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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Well, this has been fun, but everyone on this site is looking for a fight whether one is in the offing or not and I've been on Shitter enough to know when to bail. Good luck with your clone of a rotten system.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Historic Black communities are disappearing, and descendants are trying to save them “Researchers estimate there are less than 30 incorporated historic Black towns left in the US, a fraction of more than 1,200 at the peak between the 1880s and 1915.”

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Descendants fight to maintain historic Black communities. Keeping their legacy alive is complicated

Historic Black communities have dwindled from their once-thriving existence in the US and efforts to preserve what's left encounter complicated challenges

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Anyone out there with #Sjogrens #Polyneuropathy? (Neuro involvement of both CNS and peripheral). I've just been diagnosed after a four year specialist runaround. Problem: I'm already at toxicity for Plaquenil and I'm allergic to gabapentin and its relatives. I'm desperate; it's affecting Everything.

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Erin @erngenc.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

We do not feel like a first world country i gotta be honest

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — US homelessness, tied to soaring rents and loss of pandemic aid, up 12% to highest level since reporting began in 2007.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Really wish that #GrammarPolice hadn't been replaced by radical anti-puncuationalists. "I hate Oxford commas!" "People who use dashes should be shot!" "Ewww! Periods are for GIRLS!!!". *sigh* I will give a virtual bunny to the person who agrees that this is a big world with room for variety. Right?

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Deanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

I’m so deeply fascinated by this ongoing conversation—and the one about internal monologue. I’m a straight-up 1 and my inner narrator is LOUD. 😂

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald... "Wait... They're not baking any Cake!!" -Xander Harris "The Zeppo" Buffy the Vampire Slayer -Also everyone else who can tell the difference between authoritarian takeover of an entire political demographic, and cake.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/12/2023

Heads up dog people, xylitol (toxic, very bad sweetener!) is getting a makeover as ‘birch sugar.’ Check ingredients carefully before sharing with your canine pals!

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Paws Off! Xylitol is Toxic to Dogs

This poster describes the common types of xylitol containing products and the most common symptoms of xylitol poisoning in dogs.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

TIL if you ask someone talking about their marginalization to stop doing so with language that actually marginalizes others, they will Eat You. This is because two things canNot be true at the same time, and if you're marginalized you're immune from being a bigot toward anyone else. Cool. #sarcasm

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Don't neglect to pick up your FREE Ticket!!! Celebration of and Feature by Poet and Educator Norm MathMattox! December 12th, 8pm EST ( #AltText Link Image shows three photos of Norm in a row. Norm is a Black man with freckles and gray hair, beard and mustache.) www.eventbrite.com/e/one-thousa...

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One Thousand Fingers Multiplying: A Celebration of Norm "Math" Mattox

Virtual Reading of "One Thousand Fingers Multiplying", a collection written to honor and support Norm "Math" Mattox, and more!

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

My favourite genre of social media post is 'white people explain racism to me.' In her original 2008 essay 'Men Explain Things To Me', Rebecca Solnit wrote, "no man has ever apologised for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't." Same, only, with racism.

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Doors In The Labyrinth @doorsitlabyrinth.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Mix 3 is complete. not sure it's done yet, but getting closer!

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

I can no longer sue Thomas C. Altman of Oswego for child molestation and abuse under NY law, as the set time for older survivors to file in court has passed. I opted not to, because statistically speaking, I can't afford to pay His court fees when they claim my myriad witnesses aren't enough proof.

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Edward Kehoe @calicrank.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Not every way but in so many ways homelessness is simply a disability justice issue.

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Doors In The Labyrinth @doorsitlabyrinth.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

No work tomorrow, so I might run a little longer. I usually spin 7pm-11pm, but we'll see how I feel. Come join me and listen to all sorts of music I love! twitch.tv/doorsinthela...

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

#PoetryVideo ! #NYCTheater ! #ExperimentalMusic ! #Cosmology ! #MicroBiology ! #SpinalDegeneration ! If you're still reading and haven't already fallen asleep, boy are you our audience! =) It's actually truly amazing if you Do happen to be intersted and also wrote it. 🫣 youtu.be/z5GlnC11pUk

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Absolutely LOVE the new trend of so-called anarchists Cheering On Trump as some kind of "gotcha" because they Just Now Figured Out that Joe sometimes supports genocide. To be clear: I don't support Biden. I am not a Democrat. But I DO, for some reason, Want a VIABLE Alternative!

