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aaron boothby@ellipticalnight.bsky.social |
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mostly poet, preferably tree or rock
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/718000/continent-by-aaron-boothby/9780771004476
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aaron boothby
@ellipticalnight.bsky.social
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bonus points for the autoroute they built that looks like a canal actually functioning very well as a canal (unfortunately during rush hour for cars, not boats)
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aaron boothby
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sometimes this city's terrible infrastructure and a former hurricane worth of rain collaborate to provide photos of some bmws and audis failing to be boats and it really is appreciated
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Chantal James
@chantalalive.bsky.social
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Here's a great June Jordan poem shared by @dem8z.bsky.social. Her birthday was yesterday. Her work is crucial now. I was talking to my friend Ethelbert Miller who's a local Black writer who keeps his correspondence with her from their friendship for archives at the bookstore Sankofa months ago.
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aaron boothby
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I get how much of the reaction may be apathy but it should be much more focus on community organizing because truly NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO IT FOR YOU is being proven to excess at the moment
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aaron boothby
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in fact, no one involved in governing the US would ever get their shit together ever again
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aaron boothby
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the rest of the hurricane arrived and it's pouring today so I think everyone had a lot of urgent chaotic energy last night (yes this is july here anyway but peaks and valleys you know)
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aaron boothby
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message from last night: good evening from montreal where it's 1030pm on a tuesday, you've just watched artful circus acrobatics under skyscrapers and as you bike home distressingly hot people are behaving with the abandon of 2am on a friday
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aaron boothby
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"george clooney says" just count me way the fuck out man I can't take the shit that passes for mainstream politics in the US
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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This is called forced expulsion and it is illegal
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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
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"To what extent does the hybridity which francophone writers must face lead to “forced poetics”, in the words of Glissant, or the invention of new forms of literary expression? What aesthetics are involved?"
Book examines Quebecois, Belgian, Caribbean and African literature
#OpenAccess #French
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aaron boothby
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this is the most american thing I have ever read
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Kim Shumway
@kimshum.bsky.social
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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.
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aaron boothby
@ellipticalnight.bsky.social
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I forget you're the same latitude as montreal, geography is weird. do the birds get going too?
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Andrew Kurjata
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A local news website simply titled "What's on fire?" Its sister site is "Why are there sirens?"
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i summed up project 2025 in one sentence. feel free to use.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...
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Brandy Schillace
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A reminder for Sunday eve: We historically lived and died blithe little lives concerned only with an area the size of a small town. You do not need to be plugged into the mainframe to work for justice. Just keep holding the light for those nearest; you are doing your bit already.
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A Whole Damn Town!
@im.a.whole.damn.town
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Twin Peaks: Cooper’s dream.
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aaron boothby
@ellipticalnight.bsky.social
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to me the barf bowl is the toilet bowl but as someone with a mostly barfless history except for excessive drinking who had awful nausea with chemo those hospital barf bags are top design and were probably pitched as "no more splatter!"
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Mel Moorer🏳️🌈 she/they
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Now is the time. The books you're reading? Essays? Articles? Short fiction? Poetry? Gas them up! We need to show all the love to the work we love.
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Taniel
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Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.
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Lore Wilson (they/them) $200/400 for july rent
@lorewilson.bsky.social
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i am so good at napping as long as napping is when you just lay on the couch thinking too much.
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isaac
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I was interviewing a French journalist and he said public ownership of the major infrastructure for water and electricity is a massive anti-fascist coalition builder among labor, greens, socialists AND the public at large when benefits are widely shared and immediately felt (and would be missed!)
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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New Popular Front won because of this
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BombayK
@outerbororoyal.bsky.social
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This was always true. This has always been true for every marginalized community in every single only these “advanced democracies.” Welcome to the world your privilege has shielded you from. This is life outside the cave.
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Prisonculture
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"The core of organizing is raising expectations." - Jane McAlevey
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aaron boothby
@ellipticalnight.bsky.social
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that sounds solid really, like someone doing their thing not trying to repeat what worked
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aaron boothby
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how is it so pretty!?!
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aaron boothby
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I only read his The City and the City but that book is great
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aaron boothby
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most people do not want the far right, the far right exploits fractures in other parties to make gains and attempt to seize power, and if what the left did here worked the lesson should be you can beat them with a unified front that says not today, assholes
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aaron boothby
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this is near home for me and I have watched all the hills swallowed by development over the past couple decades, despite promises you can obviously never trust developers to protect *anything*
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Bring Me The African Guy, Pre-PhD 🌈🇵🇸🇪🇭🇨🇩🇸🇩🇰🇪
@kweligee.bsky.social
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TW: police violence during protests in Kenya: youtu.be/7KrYbGNtXqM?...
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aaron boothby
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weather app says hot forever and either allergies kicked in or something caught me so that's it windows closed a/c out goodbye sun we'll talk in september maybe
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aaron boothby
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I'm glad it came from her at least, hard as that must have been to do with so much care
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Lindsay Brown
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In today's media critique: Last night CBC Radio 6 pm news was wrong about the UK election on every count. No, a wave of voters did not rush to vote Labour. Labour vote share barely increased. What happened was that a terrifying chunk of Tory voters switched to Farage's far-right Reform...
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aaron boothby
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"What I wanted was some record of the truth, some public proof that I hadn’t deserved what had happened to me. I also wanted this story, my story, to become part of the stories people tell about my mother."
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Kyla Houbolt
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Bloom where you're planted.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper
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Wendy C. Ortiz
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If you have some extra $ to throw at a revolutionary little bookstore/community hub in Los Angeles as they make a move happen, please do. ko-fi.com/allpower
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maeve, i already know
@maeveynot.bsky.social
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oh this is also a #smallpoemsunday
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David Hayden
@seventydys.bsky.social
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this haunted coming A.R. Ammons, ‘Rolling Reality’
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k’eguro
@keguro.bsky.social
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Today is Saba Saba.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_C...
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Sargoth, of Sargoth fame
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WHAT DO WE WANT genre-defying meandering prose that touches upon the ambient moods which strike us in the quiet moments between doing something else WHEN DO WE WANT IT serendipitously arriving at us through means unseen but probably guided
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Sargoth, of Sargoth fame
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WHAT DO WE WANT people to be nice to each other in low stakes situations WHEN DO WE WANT IT ambiently sprinkled throughout our lived experience, tbh
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aaron boothby
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me all summer
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Siddhartha Mitter
@siddharthamitter.bsky.social
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Your Euro 2024 final four ⚽️
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The Darland Mountain Flora Project
@darlandmountain.bsky.social
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good morning
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Zamira Rahim
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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.
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Brett "Solidarity 2024" Banditelli
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Good morning, or whatever.
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Jacob Bacharach
@jacobbacharach.bsky.social
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Bacharach, how are you RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME?
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aaron boothby
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for some reason this reminded me of a favourite twitter thing which was that account updating whether a cat was in or out at the moment
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