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Jordan D. River

@jordanriverwrites.bsky.social
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Pericollapse poet/author. Game/Book reviews. I write short stories, essays and novel mostly in verse across genre, but typically horror adjacent. Check media tab for latest from me. Buy my ebooks at jordanriverwrites.itch.io

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Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Blimey - what a time Ive been having! And part of it was enjoying an Open Mic Poetry session. Just to be helpful, I have created a little article with some tips on how to enjoy one of those. Take it or leave it. (thats the advice - in a nutshell)
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How to Enjoy a Poetry Open Mic
... if you tend to overthink everything - like I do
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meta pledging to give free pervert glasses to blind veterans is pure, cold blooded manipulation. Using blind vets to rehab their reputation. How can you be against AI glasses? Why do you hate veterans? Crudely done. Burn it all down.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Root Bear Mead #1: 3oz of rootbeer botanicals in a 4 cup tea. 2lbs honey. Water sufficient to 1 gal. OG 1.080. Nutrient and ec1118. Expect 4 weeks. My kitchen smells of rootbeer tea. OMG I so want to timetravel and get a frosty glass of Barqs or A&W back in the day.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Independent presses need readers. They also need rooms where writers can experiment, learn, argue, laugh and make new work. That's what we're trying to rebuild. If you want more from The Broken Spine, attending this workshop genuinely helps us make more possible. shorturl.at/IZ5TX
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bleak.
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Queen Anna V 👑 🫜🫜 @annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All my books and stories can be found on my Itch page. I have a mix of cozy fantasy, horror, and romance/spicy. All are free to download. My current story is a Star Trek spicy fan fic novella. "Space is messy, and so is the crew." anna-verner.itch.io
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ok, World. What fresh hell lurks in your dawn?
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 05/09/2026
They tell you not to meet your heroes. Nobody tells you what to do when you outlive them. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 looks at the distance between youthful obsession and the writer you become afterwards. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Firestorm Mead: #1 - 2lbs honey, 14g of cinnamon made into a 2 cup tea, 10 fl oz ginger juice, water sufficient to 1 gal. 1.074 OG. Potential ABV 9-10%. Should be a spicy meadball.
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“We are high on the strongest drug that has ever existed: self-deception” georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/8-billion-...
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8 Billion Junkies: The Addiction That Is Killing Civilisation
Hallucinogenic Capitalism
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Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hi, I just found out that my latest poetry book, Verses till midnight, is nominated for the 2026 Indie Author Awards. I’d really appreciate your help spreading the word, the link for you to vote if you’d like to is in my linktree, or here: shre.ink/voting 1/2
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Poetry
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#Poetry #Prompts #OddChallenge #60OddPoems My entry. A tasty mead base one can build so much more on.
A Classy Session Mead 1/3

_Ingredients_

One pound of honey to the gallon — that is,
ten thousand small commutes, ten thousand
returns to a house that was never theirs;
gold moved up, frame by frame,
until it answers to a name that never flew.

Water. Rain, or the river,
or the pipe the town paid for twice.

One packet of the dry and sleeping many.

A spoon of something dead to feed the living.
A Classy Session Mead

_Ingredients_

One pound of honey to the gallon — that is,
ten thousand small commutes, ten thousand
returns to a house that was never theirs;
gold moved up, frame by frame,
until it answers to a name that never flew.

Water. Rain, or the river,
or the pipe the town paid for twice.

One packet of the dry and sleeping many.

A spoon of something dead to feed the living.
A Classy Session Mead 2/3

_Method_

Do not boil. Heat takes the meadow out of it;
what you scald you cannot call back.

Stir until the thick gives up its seam
and the sweet forgets it was a hoard.

Pitch the small ones in. They do not ask
what it is for. They wake, they find the sugar,
they find each other, they begin.

Then dark. Then the airlock's patient knock —
one soft knock, one, one, one —
which is not a clock. A clock counts down.
This counts up.A Classy Session Mead 3/3

Nobody works alone in there.
Nobody is named in there.
The warmth you feel through the glass
is only the sum of them.

When the knocking stops, rack it off.
Look at the floor of the jar. That pale silt
is the ones who made it. Every glass you have raised
was built on that and poured off of it.

