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Jerf Blerkman

@jeffblackman.bsky.social
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new poems at Discordia and the Nu Review latest chapbook from Puddles of Sky Press new photo by Oscar the Grouse

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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 12h
oh my gods they're making "A Latverian Film"
tweet from @BuzzCrave

Avengers: Doomsday reportedly has at least 6 major deaths.

It's described as one of the darkest movies ever made.

Picture of the Avengers: Doomsday poster with "Doom is Coming" as the tagline

Second picture of Victor Von Doom with his little mask and his hood and his cape chains. Cloak chains? Whatever those fancy things are with the big metal disc on each side holding the cape and a chain between them. He's trying to look like Caesar but hhe just looks ridiculous.
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ottawa Citizen fell for a bot, and published them 3 times ottawacitizen.com/opinion/dani...
ottawacitizen.com
Why the Citizen removed articles by Daniel Robson — and what we're doing next
He came to us as a self-proclaimed "Canadian journalist" specializing in extremism.
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
British Bluesky is mid
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mr. Gorbachev, Buy these books
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By no means am I defending anti-semitic losers who talk about "ZOG," but the overall ADL project - getting special no-boycott rules for Israel that no other country has an America - has clearly backfired. It's an incredibly useful story for bigots!
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are not handling "kid who hits and kicks unprovoked" very well at all
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TELLS ME WORSHIP IN THE SNAILROOM
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
late entry for terrible comic day
A comic drawn in pencil on a post it note. A person in the distance points at two large letters, an I and a T. The person says, “Far be it from me”
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ironically, for the same reasons (death of the monoculture, shift towards personally-curated streaming bubbles etc. etc.) that it is easy in 2026 for you to have never heard a long-running Billboard #1 single it is *just as easy* for you to actively seek out and listen to those other artists
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the kindest thing anyone has ever done with my poetry and I've been dumbfounded since. An entire chapbook handstamped. www.puddlesofskypress.com/chapbooks.html
Sleeve and cover for IN THE BRINY. Cover is just those words in green stamp letters. Sleeve features a calendar grid plus the title and my name. Both are arranged on a green cutting board.Page open to "fullest"

