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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here’s my poem in Whale Road Review. Link in comments 🫶

Run-on (noun)
I always think about that walk I took years ago through a Boston cemetery it was peaceful the headstones were like museum artifacts sprawling is how I describe it when I tell the story I cried on the steps of a mausoleum thinking about how all those people lived entire lives before I showed up to the party carrying boxed rosé and a container of store-bought hummus when I got to Anne Sexton's grave the sky suddenly choked open and rain came pouring out back at the hotel I Googled how do astronauts pee in space what happens if there's a medical emergency on the ISS I wanted to know every distant and mildly uncomfortable fact I shivered to sleep in my soaking-wet clothes with the A.C. on full blast the next day as penance I purchased a copy of Anne Sexton's Live or Die from a used bookstore I feel that I should include the requisite nouns apparition / catacomb / gravedigger / columbarium / I keep moving so grief won't catch me I've left it behind so many times I've buried it under nouns eventually it will run out of breath see how small it looks from here just a little hand the size of a doll's reaching up from the ground—

Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gloria Steinem was the soft cotton rag into which the chloroform of COINTELPRO was poured. Every so called advance for women she stood in front of was a cover for direct harm against Black Americans and their allies.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An all timer of an awful week wrt artists dying.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am visiting the future to find out what words are there.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ulf the White. Frat bro or brunch lib?

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

By the way I opened a game store, you can keep up with us @cosmiccardboard.bsky.social

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Me when the census man comes around checking my race

Picture of a bread bag reading “canyon bakehouse gluten free mountain white”

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

US leftists really need to move past the idea that not holding state power = automatically more radical. The point of radical politics is to take the power back. You can’t redistribute equality, or any resource, until you control it.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Pour a hilariously insufficient amount of peroxide into the swamp (I created).

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I spend most of late spring through summer thinking about the Green Knight. This is because I spend most of late spring through summer fighting back kudzu. Every year (so far) I force it into a smaller space than the year prior, and every year (so far) it returns larger and stronger; but so do I.

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Marianne Worthington @mworthington.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

EXCITED that my new poetry collection is available for pre-order from @bellepointpress.bsky.social! You may know how important pre-sales are, especially for independent presses, so I hope you’ll be interested in pre-buying a copy. Release date is June 23. bellepointpress.com/products/wat...

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PRE-ORDER: Water. Witness. Word.

Water. Witness. Word., by Marianne Worthington **This is currently a PRE-ORDER title. Forthcoming Publication Date: June 23, 2026** Water. Witness. Word. is a meditation on loves and griefs of many sh...

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Dawkins, among others, once again proving liberal arts supremacy as an education path. Pure science is a great tool but it doesn’t prepare you to navigate a world full of intentionally false information. The bigots reveal themselves often through lack of imagination.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Democrats went from No Kings to yassss King real fast once a king showed up and said one sentence they agree with. Pathetic.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The same ethics and norms that led to Abu Ghraib, My Lai, the 2007 Baghdad strike, pissing on fallen enemies etc etc etc etc etc. I think we are fine to let the institution die actually.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I don’t post about sports here but I’m about to become a post covid millennial cardiac event statistic if Mark Pope can’t figure out basic substitution patterns.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Reading that Cubans got their grid back up. Viva Fidel, revolution forever!

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

How do SO MANY people not know that unsigned bills become law automatically after 10 days?

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It’s covid. I’ll probably live because I’m in pretty good health overall but it doesn’t feel that way at the moment.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Haven’t had a proper day off since 2025 but I’m 3 days away from finishing this renovation then I’m gonna sleep for a week.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Can’t believe I live in world so stupid that 23 years later, and 36 years later, people still believe the US is invading west Asia because of nuclear threat instead of imperial capitalism.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Survived my own trial of 7 today when I slipped and stabbed the tip of a 7” phillips bit through the top of my hand. Do not recommend 0/10 experience.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Just found out I was accepted into an anthology for the writers workshop that made me the poet I am today. Sometimes it’s a good day on Al Gore’s internet.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Worried that I wouldn’t like kotsk but now I’m in the much worse position of loving it and having no more episodes.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

AI has always been ridiculous to me, but I don’t even like backup cameras on cars, or cars in general.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Why is it that a prince of the realm must be jailed so that a moldy orange nouveau riche might be spared?