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🎃 Ras-BOO-tin Bladgett 🦇 @rasputinbladgett.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

The two things I most loved on Twitter were sports and niche medieval content. Glad to see at least one of those is finding a home on Bluesky.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/11/2023

Terrible news, the Tiktok teens love Charles VI now, they say he is "relatable" and France was wrong for wanting him to conform

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I can't build a car, and I can't afford to buy a legal car, so it's fine if I go to my local chop shop with a few specs and have them put something together for me from parts of other people's cars. Fair use. #AI #AIisNotIntelligent #AIisNotCreative #AIisNotAI

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

#AI is not Only theft, it's Also a bad imitator. Only nonartists think art is about ideas. Artists get them volunteered by Everyone. Art is labor. It's what takes the pieces and makes them transcend their sum. If you're not laboring, you're not an artist. You're just someone who wishes you were.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

LOL, back when I bothered going to parties pre-pandemic, I ran into that all the time. I got more ideas than I'll live long enough to write; I've forgotten more than that. Ideas are easy! But hopefully they'll occupy themselves with AI novels now and leave real writers alone.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 16/11/2023

I'm not part of the white American Anglo Saxon mainstream "we." So when they're saying "we" I'm looking at who we're talking about. Because it's not me, it's y'all, for whom I'm invisible.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Virtual Reading of "One Thousand Fingers Multiplying", a book in honor of #NormMathMattox , #poet, #teacher, #mentor and #RationalMystic. Norm will be performing a feature set, and the reading will include additional pieces by contributors. www.eventbrite.com/e/one-thousa...

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Picture, if you will, a box. This box, when pressed, will give you ten thousand dollars, instantly, in exchange for killing one police officer currently on duty. The question remains wait, stop pressing it. Let me finish my monologue before we do the Twil- wait. Come on you are just mashing it now.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

#Disability Repressing my urge to curse. Repressing my urge to curse. Hand surgeon yesterday: Your surgery will be in December. We'll start on the left even though you're right-handed. It Could help the numbness. It Can't help the pain and weakness. See you soon! ... Why don't I want this surgery?

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

I am seeking a #Freelance #Artist for an #ArtCommission . I want to license an existing or created piece for a book of poetry to be privately and freely distributed as a gift. Budget is small, about $75, but I do not expect the original. A tif file I can use and permission will cover it! DM me!

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

I think white, able, cis, straight people and any of us with any selection of those qualities, should keep in mind that empathy is when you Think you know how someone feels. It's not a friggin psychic power. STOP assuming you understand and Listen. Learn to act with love when you Don't understand.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

I think I've seen at least four #JustHaveHope!<3 -type posts today. "People need to change their Attitudes! Hope is free! Blah-de-privileged-blah". Tell a mother in Gaza she just needs hope. Tell a Uyguhr child in a work camp. Hope is not just perspective. It's a gift. Don't use it like a weapon.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Wow. Banned for agreeing that Biden is supporting genocide and asking the person who they suggest voting for instead? They kept arguing that "Biden! Genocide!", which of course is TRUE, and dovetailed nicely with my Complete and Total agreement. How dare I expect them to back rhetoric with action.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Dudes working with NonDudes: Please READ the materials you are given by collabs. You will learn many things, including Timelines, directions, and the answer to Literally Every Other Question You Have. Also all "your" ideas, which you would have presented late and without ancillary planning. #collab

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

His repeated emphasis on “even in the home” is really getting to me. The notion of the home as a sacrosanct zone of authority is precisely what, historically, made domestic violence a “private” matter. Women weren’t “other people” with access to the public sphere. I feel like I’m losing my mind

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

A fast way to tell someone has 0 experience with publishing poetry is for them to get Really paranoid and bent out of shape about their copyrights. They put circled c's on Everything. They post legal disclaimers on blogs. People with some experience know no-one even Wants their poetry!

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Gods come in every color, flavor, texture and temperament, like the people who name them. Grief though, now that is a universal truth. #poetry #poem #gaza #israel #war #peace

It is dark in Gaza

and we are playing cards in Pittsburgh where we
check our phones for news each hour like
birds back to feeders full of antifreeze and grief.

It is dark in Gaza now while we
play cards, gin rummy, because
war is a game for children who
believe that luck makes them
heroes and misfortune is always
deserved when they win.

It is dark in Gaza today because -
can anyone say?
Is it the men who went rampaging,
blood in the streets,
cries of the women and children?
or is it the bombs falling?

