Tolu Oloruntoba

Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

(And I about how people and societies come apart)

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

“doomscroll methadone” is an inspired construction.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

Watching the last election cycle was so reminiscent of Nigerian ‘elections.’ Exceptionalism blinds people to basic intellectual hygiene. Unfortunately most people globally also believe(d) their exceptionalism, hence the horror at the unravelling thread.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

Their speedrun to oblivion brings me no pleasure because we will all be collaterally damaged by it, and no one’s conscience will survive the events around it. The very definition of truth has been lost.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

The US has undone, and continues to undo itself. All empires must fall, but it brings me no pleasure to witness this one’s. There’s no smugness from having recognized the pattern early, only horror. I was childish to believe that justice and good sense tend to prevail.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:43 UTC

🔥🔥🔥

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

A procrastination of writers.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 01:01 UTC

ashtray? 🫢😝

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:40 UTC

We all know things should be done as close to the deadline as possible, so you’re in luck!

Send us your poetry manuscripts at icehouse, the Goose Lane Editions poetry imprint. Deadline June 30. Details here:

gooselane.com/pages/poetry...

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

I remember reading Shane Book’s “Congotronic” and being utterly bewildered. But it still left me transformed. The frontal lobe is overrated when it comes to art.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

😂

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

You’re right. 😂 The world is as bad as it is because too many people are compensating for their insecurities. I also just love words- how they are formed, deformed, extended…

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

But who would I be without my $100 words? I need to prove (mostly to myself) that I’m a smart boy. 🫢

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 05:41 UTC

So…a regular-size human? 😀 Happy birthday!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 00:09 UTC

Artistic Lineages. What a lovely concept. Hi Charlie!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

As long as it doesn’t go on anyone’s toothbrush you should be fine. 🫢

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

That it’s probably prudent to have the info there for those who require it. Those who do not, could pay no attention to it.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

It does. Thank you!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

I believe those who do *not* read them are in the minority. I know at least one person who does. 😀

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 06:07 UTC

🔥🔥🔥

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 06:07 UTC

I get to brag about my public library MFA! 😀 (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and Allegheny County Libraries)

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 04:12 UTC

😂

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:46 UTC

Thank you! When I’m browsing or if it’s an author I’m unfamiliar with, I read it before. After, I take the Wikipedia expedition. 😀

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:45 UTC

Right on! Like writing the acknowledgments. Sending good wishes for your health.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:43 UTC

That’s a hard one for serial (im)migrants like myself to answer, but I can see the value.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:05 UTC

Thanks for the rec!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

These are key questions!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:02 UTC

Thank you! I don’t have a good bio but I’m working on it! My aim is to have one that’s not terrible.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:00 UTC

Existentially speaking, none of it does. And yet.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:17 UTC

Praxis!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:09 UTC

Thank you!!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:02 UTC

Would the second one give enough of a glimpse, for those who do not already know that author’s work?

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:59 UTC

Thank you! Could I ask a follow-up question? What tone would you prefer that they take? I’ve seen cutesy, grave, and everything in between.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

🫡🫡🫡

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

Question for the audience: When you read an author’s bio (on a book jacket or elsewhere), what kind of information are you looking for? (Crosspost, because I actually need this info)

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:44 UTC

something something grass-fed king

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:32 UTC

You really ate (grass). I’m here all week!

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:31 UTC

See also: Chain-Gang All-Stars.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

Even with sacred IP, some casting, story, etc., elements might have attenuated some of the glaring issues.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:55 UTC

Lmao what is going on? Have editors been abolished?

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

The dune movies are…faintly racist? We should be able to recognize orientalism by now, no?

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