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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 15h

It’s time to go back out into the always

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 19h

A rutabaga carved with a New Orleans street scene. ⚜️🎃

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The not quite happening may be more meaningful

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

October is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip'

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson ♥️

God's Bouquet Of Undying Love

April snow.
God is waiting in the garden.
Slow as a blush,

snow shifts and settles on God.
On God's bouquet.
The trees are white nerve nets.

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So this is one of my best friends with a sword down his throat and the hilt on fire letting another of my best friends breathe fire of it. We understand trust at a different level.

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“… you have taken the world I was.”

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love
Anne Carson

I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Linda Pastan, from "Late Love Songs"

4. Envoi

In this brief space I practice
saying goodbye, sitting
at your empty desk where,
if forty years have made us
one flesh, your pen
will recognize my hand
as my hand knows the touch
of yours in dark theaters,
in all the dark places.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lisa Mottolo ♥️ from HOW TO MONETIZE DESPAIR (Unsolicited Press)

Write About Death

It is fortunate
death is soft like mushroom
or a bruised bone,
because this allows us to handle it
without callusing our hands.
I am tired of things that sit in my hands
too lightly or even too beautifully,
and this is why I don't write about death
as often as I used to.
I clasp every death I've ever known
into my palms like a locket
that closes too tightly
and I keep them there
as though I value a tragedy
that hangs around the neck
pretty.

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And then another thought in a concrete head

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Chris Adams @mrchrisadams.net · 07/10/2026

I guess this is the week Bluesky answers this vital question

The "press two button meme", with "I hate AI more" as one button and "I hate Adobe more" as the other

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am making people stop and stare into nothing. Feel like I've arrived. Who will be next

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The experience will open a place you wreck

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Harryette Mullen ♥️

$What Draws Us Together When we come together, what shapes the space around, defines the ground between us? Which hand traces the outline of a body? If we are together, what gesture completes the picture? Whose perception fills in missing lines, suggesting a profile? If we stand together, must unity resolve the multiplicity of our infinite fracture? What proportion is each figure? When we go together, what is the simple form we make? Who fits our edges snugly, composing a whole? Whose eye searches the landscape for a focal point?$

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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Cedric Moon knows one thing for sure, and right now that’s enough. The world he is capable of recognizing has died..." Night Fall, Moon Rise by @jackprestonking.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #halloween #magicalrealism #fiction in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity #quickread

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Night Fall, Moon Rise

A Halloween Magical Realism Vignette

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Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's National Banned Book Week. My book hasn't been banned but if you read it, you may find some truth in it that would cause it to be banned. tinyurl.com/Tiny-Amazon #booksky #writingcommunity

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The Lion Communique

Amazon.com: The Lion Communique: 9798987993705: Cherry, Jim: Books

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now that I think about it my dreams are remarkably low-tech. Not sure I've even used a computer in a dream. I find myself driving sometimes but there's a serious lack of computer- tech in my dreamworld. In waking life I've used computers every day since I bought an Apple IIe in the mid 1980s. WTF?

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

by W.B. Yeats. I'm kinda there right now.

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I feel down, or worried, sometimes I just read one of my own poems. This is from 2 yrs ago today. Makes me think of WB Yeats, actually, a little bit...

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This poem forever. From Robert Bly's Morning Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780060928735 #booksky #writing

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A dream being expressed in another world is yours

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've dreamed of landline phones too, but never mobiles. Perhaps because I'm 62 years old? I lived the first almost 50 years of my life with "phone' and "landline" being synonymous. Cell phones are a recent innovation in my world.

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While recording a dream from last night, something I've been doing since the 1980s, it occurs to me that I have never even once held or looked at a cell phone in a dream. How interesting.

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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

—Black Cats

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Considering it only takes a few minutes online to get multiple examples of a name pronounced correctly I think it's unprofessional for a narrator to just "wing it." You do the right thing and verify before hitting record. I wonder how the author of the book I'm reading felt when they heard it?

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"hypnotic language takes us back to a lost paradise, to cosmic secrets, and teaches us to understand the language of the universe." Max Ernst Blue Forest

Max Ernst
Blue Forest

Abstract tree forms

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A question for #audiobook fans. How many mispronounciations do you tolerate before you DNF and get your Audible credit back? I am listening to a philosophy book, and this narrator has mispronounced the names of every philospher but Neitzshe. He pronounced "amidala" ah-mig-DAH-la. Help...

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Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everybody ready for October?

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How close can I get to the present moment?

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

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Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, because we are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve. - #MaxPlanck

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My eternal comfort read, not for solace in hard times but for consistent nostalgic joy:

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reality is not a substitute for the world

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Talent" is like a diamond still in the mine wall. It's just a rock until you identify it, excavate it, clean it, cut it, polish it and present it to the world. It's the work that makes the diamond shine

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Isn’t this how everybody sees themselves or wants to be seen? Who wouldn’t find this list self-evidently positive? buff.ly/8q4ExWp

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Are You Creative? Or a Troublemaker?

To stay creative, refuse to choose

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is there experience too small for the world?

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Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Researchers already say humans are likely to reshape themselves to be better understood by chatbots, service robots, etc in a sort of existential drift... nautil.us/are-you-in-d...

Drawing of one child on laptop in shadow of AI chat, another child reading a book with an imaginative shadow of landscape, animals, planets, rocket.

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." Sydney J. Harris

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans — as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides.” – Philip K. Dick

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