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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

First post of 2026! 📰 Burn Your Notebooks – Lisa Brockwell on Elizabeth Bishop and the dangers of leaving it all too late Read the full post: buff.ly/c9Ygbac #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..." Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey. (And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Isa na akong ganap na tropical depression.

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Ordered this physical album from Japan to celebrate all the milestones of SB19 this Simula at Wakas era. Pulled a Stell photocard.

Simula at Wakas album of SB19 in a jewel case with a Stell photocard on top of it.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 15/08/2025

New #WriterBeware blog post: A brief backgrounder on authors' class action lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized AI training, plus how you can find out if your books may be included and how to add yourself to a contact list for official class action notices writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...

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Bartz v Anthropic: Find Out if You May Be Part of This Class Action - Writer Beware

Almost exactly a year ago, a group of authors filed suit against AI company Anthropic over its creation of an enormous library of digitized books to train its Claude LLMs. In addition to purchasing an...

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

sandwich guy got charged with one count of monte cristo

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Unconscionable to let the great Donald Justice’s centenary pass without posting a poem. This paean to childhood from his debut collection seems only fitting.

The Poet at Seven

And on the porch, across the upturned chair,
The boy would spread a dingy counterpane
Against the length and majesty of the rain
And on all fours crawl in it like a bear,
To lick his wounds in secret, in his lair;
And afterwards, in the windy yard again,
One hand cocked back, release his paper plane,
Frail as a mayfly to the faithless air.
And summer evenings he would spin around
Faster and faster till the drunken ground
Rose up to meet him; sometimes he would squat
Among the foul weeds of the vacant lot,
Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come
And whip him down the street, but gently, home.

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

DUNGKA! sa Simula at Wakas Experience ng SB19.

Five mannequins wearing one set of outfits worn by SB19 in the Dungka! music video with a placard in the background that says "KULTURA PANGALAGAAN!"

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/08/2025

I will *never* apologize for a post

etching of a centaur captioned

According to Greek mythology, Chiron was a half horse, half human doctor.

This made him the Centaur for Disease Control.

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Received a copy of Conversations with my Self(ies): Poems by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador with illustrations by Wiji Lacsamana.

A copy of Conversations with my Self(ies): Poems by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador with illustrations by Wiji Lacsamana. The cover has an illustration of a mirror that reflects someone, face unseen, in a long dress and red shoes taking a photo.

For my lockdown comrades,
And for Toto, always.

And in loving memory of Daddy Julian Labrador, editor and friend Randy Bustamante, and fur kids Fredly and Captain Tsubasa.

Dear Paolo, Fellow weaver of words -- here's to celebrating the joy in everyday things. Pierra

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Rizal: *writing sequel to Noli me tangere* Me: I'm not gonna let you filibuster, bitch!

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Getting back to my own reading momentum and working on the pandemic TBR pile starting with So Forward by @minavesguerra.com

Print copy of So Forward by Mina V. Esguerra with a Kasama Una Pabitin fountain pen

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🔞Poe! 👻 🔙 SPX I11A @tailiepoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.

Differences of Opinion

I He Tells Her

He tells her that the earth is flat -
He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.

The planet goes on being round.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Oh, what a thing to do And it was all yellow And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Thank you for being a fiend, a murderous one.

A copy of Murder by Cheesecake, A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery by Rachel Ekstrom Courage

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

RIP Fanny Howe 1940–2025

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

. The Patient Teacher Who is talking in this story? Where did the monkey go? Why doesn’t Tina untangle the tangle? Settle down you boys at the back there! Who the fuck is talking in this story? .