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Look man that Trump post was racist as hell but now my feed is full of Obamas lionization and I can’t stress enough the problems with ICE and an unaccountable reactionary right are inseparable from choices Obama made. Now is not the time to whitewash their role in all this

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Littlefinger is a proto liberal capitalist, who, similar to today’s Democrats, wanted to prolong the Gramscian nightmare at the end of the Targaryen reign. In this essay I will

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Reform + retrain = collaboration. The Dems want to collaborate with the white power party because they share organizing principles (capital).

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Disappointed there hasn’t been a single “Bovino put out to pasture” headline.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If they won’t release the names of the goons who committed murder then I’m changing my stance on collective punishment.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Been going to the 25th anniversary rerelease of LOTR with my 15yo this weekend and last and trying to keep up with the ongoing state terrorism, an ice storm, and a parent’s unexpected hospitalization. During what is definitely my 100th plus rewatch of two towers yesterday I occurred to me that the

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

They’re training grok to make cp as a preemptive defense against the full Epstein revelations.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Let’s play guess the author.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

At times I dream recursively dozens of times in one night, each time waking disoriented because it feels more solid than a normal dream. Last night I danced to Tipper in a Welsh field with Rebecca Ferguson. She wore platforms that put us eye to eye & was just as strange and beautiful as in real life

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/10/2025

in fact, neither mlk jr or malcolm x posed any true threat to fascist government until they 1) began expressing admiration for the work of the other... and 2) expanded their protests from race struggle to class struggle. this is, of course, what got them killed; as well as fred hampton.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

First successful lions mane grow is finally fruiting. Found a good spot and got fruit bodies in under 9 months from bulk to fruit. Time to scale up for next years market.

Two lions mane fruit bodies on a column style maple log.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Imagine being too ignorant to know what a Luddite is then someone puts you in charge of a plagiarism machine. Pathetic.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The Portal Stage at Legend Vally lit up for Tipper’s last show at the venue. #secretdreams #tipper

A crowd dancing in front of a music stage at Legend Valley Ohio, the stage has multiple large screens of different shapes with music visuals playing. Lasers foreground themselves in the fog. A sense of joy and exhilaration fills the scene.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

movie youve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lord of the rings, or marvel.

media.tenor.com

a man is sitting in a chair with his legs crossed

Alt: Jeff Bridges as the Dude sitting in a chair with his legs crossed

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Talking about how his dad got into US activism after hearing SNCC members sing Florence Reece’s “which side are you on” is exactly what I needed today. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3MwYxn/

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How can you not love this guy #fyp #justice #freedom #civilrights

TikTok video by Pop Politic

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yezzan zo Qaggaz but worse.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Meanwhile, every anarchist I know: are you hungry I just grew these greens, can you help me fill up this donation box before my volunteer shift?

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

One thing you never want to do to a tire if you want it to remain pressurized is to cut a pice of brake line at a 45° angle around 2” long and allow it to puncture the sidewall. This will cause the tire to lose pressure quickly, a bad time.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Who could have predicted that in the end the imperial army would be turned on its own citizens. Totally unforeseen outcome, unprecedented in history.

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A piece of an elegy I wrote after the death of a brother. Check image for proper line breaks. 2:syllogism The grief of what might have been is always heavier than the grief of what was Two sheaves of grief will be provided to you and that is why you have two arms

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The grief of what might have been is always heavier than the grief of what was
Two sheaves of grief will be provided to you and that is why you have two arms

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Nick Smith @nixmyth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I haven’t watched wrestling in decades but I know kayfabe when I see it.

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