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Kelly J Cooper

@kjccreates.bsky.social
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Writer. Editor. Poet. Nerd. She/her. www.patreon.com/KJCCreates

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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City of Somerville @cityofsomerville.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Learn more about how Somerville is working alongside partners at the City of Cambridge and the MWRA to address combined sewer overflows and protect our local waterways. Review the plan and learn how you can share your feedback on it through the end of October at somervillema.gov/csoplan.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
GUESS WHAT?!? OTTER BUTT!!!! *(In honor of the backside of a river otter spotted in the Bronx River.)
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I finished sewing my George Washington Memorial Lounging Shorts tonight! Complete with purple pockets! Unfortunately, I was so worried about making them too small, I actually made them too big. But I can open a seam and shorten the elastic, so they'll be fine.
Machine-sewn shorts with an elastic waist, made from beige & gray material featuring a small portrait of George Washington printed in a repeating pattern.Machine-sewn shorts with an elastic waist, made from beige & gray material featuring a small portrait of George Washington printed in a repeating pattern. This angle focuses on showing off one of the pockets made with purple material.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Finally testing negative for COVID, so I'm back to making rewards for Patreon. Not sure why I've been obsessed with rockets lately. Maybe it's the overwhelming urge to escape.
On the left is a rocket carved from pink rubber. On the right is a print of the rocket in black ink.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I made a little guy and had to fight my brain every inch of the way. www.patreon.com/posts/166329...
A small stuffed bear, just the face, made with brown and beige wool felt. He is smiling.
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This title appears at the start of the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I believe doctors. I believe nurses. I believe EMTs. I believe paramedics. I believe healthcare workers. I believe the people who were there during the pandemic fighting like hell to keep people alive. I believe them when they talk about the misery & the death & the fear. I do not believe him.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
On Monday, 3 August 2026, around 2:30pm ET, my #poem "Paring Down" will be discussed by the editors of Space & Time in anticipation of the publication of issue No. 153 (August 2026). The theme is "Sharpen Your Tools." I'm so excited and nervous, I might explode. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: Sharpen Your Tools · 153
Starting Aug 3 at 2:33 PM EDT
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fuck today. Today sucked. Today is fired. OMFG. So annoying.
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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Valedictorians.
'You need to study hard' says Cat in his professor garb. He starts handing Girl books. 'To get into a good college - to get a good job.' He hands out coffee to them both. 'To make enough money - to be ground under the heels of the handful of inept Billionaire scam artists who took everyting - just like everyone else.' SSSSIP Cat sips his coffee. 'Education is a good unto itself?' asks Girl. PTOO! Says Cat.
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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 10/07/2026
Our Donation Drive now also supports Caritas Venezuela, an organization sending urgent aid to Venezuelans affected by recent earthquakes. Donate today and get art made by your favourite CartUn artists! Details in the links below. cartoonist.coop/aid-drive/ caritasvenezuela.org/donaciones/
The Co-op's mascots Inkling (an inkwell) and Nibford (a dip pen) are standing on top of rubble in a destroyed city. In one hand, Inkling has a pickaxe; and Nibford is holding a hard hat and a hammer, in the upper left corner there's a text that says "DONATION DRIVE FOR VENEZUELA"
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
BOOK BAN BILL THREAD FOR JULY 27. The House is not currently in session. Representatives are spending the next month working in their own home districts. What does this mean? We won't see action on three of the federal-level book ban bills. That also means go see these people IRL if you can.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Suzanne Palmer Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher Carrie Vaughn Kelley Armstrong Tamora Pierce
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I started a new thing. I'm sharing my creativity journey on Patreon. Which sounds boring. Hmm. Uh... There is also swearing. And everything is free unless you want random stuff in the mail. www.patreon.com/KJCCreates
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KJC Creates — Hi, I'm Kelly J Cooper, AKA kjc, & I'm here to get creative. I'm a writer, an editor, a poet, and a nerd. I'm making block prints, jewelry, fiber art, & more.
Get more from KJC Creates on Patreon. Hi, I'm Kelly J Cooper, AKA kjc, & I'm here to get creative. I'm a writer, an editor, a poet, and a nerd. I'm making block prints, jewelry, fiber art, & more.. Su...