Hold up
It's been low

thinking everything a
thing to do



Busy,

busy living
filling those calendar squares
to their brims
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These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
4 leading candidates for Ottawa Mayor debate next Tuesday at Arts Court ABOUT ART
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A visual poem for #smallpoemsunday from my book Classic Crimes. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
When the 
mind
opened
the guests
were mostly birds
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh shit is that DiPiglio?
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TOTO - Visual Artist / Concrete Poet / Typewriter Art @sebastianandresvis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WHY DON’T YOU; take some time to look at ART! [Artists, drop your work] 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An AI engineer with round glasses says "we figured out that in order to get the A.I. to make more human-like art, it needs to draw from a set of personal emotional experiences..." He holds up a tablet displaying a program entitled "C-PTSD-GPT" and says "so we gave an A.I. the memory of having divorced parents." He gives it to an engineer with square glases who sees that it has generated art of a sitting childlike figure flanked by two arguing, monstrous dinosaur-like skulls. He comments "Wooooah... this is DARK." Round glasses replies "you think that's good? Wait until you see the one we molested!"
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
since I've been added to an Ottawa artists' list, here's the latest issue of @thesedayszine.bsky.social I put out this fall (37th). Very proud of this one and I appreciate all the DMs I've gotten (esp about Lil Drew's art)
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
fwiw my rabbi's Rosh Hashana sermon warned us against vengence, explicitly calling what Israel has done to Palestine vengence. so yeah, Avi Lewis is my kinda Jew and my kinda guy.
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The 1 like skeets are sometimes just what I need
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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry a cop killing a shooter at a synagogue on Yom Kippur ruins your pristine ideology. I'm so sorry.
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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think even on Bluesky we can hold two (2) thoughts in our heads at the same time.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 20/09/2026
Another resignation for Kerry-Lynne Findlay as Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigns.
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like it's bonkers this person became leader and instead of asking their spouse to step down and trigger a by-election... she destroyed an entire party. You know they go crazy on it
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone is gonna accidentally publish pre-written Findlay-Chapman murder/suicide copy
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meys @meysq.com · 20/09/2026
Nickelodeon Director’s Lab is a piece of software whose aesthetic is absolutely impeccable. everything is clickable and there’s a fuck ton of FMVs and it changed my life as a kid
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jesslyn delia @jlyndelia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
my first time tabling since my dad used to drag me around ontario selling his art at festivals & fairs. which is to say i’ll be in a great mood, come say hi if ur in victoria
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Family with 2 parents, 1 kid, routinely provides shelter & upbringing to 3 other families 5+ kids -- please I don't want to use an LLM. Someone please tell me what sitcom, drama, or novel this is ripping off. Is this like a plot of Shameless or something?
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I’ve Opened Up Our Home to Kids in Need. My Husband Has Some Pretty Unfair Objections.
The kids should be the priority.
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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 18/09/2026
hey. have you called the pod yet? it's free and if you have an emails job, you can waste about 40 minutes looking like you're on hold. no other podcast can offer you that
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/06/2025
I have some important advice for any of my younger followers about to enter the job market for the first time, hard-won advice that has been passed down through generations of email jockeys who just want to get through the day without too much hassle: the CEO must never know your name
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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to Ben Ladouceur! I Remember Lights is a finalist for the 2026 City of Ottawa Book Awards. See a list of all the finalists here: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My bro is LOVING Wolverine. He says it's not the greatest game in the world, but the hate is overblown. It's just a blast to claw up the bad guys. The day the OOT remake gameplay was shown, I saw nothing but critique. But everyone I come across IRL think it looks beautiful. The list goes on.
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another year another jam #5788
Pot of wild grape jam hot off the stove, pictured by a glass of equally red wine, notepad with more and more to do
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
don't look at the sexy new photos of the celebrity! They are BAD photos. Whoo-ooh-ooh. Bad photos! Don't look at them
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Only zine celebrating the execution of scifiwriters #aretheyforreal #onewaytofindout
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These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
new issue feat. real art about ai, including new writing from Gwen Aube, Justin Million & Ether Vincent, Lil Drew's drawings, and a comic by @nickyflowers.com www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...
Lil Drew's cross-section drawing of a mech. Inside are several floors akin to a Donkey Kong level, with stickmen busying about and one in the head peering out1st third of "Carriers" by Justin Million:

Once upon our past,
a great fleet
of gossip--

Now,

we have long left you
outside

the grocery store
in downtowns,

filling your wings
with a garbage purpose,

delivering nothing.

I forgive you
for soiling the statues,
we're taking them all down anyway,photocopied collage of ai generated art (animals with human hands, graphic poster to STOP KILING STREET DOGS) pasted to a Shary Boyle sculpture (woman nursing in cave with projected imagery)page from Nicky Flowers' comic. Close up of a bespectacled character with curly hair and a hat, sneering "Let's say I want to join your new religious movement - what do you do with this sentient being?"
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Cloud🔞 @lillhappycloud.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My hot take with this is that we need to ban huge-ass displays for artist alleys and keep them to trader's areas.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know what the answers are, but the first part of planning about AI is believing that AI can already do the stuff AI can already do.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 11/09/2026
Today is my mother’s 90th birthday and we had to cancel a birthday/Rosh Hashanah dinner because my sister and I and multiple toddlers are sick, and my mother lamented that this was her most disastrous birthday ever, but even she laughed when I pointed out… not quite.
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
שנה טובה/A sweet new year to all those who celebrate 🍎 🍯 🕊 🍯 🍎
Linda Pastan
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
went back to early Cassie comics and releart she's Jewish, so now hope if I atone really well next week Branson will do a Seder at Carabbas's-Arc in 5788.
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BURG: Slider Gaiden BEYOND @digijeg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lol damn
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gem (real name) 💎 @gemcitygem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
me: hi gimme a large pizza pizza guy: any appetizers? me: what do you have? pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce pizza guy: and for your dip? me: sauce
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Interesting thread about stealing somebody's dog.
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WizardoFrank🆖 RAFFLE UP @wizardofrank.newgrounds.com · 10/09/2026
Ravenous #requests #metroid
The takeout minigame from Kirby and the Forgotten Lands, only Samus is there and she’s HUNGRY
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"You're confused!" shouts my Mistress as she cracks her whip. "You're wounded!" Crack!
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Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Grandparents scams are nothing compared to what's coming.
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