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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Joker using ChatGPT to generate some new insulting/disrespectful nicknames for Batman

Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Poetry month is my favorite time of the year because I love getting a contact high off everyone's creative energy. Who is doing a 30/30 for Poetry Month?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“What Reddit does… is give ppl a space that they can create + collectively control, and where they can ask one another question after question after question, in every possible permutation… But the only 2 ?s that ppl ever really ask on Reddit, if you think abt it, are these: Am I alone? Am I okay?”

theatlantic.com

The Nicest Swamp on the Internet

Reddit’s not perfect, but it may be the best platform on a junky web.

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“Reach up from your mere bones” A poem by Rachel Abramowitz.

Waking Ruin

By Rachel Abramowitz

Keep close to mirrors, says wolf.
Reach up from your mere bones toward
the bile-black night, says beetle.

What a naive bunch, says a thing
passing through the garden on hind legs,
boiling in a dream. I've got a sweet tangle

for you, okay, it plants grasses like you wouldn't
believe. (I'm on quiet fire in this garden,
the rosemary nips at me, the insects sniff

behind my ears.) Listen, lie here, under
this hedge, let it cover you like a nightgown.
(Inside the jar of my head, such a three-

headed lion!) I subtract you (worm of my speech),
unhook your eyelids, lay still as a cabbage.
(The trees know me.) (Reader, they know me.)

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If you need tables or counters (or dressers, or desks, or vanities)cleared, Nora can help you with this!

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hi poetry fiends (not a typo), who is celebrating poetry month with a 30/30? I always try one and i's one of my favorite things. (also interested in any of your plans to read specific amounts of poetry or certain books. Basically I am saying: please talk to me about poetry and with your poems)

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Ash Wednesday

A parody of the "friendship ended" meme; the text says, "Friendship ended with Mardi Gras. Now Halloween is my best friend." I'm standing on the right, shaking hands with my eyeball creature costume on the left. In the lower left and right are two smaller pictures of my gargoyle Mardi Gras costume from this year, with big X's crossing them out.

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Kelly J Cooper @kjccreates.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My poem "Into The Machine" & one by my friend @valerieloveland.bsky.social are in the new Science Fiction Special Issue of SNAKESKIN edited by Jessy Randall! www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk

snakeskinpoetry.co.uk

This site is marginally nicer when viewed with a browser that can handle frames.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Love Gina Myers's long poem Works & Days that is in American Poetry Review

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Dear Lonnie Musk, I can tell you five things I *didn’t* do this week: - give you up - let you down - run around and desert you - make you cry - say goodbye And a sixth bonus: - tell a lie and hurt you Best, Dz. Nutz

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Dreamed I got a poetry rejection from Fogo De Chão.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Kris and I watched a documentary on the artist Aldwyth, who assembles huge amazing collages. I never heard of her before and I feel like my brain is on fire.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Trying to knit socks again and it is still annoying

Two tips of socks on one needle. The sock are various shades of gray

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Wrote a poem about the Neighborhood Watch Eye.

Blue background with an eye that is looking to the right. Text says Neighborhood Watch We look out for each other

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Not sure if it was my mouse or keyboard or google's unwanted AI angel, but it deleted my poem one letter at a time, quickly. I could get an older version that still had everything but needed to redo some editing.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This baby is staying in our boiler until the snow melts. Glad he is finally using this bed! (PS his fur is always a mess by the end of winter but the mess is happening early this year)

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We played Civ 7 for a couple hours last night and I think the new system will be okay. I am glad it is different because I kind of felt like I was doing the same thing every time I played a game of Civ 6.

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“It’s enough to know the moon is gone” A poem by Caroline Crew.

THE FACE OF ALL THE WORLD IS CHANGED

It is a blue planet & I admit
I don't fully understand the mechanics of tides:

it's enough to know the moon is gone
replaced with a name I never stop repeating,

repeating. Sweet with me,
translate empire as small pebble,

keep these old songs rhythmic.
Home is only ever a string of numbers.

