"Like a game of snake / an ouroboros on an old Nokia. Those invincible / bricks, where did they go? Other than swallowed / up deep inside, of course. Bit by micro-bit."
- @carmenbarefield.bsky.social
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❄️ winter issue's up! ❄️
ft. @carmenbarefield.bsky.social, @arianathepoet.bsky.social, @jmfletcher15.bsky.social, @bilorat.bsky.social, & more!
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Screenshot of the Incessant Pipe website with the art by Danielle Jones in the background. The title reads "Portrait of My OCD as a To-Do List--Carmen Barefield" The date for the post is 1/3/2026
My poem "Portrait of my OCD as a To-Do List" was published today by Incessant Pipe Journal with art by the great Danielle Jones. I hope you have a chance to read it and/or listen to me read it to you. The link in the biiiioooo.
Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
Trust me, there's no such thing as a rough draft or a final draft. It's just you writing forever.
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.
BY THE WAY
If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.
There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.
Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."
TURN IT OFF.
The evil that men do lives after them
Once you figure that out please create a tutorial so I can set it up too. I'm tiiiiired.
A Goofy costume with maybe no one in it floats in a water fountain looking real dejected. His eyes look up at the sky in existential dread.
Right?? This is the one thing America has been pretty consistent on (besides racism) since the end of WW2 but...here we are.
You can miss a lot in American life…
But the NAZIS??????
I am watching this IMMEDIATELY!
Hmm...I'll try it. I started roasting sweet potato and throwing that in but a can of corn would be less time consuming.
From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poem #poetry #books #writing
If you write your enemy a sonnet you're writing foetry
Same! Having that kind of life is all I want.
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
Thank you so much!!! 💖🎉
illustration showing a variety of items spread out - a book, tarot deck, feather, lighter, keys, scissors, makeup, mini cauldron, candle, safety pins, shark's tooth, leaves, a spider, a hair tie, bones, little perfume bottles, crumpled tissue.
what's in a witch's bag 🖤🗝️🗡️💄🕷️🧷
And thousands of power drills go bzzzzz in unison
The saddest part of the grift is that he'll eventually say, "hand me the copper, I'll protect you." Then he'll turn right around and sell it to the highest bidder who never believed in BIG COPPER. And all that's left will be a bunch of brainwashed people praying to their destroyed walls.
I hope Google staff can hear this image
Kendrick with more Grammies than Drake has friends
Tom Brady: Say No to Hate
Snoop: Say No to Hate
Kendrick:
A parakeet looks directly at camera.
SAY DRAKE,
TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here - through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.
On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.