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The overwhelming urge to scream "FUCK!" over and over until something happens.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I am not emotionally ready to wear shorts.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/
Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way,  having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
One of these days, y'all are going to notice that Victor LaValle is writing BLACK PANTHER INTERGALACTIC & that we still have all 3 issues on the shelves!
Three comic books, side-by-side. They are titled BLACK PANTHER INTERGALACTIC issues #1-3. Each cover features the character Black Panther. In #1, he stands ready. The faces of other characters as well as space ships float behind him. In #2 he is being menaced by a character who looks like Doctor Octopus. In #3 he is fighting N'Jadaka.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.
Get in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results.
This weekend, Amazon is premiering it's $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop.
But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller, Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie.
The book is perfect: it's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money.
We need people to:
1. "buy" the book (it's free)
2. Share this post and get other people to buy the book.
That's it. Then we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
FB and Threads are completely blocking this URL. Let's see how Bluesky measures up. wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Ma...
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ICE List Wiki
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The Million Year Picnic comic shop @myp-comics.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Hey, the Kickstarter campaign for the Denis Kitchen documentary went live today! It looks like a lot of fun! -kjc www.kickstarter.com/projects/tin...
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Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story
A documentary film about counterculture, freedom of speech, and a comic book maverick
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We don’t survive this unless we rebuild networked journalism. Like we don’t and we don’t have real chief technology officers And we’ll need that We need a whole cyber civics But it’s harder and harder to do because no one wants to just do THE THINGS TO DO TEH THINGS
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The Million Year Picnic comic shop @myp-comics.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
ADVENTURE TIME AFTERNOON!! @ryannorth.ca & @shelliparoline.bsky.social & @bradenlamb.bsky.social‬ will be screening their favorite ADVENTURE TIME episodes, doing a Q+A, & signing the ADVENTURE TIME COMICS COMPENDIUM v1 Sun. Mar. 16 at 1pm @brattletheatre.bsky.social brattlefilm.org/special_even...
Illustrated poster art reads REMINDER THIS SUNDAY ADVENTURE TIME AFTERNOON, 3/16, 1PM, Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA, TICKETS AT BRATTLEFILM.ORG. Finn and Jake are sitting on a couch, eating popcorn, giving each other a high five. Finn's drinking from an owl-shaped cup. In the foreground, there is an old TV and computers with melted candles all over them and a waving snail. The event info is on the screens of the computer & TV.
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Desmond Dekkard Cain @mlehoux.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trying to drum up some #Ska interaction/support for Bandcamp Friday over on the ol' Subreddit. Please hop in, share some links, and make some recommendations. www.reddit.com/r/Ska/s/6U9i...
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From the Ska community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Ska community
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The Million Year Picnic comic shop @myp-comics.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
ADVENTURE TIME AFTERNOON!! @ryannorth.ca & @shelliparoline.bsky.social & @bradenlamb.bsky.social‬ will be screening their favorite ADVENTURE TIME episodes, doing a Q+A, & signing the ADVENTURE TIME COMICS COMPENDIUM v1 Sun. Mar. 16 at 1pm @brattletheatre.bsky.social brattlefilm.org/special_even...
Illustrated poster art reads ADVENTURE TIME AFTERNOON, 3/16, 1PM, Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA, TICKETS AT BRATTLEFILM.ORG. Finn and Jake are sitting on a couch, eating popcorn, giving each other a high five. Finn's drinking from an owl-shaped cup. In the foreground, there is an old TV and computers with melted candles all over them and a waving snail. The event info is on the screens of the computer & TV.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I just backed Games for an Ordinary Life — A poetic art zine of tiny games on @kickstarter.com by @watermosaic.bsky.social Back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jac...
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Games for an Ordinary Life — A poetic art zine of tiny games
A collection of short, sweet and dangerous games written during the 36-Word RPG Jam in January 2025 and some custom artwork.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My poem "Into The Machine" & one by my friend @valerieloveland.bsky.social are in the new Science Fiction Special Issue of SNAKESKIN edited by Jessy Randall! www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk
snakeskinpoetry.co.uk
This site is marginally nicer when viewed with a browser that can handle frames.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Did I have leftover pizza and kimchi for lunch with an orange for dessert? Hell yeah, because I am a goddamn adult and I can do what I want! (No, the kimchi was not ON the pizza, calm down. It was the avocados that were on the pizza and yes, it was delicious.)
