![We're all living on the same economic block.
Which means that when [Black] women lose money, it's not just that we lose money...
It's the entire economic ecosystem around us that loses money too.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ebtn5uwxbtwbyjx25jjqlh7b/bafkreienfr6tlhvcw7s2zyjocg3hpkxo6l3galjrr5o4ql4bz3ffur7mde)
We're all living on the same economic block. Which means that when [Black] women lose money, it's not just that we lose money... It's the entire economic ecosystem around us that loses money too.
“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.
Everyone is sick of this shit.
May's In Conversation is between poets and artists Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza and Octavio Quintanilla. Katherine writes about their two books as singing together, or rather, “By sing, I might mean keen, not as a wild wailing but sometimes as a wild ceremony, sometimes as a ceremony in the wild.”
The public face persona can be exhausting. I over-smile to make sure people now that everything's great no problems here. Today my body said take it slow really slow. I've finally learned to listen (& have a job that allows this).
I love the birds of my yard. I am learning their names to match them to their song. So far this morning: house sparrow, blue jay, osprey, goldfinch, cardinal, black cap chickadee, robin, crow and house finch.
An illegible scribble in pen on the inside of an arm.
I woke up at 4:00 a.m. with what I considered a great idea for a poem but with no paper I just wrote on my arm. Brilliant.
Inflation, "the economy", unemployment rates etc, these things are all made up. Fantasy and science fiction. The punishing results of how the rich and media deal with the illusion they created together, however, are not.
They all translate to the same thing: you are getting fucked.
It's kinda telling that he has more likes for the moon than for him as Jesus... Like even his own followers can't really buy that
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
A woman in glasses and dangly earrings reads at a mic. She's holding papers. The photo is a long exposure so there is blur around her face and arms. She smiles as she reads.
Team Maynard: Hazelyn Rebecca and Julia. Hazelyn has a brown and lighter brown striped v-neck sweater. She has brown hair parted in the middle. She's smiling. Rebecca wears a black shirt glasses and a maroon cardigan. She is also smiling. Julia wears a black coat. She has glasses and blonde hair parted in the middle with bangs. She's also smiling. Behind them in the background is the bookstore.
Poets Meg Smith, Hazelyn Aroian, Rebecca Connors, Julia Story, Rikhav Kothari, and Steve Anstey.
On Thursday, I co-hosted a poetry reading at Felixology where I got to meet poets from the Lowell scene & read poems. Plus meet Julia Story finally. It was a packed event.
Poets Diana Whitney, Dimitri Reyes, and July Westhale in discussion. The photo is of a laptop screen displaying a zoom conversation. Diana is at the top left and she has long auburn hair, a red shirt and hoop earrings. Next to her Dimitri is in a floral shirt. He has glasses and a beard. He has his hand raised in a pensive manner. Below them is July and they have glasses, cool beaded earrings and long brown hair.
First Diana Whitney's book launch for Girl Trouble with July Westhale. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
The last few days have been awesome. I have been surrounded by so much talent and beauty and art. Let's keep making cool shit
It was so awesome to have you read and get to chat with you about your work. FuckAI forever and always
A better world is possible
A better world is possible.
Shout out to @swydan.bsky.social and @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social and @aprilist.bsky.social
Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.
I get that gen x has trained for this, but you guys... That training broke us, y'know?
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments
The famous photo of a white man holding an American flag like a spear as he seemingly attacks a Black man during an anti-busing protest in Boston on April 5, 1976
Fifty years ago today, the shame of my hometown
As a dastardly online leftist it is my duty to remind you that America has always been the villain and that all presidents are evil murderers but Trump is the single vilest piece of shit human we have ever produced.
it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict
There are certain news influencers on here who seem invested in getting us to be even more anxious than we already are. As if we aren’t taking Trump and henchmen seriously enough. I think that’s whack. For one thing, we’re on BlueSky. We’re already anxious! And notoriously serious! Famously!
Happy National Poetry Month! We're celebrating by welcoming @gabbat.bsky.social & Sasha Waters for our April In Conversation! thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...
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Here are the places I'll be during the illustrious NAPOMO. Also a small diatribe about how shitty things are. Sigh.
Geophysicists say there is an increased risks of destructive floods and wild fires due to climate change. A guy who thinks he was teleported to a Waffle House says there's nothing to worry about. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Three elderly witches laugh as they fly over farmsteads, copper pots of coffee dangling from the front of their brooms
Swedish Easter witches, armed with pots of coffee, are flying to their yearly gathering at the island of Blåkulla. ☕️
🎨 Jenny Nyström, 1911
This is gonna be good, the Maynard Library crew always does a fabulous job. And I hear the bookstore that'll be there is wicked cool.
A blue and orange graphic for the Maynard Book Festival, with details that read: Maynard Book Festival, Celebrating our 10th Festival, Friday April 10, 7 PM, local author Luke O'Neil reading and conversation. Find more information at maynardbookfestival.org. The graphic features the Maynard Book Festival logo which is the Maynard Clock Tower resting on a stack of books. There is also the cover of Luke's book and a headshot of him. The book cover is an old photo of a woman and two children at the shore. His headshot is black and white; he's wearing glasses, has a nose ring and a baseball cap.
Also as part of the festival, I have the honor of hanging out with @lukeoneil47.bsky.social as he reads from his fabulous book, We Had It Coming. We'll chat a bit & then you can ask him questions & get your copy signed. It's free too. What a cool deal! See you on 4/10 at 7 PM at the library!