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thank you so much, Carla ❤️ It's berry encouraging and...bananice! 🙌

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“Humanities degrees are useless” is propaganda that’s had the effect of convincing a whole generation that reading and critical thinking skills were unimportant. Now we’re reaping the results with mass illiteracy and a public eager to embrace conspiracy theories and fascism.

tweet from Heather Swadley saying she hates the “useless degrees discourse” because society needs “historians, philosophers and English majors” and their decline is a "huge reason" we're in the mess we're in]

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Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary @experimentego.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

My head canon is that Reed does not call himself Doctor Fantastic because that he thinks it's a title that should be reserved for medical practitioners and not physicists, philosophers and comparative lit majors. If course, Victor Von Doom places no such restrictions on himself

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The difference between looking something up in a book, and shouting your question in through the door of a library and hoping.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A magnificent example of someone deliberately sticking their face in a face-eating leopard’s maw and feeling aggrieved when the aforesaid face-eating leopard eats their face.

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Liz, a queen of sharks- @thesharkqueen.com · 09/04/2025

I will always share this post, in every iteration

Under capitalism, food isn't produced to feed people, it's produced to make a profit. When it's not profitable to feed people, we let them starve. Even when
• our labor has conquered scarcity, capitalism must manufacture it in order to justify its existence.

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Filipino equivalent of this prompt is: "Kung kontinente nga naghihiwalay, tao pa kaya. Write that moment when a couple breaks up even before one of them declare ls wanting to break up."

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Good for poets to have a single word that describes their usual work practice

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Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Farewell then, Robert McGinnis. He wasn't the first artist on #EdMcBain's #87thPrecinct series of books, but from the second printing of the early stories in the early sixties, and going forward, he was used. Look how dynamic this is. Absolute glamour, absolute shock.

Robert McGinnis's drawn cover for Ed McBain's The Mugger. A woman in a black dress with a red handbag is having it snatched by a mugger, running past bent over.

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Hey, Paul @psdeguzman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Si Val, si Val, si Val na walang malay!

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

April is the fooliest month -- TS Eliot

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

From The Last Guy You Kiss, @carladeguzman.com's homage to Got 2 Believe: The Tita Claudine character is explaining to the actual Claudine Barretto character the concept of a movie where actress Claudine Barretto starred opposite Kris Aquino.

"Sukob is when siblings get married in the same year. That's malas," Tita Claudine explained, tutting her lips and whis-pering, as if talking about sukob at a wedding was bad luck in and of itself. "It's also a Kris Aquino movie. It was ok lang."

"Ate," Bong said behind her, holding his beer away from his body. "The point. It's way over here with my craft beer."

"Yes, the point," Tita Claudine huffed, making sure to di-rect a glare at Tito Bong before giving Mara a warm, gentle look. "The point is, Mara. Nalipasan ka."

Jusko, would she ever escape that fucking word? "And...?" "And so, money." Tita Claudine pressed the envelope into her hands. "It's a luck thing. Marina got hers, passed it on to you, and as her new ninang and ninong sa kasal, we added to it."

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Glenday on Frost’s underlining eyebrows at the northseapoets substack … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

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Robert Frost's Eyebrows

John Glenday on words, syllables and cadence.

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Leigh Reyes @leighpod.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Sydney Paige Guerrero (she/her) @sydneyficant137.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

this is just a teaspoon in a river of AI wrong but I'm genuinely confused who would want to consume AI art? I'm always sad about how many great books & movies & shows there are that I'm missing bc I'll never have enough time for all of it. The world isn't short on art, so why would anyone want slop?

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Paolo Manalo @paolomanalo.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Thank you, @anselacorsino.com, for recommending the Little Birdie notebooks. I will try them this April. No feathering or bleedthrough with fountain pens so far.

Showing two types of A5 Little Birdie notebooks: a 144-page dot grid Journaling Notebook and an 80-page square grid Notebook with paintable canvas cover.

The back of the Little Birdie Journaling Notebook which says that the company is committed to high quality products and that "we employ more than 2000 women from rural India who use their skills to create beautiful handmade art and craft products."

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AdMan of the Dead @admancomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Sad to hear that Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. I’ve been a fan since before I even knew the man’s name.

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