That anyone can decode this system
means they are living on your exhaled air.

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“I want to take your kindness and put it in my hair.” A poem by Kathleen Ossip.

Mother's Day

I had no mother, I required none.

I believed in mothers like I believed in the pyramids.

They were complicated too. Monumental but hollow. Dusty but beautiful.
Mathematical and confusing. Birth, I believed,

was the brilliant upheaval. Now I see Death is another.

When I think of mother,

you are the image I think of, like a sun. I mean that

I'm not supposed to make friends in a poem, which should be mathematical
and confusing, You are not my mother. I required none. You are a friend who
couldn't help but mother

and now a mass blocks the sun. I want to take your kindness and put it in my hair.

The image is dead! Long live the sensation.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Writing a poem called "Vyvanse: A Love Story"

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Student in my class who is from Boston and likes to try to NJ/Philly vs Boston with me all the time: People are just so...ignorant here! My teacher, who was not part of the conversation, laughing: Hey SCREW YOU, BUDDY!

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I don't know which of the 100 things I did this weekend helped my back feel better but I haven't had sciatica all day. I also did some run/walking yesterday, which usually makes it worse.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Kris and I went on separate walkruns today at the park and I liked walking and talking together but when we do this separately, it is great for mind wandering thinking. I realized I rarely get to that mind state now.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Kris and I have been married 14 years. This is one of the ways I have been most lucky.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I loved Cynthia Marie Hoffman's poetry book Exploding Head.

Cover of Cythia Marie Hoffman's Exploding head which has a woman with brown hair and a white shirt and her head is like a wisp of smoke

Cynthia Marie Hoffman's poem Quality of Life

Cynthia Marie Hoffman's poem Stipulations

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A patient at work had a Le Voyage Dans La Lune t shirt on and we both lamented how there aren't many silent movies screenings around here. He also said he saw a chorale-backed showing of Joan of Arc, which sounded terrifying.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

In my dream I went to a poetry event called Strawberry CheeseKiss and a famous poet was mad that more people went to SCK instead of his event.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thank you cashier at CVS who told me, "I love your whole vibe." I needed this today!

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I am relieved Loretta stayed in his house last night <3

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

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nico @nicoxrette.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Please share, and let me know if you would like to join 🖤 #poets #poetry #poem #poetsky

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We are getting a costco membership today and I am going to have to make some special black out/pinhole glasses to wear otherwise I am going to get overstimulated in 5 seconds and bite someone like I am a cat.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

OR Loretta can use the heated cat house we got for him. OR stay warm somewhere else. I just can't have him outside in single digit temperatures, trying to curl up on snow

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We let Loretta back outside now that it isn't super cold anymore. I hope he still trusts us if we have to trick him into the basement again next time it is very cold.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I am not using Goodreads anymore and switched over to Storygraph. Please tell me your username so I can add you. Mine is valerieloveland

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Josie climbed up on my knitting pillow, which was on my lap, so I am counting this as her sitting on my lap! I think this is maybe the 6th? Time she sat on my lap since we got her in 2017

A short haired woman kind of hugging a gray and white cat on her lap

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Nora learning the rules of the house where everyone steals Kris's seat

Black cat on a couch while a guy sits on the floor looking sadly at his stolen spot on the couch

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My mom asked me if I had heard about dopamine dressing

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Besides Twin Peaks, the reason I got an orchid today is because I talked to a patient about orchids and it inspired me to try taking care of one. I got it right before work so I had to bring it into the office. The guy I talked to came in to pick up glasses today so he got to see that I got one.

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Valerie Loveland @valerieloveland.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Earlier today, I bought an orchid and told my coworkers about Harold from Twin Peaks scratching his face with his gardening fork. I didn't know David Lynch died, I just talk about Twin Peaks all the time.

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