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Me: *sitting on the couch, doomscrolling* The universe: *giggling* Me: Uh...? <Spider drops from the ceiling & lands on my chest> Me: *LEAPS INTO THE AIR* WHATHEFUCSHITHELL? The universe: *full-on snort-laughing*
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Started working my way through this. It looks beat up cuz I bought it used. I read chapter 1 last week; this week I did the exercises from chapter 1 and then read chapter 2.
A book titled "CREATIVE STRENGTH TRAINING: Prompts, Exercises and Personal Stories for Encouraging Artistic Genius" by JANE DUNNEWOLD. There are 3 pictures across the bottom: an abstract painting with circles & stripes in shades of red; a painting of an owl on a branch with the moon behind; & a person wearing glasses writing in a journal, as seen from behind & above.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
What's your daily practice to maintain creativity during these shitshow times? TBH, I was struggling with this even before the election. I worked through The Artist's Way, but I'm struggling with morning pages now that I've completed the book.
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The Million Year Picnic comic shop @myp-comics.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! REMINDER!!! We will be hosting KEITH KNIGHT, Gentleman Cartoonist, @keefknight.bsky.social for a signing on Sunday, 23 February 2025, from 2-4pm! If you are not familiar with Keith's brilliant work, check out his website here: keithknightart.com
Tour poster for DR. KEITH KNIGHT shows Keef in winter gear, licking a "yellow snow cone," and sitting on a tauntaun. There are a lot of words crammed in and they read:
KEITH KNIGHT GENTLEMAN CARTOONIST! WINTER 2025 TOUR! 
DR. KEITH KNIGHT 
SUN. 2/23/25 
HARVARD SQ. 
MILLION YR. PICNIC 
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MON. 2/24/25
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UNIVERSITY
VETS. HALL 11AM
TUES. 2/25/25
MALDEN CATH.
HIGH SCHOOL
AUDITORIUM 7PM
WEDS. 2/26/25 
VALENTE LIBRARY
CAMBRIDGE 6:30PM
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NEW YORK CITY
MOCCAFEST
METROPOLITAN PAVILION
JOIN KEEF FOR
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SIGN UP @ WWW.KEITHKNIGHTART.COM
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'll be honest, I've pretty much spent the last 2 weeks working on my other account for the little comic shop where I work & haven't done shit here on my personal account. In my real life, I'm taking a class on screen printing & I did a one-day class on making hearts out of molten glass. Cheers!
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I tried to follow too many folks over on @myp-comics.bsky.social and hit a rate limit. Can't like, post, or follow anyone for the time being. More when it lets up.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/02/2025
In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence. I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An absolutely gorgeous retelling of Blue Beard, in verse. Worth your time.
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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 29/01/2025
So here's my pitch: if you're a trans, queer, disabled, or otherwise marginalized writer looking for something new and different for your work, reach out to me. Send me a chapter and let me audition my ideas for how I'd produce your book in audio. I NEED to be working right now on queer stuff!!
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 21/01/2025
Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
thetransfemininereview.com
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
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Scott Wachter @fs-scott.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
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Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power ove...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc- OR a lack thereof. Depriving bacteria of certain nutrients can cause important physiological changes, rendering them VULNERABLE to antibiotics, INCLUDING those they once resisted! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
i’m looking to speak to people in the millennial boston whisper network. email and signal in bio.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What a fuckin week to work in comics. Ugh.
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u4ic.bsky.social @u4ic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
While watching Nosferatu, a doctor states "She will rave all night." Willem Dafoe's character strongly states, "Then rave she must!" Simultaneously, I and basically our entire row of friends start quietly dancing, miming glowsticks. This is part of why we sit in the very back row. Then I made this
Embroidery on a white paisley print fabric. At the top it says, "She will rave all night" and at the bottom it says, "Then rave she must!" Both in a Gothic font. In the center is a cartoonish rendering of Lily Rose Depp's character from Nosferatu in bright blue slatted glasses, black hair in a bun, lips pursed. She is wearing a white night dress with corset. Both arms are raised with glow sticks in each hand, yellow on the left, orange on the right. She wears an orange glow necklace and pink and yellow glow bracelets on her left arm. 
She must rave.
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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
And there it is.
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Did anyone (besides the @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social) think we'd spend this much time talking about bollards in our everyday life?
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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Lots of good ideas here.
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