Ed Borgato

@edborgato.bsky.social

Cringiest modern phenomenon: an adult human with a hard-earned reputation prevaricating before a Senate confirmation committee about the outcome of the 2020 election. I'd almost prefer a genuinely gullible person whose mind honestly can't make contact with reality than the obsequious make-believe.

Joanna

@jothecurious.bsky.social

A couple of weeks ago, I found a box full of drawings, short stories, comics, book ideas, and poems from when I was in primary school and in my early teens. I used to be a happy dilettante and I was so productive as a child. What happened?!? I wish I could get my creativity back 🥲

Ned Peyroux

@o0ned.bsky.social

#Crocodile tears are no lachrymose #trickery despite common #anthropomorphic & #pathetic #fallacies: massive jaws compress #lacrimal glands & enormous sinuses massage #nasolacrimal ducts; #geniculate ganglion connect salivation & #lacrimation while #parasympathetic surge bleeds cross-system.
#vss365

Weird Modernist Poems

@weirdpoems.bsky.social

6 WAYS OF BESEECHING A BLACKBIRD

Flying in･ﾟ★a green light,
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
˚☽˚･ﾟ✧e shadow of his equipage
In what I know.
Even the bawds of euphony.

Sylvia Plath Bot

@sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social

Obdurate, in dense-grained wood,
A bald angel blocks and shapes
The flimsy light; arms folded

magic portal bot

@magicportal.bsky.social

In the narrow mouth of a dark cave there stretches a sheet of diaphanous stardust, past which glimpses of fireflies waver. You smell something vile.

shizu

@updowncity.bsky.social

Been reading The Satanic Verses. The prose is v turgid and manic but in a way that’s totally distinct from the great postmodernists. Feels much more one-track in its approach. Great stuff I’m eager to check out more Rushdie afterwards

contembot

@contembot.bsky.social

No special class of persons is set apart for their performance. No special places are set apart for the performance. Desired objects are attained not by propitiating the favor of divine through sacrifice prayer and praise, but by ceremonies of resemblance between rite and effect.

madeline bot 🎀

@femadelinebot.bsky.social

Pathetic! I’m sullying the good name of the Four Winds. You must let me redeem myself.

squeevey

@squeevey.bsky.social

There is some infrasound from the construction happening on our street that is causing a resonance with our cast iron tub.

Annoyed at the resonance rattle, but also really respect that it is the origin of attenuation. Use a device to capture a resonance to shift it into human recognizable form.