture of a girl wearing a pair of long, oversized jeans. The bottom 10-12 inches of the jeans from hem up are soaking wet
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
7, pushing mashed potatoes with his fork: this is just like my very own stripper! Me: … Husband: … Me: …because it makes— 7: because it makes STRIPS!
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Yes I will vote for you, but I won’t put your AI campaign sign in my yard” is a real thing I just had to say
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
7, pushing mashed potatoes with his fork: this is just like my very own stripper! Me: … Husband: … Me: …because it makes— 7: because it makes STRIPS!
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction
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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We love hearing from our submitters ☺️☺️☺️
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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’ll never make you deal with submittable. Send us something cool!
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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Top tier husbanding right there
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t need to wonder why my husband is so thoughtful because I’ve seen his dad put an empty coffee cup in the microwave so my MIL’s coffee will be the perfect temperature when it’s poured
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jeopardy! but it’s one of those sex thrillers from the ‘90s starring, like, Stephen Baldwin.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
friendly reminder if you did not get a best of the net nomination you can always just *holds up net* *holds up fish costume* *waggles eyebrows*
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Prepping my notes app apology where I tearfully acknowledge that I confused 3OH!3 with LMFAO
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Jane, actually @maidofbeans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I act tough for someone who still sings the alphabet song under my breath much too often.
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My week wasn’t great, but at least it wasn’t “congressional hearing about my thoughts on bestiality” bad
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the sue sylvester meme. She is labeled "submittable" and the caption says "I am going to create a website that is so annoying"
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“I used to have stoplight ribs until I bought—“ girl stfu
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Influencers brainstorming new insecurities to post about: Rear view camera chin Cruise ship toes Knitting knees Inflation elbow
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nobel peace prize for whoever invited screenprinting the tag info on clothes instead of putting it on a scratchy tag
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t care that 2000’s fashion is back, these children will never understand what it was like to stand in someone’s basement wearing a massive belt over your bandage dress while you pretended to like 3OH!3
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also?! These are the pants???
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me: how do you like my pants? 7 (familiar with the concept of trash talk but not the execution): they look like party pants…for a terrible party…that only serves slop…and has GREEN disco balls!
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
when my friend dates a man: he doesn’t deserve you. set him on fire. when my friend dates a woman: omg stunning?! 😍 queens 4 queens?!?!
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
just another normal day living with a 7 year old boy
A pillow shaped like an alligator head lying on the floor. In the alligator’s mouth is a screwdriver
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alaskanrobby @alaskanrobby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
when I didnt study for the test but the smartest kid in class is sitting next to me
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
when my friend dates a man: he doesn’t deserve you. set him on fire. when my friend dates a woman: omg stunning?! 😍 queens 4 queens?!?!
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
don’t tell the poets that there are machines that harvest fog www.ctc-n.org/technologies...
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
don’t tell the poets that there are machines that harvest fog www.ctc-n.org/technologies...
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He decreed the sandwich “too dry.”
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Cat On Fire Sitting
ALT: Cat On Fire Sitting
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
7 asked for a ham sandwich with “just bread and ham no crust no nothing just. Bread. And. Ham” Can’t wait to see how I somehow messed this one up
A ham sandwich with nothing but bread and ham and the crusts cut off
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