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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The 2nd of my low-lights series for 2026, a series of paintings designed with metallics for low-light viewing. Pretty neat! Compare colors from shaded room, to a 'night-light' hallway, to a golden hour mix of the two. "Tulip in Windowsill" 2026. Rob yates 2026 #acrylic #painting #Kansas #tulip

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The incredible Squirrel Nut Zippers. Killer show. #jazz #squirrelnutzippers

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New York, New York - October 2025. Poetry in motion. #NY #newyork #nyny #poetry #photography

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Gorgeous day to be headed in for lecture. "Campus Visitor" #photography #art #monarch #nature #butterfly

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

During the Satanic panic of the 80s, Ozzy was the sensible, safer alternative to bathshit crazy evangelical parenting. Anti-war, critical of capitalism, and a dad that showed up. #Ozzy was a #deconstruction icon. The "Prince of Darkness" was more christ-like than any mega church preacher.

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Trying to get up and running over on Instagram and would appreciate a follow if you have the time. "Haunted" from #sonofgod is posted in full over there now. #kansaspoet #poetry #poet

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

One of the coolest people I've gotten to briefly meet. #thedoctor #Davidtenant #doctorwho I got a #jessicajones themed signing though. All around nice dude. #sometimesmeetyourheroes

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"Why don't Presidents fight the war? Why do the always send the poor?" System of a Down. For no reason on a #saturdaynight

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

World on fire, but hey, man, daughters bought me scratchers, and I have won a dollar and a chance at a thousand tomorrow. Here's to tomorrow. #daughters #fathersday

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"Poetry is chain smoking" from "Son of God," 2024 Spartan Press, Kansas City. "Menthol flavored madness cooling the tongue..." #kansascity #writing #poetry

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Some pre-work #photography on a new acrylic #art piece for the spring. My Cherry Blossom was looking gorgeous this evening.

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Good 'ol #KC at The Savoy last week. Missing spring break already #kansascity

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This one was just for fun (and a birthday present) - "Mid-century Sunset" #painting #acrylic #art

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"We're going to find out what happened and do what it takes to make sure it never happens again. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families for this tragic loss," was all that needed to be said about Flight 587. THAT is Presidential. But no, here comes some old turd blaming black people.

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TheHadou @thehadou.com · 28/01/2025

If it exists you can refine it — but it must exist first. Make the sketch. Combine the ingredients. Try the routine. Be not deterred. You can make it perfect faster with the experience gained.

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Mixing up some landscape with sharp abstract tones and shapes. "Storm's Comin'." Featuring contributions from the kiddo sitting on my lap yesterday afternoon. #painting #kansasart #artists #acrylic

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

An older #abstract from when I first started. A Reflections off a #Chicago skyline, named "untitled effort." Related #poem "untitled effort," beside. A day that signaled the death of a relationship, but was the birthplace of art. Poem from #sonofgod #poetry #writersky #trauma

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Commit the sin of empathy.

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Eric Palicki @ericpalicki.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

THE meme of 2025 for me.

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Those looking for topical fiction during these funky times should check out After the Revolution by @iwriteok.bsky.social. Also, play Cyberpunk 2077. It'll be good tears and good therapy. Dystopian fiction was supposed to be a warning, not a mirror. Here we are.

Scene from cyberpunk 2077, showing an empty, night time city street with a single truck driving down it.

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sara gray 🩶📚 @saramorallygray.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

now’s the time to start buying the physical copies of your favorite books, #booksky – they can take your kindle/digital copies away at any time

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Kansas is more "frozen hell" than rolling summer prairie currently, but I like the way this piece of mine from last summer shows how types of light affects color. #Kansas #painting #art

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“Thanks, man. Where was I? Oh yeah, so it was December, and I just wanted to get out of the cold. I knocked on some random guy's door. I’m tellin’ ya, dude was out of his friggin' mind! He kept asking me a bunch of super weird questions and whining about some chick named Lenore."

a hand holds a lighter to a cigarette in the beak of a raven (crow)

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Son of God out at Spartan Press "These poems are new generation prayers and meditations that expose truths with humor and hard-fought wisdom in a collection that will resonate with many." -Kevin Ridgeway, author "Too Young to Know, "Invasion of the Shadow People." #poetry #deconstruction #writing

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Man, #duneprophecy sure landed an incredible season. Worth checking out even if you aren't a Dune fan/familiar. A good fit for the hole left by Agatha All Along. Much darker, but full of witchy sisterhood and regular doses of backstabbing. #dune

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Wishing everyone a pleasant #yule as the last of the week burns out. Stay safe and warm everyone! The highways are already spicy.

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Texture work in paint and print. Penciled from #sonofgod #poetry

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IanHall24959 @ian24959.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Have you ever Walked backwards through a mirror Into a space between thoughts? Where everything is nothing No light or darkness one of the realms One of the states Where nothing is measured Not even time #poetry #poet #poem

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Rob Yates, Author @roblyates.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Recent painting to get shit all festive. The color work was fun. That many bricks were not.

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