Bottle it low. Four percent. _Session:_
strong enough for talking, weak enough for hours.
Not the bottle that drops one man in a corner —
the jar that keeps a table lit past midnight .
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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.filmsforaction.org/articles/see...
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Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition | Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all aroun...
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Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good essay and how a select few have taken the brilliant ideas of fine hard-working SciFi authors and made a hash of it. They are also stealing their works too. aeon.co/essays/silic...
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Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays
Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Return to the ocean is the default. Diversion to eternal is soul capture. The Guf is empty and demons stalk the land. This is about [x]illionaires.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
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This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly
Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of the few places left to share them honestly
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Debra J. Nordyke @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I would like to share that it is official, my long-held dream, on Monday, August 17th at 2:09 pm, I received an email from my publisher, that Ink my book has been officially released on Amazon and Kelsay Books website! www.amazon.com/INK-Debra-J-...
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Amazon.com: INK: 9798901468722: Nordyke, Debra J.: Books
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just started a new batch of ginger beer and my kitchen smells so delicious right now.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This damned heat is getting old. My HVAC died in February so I'm getting by with natural ventilation, fans and a weak portable. Temperature before sunrise? 80F. And there's no end in sight. We found heaven too boring so we created our own hell.
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Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Poetry News → www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #PoetryNews #PoetrySky
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It’s not just the Odyssey effect: poetry is booming because it’s the only language for these times of violence and chaos | Charlotte Higgins
From Homer’s epic to conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, we can see how poetry fills the gap when ordinary ways of writing or speaking aren’t enough, says Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
At every turn I expect rationality and patriotism to win out, and at every turn I am consistently disappointed. This nonsense could conceivably limp along the rest of my life getting shittier. One hopes for a faster resolution.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Will they defend the 1st amendment right of the audience members to boo? Or is first amendment right only for bigots? "I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Also I will defend only you, not others, until it starts to seem like I agree with what you say."
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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Why not treat yourself or a loved one to my new "Folklore of Scotland" Let's go on a magical journey in faerie tales and folk horror, introducing almost 200 characters from Scottish folklore folkloreofscotland.com #folklorethursday #Scotland 📚 available in print and ebook
Image of the new Folklore of Scotland book by Stephen G Rae
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Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Some subtle, clever, beautiful submissions already in - thank you! The window for Issue 10 is open throughout July. The theme is Delicate: all that is tender, precarious, graceful and deft; patterns, images, intricacies and interactions. Human and non-human. Please check website for guidelines. 🕸🕊
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Red Ogre Review @ogre.red · 16/07/2026
Educators: our newest project is open for submissions! We're putting together a full-length collection on the topic of poetry in education, edited by Dr. Jones Irwin, our poetry critique columnist. Please feel free to share the link! redogrereview.submittable.com/submit 📚💙
Text reading "Red Ogre Review | Call for Submissions | Poetry in Education" on an abstract multicolored background.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The weather today in Barking Waters, Great Plains is weirdly eldritch. Fog thick enough to swim through with a suffocating humidity that makes breathing a struggle. Simply bonkers. Phone cams can't capture mist and fog well. This is thick, 4 feet in front of me.
A picture of a backyard leading off into a field. Lush verdant vegetation. A thick fog clouds the scene.
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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 09/07/2026
The Backwards Knight, chock full of warnings to pay heed to. If you want to know more, you're going to have to source yourself a copy and give it a read. I promise its eldritch horrors won't drive you *too* mad. I think. It may just be your next favorite eldritch fantasy novel. #BookSky
Copy of The Backwards Knight sitting on a faded wooden-planked surface. Various warnings cover the book, reading: "Beware the Ibe Nire", "This book contains lethal levels of snark and sarcasm", "This book contains a very stabby princess", "This book contains content too close to our own darkest timeline", "This book may make you crave fried potatoes", "This book contains Siadakian eldritch horrors."
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Shit. Morning again.
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The year is 4300 BCE. The place is Europe, where Eastern nomads have invaded Shara, a civilized city where a bold and passionate young woman named Keshna comes of age as a female warrior and a daring avenger. amzn.to/3Hvx3qD #HistoricalFiction
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Knowing a heat wave was coming on, I made 2qts of raspberry shrub on Sunday and just racked it today. Delicious in seltzer or ginger (ale or beer) 1:7. Excellent hydrator and easy to make. 1:1:.25-1 of vinegar, muddled fruit and sweetner (to taste). 3 days in fridge, then strain and rack for mixing.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Honest Government Ad | Palantir