It is dark in Gaza,
and we are playing cards and talking
about Gaza, and our friends who have
family there, and family in Israel and
all in a world where
prophets have armies,
ravening hordes, both sides,
every god alike, bloodstained hands
against the huddled throngs.

It is dark in Gaza.
No, that's a lie, it is
Blazing there, every fire,
every flare, the scream of
phosphorous like the screams of
women and children spreading like oilslick,
like the wings of bombers,
like the wings of brutal men,
and death comes bright as sunlight.

We are playing cards in Pittsburgh.
They are calling it “dark” in Gaza.
Soldiers are marching and we are watching
ourselves unstuck in time again.
I wonder who will be left to write the story of this city?

Voices like birds against cruel windowpanes,
we speak of the dying, we speak of the dead,
and dark comes to Gaza.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Oh, and per my last post: If any Irish folks would like to talk about Jewish or Isreali people in any kind of derogatory way, or downplay their experience of genocide, repression and terror, also stfu. My great-grands stumbled across the ocean and straight into the Union army to avoid a genocide.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

If any of you people calling for the eradication of Gaza are Irish, stfu. The Fenians had principles and a fondness for infrastructure, but we had a rather large dust up over whether we wanted to blow people up and the Blowing People Up side won! If you don't want Wexford bombed to smithereens, stfu

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Ok so, am I going nuts, or is there a movie out right now about Jennifer Lawrence's character molesting an underage boy at the behest of his parents?! I know we abandon male survivors, but wt everlovingfuck. I do NOT want to know what they consider "funny" enough about it to warrant a comedy script.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

My mother's birthday is approaching. I haven't spoken to her since one, (Not last), of her vicious rants about what a lazy disappointing freak I was for being fat and trans. Unlike my pedo psycho dad, I actually do still love her, but she was toxic. I worry about her age though. Do I send a card?

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Very cool series I'm presenting for this month! Maleni Chaitoo, who was our DASL and one of our Narrators on Words of the Prophets, will be there as well to take questions.

Image is a flyer with two photos on either side of a central collage. The first photo shows Vayl, (see bio for desc), the collage depicts a woman with her arms spread to the sky, and the second photo is of Maleni Chaitoo, a brown-skinned, black-haired woman looking into the camera.

Text of the Flyer:
Making the Invisible Visible
Hearing Marginalized Voices:
Making the Invisible Visible:

Words of the Prophets (Off-Broadway Production)
Featuring: Screening and Q&A with creator Vayl Larkin
Special Guest: Deaf Performer and Director of Artistic Sign Language Maleni Chaitoo

Hosted/Sponsored by IDEA Committee & LEAD Office

Thursday, November 9 12-1:30pm
Hybrid Event, on Zoom and in person. In Person: L105
Zoom: sdccd-edu.zoom.us/j/4553385215

For disablity accomodations contact bwolf@sdccd.edu

San Diego Miramar College
Inclusion Diversity Equity and AntiRacism (IDEA)
Leading Equity AntiRacism and Diversity (LEAD)

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Here's a hot take: Mastodon isn't for everyone, cause since when is Any product supposed to be for Everyone?! You don't want to consider other people when you post a pic? You don't like people to respond to your opinions seriously instead of making a joke? Welcome to the rest of the internet.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

#DisabledSky #Disabled #MobilityImpaired #Wheelchair #Bedbound Any spoonies out there suffering, "Oh good I get to never leave my house again but at least folks don't have to wear an piece of cloth"-itis? Are you too, lonely and going stir crazy? I have a Zoom room and too much time! Join me by DM!

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

WACFA? What's A Cop For Anyway? Look at the stats: they don't solve crimes, recover stolen property, or put away violent abusers and sexual offenders, (cause they're too busy violently abusing and sexually assaulting people. Again. LOOK at the stats!) What would we do without them? LIVE.

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

So 8500 dead on all sides and the blood gods Still want blood? Have all y'all religious folks ever considered a deity who Doesn't thrive on slaughter?

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

I could give my money to racists, sexists and bigots, or I could give it to people whose lives and art I Love supporting. If one more person whines about cancel culture... It's economic ethics, not a pogrom. Right wingers routinely shun family members with the audacity to be queer. Do the math ok?

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Vayl Larkin (they/them) @vayllarkin.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Ever admit you're wrong and apologize to someone? Try it. Be sincere. Dig deep and figure out WHY you should feel bad and HOW you could have hurt their feelings and GUSH accountability. You will have a power over that person you will never replace with dishonesty and defensiveness. Try it. Really.

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