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Helen Robertson

@helendestroy.bsky.social
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Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster. Trans, genderqueer, bisexual, dyke poet. Member of the poetry collective VII www.helen-robertson.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4h
It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.
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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 3h
I don't even know how this is a thing for me but every time I wanna type ratio on a keyboard I type ration. It never would make sense but my fingers always do it anyway.
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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
drawin' more stuff
A pencil drawing of a hare surrounded by a coiled snake. An arrow pierces the head of the snake, which begins to unravel. The hare has dodged both the arrow and the foils and fangs of the snake.
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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 16h
Augur of Emptiness, From the Book of Augurs. Soft cover edition available at the shop(s)
An augur of emptiness
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fire breathing cat #Cat #Caturday
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@hudlion

sometimes, I think it would be worse to be an insect and wake up one morning and find you had been transformed into a guy with a job
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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
when there's a size difference but the sub is the larger one
the side of a dumpster that for some reason says "large enough to serve, small enough to care"
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 06/10/2026
Congratulations to all the winners!
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is the first workshop of my collective tentatively titled "poetry books are too long now as a result of shifting printing practices and this is a personal insult to me, an easily distracted poet"
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FYI signups are going live soon for my workshop: "So Your Poetry Manuscript Is The Exact Length You Want It But Submission Guidelines Need Ten More Pages: How to Write Poems That Enjamb Across Page Breaks"
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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wendy Carlos in front of a synthesizer with 50 bazillion wires and knobs
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Evelyn 2026
Digital art, my work. A monstrous wolf women
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Early for #MosaicMonday, but a progress update on my edible Theodora mosaic (made out of fondant on wafer paper)! Think it is almost done ☺️
Photo of sheet of water paper with lots of differently colored pieces of fondant that I colored and cut tesserae out of, and made a mosaic of the empress Theodora with a gold background; I attached the tesserae with edible ‘food glue’
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
moby dick the sperm whale with a speech bubble
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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Fucking Judge Doom's scene at the end
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🏳️‍⚧️☠️Alt Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisory Board☠️🏳️‍🌈 @rockpaperpencil.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
Annihilation (2018)
a bunch of plastic Halloween skeletons in a store display. one of them is partially covered with fake moss. it all looks very cheap and there is a $16.99 price tag over the fake mossy skeleton.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pen and watercolor 

A pack of witches dance around a fire circle summoning a massive demon in the flames. One of our witches is down though, reader. She lets her sisters know that she won’t be continuing the circle. “Gotta sit this one out, sisters,” she says. “Rolled my ankle.” 
 
I played around with adding a lot of detail to this scene (more shadows, trees in the background, etc.) I think the simpler version works but I’m not sure how I feel about the fire demon drawing. I think I like it. Was having trouble getting the composition of the scene set up with a text bubble in the bottom right. I do like the purple against the black dresses and little boots.
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403 FORBIDDEN @joshgrant.online · 03/10/2026
I’ve got some time, so here’s a thread about this painting, its story and why it’s one of the greatest Canadian modern art stories 🧵
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Katie (she/they) @imagine0enigami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think this is the coolest Halloween shit I’ve done.
A lit Lego Barad-Dûr looks like it has bats flying out of it, thanks to felt wall bats.
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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am so fucking sick and tired of hazard lights being used as "park anywhere" lights. At least fucking go to a no parking area rather than a no stopping zone. The north end of Bank Street is only one lane each way, there's a reason it's full of no stopping areas ffs.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This is my hole! It was made for me! manga meme but with Wile E. Coyote. Credit to @king_of_limb.
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. The title reads "Poltergeist".
In the first panel we see a woman with a worried expression on her face. She says, "stuff keeps moving around my house."
In the second panel the same woman says "I'm terrified. I can't sleep."
In the third panel we see a ghost holding a candle and a pillow that reads "live laugh love". The ghost is zooming through the house.
In the fourth panel we see the same ghost hanging up a frame and thinking, "home decor is my passion".
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 03/10/2026
Thank you so much!!! 😭 So thrilled & honoured & grateful!
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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ah fuck it, flagging purple at the gym (forgot to take a bandana off my arm when changing 😅)
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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes but it's a bureaucratic nightmare Only as an audience member No because each sun god gets a lick on the trip and it gets finished by the 3/4 mark
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Check out two poems in beestung self-translated from Swedish by Kim Göransson!
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Patient is the night -2026
My art, digital. A monsterous wolf women and a red wolf skeleton
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
dusie : the tuesday poem robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/dusi...
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dusie : the tuesday poem
The Tuesday poem is more than thirteen years old , with new poems by more than seven hundred different authors since April 9, 2013. For tho...
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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I didn't want to cut my workout a bit short but I just got over being sick and I need to listen to my body, hurf murf. Blaaaaaaa
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ELLEN OF GENEROUS @funnyposts.online · 04/09/2026
Dave and I talk about our latest chapbook over at periodicities!
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beepatrix3 @benamas2.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My book is here and it is, in my humble opinion, extremely beautiful!!!! It officially comes out in 1 week! Thank you x a million to designer Natalie Olson and to @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social xoxoxo I hope you enjoy my big book of grief and regret and love.
The lake-shaped excuse being held up in front of water.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 28/09/2026
A. this is amazing B. I read it to Chuk and he was immediately like "love it but I would make it a blue spell and halve the cost."
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i, the  girl turned mockingbird. opening my beak and spilling untruths—       - mouth & throat Vivid and drenched in the language of longing, this collection will be familiar to anyone whose sense of settled in their own skin came on fitful and slow. www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/bodyd...
Body, Dissected
Ivi Hua
cover: Cyanotype image of what looks to be flowers under a gathered gauzy fabric. The colours are white for the flowers, green for the leaves, a grey-pink for other flowers, and the background and overall wash of blue.
The tile and author's name appear in a white serif font.

kithbooks.comlight

after philip metres
dusk,  night emptying
& pouring.   horizon aflame
punctured. blazing, set  alight.
my head, heart,    swelling,
cresting & folding in waves
ephemeral. skin pulled
taut       stretched   scarred.    oceans
boiled & pure    down my
openmouthed
esophagus.  the  sky made sweeter
in   clouded eyes.
all i wanted     all i craved
was light.    
could i   recapture    snag &
trap that justice,     the perception?
only  something tangible,
thorned,   scarring   my throat
could have held me
down.


Body, Dissected
Ivi Hua

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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fuck yeah, lift lift lift lift lift!
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mihai Criste (b.1975, Romania) Remembering the Flight. Oil on canvas.
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Athena @athenticate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Max @jaegerpilotmax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Parade of beasts
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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In the shadow of the forest, though she may be old and worn, They will stare unbelieving At the last unicorn 🦄 🎼
The characters over the garden wall, meet the characters from the last unicorn
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Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I... Huh. Yeah out of all places that kinda is one where it feels extra appropriate.
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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
really enjoying this gif. please, join me for a drink
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reupping this one: www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser... #mutualaid #cancerfund #fuckcancer #PaganSky #Ottawa
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