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Velma

@velmatrout.bsky.social
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Minor American poet and dipshit. Year of the Inverted Star (Broken Sleep Books). Your Human Shape (Broken Sleep Books). Alone in the White Marble City (New Delta Review). Join the philly poetry Discord. linktr.ee/velmatrout

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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 8h
Crazy that we use "sucks dick" as an insult. Dick sucking is such a cool thing to do for someone, and a cool thing to receive. It should be the highest compliment, really. "Dude you gotta play Corpse Party. It sucks so much dick."
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An AI could write dungeon crawler carl
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#poem called MY BIG SCARECROW WIFE
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*frowning* wow okay so turns out i love wagner
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The problem with playing tears of the kingdom high is that you then never want to play it any other way
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#poem involving the lanternfly
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am a chauvinist about one thing and one thing only: Americans are the only people who can rap good
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This drives me insane, and it's part of why chatbots have so little allure for me. I don't want the robot to tell me what it thinks I need, I want to find it myself! Do not interpose another layer between me and the world!
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
it's so funny how badly our fascist overlords bungled the semiquincentennial. no better proof that all the "we love america" bullshit is just posturing they do for the hogs. they couldn't even shut off the grifter grindset long enough to throw a proper party.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Orangutans are clearly just guys. You shouldn't be able to keep them in a zoo.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If I were an onlyfans model I'd start a podcast about neuroscience and call it Thot Process
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When adults are really seriously into youth sports, that's a form of spiritual pedophilia
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You mean to tell me that when we handed the police a nationwide surveillance system, they immediately used it to harass their exes? www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1...
technologyreview.com
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
The company is imposing new guardrails on its police tech after reports that officers are abusing it and cities are dropping contracts. But the changes leave glaring loopholes.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sonny Boy's "Monkey Baseball" episode is criminally underrated. (Whole show is criminally underrated, really.)
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You can tell a lot about a person based on how they respond to 4'33''. By which I mean that those who respond negatively are fucking troglodytes.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Completely haunted by Ellie Chou's 6 Hexes in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social Rare is the poem that doesn't merely adopt occult insignia but feels like a genuine occult operation—and might in fact be one. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2026...
alwayscrashing.com
ELLIE CHOU / 6 HEXES — always crashing
1 2.1 Orphactory The way into the woods is older than the woods. The woods die earlier than expected, but come back. They then become woods which are less old, but still older than me. The way in...
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
normal republican behavior, unfortunately. watch the Good People of Ohio vote him in regardless.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
might i suggest that if you need an AI to generate an infographic in order to understand a reality show, you've got bigger problems in your life
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
what's crazy is that beethoven's fifth actually does go hard if you give it a chance
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
republicans called Joe Biden a communist. every democrat is fucking mao zedong to them. shut up.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
comedy has definitely gotten way worse since the pandemic, and this is because comedians are a very stupid people.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"being outside in these conditions for an extended period of time is the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes" oh i used to do that every day. for years. that's nothing. you'll be fine.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
i used to have this noble savage view. living in rural ohio for a bit completely disabused me of it. these people aren't "voting against their interests" or "disempowered." ensuring the suffering of the people they don't like is simply more important to them than bettering their own lives.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
the sky is poison and it's 93 degrees.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#poem involving the fact that they recently discovered sugar molecules in space
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
oh you're having trouble selling your poetry? well, the first issue is you're trying to sell poetry. so there's your problem right there.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's bedtime. The toddler is rolling himself all over the bed like a rolling pin. Me: Nico, buddy, it's time to settle down and sleep. What are you doing? Nico, very softly: I'm just trying my tricks.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Friday July 17th Poets @ Molly's Philadelphia COME THRU
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of my favorite modern eggcorns is "ChatGBT." My friend the correct name is right there in the url bar. It's all over the page when you're working with it. Every model is named "GPT-X." How did you get here.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
the universe is sending messages
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Twitter is a straight up Nazi propaganda site but yeah only the libs can do vicious sneering odium
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
honestly man I don't want the social media algorithms to help me discover new people. most of you are dumb as hell. I do not need to hear what you have to say.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The least interesting question you can ask about any work of art is: is it good?
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Richard Scarry? And he was a children's author? Oh that's no good. That won't do at all. How about something nicer? Richard Merry. Now that's a children's author. Put that on the books.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
i'm in the kitchen making dinner while my son is watching boss baby. every few minutes I hear him call out—whenever boss baby has been absent from the screen for too long—"hey, where is boss baby?"
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
boy you sure stuck it to the all-volunteer editorial team of that small online lit mag that uses the submission fees to cover the site-hosting costs
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
impossible not to recognize that both the floor and the ceiling of mainstream intellectual culture—art, commentary, discourse, politics, all of it—have both completely fucking crashed since Trump took office for a second time.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
JDPON Don strikes again
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
i don't believe in any kind of ethnic essentialism *except* that eastern europeans are naturally good at literature. something about the slavic soul.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Nick Mullen did a great Tucker Carlson impression which Jeremy Culhane aped for a very good Tucker Carlson impression which every front-facing comedy influencer now apes for their very bad Tucker Carlson impressions. The circle of life.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
the meaning of life? it's a nice sushi lunch and being mildly sake drunk in the middle of a 77-degree day.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
remarkably disingenuous. if you just threw a bunch of vegetables in a bowl of water it would look gross too but that's how soup is made.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
oliver tree was so committed to the bit that he looks stupid as fuck in every tribute post. you honestly gotta respect it. rip.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Don draper jingleheimer schmidt
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
help me Curtis Sliwa, you're our only hope
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Father's day happens during pride month because being a dad is gay. I don't make the rules.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Pharoah Sanders' Holy Nail"
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
you can all laugh at me about this but I used claude to make an english qaballa calculator and now i understand how these things have given so many people AI psychosis. it immediately started telling me i was uncovering secrets of the universe.
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Velma @velmatrout.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
bro the even ozempic'd jelly roll :(
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