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Shepseskare in Love

@upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app
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poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
look at the @sfpoetry.bsky.social list of markets, you don't have to be a member.
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The Blotter Magazine blotterrag.com @blotterrag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Gmail Hero @robertlong4man.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Copper Nickel is a good place for that coppernickel.submittable.com/submit
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Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 5h
@upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app , Petrichor is open for subs.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 6h
88 poems. 150 pages. im cool with that.
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orphanpixels.blacksky.app @orphanpixels.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
"He kicked me in the ass. Don't nobody kick me in the ass."
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 9h
"The Gorilla Fighters Under Texas, or: Derek King, Age 8, Shares His Take on the Salvadoran Civil War With Classmates at Sam Houston Elementary Based on a Viewing of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on January 19, 1988 (Confederate Heroes Day)" www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...
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The Gorilla Fighters Under Texas by Chris Baker
or: Derek King, Age 8, Shares His Take on the Salvadoran Civil War With Classmates at Sam Houston Elementary Based on a Viewing of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on January 19, 1988 (Confe...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 19h
farewell ETAOIN SHRDLU... (for the historical type nerds)
youtu.be
FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
YouTube video by Drinks and Dice
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
din daa daa is my mandalorian name... i predict the cross section of friends who'll get this tops out at 12.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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OKSOTHICK. @sayitaintsoph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The details on the door. The structural integrity. The use of materials. We really use to build shit with character. Now it’s fiberglass and vibes. Pathetic.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
back when adobe photoshop came on discs and was worth having... subscription is bullshit for that service but if thats your route then at least make it affordable. it aint a utility, so it shouldnt cost more than a water bill.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
our fliers were so dorky.
repurposed vintage illustration of little boy thriwing his arms wide open as he approaches his mother who appears taken aback at the sight of her son. he says "mother, are still buying books on the internet? dont you know that a bookstore is like having the internet at your fingertips? youre so old fashion!" her black dress contains the logo in white for wild fig books
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kerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe the not all men should start a dang movement since men are the problem. Why do women always have to do the work? We’re fucking tired
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is some good stuff if you like poetry that just hits you up relentlessly with one great word and image after another
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
#twopageplustuesday The Witch’s Titty Has A Cold Nipple (& Still I Choose To Suckle) Blues
The Witch’s Titty Has A Cold Nipple (& Still I Choose To Suckle) Blues

ornithology filled the moon 
on the night that i was born 
said Charlie Parker was my God 
on the night Mama spat me out 
- i’m an innercity 
auspex reading half-eaten 
chicken wings in the gutters of a curb. 
said: i was an astrological concierge 
catchin’ trains and jumpin tracks 
where a Nigga’s soul is dark alluvium 
at the bottom of his words 
i was raised on Witch’s Titty 
and i suckled all the sauces, swallowed 
African Sorcery’s every ounce

said: i said some fancy magic shit, 
skippin’ stars like stones 
across your senses; reckless eyes a’rollin’ 
your 2 tongues just a-click-clackin’

listen,
i was raised high on salience
lips braised (until bruised) on The Holy Breasts 
of Mother Ma’at; Joseph’s Mary rolled me in her womb, 
until Jesus, jealous, spat into my bourbon & yelled 
it’s time i met my maker 
— HA!
but on death-threats i slept. 

said: my somnifacience 
oscillates like owl-shit on a shoulder-blade, 
what a beauty mark to behold 
but i’m not the kind of blue 
to suppress hexes out of hue 
and like any Shining Black X, it isnt 
something to make me lose confidence 
in what i’m doing. you see, 
Auset is such a songstress
her teeth crusted in diamonds and kohl, 
she’s been my waitress many years; 
keeps her stockings full of switchblade, 
has my back where i am blind. 
i’m grand sommelier of all the shadows 
& my Wadjet always watches. 
said: croon me and i surface; 
huff and puff and i appear. 
Brother Khepra keeps all my secrets; 
Albert Ayler tracks the score.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Kahlil Gibran ... with all due respect, kind sir, fuck that propaganda! lord, please abandon any desire to grant me 'character'. allow me to lay unscathed, ignorant in bliss among the grass.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
jonny talks science fiction: science fiction & fascism
youtu.be
Science Fiction and Fascism: A Complicated History
YouTube video by Jonny Talks Science Fiction
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
this looks similar to the proposed designsfor a mixed-use collection of buildings proposed in louisville back in the 90s before we turned chickenshit & more conservative. it was to be "chair-like" with 4 separate buildings as "legs" & a vertical "seat" connecting them that wouldve housed a MoMA +
“De Rotterdam” (2009-13) Mixed Use Towers in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, designed by Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf and Ellen van Loon (Office for Metropolitan Architecture).

the photo is of 4 or so office towers that kind of resemble larger rectangles placed vicariously atop other smaller rectangles.
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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it's twister for agoraphobics
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
varo, leonora carrington, and basquiat are my favorite artists at the moment... ive been up since 330 editing a poem to include varo's & basquiat's names.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri I Want Diane Seuss to Teach Me How to Become a Man congratulations: Daniel's collection, Son in a Wild God’s Arms, has been picked up by University Press of Kentucky.
I Want Diane Seuss to Teach Me How to Become a Man

after Diane Seuss’s “Romantic Poet”

by Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri

I cherish the boys who cry in parking lots, who lean against dented Hondas
holding their faces. I love the boys who apologize to stray cats after scaring
them away. The ones who carry flowers badly, stems bent in their sweating
fists. But mostly, let’s be honest, I like Diane Seuss for the way she makes
ruin sit down beside beauty without either one pretending. Ostensibly,
becoming a man is less about hardening and more about surviving softness.
Don’t laugh. I grew up believing manhood was a locked jaw, a fist through
drywall, a silence thick as wet cement. But Diane Seuss writes men like
weathered barns still standing after years of snow and bad harvest. She
lets them ache openly. Lets them fail magnificently. Lets them drink
coffee at midnight while admitting they are lonely. And inside my own
body, under the borrowed swagger, under the deep voice I practice on
buses, there is a small frightened animal wanting permission to stay gentle.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
that dope shft THE ART OF RADICAL RAP
youtu.be
The Art of Radical Rap.
YouTube video by THAT DOPE SHFT.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
if i deleted backed-up pix from google cloud i wouldnt haffa pay that $2 fee for extra storage... 😑
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
few songs bring me such peace (while also slapping hard as fuck) as this one... if i had to nominate 1 song for "cool as shit" it would be this.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
don't do it, toad! taking life might be easy, but the moral ramifications could haunt you forever. 💀
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
for a site that allows formatting like italics & strikethrough text youd think such posting options would be a built-in feature. but yall know the ol' bsky motto: user-friendly only spoils the fuckers.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
either i have greatly fucked up these poems or this is the greatest shit i ever wrote. there will be no in-between.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
back in the lick, now... art blakely & the jazzmessengers STRETCHING #sundayhousecleaningmusic
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Stretching
YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
#sundayhousecleaningmusic i try to reserve sundays for jazz, but this is that cool compromise... digable planets REBIRTH OF COOL
youtu.be
Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DigablePlanetsVEVO
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
i need journals to submit poems to... im horrible at submitting and tend to only do so 2 or 3 times every odd numbered year (proper literary weirdo that i am)... but im trying to be a big boy about it all & need to take this shit seriously. ̶o̶r̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶b̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶.̶ ̶f̶u̶c̶k̶ ̶p̶o̶e̶t̶r̶y̶!̶ ̶ 🙃
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025
wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag. how much of our beloved
land are vou willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which vou would kill a child
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
we need to reboot The Highlander but as reality tv where bilionaires & aspiring trillionaires are forced to hunt & behead each other because "there can be only one". maybe call it Guillotine's Island?
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
we'll still be opposing a fascist government in 2035... if your futurist tale doesnt begin at least 100 yrs out then it's all gonna fall apart in 20 years and lose any charm it mightve initially had.
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:( HOMELESS. PINNED PLZ @adrianmica.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i've given up hope on ever meeting a housing goal again but if anyone can also help me clear some past due bills, $81 would cover them. i had hoped to be employed by now but no luck. thank yall for helping ca: $adrianmica ven: lex-thee-lovely ppal: walkingpersimmon chuffed: bit.ly/40KRJ83
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"...many interests in this country ... who don’t want to see us taking too militant or too uncompromising a stand are absolutely against the successful regrouping or organizing of any faction in this country whose thought and whose thinking patterns is international, rather than national." Malcolm X
icit-digital.org
Malcolm X Speech: There's A Worldwide Revolution Going On (Feb. 15, 1965)
Normally I wouldn’t get excited over a few bombs, but the ones who threw these not only aimed them in rooms where there—where there was no one, but even in rooms where three of my daughters sleep. One...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
ai is far worse than contaminated lettuce and shouldve been recalled years ago.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
will smith's i, robot is set in 2035 and tho a slight few might acrually have human-size robot assistants in 9 yrs - WHAIR IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MONORAIL & HOVER-CARS?!? this timeline is a lie. also, spoon's gigi is maybe 70 but knows good goddamn well what a converse is... unless +
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
sadly, mmesoma daniels is a real person who can actually play guitar, but chooses to mime ai-generated music. in a better world i would absolutely cheer for anyone stealing (back) from the theft-machine-slop-maker, but it just shouldnt exist as a consumer product; they fucked up its manufacturing.
youtu.be
This viral guitarist is about to get exposed
YouTube video by Danny Sapko
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
never trust anything thay can't be carbon-dated.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
billy woods & moor mother (feat. elucid) ARKEOLOGY
youtu.be
Arkeology
YouTube video by billy woods - Topic
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
fred moten, brandon lópez, gerald cleaver THE FAERIE ORNITHOLOGIE
youtu.be
the faerie ornithologie
YouTube video by Fred Moten - Topic
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
do not allow the fool to mind the eye.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
if iran was in america then you just know 'hormuz' would be a top 5 baby name by now after austin, brooklyn, denver, and troy...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
the bottom worst star trek shows are 9. next generation 10. enterprise 11. picard 12. starfleet academy im flexible with the top 8, but i"l give no quarter on these four; you only *think* resistance is futile.
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Every single ‘Star Trek’ series, ranked from worst to best
Entertainment Weekly voyages across the ‘Star Trek’ galaxy to explore the franchise’s various series — including ‘The New Generation’ and ‘Starfleet Academy’ — and seek out which show boldly goes wher...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
me, after taking crystal to the airport then loading up on funyuns and bugles...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed.
newspaper headline saying "negro women to be put to work" or face severe punishment.
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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 16/05/2026
For more on the Umbra Poets Workshop/Collective and co-founder David Henderson: www.villagepreservation.org/2021/01/19/t... #poetry #BlackHistory #BlackArts #BlackArtsMovement #NYC
villagepreservation.org
The Umbra Collective: “The Downtown Poets Stayed Downtown” - Village Preservation
Like the New York branch of the Black Panther Party, the Umbra Poets Workshop started in an unidentified location somewhere in the East Village. Working to establish a Black poetic community counter t...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
for the past year (until 2 days ago) the working title for my next collection was We, the Umbra. i wish i could say it was in honor of Mr. Henderson & the Workshop but umbra has been a favorite of mine for 25 yrs. & tho the title has changed, 'umbra' is still in it. but now i wanna honor him.
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