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 28/06/2026
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #CheapMotels. Temporary rooms. Permanent mistakes. Thin walls. Flickering signs. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
Dimly lit motel room with two single beds separated by a small table and twin lamps casting warm light. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels”.
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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In a sane world this would be the top story everywhere, on the tips of common people's tongues, talked about at the water cooler. At this point, my Cassandra Complex is screaming. The future they want is not hidden in symbology. www.wired.com/story/leak-e...
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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
⬇️⬇️⬇️ Open until July 15.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It is a sign of the times and very annoying that the one post I make that starts to make "numbers" is a stupid ad for an author community network and not one of my 5 poetry collections or a trenchant observation on daily life. #FML
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The three volume loose collection I call the Gospel of Want. $6.00 for all 3 volumes: Breaking Ground, Banquet & Ashes, The Unpriced Sky. Reviewers call it "...almost poetry..." itch.io/s/186488/the...
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The Gospel of Want by Jordan D. River
A bundle by Jordan D. River, $6.00 for Breaking Ground, Banquet & Ashes, The Unpriced Sky
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bezos says that concern for human comfort is holding back the techbros in their quest to build AI and reach the endgame. I think its time the billionaires relearn what the term 'human comfort' means. Tax them heavily. If they flee or hide their money, sanction them heavily and destroy their empires.
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“This chimeric monstrosity between the technobroligarchy and AI is reminiscent of the alliance between early industrialists and their factory machines. You are just a cog, they used to say. Now you’re not even that. You are the lubricant between the cogs” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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THEY ROBBED US: The Terrifying New Version of Society We Must Avoid
People are experiencing the steepest and fastest ever slide into poverty, just as one tech billionaire after the next parades through The Diary of The CEO podcast to tell us how AI will “eventually” m...
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pradams-author.bsky.social @pradams-author.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The highlight is that I published my first detective novel, Fractured Lives, book 1 in the Vic Tran series. More retailers will show up in the bookstore list as their software catches up. books2read.com/u/bWn8dq
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Available now at your favorite digital store!
Fractured Lives by P R Adams
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jqzee.bsky.social @jqzee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
goldenorder.substack.com/p/ai-data-ce...
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AI Data Centers: The Real Reason They’re Going Up Everywhere
Who’s paying for them. Why it’s happening this fast. What the buildout is actually for. Why you should care.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
OMFG. On a phone call with someone trying to show me how to do some admin process for this company (update your own damned stories!) and she is absolutely going to town on a piece of gum about 1 inch from my eardrum and its driving me to distraction.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The GOP is big into AI ads this season, and in OK it's particularly insulting to anyone not under their spell. Complete MAGA, with opposition barely present and most ads directed at other GOP. Sterotyped AI visuals. Schoolyard tactics, no mention of policy. How are they still unchallenged here?
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This seems more exciting if you read it as "flesh fiction." Submit! before July 15th. #Poetry #Submissions
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Melissa Widmaier, Fantasy Author @melissawidmaier.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Indie Author Collective Fantastical Escape stuff your kindle fantasy books event is on! Check out indieauthorcollective.com to find your new free or discounted reads!
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Absolutely fascinating for any word lover out there.
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Brian K. Henry @briankhenry.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Tired of space heroes who always triumph on every mission? Try my new story Space Lord Losers: To Catch an Ape on Substack! tinyurl.com/5ye9jyzc #scifi #sciencefiction #parody #humor #comedy #fiction #story #substack #booksky
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Space Lord Losers: To Catch An Ape
Captain Appley Duglin confidently strapped into the Elevation Booth and waited for the buzzer to signal the lift.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Currently on a rah-rah corporate all-hands and the CEO and CTO are both spouting proAI (hinting at job losses as "lower labor costs") and eagerly talking about the upcoming SpaceX rug pull. The fact it is larger than the entire economy doesn't seem to register. I hate corporate brain.
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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 08/06/2026
In this short fantasy story, a village becomes overcrowded and residents are asked to select the best method to thin the population. It’s all the fun of arguing about politics but with monsters instead! A seven-minute read. dnschmidt.com/fantasy-stor...
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Choose The Thinning - D.N. Schmidt
In this philosophical fantasy story, a village has a monstrous solution to overcrowding. Residents are asked to select the best method to thin the population.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Woke up to the same sleeping giant. The only bright seam is that they are creating the material conditions that will finally cause it to realize it has nothing left to lose. So tired of waiting for the dawn.
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