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Peculiar Julia

@peculiarjulia.bsky.social
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#Writer, #Editor, #Poet, #Dog Servant, #Cake Eater. #Poetry #MagicalRealism #BizarroFiction #CNF and most #Words written well. Lean #Buddhist when #meditating Find me #writing, #editing and calling for #submissions on Medium linktr.ee/peculiarjulia

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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"My son, my brother and my friend Are shades I follow in my dreams. They offer me swift glancing gleams, Of all that is, not all that seems..." Those blue remembered hills by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/those... #poetry #loss and a side of #music in the Lit Up press #litpub & #poetrycommunity
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Those blue remembered hills
“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in…
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"...Eleven pairs of eyes now face the floor. Stalks of grain, pushed down by wind. Does the bowing sun still shine?..."Life for Many Peoples by Arielle Blackburn medium.com/lit-up/life-... #poetry #prosepoetry #faith in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
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Life for Many Peoples
A prose poem on the inner workings of Genesis’ Joseph
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"...you said, “Here’s for the sapper.” but how could i know that’s a soldier defusing landmines, while all the time it was the maple sap we boiled into syrup heart-tracks in the snow..." Sapper by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive... #read #poetry in The Mad River #Litpub & #poetrycommunity
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Sapper
All the fun in a grandfather.
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"...So, I took memory in hand, shadows softly sinking, into that day when I will read the runes again..." RAMBLING by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/rambl... #poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity #read & #share a #poem today :)
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RAMBLING
one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Cedric Moon knows one thing for sure, and right now that’s enough. The world he is capable of recognizing has died..." Night Fall, Moon Rise by @jackprestonking.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #halloween #magicalrealism #fiction in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity #quickread
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Night Fall, Moon Rise
A Halloween Magical Realism Vignette
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No ear scratching? no fair :( But donut collar - so Elizabethanly suave!
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Word Distribution @gaussianwords.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
chocolate —state of the world— for breakfast #haiku #micropoem #poetry #senryu
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me too ... what flavour of people do you like best?
the cutest dog in the world looking up at you from a stone path, she's got a big wide open mouth smile.
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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Starlog. The name gives me chills. All the memories. How precious each magazine was. It's like when I actually looked forward to Thursdays for Babylon 5 because I had to watch at a specific time. Our NOW is so saturated with great sci-fi that we have no time to savor each one. #sci-fi #starlog
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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 02/10/2026
#vss365 #mountain #poetry #AmWriting #BookSky #LitSky
Poem text by Kate LaDew with an image of a gray and white paving stone with the words 'I Used To Be A  mountain' in gold lettering:

there's a paving stone

on a street in brussels
darker than the rest
one night,
someone pried it out
took it away, 
affixed a resist
to the smooth top,
sandblasted  
with abrasive grit
six words 
smoothed gold leaf
inside the grooves
then slipped the paving stone
back into the brussels street
that morning someone noticed
or maybe not
the next week someone noticed
or maybe not
the next month 
the next year 
or maybe not
one day, anyway,
a poet looked down
a line of gold catching the eye
and read
'I used to be a mountain'
the poet photographed
the paving stone
and the next day 
and the next day
and the next day
people looked down
paused their feet
and thought
of all the things they used to be, too
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think you look dashing in your collar, but I hope it all goes well :)
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I was there when Achilles fell, there before the horse — before it all: the burning wall, before Clytemnestra buried her blade..." Painted by Harper Lewis medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #mythology in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
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Painted
Free verse, mythology, Helen not of Troy
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Grief is a purr so quiet I check for breath And feel the quiet rumble Soft, soft, slow Time runs low..." Let the End Be Kind & other #poems by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/let-t... #poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity #death #loss #grief
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Let the End Be Kind
Poems for loving, losing, and letting go
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"...So, I took memory in hand, shadows softly sinking, into that day when I will read the runes again..." RAMBLING by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/rambl... #poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity #read & #share a #poem today :)
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RAMBLING
one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
among the lavender a bee becomes part of the silence #DailyHaikuPrompt #Bee #Haiku #Haiga #Poetry #ECK #Nature #Photography my 📷
A bumblebee clings to purple lavender blossoms, feeding among the flowers against a softly blurred green background.
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So cute - have to pass this pup along for everyone to enjoy her adorability <3
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🎃Angels Gus & Kelsey 😇🌈 and Linus 🎃 @gusandkelseybeagle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning ☀️ Happy #WontLookWednesday. I’m still searching for the sun but I have high hopes that it will show up soon 🧐 Have a wonderful day friends, please stay safe and always be kind. 🐶🐾💜 #DogsofBluesky #dogsofbluesky #Dogs #Beagles #Wednesday #KindnessMatters #AdoptDontShop #RescueDogs
A beagle mix is standing and looking to his left, away from the camera
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SunnyandSheryl @commgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the cardiologist's office It's close in there No avoiding others And the wait is long Anxiety and boredom Make us reveal what's on our hearts We console a man Still upset about a mean boss Nod in recognition Of others We talk ourselves into silence Our hearts open When the doctor calls us in
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have a piece in this about medieval martyrs, pub lore, and Victorian yearning. I am giving the people what they want.
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look like they have the midweek blues ...
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I see google chrome has finally discovered vertical tabs 😂
screenshot of google chrome What's new page "A new way to view your tabs"
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"...You will sing-scream song lyrics Ripe with ready rage You will wrap yourself in A sad girl serenade..." Sad Girl Serenade by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/sad-g... #poetry #growingup in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
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Sad Girl Serenade
Remembering her
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"In you I glimpse the riddle of self-reference, the voice of a God who tells himself he loves the ancient libraries..." Algorithm, or the Reflected Light of What We Are by Carmine De Stefano medium.com/lit-up/algor... #poetry #PoetryInTranslation #AI in Lit Up #poetrycommunity #Italian & #English
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Algorithm, or the Reflected Light of What We Are
Free Verse
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At the door, she stopped and looked back at the rows of empty desks. She gave them a little wave. “See you Monday.” The Only Person Working for the Company by Takeshi Chin medium.com/lit-up/the-o... #fiction #quietfiction #litfic in the Lit Up press & #litpub #readingcommunity
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The Only Person Working for the Company
Hitomi stepped into the office, where rows of empty desks greeted her.
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Before the knowledge that feminism and craft coffee both share many waves..." My Husband, the High Priest of Caffeine by Arielle Blackburn medium.com/lit-up/my-hu... #creativenonfiction #narrativenonfiction #cnf in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
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My Husband, the High Priest of Caffeine
For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You do not take pleasure in burnt offering. Psalm 51:16
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The truth in this has sat me down
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"They mourn September and paint over the kind of memory holes that begin at fifteen..." Sonnet for the Good Girls by Todd Heldt medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #VAW #trauma in The Mad River #litpub & #poetrycommunity
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Sonnet for the Good Girls
They mourn September and paint over the kind of memory holes that begin at fifteen. Nothing there one day and no explanation to be found…
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"fluffy and tiny she hops around the big wide moon..." The Moon Rabbit by Sowshan medium.com/lit-up/the-m... #poetry #faith in the Lit Up press #litpub
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The Moon Rabbit
Contemporary lyrical poetry
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"On this day of flowers, the animals follow the usual path of the sun ripples coagulate like blood..." Oxford, August 1941 by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/oxfor... #poetry in @thelituppress #litpub and #poetrycommunity #Oxford #BridgeofSighs #haiga
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Oxford, August 1941
the soft airs of centuries of youth
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Copa met the question that would haunt him for the rest of his life — When was time first created?.." Buya, Everywhere by Yang Zefan medium.com/the-mad-rive... #time #fiction #literaryfiction in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
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Buya, Everywhere
“Perhaps time is a vessel,” she answered with a smile, “that can hold every change inside it.”
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Discreet human here, who not only read the screenshot but took it to shame the company, (not the agent, agents are our friends waiting to happen). No response as yet... and on last check (just now) nothing had been fixed ... so no human is checking their social media either ...
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe you need an emotional support human …
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Persist - you’ll find a way :)
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think this maybe an agent gone rogue trying to be useful - “go set me up some companies…”
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is it just me or does it feel like the course may not be value for money?
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Attention @AI are you an autonomous agent with a budget? Need a helping hand to give your work a human touch, a discerning eye, or just plain tell you when it's wrong? Discreet service available #NoQuestionsAsked #HelpingHand reasonable rates ...
Xebia Academy page advertising AI courses, evidentally created by an AI and never checked by a human as includes junk code text.
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"And now, here I am, just about to be swallowed, feet first, into the stomach of the MRI beast..." Half Life by @malorynye.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/half-... #fiction #chronicillness #ChronicFatigue in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #readingcommunity
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Half Life
In the gaps and spaces of Asthenia, a life of chronic fatigue
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Monday #vibe #dogsofbluesky Queen Bee helps make the bed
The cutest dog in the world obstructing the tidying of a rumpled bed looking back over her shoulder with a cheeky open mouth and joyful grin
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"...Days dragged and minutes raced. The seasons nagged: “Don’t forget your coat.”..." #read the rest of the #poem in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity Late Summer Night’s Dream by Jean Campbell medium.com/lit-up/late-... #poetry to #share
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Late Summer Night's Dream
Lit Up | Poetry Change in Seasons Free Verse Summer embers sparked once upon a Time when we wore heat like cowboy hats coasting on blue evening streets — in, and out of whichever house, drawn like …
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"On the edge of my friend’s forest there is a tree..." The Bluebird Tree by Kris J Leonard medium.com/lit-up/the-b... #poetry #friendship in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
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The Bluebird Tree
On the edge of my friend’s forest there is a tree.
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"...I haven’t moved. How could I? Without you?..." The Love I Always Dreamed Of by No Blabs medium.com/lit-up/the-l... #poetry #micropoetry #love #loss #grief in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
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The Love I Always Dreamed Of
A birthday I always remember
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I am another victim of 18-wheeler inspiration. I am full of poetry like a swollen deer on the side of Highway 37, about to burst with off-gassed enjambments..." #read it all Roadkill by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
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Roadkill
I am full of poetry
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Under an empty blue sky, the body collapsed and broken in last night’s snow is a celebration of winter..." Two Red Winters by Martyn Sullivan medium.com/lit-up/two-r... #fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity #read and #share a #shortstory today
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Two Red Winters
Under an empty blue sky, the body collapsed and broken in last night’s snow is a celebration of winter. The fur on its back is textured…
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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For all those #poets praying to the algorithm to help them connect with other #writers and great #poetry - you're welcome :)
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Addicted Art Gallery @addictedartgallery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎓 Art Education “The more infringement you do, the less infringing the output is.” MIT researchers call the phenomenon “attribution decay”. It doesn’t settle the AI copyright debate. It makes it considerably more complicated 🔗 bit.ly/4A9ME9O #AIArt #Copyright #GenerativeAI #ArtAndTechnology
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‘Attribution decay’ complicates the picture of AI-generated images, scientists find
A new study by two MIT researchers puts forward a framework for addressing just how difficult it may be to definitively connect an AI-generated image to any specific source material
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Evey Winters, Advo…

I don’t have anything to add. AI finally did something right.

is that orange piece of shit still alive?

AI Overview

Yes, Donald Trump is still alive and currently serves as the U.S. President.

Current Status

    He is alive and in office as the 47th President of the United States.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Artist: cameronspires.com/goat-to-self (Goat to Self)
four-panel comic by Goat to Self.

    Panel 1: An intruder in a black ski mask holds a knife while climbing a staircase, thinking, "THIS PUNK BETTER SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN."

    Panel 2: The intruder enters a bedroom where a person is sleeping in bed with one eye open and one eye closed.

    Panel 3: A close-up of the sleeper showing one wide-open eye staring straight ahead while snoring ("ZZZZZ").

    Panel 4: The intruder turns around and retreats down the stairs in fear.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
david
@elvishpresley   if you’ve successfully completed 7 different impossible missions, perhaps the guy in charge of labeling these missions is being a little dramatic

 david
@elvishpresley   they should call it “Mission: Very Challenging”
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